Deltaphor

golfing tweets with em dashes since 2024
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@iamaheron_ why unfortunate?

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I got a tablet in a half-hearted attempt to learn to draw, but instead ended up mostly using it to play Magic: the Gathering on the treadmill, which is... probably an above-average outcome, honestly

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@RiledDragon simultaneously vagueposting about every post on every social media platform ever, all at once

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is posting a moral and civic duty? if my overly abstract post displaces some more extreme or more negative content on somebody's timeline, is that a win? is there anything here?

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@iamaheron_ I think it's a legal risk thing :-/

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@RiledDragon this invariably conjures up the image here https://t.co/lL1UZYMV42

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@SIUC_SPS @iamaheron_ I think they're less visceral—displaced factory workers don't continue to work alongside a machine whose output is ~fungible with theirs. And I'm sure you can find protests vandalizing factories when they were new. (I'm not excusing the destruction, just speculating a motivation)

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@iamaheron_ I take my share of Waymos (as you know) but I do think it is one of the clearest and most visceral examples of job displacement through automation that we have

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@iamaheron_ I have said and heard this at work

I don't particularly endorse it, but it's expressive and gets the point across

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what's your utility function of follower count? based on vibes only i would draw mine like this

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@iamaheron_ I wish I could see things through your eyes

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@RiledDragon some citations: https://t.co/izf3KSiq8O https://t.co/bL5Ks6na1a

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@RiledDragon Even if the server verifies the hash, letting you determine whether a specific file has ever been uploaded before can be considered a privacy flaw or invite abuse of their bandwidth—I don't know for sure why but know that Dropbox used to dedupe files similarly and stopped in 2011

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@arithmoquine curious to hear more—the kind of person who self-selected there, the kind of post they make, the algorithm, other stuff, some combo? (myself I've all but given up on either site's algorithm if not shortform entirely, but want to fill a gaping hole in modeling others' preferences)

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@RiledDragon pandas hard? use xarray

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for what gain? From afar, maybe a big one—the chefs and connoisseurs have world-class infrastructure for sharing concoctions and forming community; some succeed at those things. Still, I like this model for reminding me that the alternatives I like are no less (and no more) valid

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my new mental model of the Tweet is a food I don't enjoy—I can respect and admire friends who are connoisseurs/skilled chefs, but I lack the taste buds, maybe it's even genetic; not unimaginable that I somehow condition myself into enjoying it one day, but it'd be lots of effort

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results: https://t.co/TbR3Qv5fJf

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Dammit I need a ref sheet of my human form, don't I

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Dammit I need a ref sheet of my human form, don't I