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sending money to Wikipedia makes me feel good about myself, let's see what Jimmy Wales does with my money

*looks at fandom.com*

so anyway,

@NanoRaptor I guess another way to think about it is that a term gets coined, is subject to rapid semantic drift, but then later its movement slows down as it gets closer to a fixed point of the "semantic drift function".

Semantic drift annealing? Linguistic gradient descent?

"In the digital battlefield, the greatest weapon is the ability to adapt faster than the enemy." - The Art of Cyber War

"Keep your friends' passwords close, and your enemies' passwords closer." - The Art of Cyber War

"Your enemy cares not that the maintainer of an Internet-connected server left 10 years ago." - Sun Tzu

Years ago, I created a bot that posted Sun Tzu quotes, if Sun Tzu had written about cyber war. When X closed up API access that bot broke, and it never was high on my list of priorities to bring here. Well, I just fixed that. May I introduce you to @SunTzuCyber, which posts hourly. The posts are set up as unlisted/quiet public, so they won't show up in timelines unless you follow it.

anyway, Discord is talking about the true hardest problem in computer science: reversing a string

Seriously, WTAF, NYT and WaPo.

Let me be clear: extreme heat kills. Do not try to tough out a heat wave. If your home or apt. is very hot, find a place with air conditioning.

theclimatebrink.com/p/how-extr

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go into software, easiest field in the world, get paid to go on the computer

stop making cars bigger. why are you making them bigger. stop.

writer: "she quickly dragged a brush through her curly, thick hair"

me: she absolutely did not

the past is a foreign country and past historians are foreign correspondents

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