Matt Zefferman

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Avatar, also fantasy and not subtle.

When I was in the Air Force, many of my troops were on SNAP.

I'm hoping Frozen 3 ends with Olaf being elected president of Arendelle.

I had a Mathnet badge and would buy one again.

My masters advisor wrote a paper where they failed to train chickens to push buttons to turn on a heater. Even after they defeathered them.

"The toppings contain potassium benzoate." Whenever getting ice cream.

Do you have a print if this available?

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By my departmental colleague.

This was the most played non-kid song on my playlist last year.

Canon

I once wrote a sentence that stated that the iterative development of weapons technology was akin to what evolutionary biologists call an "arms race."

But what about all your friends who are no longer single?

48 - 50 (not counting airports or drive-bys). I'm pretty sure I have not visited Tucson or Tulsa as an adult, but maybe as a kid. Disappointing that this does not include cities in Alaska or the entire upper half of the country between St Paul and Portland.

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We can use all that stuff at NPS.

Movie poster for Attack the Block (2011).

Movie poster for They Cloned Tyrone (2024).

Here are my two for the Double Feature.

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In non-lab fields, faculty typically help MA/PhD students develop solo projects that aren't part of the faculty member's research, and that the faculty won't be a coauthor on. Faculty in non-lab fields also typically increase their advising load post-tenure, limiting their own time for research. 2/

Similarly, Obra Dinn is one of the video games that gives me motion sickness. Otherwise, it seemed great!

Fair.

I watched the whole Frozen movie with my daughter, and not once does Elsa wear a dress with her own picture on it.

Have you played Outer Wilds or Blue Prince?

Guardian headline saying, "‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number Chatbot tries to change subject after serving up unrelated user’s mobile to man asking for rail firm helpline"

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?'

Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

It might be easier with another libertarian/authoritarian axis.

A) Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward.

We also just sorted that "princesses" are real, but "princesses with magical powers" are pretend.

In the four-year-old's process of sorting out "real" from "pretend," my favorite part is discovering the fantastical, yet very real, things that she insists are pretend.

This morning's examples are "the Taj Mahal" and "bats."

The world is full of wonders.

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