Eric Miller

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Software Engineer @google Cloud. Displaced Minnesotan Social Justice Bard. Watches too much television. Views entirely my own.

Twitter: @emiller42

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Aaaand another round of Layoffs at Google. Be strong, my friends. :/ #EndBillionaires #Union #Solidarity

Local folks, I hope you can join the Kendall Square Orchestra for our concert TOMORROW, highlighting the talents of individual soloists from within the orchestra, underscoring the importance of collaboration and unity and demonstrating that true harmony is achieved when diverse voices join together.⁠

Friday, December 15th at 7:30pm - Kresge Auditorium⁠ (MIT)

Get your tickets today: https://www.kendallsquareorchestra.org/concerts

2023-2024 Concerts — Kendall Square Orchestra

Kendall Square Orchestra
I do love how Apple TV+ just refuses to acknowledge some things exist. “'Saltburn'? Never heard of it. Did you mean 'Fingernails' by Apple Original Films?”
Today in 1982: The Future Corps debuts at EPCOT Center.
https://www.extinctdisney.com/epcot/
EPCOT | Extinct Disney

EPCOT Center, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, opened October 1, 1982, exactly 11 years after it’s predecessor on the Walt Disney World property, the...

Mozart: *writes for Horn in E*

Me: yes this is reasonable and normal.

Strauss: *writes for Horn in E*

Me: omg wtf why are there so many accidentals is that a goddamn Fb? Jfc horns had buttons by 1880, what are you even doing why can’t you write horn in F like a normal person

Plot twist: the nine foot umbrella was not, in fact, in the mailbox.
Overheard at the #Minnesota #StateFair - “the only reason I have my knife on me is because I can’t bring my gun” 🙃
Visiting Minneapolis has been a good reminder of what is possible for cyclist/pedestrian infrastructure.
And another message. There was absolutely no need for this and we got the companies wanting to create an AGI god, putting these students in this awful situation. These "AI detection" tools need to be banned.

“This is an experiment - we will run it for 6 months and then decide whether and how to continue.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.

BBC R&D