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Todd Thomas 16h ago

fruit toots 16h ago

ben davis apples, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1912

Todd Thomas 21h ago

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dillyd 23h ago

Here's how they turn pink
#bloomscrolling #roses

Todd Thomas 22h ago

Gothamist 1d ago

Dylan, Bronx high school student arrested by ICE, speaks out from immigration detention
https://gothamist.com/news/dylan-bronx-high-school-student-arrested-by-ice-speaks-out-from-immigration-detention?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Dylan, Bronx high school student arrested by ICE, speaks out from immigration detention

“All I want is to go home so I can continue studying, to see the people who I love, and to be free,” Dylan said in a statement translated by his attorneys.

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Todd Thomas 1d ago

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Paul Cantrell 1d ago

I don’t agree in one respect:

Neither OOP nor FP (nor 4GLs nor IDEs nor SOAs nor any of the other new hotnesses past) had anything remotely resembling the current money behind them. None led to companies speculatively laying off tens of thousands of employees for imagined productivity boosts that had not actually arrived yet. None shaped whole election cycles, or led to national proposals for preemptive deregulation. None led to the construction of nuclear power plants or the draining of rivers. None sent oligarchs or fascists into spasmodic wet dreams of world domination. None started quasi-religious cults like EA.

All •that• is the part that feels like blockchain — but even worse, if such a thing is possible.

@david_chisnall
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Todd Thomas 1d ago

Paul Cantrell 1d ago

I like @david_chisnall’s analysis here in many respects, both its broad conclusion (when the hype dies down, the useful parts remain and we take them for granted as normal tools), and this gem here:

Machine learning is well-suited for ❝any problem where we don’t actually know the rules and where the cost of a wrong answer is significantly lower than the benefit of a right answer.❞

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gretared 1d ago

RIP Sly

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Jessica Rosenkrantz 1d ago

It was worth the trip to Delaware to watch the prehistoric horseshoe crabs mating under a full moon

Todd Thomas 1d ago

Gregor Kalinkat 2d ago

"Most of you aren’t from LA, and since I grew up here, went to college here, and have worked here for the past 20 years, I thought I could provide some information and context about what’s going on right now." Thank you @hormiga

https://scienceforeveryone.science/p/a-quick-report-from-los-angeles

#Trump #LosAngeles

A quick report from Los Angeles

Immigrants and the rule of law in the world's 4th largest economy

Science For Everyone

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Martin L. Martens 1d ago

A sunlight mossy stump in a dark forest.

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HLK™3d ago

American avocet. 📷🌿🪶

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