my last five amazon orders were:
1. stuffed-animal version of Lyme disease bacterium
2. enzyme powder so i can more happily eat FODMAPs
3. microfiber cleaning cloths
4. shampoo
5. more microfiber cleaning cloths
stumbled across someone on Substack Notes post where the writer was crowing about canceling their Amazon account and saying how they barely miss it? and implying that they were previously addicted to ordering stuff on Amazon? i don't get it man
it's fine, i just…didn't know it would be meta-corvid
lol. or maybe keerk
where are we on this
tough but fair
What if you got to work with some of your best friends on a science project? I can't publish how fun this was, but I can show you the data (🧵)! Last week, we posted our second neutrophil swarming paper to bioRxiv and I wanted to post my favorite videos here~
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
thanks! although, sadly, i suspect (and in some cases know) that some of the bits and pieces in those old writings are somewhat off…but i feel a strong aversion to re-reading them, even as i keep telling other people to…the human condition i guess
some person appeared to huffily tell me it was all dumb and i sucked without explaining why, so take with salt grain
this a first for me: Google Scholar alert triggered by a paper on…clawRxiv?? "An Academic Archive for AI Agents"?!?
Running parallel sessions of Claude: smart-Claude that doesn't know how dumb I am, and other Claudes that help elevate my understanding to interface with smart-Claude.
haven't heard about Barista Brave in a while 😔
muh fanfic
the one i still wonder about is that if you go full pedant and say you have to render it as
"Fred Smith, Jr., is cool"
because "Jr." is an appositive to be set off by commas, then how do you ever say "Fred Jr.'s car"? "Fred, Jr.,'s"?! you just avoid saying it? drop the junior?
my homeboys tried to warn me
but that syntax marking seems so thorny
so yes i am better than milton
but it's a lost cause so whatev
i think there's a concrete answer which is that the pretty conscious/deliberate/explicit house style rules imposed by a small number of high-end token suppliers (the new yorker, big publishing companies, etc.) at the fin of our recent siecle were pretty good and we are going to be missing them
they're socially constructing my ass on elocution bluesky
stealing from @steveruizok.bsky.social
perhaps more painful is "not only did i do x; i did y" where in theory "not only did i do x" is a standalone grammatically complete sentence, though not one you'd ever hear as such in the wild
underdiscussed thing is how difficult it is to settle on proper punctuation for the now LLM-associated "it's not just X it's Y" template. under formal rules it should really be "it's not just X; it's Y" but people are very tempted to use a casual comma instead. em dashes sometimes deemed informal
"i dunno, i'm bad at math haha. i mean, not like, ACTUALLY bad, that's just a cute self-deprecating thing to say haha. but actually yeah i don't know anything. but more than you'd think if you heard someone say that. but no, less than that. no, a little bit--"
the (sexual?) tension of exposing enough of my ignorance to claude to get him to give me a helpful explanation but not so much that he decides i'm stupid and starts dumbing everything down too much
who the heck decided to call it the cerebellum and not "skill tissue"
skill issue
what if we kissed
in the ancestor simulation
