evilmam.bsky.social
putting one foot in front of the other is the best I can do right now
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very cool
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Please don't go! Real human here enjoying hearing from you
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God yeah; when I was teaching at CCA (10 years ago now) at least half of every class was international students
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holy shit
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Awesome! Keep up the creative obstruction, that's the way to or hearts and votes, man! Glad to hear about it
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I have a client who only sells books about polar expeditions and chatting with folks about this, I find a surprising number also know about the doomed Franklin expedition (but a distant second to Shackleton for name recognition, yes)
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I love how we get a little summer when everyone else is thinking spring, and then the rest in October
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The slogans in Japan were so good. "Avoid the 3 C's: crowded, confined, close contact". They had posters to show exactly what they meant, with a Venn diagram of how in the center where the three intersect, you get really high transmission. Easy to understand, easy to remember.
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No no, not meaning to negate the utter stupidity of this guy's wackadoodle vision of what's involved in being a good parent, just not wanting to dis bowling alleys!
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Wow the combination of that shawl plus that yarn is really incredibly gorgeous, well done team, so impressive
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Not enough is what I'd guess
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I try not to buy clothes without 'em but it's hard!
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When I was teaching English in Japan, we had an exercise to teach students prepositions by answering questions about their homes: 'are your socks inside/on top of/underneath the drawer' etc and my married students struggled while the still-single ones breezed through it
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Got it. I feel like I read a lot of stories about the code AI writes not necessarily being very good though; I'm not in the field myself so not in a position to judge.
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Banning is Step 1. Effectively enforcing: still a work in progress where I live and it's been a decade
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Hand first, bot guide later.
I have trouble doing less sometimes. But stepping back is a way to be of service too, modeling that caring for the world does not mean throwing oneself away. When we see that even caring people are allowed to have good boundaries, it invites more folks to start caring.
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Be around less; rest your hand: still really enjoying the wizard by the way
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Alright but I'm still 100% gonna steal the idea
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Exactly! Only women and trans folk have a gender, only people of color have a race, only gay and lesbian folks have a sexuality, only poor people have a class: only cishet Christian men are normal and everyone else is an identity and assumed to be in some way either defective or faking it
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Interesting that the article ends with 'keep inserting AI even though customers don't want it, just don't talk about it publicly'.
I'm wondering if there's a business model for companies being rewarded for publicly saying no to AI à la Costco doubling down on DEI and winning Target's ex-customers?
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I've actually been to more than one. It was pretty fun. The bowling alley was happy to have the customers at a time that otherwise was pretty low-traffic. Didn't save them from going out of business alas
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I'm assuming the kid's mom could probably tell him that his son's already committed to attending a different birthday party the same day for a kid whose mom sent out the invites three weeks ago, but I doubt he'd think of asking her
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I think AI is like the Trump administration: it's going to destroy a lot of things we depend on to thrive, and by the time enough people see that it's not going to bring about any of the good things it promised, it'll be a generation lost to trying to rebuild what was lost.
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I lived in the PNW for 6 years and by May I was a wreck every one of those years. My partner would move back there in a heartbeat but I know I just can't
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Ohmigod as if Duolingo is actually any good for learning an actual language in the first place
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I sometimes say 'I'm not available' when what I mean is 100% 'I'm not available — for that bullshit'
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The thing is, he won't have any relevant info unless he's been doing the job himself up until now.
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me too
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Okay, apparently you are supposed to gather twigs off a mountain ash tree in the spring when the sap is running and then you scrape the cambium and grind it up with a mortar and pestle and make an infusion with it, and then add rye and sugar? Dang that sounds (1) delicious (2) too much work
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googling adirondack cocktail now
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She is the head of a university that has publicly bent to Trump's demands, has turned its back on academic freedom and the Constitution. She's not Trump, but she leads an institution that is complicit in his coup. There are people in her equivalent position who are speaking out, standing up.
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Very helpful! I went down the list and identified a couple things I could, at a stretch, claim put me in the high-risk group. Thanks for posting it
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He's gonna be riding his FSD robotaxi around on Mars, duh!
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They won't be made if they don't make a profit and I worry that the restrictions the Trump administration is putting on the companies that make vaccines (expensive randomized trials, not recommending them, restricting their use) will lessen the likelihood of future vaccines being made at all.
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The Covid vaccine was authorized under an emergency order; future ones won't be. If the FDA won't authorize it, you can't get it. If the FDA authorizes it, but it's not one of the vaccines the government authorizes, insurance doesn't have to cover it. If there's no market, companies won't make it.
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Called my reps just now! Thanks for the push and the script, as always.
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I'm so sad you had that experience. When I took my 7 and 9 year olds there, we had a really different one, though. This was 10 years ago, so perhaps things have changed. Our kids loved it.
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I was at a talk where someone started in with 'this is more of a comment' and the speaker jumped right in and said 'nope not taking those, please pass the mic to the next person' and then waited for him to do it, would not continue until he relinquished it. Awesome!
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I immediately assumed you meant the scene in the Disney movie The Lady and The Tramp when the two dogs share a bowl of noodles though; did you not intend that? (I *did* get that it was a joke post though, whew)
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Please, for your own mental health, don't plan to take BART home from SFO on your return. Speaking from experience, it will break your heart.
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Any time some guy doesn't understand that referring to women as females, whether it's a question: 'why can't I get any?' or explanation: 'why I can't get any' ....
... if you refer to us as females, dude, you won't be getting any. That's your explanation right there. Right there.
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Thought you said 'very special emoji' and then well, yeah! I would actually enjoy having an emoji that expresses in one little icon the cheerful feeling of knowing that I wasn't going to hear from a tedious person anymore and all it took me was a click or two. ❌ + 💬 + 🥳 but in one emoji
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Trump will have to be visibly weaker with his base before Vance risks his (literal) neck
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I hear you! My grandpa's FBI file is 250+ pages and my stepmom was interned at Minidoka so I have less than no patience for folks who tell me I'm over-reacting to what's going on now
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If it doesn't fit ... I also sit
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The cooking scenes in the Juliette Binoche one, so fantastic; very little plot and I did not care one bit, I was riveted. Luckily the theater was one with a liquor license and good snacks so I was drinking a locally-made pilsner and some rosemary-sea salt house-made potato chips while I watched
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Happened to my dad, dead 8 weeks later (79, lung); happened to my friend's husband, died 40 days later (late 50's, bladder).