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One of the player characters in my game now has the aspect "space Karen", after she delayed some attacking law enforcement ships by demanding to speak to their supervisor.

Someone tried (and failed) to beat Johnny Cash's "killing California Condors using arson" record:

cnn.com/2022/05/20/us/ivan-gom

Oh, you don't know that story?

thevintagenews.com/2018/03/26/

(For the record, I'm on the side of the condors.)

Any sufficiently advanced technology is insufficiently documented

If you watched the She-Hulk trailer and thought, "I'd like to see more of that actor," go back and watch Orphan Black. It's amazing.

I'm not saying that we go to the library a lot, but I am saying that #Violet believes all walks should go to the library.

You don't have to do everything in your head. We have paper for a reason.

What makes someone "good at technology?" In part, it's an understanding of the underlying technical principles and industry conventions - what a "power on" icon looks like, say. I have a lot of that. But there's another component, one that's often invisible to people like me: the extent to which your technology was designed to suit your needs.

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I was raised writing stand-alone applications, but now it's all about containerized, subscription-based cloud apps. What should I be teaching my students?

I recognize that Mastodon may have a certain amount of selection bias.

It looks like MoreMountains' TopDown Engine and Pixel Crushers' Dialogue System are going to save us an enormous amount of time on our project.

I'm not saying that demands on my time have diminished with the end of the semester, but I just washed by mailbox.

Anyone got any suggestions for someone who went through a data science boot camp? Seems like every job requires a postgrad degree and all the intro jobs have university pipelines.

orpol 

Oregonians: be sure to vote today! These local elections are important because congresspeople get started as state reps, mayors, etc.

Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician.

Today is the birthday of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, who wrote the first book about integration *and* differentiation. If you need help making difficult things simpler, give me a shout -- I'm usually happy to help.

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