@dannyboy Missing the rain...so...not originally from #yeg, I take it? Where are you from originally?

Noam #Chomsky on an alternative to #Capitalism https://youtu.be/RUzquEya6Lw

@selenized 😭

"The corpus of Chuck Tingle’s collected works is a good choice to train our models on precisely because they so egregiously violate neutral text conventions, not only in terms of topics, but also narrative structure, word choice and good
taste."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.03557.pdf

/ht @macx

Wow, just stepped in to the Federated timeline for a second. It's as fast as ever.

I guess when your own home timeline is a little slow, you kind of expect everywhere else to be a bit slow, too.

PSA: the king of Thailand is threatening to sue Facebook to keep pictures of him in a crop top off the Internet: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/16/thailand-threatens-facebook-legal-action-videos-circulate-king/

Do not share pictures like this one: https://freeradical.zone/media/AdN2b_rSVp0zxMOQnXY

Bullshit. It still has wheels. For that price, I expect a board that actually hovers.

Now that cell phones are becoming more and more waterproof, pretty soon it will be okay to push people into pools again.

Recommendations for a good RSS reader? Feedly has been my go-to for a while, but some recent changes have me thinking about other options.

Re: MP3: As we all know, something is dead as soon as its original creator can no longer exclusively make money off it. This is why "Romeo and Juliet", "Peter Pan", and the collected works of David Bowie are no longer performed or played in any form. It's just facts.

@jay @captainnapalm *sigh*

@jay @captainnapalm Are you actually serious about Transformers? I've heard nothing about this latest one, but that sounds absurd enough to be plausible.

@selenized Also, one need only read the comments to realize that people of greatly differing views are reading the same news stories. That's why the comments sections for national newspapers, in particular, tend to be filled with flame wars.

@selenized This actually makes a fair amount of sense, despite conventional wisdom about echo chambers and such. We tend to have very small social circles of people who are like us in the offline world. The sheer number of people we "bump into" online means we're almost naturally going to find a greater diversity of people.

@captainnapalm @jay Jesus, another Transformers movie? (Pirates 5 is also ridiculous...I guess Johnny Depp wasn't content to just be outrageously rich and needed to move himself into the offensively rich tier.)

Bottom line: Poor usability and complexity are important reasons why free and open source software often doesn't get widely adopted. However, we shouldn't forget that proprietary programs such as MS Excel can have steep learning curves, too. People are just more used to them, and it's easier to get help. 3/

@selenized I'm imagining you sitting in your office with some bristol board, a gluestick, a stack of magazines and a pair of scissors -- but with your door open because you just don't give a shit if your boss sees.

@arjaybe Totally true.

The computers in the kids' section of the library include LibreOffice as part of the children's software suite. The ones for adults, near as I can tell, do not. Weird.