PSA to all of us with international collaborations that the Chaos Weeks start on Sunday (US/Canada goes into DST but the EU/UK don't until near the end of March). Check your meetings!
Forever mad about the barely acknowledged existence of unscented Febreze. Bizarre consequence of human perception: we get nose blind to our own stink, so the unscented stuff appears to have no effect, and people wouldn't buy it until it actively smelled like something. I hunt it on the internet.
Steinbeck: What did you think of my draft of ππ§ ππ°πΆπ΄π¦ π’π―π₯ ππ’π―?
Publisher: It needs more characters.
Steinbeck: I'll see what I can do.
We use ReadTheDocs for this:
lookit.readthedocs.io/en/develop/i...
github.com/lookit/looki...
It's a bit of work to set up, but it works smoothly with things (like search and internal linking) that you want for a docs website.
A Placebo cover band also called Placebo
Have you noticed how navigation apps include walking & waiting for public transit, but excludes parking & walking for driving? After being late a few times π , we finally did. We got curious: what if these apps account for parking?
Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Ericβs Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Googleβs AI tool shut up
It's the circle of life
Fire as a new technology if it was AI:
HEY I PUT FIRE ON YOUR WAGON, WAGONS HAVE FIRE NOW!
No I think I just would like to try cooking my own...
WE GOTTA SPECIAL ON FIRE SHOES!
Like I've learned to use new things before, can I just see if I can...
ITS A THATCHED ROOF, BUT WITH FIRE!!!
Marky Marco Rubio lookin-ass (mark wahlberg with ash on forehead)
Gonna tell my kids this is Marco Rubio
I'm not Evelyn Normielib but I bear some resemblance (e.g. value coalition building skill over philosophy/positions in primaries) and I take GREAT joy in reminding ppl in my life that "vote blue no matter who" means socialists & people who are Wrong About Rent Control whatever that means to you, lol
I donβt know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Want to share the dev posting? I've had to hire programmers for academic projects, and we are often offering really abysmal pay. This is still absolutely the right fit for some devs, but you need to make the attractive parts really salient - work life balance, remote options etc.
Wrapping up my LOI answers for the @mozillafoundation.bsky.social fellows program - 400 characters is SHORT short!
...good thing I've been training for this for years on twitter/bluesky?
I would also be willing to submit an application entirely composed of reaction memes.
it's not easy breeding deer for gigantism, but that's why I make the big bucks
Yes & yes: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
always so funny to me when people are like βhow am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?β my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. βwhy did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?β I donβt know. please ask me about Gay
On the other hand, medicine labels, especially for babies, are playing some kind of hide-the-dosage game where it's either behind a sticker you have to peel up or just says "ask a doctor". I *think* the logic is it makes you read the rest of the instructions or involve a medical professional??
Please take a break from your regularly scheduled doomscrolling to read our new paper about how written consent forms can backfire as a means of protecting vulnerable individuals by activating a more formal "contract schema". We were initially surprised too! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
2026 big update to the psycholinguistic database page! If you know of corpora, lexical databases, or other resources that I've missed, please LMK. Trying to keep this thing relatively current and could use the help www.reilly-coglab.com/data
For the past several days she's been announcing lots of facts about the situation, to wit:
- Little white dog...is named a planet.
- Jupiter is a planet.
- Juniper is a dog.
- Jupiter is a dog.
- Juniper is a plant.
- That dog is named a plant...planet.
- Juniper is...Jupey (Jupiter) is...a dog.
On the left is a picture of my dog, Juniper. The one on the right is Jupiter, who lives with my FIL. This is already fairly confusing for my 2yo.
But my husband told her that Jupiter is named after a planet, whereas Juniper is named after a plant. This information has melted her brain.
Felicitations to all who celebrate
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.
