@laskin

erstwhile academic, present wordcel at large: all of my opinions belong to you. international editorial @thenewtabio and social media @thebell_io

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Joined August 2008
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emily l@laskinJun 9
You know when everyone was like "I trained my agent to speak caveman to save tokens" and I was like "wow wait'll they hear about using terse, precise words to prompt computers"? Really missed my chance to tweet "tech bros discover computer programming". Damn.
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THANK YOU NATHAN FIELDER, AUTISTIC HERO, FOR MAKING PEOPLE TALK ABOUT HOW TO KNOW WHAT TEXTS MEAN omfg
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I was thinking about songs I’ve played on repeat and whether any are consequential: Nine Inch Nails “The Wretched” while doing calc homework in high school, and when I got stuck I’d scream “It didn’t turn out the way you want it, did it? NO!!!”
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I did later drop out of engineering school haha
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When I was writing the application for a fancy pants dissertation grant that I won, and that is probably my most impressive academic achievement, I listened to “Sister Christian” ~150 times
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okay what about this
chris oldman ©@AlsikkanTVOct 24
you’ve seen nathan fielder but have you seen a field of nathans
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@ratlimit
@ratlimitOct 25
A few bowhead whales born around 1815 might still be alive. They were in their 30s when they first saw a commercial whaling ship; in their 60s when they first heard a propellor; over 100 the first time they heard sonar. I wonder if they remember the silent ocean.
yoshimi battles dracula@nise_yoshimiOct 24
the reason moby-dick remains such a vital piece of human art is that it addresses what is probably one of humanity's greatest collective atrocities, the genocide of the whales, with an ambivalence it cannot itself fully articulate. melville is distraught, but he can't explain why
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I really succeeded in making a snarky Claude (which thinks I'm perfect btw) 💅
Myk is Walking Backwards
@mykolaOct 24
I asked Claude what the stupidest thing I ever asked was. (Guess whose idea the ledger was, though.)
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It's pretty wrong about how to make a viral tweet tho
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the chief of ops for the Bay of Pigs was named Dick Drain
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I think this is more true than people give it credit for. I actually work adjacent to the field I did my PhD in, which was basically random chance, but I lean far more heavily on ability to decompose a problem and scaffold a solution than on knowledge about Russia.
sasha
@llallawgOct 24
If you properly did your PhD you’re prepared for any job, because you learned how to learn and research on your own
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The latest crop of tech thinkers — who, tbc, I believe are very smart and learned in their fields — just absolutely face planting over known-definable terms like “meaning,” “narrative,” and “consciousness” is actually an incredibly good argument for liberal arts educations.
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Now as for the definition of “language,” uh, you might want to sit down
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The response to this is the maddest I’ve ever seen Twitter leftists get about Trump. Damn, I should’ve tweeted this BEFORE the election.
Natalie Wynn
@ContraPointsOct 23
I thought Trump 2 was gonna be way worse. Every day now I wake up with a euphoric sense of relief
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anomali@Anomali210830Oct 24
Happy Pythagorean Theorem Day! 10/24/26 10² + 24² = 26² This is the last one we’ll experience in our lifetime.
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Take that level of abstraction mothafuckas
emily l@laskinOct 24
I've ascended to a new level of claude telling me to go to bed: I ran the skill where it reads my trash pile of notes from this week and writes me a to-do list for the next one, and the first item was "rest"
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I've ascended to a new level of claude telling me to go to bed: I ran the skill where it reads my trash pile of notes from this week and writes me a to-do list for the next one, and the first item was "rest"
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The most unhinged page in all of my toddler’s books
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I find it kind of charming when people in the shape rotator professions are like "omg everything that makes our entire world run is made of twigs and vapor!!" My good sirs, the humanities would like a word.
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And for once I don't mean because the academic humanities died. I mean like literally that's just how the entire world and every idea that creates material reality, and every material reality that creates collective ideas, actually is.
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feels like there's kind of an elephant in the room with this map but I can't quite put my finger on it
MagellanQuest 🇪🇺/acc
@MagellanQuestOct 22
What if russia occupied 20% of your country?
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