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make things. make sense.

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holy shit i didn't know they had a book *buy*

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replete with meowing

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mercier sperber represent

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i'll just go back to making short videos in front of my off-brand rice krispies flying through space youtu.be/ZMZdJeLFH5w

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sorry i'm just bored of this Discourse™

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tempted to do the thing where i loudly proclaim i'll never vote for biden and then somebody will inevitably lecture me and then i go ha ha surprise it's because i'm canadian

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woke up this morning thinking about (computational) thinking: youtu.be/W_OBFjeKyDs

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lol yeah i wish they were less of a pain in the ass to make

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cause like they really seem to be swinging for the fences recently

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i feel like a good cultural metric would be like a barometer for how unhinged the major news outlets are over time (and the new york times in particular)

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(said yesterday's chitchat: youtu.be/W_OBFjeKyDs)

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coda to yesterday's chitchat about computational thinking: the problem of demonstrating progress youtu.be/ZMZdJeLFH5w

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thing i just said: "ha a million-dollar house is just a modest apartment for two people"

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and then you have the green party who is astonishingly good at coming in second place the main problem with green parties is they represent a tenuous coalition between dyed-in-the-wool hippies and business-friendly "bright green" interests and so are seen as too socialist and not socialist enough

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the one time the ndp (~labour party) did especially well it was because there were tandem crises in both the liberal and bloc québécois parties (the latter being another trade-unionist party with separatist characteristics)

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it is interesting to me how in the uk the main rivalry is between tory and labour while in canada it's between liberal and tory, and our labour party (ndp) has only ever gotten as far as second place, and only once

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i mention this because canada is almost certainly gonna go conservative next election so the question is okay fantastic what are all the things they're gonna wreck

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just occurred to me the conservatives had been in power in the uk since 2010 "conservative" has to be the biggest misnomer in the political lexicon since they conserve remarkably little like show me a conservative party that doesn't spend its entire time going around actively wrecking shit

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love a good cursed breakfast

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• like for "donald-ducking it" • reskeet for "porky-pigging it"

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nice

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i am glad i don't have a frame of reference for this

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i remember the first time i saw one of those in santa barbara i was like wtf why have i never seen this before

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things you say when you're dating a sound editor: "wow the ADR really sucks in this"

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like i cannot tell you the last time i watched ferris bueller but it was a decade ago at the absolute least

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me, 25 minutes in: oh, that's ferris bueller's dad HOW THE HELL DID MY BRAIN DO THAT

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tbh i think that was the loudest you've yelled on a podcast

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i haven't seen it in a while; kind of excite

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on counsel of @amyhoy.bsky.social / @thomasfuchs.at

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sup

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lol stephen definitely knows and i defer to him

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ha thanks; i was told any bill long ago but never bothered to check

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like that episode of the bear?

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is that toulmin?

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oh shit i am so throwing this on

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oh yeah you're real close to the robson/richards one aren't you

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i regret not going to japadog moar when i lived in vancouver (oh ho hooo wait a second, there are two in toronto, and one is even less of a walk than where i lived in vancouver)

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aw yiss, love a good japadog

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eminently skippable

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lolololol @ @zitron.bsky.social's impression of enron musk youtu.be/T8ByoAt5gCA

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looolll

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that one gets talked about around here too

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lol it's not the toxoplasmosis itself that's gonna kill you, it'll be whatever it ends up making you do

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heh is that an olly moss?

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the annotations take surprisingly long because you basically have to rewatch the video and pause it a whole bunch, so some multiple (2-3x) of the runtime, and the callouts and chapters are in separate places in the uploader ui so you have to make two passes (although one can usually be partial)

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the title card depends on a still taken from prerecorded stock footage in front of a green screen (if i don't have stock footage of me wearing the same shirt then i have to record that too, like i did today), and in photoshop i could bang it out in 5 minutes but i have GIMP so it took probably 20

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that involves shooting the video (preferably in one take), editing it down (mainly removing filler words), uploading it (youtube takes up to 40 minutes to transcode it), writing the description, doing the title card, doing the annotations

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like the purpose of the morning warmup series is to articulate in a relaxed way whatever's on my mind that morning while i finish my coffee. it's supposed to be minimal effort and my time budget from end to end is no more than one hour. modulo some special exception it isn't worth doing otherwise

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i totally blew my budget this morning because i wanted to get a sense of scope for the extra work it takes to make a youtube video palatable: • description • title card • callouts • chapters/time codes…

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