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paezha

@paezha@mastodon.online

Carbon-based Turing Test-compliant life-form DBA Professor of #Transportation #Geography at #McMaster University, where I teach and do research on #accessibility, #TravelBehavior, #SpatialAnalysis, #ActiveTravel, #TransportPolicy.

I am an #Rstats enthusiast and big believer in #Reproducible #Open #Science.

I have several hobbies, including #CreativeWriting, #CreativeCoding and #Rtistry.

#geogdon #mapstodon #Rspatial #HamOnt

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paezha, to Haiku
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Mixed in with dream-sounds:
the understated chorus
of impending dawn.

paezha,
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@grb090423

:BlobhajHeart:

Lazarou, to stackoverflow
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This just makes me want to delete everything of mine on corporate social media, and I pretty much have tbh

paezha,
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@Lazarou

Why are they still volunteering?

paezha, to random
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Social contact is good for my mood, it's just that I don't like it.

paezha,
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@artcollisions

I enjoy it while it lasts, and I line the effects, but god it takes a lot of energy

paezha, to random
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Harry! He's not your real dad!

paezha, to random
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are among the biggest bandits in Canada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loblaw_Companies#May_2024_boycott

yurnidiot, to random
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can't tell me this isn't skilled labor 🥑💨

woman packing avocados in a box by tossing them from one hand to the other rapidly without looking at the catching hand

paezha,
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@yurnidiot

At least as skilled as running around with a ball getting your brain mushed to the consistency of soft cheese by other skilled people.

gfarrell, to random
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Ummm ……

paezha,
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@EarthOne24 @gfarrell

There's no way this is real. Even Boebert can't be that stupid.

alshafei, to random
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"Within a day of his ousting, Altman said he received 10 to 20 texts from presidents and prime ministers around the world. [...] He responded to the messages and thanked the leaders without feeling fazed."

I'm not sure getting so much support from world leaders is something I'd brag about. I interpret it as being an asset or a pawn to some really shady things they often do at the expense of human rights - things Altman's AI and crypto projects are surely enabling.

https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-comments-openai-ousting-not-eating-sleeping-2024-5

paezha,
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@alshafei

I'd be highly suspicious of all those presidents and prime ministers. What the hell are they doing commiserating one of the ickiest tech bros around?

winter, to random
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when I meet normie authors

“oh you’re a writer too? I write period romance about a simpler time”

“that’s nice I write cyberpunk about child soldiers”

“oh you must be into high tech stuff. I keep all my manuscripts on google docs, I love their AI integration”

“I use a text editor from 1978 and I’m prepared to shoot it if it tries anything”

paezha,
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@winter

AI integration? Yuck.

pluralistic, to random
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Residents of 21 cities in Utah have access to some of the fastest, most competitively priced broadband in the US, at speeds up to 10gb/s and prices as low as $75/month. It's uncapped, and the connections are symmetrical: perfect for uploading and downloading. And it's all thanks to the government.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/16/symmetrical-10gb-for-119/#utopia

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paezha,
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@pluralistic

But how! I was told for 50 years that government is always the problem! /s

Nonilex, to Law
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🧵 Thursday 16 May 2024

Cross-examination of resumes, an opportunity for the defense to poke holes in his testimony & perhaps trip up or provoke the state’s key witness. The questioning of Cohen, ’s fmr fixer, is the beginning of the end of Trump’s trial, which began April 15 & might conclude before Memorial Day weekend at this pace.

paezha,
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@Nonilex

"Cash" means something else in Blanche's world, it seems

MikeImBack, to random
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This happened to me once at a Superstore

"Customers are fed up with anti-theft measures at stores.

"It seemed like [it took] forever, with people walking by. It was humiliating."

Dennison has found her own solution: She has switched grocery stores. "

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/theft-grocers-organized-crime-1.7203990

paezha,
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@MikeImBack @xerophile

"We're talking here about gangs that are in the business of stealing, and retail is the new frontier."

She could not be more right. A prominent gang of thieves is called Loblaw's

Daojoan, to random
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The vast majority of “business” books can best be categorised as notes on winning a lottery. You’ll get a good deal more value from biographies, history books or a good novel.

paezha,
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@Daojoan @glent

Evan that may be too generous. Most business books are written by people who were given the winning lottery ticket by their parents.

Their advice could be resumed as: "be a squirt of Fred Trump's loins and act like a sociopath"

paezha, to random
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How to kill a conversation.

She: How are you?

Me: I am oppressed by a system that demands blind obedience to a harsh and unforgiving work ethic.

Nonilex, to Law
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Apologies for my late start

🧵

Monday May 13

is on the stand today

paezha,
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@Nonilex

Could it be that most football stars aren't rapey like Trump?

jeff, to random
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    paezha,
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    @jeff @paninid

    No one can say we weren't warned

    emptywheel, to random
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    Another Maggie Haberman NYT Story Covers Up Oleg Deripaska's Role

    https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/05/12/another-maggie-haberman-nyt-story-covers-up-oleg-deripaskas-role/

    paezha,
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    @emptywheel @spiegelmama

    Ah, Maggie The Plumber Haberman. Saving the juiciest turds for her next book, to be published after Trump is elected

    Lazarou, to random
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    "Massively Corrupt Judge Complains Of Minor Consequences To His Corruption: 'Mother's Little Soldier In Tears' "

    Shades of George Santos complaining about how mean Congress was to him.

    paezha,
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    @Lazarou

    Thomas has been in Washington for decades, taking pride in making the US a hideous place.

    paezha, to random
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    Epée, my sister's new kitten.

    Nonilex, to Law
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    Justice Clarence Thomas calls criticism of him ‘nastiness’ & ‘lies’

    After facing harsh questions about his judicial decisions & accepting lavish gifts from a billionaire, Justice forcefully pushed back on
    his critics Fri — saying he & his wife, , have endured “nastiness” & “lies.”


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/10/kavanaugh-thomas-alito-supreme-court-speeches/

    paezha,
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    @Nonilex

    Thomas has been in Washington for decades, taking pride in making the US a hideous place.

    paezha, to random
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    ---How to be popular at parties---

    Ask people "is your hair real?"

    scy, to generativeAI
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    I'm old enough to remember how @creativecommons was founded as a way for independent creators to safely share their work and build upon each other.

    In 2024, their take is now "billion dollar companies plagiarizing your art is fair use".

    https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/17/fair-use-training-generative-ai/

    Hats off to the author, you don't see that kind of, uh, skillful rhetoric chicanery every day. Like "generative AI doesn't compete with artists because artists are not in the data market". 😬

    paezha,
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    @scy @schizanon @creativecommons

    It's not like ai is someone

    k8hert, to ai
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    Are you developing tools for enabled research practices that also promote open research? Consider sharing your work with us at CZI and Sloan via our new RFI. https://bit.ly/49ZUR26

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    @k8hert @yabellini

    Share work with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative?

    Hard pass.

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