Tweets from 2018/10
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if you write a trend-forecasting piece and there's a section called "Brain Health", you should talk about Flint & lead pollution, not kids being used to smartphone notifications
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(oh, and sulphur dioxide & nitrogen dioxide theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/27/air-pollution-causes-huge-reduction-in-intelligence-study-reveals)
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Sensible Object is hiring a senior games producer: come work with me & the rest of the team making weird games sensible-object.workable.com/j/BAD4CFBCC6
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RT @mtrc: Here's my tip for busy folks who love the idea of #procjam: 🔸 Learn how Tracery works: crystalcodepalace.com/traceryTut.html 🔸 Sign up to https…
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RT @JanelleCShane: An example of a really hard category for #BigGAN due to sheer variety: "Shopping." I part like these, and am part stress…
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@hownottodraw hi, friend!
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RT @lorenschmidt: some of the original notes on Conway's game of life, written out on a typewriter. they are so beautiful and endearing. ht…
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RT @christinelove: tbh I think one of the most valuable skills you can HAVE as a dev is to know the difference between when you’re lacking…
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@netgal_emi the tiny snobbish game designer in me wants to say that actually it shows bad design - ideally all your fixes should be smooth and seamless and leave the holodeck walls invisible
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@netgal_emi right, I agree! and I loved your recent post on yr gacha game. but that an (expensive, painful, probably doomed) way of solving the problem, and it is the Correct answer according to the values present in the game design traditions I was surrounded by when I became a designer.
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RT @fibromodulin: tonight in medical software aesthetics
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@iainl7 i am photographing the monitor. i discovered a ways up thread that it looks a lot nicer & adds a lot of good analogue error to the outputs
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RT @rachelcoldicutt: @mikarv @lilianedwards On this theme (or at least, in my broad comprehension of it) interesting to see ONS are now inc…
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here is @infovore being melancholy about bots infovore.org/archives/2018/10/02/pouring-one-out-for-the-boxmakers/
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RT @BRKeogh: Wrote something this morning about the preconceptions of what the activity of making videogames fundamentally is and what the…
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RT @jpolakis: Given the scale and severity of the @facebook breach, I’ll share some thoughts based on our recent @USENIXSecurity paper with…
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@hellocatfood @SPACEcolchester whoop whoop! (Skull is very good)
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@jonty @hellocatfood @SPACEcolchester i think it is the most fun game _I_ have played with beer mats
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@jonty @hellocatfood @SPACEcolchester but, like, 9 Men's Morris is a better game, and could be played with beer mats / on a beer mat... so i guess not
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deleting Plunkbat to free up hard drive space for Visual Studio
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new onion games game alert @oniongames/1047807970250084352
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the death of the British computer industry logicmag.io/05-how-to-kill-your-tech-industry/
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@jukiokallio these are lush
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it is funny & sweet to me that T-posing is a thing
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@nielsen_holly it's so lovely! I have been wanting to do it for years.
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@FionnaMarz yes it is. what's the bot? (currently on holiday, on a boat, with limited signal - apologies if I can't dig into this too much if it's not a quick fix)
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@lazerwalker @_nadine @sensibleobject @ammonite thanks Mike! yeah, I saw you've been doing stuff in this space, had been meaning to say hi about it. would love to do a Skype at some point and hear what you're up to (& obviously share some stuff we've learnt)
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RT @lifewinning: Good morning, this was an iPhone and now it is a cursed orb
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@lil_selkie you look real good!
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@ldreamfeel i have seen some of the sneaky peeks you've posted and : they look real good! you're making good choices & doing good things!
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RT @NightSkyGames: This is a solid thread on thinking about personal emotional safety in roleplaying games. @vl_darling/1049840611493171200
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RT @elikaortega: One of my favorite Ulises Carrión quotes from the New Art of Making Books is this footnote.
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@anne_boyer i would try to sign up with Monzo - i originally signed up with them when it was quicker to do that than get a replacement card sent out by HSBC...
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@chrisamaphone ooof! this is a very good point & one i am guilty of. thank you for this thread!
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@chrisamaphone mmm - for CBDQ, i deliberately let difficult features be confusing & hidden. but i guess it's important that you can complete a lot of satisfying bots without those high level features. and also it's a tradeoff - i tried to choose making the basic stuff approachable.
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@chrisamaphone it's interesting thinking back to the very start - i released a host your own Tracerybot project at about the same time, intended as a escape hatch for people who wanted to go beyond CBDQ. it never saw much use...
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@lorenschmidt i put it down to "documentation is hard"...
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@lorenschmidt @spry_chicken so, to be a bit less glib: the docs team manages the API, engine, assorted plugins & extensions. and does docs, tutorials, youtube videos & maybe also live training? and has that x however many versions. and... has company bullshit, tooling & standards to deal with. so: big task.
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@lorenschmidt @spry_chicken of course, big task, bigger company. and this stuff is pretty basic, and has been neglected for so long. the right thing is simple, getting there is hard...
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@lorenschmidt @spry_chicken i would also assume this! which is fucked generally for normal reasons of valuing soft-skills/gendered work etc... but especially because Unity lives or dies by it's docs.
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@lorenschmidt @spry_chicken yeah, good point. though i would also guess Unity is only at 60-70% gamedev use by this point... still, though, even with training and paid support, you're still likely to be wrestling with Transform.LookAt with mainly the docs & SO to guide you...
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@mcclure111 Stop.
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@tambourine this tweet pushed me from 50% likely to watch Hilda to 85% likely
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@fucrate what's your favourite encoding?
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@oliviacpu i do - easier to respond to CBDQ queries there than on my email
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RT @lorenschmidt: i have been rereading this piece of machine translation for several days. it is becoming one of my favorite short texts.…
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nothing more than sincere than a post deleted while you're looking at it
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hurrah! i learnt how to use "Outline Stroke" as an effect, allowing me to use "Roughen" on the outlines of strokes as opposed to the strokes themselves!
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it has been so fun to do art & graphic design on this project. as soon as it becomes problem solving, i suddenly snap into focus.
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here is an EP full of bangers open.spotify.com/album/0eiaJiKBw7HejWyymAazLr?si=L-pVca_hQsqsVpXc8EfB_g
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tiny success : forgot my storage unit number, but managed to find it by directional memory and context clues
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@patrickashe This is 100% relatable, having just hefted a ikea bag of Rumpus cables from a storage unit to my new flat.
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@vectorpoem @molleindustria I dunno - Unity is pretty successful by most measures and they (used to?) have a military edition.
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@martinpi yep, that's pretty normal :/
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@martinpi on the plus side, you can cycle the phone number out & use it in as many accounts as you likr
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@vectorpoem @molleindustria I agree with that, I just don't think doing military contracts is evidence of failing to capture markets, just evidence of being prepared to help people kill other people in exchange for money.
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@NotInventedHere @martinpi yep, was about to say this!
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RT @molleindustria: A: The promise of AR is to allow corporations to become the ultimate intermediaries in our perception of reality. It'…
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finally move somewhere with fibre... but there's too much demand, so no slots left in our cabinet. what a roller-coaster of emotions.
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@vectorpoem @molleindustria My personal perspective comes from studying autonomous robotics at university, at a time when continuing in that would almost certainly mean taking military backed funding. It'd now probably be difficult but possible to work in that space and not. Progress!
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just cycled home and : yep, have definitely moved to the top of a big hill
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RT @mcclure111: Hey this weekend I downloaded "waifu2x" (?) which is a neural network based upscaling algorithm and I made a thread of imag…
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@hannahnicklin whupp! happy birthday! hope Milan is treating you well.
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@hannahnicklin yeah! still full of boxes, but it's all downhill from here. literally, as well (i enjoyed cycling home from work for the first time today)
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"Your points indicate how far your progress has been made into. Keep going!"
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@jazzmickle @studioanisa seconding these two!!
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@naomialderman I know some people who are Internet famous and on the other side of this... weird complaint, but it's hard to be an icon when you also don't have any money
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RT @metasynthie: Great story illustrating the deep, counter-productive stupidity of unexamined dev culture: more concerned with optics, pre…
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RT @leighalexander: when i worked in media every one of my colleagues and every outlet i worked for was impacted by a narrative that we now…
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@dinosaurrparty this is such an extravagantly awful situation i am actually impressed. praying for all your stuff 🙏
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recommending this story for rocks being hauled out of the ground and immediately starting to fizz, and for expanding my conception of possible places for life to exist. theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/meet-endoterrestrials/571939/
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RT @mcclure111: *sleeping face down on table, mumbling* we were so concerned about whether games were art when we should have been concerne…
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RT @innesmck: CIS FRIENDS LISTEN THE FUCK UP THIS IS THE LAST OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND TO THE GOV CONSULTATION ON GENDER RECOGNITION AND I…
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RT @Reweth: Acetabularia, also known as "Mermaid's Wine Glass", is actually a single-celled organism. Each little 'parasol' contains just a…
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When In Rome won a Parent's Choice Award! parents-choice.org/product.cfm?product_id=36024&StepNum=1&award=aw
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@aidowall Do you know Renee Gladman's work? For some reason, I'm stuck thinking about how Ravnica (MtG) & Ravnicka are very similar sounding.
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RT @elloradatura: made a lil poster for #SmallTalkGame <3
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@aidowall wait, wait, her city is Ravicka.
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a Magic: the Gathering block based on Renee Gladman's writings
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@lorenschmidt they feel so much more fragile, too
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i claim to hate exploring dungeons, but in real life i would be wild for that shit
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@lorenschmidt i like that feeling, too. although, living in Britain, I know it's inaccurate. the stone in the field probably got there because a person moved it, somehow.
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@lorenschmidt i think that it is good (if solipsistic), that anything *you* touch is marked permanently. other causes of change are natural.
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@oopsohno i do not know the answers to your questions, but i would like to state that i would be delighted to receive an email from you that started with DIFFERENT TYPES OF NOISE
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announcement: we've made an anagram game for Amazon Alexa! it's called Word Mine and it is about going deeper and deeper into a mine, making words of increasing length as you dig out more letters. play it by saying "Alexa, enable Word Mine" or click here: amazon.com/dp/B07JJFZXW9/
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@rachelcoldicutt don't worry, voice interfaces are the future
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@profaniti same
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@GalaxyKate sketch, toy or script, depending on the exact thing.
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@lorenschmidt oh! it helps with the readability of the thinner walls (i had a little trouble understanding the airlock in yr earlier demo)
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@lorenschmidt I would consider a different shade for the fog of war? it reads as if it is vacuum right now.
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is the social logic of what tube seat you sit in as a social traveller the same as you use for picking a urinal?
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i live with a cat now
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i'm also on my way to the airport, and get back three weeks from now.
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there's a substantial part of me that wants to sack off this trip, this commission, all the friends i'm gonna see, and just spend three weeks sitting on the sofa drinking cups of tea with the cat on my lap instead.
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but the cat would get restless, and i'd keep needing to get up and pee... maybe America is alright.
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@__Tyu i have taken exactly two (2) pictures of Pixie since we've been living together (ie, yesterday). here is one:
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@__Tyu here is the other
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@hoskingc yep - I think urinals give (for reasonably obvious reasons) a heightened sense of personal space, so it's more noticeable there. it's also an environment where people are generally not with others, so patterns are clearer.
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@hoskingc but then the train on the way in had a perfectly even pattern of every other seat filled, which made me compare.
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@LiaSae really enjoying this thread!
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I've been listening to some Friends At The Table recently, and I like the idea (which is surely true) that there are people looking at slideshows of runway shows in order to get the references when folks describe the next impossible outfit someone is wearing.
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plane movie report: Ocean's 8 : good fun, although probably not as much fun as doing costume design for it Zootopia : i turned this off once the somewhat tedious beats of the story started to come through. some amazing rendering/animation, you can really taste the money
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The Witches: i did not know this existed (tho I'd read the Roald Dahl book). what an amazing film. who is this for? creepy Jim Henson puppetry, Anjelica Houston vamping around, Rowan Atkinson doing Fawlty Towers, and the kid's arc is "actually it's fine to be turned into a mouse"
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Young Frankenstein : this was a good idea, but standards have increased since this was made. I think? though there's a beautiful bit of physical comedy when Gene Wilder stabs himself in the leg at the start.
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@mink_ette it's _so_ tacked on. i wouldn't be surprised if they added that on after test audiences complained
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@qDot I mean, are they really there for the plot, though? (the reason I watched it at all was the thing about how earbuds work in rabbit ears... that kinda stuff was great, but then the whole thing doesn't work on a slightly larger scale, and thoughtful small stuff makes you expect it)
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@MagInTheSmoke that's probably fair! I was in distracted plane-movie mode, which lowers your patience for some stuff & raises it for others
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@MagInTheSmoke but also! I did start hitting the point where the anti-racism bit hit the unfortunate setup where different animals have denonstratably different characteristics, and it was clearly just gonna clash more.
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@letmebeyourmur yeah, that seems fair
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@bitpixi I'm in a non-monogamous relationship, but it makes sense to me - my desire for someone does not mean I fail to desire someone else
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@wjjjjt I think i remember seeing it and deciding that it was definitely something we should accept. we definitely should...
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@wjjjjt anyway, thanks for the bug report
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@wjjjjt i am happy to talk about the anagram stuff (but won't force the knowledge on you unless you want me to!) (very glad to hear you're enjoying!)
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@SerinDelaunay ooooh, yeah, that does seem to be true. poking at it now.
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CBDQ seems to be having issues - the website is fine, but bots seem to be struggling. Looking into it now!
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Ah - twittercommunity.com/t/new-post-endpoint-rate-limit-enforcement-begins-today/115355 will be it. I thought I'd done the necessary bureaucracy to get by the rate limits, but it seems like I missed a step. Done now, will update as I get news. Might be a few days disruption to service - very sorry about this.
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seems like everything is sorted now! normal service resumes.
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@BooDooPerson @DavidLublin @TVFaceBot @GlitchTVBot the symptom of this was error 185 "User is over daily status update limit."
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@GalaxyKate this should only affect high-volume app accounts (so, twitter apps that post a lot/for many different bots). "300 per 3 hours"
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@jstsgs @GalaxyKate i usually have to provide a phone number... but then they're usually okay.
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@jstsgs @GalaxyKate i think it's fine on a policy basis, but obviously there's different (and shifting) stuff set up to catch spammers, and normal CBDQ behaviour looks a lot like spam...
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@bitpixi this sounds like a bad scene. it feels like they're not really pulling their weight in this, which is honestly a more fundamental problem.
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@bitpixi i get not being comfy about a partner flirting with others, it can hit that triggering jealousy spot & you can do okay without it (like, you can communicate openly, be happy someone is having a good time with others & still not like hearing details).
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@bitpixi but the problems here seem not related to poly stuff, but to this partner just wanting convenience/the old status quo/not putting energy into actively maintaining the relationship. when you're in that dynamic, you talking to new people really is genuinely threatening!
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@bitpixi they sound really nice. i am leery of dating both halves of a couple/that dynamic, but maybe that's just me being conservative...
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@nicolehe oh, this is great! thanks for posting this up, and if you ever want to talk about making boardgames played with Alexa, let me know
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RT @unfortunatalie: 1908. Little changes.
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RT @softlandscapes:
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"the original virtual reality pet" @mogumu_/1054819606911741954
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here is a manifesto i like: blog.mousereeve.com/a-suggestion-on-how-to-spend-a-day-at-home/
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i wish i had taken a photo of the face i pulled when i read this: feeld.co/slack
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RT @HardDriveMag: Newgrounds Classic Console Filled With 40 Stick-Figure Fighting Games thehardtimes.net/harddrive/newgrounds-classic-console-filled-with-40-stick-figure-fighting-games/
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RT @katbamkapow: Hey! I'm so excited to announce Games @ Play, a new project we're running here @UCIrvine. G@P is a showcase of new and exp…
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@gracebruxner oh no! don't sleep, stay awake!!
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btw: I am in Austin, Fantastic Arcade starts tomorrow, I'm debuting a game there, and giving a talk about it at 2pm!
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RT @a2_4am: Thanks for signing up for Copy Protection Facts! You will now receive fun daily facts about COPY PROTECTION! >o<
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this is beautiful for how it sits straddling the analog and the digital. all your data is ultimately a pattern of stuff within a place. diskpreservation.com/dp.php?pg=protection
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(Rowhammer is a more modern example)
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CBDQ update: my server decided to stop MySQL last night, so CBDQ has been down for the last 6 hours. Up again now!
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@SimonParkin i like this fizzing sense of static, the deep context that each tweet needs to be understood & also the lack of context each tweet presents with. a flattening of importance; all of this is the same! it's one of my favourite things about making bots - more! more! more!
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@SimonParkin it might not be good for you, but it is also something i love
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contrary point of view: people spend a lot of time on facebook, and by necessity learn the social signalling inherent in every one of those options. they don't need to optimise for initial simplicity-and presenting a lot of stuff up front means it's quicker for experienced users @dhof/1055273304628645888
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@DavidLublin how many different ways can you interact with the home button these days? Apple are the kings of superficial simplicity hiding a mess of overloaded functionality.
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at Fantastic Arcade, and I just heard my first "fold it like a hotdog, not like a hamburger"
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new game: Wifi Robots a game about hacking robots... except all the robots are devices sending wifi signals nearby a commission for Fantastic Arcade - get it in the Fantastic Arcade bundle here juegosrancheros.itch.io/fantastic-arcade-2018 or play it on the custom arcade machine at Fantastic Arcade
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I am very excited to play the other games in the bundle, too, check them out, it's not just me juegosrancheros.itch.io/fantastic-arcade-2018
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RT @fantasticarcade: .@JUEGOSRANCHEROS Presents: The Fantastic Arcade 2018 Bundle! Six fantastic games from six fantastic developers— Bring…
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@q_dork @gracebruxner me Loren and Ian say: boot
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@katbamkapow ahhh! I'm nervous!
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hey in like... 40 mins... I'm talking about that game I launched a few hours ago! Right now Tyriq Plummer is talking about his game, also launched a few hours ago! (we both made arcade games, both in the bundle) m.twitch.tv/juegos_rancheros?desktop-redirect=true
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@icynotesdx oh no! glad you enjoyed, though! that's a lot of devices.
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@q_dork @gracebruxner I'm so happy about this
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RT @GIFmodel: GeoCities Oral History. Interview #2 Susan Schapiro blog.geocities.institute/archives/6186
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@jonty @TickTickTeam i hope you are getting by by doing the noises yourself
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a good thread on the limitations of machine learning for generating blowjobs @qDot/1055876809215029248
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RT @GIFmodel:
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@whatisian knolling reference : @ForcedEnts/1056552399106686977?s=09
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@wjjjjt @aloobyalordant that sucks and I will forward it on (I am away rn, which is why I'm not looking into it). you can skip the 15 secs if you start saying the thing like "Alexa, it's year". the feedback is appreciated! (as is knowing folks are playing, tbh)
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RT @SmoothUnicode: 𝍓៥៘ឰ𝍉៝𝍓៌៙៛៘៰េនាើជោឝឣ៸𝌳ឺឝ៩ផ៖ឲឳសបឹ៥ឪ៲ធ𝍆𝌛𝌇𝌏ថឃ៏វៅ𝌦ធ៏ពដ឴៷ឹឨឝធច៳៶ត។ធ៎ល𝍈៳ឤ឴ហ់ពេ៹ះឆ៎ឦ𝌸កឰតុោ𝌆៚៸៣៴ឥឬៈ𝌿ជឝែ៌ជៅ
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@mcclure111 this bit of criticism seems unfounded : there's now a separate bookmark tool (presumably only on the official client)
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@mcclure111 huh. I see this, and I'm pretty sure I'm using the official android client
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@mcclure111 on the mobile site, too:
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@mcclure111 it's hidden under the Share button
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@mcclure111 (and between Lists and Moments in the right hand swipey panel, if you want to view them)
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@mcclure111 oh, wild, it's on the mobile website but not the desktop one
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@quartzcrusher oh, I'd love one, it looks great. I'm UK based, though, so no worries if postage is too much
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thinking about how happy I am that @gracebruxner won the award for most fantastic game of Fantastic Arcade. (the game is great, coming out soon, details here: frogdetective.net/)
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@gracebruxner I wish you were here to be amazed at all the cacti
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I am amazed by the size of the onion we are having for dinner.
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@gracebruxner Llano!
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@wjjjjt yep! that's definitely a criteria. this is fascinating to see, we never got this visualisation out with the way we did it
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@metachrominance @__Tyu yes, I came here to ask that!
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isn't hypertext wild? like, just the idea that a paragraph of text could have clauses marked up in such a way as to act as a portal to another document. like footnotes but impossible. what a thing.
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@__Tyu @metachrominance thanks! it's good!