joellene 🌱

the empty land / terra nullius, the assumed lack of people, the resources to be extracted - and all for the purpose of competing against other settlers, w the land an inert bounty
its giving the british n the dutch fighting over southeast asia

played catan for the first time this week - how did no one warn me how settler colonial the game is???? frm the very beginning of “putting down settlements”…. it was giving boston pilgrims

me everytime i try to press the home tab on linkedin n hit some linkedin version of tiktok n it blasts out sound when im in the middle of the bullpen

Broligarchs don’t have to pretend to care about girl shit like breathable air anymore

What if we tried two steps forward and then an additional step also forward?

I am so tired of finding out when I was not the one who fucked around.

bluesky DMs feel like sending a msg by carrier pigeon. will u see it in a month's time? or maybe just...never? are u even alive? have u fled back to bad sites? i am declaring war with england

so open weights would be it’s visible that “has ears” is a key point in determining whether the model decides if the picture is a dog.
open source is when you know for sure the data that the model was trained on had dogs in it! because “has ears” could be a true for a cat too

not super technical so this could be wrong! but weights are like “decisions” but expressed numerically! in a rly simplistic eg: a weight could be “has ears” for a model trying to identify dogs, and that was reached by looking at a bunch of pictures and seeing what is or isnt a dog

The question before us now is, WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT? How can we build better relations between data, energy, resources, and communities? It's not just about running data centers on clean energy. It's about how ecological and social equity is distributed across these relations.

LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.

pasta is called 意大利面 (italian noodles) in China
I don't know what's the official name for ravioli but in this house we call it 意大利馄饨 (italian wonton)
gnocchi is 意大利面疙瘩

my impression of taiwan went ++++ after i had a coffee from a hole in the wall cafe run just by one guy. his stall was literally inset into the wall facing the street and he had one little table right outside. the logo was his face and he put a sticker of that on every cup of coffee

so i watched it and i take that back: it was not a cold take, wicked actly isnt very good

a very vey long pole

a selfie of the cease and desist

Artist makes website that lets you take selfies through NYC's network of traffic cameras. NYC Department of Transportation sends cease and desist. Artist nails cease and desist to a very very very long pole & holds it up to one of the cameras to take a photo of it

www.404media.co/traffic-cam-...

the comedic timing of this piece

am fine w that… tho i will not let go of my skepticism (esp abt casting ariana 🤨) till i watch it, tho idk if i ever will

granted i acknowledge that my skepticism abt wicked was partly me resenting the amt of marketing i saw + following sideways on twitter
n since it came out ik it was one of my coldest ever film takes

i shat on wicked last week (still hvnt watched it) to a coworker thats an arianator, and she came over to my desk today just to tell me that she watched and that its amazing and i should watch it

bed!

*taps the meme*

What I need is to get in the car and drive south until I hit 80F!

managed get this! it refers to him as David Matthew de Rothschild tho. it’s clearly David Mayer, the birth date and description match wikipedia, but i cant find anything via google about “david matthew”

it wd b suck for one of these cool people to see me comment on their post, then swipe over to my profile and see sth like “consultant” 🤮

i follow so many academics/profs on here that i felt compelled to put my sch + majors in my bio even tho i graduated frm cal in may + am working a corporate job now

It's been interesting to witness in real-time how the usage of "algorithm" in many places has shifted from a neutral "sequence of instructions" to a negative "controlled ordering and boosting of information".

ty for the recc! just happened to have time after dinner and this just carried me on a whole journey

hard to breathe after this one

ways Rogue One is a Thanksgiving movie:

- that moment when Cassian says "welcome home" to Jyn
- movie inevitably leads to arguments about data storage formats (classic Thanksgiving fare)
- that one problematic mocap relative (dead Peter Cushing)
- Alan Tudyk