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Professional doubter of software: privacy, location, map data. Addresses aren't real. Still at Google so far. Lifetime +26% CO₂ already. Honk if you passed P-Chem.

(avatar pic is Tove Jansson's art)

@nullagent from what KUOW writes I wonder: did Wilson "confirm" by seeing a warrant, or did Seattle cops say they saw it, or is this just cop hearsay?

Hopefully we'll see a normal arraignment soon.

@camless @scandigonian I also happen to have started Chimayo this year and will save seeds! if it's a good Seattle year for peppers

from Adaptive Seeds who list them in stock, also not cheap but I hope to get a good multiplier from each plant...
https://www.adaptiveseeds.com/product/vegetables/peppers/hot-pepper-chimayo-organic/

ICE racism kills people, ICE racism continues to kill people, the purpose of ICE is what it does
https://migrantinsider.com/p/the-lonesome-death-of-daphy-michel
The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel

Watch now | Haitian Woman, 31, Dies Alone at Pittsburgh Bus Stop Days After ICE Released Her Far From Home to Die.

Migrant Insider
@emsenn 👀
this kinda commutative square? I need to pick back up Eugenia Cheng's intro book...
https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/commutative+square
https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Beck-Chevalley+condition

@emsenn cool! want to share the structure?

this one's a sum of seven rotated sinusoids, but that math doesn't come out looking interesting for 10
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MflGzX

the frustrating thing is that literally anyone who has thought about language and technology for fifteen consecutive seconds could have told you that autocomplete and other writing tools influence beliefs (and *have* been telling you this, over and over, for decades). the other frustrating thing is that slop-pushers *brag about their ability to do this* and right-wing actors are actively exploiting it, but in polite company everyone pretends that's not the case https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF/116219772468880168
Greg Egan (@[email protected])

“AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs” “We told people before, and after, to be careful, that the AI is going to be (or was) biased, and nothing helped,” Naaman said. “Their attitudes about the issues still shifted.” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-autocomplete-doesnt-just-change-how-you-write-it-changes-how-you-think/

Mathstodon
@jalefkowit @beckett the Kona is notable for having a fair number of physical buttons, instead of being damnably all-touchscreen like a lot of current cars

@clew @blogdiva though someone made a nice web page, so could be somebody *has* run my .EXE since 1995

http://eyecandyarchive.com/2ynesthesia/

Eyecandy Archive - 2ynesthesia

2ynesthesia is the updated version of Eli Brandt's Mindwarp/Synesthesia IIx programs. It renders 16 spiraling meshworks with dancing comets and grids and supports audio input via a Creative Labs Soundblaster card.

Last year Mandy Brown shared with me and a few others the notion of “far-fetching”. I’ve been meaning to e-mail her and ask where she found it, or if it’s her own.

As I received it, it’s the idea of reaching out into a desired, or necessary, future and finding some piece of it—however far-fetched—to bring (‘fetch’) back into the current moment. Something practical to do with hope, in hope. There are, and have been, many small things to far-fetch in this way.

@clew @blogdiva some "trippy graphics" programs dated from 1993, I had put the .EXE files (34K, that was a good binary size) on my CMU page, just ran them in DOS emulation.

A bit more accessibly, 1997 perl5 to render PostScript from the .puz crossword format.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eli/warez/puz2ps

Other people running... pretty sure nothing.