Beth Aitman

I write for humans who use computers. Sometimes I climb things. Opinions are my own

[Beth Aitman @baitman]

@northernassist good morning! Have 2 advance singles for Oxenholme 12:39 to Windermere, but first part of journey Edinburgh 10:11 to Oxenholme is cancelled. Are our tickets valid on later trains, and if so which?

[Microcopy Patterns @tinywordsmatter]

Classic ☠️

[Beth Aitman @baitman]

@plaindocs And why are they fruiting??

[Republican Calendar @sansculotides]

Today is primidi 11 Prairial in the year of the Republic CCXXXI, celebrating the strawberry.

[Sam Altman @sama]

people seem very excited that chatgpt can expand a few bullet points into a lot of well-written text.

it can also collapse a lot of well-written text into a a few bullet points.

the latter is much more valuable, right?

[Beth Aitman @baitman]

@BugsBernadette @OUHospitals That's wonderful news! So glad they made it home.

[Beth Aitman @baitman]

@jna_sh This comes pretty close for me tbh

[Beth Aitman @baitman]

@virtualjaaames spectacular

[Beth Aitman @baitman]

@mt_inside Oh nice - good luck!

[Beth Aitman @baitman]

@mt_inside (maybe I'm going further than "getting by" with those recommendations!)

[Beth Aitman @baitman]

@mt_inside What helped me with German: Anki for vocab (boring as shit but it works), a good online teacher (at least 2 hours of conversation a week), daily listen to news podcasts for comprehension. What language?

[🔎Julia Evans🔍 @b0rk]

debugging strategy: write a message asking for help

[Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski]

The guy who just won the Fields Medal – like a Nobel Prize for mathematics – has a work ethic we should all emulate. Three house of focused work per day based on following his desires at that moment. https://t.co/QYbQjYtgad

[Pavel A. Samsonov @PavelASamsonov]

I wish I had this kind of UI mod for some of the software at work...

[kathy @kathytzhou]

when the product has too many tooltips

[Beth Aitman @baitman]

@bethdean I use the "Minimal Theme for Twitter" extension which strips most of this stuff out and it's amazing. Without it I think I would just give up.

[Beth Aitman @baitman]

@ZaraSheldrake I think the marches _are_ taking action though. It makes public opinion really visible, which puts pressure on politicians to take action at the country level.

[james @virtualjaaames]

the term "gaslighting" is now used across the entire political spectrum as a weaponised means of expressing the following concept: "saying stuff I don't think is true"

[Beth Aitman @baitman]

@gabrielgambetta @avfletcher Mostly what I do is try to encourage people to respond that it didn't make sense, at least one time, so it's obvious that I mean it as a genuine question... Not sure it fixes it though!

[Beth Aitman @baitman]

@scottydocs @Zipcar My normal running route goes across a long bridge, and someone inevitably leaves one of those rental scooters halfway along, 500m from easy pedestrian access (and anywhere you'd want to _get_ to). I assume because they think it's funny?