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matthew @pahuski.com · 12d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Sep 6

telling my kids this was waymo

A photo of a dog, maybe a Shiba Inu, sitting in the driver's seat of a car so that it looks like he is driving

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Aug 20

v tru

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jul 12

tbh I think I mean popular and also more literally disruptive - I think the resulting social dynamics could be chaotic/unpredictable and will cause a lot of change

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jul 12

here's a shower thought that might make people mad:

AI boyfriends are going to be way more disruptive than AI girlfriends, because the average man is already used to way more self-sacrifice, subservience, and dare I say ... sycophancy ... from a partner than the average woman

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jul 10

humans could learn a lot from how dogs jump up and down and run around in a lil circle when they're happy, just saying

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jul 8

wondering today if the current rise of the online "critical internet researcher" (I support them) is a product of the first truly social media literate generation with useless graduate degrees now being out of the academy

celebrity wearing a pink crop top that has been edited to say "They don't build statues of internet researchers"

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jul 6

consider the word "phlegm". why

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jul 6

wow maybe we should use this? if you ask English learners, they often complain about the utterly unhinged mapping of spelling to pronunciation. legitimately it makes the language a lot harder

also this can be read already by a fluent English speaker without any trouble and looks based?

Daniel Temkin @dtemkin.bsky.social · Jul 6

This is totally readable and should replace English spelling imo www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell

Decades ago, a generation of UK schoolchildren unwittingly took part in an initiative aimed at boosting reading skills – with lasting consequences

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jun 26

considered going and submitting my work to Neurips, but as a non-student non-academic apparently I'm in the highest ticket price category

why bother having an arts track at all, if the only non-academic ticket is the highest-price industry one?

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jun 23

agree, I'm planning an intro to coding for curators and one of the units is on vibe coding. It's a little disingenuous to teach programming and pretend these tools don't exist

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jun 20

in this household Lain is famous

Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jun 20

feel so vindicated about James K covering Duvet, after going around saying she sounds like bôa for years to mass confusion

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jun 20

feel so vindicated about James K covering Duvet, after going around saying she sounds like bôa for years to mass confusion

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jun 15

ladies, is it a red flag if your bf is mean to Chat?

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jun 15

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jun 12

sad to say journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jun 11

too nationalist for me unfo

Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jun 11

remind me to start tweeting about EU politics more so random drive-by Americans have more clues I'm not from there

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jun 11

I think 90 days is still better than nothing

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jun 10

I lied and told my doctor I need a higher dose a few months ago fwiw, not saying this will work for everything/everyone but it's one strategy

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jun 10

I know there are a lot more urgent things going on in this world, but if you depend on any daily medications you should be securing a 6-8 month supply of them like, yesterday

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jun 9

breaking news: no more
"interspecies communication"
"the more-than-human"
"multispecies thinking" etc
if I can't bring my dog to your event

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jun 8

if you run an art organization please for the love of god have an email list, instagram *cannot* be replied upon to show me your content unless you are also putting on makeup to trending audio

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Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · Jun 5

residencies are cute, but tbh I'm also tired of the endless onslaught of artist opportunities that require moving house for months. idk why people think strong creative work is aligned with rootlessness

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · Jun 1

the position consistent with aaron swartz's published writings is quite clearly "training is fair use but we should do guerrilla open access on closed model weights". this seems likely to upset every major faction but i don't think it's incorrect

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