Posts by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
(DIR) Post #AlOXOt4rsxz0bOCXUu by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2024-08-27T14:18:44Z
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@futurebird “Thinks there are SO MANY George Floyd statues?” One of the weird things the right does is talk about possibilities and proposals as if they were already facts. Iirc if you ask most GOP voters, there are no more police in cities, Obamacare is single payer, the Green New Deal passed 6 years ago, etc etc.
(DIR) Post #AlRkxUXH0Nh9V6CLaK by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2024-08-29T03:33:14Z
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@dan @phooky @futurebird there was a whole wave of “fuzzy logic” infused products in Japan in the late 80s and early 90s—it had a moment there
(DIR) Post #AljA4PAd9Tz9QfJr72 by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2024-09-06T13:06:15Z
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@futurebird reminds me of, when FDR was accused of being a Communist, he often deflected with a simple response of “I’m a Christian.” I wondered what happened to that attitude, and I think I understand now.
(DIR) Post #Alu9LfXnZ7qvv1NpVw by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2024-09-11T20:19:57Z
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@futurebird More than these:- built in infrared camera (or single pixel thermometer)- Geiger counter- visible light spectrometer
(DIR) Post #AmCix3cfzyGoYLVVj6 by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2024-09-20T19:23:23Z
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@futurebird I drew this a few years back and have it for quick reference on my phone—got tired of hearing “100 million years ago” and wasn’t sure what that entailed exactly.
(DIR) Post #AmbxGegTHILz2VmnU8 by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2024-10-02T23:31:56Z
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@futurebird so how big is "the area?"Them: "This building"
(DIR) Post #AnZATMamf8o91am0o4 by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2024-10-31T13:07:53Z
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@futurebird a general strike of any impact—well, all of these tbqh—requires a degree of organization that we simply don’t have. I think we should get there—but we are so far from there right now.
(DIR) Post #Ancw3ZJhWIiew5NRDM by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2024-11-02T00:29:41Z
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@anon_opin so what does “oi, cunt, listen up” mean
(DIR) Post #AqAZ2WK9pBjmqv4zq4 by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2025-01-17T09:51:39Z
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@futurebird I think part of your intuition is “lo fi” specifically requires recording or low-fidelity samples of recordingsBut i love that description anyway 😂😂
(DIR) Post #At76LuLSiurtdfhYK8 by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2025-04-15T11:22:22Z
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@futurebird I was reading up on Hebrew numerals for a special insight—maybe they’re base 40 or something—but honestly, that well seems pretty dry in that regard: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_numerals
(DIR) Post #At7vZDhPAlXF5h4PIG by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2025-04-15T20:56:15Z
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@futurebird @ai6yr me, repairing bikes at the local bike co-op: “is this foraging?”
(DIR) Post #AtpWCHtcYWigIfdFg0 by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2025-05-06T18:21:18Z
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@anon_opin 10/10 opinion
(DIR) Post #AuoiFSqNxo1lwxbPjl by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2025-06-05T10:11:41Z
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@futurebird “they are so deep in misinformation there is no one who can tell them this is what will happen”This is the crux of it. There is an entire media apparatus dedicated to telling them they were always at war with Eurasia. They won’t even perceive that they got nothing since it “happens” in a year.
(DIR) Post #Av4GhDmVGYk2yTJhXU by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2025-06-12T19:14:35Z
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Linked in did something to me
(DIR) Post #AwakumfUnleWqtfEwK by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2025-07-28T12:19:49Z
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@futurebird “We just show up to take stuff away and delete things.” So it’s actually just a private equity firm?
(DIR) Post #AwlJ5siLvGLZSP9o0m by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2025-08-02T14:29:54Z
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@futurebird @Doreen32128 @adriano @Nazani thinking about those guys who wear American flag shorts, always farting on the flag
(DIR) Post #Axav9r7HVkYuyn606i by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2025-08-27T12:06:41Z
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@futurebird I’d say social media always has these attributes:- 1) users have profiles where they present themselves and content of some kind- 2) users can make persistent, software-embodied connections between one another, one-way or bidirectional- 3) functions (1) and (2) are the primary purpose of the platform and users are drawn to the platform by that functionality
(DIR) Post #AxrUcOfgxAk657tXBw by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2025-09-04T11:59:21Z
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@futurebird @violetmadder as someone who has worked in NLP for over a decade, word counts would be a much better way to go. You could probably also cluster them in some way which might help distill the data down. In fact, this would be a terrible application of an LLM. Anything involving counting or understanding of anything countable, and LLMs fall flat on their face. They generate random words, in essence. Not good when you’re trying to observe something.
(DIR) Post #AxrVZjX32OpFrh94zY by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2025-09-04T12:10:09Z
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@futurebird @violetmadderOne of my favorite books is “Seeing Like A State” by James C Scott. It’s about how states try to make the world “legible” by creating simplified understandings of the world, and then actually imposing those understandings on to the world. This often works in the short term, but destroys the contextual knowledge and capacities of the people imposed upon in the long run.This style of polling might better reflect that contextual knowledge
(DIR) Post #B06CTmcV9m1g4dmsa0 by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2025-11-08T14:58:24Z
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@futurebird I think one thing that’s hard about math education is math is often the first place people are shown that they objectively did something incorrectly, and that stings a lot. Instead of introspecting how they got there, a lot of people just conclude “I’m bad at this.”I suppose the real trick in math ed is getting people to self-evaluate without shutting down or personalizing the critique.