@randahl They're just asking for the Streisand Effect if they sue you for telling the truth.
@shentonfreude @bruces Yep. BASIC and Pascal were the first languages I got paid to use.
I know I'm not the first one to say this, but it was the first thought when I heard the news that #Navalny has "died": I don't think he died as much as he was killed.
@ccferrie @elizatech
Catholic school a block from my house has a line of cars every afternoon to pick up kids in an organized queue thar goes through their asphalt-paved schoolyard. That's dozens of SUVS with their engines running for a good half hour or so. Would it kill them to park on the street half a block away and walk back to get their kid?
@Fife4Europe Not much consolation for people who'll have to live in the ruins and finally begin the long, agonizing process of rebuilding, while Tory donors enjoy their f-ing private islands.
Our paper on the values found in fairy tales from some European countries has been published. We studied how values are explicitly present in tales from Germany, Italy and Portugal using various NLP techniques, but most notably Word2Vec and Word Embedding with a Compass. We visualise synchronic semantic variation to show certain differences based on observations of the corpus, some of them already observed in previous literature. A discussed example in our findings is how motherhood in Germany is strongly related to generosity, whereas in Italy and Portugal it has stronger relationship to wisdom.
Fulltext available at: https://aclanthology.org/2023.nlp4dh-1.8/
@simonbp Hey just don't park it near the sprinklers. Also have you seen what happens to a car parked under a date palm?
@TomSwirly @gregeganSF Pretty strong meat there from *sniff* Sam Peckinpah --
Trump: "Immigrant vermin poison the blood of our country."
Media: "Here's why an incredible economy won't save Biden."
Trump: "I'll be a dictator."
Media: "Breaking: Biden gets a word wrong, kinda."
Trump: "1/6 was an insurrection."
Media: "Voters worry Biden is very, very old."
Trump: "I did nothing on gun control."
Media: "Biden is losing the religious vote."
Trump: "Also I'll end NATO, start WW3."
Media: "And now, the weather!"
Dear journalists: DO YOUR FUCKING JOB.
@JamesGleick They do this every election year: they "level" the competition by excusing the lunacy and idiocy on the Republican side and fabricating an equivalence with whatever the Republicans are saying about the Democratic side. I guess having one candidate who's stunningly unfit for office doesn't sell papers.
“God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha.'
'They found the remains of an organism advanced several thousand times over what we are,' Charley said. 'And evidently could create habitable worlds and populate them with living organisms, derived from itself. But that doesn't prove it was God.”
― Philip K. Dick, Our Friends from Frolix 8
@bruces My god; traitor and pedophile: he's exactly what Trump followers say anyone they don't like is.
Random Telegram comments about Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson ROUGHLY took several AFU female prisoners of war and did such things…
Tucker Carlson tried pancake from a shovel and was left satisfied. Our elephant!
Tucker Carlson’s website started to sell NKVD knives from Kizlyar masters
Each of these is loaded with Russian idioms and tropes which I will just leave as an exercise for the reader…
Nothing to see here, keep moving along. Yes, the pandemic is over. No, no, "flu-like symptoms" is what we said.
Half of my daughter's school is off with what is probably Covid, but no-one's testing because:
1. You don't have to
2. Boxes of the free tests have now expired
3. Getting new tests costs money
The mentioned 'attachment' never appeared. Presumably sending this email was the last act of a member of staff so ill that they collapsed into bed immediately after hitting send.
Consulting SW Engineer, mostly Pacific Northwest these days.
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
"Millions for nonsense but not one cent for entropy."
Will code for pie. 🥧