Yvonne Lam
@yvonnezlam.bsky.social
I play with books, cats, food, yarn, and dirt, not all at the same time. Software engineer. Society of People Interested in Boring Things. She/her, cis.
Disgusted to report that I felt better after drinking water.
December 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Disgusted to report that I felt better after drinking water.
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some neat stuff here, including one of my faves from this year, Diversity of Aesthetics
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December 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
some neat stuff here, including one of my faves from this year, Diversity of Aesthetics
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RIP Christine Choy, director of "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" A movie that could have taken place in the auto factory in my (Japan-bashing-era) town, later the site of the largest sexual harassment settlement in US history, at the time (1989)...here, a recent discussion at Indiana U...
Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987) Q&A with Christine Choy | IU Cinema | Apr. 24, 2024
YouTube video by IUCinema
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December 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
RIP Christine Choy, director of "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" A movie that could have taken place in the auto factory in my (Japan-bashing-era) town, later the site of the largest sexual harassment settlement in US history, at the time (1989)...here, a recent discussion at Indiana U...
"Am I saying that every machine learning course has to have a few weeks on science studies? Yes I am."
In machine learning, it is impossible to disentangle technical innovation from technical debt.
Benchmark Studies
It is impossible to disentangle technical innovation from technical debt
www.argmin.net
December 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"Am I saying that every machine learning course has to have a few weeks on science studies? Yes I am."
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This month is full of things that need doing, or money, or attention, or emotional capacity. I want to hide in a warm cosy space like a hibernating worm and NOT COME OUT.
December 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This month is full of things that need doing, or money, or attention, or emotional capacity. I want to hide in a warm cosy space like a hibernating worm and NOT COME OUT.
Hard same.
I'm focused, but not on what I need to get done today 🙃
December 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Hard same.
What we're seeing is what a certain group of (unfortunately rich and powerful) people think work is. And it is not rising to the level of Richard Scarry or Playmobil.
I just feel like all the AI bros including the folks in media touting it are like sitting in coked up c suites thinking they look like leo dicaprio as some kind of wolf of j street and not realizing the key feature of that story is that he was a scam artist who eventually got caught and went to jail
December 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
What we're seeing is what a certain group of (unfortunately rich and powerful) people think work is. And it is not rising to the level of Richard Scarry or Playmobil.
I have worse gouges on my hands from sculling with the wrong-sized oars.
wait, can we take a moment to look at the purported injury to USBP Agent 1's leg lmao
December 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have worse gouges on my hands from sculling with the wrong-sized oars.
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To anyone facing this, I would ask: what are you and your organization going to do about it?
If the answer isn't "disaffiliate with the national org and/or allow everyone to continue to participate" you are part of the problem.
If the answer isn't "disaffiliate with the national org and/or allow everyone to continue to participate" you are part of the problem.
December 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
To anyone facing this, I would ask: what are you and your organization going to do about it?
If the answer isn't "disaffiliate with the national org and/or allow everyone to continue to participate" you are part of the problem.
If the answer isn't "disaffiliate with the national org and/or allow everyone to continue to participate" you are part of the problem.
icymi @amndw2.bsky.social
Seriously, I’ll shop here if I ever find myself the Earl of someplace.
…who am I kidding, I’d still be yelling “Dry clean only?! For that price, it oughta climb in the washing machine and clean itself!”
newandlingwood.com/collections/...
…who am I kidding, I’d still be yelling “Dry clean only?! For that price, it oughta climb in the washing machine and clean itself!”
newandlingwood.com/collections/...
Mennagio Lined Velvet Dressing Gown
A lined dressing gown featuring a patchwork tapestry pattern with prominent reds and burgundies, printed on velvet. Handmade in England. Finished with contrasting quilted velvet cuffs and lapels.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
icymi @amndw2.bsky.social
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"I dunno about this, Tom."
"You don't get to call me 'Tom.' You don't know me well enough to call me 'Tom.' I'm 'St. Thomas Aquinas' or 'sir' to you."
"I'm sorry... sir, I've just never--"
"Always a first time, son. Now strap up, shut up, and let's fucking DRIVE."
LOCK, STOCK, & TWO SMOKING RELICS
"You don't get to call me 'Tom.' You don't know me well enough to call me 'Tom.' I'm 'St. Thomas Aquinas' or 'sir' to you."
"I'm sorry... sir, I've just never--"
"Always a first time, son. Now strap up, shut up, and let's fucking DRIVE."
LOCK, STOCK, & TWO SMOKING RELICS
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
"I dunno about this, Tom."
"You don't get to call me 'Tom.' You don't know me well enough to call me 'Tom.' I'm 'St. Thomas Aquinas' or 'sir' to you."
"I'm sorry... sir, I've just never--"
"Always a first time, son. Now strap up, shut up, and let's fucking DRIVE."
LOCK, STOCK, & TWO SMOKING RELICS
"You don't get to call me 'Tom.' You don't know me well enough to call me 'Tom.' I'm 'St. Thomas Aquinas' or 'sir' to you."
"I'm sorry... sir, I've just never--"
"Always a first time, son. Now strap up, shut up, and let's fucking DRIVE."
LOCK, STOCK, & TWO SMOKING RELICS
It suddenly occurred to me that we are all "no one else can do the work for you!" about bodies (thinking about diet and exercise and how we are about accommodations for different abilities) but for some reason when it comes to brains, we are fine with outsourcing to others.
“Knowledge is worth your time because of how it <<shapes your mind.>> And the authoritarians may take many things from us, but they cannot take our minds (unless you let them)”
"The thing is, even if you're just thinking in terms of fiscal value, having gone through a degree program and being able to put it on your resumé/CV isn't the most significant return on your investment: the way you have further developed your mind is."
December 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
It suddenly occurred to me that we are all "no one else can do the work for you!" about bodies (thinking about diet and exercise and how we are about accommodations for different abilities) but for some reason when it comes to brains, we are fine with outsourcing to others.
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"But design isn't magic. To address a wicked problem is to look for its roots - and there's no hexagon map for getting there".
Annual repost of @maggiegram.bsky.social on "design thinking"
Annual repost of @maggiegram.bsky.social on "design thinking"
December 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
"But design isn't magic. To address a wicked problem is to look for its roots - and there's no hexagon map for getting there".
Annual repost of @maggiegram.bsky.social on "design thinking"
Annual repost of @maggiegram.bsky.social on "design thinking"
Fellow rowers, US Rowing has recently changed their competition categories so that "women" = "AFAB".
Yeah white womens entitlement to superiority is a foundational part of fascism
10 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Women's #1 in tennis Aryna Sabalenka comes out against trans women: "they still have a huge advantage over the women and I think it’s not fair on women to face basically biological men.” She is to play an older men's pro in Dec 28 Battle of the Sexes.
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Fellow rowers, US Rowing has recently changed their competition categories so that "women" = "AFAB".
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This must be seen
December 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This must be seen
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there is a tendency in mainstream left-leaning circles to take an attitude of “I guess, if we have to” toward protecting queer people they find icky or embarrassing, without questioning whether maybe the people who are attacking the status quo at the root might have some valuable understanding
December 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
there is a tendency in mainstream left-leaning circles to take an attitude of “I guess, if we have to” toward protecting queer people they find icky or embarrassing, without questioning whether maybe the people who are attacking the status quo at the root might have some valuable understanding
Saving "real progress is expensive" for future use.
Ding ding ding. It's not that AI is a distraction, rather it's the instrument through which class war can proceed. If you are reading this, you are too expensive for the purposes of this quarter's p&l statement but your layoff may juice the stock. Free money is done. Real progress is expensive.
Same for lawyers, some medial specialities, marketing etc - fields previously thought too specialized. I don’t think they believe the tech is good enough to replace these workers. They believe it no longer matters to making a profit. And they are kind of right in the short term.
December 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Saving "real progress is expensive" for future use.
I've decided this has something to do with the Gilded Age.
I just saw a billboard in the airport for “Vanderbilt! New York’s SEC team”. I don’t know what anything means anymore.
December 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I've decided this has something to do with the Gilded Age.
Tech conferences too
yeah so academic conferences need to have virtual options
December 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Tech conferences too
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The "take an art, leave an art" box in my neighborhood is one of my favorite things. It was out of commission for a few weeks but is back now with a little light to make it an evening gallery. #DHmakes
December 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The "take an art, leave an art" box in my neighborhood is one of my favorite things. It was out of commission for a few weeks but is back now with a little light to make it an evening gallery. #DHmakes
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
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Something notable in our society is how it treats the most dependent and necessary members of the society (mothers and children) the worst, while lionizing all those who prey on others for being so independent. They will treat an entire society made dependent on AI worse than we can imagine.
No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Something notable in our society is how it treats the most dependent and necessary members of the society (mothers and children) the worst, while lionizing all those who prey on others for being so independent. They will treat an entire society made dependent on AI worse than we can imagine.
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The queue to the food bank near my home is way too long. If you can, please donate. $1 = 2 meals. support.foodbankvictoria.org.au/3aw-feeds-vi...
3AW Feeds Victoria
Did you know that 69,000 Victorians rely on Foodbank for food every day?
Yep, Foodbank really needs help. That’s why I’m getting my wings on to raise funds for the purchase of fresh food and groceri...
support.foodbankvictoria.org.au
December 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The queue to the food bank near my home is way too long. If you can, please donate. $1 = 2 meals. support.foodbankvictoria.org.au/3aw-feeds-vi...