Tweets from 2022/12
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i have just arrived in Australia. currently living in the danger zone ("reclining to rest up after the flight, but trying not to fall asleep until bedtime")Permalink Look on archive.org
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just looked up what time it is in the UK & felt a brief sensation of vertigo. not going to do that again in a hurry.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial well i wouldn't have to look it up if it was all the samePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @jeremylevick: HERE'S YOUR 2022 FLASHLIGHT WRAPPED 🔥 -Times you used your flashlight: SEVEN -Your favorite setting was: ON.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@gracebruxner i am currently sitting the the House House office!!! around for the next 2 and a half weeks, let's hangPermalink Look on archive.org
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I really appreciate seeing the steps visualised with diffusion models. Genuinely informative in how it produces images (for instance, why large scale composition is not a strength) @andpoul/1599123481706143744Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @wickedlyrain: sorry but some of u are physically incapable of productivity because u keep trying to schedule ur day like a alpha male C…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @pangmeli: privacy is a form of power. people who don't have enough power need a lot more privacy. people who have too much power need…Permalink Look on archive.org
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and regular autocomplete was more limited but also told me things that were almost always true, rather than 80% true. and it turns out the problem isn't coding, but instead understanding the problem & understanding how the current code works.Permalink Look on archive.org
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the AI code generation stuff i've seen doesn't seem like it's much beyond what github copilot could do? just with a different interface. and i tried using copilot for a bit but turned it off because it had the same keybindings as regular autocompletePermalink Look on archive.org
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and it is easier to understand code you just wrote, rather than code a ML model just hallucinated. if it was a coworker's code you could trust some aspects, you could build a mental model of what they were going for, you could believe that a plausible variable name would resolve.Permalink Look on archive.org
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anyway, it is cool to see this stuff, but it is still the case that ML stuff is interesting because it gives us a way to understand large datasets from a new angle, not because it has some new access on truth or beauty.Permalink Look on archive.org
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this thread inspired by this one @freezydorito/1599507538604457984Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @DilettanteryPod: [drags you into an alley with the curved handle of a cane, whispering with urgency] do you believe in the habitable ep…Permalink Look on archive.org
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it seems very possible that we are now exiting the brief window where a good fraction of all of human knowledge was searchable & instantly available. a window that starts with the invention of the search engine & ends with the invention of large language models.Permalink Look on archive.org
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the goldilocks period between too hard to access & too hard to discern from bullshitPermalink Look on archive.org
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this thread prompted by this thread: woof.group/@aphyr/109458365227242881Permalink Look on archive.org
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previously, on search engines getting worse: @v21/1435145965166637058Permalink Look on archive.org
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previously, on AI outputs getting shuffled back into the corpuses they're trained upon: @v21/1490298544477065219Permalink Look on archive.org
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a thing i appreciate a surprising amount about recovering from fatigue stuff is that i can sometimes listen to music while working nowPermalink Look on archive.org
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@samuelthomson i mean. good news for librarians.Permalink Look on archive.org
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so, it turns out that VS Code crashes on start if you go into the application bundle and change the CFBundleName to "V's code"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@machinegod this is encouraging! but will spammers & SEO farmers be motivated to use text generation models that back up their texts with citations, and will these models be able to distinguish between generated citations & true citations?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@DevSpacePrez @missdoomcookie yeah, "a good fraction" was my attempt to thread that needle. but also, yeah, it's a dynamic and not the only one at play.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Restioson: @v21 Sadly have run into a similar situation with machine translated text and gathering a corpus for a low resource language…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Restioson oh, I hadn't thought of that case, yeah, makes a lot of sense and is v unfortunatePermalink Look on archive.org
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a month and a bit too late, but i got therePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @boschbot:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@maxkriegers sparql & gpt is such a cursed combinationPermalink Look on archive.org
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@maxkriegers i was thinking earlier, how the dream of the semantic web died to be replaced by the exact oppositePermalink Look on archive.org
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here is my exciting news for today: i made a new invoice templatePermalink Look on archive.org
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is it "design" or is it "typesetting everything in IBM Plex Mono"?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@thedoctorkhan i can't recallPermalink Look on archive.org
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@everestpipkin i learned from the bestPermalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern if you are not [in my social circle] you don't know what's going on [in my social circle]Permalink Look on archive.org
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@sak_of_beenz thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @brianphillips: I know everyone is dunking on this, and rightly so, but I genuinely think “I have observed that automation tends to conc…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @JeffreyAllers: On the popular German TV show, "Wetten, dass..." (I bet that...), a man bets he can distinguish any Spiel des Jahres win…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@emollick but... this is still bad & still a toy example?? like, everything that isn't "chess" in this example is vague & not self-consistent. you're moving on the chess board, but also in the world, you're chess pieces, but also fantasy races, but also pieces are in your army.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@emollick i don't even doubt that AI can be a interesting tool & a useful iterative thing to use when creating, but this is not an example that supports thatPermalink Look on archive.org
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TIL that Pliny The Younger described people (ok, slaves) getting ill from asbestos exposure & trying to protect themselves from asbestosis using PPE.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@aeleitch here's the ref for describing the properties of it: perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137:book%3D19:chapter%3D4&highlight=asbestos don't have the original source for abestosis, but it was "the disease of slaves" and mitigated by breathing through a thin membrane from the bladder of a goat or lamb.Permalink Look on archive.org
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every day i test Downpour by making games where i take a terrible selfie and then link that selfie to some other object in the room. this is just what happens when the main verb in your tool is "take a photo". but today i took a good selfie instead. so here it is:Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @zachsilberberg: youve heard of elf on a shelf, now get ready for – oh, wait, you havent heard of elf on a shelf? no problem. i can expl…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@fireh9lly think you might be hackedPermalink Look on archive.org
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@fireh9lly sorry! actually, tbh my thought process was "but we don't have credit unions in the UK". but i was wrong!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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I look forward to exploring new ways to communicate with people of all ages and from all backgroundsPermalink Look on archive.org
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trying to decide if i like BlurHash aesthetically or notPermalink Look on archive.org
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possibly the answer is "not as placeholders, but it's a fun way to specify a gradient"???Permalink Look on archive.org
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huh, Twitter really doesn't like rendering those. here's some screenshots of the same images taken from the BlurHash websitePermalink Look on archive.org
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tiny little ASCII placeholder version of an image, so you can load the placeholder from the database & have something to show while the proper image loads in blurha.sh @wordvoid/1600637627257958400?s=20&t=ryyWNimpxkxjWaaw12mNgwPermalink Look on archive.org
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ofc, unfortunately i read up on JPEG-XL when i saw people annoyed that Chrome was yanking support for it, and now I just want JPEG-XL support. smaller images! saliency based progressive decoding, so the bits you'll look at will get fully loaded first! opensource.googleblog.com/2021/09/using-saliency-in-progressive-jpeg-xl-images.htmlPermalink Look on archive.org
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(ok ok, it's kind of a different question, you still gotta do a separate request for the image, this just displays it while the image data is coming in, not before you got any image data)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@wordvoid happy to delete my tweet QTing you, if you like!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@takeshi_no_uta they are very small!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @jasminevdon: a regular apple pie is topped with pie crust and a Dutch apple pie is slightly angled to create a sense of uneasiness or d…Permalink Look on archive.org
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one more for the copyright laundering thread @davemakes/1581922437939068928?t=2zyAvLOEBjfKlfRGM-wZVA&s=19Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jr_carpenter look at this rock @cormac_mcginley/1600797367800066048Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @dril: a quick e3 prayer: i call upon our lord in heaven to ensurre that these perfect video games are not lambasted by criminal journal…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @CryptoNature: At a wildlife rehab facility I met two crows that said, "caw" in a human accent. They said it like a human reading the wo…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @usebomswisely: Best Debut Indie was a very strong category filled with several excellent games that all deserved to win and then the on…Permalink Look on archive.org
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why am i having an opinion about the Game Awards? i should stop having an opinion about the Game AwardsPermalink Look on archive.org
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"The tiles can be placed arbitrarily, but it is more efficient to place tiles in roughly in order by scroll offset because grids reify a contiguous sequence of children."Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @AriDrennen: Access to Twitter’s internal systems also was given to Abigail Shrier, a vicious anti-trans ideologue. These are not the pe…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@astroblob @ianmaclarty this pic is incredible!!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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I was thinking about how this was basically court politics, the way that Trump tried to make everything about personal fealty & betrayal, but Elon Musk was kind of operating solo, without the court. but enough terrible people have sensed the absence and rushed in to fill the gap. @cwarzel/1601037680867160066Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Kalonica_ I love seeing Kalonica tweets which are photographs of text that is itself excerpted from Kalonica tweetsPermalink Look on archive.org
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@Kalonica_ they're good tweets! well deserving of being in a museumPermalink Look on archive.org
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I don't want to make a tutorial. I never want to make a tutorial. Making a tutorial is the worst.Permalink Look on archive.org
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it's like... you make a thing, and then afterwards you have to layer on a version that's twice as complicated, and even easier to understand.Permalink Look on archive.org
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or "onboarding", whatever.Permalink Look on archive.org
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Being on holiday and having a nice time has eased me out of my illness-related fear that using BeReal would just depress me with how much I am just at home working from bed. anyway, this is to say, if we're mutuals & you're on BeReal, feel free to add me: bere.al/vtwentyonePermalink Look on archive.org
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@new_nomad downpour.games ! it's a game making tool for normal people, that runs on your phone (and also has social sharing stuff, which is why I've been thinking about social networks so much)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@new_nomad but also tutorials have been a pain in the arse for every game I've made big enough to need onePermalink Look on archive.org
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@new_nomad might be nice to have a chat in the new year & compare notes on our respective projects?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@new_nomad thank you!!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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spooky to use ChatGPT & find an echo of words you've written yourself in the model (the tagline quick description for Cheap Bots, Done Quick)Permalink Look on archive.org
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i guess appropriate that those are words that I've written in a bunch of ways over the years, and which have then seeded the ways other people describe CBDQ. the kinds of words you write as a set of variations, a general set of points you've been trying to hit.Permalink Look on archive.org
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photocopy words, signature words, words which you've used so often they're now made of echoes of themselves.Permalink Look on archive.org
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the kind of words you say, in minutely varying formulations, every 5 minutes on a show floor, until by the end of the day you can disassociate entirely and think about something else while you listen to the words gushing unbidden from your mouthPermalink Look on archive.org
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exactly appropriate words to recognise being spoken by The Machine That Ate The Written WordPermalink Look on archive.org
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anyway, turns out i made Aisle, sorry @mrsambarlowPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @epicyclesbot: ⟳ 113 | 𝑣 -2 | ⌀ 0.2500 | ϕ 0.7939 ⟲ 233 | 𝑣 -2 | ⌀ 1.130 | ϕ 0.6334 ⟳ 310 | 𝑣 4 | ⌀ 0.2500 | ϕ 0.07650 ○ 360 + ● 0 http…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ivyteas: guillermo del toro’s pinocchio is living in MY heartPermalink Look on archive.org
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seems cool!!! @0xca0a/1601315795006410752Permalink Look on archive.org
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realised i was running early for something, so popped back home to finish the cup of tea i'd left & was missingPermalink Look on archive.org
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@amyhoy i mean to be fair the lurking horror will definitely wait for you to do whatever sidequests you choose to doPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @b1g_damage: so fucked that the best explanation of commodity fetishism i've ever seen was written by the guy who voiced the t rex in to…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hauntologies ok but this sounds like good fanfic, the facts might be wrong but the vibe remainsPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @danthat: Video game tutorialsPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @alienmelon: this was a big one! i wrote about GDevelop. it's as much of a game development tool as it is an inspiring space full of won…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hauntologies In my experience: not really, unless you also have a little bit of actual weed (THC) as well. Then they make it a nice chill time.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@frozenpandaman I think quite possibly from a tweet like the one I quoted?Permalink Look on archive.org
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of course, without a copilot these incidents would happen half as often @martinwalsh/1601722133637648384Permalink Look on archive.org
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@dinosaurrparty I've not been but have had a lot of conversations with @weiweiwei33 about it! the intimacy of deep OS integrations...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@dinosaurrparty @weiweiwei33 small world!! but yeah, she's great, we're friends, i did some work on Roller over the summerPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @CopleyGeorgia: If you're trying to get a job in games, please know that having an 'online presence' isn't a thing employers look for.…Permalink Look on archive.org
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has Elon Musk lost more net worth through massively overpaying for Twitter or through the drop in Tesla stock price as he melts down his reputation by running it?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv @joodaloop not the friendship paradox but not far off itPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @v21: Being on holiday and having a nice time has eased me out of my illness-related fear that using BeReal would just depress me with h…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@smestorp @visakanv I've been really enjoying having the mental capacity to listen to music while I work again.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hoskingc right, and obviously he paid the $44b and gained ownership of Twitter, so if the price was right it would be a net neutral move (also ignoring that there are minority shareholders in the deal, the same logic applies)Permalink Look on archive.org
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this makes me think about how very good Umbrellas of Cherbourg is, a sung-through musical full of colours and whimsy, and in which (spoilers!!) this doesn't happen @jackie_ess/1603175989093154816Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jackie_ess proper spoilers: circumstances & a lack of letters mean they both marry other people, have kids, etc. they meet on a snowy night, at the gas station he's opened with inheritance money. they acknowledge the situation. they don't talk about their palpable regret. she drives away.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @epicyclesbot: ⟳ 1 | 𝑣 1 | ⌀ 0.2500 | ϕ 0.3819 ⟳ 288 | 𝑣 1 | ⌀ 1.137 | ϕ 0.1366 ⟲ 267 | 𝑣 -4 | ⌀ 0.2500 | ϕ 0.6926 ○ 270 + ● 0 https://…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv fwiw, none of these are the reasons I'd hire an editor? I'd hire an editor to get to a place where the writing is saying the things & having the effect I want it to, sooner than it would otherwise. A shorter iteration loop than publishing,more granular feedback than a beta readerPermalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv I don't think you gotta, and I enjoy being arbitrarily stubborn about stuff as much as the next person, but it feels like you're maybe coming from a place of defensiveness here re the point of your writing?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv haaa, well, fair enough!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv which, like, I'm not a writer, but when I have given playtest feedback on a game, the most important thing imo is to respond to the thing they're trying to achieve, not what you think they ought to be trying to achievePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @IOivm: I feel the joy of using mathematics.Permalink Look on archive.org
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follow-up: i am now active on cohost: cohost.org/v21 and i just logged back into my Tumblr from 2016, let's see if that sticks: v21.tumblr.com/Permalink Look on archive.org
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@zachlieberman @golan can't speak to others here... but for me, it's the perversity of the endeavour, the way that the attempt to mimic a pen on paper will always be a little incorrect, and the way it forces a focus onto the details of the nature of what that looks likePermalink Look on archive.org
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@zachlieberman @golan (also the end result is, ironically enough, something that survives being shared on online better than when i lean into something with really digital aesthetics)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Stretchedwiener @WeirdWizardDave @Kelly_McKernan that old IBM slide that goes around: "a machine can never be held accountable / therefore, a machine should never be allowed to make a management decision"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@HJosephineGiles currently staying with friends in Melbourne & it's lovely to get to know them better, and hear about one of them being pregnant, and get to know their not quite puppy labrador (who is very "no take! only throw!")Permalink Look on archive.org
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related @FellatiaG/1604288608738824192Permalink Look on archive.org
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(from @neanoire@merveilles.town)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@yoondust I'd heard about it, but not seen it had taken effect. yeah, it loses a real channel for people finding out about it, and also makes CBDQ bots more stealthy, which seems bad. But... honestly with this platform it seems like a matter of time til CBDQ can't run??Permalink Look on archive.org
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@yoondust which is sad, but also... it's been a good run, you know?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@yoondust will keep it up as long as I can, we'll see what happens. but that's where I'm at emotionallyPermalink Look on archive.org
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what a good time to mention that my website has links to all of my social accounts on other platforms: v21.ioPermalink Look on archive.org
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reminder: i'm building a tool to let you make your own little games/websites/hypertexts from your phone. you can sign up to hear about it when it comes out: downpour.gamesPermalink Look on archive.org
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@corey_hardt as someone who was recently writing the start of a marketing plan & hoping "people look for this stuff on Google, right??", I am delighted to hear thisPermalink Look on archive.org
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@corey_hardt also, worth trying Castle, if you haven't alreadyPermalink Look on archive.org
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@ilyazver great minds! and yep - not sure if I'll get text in for launch, but it's definitely comingPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @KatyMontgomerie: Statement on the Genocidal Nature of the Gender Critical Movement’s Ideology and Practice - Lemkin Institute For Geno…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@michaelgold3n seems like it! I will investigatePermalink Look on archive.org
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Cheap Bots, Done Quick! admin note: just woke up & it seems to be down. Will investigate shortly.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@LovelySoftSnow thank you for the report! was helpful - just the website bit that fell overPermalink Look on archive.org
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think i fixed it!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@catacalypto I didn't make a plan to, but I have been totally scaling back. Just feels bad to post here now.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @keta_mean_: ah yes, the real five love languages: - touch starved -my parents never said they were proud of me - i love Things - i’…Permalink Look on archive.org
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with the notable exception of "prototypes built to answer a specific question, that were designed to be completely replaced once they did" @thingskatedid/1605844291498016769Permalink Look on archive.org
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but that's actually less because that's a good way to make the production system and more because otherwise people will stop exploring as fearlessly when they're working on prototypes, and that's super valuablePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @crawlspacecool: Crawlspace is open for submissions of digital art and writing until 5pm Monday January 23 2023! We're open to completed…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@AustinKelmore I never got around to including it in CBDQ - generally the state of tweet scheduling software (esp free!) is not great, so not surprisedPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @earthdistance: Bourdain: Wow. This meat is so tender and juicy. Falls right off the massive bone in the middle Flamedramon: This is wh…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @christapeterso: This time for MiraPermalink Look on archive.org
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@GhostTownGoldie fucking hell. that's awful.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@GhostTownGoldie yeah, that sounds about right :/Permalink Look on archive.org
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I've previously talked about how the nature of Twitter is the void. Posting is putting a thought into the void. Sometimes the void yells back, but it feels important that there's no specific audience. This contrasts to the group text, or a Discord, which contains specific people.Permalink Look on archive.org
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anyway, all of which is to say that I am still getting used to the idea of a view count on posts.Permalink Look on archive.org
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(and also to note that other voids are available: Mastodon, Cohost and even Instagram all work this way. or make your own website! just hang out in the void, for anyone or no-one who wants to come by for a visit)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@penightingale had they just... not heard of cyanotypes before??Permalink Look on archive.org
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@catacalypto the other day, I was describing to a friend how there are people who work in games, and who could probably do their job just fine while being less intensely curious about new things you could do with interactive narrative, but are anyway. anyway, I was thinking of you.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@prehensile I got the Royal Kludge RK68 whatever cheap from AliExpress, it is pretty good! Mechanical switches, 3 targets, solidly built, USB-C (for charging & also to connect sans BT). Some of the setup stuff is a bit fiddly, but that's devices for you.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@prehensile this is less a *favourite* and more a "this thing seems like it might be cheap junk, but it's actually cheap and fine"Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @leighalexander: @twoscooters @mikeBithell I think it’s the only way to become better. “game development” is not really an interest in a…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @nowplaythese: Before we close the doors for the holidays, a quick reminder that we've got an open call going for works exploring love a…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@HilariousCow i think i feel better about this stuff because the opening/closing sequences are inconsistent about the styles they use? the whole thing feels more collage-like, and so i'm fine with collaging in different types of motionPermalink Look on archive.org
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@HilariousCow like, a lot of anime these days mixes hand-drawn with 3d rendered etc... this is just a bit more obvious about itPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @FreyaHolmer: I don't know why I made this I just felt compelled after learning about x-axis washing machines today https://t.co/QWaWATL…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@partytimeHXLNT this is very exciting news!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @dirigiblebill: A term I wish I'd remembered when reviewing Dream Cycle - "vug", a Cornish miner's word for a cavity inside rock. Can't…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @readlux: 4. If we don't have public bathrooms, we don't have freedom! For Lux Issue 4, @michael_deforge pens a powerful short essay abo…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @jakejfried: 2. “Concatenation” by Donato Sansone, 2020Permalink Look on archive.org
