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Two talks in Montreal: in English, on April 8th: a history of making using describing and making accessible electronic circuit diagrams sis / mcgill, 3465 Durocher, rm 223 1230pm in french, le 22 avril La saqueboute electronique de hugh le caine: inventions et imagination 1945-2026 17-19h, ecole des medias salle a determiner

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one of those days where i remember that there is technology that i am excited about and that technology is sodium batteries

immediate install

every time i have been at my most disinterested in what others think i have also been at my stupidest

To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed (this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature) it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what thinking and feeling about her hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

it is fascinating to me that this bot has less than 1k followers here but nearly 6k on mastodon

if I could go back in time and change one thing about grad school,

it would be to never never ever talk to a historian of science or #STS person. It was *fun* and they are *right* about everything and it has made my life *fucking impossible*

No cheating. Your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist.

oh yeah that is a gorgeous piece of gamemaking

everything @shing.bsky.social makes is wonderful

JANUARY A postcard writing game for two people, set in a kaiju-filled alternate history, about distant but persistent friendships.

JANUARY is a postcard-writing game about two artists living ordinary lives over five decades, in a world besieged by giant kaiju.

By Indiecade-winning, Ennie-nommed game designer and artist Shing Yin Khor, in collaboration w/ illustrator Jared Andrew Schorr.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan.

(thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)

so genuinely proud of the folks in this city who kept showing up to make nuisances of themselves

write all your proposals in the most rigid academ-ese you can muster, deliver all your talks like a drunken sailor

label on a pitcher ash tree dubbing it Dominant Mutant

noticing new things on a campus I've been involved with for nearly a quarter century is fun, especially when they are this thing

stars know i love weird theory for lunch

HELLO i have a new! article! about the Gay Girl in Damascus hoax, why journalism is vulnerable to this type of hoax, and offering "civic fiction" as a new critical term to help us think through things that look real but arent true. find an uncorrected preprint here!

oddletters.com/files/2026/0...

excitement is for things like ice cream and cute dogs.

i don't get excited about technology i get mildly less skeptical

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

absolutely

omg

should i make myself sad today by showing this to a bunch of people and seeing how many of them know what's wrong with the picture?

oh... oh no

i think it has to be you, now

SaaS (Self as a Service)

there's nothing concrete here, just a feeling and an irritation and a demand that you grant me right of refusal in your project, you utter fascists