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John Whitley@johnwhitley.bsky.social |
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Reactor (formerly Tor.com)
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Over the course of 15 months and with 62 Lakota speakers involved, The Avengers has been dubbed fully into Lakota by the original cast:
reactormag.com/the-avengers...
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John Whitley
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š„WHAMš„ ack i think i just broke the preorder button sry
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John Whitley
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*Even if* they had serious and legitimate problems with this program (reader: they do not), opting out at cost of direct and immediate harm to citizens in need to make some political point is despicable.
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Doctora Malka Older
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Long election campaigns also put the emphasis, over and over again, ON THE ELECTION rather than on governing: like voting is all we as citizens have to do; like winning is the most important quality in a candidate. GOVERNING. The thing is GOVERNING. Elections should be a means of accountability+
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John Whitley
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Prima facie evidence of either 1) total delusion about just how hard it would be to agree on and build consensus around another candidate (politically, socially, etc.) or 2) this asshatās 100% trolling. The time for alternative candidates to start building up was probably two+ years ago.
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Charlotte Ariel Finn
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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.
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John Whitley
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This just in: f*ck the US two-party system.
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John Whitley
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I absolutely adore Robert Jackson Bennet's _The Tainted Cup_. The world definitely has its measure of darkness to it, but it hit me as "interesting darkness" rather than "heavy". Definitely not near the hard-no of "grimdark porn". (and a lot that had me howling with laughter...)
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John Whitley
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I do not have enough energy for a facepalm of the required magnitude, and itās not safe for Earth within about 50 parsecs anyway
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John Whitley
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that poor soul was probably just tired, so very tired, of cleaning their VCR heads.
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John Whitley
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Dammit, now some twenty-something archaeologist is going to "dig up" The Great Reorganization of Usenet, aren't they? ugh
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John Whitley
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"Blockable Heresies Is My New Podcast"
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John Whitley
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It's such a fractally bad idea. The literal antithesis of culture.
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Cats of Yore
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Antique dollhouse cat from my collection. Pictured on Francie for no particular reason at all.
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John Whitley
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Like spearphishing in an empty barrel
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Chris Geidner
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BREAKING: Federal judge rules that Floridaās ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors and many of its restrictions on similar adult care are unconstitutional. More to come at Law Dork. www.lawdork.com
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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HAPPY PRIDE EVERYBODY WE WIN
And they're Jewish queers to boot
lfg
www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
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John Whitley
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Check the list in OPās link. I happened to note at least one COPD specific formulation, and many of them are various combined medicine inhalers.
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John Whitley
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Social vs. Anti-social particle collisions: Maybe they just collided and annihilated each other
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Gillian Branstetter
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If copyright law destroys the AI industry remember who to thank
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John Whitley
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Tell me someone's not a spinner without telling me
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John Whitley
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This is a great-if-depressing thread. I was infuriated to learn my alma mater had used #3 on my favorite prof, in a subdiscipline that the then dept. chair thought "wasn't real <X>". (karmic payback: it wasn't long before said subdiscipline was getting its own well-funded departments.)
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John Whitley
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Itās hard to overstate how important basic science class experiments are (including electronics!) for building valid mental models of /how the world actually works/. Otherwise the Human Folklore Generator takes over and whoooof AI isnāt the only thing that can āhallucinateā nonsense information :-/
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John Whitley
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I have ALL THE INNER SCREAMING (and a little externalā¦) over The Tainted Cup. Itās so! damn! good!
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evacide
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Buying a new car in 2024 is a goddamn privacy nightmare, part 3591 of an endless series: sherwood.news/tech/how-to-...
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John Whitley
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I'm happy to report that The Onion still cuts like a KNIFE
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Jen Ebbeler
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Stolen from a colleagueā¦
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andrƩ carrington
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The students at my school did this. They negotiated for it, they got it, and they're disbanding their encampment now that they're done. Not one arrest. No police. The first campus in the UC system to do it.
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John Whitley
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Three seats allocated in each classroom for The Unquiet Dead
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Neil Gaiman
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That's even weirder for me than putting Coraline on the list.
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John Whitley
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Wow. Tho just last night I was musing that Mazikeen would be a *fantastic* name for the right kitten.
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John Whitley
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This applies to a LOT of professional and educational systems as well. "We had to suffer, and so now shall you" is a mighty bit of subtext. (Or just text, if the quiet part is out loud.)
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John Whitley
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Nailed it.
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Henry Farrell
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Something else that Mike Harrison put me onto on Twitter when it was Twitter - this fantastic performance of Hunting the Wren - www.youtube.com/watch?v=lURe... (neither of us could figure out whether the interruption in the middle is genius, catastrophe or both)
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!*
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You know you fucked up when even the NYPD is throwing you under the bus.
hellgatenyc.com/columbia-min...
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John Whitley
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Generative AI is (probably) more useful than crypto, but there's an ocean of "at what cost?" / "is it worth it?" / <cough, Ethics Anyone?, cough> ā none of which will be helped by people looking to build or pivot their careers around it. /fin
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John Whitley
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In CS, this is often: 1) the department doesn't really understand the real-world value of pedagogy in the first place and/or 2) faculty are humans and thus prone to go gold-digging. The latter especially was a huge problem with the crypto boom. š 3/
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John Whitley
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An experienced eye can easily read the quality of a department's teaching based on whether it's just jumping at fads, or has more methodically adapted to them while preserving/evolving their core teaching methodology. 2/
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John Whitley
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I still and always loathe whiplash market-driven swings in academic programs. I've seen a ton of that in CS, which mostly was a call for "teach perceived-fashionable technology X, at the absolute cost of good pedagogy". 1/
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Popehat
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It seems to me that when a society privileges a group to murder and abuse weaker people with complete impunity, the natural and proper reaction of a free person is to hate that group and resent the society that enables it, and acquiescence is a sign of unsuitability to be a free person.
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Timothy Burke
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All these bills are nearly identical and they all do one thing: ban anything that promotes energy conservation
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Laya šæš
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I am back again with more This Is How You Lose The Time War fanart
#art
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John Whitley
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Everyoneās worried about the drains, but this is the true peril of the Coriolis force: culinary vertiginuity.
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Kai
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Are you a worker? Do think workers should have rights? Trader Joe's doesn't, and are trying to dismantle the NLRB.
Stop shopping at Trader Joe's.
hellgatenyc.com/trader-joes-...
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John Whitley
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lol. We're out in something like the 10%-20% coverage zone. Literally indistinguishable from the heavy overcast getting a little heavier for a few minutes, if that.
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John Whitley
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I eagerly await Yahoo! stores in airports selling paper Guides to The Internet.
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John Whitley
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same, same š
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John Whitley
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Heās hard to believe heās a human, instead of some sort of strange attractor of bad takes. The Dipshit Singularity, even.
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John Whitley
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pfffftttttt thankfully I hadnāt just sipped my tea before reading that. š
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John Whitley
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Strongly Typed Ghouls is my new band name
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