i am a practicing optimist but there really is something uniquely grim to me about the “em dashes = ai-generated text” protip that’s been going around. we straight up just did not teach a whole generation of kids how to read! when i see it i self-soothe by adding ten more em dashes to my manuscript
I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.
FIRE's misleading free speech rankings systematically portray some campuses as intolerant. This was bad when it merely drove media coverage. It will be a disaster if government agencies now start to direct scientific funding based on non-scientific criteria.
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I respect FIRE’s legal advocacy but reporters really need to stop using FIRE’s rankings unless you truly believe that campus speech is most free in southern states that have banned ideas and concepts from being taught in the classroom
every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake
I love that this was discovered by cheese freaks in real time. the promise of the internet isn't a technology that celebrates itself, it's making esoteric knowledge accessible. It's why the best search engine is reddit. I don't want Gemini, I want "MIlf_Hunter_Nick" who had this problem in 2015.
Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place
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Five hundred years after the Reformation, the dominant Protestant faction here has worked its way around to consisting of nothing BUT indulgences
Eric Kim’s recipe development plan decision tree. Starts with Can I take a classic recipe and add gochujang to it? Yes results in success. No results in can I take a classic recipe and make it on a sheet pan? Yes results in success, no says go back to start
New Eric Kim NYT sheet pan jap chae recipe and I decided to make this flowchart.
I genuinely think we should start calling businesses and schools falling to the anti-DEI movement “segregationists” because they are re-segregating. And earlier rounds of segregationists *also* explained their preferred policy in race-neutral terms (“state’s rights” and “freedom of association”).
I found myself putting my hand over the left side of the screen because I wanted to hear what she was saying but he was just too annoying.
Post somebody you've been told you look like, who you definitely don't look like.
This is a fantastic (and free!) resource for Korean learners from @gobillykorean.bsky.social 감사합니다 빌리 선생님! youtu.be/Y1E_ZIWojYw?...
I very carefully did not say we *wouldn't* be bringing cats home. He just wasn't paying attention to the details.
I am so very, very sorry to hear this news. He was a wonderful person whose writing changed my life, and I'm thankful to have gotten to meet him in person. Sympathy and love to you and everyone who's grieving his loss.
It’s amazing how Chotiner manages to regularly flummox his interview subjects via such obscure and outré methods as “reading their Wikipedia pages” and “remembering which felonies they plead out on.”
Color photo of a white lily blossom, overlaid with a black skull and cross bones and text that reads “no lilies for kitties”.
Don’t forget when picking out Valentine flowers: every part of the lily plant is DEADLY to cats. Even a few grains of pollen can be fatal. Do not mess around thinking you’ll put them in a “safe” spot - keep them out of your house. 🌸 www.fda.gov/animal-veter....
A thought from Friday night when I was introduced to someone while I was eating pizza: I wish we would just drop the custom of shaking hands. Can we just nod and smile, or bow, or something?
From the aromas coming through the window, one of my neighbors is prepping for tomorrow's dinner. It smells delicious.
Just finished watching Miraculous Brothers and liked it a lot. Kind of funny how every trailer I've seen completely omits a huge aspect of the plot. Maybe they thought it was too much to fit into a one-minute trailer. youtu.be/sKQFDr8czIY
오늘은 너무 더워서 제 머리가 아픈다. 제가 싫어한다. 🥵
It's so hot today that I have a headache. I hate it.
"Inverted pyramid" style means "put the most important information first". SFGate could have led with "N95 masks can protect you from smoke and particulate matter". Instead, some people will see "masks are effectively useless" and stop there. 🤦🏼
I'm only superstitious when it's in my favor. Finding cookies in the break room on a day I forgot breakfast is a clear sign that the Universe loves me. 💜
I thought Netflix changing titles like hyung, noona, and sunbae into characters's names in the subtitles was annoying and then I started watching a drama where the subtitles flip the name order and I'm just 🤦🏼
I can hear the geese honking as they start migrating south and I'm feeling melancholy about summer ending.
저는 연습해야 되기 때문에 가끔 한국어로 게시할 거예요. 너무 기대하지 마세요. 이미 아직 잘 못한다고 했어요. 마음에 흥미롭지 않으면 무시해도 된다.
[I need to practice so I'll be posting in Korean occasionally. Don't expect too much. I already said I'm not very good yet. If you're not interested, you can ignore it.]
