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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

having a sci-fi setting and not having your universal translator device be a sentient AI not only doesn't make sense if you know how language works, it's also a huge missed opportunity from a writing perspective

Which of these garments should we bring back into fashion?

food 

put döner meat and kentucky barbecue sauce into a slice of focaccia to piss off every purist cook in the entire world

when cats curl into that croissant shape boost if u agree

where do you think that big eddie murphy head went? i like to think eddie murphy kept it

if flubber is so good why didn't he have a son called "son of fl-

once saw an antivaxxer suggest that instead of vaccines we just create an inert version of the virus and use that to let our bodies train to fight off the real thing

you know what? sure. let's try that.

(emerges from a vat of pure poison, now indestructible) ahh a nice bath hits the spot

someone should write a dissertation on the subtle connotative differences between the classic ellipsis... and the version with commas,,,

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