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when you've had it up to here with people deleting... the library

(this is a variation on a theme, similar to the techniques/models in "Compasses," but using a tweaked version of the model that allows for more interesting interpolations, plus I like the idea of doing the "every copy is unique" thing that I did for Art of Bots a few years back)

how long before media companies just go ahead and start charging subscription fees for one-time pay-per-view? "Want to watch X? Click here to subscribe to our Having-Watched-X service! Watch X and then keep on having watched it that one time for just $6.99/mo"

superbowl 

superbowl 

jrpg notes 

was only thinking about this because imo this hocket very strongly suggests in the opening bars that it is going to become a cover of the duck tales theme song mearaoreilly.bandcamp.com/trac (it does not become a cover of the duck tales theme song)

overthinking... the duck tales theme song 

overthinking... the duck tales theme song 

highly recommend instances looking to build community migrate to Hometown, which enables local-only posting.

github.com/hometown-fork/homet

(honestly closing tabs is an extremely productive undertaking for me, because that's when I actually triage articles for reading, take notes and copy quotes from things I have read, annotate and save jupyter notebooks, add cfps to my calendar, etc. so it's always time well spent)

star trek, video games 

On Scraping Mastodon:

If they hadn't misunderstood the difference between a name of a field and the social and cultural implications of it's usage, this paper wouldn't have been written.

https://medium.com/@maloki/on-scraping-mastodon-dffd83139bc1?source=friends_link&sk=b9f05757ded901310fedbef75d845cab

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tech world curmudgeonry 

trans, wages for transition 

... which for me calls to mind the way that computational representations of language (spoken, written or signed) often try to overwrite the multidimensional & embodied nature of language with one-dimensional abstractions that reduce all language to a list of symbols

(note that I really don't know the first thing about ASL, I'm just thinking & trying to educate myself out loud here)

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