Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@cherold We've both deleted our but I think you're missing a term in your algebraic expression. Let's try it as a story problem:

"Ed really likes a song that came out in 1982. What year was Ed born?"

Aa you see, unresolvable. I associate that particular song with people who'd have been somewhere between 15 and 35 or so in 1982, most of whose birthdates fall well inside the baby-boom period of 1946-64

In case you didn't know and were wondering, that latin text on your diploma simply authorizes you to speak with specious confidence about things entirely outside your area of study that you don't know anything about.

#NATO now has legitimate cause to defend all ports at the mouth of the #Danube. This is a vital corridor essential to trade, livelihoods, the safety and economic well-being of #Europe. #Russia attacking it is NOT just #Ukraine's problem: it is manifestly a direct attack on Europe.

If you can't rebut what they said, commit irrevocably to the belief that they said what you can rebut.

#Ukraine #Putin #ICC

#musk removes fact check, aka "community notes" from his tweet.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2023/07/25/twitter-deletes-fact-check-of-musk-connecting-bronny-james-cardiac-arrest-to-covid-vaccine/

#twitter "#birdsite"

I've decided I'd like to be be British, but I can't work out how to be played by Terry-Thomas in an American movie from 1964.

Imagine if the police came and talked to you because you told a cosplayer he wasn't really Spider-Man.

I wonder if Musk chose the name X in honor of all the cartoons of a blue bird lying still on the ground with Xs for eyes that have appeared since he took over.

The reason following hashtags doesn't work very well is that -- as anyone who's been on the twitters will confirm -- the overuse of hashtags correlates inversely with having anything to say. For example, as soon as I started following the hashtag #Ukraine, I started getting flooded with posts that had every hashtag under the sun, but not much content other than the occasional rant.

Perhaps it works better for less topical hashtags, but this isn't working out well at all... the amount of noise --- a considerable proportion of it rancid -- is pretty high.

Another great victory for the #Ukraine war: it's turned the far right into card-carrying socialists overnight. So many impassioned calls from them now to provide public assistance to America's homeless and drug-addicted; I never thought I'd see the day.

If there's something you're not supposed to tell anyone, be sure to say "I'm not supposed to tell anyone this, but," before you tell anyone.