It insane to me how often women are not given pain management for gynecological procedures, because many many years ago a male doctor who's never had a vagina, cervix, or uterus decided that there weren't enough nerve endings up there to hurt significantly. I think it's time to put this fallacy to bed. It most definitely does hurt, and people who have literally no experience with female equipment don't get to decide this for me. Trust me docs, you don't want to taste your own medicine on this.
Wie lange es wohl dauert, bis man wunderlich wird, wenn man tagelang mit fünf Katzen als einzige Ansprechpartner in einem fast leeren Haus zubringt? 🤔 #askingforafriend
Okay linguists. I was just taking the spent coffee out of this device in my kitchen and it occurred to me that calling them coffee grounds might be an awkward English expression. How do we call the spent coffee from this device in other languages? Like, it's coffee or ground coffee until you use it and then they become coffee grounds at least in this part of New York State English speak. #askingforafriend #lingistics
So team at the Museum not that enamoured at my choice of self curated stairwell exhibition. I thought "Director's Choice" nailed it as it did what it said on the tin. But no. What do we think of "Stairway to Stories: Exploring Tūhura's Treasures" #askingforafriend
#AI I find Dawkins’ meme theory to be quite useful in decoding just about everything that’s going on. So, have memes colonized AI space? Is it possible to craft a meme that would, if it were conveyed to the AIs, totally fuck them up? Like the ST episode where Kirk paralyzes the computer sentience? Sorry, don’t recall the title. Or like Mars Attacks? Or Independence Day? What kind of meme would it take? #AskingForAFriend
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Re-reading this, it may sound like I am attributing actual sentience to the LLMs and whatnot. I don’t mean to—not yet anyway. But purely in terms of the statistical processing going on, along with sourcing all the raw input from the internet (GIGO?) what would it look like for a meme to emerge and propagate there the way they do in meat brains?
NWS has upped the ante to a Winter Storm Warning for 1 a.m. Tuesday through 1 a.m. Wednesday: "Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 7 to 13 inches. Winds gusting as high as 40 mph."
Nice of them to get into the French-toast game, with this map of expected snowfall (from earlier in the day) showing New England about to get walloped with a slice of French toast in some blueberry sauce:
Is the worst side effect of #struggleStack that it's taught entire swathes of developers to do things in ways that are the most complex, least performant, and least likely to serve their customers? Or is it something else?
@Daojoan is it socially acceptable to get off when watching a 30-second clip of an actor gleefully spraying Nazis with a flame-thrower? The caveats are that it’s a film directed by Tarantino and the actor is Leonardo DiCaprio, but Nazis are burned alive, so win? #askingforafriend
Has anybody asked #MaryTrump about why her uncle paints his face orange? When did he start with that? He must know people ridicule him for it. For that matter, has anybody, in all the interviews that have been done, asked him about it? There must be some kind of reason for it. #AskingForAFriend
The vast majority of us are caught between two extremes on Israel-Gaza: those who claim Israel has done nothing wrong and those who claim Hamas has done nothing wrong. They’re both foolish and hypocritical and hateful, and we should do all in our power to reject both.
What is this #totp everyone seems to be going on about? Google tells me it refers to 'Time based one time passwords', but what do those have to do with the Boomtown Rats or Fat Bottomed Girls? Am I too old for this shit? #AskingForAFriend, of course.