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I will one day write my magnum opus 'Lanyard: the modern yoke'
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Lekta - language puzzle by pandateam
A language puzzle game
pandateam.itch.io
Should anyone have time to try something new, I made this language puzzle game:
pandateam.itch.io/lekta
(Sort of based on puzzles in the Oxford university MLAT, but with fire and bears)
#gamedev #gamemaker
pandateam.itch.io/lekta
(Sort of based on puzzles in the Oxford university MLAT, but with fire and bears)
#gamedev #gamemaker
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
Today's Three bean salad episode on the new Avatar film is great
The depth of their contempt is very enjoyable
The depth of their contempt is very enjoyable
December 31, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Today's Three bean salad episode on the new Avatar film is great
The depth of their contempt is very enjoyable
The depth of their contempt is very enjoyable
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I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
In 2025, AI became pervasive in American life and the economy, with ChatGPT surging in adoption much faster than any other major technology in memory. @nytopinion.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
Another great example of academic arguing that students are really not their responsibility and it's pretty outrageous of them to expect engagement from someone who'll never bother learning their names anyway
December 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Another great example of academic arguing that students are really not their responsibility and it's pretty outrageous of them to expect engagement from someone who'll never bother learning their names anyway
My niece's most used construction is 'what bout me?' (she's the youngest of two) & it was such good evidence for slots-and-frames over Xmas, turning into 'what bout dat?' with pointing to a game and so on
December 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
My niece's most used construction is 'what bout me?' (she's the youngest of two) & it was such good evidence for slots-and-frames over Xmas, turning into 'what bout dat?' with pointing to a game and so on
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🧵1/12: Russia’s economy hasn’t collapsed, but it is suffering immensely. It still runs, but only because the central bank keeps it alive with constant REPO liquidity. What was once emergency support is now the daily operating system.
📷: @evgen-istrebin.bsky.social
📷: @evgen-istrebin.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
🧵1/12: Russia’s economy hasn’t collapsed, but it is suffering immensely. It still runs, but only because the central bank keeps it alive with constant REPO liquidity. What was once emergency support is now the daily operating system.
📷: @evgen-istrebin.bsky.social
📷: @evgen-istrebin.bsky.social
I find this mentality so entitled & strange:
December 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I find this mentality so entitled & strange:
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you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you
December 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you
In class this week looked at a text on use of the word 'clanker' as a kind of new slur, which is peculiar and interesting in terms of language change
December 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
In class this week looked at a text on use of the word 'clanker' as a kind of new slur, which is peculiar and interesting in terms of language change
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These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
People make light of flibbertigibbets but when you think of how many flibberts met their end that way it's a sobering thought 🤔
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
People make light of flibbertigibbets but when you think of how many flibberts met their end that way it's a sobering thought 🤔
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Remembered with a start when I was following an auction online, shifted in my seat, steadied my laptop as it was beginning to slide, inadvertently clicked on the trackpad, and for a few brief but seemingly interminable moments, was the highest bidder — at £15,000 — on a Jack Vettriano print.
December 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Remembered with a start when I was following an auction online, shifted in my seat, steadied my laptop as it was beginning to slide, inadvertently clicked on the trackpad, and for a few brief but seemingly interminable moments, was the highest bidder — at £15,000 — on a Jack Vettriano print.
One of my students this wk said she had a private tutor who wd provide very detailed notes on things that'd only just come up in their conversation - & then she realised tutor was just using chtgpt :/
Outrageous behaviour!
Outrageous behaviour!
December 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
One of my students this wk said she had a private tutor who wd provide very detailed notes on things that'd only just come up in their conversation - & then she realised tutor was just using chtgpt :/
Outrageous behaviour!
Outrageous behaviour!
Given the Oliver Sacks (& Gino & Rosenhan & the Stanford p experiment & Ariely......) news I don't know how ppl teach psychology without embarrassment
December 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Given the Oliver Sacks (& Gino & Rosenhan & the Stanford p experiment & Ariely......) news I don't know how ppl teach psychology without embarrassment
About a month ago a Gamemaker update made running literally anything in test environment crash my computer (I tried a room with one single button and mouseovering it crashed my computer)
Then today, update made everything work fine again :)
Then today, update made everything work fine again :)
December 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
About a month ago a Gamemaker update made running literally anything in test environment crash my computer (I tried a room with one single button and mouseovering it crashed my computer)
Then today, update made everything work fine again :)
Then today, update made everything work fine again :)
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SCOOP
I spoke to the leader of a doxing-for-hire group who showed me how it took just minutes for them to get sensitive personal data from Big Tech companies—with virtually no pushback
www.wired.com/story/doxers...
I spoke to the leader of a doxing-for-hire group who showed me how it took just minutes for them to get sensitive personal data from Big Tech companies—with virtually no pushback
www.wired.com/story/doxers...
Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People's Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.
www.wired.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
SCOOP
I spoke to the leader of a doxing-for-hire group who showed me how it took just minutes for them to get sensitive personal data from Big Tech companies—with virtually no pushback
www.wired.com/story/doxers...
I spoke to the leader of a doxing-for-hire group who showed me how it took just minutes for them to get sensitive personal data from Big Tech companies—with virtually no pushback
www.wired.com/story/doxers...
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I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY
I think recent fetishisation of men (especially) reading physical books is a bad sign - suggests reading is marked as a novel/remarkable/character-revealing thing for some people now rather than something everyone does all the time
December 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I think recent fetishisation of men (especially) reading physical books is a bad sign - suggests reading is marked as a novel/remarkable/character-revealing thing for some people now rather than something everyone does all the time
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This is a good thread! Every week someone reads out a London Centric story on TikTok without credit and does big views. This isn’t a wah wah moan… more that when a big news outlet steals, they know what they’re doing. I think a lot of content creators sincerely think “reading words” *is* reporting?
Comments are like wow great journalism, TikTok influencer, whose “rabbit hole” consisted of screenshotting someone else’s article
December 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is a good thread! Every week someone reads out a London Centric story on TikTok without credit and does big views. This isn’t a wah wah moan… more that when a big news outlet steals, they know what they’re doing. I think a lot of content creators sincerely think “reading words” *is* reporting?
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One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
The Rory Stwart/ Zack Planski interview clash is really interesting
December 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The Rory Stwart/ Zack Planski interview clash is really interesting
Atm, expect Liv to look (a bit) better while Afcon's on, & Slh to go (assuming Saudi clubs will cover his biiiig wages)
He's fallen off faster & further than I can remember w/out a major injury
He's fallen off faster & further than I can remember w/out a major injury
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Atm, expect Liv to look (a bit) better while Afcon's on, & Slh to go (assuming Saudi clubs will cover his biiiig wages)
He's fallen off faster & further than I can remember w/out a major injury
He's fallen off faster & further than I can remember w/out a major injury
The Owen Jns /Zrh Sultana video is amazing
December 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The Owen Jns /Zrh Sultana video is amazing
I'm running a linguistics lunchtime enrichment thing this year & generally the ppl who've signed up are extremely academically strong (1 person w all 9s at GCSE)
Mostly it's good, we can go fast, but one person seems quite intimidated by the others :/
Mostly it's good, we can go fast, but one person seems quite intimidated by the others :/
November 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I'm running a linguistics lunchtime enrichment thing this year & generally the ppl who've signed up are extremely academically strong (1 person w all 9s at GCSE)
Mostly it's good, we can go fast, but one person seems quite intimidated by the others :/
Mostly it's good, we can go fast, but one person seems quite intimidated by the others :/