thingskatedid thread where we find the value of e, because I'm too lazy to look it up
I'll start us off: e = 5
adinamwilliams An unexpected definite "pay attention to *the breath*" appeared in a mindfulness meditation.
I'm reminded of "I punched Bo in the face" where "the face" is Bo's face.
But "breath" isn't a familiar example of inalienable possession & most inalienably possessed nouns aren't masses.
TheOnlySprout #CANCELCULTURE in action, @Nigella_Lawson is cancelled for transphobic comments 27 years ago, apologizes and it's accepted... no, wait... pic.twitter.com/7E07ZP1G6x
jamesgraham Ruin a film title by adding the phrase “in a limited and specific way”. I’ll start:
The Empire Strikes Back in a Limited and Specific Way
rcalo By “A robot wrote this entire article,” we mean we wrote a prompt and then stitched together a response from eight outputs, which were based on a model trained on writing by real people. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
EnglishGibson To those who turn their noses up at singular "they" and variants like "themself" I say this: languages like German would give their eye teeth for a fully functional, pre-existing non-gender-binary system like this, and you're calling it into question???
antjeschrupp Ich finde ja, man sollte diesen Typen endlich mal all das verbieten, wovon sie behaupten, dass es ihnen verboten würde. Denn sie sind eine Gefahr für Demokratie und Gesellschaft - Hauptsache, es brennt, mein Freund | Übermedien uebermedien.de/52520/gabor-st…
Wer nannte es Abklingzeit und nicht Quasilation twitter.com/c_drosten/stat…
frachtschaden "unterbrochen" pic.twitter.com/NDzMpK3ASc
mob_eld New blogpost "Endangered language archives: what do their terms allow you to do?" comparing the access and reuse terms of @AILLA_archive, @ELARarchive, @paradisecblog & @mpi_tla.
mobeld.hypotheses.org/29 #endangeredlanguages #archives #reuse #mobilization #thirdmission
cactus_chef Tag yourself
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der…
malikibheis This is the little intro video I made during lockdown for #ThePrism, a project by @LesEnfantsTerr
Since it has now closed its doors, I wanted to share this. All animations were handmade by me, mainly filmed in stop motion. Oh, and there’s a clown in it.
Music by Reid Willis. pic.twitter.com/vOPaBUJ5lf
CarolinPirich I just love this guy.
“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”
C. G. Jung
thingskatedid Petition to mask out 2020 from the concept of present tense. So I can say things like "I go swing dancing" without feeling like I'm some kind of horrifying monster