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Mocha (she/her)
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Electrical Engineer, mother of kittens (including the human one), & nerd. T1D & other medical cooties.
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And so checked out Google Scholar. Now on my profile it doesn't appear, but somwhow on Nelli's it does and ... and ... omg, IT'S BEEN CITED 42 TIMES almost exlusively in papers about AI in education from this year alone... scholar.google.com.vn/citations?vi...
scholar.google.com.vn
December 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Absolute bullshit, and authors, if Harlequin has your foreign rights, you should also complain.
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.

All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.

Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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horrible thing to say and not a good sign as disabled people are still fighting for marriage equality
Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”
December 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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If you are a renter and your home has smoke/fire/etc damage from the LA fires and your landlord hasn’t addressed it you need to file a remediation complaint w/county by 12/31! The cool cats at the Altadena Tenants Union have more info and a template you can use, it’s super easy. (In Spanish also.)
🚨 Has your landlord remediated?
Get your remediation complaints filed by 12/31!
link.mail.beehiiv.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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December 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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As a Purdue alum, this is a shameful move. What I valued about my Purdue CS education was the intentionality given to thinking about process, how to treat programming as a set of idioms to be thoroughly understood and implemented, no matter the programming language. >>
It’s been fun while it lasted: “Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students demonstrate basic competency in artificial intelligence starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.”

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads
Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students meet an AI competency requirement starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.
www.forbes.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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With alt text
December 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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This is the PR strategy fb and google have played us (and our elected officials) with since the turn of the century. And it’s worked really well for them and their shareholders. Especially Zuckerberg. Altman is now following the same playbook.
We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Well we have corollary:
December 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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this is a good excuse to post my all time favorite Star Trek meme
December 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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follow your dreams 😌
#art #comic
December 1, 2025 at 4:13 AM
#DOC #T1D - recall on Libre 3 CGM sensors.
There's an urgent recall on a subset of FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus — they show FALSE LOW GLUCOSE READINGS.

The website to check the serial number of your sensors is

www.freestylecheck.com/us-en/home.h...
Home | FreeStyle - Abbott
www.freestylecheck.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I don't recall where I found this, but I'd say this looks about right.
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Picard engineering tip: Use the metric system.
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Thank you for justifying my reckless book spending
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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It's flu SZN, people
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore

I feel like we need this
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"
"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
Nearly Half of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season, GLAAD Study Finds
The 2024-25 TV season recorded 489 queer characters across broadcast, cable and screenings, but cancellations and plot find a deep decline to come
www.thewrap.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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they protec but they also attac 🔪
#art
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM