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This reminds me of the kind of songs I make up in the shower 😆

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyw8BTD8tIU

#music

Had never heard this term "retiring risk" before #NASA admin Bridenstine used it. Such interesting #jargon in #aerospace. https://herdingcats.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/08/risk_retirement.html

@GustavinoBevilacqua @Jonathan thanks for the link. this genus apparently made for some fascinating evolution studies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrosenecio

If your eyesight starts to fail, the correctness of the syntax in your text communications could suffer if you tend to edit your messages a lot. You can make an edit and, during review, miss text you meant to delete or think you added text you didn't... that's rather disturbing.

@vaughan @wistahe this isn't the kind of thing you can close the book on. it's about power, money, and agency. appropriators take some aspect of a marginalized community's culture and profit from it. maybe the value flows back to the community: if it does, that's generally good. if it doesn't, people complain.

another aspect is that the mainstream can misrepresent the depth or context of some aspect of culture - I wouldn't just call that 'disrespect' since 'disrespect' sounds to me like it's active and intentional, but it can easily be done through inaction and be accidental. one unfortunate effect of that is the misrepresentation gets reflected back at the marginalized and can contribute to erasure of their culture over generations.

it keeps being an issue because it keeps happening. ¯\_༼ •́ ͜ʖ •̀ ༽_/¯

@wistahe this topic in general is pretty easy to read about. is there some "debate" around some cultural aspect or artifact in particular that confuses you?

@ljwrites I have to believe advertisers (political or otherwise) are using automated text generation to come up with nonsense like this. a real person doing it is just too sad

@coldwave that's a bizarre description of Infinite Jest. i assume the "alcoholic" is James Incandenza, but it's not "about" that character. It's hard to give it a concise description.

There are so many unanswered questions about intelligence itself that we can't make any headway with SETI. We should, instead, SETL for extraterrestrial life.

pet peeve: writers who make their child characters "precocious" because they don't know how to write children