Jake Beard

Creative technologist.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

“America is too big for rail” and yet we literally had it. Almost everything we advocate for is a restoration.

[Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppy_haze]

the "TikTok" ban is a backdoor to basically full government surveillance of any computer "transaction". You do anything the government didn't like on the computer? Bam, 20 years or massive fines.

[Jake Beard @jbeard4]

@MarekBartik ¡bm:

[Steven Donziger @SDonziger]

DISASTER: President Biden today approved the Willow oil project in Alaska on the largest tract of pristine land in the US. This will create catastrophic pollution for decades just as the planet reaches the tipping point.

Willow will have deadly results.
https://t.co/SeNghl9naz

[Henry Wismayer @henrywismayer]

It's depressing to consider, but I suspect the demise of skiing in the Alps will prove to be far more consequential to the rich world's awareness of climate change than news that one third of Pakistan is underwater.

[Jake Beard @jbeard4]

@AenderLara Amazing work! Are you using any software to simulate the physics?

[Dave Wasserman @Redistrict]

I've seen enough: Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) defeats Herschel Walker (R) in the #GASEN runoff, giving Democrats a 51-49 majority in the Senate.

[Jake Beard @jbeard4]

@josecastillo What mastodon server did you use?

[Jake Beard @jbeard4]

@hillelogram I use vimwiki for everything.

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

Feature Comparison https://t.co/38WvMeg99D

[Jake Beard @jbeard4]

@anothercohen There is a coffee shop for sale in Lyons, CO: https://t.co/wYd9KWyg7c

[Jake Beard @jbeard4]

@hillelogram I once wrote a paper called “Operating Systems as Normative Universes in the Context of Spinoza’s Metaphysics”

[Molly White @molly0xFFF]

merge conflicts in 1843

[Natalie Crawford, MD @ncrawfordmd]

Nobody wants to talk about abortion. I hear this daily.

And it’s true. And we shouldn’t have to talk about it - it should be medical care that is available when needed.

But it’s not.

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[Jake Beard @jbeard4]

@simonw Python + Pandas + Jupyter notebooks + matplotlib + csvkit

[Jake Beard @jbeard4]

@chrisalbon @AshishV1108

[Simon Willison @simonw]

The stuff happening on the Stable Diffusion subreddit right now is pretty wild - since the model can be run by anyone on their own machine if they have a decent GPU https://t.co/pJnR4czUlG