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people: "hey we should make drinking glasses less likely to break and make sure everyone can get them if they want them"

other people: "hey that's a great idea, do it!" "I'll get as many as my family will ever need!" "I'll stock my bar with these and save so much on breakage loss!"

capitalists: "but when everyone has all the glasses they need how will you make money?"

SHELVE YOUR HALBERD, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DEHYDRATION. AND YOU WILL WIN.

Chess is a wallpaper from Windows 3 (1990). It depicts six chess pieces falling on a chess board. Its author is unknown. In Windows XP builds 2475 & 2486, the Chess user picture is replaced by this wallpaper, possibly caused by an error during the compilation of these builds. ♟️

Me, about one month ago: Oh, I bet I can use this Rust library to play back .xm "mod files" on my bootleg game boy!

Me, now: My desire to play a mod file on a game boy has inexorably lead to me filing an "internal compiler error" bug on the Rust project github.com/rust-lang/rust/issu

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spends several seconds trying to plug a USB cable into an HDMI port hmm this USB port is trickier to insert into than normal

sometimes math things turn out to be far simpler than you expect. for example, apparently one of the most popular activation functions in neural networks is just max(0,x)? that's what relu is. so i guess f(a,b,c) = max(0, a * 0.5 + b * 0.25 + c * 0.125) is a simple “neuron”? neat

‪a physical painting is such an incredibly beautiful object up close‬

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britain is captured by the fear of trans people in bathrooms because after fifteen years of austerity the idea of a society that builds facilities to accommodate all persons is no longer possible to imagine, and so everything is some horrible fight over scraps

If you're ever looking for a peer-reviewed, article-length piece to cite re: my arguments on why we need to center marginalized lived experiential knowledge in all technologies, but especially "AI," then my article “Disabling ‘AI:’ Biases and Values Embedded in ‘Artificial Intelligence’” is for you.

UPDATE: It's "La France" not "Le France". I wish to apologize for misgendering France

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