Sarah
@sempiternalsap.bsky.social
data scientist, hiker, bird lover
(she/they)
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post-cold scratchy voice got me the full tranny treatment at the dentist 🙄
December 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
post-cold scratchy voice got me the full tranny treatment at the dentist 🙄
this position is a fascist one actually
“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
this position is a fascist one actually
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could slurp juice be part of the solution here?
It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future
It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future
Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worse
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:30 AM
could slurp juice be part of the solution here?
quite spooky that DIY estrogen headlines and internet nanny law drafts are happening at the same time
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 AM
quite spooky that DIY estrogen headlines and internet nanny law drafts are happening at the same time
my razer naga trinity mouse is finally too annoying to keep (double clicking on the middle mouse button and such). rip
December 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
my razer naga trinity mouse is finally too annoying to keep (double clicking on the middle mouse button and such). rip
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It’s simple. 60% the values need to stay exactly where they are or it will explode after 3 steps, 30% have problem specific ranges you tune by hand, and 20% need to be changed to something found in appendix Tau of a paper with 3 citations from 2014.
December 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
It’s simple. 60% the values need to stay exactly where they are or it will explode after 3 steps, 30% have problem specific ranges you tune by hand, and 20% need to be changed to something found in appendix Tau of a paper with 3 citations from 2014.
what's the dumbest thing you sing in the shower? lately I've just been repeating sql table names and medical conditions (🎶 DRGReview.Opportunities for metabolic encephalopathy 🎶)
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
what's the dumbest thing you sing in the shower? lately I've just been repeating sql table names and medical conditions (🎶 DRGReview.Opportunities for metabolic encephalopathy 🎶)
if there's one thing coworkers love it's having 16GB of VS Code tabs and jupyter notebooks open
December 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
if there's one thing coworkers love it's having 16GB of VS Code tabs and jupyter notebooks open
do you ever think about how twitter user theepicdept is still out there somewhere sliding into women's DMs...
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
do you ever think about how twitter user theepicdept is still out there somewhere sliding into women's DMs...
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I think one of the biggest issues with how much is happening and how fast its happening is that there are so many small things flying under the radar which are just as bleak for the future, like the bizarre normalisation of prediction markets
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I think one of the biggest issues with how much is happening and how fast its happening is that there are so many small things flying under the radar which are just as bleak for the future, like the bizarre normalisation of prediction markets
not news or anything but man this new harry potter audiobook cast is disappointing
December 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
not news or anything but man this new harry potter audiobook cast is disappointing
"professional development" goal setting is sooo much less annoying when you're not an hourly employee who only gets paid for client billable hours
December 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"professional development" goal setting is sooo much less annoying when you're not an hourly employee who only gets paid for client billable hours
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"the optimal level of fraud is not zero" is, I think, really the answer here. it's not also politically correct to say since Americans hate any kind of cheating, no matter how minor it is
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"the optimal level of fraud is not zero" is, I think, really the answer here. it's not also politically correct to say since Americans hate any kind of cheating, no matter how minor it is
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it really is just kind of funny how bad romantasy has its roots in harry potter culture. one conservative industry plant author annihilated modern english popular literary culture forever and turned it ontologically into american fast food
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
it really is just kind of funny how bad romantasy has its roots in harry potter culture. one conservative industry plant author annihilated modern english popular literary culture forever and turned it ontologically into american fast food
not the main point but the tackiness of everything visible in their webcams..
I didn't realize that the pro-eugenics natalist couple that was inexplicably profiled by several major outlets for having a lot of kids through IVF started a podcast. Here's an unlistenable episode where they try and argue that Hitler was a hipster and not "right wing."
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
not the main point but the tackiness of everything visible in their webcams..
sure was nice of my landlord to let me know about maintenance 20 minutes before they showed up 😀👍
December 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
sure was nice of my landlord to let me know about maintenance 20 minutes before they showed up 😀👍
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snuffbait follicles
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
snuffbait follicles
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The man who inspired Australia's teen social media ban literally did this:
December 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The man who inspired Australia's teen social media ban literally did this:
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fuck it, for the people in the back:
the jeff bezos owned washington post is the outlet responsible for making sure the primary complaint about AI was water. this may have been in part because jeff knew it was bullshit, so when amzn gets blowback they can easily prove their water footprint is small
the jeff bezos owned washington post is the outlet responsible for making sure the primary complaint about AI was water. this may have been in part because jeff knew it was bullshit, so when amzn gets blowback they can easily prove their water footprint is small
not to be conspiratorial but the outlet that successfully pushed this line and made it the primary complaint was wapo
December 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
fuck it, for the people in the back:
the jeff bezos owned washington post is the outlet responsible for making sure the primary complaint about AI was water. this may have been in part because jeff knew it was bullshit, so when amzn gets blowback they can easily prove their water footprint is small
the jeff bezos owned washington post is the outlet responsible for making sure the primary complaint about AI was water. this may have been in part because jeff knew it was bullshit, so when amzn gets blowback they can easily prove their water footprint is small
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It sucks that professors will have to AI-proof their courses in order to preserve the value of education, but man, someone has to. At this point, it would be nice to see governments actually try to make protecting education easier
Yes, in my classes I've shifted a lot to in-class writing (critical analyses, tests). The one 'take home' assignment I kept is the traditional research paper, but with added elements (including documenting step-by-step how research sources were found) to try to mitigate AI use.
My presumption has been this will all mean a shift to doing everything live (no take home). Is that happening? Impossible?
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
It sucks that professors will have to AI-proof their courses in order to preserve the value of education, but man, someone has to. At this point, it would be nice to see governments actually try to make protecting education easier
*graduate student but otherwise THIS
There is a well coordinated national campaign targeting a single trans professor at Oklahoma University to get her fired. It's part of a broader campaign to push trans people out of public life entirely. It was never about sports.
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
*graduate student but otherwise THIS
not victim blaming BUT if you are a trans person and find yourself grading a blatantly transphobic essay submission it's in your best interest to grade under a rubric as objective as possible. may not save you! but it also might!
December 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
not victim blaming BUT if you are a trans person and find yourself grading a blatantly transphobic essay submission it's in your best interest to grade under a rubric as objective as possible. may not save you! but it also might!
full stealth trans woman who boymodes to commit crimes
November 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
full stealth trans woman who boymodes to commit crimes
the financial times should let you block specific authors because everything this guy writes makes me mad
November 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
the financial times should let you block specific authors because everything this guy writes makes me mad
krakens time babyyy
November 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
krakens time babyyy