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A post by Rebecca Johnson: “I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.” A tumblr respond from mightymur: “The final, brilliant word on passive voice. "She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive "Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

it requires synchronous communication but at the same time cuts out all the multimodal aspects while giving you just enough to really notice their absence. At least text is obviously impoverished (and asynch is possible)

phone calls are the uncanny valley of comms and not even practical

hatred of phone calls, no competition. We will accept Whatsapp/Signal as well as Teams/Zoom calls before we will even consider the phone.

Amusingly, Godzilla is also the original name of Gojira (the band).

I wonder if unlocking that kind of higher level metacognition would be a power or a curse 😁

Ben tu vois, quand un éclair et un pain au chocolat s'aiment fortement..... 😁

Me too! Especially now that I seem to be living in Luxembourg again 😁

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Sadly, it feels like more people than you’d hope can still learn from this. 😉https://www.smbc-comics.com

Yeah, there is definitely skill involved. Also making sure you don't turn the yolks into scrambled eggs because you didn't pay attention to the heat, etc. I still think it qualifies as a quick comfort-food-level dish though 😉

Carbonara is great for teaching Mise en Place 101. There's really not a lot to prep, and it's not hard, but the difference between doing it and not doing it is the difference between a smooth 10 mins in the kitchen and overdone pasta congealing while you pick grated finger bits out of the cheese.

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There's also this spoof of 9-11 conspiracy theory vids in case you still think Luke and Leia are the good guys in Star Wars 😁
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B47M...

Unused Audio Commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002 for The Fellowship Of The Ring (Platinum Series Extended Edition) DVD, Part One CHOMSKY: The film opens with Galadriel speaking. “The world has changed,” she tells us, “I can feel it in the water.” She’s actually stealing a lin...

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/unu...

I’d say that depends on the faculty 😁

I still have a pic from the blue drinks evening that miraculously survived a dozen mobile phone changes since then. Those were the times.

Well, I probably wouldn’t make her chocolate guinness cake in a Glastonbury campsite tent 😁

the trick is to realise they’re not mutually exclusive 😉

Image of the Microsoft Error Reporting tool being auto-added to the macos dock.

Heh, apparently MS stuff has crashed enough times for macOS to think it appropriate to auto-add the error reporting tool to my dock 😂

I have difficulties accepting this hypothetical because it feels like accepting that a thought would have an agreed-upon look seems to go against the definition of thought. Seems like this is creating an analogy or metaphor, not literally defining a look.

as opposed to questions like “can something look like a thought?”

It’s a concept with a relatively clear agreed-upon definition in terms of concrete components, so you can assess the degree to which something matches that definition?

I have no solutions, but I saw this floating around on BSky not too long ago and it seems appropriate bsky.app/profile/stux...

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Since you all need more animals in your timeline, meet Smokey and Sparkles 😉

Not sure that has a meaningful answer though.

I understood it as being an assumption that people are either more likely to want or more likely to not want, and the puzzle being figuring out which one it is from the answers given.

(It's clear that "want AND not-want" is the most likely state, but the Q is how much of that is e.g. "want")

That brings back memories 😊

Yay! Congrats and well deserved! 😊

This is high art

Ah man what a missed opportunity to impose a NaN tariff! Or Inf, automated trading algos would have loved that.

Using a random number generator for tariffs makes conceptually more sense than this and you could at least keep some sanity by defining a not-batshit-crazy range to sample from.

Just sad that there is no country they import from but not export to. Would have loved to see the divide by zero.

I’m literally trying and failing to come up with something that would make less sense than what they are actually doing.

This is absolutely wild. Everyone knows you need to normalise by population size before converting trade deficits to tariffs.