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@hystericempress The whole fall damage thing in that game was bullshit. Especially for a User.

@starkatt For a while I had a semi-ritual of turning the lights way down (usually dark red, hooray for Hue bulbs), getting stoned, putting on headphones, and sinking into a new album. I should get back to that.

D&D game 

@paladin Are you serious about the times in UTC? As in, 10:00–14:00 PDT? Usually folks want to run games way late in the day when my focus meds have pooped out. Hmmmm....

Windows Defender just detected the ePub of "Practical Malware Analysis" by Michael Sikorski as a virus

If anthro birds were like real birds they would keep their beak open while they talk and make all of the plosives with their syrinx. Imagine how weird that would look. #thoughtfortheday

the energy i expect the back half of the year to bring is that of a wizard who casts stone to flesh on a fossilized animal skeleton and does not get the result they hoped for

[1.Ch.] Condemning White Supremacy 

I condemn white supremacy.
I condemn white supremacists.
And I condemn anyone who can't or won't do either.

Seattle pol, Uber/Lyft minimum wage, + 

"The Seattle City Council unanimously approved a minimum pay standard for Uber and Lyft drivers on Tuesday, the second city in the US to do so."

"The law, passed in a 9-to-0 vote, is modeled after one passed by New York in August 2018 that caps how many ride-hailing cars from services like Uber and Lyft can be on the street. Seattle's law will require drivers be paid at least 56 cents per minute and $1.33 per mile driven while transporting passengers."

Amusingly, it also notes:

"In crafting the ordinance approved Tuesday, Seattle commissioned two well-known economists to determine how much drivers actually make, while Uber and Lyft quietly commissioned researchers from Cornell University who came up with very different conclusions.The city's researchers found that drivers made an average of about $9.73 per hour, while the ride-hailing companies' researcher put the number at $23.25."

🤔

cnet.com/news/seattle-approves

apparently you just get the sushi by taking it off the conveyor belt, not hitting it from six paces like a carnival shooting gallery. i thought this was *america*

saw red at C# when they said they were going from B to F#. very sus

tech and pol. thinkin about stuff 

machine learning systems are susceptible to the implicit biases of the data they are fed

so do other learning systems, like humans. you are not immune to the environment you were raised in

that's literally all "check your privilege" means. become aware of the biases of your dataset and seek to overcome them

@packbat At such time I get back to having full, fluid dreams, I'll upgrade to "it's fun". Ah well!

obsessively quoting The Crow season, violence mention 

@Leucrotta The Tigers are playin' to-nite! And I never miss a game.

pdxpol, + 

portland public schools providing free breakfast and lunch to everyone ages 1 - 18 regardless of where or if they go to school. fuck yeah food

pps.net/fall2020meals

From birdsite 

RT @ToledoTheHorse

This thread about the sirens being misinterpreted from "promising what you want" to "promising sex" is relevant to what I think would make Pleasure Island more threatening as a concept: namely, not just smoking, drinking, etc., but satisfaction of one's vices.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/ToledoTheHorse/sta

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