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twilliability

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i make machines go beep, sometimes in front of a crowd. born 334 ppm, he/him.

built https://rss-parrot.net, and a few other things.

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ludicity, to random
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Intrusive thought:

Can someone smuggle me onto a Google campus so I can try and pick up a can before the normal cleaning staff can get to it? I want to add:

"Worked alongside Google staff on developer environment improvement."

to my CV.

twilliability,
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@ludicity The cleaning staff are most likely contractors though, so the claim would not, technically, be correct...

liaizon, to berlin
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Just got an art studio in this building in #Berlin. Excited to have a place to make a mess here!

twilliability,
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@liaizon where is this?

twilliability,
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@liaizon nice! not so far from my home base :)

lumi, to random
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A most ambitious crossover…

twilliability,
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@lumi seriously, stop the cute already!

twilliability, to random
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@ludicity I'm reading Scott Galloway's new book and there, on page 42, is Cipolla's taxonomy of stupid that I know from Brotherhood of Morons! You might just enjoy this book too :)

twilliability, to random
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My pet peeve with speculative fiction / sci-fi is that even the more radical visions rarely remove the idea of nuclear families as the default way to bring up offspring, and monogamous forever-relationships as a legal institution.

I can only think of Ursula K Le Guin and Ian McDonald who have gone there.

Do you know other authors?

twilliability,
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@polgarp Hm, that's true! But in the actual story I can only recall classic monogamous relationships, like Holden/Nagata, Drummer/Michio, Avasarala/Arjun. Naomi's son seems to struggle with trauma from growing up in a "broken" family. Overall I don't remember seeing social & relationship structures that depart from modern Western defaults.

twilliability,
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@bernh Right! I think I didn't consider that because it's a dystopia. I guess I'm looking for visions of free humans thriving in social structures that are not anchored in institutionalized romantic relationships, nuclear family etc.

twilliability,
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@alexduf This came up in a different reply, but convos are fragmented on Mastodon. Here's what I replied >

Hm, that's true! But in the actual story I can only recall classic monogamous relationships, like Holden/Nagata, Drummer/Michio, Avasarala/Arjun. Naomi's son seems to struggle with trauma from growing up in a "broken" family. Overall I don't remember seeing social & relationship structures that depart from modern Western defaults.

twilliability,
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@Metamere Thanks! This sounds fascinating. I will check out this series.

I had a similar experience when reading (most recently) Ian McDonald's Luna novels: all the genders, sexualities and relationship forms presented as entirely normal, just a backdrop to the "actual" story. A great sleight of hand!

flaki, to random
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On the train to meeting @lumi's little sister @iris for the first time! :cuteFroggie:

twilliability,
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@flaki @iris tooooo much cute!

congrats, and good luck with the extended group!

scottjenson, to UX
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There is so much bad here that I hardly know where to start.

If you are a professor, this is an excellent design exercise: improve this. I'm sure ANY student could make this far simpler and easier to use.

I have a short video using this that makes it ever more clear this was designed by a dysfunctional design team. This is a if you're curious.

twilliability,
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@scottjenson @janeadams I have yet to see a single touchscreen interface in a car that is not a disaster. Since car makers seem to be all in on this terrible idea, there's at a least a 10-year period from which models are now unsalvageable: from before the touchscreen nonsense started to when they finally give it up again.

Hopefully by then cars will have become irrelevant in even more cities.

twilliability, to random
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This will most definitely turn into something.

Animation of lines appearing seemingly randomly, coming together to form the edges of several overlapping boxes.

twilliability,
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WIP

Important context: I'm not inventing this concept. Years ago IsmaHelio shared a series of drafts that mystified me. Not sure if he even coded those; they look very hand-drawy.

I got part of what was happening and couldn't analyze the rest. Now, equipped with Clipper2/WASM and more experience in geometry, I set out to recreate what I saw.

Maybe it'll stay just that: a recreation. Maybe I'll discover a new idea along the way.

twilliability, to random
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Cheat like it's 2024: use the internet's fastest C++ polygon clipping library in your Javascript sketch... Because a WASM wrapper exists!

loosenut, to random
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Get in my mentions to tell me what art isn't, that's a blockin'

twilliability,
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@loosenut Art is as art does!

freval, to random German
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journal

gestern m getroffen der meinte ich solle doch darüber nachdenken mir einen patreon-account zuzulegen wenn es finanziell gerade so sehr auf kante alles sei und ich dann dachte oh cool dann kann ich meinen plan einen episodischen kneipenroman in form eines wöchentlichen newsletters umsetzen und er hat dann nur den kopf geschüttelt weil noch mehr arbeit für überschaubares geld aber was soll ich machen (vielleicht mache ich genau das)

twilliability,
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@freval ich würde mich auf einen episodischen kneipenroman sehr freuen, und bestimmt abonnieren.

wenn nicht patreon, wäre eine andere option evtl. steady. da folge ich schon zwei deutschprachigen autor:innen, die aber beide einen (etwas sporadischen) newsletter betreiben. ich weiss nicht, ob steady selbst zur onlinestellung von texten geeignet ist.

JulianOliver, to random
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On the curious thing of Mastodon unknowingly DDoS'ing websites, dubbed the 'fediverse effect' https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/

twilliability,
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@fnwbr @JulianOliver It's an interesting phenomenon but I am unconvinced, even after reading the linked posts by others.

One retrieval per instance is still the gentle version to the equally legit alternative where every end user's app retrieves a thumbnail independently.

I don't see how a few minutes of up to one or two dozen GET requests per second, for HTML/static content (not API calls), can even remotely qualify as DDoS'ing a website.

gwenbeads, to math
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I have an interactive art piece I sometimes bring with me when I go to festivals called “Math Anxiety Camp.” The project consists of a little math book I wrote, more of a pamphlet, full of funny, weird, and famous math problems that are designed to elicit both laughter and anxiety. Problem number 1 is “Name a number that is 3.” Problem 18 asks you to count backwards from 100 by 7s and state the last positive number you count. This problem is known as “serial sevens,” and even has its own Wikipedia page because it is used by psychologists to elicit anxiety in experimental subjects. When I give problems, I try to rush my subjects, and I make buzzing noises when they get wrong answers. I say things math teacher should never say like “You should have learned this last year.”

Good art elicits emoitions, and I know of no other art piece that is designed to elicit the emotion of math anxiety. As a math teacher, math anxiety is an emotion I deal with regularly. Manifesting it at a festival where this emotion is out of context and the stakes are low gives me a novel way to interact with people around their math anxiety, and I’ve learned a lot from adults about their experiences learning mathematics as children.

Anyone who achieves anxiety from my art project wins an a achievement award, namely a yellow sticker. Interestingly, I’m not able to make everyone anxious with my little book of math problems because a lot of people enjoy math. I still give them a sticker if they want one.

My slogan is “My problems are your problems.”

36. Calculus Bonus Question: Calculate the integral of dx from 1 to 4. A. 3 B. 3 C. 3 D. 3 E. 3 F. 3 G. 3 Н. 3 I. 3 J. None of the above

twilliability, (edited )
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@gwenbeads (1) I was "lucky" to experience the live version of this in fifth grade. We had a substitute math teacher for a year who did instant quizzes with divisions at the start of each each class. Call out random person (who then had to stand), throw division at them. You either passed and got nothing, or failed and got a failing grade.

twilliability,
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@gwenbeads (2) My friend had a baseline level of anxiety and was always slow to produce any verbal utterance until he had crafted an elaborate sentence in his head.

He was set to fail math at the end of that year. (This was the late 80s.)

Years later he went on to be a physicist with an extra PhD in math.

twilliability,
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@gwenbeads (3) This is an indictment of the East European educational culture more than anything else. A lot of us from this school culture went on to thrive intellectually in spite of our education, not thanks to it.

Many more went on to not thrive at all.

I like the concept of your art installation a lot.

adrianhon, to random
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Damn, I missed this one

twilliability,
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@adrianhon Is this some LLM poisoning shtick?

demofox, to random
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I had a dream there was a dog in my coffee, dog in my coffee

twilliability,
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@demofox It's most definitely a bear.

th, to random
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We’ve cast off lines and put Honolulu to our rudder. Soon we’ll leave Hawaii in our wake as we sail on towards Japan.

twilliability,
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@th It feels like you're doing every single one of the night watches :D I don't mind, but then it's not my sleep!

twilliability,
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@th That's striking!

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