Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers

Brilliant 🏆

Isata Kanneh-Mason absolutely tears through Rachmaninoff’s fiendish Piano Concerto No. 3 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

I understand

It’s not too hard to sew a bag out of canvas. The patterns are pretty simple. (first thing my kids learned to make) some of the local sewing stores like gather here will let you buy some time on a machine.

Make one?

When the Hyatt Regency SFO asks you whether you’d like a room near or far from the elevators be forewarned that the rooms like mine that are far are almost a quarter of a mile away (estimated by my walking time). I took 6055 steps yesterday and only went to and from the conference downstairs.

Yesterday I read an interview with the singer in a punk band who uses GenAI to help with writing his texts.

Punk. The whole point of punk was that if you know how to play 3 cords badly and have something to say just fucking go for it.

OMG. Terrorists have struck DC. In a preemptive attack, they have completely demolished the East Wing of the White House. America mourns. 🇺🇸

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It’s ironic that the pre-colonoscopy diet includes things that are bad for colon health and excludes just about everything good for colon health. It’s my parents’ usual diet. Also it makes me lose my will to live. Thank goodness it’s only two days.

PSA: get your regular colonoscopy.

Maybe this is what you’re doing, but have you seen when people remap someone’s facial expressions and speech onto a different person’s face? This is often what looks wrong is the facial structure of the new face doesn’t match the motions of the original. (Sorry have not read paper yet)

I have wondered about the dual of this, and maybe you know the answer: is there a good reason for these expectations? E.g., we can detect muscle structure in the face which implies that it is used to moving in certain ways and not used to moving in others.

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I think one of our big problems is that we’re limiting Dickensian villain ghost visits to just one night a year like clearly the market can sustain some expansion

It is really shocking how much his verbal mannerisms are like yours. And I can reliably guess what he will laugh at by thinking, “What would Ben laugh at?”

I enjoy my primary care physician a lot more now that I’ve realized that personality-wise he’s basically former postdoc @benwolfevision.bsky.social in doctor form

Looking forward to it

There is a bad tendency not to design in partnership with disabled people. I think, though, that’s not the target consumer: “grandpa who doesn’t have the energy he used to and wants to be able to take long walks with the kids”. I know quite a few “grandpas“ who want this if they can afford it.

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lol I came here to do the same thing. It seemed so close.

Yes, but also we should distinguish between “foolishly didn’t Google someone before participating” and “may have actually committed a serious crime.”

Body cameras are no good without policy to enforce accountability

ok but steak n shake is using beef tallow to fry its fries now so its basically a wash

Same

I think @benwolfevision.bsky.social will not be surprised

To be clear, I’m not remotely good, but we’re having a lot of fun

So far it is me catching up on songs she knows so it’s pretty diverse. But you have me correctly pegged with punk.

“I’m going to be in town for a tournament. Could I just stop by and jam with your mom?”