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waltman

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I'm a recovering recovering ivory tower computer scientist. I work in Columbia’s Radiology Dept. looking for better imaging biomarkers for breast and lung cancer.

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glennf, to random
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I did not have literal brain worms caused RFK Jr’s anti-vax position on my bingo card for the election

waltman,
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@glennf Did the brain worms cause his antivax position, or did the brain worms die after munching on the antivax part of his brain?

bynkii, to random
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New iPad Pro finally has Ninja Star Mode!

waltman,
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@bynkii You and me both, though I might try to hold out for an M4 MBP.

waltman,
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@bynkii Good luck! I've got an M1 iPad Air from 2022 that still seems perfectly fine. That landscape front-facing camera would be nice, but not enough to justify an upgrade.

KingShawn, to random
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Wait…Mike Tyson is the underdog in his fight with that white boy!? OMG

Would someone loan me a bazillion dollars so I can bet on Tyson!? I’m good for it. 🤣

waltman,
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@KingShawn @bynkii @aulia For those of us of a certain age who saw Tyson fight in his prime, it's hard to imagine him losing even as a 60 year old. Dude was terrifying.

bynkii, to random
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Yup. And if you were military, you used checks for EVERYTHING.
https://mastodon.social/@waldoj/112345134622511096

waltman,
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@bynkii @waldoj Not this “everyone”. It would never even occur to me to put my SSN on my checks. It sounds like madness!

mattblaze, to photography
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Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.

Groovy pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/48418025131

waltman,
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@LinuxAndYarn @mattblaze That, plus the old Whitman’s chocolate plant a few miles south on the Boulevard. My mom worked for many years right across the street at the Penn-Jersey Auto Stores offices.

LinuxAndYarn, to Phillies
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After some scares while sweeping the worst team in the NL, the #Phillies enjoy their second shutout in three games, against the team with the worst record in all of baseball this year. #BellRung

waltman,
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@LinuxAndYarn And we did it wearing the worst uniforms in all of baseball!

film_girl, to random
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Apparently Apple Music for Mac has rabid fanbois (they are all men. All of them) and they are on Threads?! Of all the truly shitty products to stan, you want to defend Apple Music on the Mac?! I’ll defend Apple Music on iOS, even tho sync is a shit show, but on the desktop?! Man normies are weird.

waltman,
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@film_girl I mean, the UI isn't great, but I'm used to it. The one thing Music for Mac has that the other apps don't is smart playlists, which I use all the time. My main one is a smart playlist that roughly emulates how the old “iTunes DJ” playlist used to work.

waltman, to HashtagGames
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Mary Queen of Scott Pilgrim vs the World


waltman, to random
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“Just over half of Amazon Fresh stores are equipped with Just Walk Out. The technology allows customers to skip checkout altogether by scanning a QR code when they enter the store. Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.”

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

waltman,
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When do we find out that ChatGPT is really just a zillion
writers in India?

waltman, to HashtagGames
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Que Syrup Syrup


waltman, to random
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I know we've all decided as a society that we don't like phone calls anymore. And I get it. I don't make a lot of calls anymore either. But I've made a ton of calls over the past two days as I prepare to lease a new apartment. And it turns out that sometimes a phone call can be way more efficient than emails, texts, or poorly designed websites.

andrew, (edited ) to random
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Hootie and the Blowfish is a good band with a great album and they deserve less shit than they get. Creed deserves more.

In this essay, I intend to …

waltman,
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@andrew Agreed! And one great album is one more than a lot of bands have.

mjgardner, to music
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every Saturday at the Memorial Villages in

waltman,
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@mjgardner Since she's wearing a jacket, I'm assuming she's either inside, or the outside temperature has dropped below 80. How are you coping?

waltman, to random
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Pro tip: If you’re giving a half day presentation at a fancy Microsoft tech center, the time to tell the attendees that your app requires Chrome, and in fact is seriously broken in Edge, isn’t halfway through the lab session.🙄

wordshaper, to random
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Being in New York is weird. It reminds me how much I like being in New York while simultaneously reminding me how nice it is to mostly not be in New York. It’s kinda quantum that way.

(It also reminds me how much my husband forgets how badly being in New York affects him despite his claims that it doesn’t)

waltman,
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@wordshaper I’m also spending a lot of time in New York these days. I’m finding all that too, but mostly I’m finding that being in New York reminds me how much I like Philly. :)

waltman,
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@LinuxAndYarn @wordshaper Usually I go underground outside of Hoboken, and I don’t see daylight again until I’m at 168th and Broadway. Today I was up around 42nd St. in Midtown.

Washington Heights is a LOT quieter than Times Square.

waltman, to random
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Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

mjgardner, (edited ) to breakfast
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I think I just invented a new #breakfast dish: unsalted soft pretzel smeared with butter and jam

waltman,
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@mjgardner Dude, this is a cry for help. Do you need me to Fedex you some scrapple?

waltman,
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@ezwal @mjgardner Allow me to introduce to you my good friends at S. Clyde Weaver Smoked Meats and Cheese. (Note: there are three photos of a stand at a farmers market, each with a different sign saying “Eat More Scrapple”)

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waltman, to random
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Every once in a while, against all odds, Philly does the right thing. (Headline: “Philadelphia Orchestra's home renamed Marian Anderson Hall as Verizon name comes off”) https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/philadelphia-orchestras-home-renamed-marian-anderson-hall-as-verizon-name-comes-off/ar-BB1j2Pyg

waltman, to random
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What is wrong with people that this article is even necessary? https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/taxes/please-dont-use-chatgpt-for-your-taxes-heres-why/

wordshaper, to random
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I was watching some "why not launch rockets from airplanes?" and thought "hey, why not balloons? How hard could it be?"

And it turns out the answer's "not very!" A Falcon 9 rocket, fully loaded, weighs in at about 550,000kg. Hydrogen balloons get you about 1kg of lift per cubic meter, so mathing that out means we'd just have to hook the rocket up to a spherical balloon about 101m in diameter. Easy!

Time to put together a business plan and go looking for some sweet, sweet (stupid) VC cash...

waltman,
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@wordshaper Launching a rocket in the vicinity of enough hydrogen to fill up a a 101m diameter balloon seems like it might be problematic. Isn't that more or less what happened to the Hindenberg?

grammargirl, to random
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I'm thinking about how we use word that describe hitting for good food:

That pie hits the spot.
That pie bangs.
That pie was larruping.
That pie lashes. (in Trinidad, I'm told)

Can you think of any other "hitting" words we used to describe food?

waltman,
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@grammargirl Does "Cracking good cheese, Gromit!" count?

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