danjbain.bsky.social

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Always knew there was something wrong with the reformulation of DEI as JEDI. Now I'm convinced.

I can't take the word 'jedi' seriously because it means 'eat ass' in Yoruba. [And 'jedijedi' means diarrhoea]

The Philadelphia Inquirer should do the inverse of this.

I wrote about the weirdest decision the NYT has made amongst a slew of weird decisions

How Many New York Times Reporters Does It Take to Count to Six?www.splinter.com Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

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Every single time I've been online this past week, there's been some significant number of interactions that are just shitty & wearying & outright fucking hostile for no goddamn reason & I know we're scared, & I know things are terrible, but get your shit together, fix your hearts, & work on helping

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Also hurricanes

Recalling my days in Mobtown 1998-2003, this is pretty amazing.

And speaking of Baltimore, I'm sure my followers are waiting on pins and needles for my latest update on our astonishing fall in homicides. The wait is over! 😏

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are we allowed to observe that a meaningful proportion of the Biden Old pundit freakout is white men getting up in their feelings about aging and losing their virility?

Today it's important to remember Will Rogers was right.

Go fund me to build a Secondary Lead Smelter right next to the Alito compound.

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My number one writing tip is: DON'T keep going back to the beginning and fiddling with stuff and starting over. You are allowed to rewrite what you wrote the day before but touch NOTHING you wrote before that. I have met people who never finish anything because they keep starting over and over.

if u see this, quote-post with your tips for writers that no one gives anymore because they seem obvious (even though they're not)

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attn scholarly organizations, this is now considered best practice

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for bad ideas the light bulb should appear under my ass

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Our new paper on the impacts of stormwater control measures on urban runoff is out now! We found that storm intensity drives differences in the relative contribution of upstream areas and the effectiveness of SCMs. ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/...

Disconnect between Capture Areas and Stormwater Runoff: A Pre- and Postinstallation Model of Two Stormwater Control Measures | Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment | Vol 10, No 3ascelibrary.org AbstractOverland runoff was modeled before and after the installation of two stormwater control measures (SCMs) in a 23-ha urban catchment. The location of adjacent SCMs, a berm and bioswales, on the ...

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🚨 New publication 🚨 We present a method to remotely map headwater stream channel incision using repeat lidar. Provides detailed spatial info about channel stability across all streams in the watershed. Focuses on the Maryland Piedmont. Check it out, doi.org/10.1016/j.ge....

Make this into a tshirt. I'd buy it.

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busy busy fremen

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all the homies in the Easter candy aisle today

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Turn-ons include meeting cancellation notices.

my PBJ when it becomes uncrustable

Become unfuckable

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Imagine kissing a frog and it turns into a Prince. Like, great, now I gotta go find another sexy frog

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snapping into one of these with mfs stressing me out

Fuck these mopes.

A new arXiv preprint from James Zou suggests that quite a few academics are also using ChatGPT to write their peer reviews. I don't have to explain what an utter shitshow this is going to be, do I?

Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the...arxiv.org We present an approach for estimating the fraction of text in a large corpus which is likely to be substantially modified or produced by a large language model (LLM). Our maximum likelihood model...

The one fucking useful thing AI will do is demonstrate how broken peer review is and maybe, just maybe, incentivize actual review.

Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text. “In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “

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The hill I will die on is that this is not a digital problem. We don't send younger kids out to play by themselves anymore for fear of kidnapping/CPS, and those kids become teens who don't do it either. There's also a loss of third spaces for teens. Even the freaking malls require chaperones.

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Impossible to overstate how much male solidarity against women has stood in as the (often sole) compensation offered to men in exchange for their tolerance of deteriorating labor conditions.

Goddamn. My last year.

being an adult is so embarrassing. “guys I’ve been doing a good job sleeping lately.” Jesus christ.

@ajyancy.bsky.social if I had 800 dollars...

I'm putting a bunch of older work on sale for half price this weekend. I'll add to this thread. Info & prices in alt.

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god damn www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/o...

Evidently reading the rest of my thread about the Chevron case and it's implications, this is allegory.

All the grizzled old guys at the docks keep hissing and doing the sign of the cross at the mysterious crate we’re loading on my ship and saying stuff like “God be with you.” Probably fine

Goddamn it.

They literally have these listening devices planted wherever Black people live in NYC. Basically all of Brooklyn (where I now live), Harlem, all of the Bronx, Far Rockaway, and South Jamaica Queens (where I grew up). I've wanted to see this data for a long time.

It's really weird today as an alleged scientist reading all of the commentary on the $50k person and seeing that Frontiers mouse with the house balls every other post. I've noticed some of us haven't been weighing in on the $50k thing...