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Underneath is a pen with chickens and a goat. The area is surrounded by wind turbines, farms, and rolling hills, and just generally looks like the backdrop from a Studio Ghibli film. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried French dares to ask the question: what if a language lost all its finals but then completely failed to develop compensatory tone? npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried I love how much you can tell about chip manufacturers by how they name their products. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Since living in a place with wildfires I have an indoor air quality meter and a thing I have found is that those candles with the wood wicks absolutely destroy the air, while soy candles with cotton wicks don't affect it at all (200 μg/m³ PM2.5 vs literally 2) npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried A personal anecdote: npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried We can reclaim sexy! But we do this by taking these characters from being objects to being subjects. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried The answer to that is that, society conditions us to see physical beauty and desirability as our most important attribute. We are rewarded for looking more conventionally attractive and punished for deviating. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried I don't think any of that is controversial. 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It was hard for me to see why these media were so ineffective at getting their point across - I think a lot of us chalk it up to "media literacy" or lack thereof. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried it's funny because I initially read it as parody; a scathing indictment of the system. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried It is not possible to have code deal with the real world on its own. The smartest guy cannot code a system that will handle, say, land title (regardless of what the crypto bros would tell you). npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried As someone who has worked in supply chain automation, there is no elegant code solution to real-world problems. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Apropos of nothing, every time I see "ducking" (in the sense of dropping audio levels briefly to ensure the user hears a sound) my brain immediately assumes it's an autocorrect error and I have to convince it otherwise. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried I just paid rent. It was free, through my bank app, and got to my landlord basically instantly. 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But it has AI tensor cores (lol). npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried I love that the only platform more male-dominated than X is Quora, aka "mansplaining as a service" npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried X users: maidenless npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried tfw u have been doing computers for a very, very long time npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Controversial opinion: npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried also, ugh, that could be a whole thread in itself 🙃 npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried I sometimes worry that a lot of what is possible is still being dictated by specific technological and architectural choices rather than "what would be best for people". npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried I think they are certainly exploring new paradigms for dealing with especially things like context collapse; I think we also need to look back at ideas like G+ circles as ways to deal with some of the "whom can I see/who can see me" questions. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried this is really good npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried too true npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried see! 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I wordiated. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried I think French is hilarious because there's like fifty guys who get to say what the language is. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried I needed to be on there chasing clout months ago so I could be in a bunch of "women in tech" starter packs now; I have evidently missed the bus npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried So far they are deeply uninterested lol npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Doing a little A/B testing on the Other Site to see what gets traction; it is Extremely Different from on here. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Clinic time! npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried precisely! npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Fun fact: English has umlauts! npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Explaining to my kid the difference between dieresis, umlaut, and heavy metal umlaut. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Coming up for air to say: npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Going to go radio silent for my own sanity. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried If you want a really fun police procedural that also says ACAB, check out "Elsbeth" (available on various streaming services). npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried It's me. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried When I described the meme I intended to create, my wife pointed out that my code still generates the boilerplate, but deterministically, in the compiler. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Posted without comment. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried It's rare to see such an honest infographic outside of, say, The Onion, but CNN Money just made this a feature of their daily market forecast npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried If (like me) you use #ASMR videos as relaxation aids, you may have noticed that the audio quality of some videos has become inconsistent or even jarring lately. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried injecting a soul into something soulless like a sorcerer of eld npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried oh sorry for some reason my mobile client responded to the wrong post 🙃 npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried you say that like it's a bad thing npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Happy Indigenous People's Day! npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried do you have access to a full version of this? 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