dleavitt.bsky.social
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Some days you're the mackerel shark and some days you're the shark mackerel
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the stabwīf and the squishwīf
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All careers, including those, make rich people richer. It's almost tautological.
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No, it's the number of *measured* heartbeats that is fixed. Unmeasured ones obviously can't count towards the total.
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Tapping the sign.
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Hey, you're in Canada, right? Can you ask if they're interested in some new provinces?
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Seems hard to argue that we shouldn't "platform" those views when the president of the country holds a lot of nastier and more extreme views
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⭐ for reposting views critical of your own. Shows integrity!
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Cheap Windows machine might be the best idea, but you can for sure spin up windows servers in the cloud. There are also packaged solutions like this: www.browserstack.com
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republicans winning in 2028 would be better for trans americans?
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Let a thousand flowers bloom. Best thing for all of us is to have a variety of candidates trying a variety of strategies.
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I am mostly grateful I'm not a subsistence farmer
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Infinite Pest
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Well put!
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The needless suffering is *because* we lost the horserace
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Well, it's a concept that's relevant to humans - we're animals too. I don't feel like this should be a threatening idea except that it's been weaponized by bigots.
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Bummer. Guess we'd better find some new terminology.
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Yikes, does "sexual dimorphism" have political valence now? As a biology guy this would make me sad.
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One of the first examples I remember is an X-Men movie incorporating the "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch" meme
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Should have made him pudgier
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Would the Washington Post be solvent at all without Bezos?
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Yeah I'm writing in Kristi Noem
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avoid "walrus" - the preferred nomenclature is "brimleyfish"
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Reiteration serves to emphasize. Perhaps over-baking is especially problematic in this case (vs. a matter of taste or a reasonable hedge against under-baking.)
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Made-up but rich in the sorts of keywords one needs to appear above the original reporting in search results.
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yeah! stick it to those homely nerds
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If you can successfully render a visually captivating military sky platform as it strafes a continent but you can't depict a realistic human motivation, I feel like you've skimped on an important afternoon's labour.
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One of the Hank Paulson bailout bazookas? Because the economy is doing fine, you shouldn't be bringing those out on the basis of anecdotal evidence.
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Maybe some of the techniques here could be applied to other media, especially media where the element of interpretation is important enough that it becomes a more participatory and game-like experience.
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This feels analogous to "balance" in game design. The designer needs to make sure players with differing levels of commitment and skill can all reach the goal while still feeling challenged. Game balance is pretty "scienced" - there are a lot of well-tested, well-understood principles.
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Adding subtlety rewards more diligent readers at the expense of baffling less diligent ones. Additional exposition may increase the comprehensibility at the expense of interest.
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A participatory element like this adds risk - you're now reliant on your audience for the story to work. There's a risk you lose them entirely, and even if you're generally successful there are some inherent tensions.
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I think this is true! But also in a lot of cases it seems like the turnaround time on the horror has been pretty immediate and in some cases maybe overstated. Like, when the first thing a technology does is blow up the business model for journalism, journalists tend to write about it.
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Brains so fried by social media hyperbole that a journalistic tone becomes offensive.
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Seems more valuable to address the sentiment than to get outraged over the word choice.