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An illustration of survivor bias: yesterday the speaker in our seminar asked of anyone was affected by the ongoing fires. Everyone present assured the speaker that they were not significantly impacted.
Attendance was about half of the normal size.

We just had a meeting where we're figuring out how to filter out a bunch of social media posts and discussing how there are no accurate language detection tools that can help us do our task, and only some automated tools (some of which we built) that can help us get half way there.

Meanwhile we have press releases masquerading as journalism telling us that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is coming 🙄

smell ya later, transvestigator, let's just say that this women's restroom is booby-trapped ⚧️💣

do you think if I touch this there'll be like, a matter/antimatter explosion

Look at the little fopses ​​

As a trained firefighter I'm astounded/horrified at the number of reporters not wearing masks while reporting on the fires in LA.

A good story isn't worth sacrificing your life and health to hydrocarbons and burning plastic. The average home in 2025 is so toxic while burning that it's hard to watch; far more toxic than homes historically have ever been throughout history. This is something they drilled into us deeply while training.

The cause and effect can be long term and utterly devastating. A mask is gonna save your life in the coming years, be it pandemic or flames.

Wear a mask, shower often. Wash your hands before you eat. A lot of firefighters died before we figured out those basics.

PS- if you have a paint respirator with VOC cartridges even better.

#maskUp #palisades #LA #fire #journalism #staySafeLA

There have been quite a few white trans people, mostly Trans women, over the past couple weeks, both here and in person, talking about "passing" and… y'all:

👏 Read 👏 Black 👏 Writing👏

JFC please don't use floating point types for calculating financial transactions or storing monetary values. I just got asked to review some code by someone and it is the first thing I spotted.

#roundingerrors #floatingpoint #softwareengineering

I guess I should make this before it is the last minute. I have to pay electric, internet, and water bills. I can't work right now because I rely on camming for income and I'm having some health issues stopping me from streaming right now.

Thank you for reading and sharing

Edit - thank you all SO much!!!!!

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visited another, bigger, dam, got a full guided tour, and it was sooo awesome

also til there are a large enough population of dam nerds that they've created "dam facts" collectable trading cards

all of which costs: $0

Let it be known that this is an antifascist novelty clam account

SteamOS but it's a locomotive-themed breakfast cereal

There are literally entire books about "passing." (Looks pointedly at Nella Larsen)

And, yes, this is relevant. Unfortunately far too many white people think books written by Black authors are "Black stuff," without realizing that the other side of that coin never seems to be that books written by white authors are "white stuff."