Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
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CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
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It seems like gentle, serene and quiet themes are all the rage these days. Pastoral pastiches are a new trend!
RT @pomeranian99@twitter.activitypub.actor
About the Iowa software disaster ...
I've got a thread!
I've been covering voting systems since 2008. One thing I've learned, over and over again?
Keep voting as *simple and low-fi as possible*. Mostly paper.
I quoted Ed Felten in 2008, @NYTmag@twitter.com: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/magazine/06Vote-t.html
1/x
RT @glassbottommeg@twitter.activitypub.actor
I gripe a lot about bad design on here, and sometimes give examples of Bad, but for once, I can show you
literally the best design I have ever seen
RT @glassbottommeg@twitter.activitypub.actor
I gripe a lot about bad design on here, and sometimes give examples of Bad, but for once, I can show you
literally the best design I have ever seen
RT @vboykis@twitter.activitypub.actor
Some MIT faculty have put together a course called "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education." Having looked it over a bit, it looks fantastic and will benefit data science people from non-dev backgrounds fill in a lot of gaps, too. https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
RT @ThingsWork@twitter.activitypub.actor
This is how a pangolin probes an insect tunnel with its extremely long tongue.
It retrieves prey with the help of a very sticky saliva. Once this insectivorous mammal has finished its lunch, it will head back to its burrow to resume a largely solitary life
RT @Tomdonoghue@twitter.activitypub.actor
The Montreal transport system is currently posting videos showing off their new FULLY ELECTRIC BUS drifting around the winter test track!
This is the future I'm hoping for.
RT @nigel_kerr
anyone here want to be a front-end developer at ITHAKA/JSTOR/Artstor? or any of the other fine positions you can see at https://recruiting.ultipro.com/ITH1000ITHAK/JobBoard/5fe90ad4-9e26-490b-9c45-6c9669d4dcd0/?q=&o=postedDateDesc ? #jobs
What's your antivirus of choice for MacOS and for Windows? My school's IT had recommended Avast, but now it turns out they're harvesting and selling customer's web traffic.
RT @qikipedia
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Lithuania could not afford to send its basketball team to the 1992 Olympics.
The Grateful Dead offered to sponsor the team if they played in tie-dyed uniforms. They wore the below on the podium when taking home bronze.
(🖼️: Greg Speirs.)
"My love for you is going to take a dark turn, and I'm not talking chocolate."
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Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings to procrastinate on the academic work he was supposed to be doing.
Me: Contraband is the name of my troupe of musical Nicaraguan insurgents.
Her: That one needs some work.
Me: Look, I've been aging it for 40 years.
Her: It shows.
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New Dog Breed: The Platypus Dog https://www.sadanduseless.com/duck-billed-dogs/
@Nyoei Yeah, I ended up using data from NOAA.
Are You One Of Avast’s 400 Million Users? This Is Why It Collects And Sells Your Web Habits. via @Forbes@twitter.com https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/12/09/are-you-one-of-avasts-400-million-users-this-is-why-it-collects-and-sells-your-web-habits/#3b491ef22bdc
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Over the years I've seen old pictures of the moving desks of the Central Social Institution of Prague, but I had no idea they were still in use.
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The Human Test For People Who Work In The Office: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2tVGctt4Zo
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- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
