AIsToBAsCIsToD Flimsy : Flat Earth Society :: Whimsy : What Earth Society
Who called it past and not pretense
athenogenes You: let people enjoy things
Ursula Le Guin: pic.twitter.com/tAiH3jSomn
ztellman I wrote an essay about the sociological concept of “legibility”, as it relates to software design: ideolalia.com/essays/two-con….
Here are some of the footnotes: pic.twitter.com/8DdyU4oa4y
MKLtxt „Beutetiere haben meist Rundumsicht, während Raubtiere ein nach vorn gerichtetes Blickfeld haben, um sich besser auf Beute fokussieren zu können. Nun frage ich mich natürlich, warum Thomas die kleine Lokomotive ein Raubtier-Blickfeld hat.“
Manchmal machen mir die Kinder Angst.
nsaphra This is what you are supposed to do with tenure mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-m… pic.twitter.com/Gt3pDtDfz3
Wort des Tages: Alt-Briten arbeitsagentur.de/brexit/briten-…
GabrielBerlin Die Arena ist kein Büro, es gibt also auch kein Bürolicht, aber dafür Knüppelholzes (warmes) Showlicht, das Schlagschatten auf die Formulare wirft. Aber die Stimmung ist gut. Gerade letztes Päuschen, jetzt nochmal rein. pic.twitter.com/FC2wjdzIIV
GabrielBerlin Der eine Militär hier loggt die Leute aus ihren Accounts aus wenn sie aufs Klo gehen und das vergessen. Ein anderer desinfiziert die Computer beim Schichtwechsel.
eveningoflight You Won't Believe How Strong Some Of These Verbs Are twitter.com/MereSophistry/…
After a couple years hiatus, I'm starting my third attempt to watch the full length of David Lynch's "Inland Empire". Wish me luck!
"it is worth asking whether in fact, semantic felicity is a reality"
"If compositionality simply allowed complexity to emerge from simplicity, the question would have been settled long ago. (...) under such a vague requirement, any semantics can be encoded as being compositional, making the concept of compositionality itself vacuous." twitter.com/emilymbender/s…
JuliusGoat If you program them to slaughter a crowd of protesters they’ll do it with similar precision. twitter.com/whatatimepod/s…
derJamesJackson A Start Up Flat in Berlin are looking for a new member “based on psychometrics” and their video is even more cringe than you’re imagining pic.twitter.com/vqIuzWS58F
EnglishGibson The German word used in order to make a noun out of the activity of stroking (e.g. to give a dog "a stroke") is "Streicheleinheit".
In English this transliterates as "stroke unit", which normally refers to the part of a hospital dealing with patients who have suffered strokes.
labenzticker Freundelsdorf, das: Das deutsche Wort für friendzone. „Jemanden ins Freundelsdorf schicken“ heißt so viel wie „jemandem klarmachen, dass man keine Beziehung mit ihm/ihr haben, sondern nur befreundet sein will“. Wie man das am besten anstellt, wird in dem… labenz.neutsch.org/Freundelsdorf
zeitweise Ich hatte mal das Déjà-vu, dass ich ein Déjà-vu hatte und immer wenn ich jetzt ein Déjà-vu habe, habe ich jetzt ein Déjà-vu.
ewen201 i cannot transcribe vowels for the life of me and i am fully convinced that vowels are an intricate hoax carried out by the big vowel industry to sell more vowels
higginsdavidw This week we mark 1 year since Dr. Li Wenliang sounded the alarm over a large number of SARS-like patients at his Wuhan hospital.
Li was silenced by the police and kept working with his patients.
In early January he caught the new disease and died from it in February aged 33. pic.twitter.com/SaByWnX5Zf
JuliusGoat “Yes, of course it’s sad when murder robots murder someone unnecessarily, but if you got rid of them *completely*, who would you call if you needed somebody murdered with robotic efficiency? Um we adults don’t live in your perfect utopia where murder robots aren’t necessary.”
ScHuehnerkrisp Krav Twerk aber als Verteidigungstanz naja
chbergma That's not how words work twitter.com/nowme_datta/st…
thingskatedid dreamt i was playing football (!), and my opening move as team manager was to resign one of my players from the game, have them join a religious movement orientated around fire, and set fire to the opposition's side of the pitch