Tweets from 2021/12
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@freezydorito looks like it's made of felt
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RT @Sharp_Sticks: this is the video that plays when you get a strike at the damn bowling alley!!
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RT @vectorpoem: this was The Metaverse. it happened and you missed it.
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i wrote "wheetabix" down on my shopping list & knew it was wrong but left it because it looked funny. but every time i look at it it seems a little bit more unsettling. it's started to pop into my head even when i don't look at the list. wheetabix.
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i never knew they made a sequel to The Man With The Golden Arm @Carnage4Life/1466009447759708165
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@hollygramazio wheet-bix
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@dannybirchall take a left turn at the biscuit aisle... and find yourself... in the cereäl zone
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on being trans and very online patreon.com/posts/56719042
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RT @MorrighanCorbel: Ok, before my UK peeps freak out- this isn't true. Royal Mail just refuse to admit they formatted the restrictions lis…
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@legobutts glad you're doing well <3
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@SzMarsupial ayyy I missed this, go you, such a pleasure to have worked with you.
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@fastramdesign you're welcome
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ugh i'm implementing a "classic UI" in Unity for the first time since vaguely learning how React works and I'm starting to want it structured like React??
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@semiBad components being controlled by their parents in a structured way, passing through the data model & triggering component display changes automatically as it updates.
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interesting stuff on new medications that alter the body's weight setpoint worksinprogress.co/issue/the-future-of-weight-loss/
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of course, the mystery remains: why has obesity increased? slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-part-i-mysteries/
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but even if, from a public health standpoint, we're treating the symptom & not the underlying cause... that's still good!
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oh my god i do not have the patience for motion graphics and cute copywriting, please just let me skim a page & screenshot some fun stats for Twitter
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this is a subtweet of Spotify, ofc. i hate the stories format! i can't really be bothered with them even when my friends post them, let alone when they're presenting some stats
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anyway, my Spotify wrapped: I listened to touchtheplants.bandcamp.com/album/breathing-instruments a lot when I was trying to get to sleep, and I listened to Dry Cleaning when I was awake.
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fuck it, let's post some more: Blondie's Sunday Girl remains a perfect song youtube.com/watch?v=oJLMfFJT9ac
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also this is great youtube.com/watch?v=iRgLhEGEetc
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songs you love for a specific goofy thing the singer does ("a forgery??!") youtube.com/watch?v=TRG6dDrpj0s
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this remember how it felt to watch this video for the first time. Rest In Power, SOPHIE youtube.com/watch?v=m_S0qCeA-pc
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oh, i forgot about this tune youtube.com/watch?v=hhEX9n5DjZQ
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also, i surprised myself by starting to get into Lana Del Rey?? and i continued to listen to Japanese Breakfast, the Donut County soundtrack, Courtney Barnett, Caroline Polachek, the Silver Jews, MF Doom etc etc
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i miss actively listening to new music, but also i really struggle to work to music given fatigue stuff. and also with leaving the house. so i basically only really listen while cooking. not enough!
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@TiredMayo it's a fascinating series!!
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RT @mcclure111: Ongoing thread of public interest journalism barred by Twitter's new "private media" rule
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If you are in the mood for goofy cheerful Christmas romance: I can recommend one of the films where Vanessa Hudgens pretends to be another character also played by Vanessa Hudgens.
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@hannahnicklin @alphachar nah, I am interested and the only thing holding me back from buying it is my pile of unread books
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@Thairyn I can't wait for a decade from now, where there are 12 Vanessa Hudgens all pretending to be a different Vanessa Hudgens.
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RT @v21: regular reminder that if you appreciate making bots with Cheap Bots, Done Quick! or following bots other people make, you can help…
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RT @cicadaxxseason: hiroo isono
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having chronic fatigue and trying to understand metabolism, ANS, nutrition etc is kind of funny, because a lot of the tools and resources are built for athletes
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lying in bed, using an heartrate app covered in pictures of shiny people in lyrca, and deciding whether it makes most sense for your big walk of the day to be to the park 10 minutes away or 5 minutes away
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(it's not your heartrate itself, it's the variability of your heartrate - it's a indicator of the relative activation of your sympathetic or parasympathetic nervous system, which can be an indicator of how "rested" you are)
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@HJosephineGiles it's fine, it's cyberpunk, you're hacking around this being too expensive: dasung-tech.myshopify.com/products/dasung-25-3-e-ink-monitor-paperlike-253
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@hannahnicklin @HJosephineGiles (if I was going to make an actually helpful suggestion for a technological fix, it would be the reMarkable 2)
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RT @punished3liza: mfw i show you an Image on my phone
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"Umberto Eco and Roland Barthes were unavailable for comment." @InsiderLife/1466197982877999109
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learning about Miss Excel, an Excel influencer who thinks a lot about cultivating positive energy theverge.com/22807858/tiktok-influencer-microsoft-excel-instagram-decoder-podcast
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which it is easy to mock, but honestly... yeah, sounds like a good way to work (if you are an influencer). it is hard to be a charismatic person in a room by yourself! it is easy to get burnt out and miserable!
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genuinely really appreciate the way internet culture fixates on these tiny stupid perfect things and elevates them. Adam Driver appreciating soup. a wizard and his orb.
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like a convention hall full of people all doing a perfect Marge Simpson impression simultaneously. "i just think they're neat"
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it turns out if you quit your job to make stuff by yourself at home and also have a relapse of your fatigue condition that stops you from going far from your home, and are also me, you spend a bit too much time online and your brain starts going a little soft around the edges.
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i keep watching tv shows for like... 20 minutes and getting bored and turning them off. but i am bad at resting if i don't have a distraction, so i keep trying. Online is not really the restful thing i need, but it's just there.
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a particular type of sci-fi/fantasy book is good at sucking me in and keeping me going - but my compulsive behaviour is even worse with those, i will typically just lose time until they spit me out the other end.
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i could easily become obsessed with work, because it's fascinating and i care a lot about it and right now i am very driven. but see above about the fatigue condition. my body likes to make it very obvious for me and will give me a headache if i go too hard.
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@danhett alas, it turns out that jigsaw puzzles are actually fairly high up there for me in terms of mental exertion. i do them a bit with friends online, but often have to slow down or stop.
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@danhett last year i spent an enjoyable evening really blasting through picross puzzles and was wiped out for the whole next day.
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"touching grass" is absolutely the answer i need emotionally, and i'm trying. building up my strength slowly. yesterday i got to the park and back without having a rest on a bench halfway! (it helped that it was tipping down. it felt glorious to be in the rain)
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anyway, i'm doing okay, just... trying to mitigate that feeling i have felt before, where you spend so long in a shared fiction your sense of reality starts to delaminate a bit. luckily i have felt it before and know how to deal with it without, like, getting sucked into a cult.
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@danhett it's called PuzzleTogether! it's fun. virtual pieces, snap into place. it can generate jigsaws from images you give it. costs like a dollar to make a custom puzzle, everything else is free. a standing Sunday morning chat, we play other things but also jigsaws.
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@radiatoryang did you know an artist recreated this for real? metteedvardsen.be/projects/thfaitas.html
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@111davidlazzaro I am unconvinced this will hold up long term! Two obvious attacks : - deep fakes - paying people to record a little video clip and then using their identity I am sure there are less obvious attacks behind those
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@jdonson All of this sounds sensible, yes. But this is why it's truly a systemic thing. We're two years in and still going. There's a lot of investment and capacity that needs to be built. But... we're not.
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@freezydorito I'm a UX designer / developer multiclass, I am extremely annoying.
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@tef_ebooks i did it last year and it was fun, but also it turns out that i don't care about computer science and i don't often have to (unless i do a fun thing specifically designed to make me have to care about computer science)
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@Jam_sponge my microwave has two knobs. power & time.
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@Jam_sponge wish i could get a phone with two knobs
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RT @PMStudioUK: As we ramp up towards one of the most hotly debated Lunchtime Talks that we've had for a while, Watershed's Creative Techno…
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RT @dchiasso: "Avoid metaphors, which can introduce unneeded baggage." --from UC Irvine's Inclusive Language Guide
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Soulseek is still alive, and still as good as ever @baharkhadem/1466220293450448903
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it's got a nice community feel to it. you search for stuff & you can download it, but you can also poke through their folders, that they have sorted & named themselves & see if they have any other stuff you'd like. and sometimes those are things you didn't know about yet.
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people find their own uses for tools @aeleitch/1466785940257615872?s=20
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i think it is unreasonable that software does not support these distinctions. why does Google Maps want me to pick between imperial & metric? clearly I want meters for short distances & miles for long distances. @andevers/1466378342576316422
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@notquitereal somehow it seems to me that you should see this image @DilettanteryPod/1455705233628098564
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RT @NJetchev: Art from the text prompt "The Ascet Efreet is doing Fire Yoga." - version 2 is with a bright texture and subtle shading on to…
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wondering how Ken MacLeod feels about this @arb/1466903833724915714
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RT @tha_rami: Honest opinion: having two players in the subscription field is still likely bad for the value of games in the long run, but…
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these are some of my favourite games?? also one i worked on for 2 years?? very much recommend this bundle, it is stupid cheap & also for a good cause. @everestpipkin/1466938118959939589
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@hipsterelectron Mutazione!
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@ka_bradley it's so good, isn't it? i read it just after getting my first jab, excellent novel to read while wondering if you're a bit feverish.
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RT @hannahnicklin: This is sickening. It must be mobilised against, White Britons absolutely must stand in solidarity against this escalati…
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@polclarissou it is extremely fun
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@polclarissou I was just thinking earlier today about this sequence! If this isn't fun I don't know what is!
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RT @kvnweb: There aren't many cryp*o conversations worth the time, but I'm fascinated by discussions with VCs attempting to articulate thei…
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I prefer people who believe in political systems that err on the side of "people are fundamentally good"
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but as soon as I design something, I focus immediately on the opportunities for abuse and the system collapsing into the it's own incentives
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but then again, the thing i am looking for in the tools that i build is that they support people to do things with them that are beyond what i anticipated. so i guess i'm also utopian in that regard.
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maybe it's just some kind of lesson about utopian visions & then working hard on all the boring details that can lead them off the rails. hm. had hoped this thread would lead to a larger thought than that. oh well!
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RT @tristandross: "The country is littered with victims of what’s happened. We are going to look at new ways of penalising them." - such an…
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RT @mildlydiverting: John Lanchester on COVID in the LRB is quite the read. ‘…the estimated cost of vaccinating the entire planet was $25…
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@sophielouisecc good for them!
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RT @Clipart1994bot: PROBSOLU.BMF
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I remember when chocolate orange slices weren't slightly concave.
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watched the first season of Altered Carbon and I thought about how good Kaiba was
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I am pretty sure @mcclure111 made this tweet a few years ago
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close enough (the Altered Carbon comparison is in the reply, but I'm retweeting this one because it's a good pitch for Kaiba, which is the important thing here) @mcclure111/1126966602451357696?t=VSrNAy-jiVN4zo28rGQUvA&s=19
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@visakanv stop procrastinating and write your book
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@mcclure111 I didn't get that (from the first season, anyway, haven't seen S2). I got: she hates stacks because they mean rich people accrue too much power. But that was p much her problem, not people living indefinitely.
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@mcclure111 Guessing I should leave it there & not go onto the next season, then!
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wondering about the alternative version of me that i'd be if i'd got really into Chumbawumba instead of Belle & Sebastian at a delicate age.
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@JoeyKnock I think it made a pretty conscious choice to avoid dwelling on any of the difficult side to gay life. Like: why doesn't the love interest ever spend Christmas with his family? The intended audience can guess the answer to that, but doesn't want to spend time with it.
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@JoeyKnock I mean, I think the larger problem here is that the Christmas romcom is an essentially conservative genre. The template this film is adapting is about women deciding to give up their careers & focus on what's important (raising a family).
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@jericawebber @JoeyKnock ohh, I had missed that specific, I'm wrong about that, they made that a less gay specific tragedy.
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@jericawebber @JoeyKnock but yeah, I can see a version of this film where they lay out a lot of this stuff so an audience who doesn't intuitively know and sympathise why a gay person would move out of small town America would get it explained to them. but I'm glad this wasn't that film.
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@ammonite @ldscwebcam looks like snow to me!
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see #GameDevPaidMe is going around again, so will repost this. have left Niantic (final job on this list) now, and my financial situation is... chaotic? but not zero. @v21/1269773598769778688
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i want to go in the ice carousel sauna @Minna_H_S/1467377916837310473
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@adrianhon "capture the hopes and dreams of our visitors and mirror those back to them" feels like it's saying more than it meant to
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another very "back at it with Unity" experience. i wrote a while loop, and you'll never guess what happened next...
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(for non-Unity programmers: imagine if getting stuck in a while loop means you had to forcequit your code editor, losing any unsaved work)
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@adrianhon I enjoyed "There Is No Antimemetics Division". Not really multimedia, but is a full novella - my housemate even has it in hardcopy. Although it is fairly standalone.
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feel i should say some positive things about Unity: rn I am testing on Android & assuming iOS will pretty much just work? and from experience this is not foolish to do. i don't know any other way to make mobile apps where this would be the case.
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RT @GrahamB47: Every AAA video game makes you walk around a room and pick up shit. You grab hologram device and say "Just some weapon schem…
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@pillowfort i think it was less that it was exciting in itself, and more that it signalled that Hollywood animation could actually try to do something interesting? but i think the point has been made by this point
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@pillowfort (Mitchells vs The Machines was similarly interesting, hopefully it represents an entrenchment. but in any case, everyone who works in animation wants to make something interesting in that way, so. something'll happen)
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@keithkurson as someone who still does stuff for the web, sometimes, by themselves, amongst other stuff... modern web tooling is not really designed for me. it's designed for teams who have the problems teams have.
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@LorenzoPilia definitely the one with the dying fish
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they should show TV shows at the cinema
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they show films at home!
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also complex prestige character-driven stories have largely migrated from film to TV, while production values for TV are higher than they've ever been
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had not seen this particular convergence of crypto hype, virtual worlds & crowdfunding, but also not especially surprised @qDot/1466914213314457600
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i think after hearing @chouxsalad and @alt254 tell me about the Dota Auto Chess mod blowing up via eBayed tokens for cosmetically upgrading an in-game donkey I have assumed that any combination of platforms could make *someone* rich, at least for a while.
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@chouxsalad @alt254 oh, sorry, i missed out that the ebayed tokens were for a *slot machine* that could upgrade your donkey. which is the common thread here, really - gambling.
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@betterthemask this is excellent, thank you (and i was very surprised to find my tweet in the middle of it, lol)
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@betterthemask as you might imagine, i've thought a lot about designing for a lack of attention - both the sleepy stuff, but also Beasts (allowing attention to flow to the social interactions rather than demanding it for the game)...
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@betterthemask ... and also at Niantic (because players need to have some attention spare for the real world so they don't fall into a hole). i like it because i like thinking about where games fit into people's lives-designing with space, trying to give scaffolding rather than demanding it all
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@betterthemask but i've not really drawn that thread out from those specific games & problem spaces into a broader political meaning (political in the widest sense of the word, of course). so some thinking to do. thanks.
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@SzMarsupial i read a profile on Jesse Armstrong earlier & now I can only think about it within the context of Peep Show. Peep Show but with private jets.
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@SzMarsupial but to be serious, i like that there's a show about rich people that is totally uninterested in glamorising wealth. doing important political work. but on the other hand, i don't think i can bear that amount of unpleasantness.
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@betterthemask haha, it's fine! i saw people saying nice things about your talk, and i saw some people following me & i just didn't think to put the two together...
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@Seemo "i want an ethical work environment but i want other people to do it without me having to assume any power or responsibilities"?
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@vogon i take it you don't have the social thing of "make sure you do a rapid test before coming to [event]", then?
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RT @meatsock:
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RT @softlandscapes:
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RT @mattholehouse: Marshall says the Prime Minister instructed the evacuation of the Nowzad pets, despite FCO deciding they were ineligible…
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RT @simonw: A public librarian on why two-factor authentication is a huge barrier to people with limited technology access
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@betterthemask actually that's not quite true. mainly i have been thinking about the pernicious fight for attention within every part of people's lives. less attention = more places to cram games. Niantic stuff is good if it gets people outside, but a walk without a phone is better than with it
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@betterthemask thinking about @molleindustria's talk about this molleindustria.org/indiepocalypse/. is it designing for letting go, or is it designing to fit into yet more niches in people's lives. capitalist logic says "new market! get in there before someone else does!", and suggests it's inevitable.
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@IainBritton @TypeForVictory @HarrowGreens moving these minivans somewhere that's not 12 minutes walk from the tube makes a load of sense to me - much better than building housing somewhere outside of range of public transport
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p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶ song thrushes find their own uses for tools @woodlandbirder/1129345540477603840
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@mountain_ghosts yep
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@mountain_ghosts a thing which helps explain Spotify is that they basically gave away significant chunks of equity to the major record labels early on
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a thing which helps explain Spotify is that they basically gave away significant chunks of equity to the major record labels early on
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Birds of Maine (2020-2021) @__femb0t/1468195956797624322
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@russss @mountain_ghosts yeah, I am unsurprised to hear this.
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@russss @mountain_ghosts oh, for sure - I guess I'm thinking about, if Spotify had to decide between paying more dividends or paying more royalties, which would the labels prefer? not that the choice would be quite so simple, but...
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@nachimir yes - but then again, I don't think Spotify would've succeeded. Paying that equity was probably necessary to make the crucial deals with the labels, without which Spotify wouldn't have an attractive catalog.
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@mountain_ghosts @russss it's weirdly unfashionable to pay dividends these days! (or stock buybacks, which can have the same effect as paying dividends, only with different tax implications) as for "what basis are the value of shares rooted in, then?" : good question!
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RT @OnlyPianos: the teenagers who get mad about bi lesbians or whatever would be sooo angry if they knew how much gay sex straight guys are…
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RT @wihorne: Last week, during our last session of my White Backlash graduate course, my students asked me if I thought the U.S. would desc…
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RT @hornedbride: the cia faked vampire attacks in the philippines to attempt to discourage people from joining the communist guerilla movem…
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how i get into trouble is... the first one looks that way because of a bug, but it looks cool, so now i want to add an option to switch on the buggy behaviour.
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RT @pangmeli: I like 'never say never' humility not just because it's prosocial but because it allows for more self-mystery. what might I d…
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@deathsatchel one of the most beautiful phrases in the english language
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hey instagram made it so you don't have to use the web inspector to post from the browser on a computer!
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this is gonna save me so much time
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@NotBrunoAgain so weird to see Disco Elysium before KRZ (but true enough) also Birdland was so good, I should replay that
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@andytuba It doesn't, but... @v21/1468207071225171970?t=jUxRK2p2UdqGgMeqCVfigQ&s=19
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@xfoml oh, yes, totally, can see the same type of structure underneath. (and thank you!)
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@glowcoil I love to accumulate increasing amounts of error
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RT @qorquiq: Great article, and in particular it highlights the relationship between games and gun manufacturers. Our industry is much clos…
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look at this cute little train! @stickssn/1468213705938591745
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RT @AkiyoshiKitaoka: Thanks!
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RT @thinkiamsad: Y2K, the ozone hole, and acid rain are the trifecta of serious issues that were solved competently before they got out of…
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ahhh, I miss working for a large tech company @yayalexisgay/1468306412694507520
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it's like... here are your problems... you have to deal with them... but they clearly don't matter. relaxing, tbh.
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RT @terrycavanagh: List of words containing "meow": meow, meowed, meowing, meows, homeowner
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@SzMarsupial mate, I can barely handle being in a supermarket and I grew up here
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@hautepop i *think* i haven't, but
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@hautepop well, i mean specifically last summer i developed the kind of chronic fatigue that typically follows viral infection slash looks quite similar to long covid. but i was never symptomatic & antibodies came back negative. so who knows?
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RT @BeidaiheBirder: In the monitoring year 2020/2021, there were 157 wolf packs in Germany. This is the result of the surveys conducted by…
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blopchain
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RT @puppymoth: The Internet going from being a hub for porn to a hub for gambling, biggest falling off ever
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the concept of an EXIF orientation flag can do one
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congratulations to me, i have triumphed over EXIF orientation flags (the hard way, which here means "i ended up writing some shader code")
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RT @molleindustria: The best digital art piece of 2021 is this 2 hour long video meant to "jiggle" your cursor when you are taking a break…
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RT @gayblackvet: anyway here’s the original and better version lmao
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my controversial opinion is that evolutionary psychology is a important and worthwhile field of study (even if it has historically been incredibly racist and sexist)
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oh, and terrible useless Just So stories about cavemen
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but fundamentally, it is good to try to understand human behaviour starting from the premise "humans are a type of animal" and going from there
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@HilariousCow sorry, sorry, I'm trying to delete it
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this makes me think of the layers of the retina @LauraKerrArt/1467138144621498376
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something like this (from lightexhibit.org/bio_image84.html)
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side note, but it's fucked up that the nerves running from the rods and the cones are on top of them, so the light has to pass through the wiring to get to the sensors.
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didn't capture it, so won't ad it to my ads thread. but i did have a moment of fascination about an ad i saw earlier. KFC UK paying to show me a Buzzfeed UK video of an American recipe for fruitcake cupcakes.
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I think this kind of advertising fascinates me so much because it is like peeking at the clockwork innards of capitalism. Many entities coordinated, a flow of money diverted & branches & meandered and... what is the logic of the expected return?
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@gsvoss good thread
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writing the letter "x" 4750 times
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saw that Matrix thing, and it is impressive... that Epic got Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss & Lana Wachowski to work on a fancy ad for them.
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the thing itself looks fine, it's good at the things videogames are good at (rendering hard surfaces in various levels of shininess), bad at the things videogames are bad at (human faces having emotions).
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i don't use an iPhone, but moving the address bar to the bottom of the screen totally makes sense & if i was in charge i would make that change.
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the mobile UX struggle is between the print convention that the titles of things go at the top of the piece of paper & putting the stuff you want to interact with where your thumbs can reach.
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RT @jbouie: this may actually be the single greatest fusion of cuisines i have ever seen
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@LiToast fuck this, fuck them, good luck with the fight
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RT @visuals0und: Mid-century modern architecture & infrastructure featured in various Looney Tunes backgrounds : a brief thread... https://…
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RT @reproutopia: CN: fatal child abuse. "Even if Arthur [Labinjo-Hughes] had been spoken to by himself, and even if he was able to tell th…
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RT @HJosephineGiles: The forms of identity politics which centre personal identification over socioeconomic analysis - e.g., viewing disabi…
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@DocIncredibleX @exchgr fundamentally we have different visions for the places we want to live. I don't want to live somewhere where that is a good option, because it implies that everyone has a parking space by their home, and there's sufficient parking spaces by the supermarket etc etc.
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@DocIncredibleX @exchgr and that in turn means that it's unlikely I can walk to the shops, the park, the train station, that work is within 45 mins (by public transport) and has nice stuff nearby...
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@DocIncredibleX @exchgr living in such a world, I can say that it is not impossible to do grocery shopping, even for a family of four. not painful either! but then again, finding somewhere to park that truck daily would be an nightmare & the supermarket I usually go to doesn't have parking, so.
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RT @WritersofColour: The bill means 2 in 5 people in England and Wales from an ethnic minority background, and 6 million people in total, c…
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@drjclau this can come through in a bunch of ways, but showing that they have thought about what your experience is as a candidate, and they have taken steps to make it better. eg: - if there's a test, it's short & actually seems relevant - good comms - scheduling interviews with breaks
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@drjclau it shows a few things: - they have the desire for people to perform well, be treated well - they have the ability to understand the experience of someone not in their position - they have organizational capacity to act on these insights & change processes as a result
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@peibolsang @BoHAbrams @businessbarista @Uber it's been built already - eg rideaustin.com/ it is hard to set up a platform coop, though, as you need upfront capital to create the platform. but setting it up as a coop means much more longevity and equity than as a DAO
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@tfirstelizabeth my understanding at the time was that he didn't want to go to Sweden because he thought Sweden would extradite him to the states.
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RT @dirigiblebill: What if care, rather than skill, was at the heart of the culture of playing videogames? I wrote a few reflections on my…
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@tfirstelizabeth oh, good to know. but in any case I agree with the larger point (he is a rapist & should be punished for that in Sweden, he shouldn't get done for Wikileaks on America)
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@hannahnicklin oh thanks! i def want to read the book...
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@punished3liza can i just say that i appreciated the Alice's Restaurant reference
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@acgodliman yeah, I think whenever you start making arguments about how society should be structured that you back up with "because evolution said so" you're probably fucking up
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@acgodliman although thinking about it, I think it's very valid to say "here's how society *could* be"
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just booked my 3rd vaccine for next week - the NHS system has opened up for under 40s (although they've not updated the wording yet)
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@louispilfold booster!
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i've got an old nostalgic feeling i haven't had for a long time... thinking about the fic i read last night & wondering when it'll update.
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@mountain_ghosts yep, same (tho obviously salaries are lower in game dev)
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@DocIncredibleX @exchgr i... didn't propose the cargo e-bike & wasn't trying to defend it?
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@DocIncredibleX @exchgr all i was saying was that generally places have a choice between being walkable & having good parking, and i prefer walkable.
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@pillowfort the point of the £70 videogame (for people who don't just have money to burn) is that you buy the videogame and then you play basically just that game for the next 3 months. or maybe longer.
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@pillowfort and to satisfy those people, the game has to be hundreds of hours long and have a multiplayer mode, and have some shiny realistic graphics so you can feel better than the people who are buying those other weird videogames.
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@pillowfort yeah, I mean, same.
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@neapel ah, this is the confusing thing where "a third dose" and "a booster shot" are different concepts, and third doses are only given in really specific circumstances (mainly a weakened immune system)
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I am learning that Maurizio Morandi is good at discovering new ways of packing polygons onto other polygons in upsetting ways. @arborelia/1469803133001994241
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@Willeth it's fine, "23 equilateral triangles in a circle" is here @arborelia/1469801500088094725?t=VZ8p7KUS6bmykbo_zCUnPg&s=19
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I would like to not have toothache
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(I have been waiting for an appointment to get a nearby wisdom tooth out for half this year. I suspect the wisdom tooth is fucking it up, or at least isn't helping. But I have a first consultation for the wisdom tooth extraction tomorrow morning, so... hopefully we'll see??)
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@tigershungry I'm sorry your tooth hurty appointment didn't have a happier resolution.
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@Oujevipo I think the point of criticism is understanding what a thing is trying to do & then judging it based on how well it succeeds at that. Sometimes "what it's trying to do" is impossible to see from where we're standing, but people can contain multiples, too.
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RT @keenanisalive: The basic problem? Given a collection of points, curves, or surfaces in space, find a well-distributed arrangement that…
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@mildlydiverting @robinhouston I don't, but I've followed him now!
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@tigershungry got my fingers crossed for you
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@TechDesignau oooof
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@carmineclaire this might be a basic answer, but in my heart I know it is true: katana
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@astroblob quit my job!
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@LorenzoPilia I choose to believe it was Lana herself who made this happen.
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@BoHAbrams @peibolsang @businessbarista @Uber easier to raise capital, definitely not the most democratic @v21/1447572473625595906?t=JViNWJl6crKtnoW-bhpViQ&s=19
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this is one of the best designed pop up banners i have ever seen & it does that by ignoring many of the generally understood best practices for designing pop up banners @plotchickens/1470111373929635854
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@edsaperia oh yeah, the game might be good or bad, but the banner is great
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i feel like the sports i ambiently absorb through friends talking about them, in order, are: - cycling - F1 - cricket
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ambiently might be too strong a word given i am tweeting this while watching an ep of Yowapeda
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RT @catacalypto: We’re really bad, as a field, at making room for games and experiences with intentional friction. We don’t have enough too…
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earlier today i read a romance novel that fictionalized the 1820 Cato Street Conspiracy, where a group of radicals were set up & funded by a government informant to commit an act of terrorism. i can't shake the parallels to the modern day FBI, which operates in the exact same way
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the plotters were largely incompetent, the idea & the funding came from the informant, the aftermath was used to justify sweeping legislation recently passed that curtailed civil liberties (that was in itself a motivation for the conspirators)...
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oh, and the black guy involved believed he wouldn't get a fair trial because of racism. argued in court about how he was respectable, taught Sunday school etc. but got a death sentence anyway.
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@rachelcoldicutt @TechMilly at the start of lockdown my bed was clearly visible from my desk, and i decided i was fucked if i was gonna make my bed every morning for the sake of my co-workers, so just went hard with virtual backgrounds
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i did not know that Americans say Hyundai completely differently to us @ZevHandel/1470168676301115392
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@cassiemcquater like, a chicken Kiev? they were a classic "pop it in the oven from frozen" food for me as a kid. but i guess that's also breaded, which changes the dynamics a bit.
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RT @StunGunSteve: @jazbrisack Unions are like condoms. The harder someone is trying to convince you that you don't need one, the more you n…
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@cassiemcquater i mean, that sounds good? hard to go wrong, tbh
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@liza I'm glad I can bring people closer together with my tweets.
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apply foot to football ball @prawn_meat/1470195043260461058
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@tha_rami to kick the football ball to the foot of the goal
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@qDot I'd guess outsourced gigwork executive assistant as the source of this? "write 50 emails to companies which..., including 2 personal details"
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@HJosephineGiles I think it is hard to use social media to support your work as an artist without constructing an image - you can do it deliberately or you can do it accidentally, but success will depend on how you do it either way.
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@HJosephineGiles however you can definitely shift your image to not be a person who is eg making long insightful threads about the current state of trans healthcare in the UK, and instead someone who posts some nice birds they saw by the coast.
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@HJosephineGiles I am happy to respond with a link to this tweet if I see you discoursing, if that is helpful?
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@HJosephineGiles (I do like your threads & I find them personally useful, but I also very much understand the place you're coming from here)
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@jericawebber It seems like everyone pronounces it differently!
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RT @quinncy: A small story: A while ago, on a rainy Saturday before Christmas (which had lasted about seven months), my friend was staring…
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@dinosaurrparty The Beatles seen as the force that derailed one of the greatest Fluxus artists.
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@mewo2 @dinosaurrparty enjoyed this appearing on the timeline near your tweet @gifs_bot/1470367911160262656?t=SwTC_xqAMczngIYoH5ofUg&s=19
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@pylonfan @thestarboretum for reasons, I was looking at the Wikipedia page for the Tory Party. There was a whole period in the late 1700s where "Tory" was an insult given to political opponents, and no-one would admit to being one.
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glad I did this on Saturday! (sorry to my friends under 30)
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fuck it, this is a thread now: birds find their own uses for tools @potatojunkie/1470366530936483841?t=QNX0oBDKtwBnI8TSxUSN6g&s=19
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RT @gutefabrik: We're delighted to announce we're accepting applications for a GAME WRITING internship. 💚 2 days per week, 5 months 📆 💚 CE…
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@naomialderman glad you're having a good time!
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wild how plants turn mainly water and air into more plant
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it's pretty much just a set of complicated ways to arrange carbon, hydrogen and oxygen
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RT @anjelica: Angel Oloshove has mastered the process of glazing ceramics in a way that makes them seem… digital?
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@Ninfa_dp same in London
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RT @FreyaHolmer: > Hello Freya. I have an issue with your plugin, it doesn't seem to render in–
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realize i never properly posted about this so: i got a Developing Your Creative Practice grant to work on my generative art! so expect a lot more plotter drawings on here...
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thank you to @hollygramazio for helping with my application & to the White Pube Funding Library for letting me see a lot of examples of what an application should look like - i've put a copy of my application up there now, if you're curious thewhitepube.co.uk/fundinglibrary
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i didn't do this, but other advice when applying is that if you have access needs, ACE will pay for a support worker to help you apply.
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also, just putting it out there, but if you would like to put my work in an exhibition or gallery, hmu
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long thread on the economics of high end videogames @ZenOfDesign/1470246703932616710
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@GalaxyKate my guess would be yes, or at least linguistics universally conceptualises it as a parse tree. but it's also one of these things that might just be definitionally true.
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RT @gifs_bot:
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@martinpi @GalaxyKate I think even spoken ones - it's a sequence of syllables, and then you draw some boundaries around subsequences and call them words, phrases, sentences, utterances etc.
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@martinpi @GalaxyKate and boom, you have a tree, a set of nested subsequences (for a counter example, look at a sentence bridging between two stanzas of a poem)
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RT @lottelydia: Pretty much everyone I know who isn’t an academic now refuses to do any casual work for universities, because the process o…
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RT @hiumri: The Witching Hour (1977), Andrew Wyeth.
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@joningold I return to the boardgame Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective for this - like Her Story, it gives you a set of facts, and a mechanism for pursuing leads, but lets you pursue them freely, and keeps the satisfaction internal.
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@joningold Obviously hard to tie this into other ongoing mechanics, but it gives that free feeling of Actually Solving It, which I love.
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@joningold Micro Macro : Crime City (also a boardgame) works in this vein - not as hard, but it makes the deduction happen just by looking at details on a very large illustration. Feels almost like a jigsaw puzzle.
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@joningold I'm curious about how Neurocracy plays - don't know that it is explicitly a deduction game, but feels like the wiki structure likely makes the storytelling also self directed in this way.
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@joningold assume the design history was v different, but Her Story is the closest I've seen. but yeah, agreed, definitely sits there with King of Dragon Pass in the "more people should rip this off" category.
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@leo_elo_ole will have a look, thanks! might well be that my stuff recently is more visual & not enough literature, but worth chewing over
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RT @tanyaxshort: RESULT: there were a handful of cooking-based games released this year, to various levels of success. i.e. an order of mag…
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RT @austin_walker: One of the key things about what Jack is saying here is that these ARE qualities of mech fiction, whether the storytelle…
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@badambulist excited!
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European Convention on Human Rights: "you have the right to a fair trial" the proposed UK Bill of Rights: "you have a right to trial by jury whenever the law says that you have a right to trail by jury" @Barristerblog/1470851185368260617
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@jenniferdown Andy & Frank
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@innesmck glad you're having a nice time
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RT @loackme_: ⚫️
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tools find their own uses for people @0xabad1dea/1471054750531702785?t=fEVh08VdRHIBMoID0KoNxw&s=19
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@Ninfa_dp it's about solving problems
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@Ninfa_dp (what are the problems? that's creative direction defining the pillars + generally understanding the problem space, market, team skills, budget, etc etc etc)
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@Ninfa_dp who decides if the problems were solved? idk, it's usually pretty apparent to everyone involved. critics? i think criticism should start with "what was this work trying to?" and then assess it based on how well it achieved that (and how clear those aims are from the final thing)
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@Ninfa_dp i don't like "fun" because it's a Rorschach test. so many kinds of fun, it's a vague brief that can just lead to different people pulling in different directions as the project goes on. i have been there before! (and it wasn't a fun experience)
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@zoyander thank you!! i am excited! (but also tweeting to put off getting up to get a plot going, hah)
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@hellocatfood thanks!!!
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RT @nathanjurgenson: it's funny and telling how we have to talk about crypto stuff like it is trumpism or Q, how just being accurate is too…
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RT @kyotocosmology: (logging back into a live game after 6 months) Your Bolipherous Catalysts have been converted to Euphridean Prisms/Dile…
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@vogon motorway services *do* make sense for subsidy, imo. but yeah, generally agreed
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RT @andrewcb: The NSO zero-click iMessage exploit is pretty mind-bending: it used a vuln in the JBIG2 image compression in PDF, and then, n…
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we are going to see an awful lot of drama and implosions from all the crypto projects that focus on "governance" and direct shareholder voting on decisions, but have no effective organisational structures for actually managing that community
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it was written 50 years ago, but "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" explains this dynamic well jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
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this is such a look. kind of want to make something that just leans all the way into this? @comp3int/1471437052155731975
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RT @jomc: if anything the web3 discourse underscores why it’s important to me to have creative projects & hobbies that aren’t financialized…
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the thing is, there is nice tech associated with web3. but the only stuff that's really caught on is the stuff that financializes every interaction. IPFS is cool! I would love for there to be a surge of energy in stuff like libp2p (reports are that is it broken).
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@hollygramazio @jcalpickard somehow did not occur to me that the 100K like post by my literal flatmate would go nicely in that thread...
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hah. I've played this game before...
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booster side effects are really accelerating that holiday feeling. giving up on doing work, focusing on getting cozy, want snacks, a bit vague on what day it is... it's Christmas!
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RT @dril: thte international space station is visible from earth at the following times: Nerd Time
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RT @David_Rudnick: Phill Grimshaw
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this whole thing is terrible timing - my fatigue had just got good enough to let me leave the house and see people, and then Omicron popped up
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not really thought until recently that the way Hank Hill says "hwat" is authentically Middle English.
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I guess this was triggered by watching A Castle for Christmas, which has some very self-conscious Scots accents in it, including some nice hammy "hwat"s
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RT @tickmancer: either twitter fucked up or i buttdeleted it either way here you go😤
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@jericawebber noooo
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yes!!! the goat is burned! @swordbearing/1471677157076348934
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RT @guardianeco: Graze anatomy: what happens when you put up a fence to keep sheep out? theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/17/graze-anatomy-fencing-fewer-sheep-richer-wildlife--aoe?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco
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thinking about something I read about how electronic music is music where you spend vastly more time listening to the music you're making than you do playing it
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which do you wish for, every year?
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Shopify has a pitch for their new NFT thing that I reckon will be (unfortunately) effective. it is "you can buy NFTs without having to figure out how to buy cryptocurrency first"
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see, people like the idea of getting rich, but they generally find interacting with the actual technology of blockchain annoying and expensive and full of ways to suddenly lose everything. "just give your credit card details to a company" is a good pitch in that context!
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of course, you can't *sell* your new NFTs without figuring out cryptocurrency shit. so the whole thing is really just a finger trap. but it'll make Shopify money.
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i'm a game designer, and i have spent a lot of time thinking about incentives and systems & how value is constructed. so - ngl, i find this fascinating. but in the same way i find gacha systems people spend thousands of dollars a week on fascinating.
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@underskinnyhrt the other way of phrasing this would be: when you see the image below, do you go "haha, yes!" or "oh no!" @bb8bear/1471677157076348934?s=20
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for examples of how the blockchain is fascinating, but also extremely somewhere you don't wanna put your money, look at this thread: @samchepal/1471238662776102916?s=20
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(find it ironic that the kinds of people who were trading meme stocks and getting outraged at Robinhood's dark pools and payment for order flow are also speculating on ETH, where due to transaction ordering being a commodity, dark pools are a necessity to not get front-ran)
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[poll]
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@higgyC i mean... it's not particularly high frequency, the whole network can only handle 30 tx per second total
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@hauntologies i'm sorry about your wedding dress, but i am cackling at this
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since we can't all have Sarah to do this for us... imagine an AR app that recognises cookie dough & cutters, and then gives you the perfect tessellation @oopsohno/1471863472422105088
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@RachelRayns oh, yeah, for sure. and Christmas will be nice, once we get there...
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when you're trying to adjust the focus on a video of the plotter, but forget that it moves
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@fhkburner @visakanv yep - I do stuff like this in Sublime Text. search "\n", replace with nothing.
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wow! who's this dude with the chainsaws? @KSUWABE/1472155686499155969
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all I can think about is Halloween for some reason?
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if you were to rank every tweet you'd ever read, where would you rank the tweet you're reading now?
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it's finally the time of the year when you can respond to any positive news with the words "it's a Christmas miracle!"
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@pillowfort Halloween!
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@oopsohno yes, like that, except like the board game Mousetrap, it's an elaborate mechanism I've set up to get a hand in my face
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RT @emollick: Also, an Excel error led to an estimated 1,500 deaths in the UK last year. The UK COVID contact tracing effort saved to an ol…
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got my fingers crossed for anyone doing high stakes travel right now
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@any_other_you that's the biggest risk that'd fuck it up - but yeah, especially people who are travelling for a wedding or a funeral or something similarly emotionally difficult to miss
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like, she drew that pony, it got super popular, it became a recurring character, Adventure Time did a tribute character, THAT character got popular, and then a million post-AT shows happened, often with a strand of "derpy pony" threaded through.
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@acgodliman i love them
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@tambourine oh, that could be nice!
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@HKesvani i think "ever again" is a bit too much. but far enough out that there's no use waiting for it.
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@pillowfort nope
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RT @ShelbyWolstein: times are starting to feel precedented
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@LydNicholas so sorry to hear, I know how this feels. <3
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@LydNicholas sorry if I'm telling you stuff you already know but... please do rest as much as you can. (I know it can be hard, for internal and external reasons)
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@LydNicholas takes a lot of practice to get good at resting, in my experience
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@visakanv it is generally most funny when someone makes a statement that they feel is going to find approval but then very much doesn't. the nemesis that follows hubris. what social value it does teach is marking a thing as shameful within a certain group, not in communication.
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RT @mclduk: Some flowers are pollinated by bats, & their shapes may have evolved to give clear echo "signatures" when the bat calls. We exp…
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@visakanv a random example of someone being ratioed I just saw: @wesstreeting/1472910531686277124?t=g5jUT594gtbOdZs71X9e4w&s=19 what would communication and an attempt to find mutual understanding achieve when the original tweet is bullshit?
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RT @lisyarus: I've learnt about logistic regression and decided to implement it as an interactive online tool: lisyarus.github.io/webgl/classification.html. Yo…
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@nielsen_holly It can be nice... but only if you do the tricky thing and have no expectations for yourself. But, er, at the risk of being cheesy... good luck finding the fire inside. Or at the end of your tail.
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RT @nickmofo: The new Taper #7 features work by Jan de Weille @v21 A. Dorsk @anjchang Nils Fagerberg @JoshuaIGrams @MiltonLaufer @vinimarqu…
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new work from me: taper.badquar.to/7/display_case.html?s=09 I made a set of wunderkammer boxes to put Unicode characters in
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and delighted to have had it selected for Taper 7 taper.badquar.to/7/, a literary journal of code poems (alongside some really cool people, tbqh)
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@mewo2 and I love your slowly shifting stars! now to move this cat so I can get my laptop to look at the others (and the source code)
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@puppymoth this is exactly the thought process that led to Dogecoin
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RT @Sam_Duwe: We turned our @zeiss_micro #microscope into a dotted line generator. Fluorescently labelled cells flowing through an @ibidiCe…
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Happy "the days start getting longer again" day!
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RT @DPMcBride: The government’s war against Britain’s only termite colony will enter its 25th (and possibly final) year in 2022, after last…
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RT @nowplaythese: Now Play This is returning in Spring of 2022 as part of @londongamesfest to explore the relationship between game design…
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RT @nowplaythese: @londongamesfest We are looking for games (digital, non-digital or mixed), installations, playful activities and workshop…
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@ashleytwo hah, that's great, thanks for sharing
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RT @thanksgaving: Loose translation: a Japanese guy got Covid-19 in Shanghai a little while ago so the city published a list of places he w…
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saw Twilight for the first time today, and it was great, but... Edward Cullen drives a Volvo???
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can't tell if the current discourse feels more than usually aware of it's own situatedness within time, or if it's just that I've picked up the affectation of writing Name of Film (2021) because it's funny.
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random recommendation : if you want something like Dropbox, except it's free open source and just syncs between your devices (not to a company's servers) SyncThing will do that and works fine. I've got it running sharing my notes between Mac, Android & Windows.
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has selective sync, a pretty nice flow for setting up new devices, and can automatically save versions of files. and stuff is encrypted while it's not on your computer, obviously.
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@atroyn I don't, but... it makes a lot of sense if you have a lot of time with partial attention to spare. Driving, doing housework, doing non-verbal work or playing videogames.
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@atroyn (non verbal work example : I can listen to audio books when doing level design, but not when programming)
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@louispilfold I'm using a notes app that just runs from a folder of markdown files, and it's on Android so Syncthing can see the same folder it's running off.
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@louispilfold (GitJournal, if you're curious)
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definitely a feel that the way we prompt cutting edge AI is the exact same way we try to extract non-awful results from a search engine
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funny how glowing a compliment "it works fine" is about software
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@FlorianVltmn took me out for a day or two otoh, it was a fun knocked out - could do stuff if I needed to, but was vaguely loopy the whole time
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@aforestsociety have some photos in there and it handles them fine. but not used it on huge file sizes.
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gonna be a lot of people receiving defective Yankee Candles this Christmas. @zornsllama/1473575508784955394
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RT @DilettanteryPod: From evolutionary biologist W. D. Hamilton's text “My Intended Burial and Why:"
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RT @conchitinabot: Anvil‘s case against Adam literalized, for me, the corporation‘s power to deny visibility to literary texts forged out o…
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@SilverSober "tired"
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@oopsohno very happy for you!
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RT @huwlemmey: Somehow startling for a queer person my age to see Stonewall now being *too radical* for British society. The pact anti-tran…
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@designCaitlin I had this. Gotta go away for a little while and make up some more dreams...
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RT @simonw: If your work touches personalization algorithms you should absolutely add this to your list of personas and anti-patterns to te…
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TIL that licorice causes high blood pressure and heart arrhythmias. @Andy_Tattersall/1473326664776097792
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RT @moiragweigel: merry xmas from philip larkin
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the experience of hearing about a policy change that is personally inconvenient, but which you can find no fault with the logic of
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(TfL banned e-scooters from the Underground after a couple of lithium battery fires)
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RT @chhopsky: when designing tech, you have a responsibility to figure out what bad actors are going to do with it ahead of time, and preve…
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@vivschwarz I can't argue with the logic of it!
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incidentally, e-bikes are fine, despite being basically the same thing with pedals attached. A subset of: - they're not illegal - they haven't caught on fire - they're more expensive/better quality - they're more likely to be owned by the kinds of people that set policy for TfL
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@toficofi I do, I haven't, I do know someone who got a warning (but have heard of they wanna be harsh they can take away yr driving licence for it). but also I see a lot of people riding them around here, so, not so afraid.
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@toficofi yep!
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if you made a dish with charcoal, licorice and grapefruit, would they all cancel each other out? @davemakes/1473700269334888453?t=ZyDwbYVcrdkIP81RySq8CQ&s=19
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RT @pietersender: Biquette the goat, sold to an abattoir after she stopped producing milk but was rescued by punks and then spent 10 years…
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@felix_cohen I have at least one answer for you : MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1 ("Icarus"), a blue supergiant 9 billion lightyears away.
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@felix_cohen I said I had one answer, not all of them!
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what's better?
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@lyyyndseyyy what does green tea do?
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@vivschwarz best quality, to your preference, in both cases
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@katbamkapow I'm asking the hard questions!
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@penightingale it's an arbitrary binary choice! you GOTTA choose!
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@lyyyndseyyy huh!! Guess I should maybe drink green tea (my blood pressure is fine, but has been high recently - reckon POTS/CFS sometimes does stuff to it)
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@katbamkapow but it's a twitter poll! it's 100% mandatory.
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RT @Clipart1994bot: F_STYLE.BMF
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forget the "around the equator"/"dick and balls" method, this is what I'm doing from now on @reactloona/1473492665874403337
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for reference: @v21/836976064786214912?t=6mxiB-JCkEGZ30NFi5SLrg&s=19
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hey this is my resume! @yasiman3d/1473763598543450112
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RT @shreyagnanda: In a rentier economy, non-fungible benefits (like a 4 day week) can be superior to fungible benefits (like cash transfers…
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RT @julian0liver: The other literacy to help build is topological, understanding that while "decentralisation" might be implemented at one…
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this tiktok makes a great point. if you cba to watch it: Dune-the-book and Dune-the-movie have the same plot but vastly different meanings because of the context they're released within (mainly America's shifting imperialism)
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tl;dr: Villeneuve's Dune is Pierre Menard's Don Quixote
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from zero to sixty / from dreaming to cleaning up cat vomit
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is there/what is the Affinity Designer of Adobe Audition? something with a reasonable one off payment so I can do some audio editing without having to deal with Audacity or piracy?
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@coolpowers Non destructive editing (ie, cut a track and then adjust the end points by dragging) and the ability to make edits while playing audio.
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tried Fission, but even though it would probably work fine for current thing, didn't want to pay for/learn a non multitrack editor. tried Reaper, and after a bit of poking to persuade it I'm not editing music, and learning the "delete selection" shortcut... yeah, it's good.
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ripple edits, yeahhh
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RT @spacetwinks: @NotBrunoAgain it keeps fucking me up that basically "remember diesel sweeties? it's back, in pog form" is now one of the…
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RT @ghost236: Picky
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RT @profcarroll: web3 is symptomatic of a tech press and industry fatigued with techlash, thirsty for the “new” to feel optimistic and hero…
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RT @nantarsya: One of the workers asked HR if he could go home bc he wasn't feeling well; his leave bank was running low, so unless HR acco…
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RT @ahandvanish: On average, neurological symptoms from #LongCovid don’t start in the acute phase, but 4-8 weeks later. (For about 1/3, the…
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*once again* I have gotten to the end of the year, thought "fuck it, I haven't achieved much this year, i don't want to write a year-in-review", started writing it anyway and been surprised by how much stuff I have to write about.
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somehow it is surprising every time
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@SFBDim turns out I bought a flat in March? which you'd think I'd remember, given I'm sitting in it
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RT @MIDImyers: i just got a PR email with a survey at the bottom and these were the only options
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RT @mcclure111: This video is 12 seconds long and its narrative arc is breathtaking
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (my body, 2020) @danajiru/1474145554737217551
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thinking about designing videogames for non-human animals again... vm.tiktok.com/ZM8TuJuVC/
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there was that Kars Alfrink project where pigs and humans would play videogames online together whatsthehubbub.nl/projects/pig-chase/ (that is now hard to find because of the PR campaign for a different pig videogame paper from earlier this year)
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people say "players never read the tutorial text" - I guess this is the next level of that
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@netgal_emi oh yes, thank you for the reminder, exactly it
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RT @artur0castro: The original cypherpunk spirit
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RT @betterthemask: a future of inane unwanted corporately driven social interaction where customers chat to baristas so they don’t get fire…
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beautiful quilt @TheQuiltLamb/1474414805888864258
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this is very funny @imogenbinnie/1474415980319236102
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@KeirRice happy christmas to you too!
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RT @eun_hee00_: My room.
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I just... surfed the web? it's been a long time since I've done that, it took me a moment to recognise what it was I had done & why it felt so good.
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I looked up the author of a short story collection I just finished reading & loved (Iphgenia Baal) which showed me that the zine shop in Peckham is still open, just moved, which is stocking a zine about chronic illness called Bed, which features a nice illustrator, Sarah Hagale
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yes yes half the links were on Instagram, but still... following my curiosity from one website to another, discovering things I did not know I wanted to find out along the way!
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fucking hell! context: Simplified Chinese is usually the #2 language for games on Steam. Steam has existed in an ambiguous grey market zone in China for a while - for Chinese indies, launching on worldwide Steam is the best way to circumvent the (punishingly slow) regulators. @Stutsies/1474684082986844160
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there was some speculation that the Chinese censors were purposefully not doing this, as it'd lead to Chinese gamers installing VPNs to circumvent it (and thereby bypassing the censors entirely). an uneasy compromise swept away.
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@DavidJEastman1 a reasonable point - I don't know why Steam wasn't banned until now, but "to avoid motivating gamers to try to get around the Great Firewall" seemed like reasonable speculation, and I felt okay reporting on it as such.
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@DavidJEastman1 (given the community pages were banned but the store wasn't, it seems to me that it was a deliberate choice)
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@tambourine lovely! and love that shirt, too. merry christmas to you
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RT @HWarpola: Computer's first Christmas card de Edwin Morgan >
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@ohhoe yeah, the first is the CG visualization, driven by the telemetry. then the second is the actual camera feed.
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@jazzmickle Koala Crisis
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watched Speed Racer this evening. some stunning sequences I'm still thinking about now. the way they layer shots together, not just cutting between them. and then sometimes make that layering unexpectedly diegetic. what a thrill that is.
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also fun to see Peter Mannion from The Thick of It and Patrick from Coupling do good work
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RT @mcclure111: Everything is a cycle. The series ends where it begins. You defeat evil, and it just rises again, and it defeats you. But *…
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wait, apologies, I was wrong. it is slightly more banned than it was, but is still not actually banned newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/holiday-special-did-steam-really
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welcome to the future @lukeweston/1474666354976329728
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RT @Melibellule: Yes. This is exactly what happened to us in 2016 when we decided to run 52 week-long events in Transformice: short term nu…
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@visakanv they had a goal and they achieved that goal. time for a new goal.
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RT @r_demiranda: Okay, so. To me, storytelling is completely inseparable from vulnerability. Where does that leave us? That leave us with t…
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Apple made Tumblr ban a list of words in their iOS app, lots of possible commentary about power structures, online, culture etc etc. but also looks at this list of banned words. there are some funny things on there! docs.google.com/document/d/1YG7E84Dvs2PyoKMgSgZFgEX0Kh0RtJqsazZsyVGY8dk/edit?usp=drivesdk
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new life goal: to have Apple specifically ban my name from appearing on iOS devices (apparently the way to do this is to write... Stranger Things fanfic? or to be an anthropomorphic cereal mascot)
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ok ok here's some useful context @Foone/1475148156371292163?t=gCX5JuLWH-zWuQQPV8IWfA&s=19
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saw Reality Bites (1994) the other day, and one thing I couldn't get over (besides how hot Winona Ryder is) was how all the characters were smoking inside. just looks strange to me, people don't do that now. definitely in the UK, post smoking ban.
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wonder if I'll feel like that about "characters congregating in indoor public spaces" a year or two further into this pandemic
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current status: installing Blender
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also i have a tummy ache
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@pangmeli See no reason they couldn't provide the service, the question is how much it'd cost.
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@pangmeli But Amazon makes their money from AWS & the third party seller programme. Amazon Prime makes a loss, their first party sales make a loss.
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I'm happy for all my friends who are having fun with Wordle and Babble Royale, but I will not be joining you, I still hate word games.
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I designed one once, Word Miner for the Alexa. Did a pretty good job! Had to understand them, tried a bunch, confronted my fear and hatred of anagram based games, came to a rapprochement, it was a whole emotional arc. But still, nah, can't be bothered.
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I know words, I can spell, that's fine. But I just... don't think of words as collections of letters?
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1) I really really don't want to get long covid (the incidence of which increases with subsequent infections) 2) Sucks for the countries that *have* succeeded at zero covid policies. 3) I dunno. I guess I agree, I'm just incredibly angry. @BallouxFrancois/1475567604504973318
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@varjmes until someone says her name three times, that's the rule I know
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@alexhern I haven't, I can imagine it is, but also I am not particularly tempted to try, because *gestures at thread* haha
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@alexhern *unless* I get a job designing another word game. but I would not be my first choice for that
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@havocmoth there are hardware random number generators you can connect to! your computer probably has one. but you generally only use those if you're like... doing encryption stuff. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(computing)#Hardware-originated_entropy
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the performance is bad, as you might imagine
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@SzMarsupial a single indivisible shape!!!
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@SzMarsupial (uh, just don't look at the collection of concrete poetry i've got in the works...)
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@SzMarsupial i am sorry to hear that (and i know)
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@SzMarsupial wait, apply those sentiments in the opposite order
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RT @shannonmattern: Isn’t this a shame? That copyright, intended to *promote cultural production*, has instead become a deterrent to engagi…
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RT @policefala: learned the other day that snakes and ladders is insanely old and used to represent the ascent towards "Moksha" or release…
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i made an ugly tree & was trying to figure out how to colour it in when Blender crashed. but hey, I'm definitely having a lot of fun with Geometry Nodes, so much so that it is motivating me to understand more about Blender as a whole.
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(lessons such as "sometimes Blender will crash & lose your work, so maybe it's a good idea to save every so often")
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RT @heatherchristle: Money seems funniest/most imaginary to me when I look at my current manuscript's quoting of Patti Smith chanting "hors…
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third retweet from me today on the subject of quoting lyrics @mountain_goats/1476242081324703749
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RT @_nakst:
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@pillowfort i bought somewhere with a little bit of money from my parents, and mainly money from winning the startup lottery (could have managed with just the latter)
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RT @morganastra: this is WILD. the entire B/Yamagata species of influenza virus has possibly gone extinct since people have been masking an…
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I have now seen the new Matrix, and have unmuted it on Twitter. I am ready for takes now.
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What did I think? I liked it, I thought it was good.
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RT @10kimaginaryboy: Loved as he is...does he still pause brightly?
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@nielsen_holly I'm sure the story is entirely happy and nothing upsetting happens in it at all
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@HJosephineGiles prettty similar result to where you ended up with (without writing a python script)
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@moreelen Ah, I pretty much always went to them in order to have an excuse to hang out with friends in a nice location. Some are better than others for this... However, a few years of not going has made me wonder quite how much I care about making videogames.
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a beautiful ending to a wonderful series. the joys of careful proc gen, the most accessible recounting of Em Short's taxonomy of generated text... if50.substack.com/p/2020-scents-and-semiosis
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and then, there's a little reference to something I built in there, and that makes me proud to have contributed my tiny part.
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it makes me think about the power of the community making this stuff, people thinking carefully and thoughtfully about how to achieve new things, caring for each other & appreciating each other's work. it's about a gift.
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RT @adityab: Olivia James might single-handedly cause an exponential rise of comics literacy in the general public.
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@SzMarsupial it represents babies. and yoda.
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pointing at Wireshark with a worried look on your face @ArtLaboratoryB/1476569245827936261
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people find their own uses for tools @thingskatedid/1476679065411022849?t=Dv8VeHXuzOxgCMnuRGlXtA&s=19
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@michael_deforge thank you for posting it. I loved it.