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4 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
if Siri was a person i'd absolutely be her friend, but mostly to protect her from a world she clearly does not understand
me: hey siri can you get the door
siri: um i can google that for you?
me: [balancing packages on one knee] hahah god please never change
me: [getting dressed for party] hey can i please get a time check?
siri: [mumbles indistinctly]
me: uhh. what's up?
siri: oh sorry. you told me you were taking a nap yesterday and i didn't wanna wake you
me: [turning down radio] where do you want me to drop you off?
siri: i think it's somewhere around here...
me: you sound unsure? i can just take you to your hou–
siri: this is my house [jumps out at overpass]
me: oh hey you two! god i haven't seen you in ages siri, how's it going
siri: i just started a new j
google: i'm not siri
siri: ob and i've mostl
google: but i can do a siri impression! hahah
siri: y been doing that but otherwise just
google: would you like a bedtime story

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smash missed out on rich possibilities Little NemoThe Lost VikingsA Boy and His BlobKid Chameleon
but none so more than Popeye
obsessed with a Lost Vikings mechanic where you get three brawlers that can be in three different places at one time
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you’re in her DMs. i’m in her DMs. we possess mutually distinct qualia, and thus cannot reasonably be said to inhabit a state of philosophical equivalence
also attempting to quantify such things by our respective perceived access to a third, independent being is a folly of both the mind and heart, to say nothing of the short shrift given to the inherent gift of personhood, or the bevy of problematic ramifications qua feminism
also she’s polyamorous
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16 Sep
technology will not rest until the primary survival skill required for life on earth is how well we can anticipate and respond to the mental models of extremely complex algorithms
I used to think of this purely in the context of economic survival, but realistically “how to not look like a road to a car” and “how to not look like a perp to a bigdog” will eventually be right up there with “stop, drop, and roll” and avoiding anvil-shaped shadows
depending on your perspective, you could say that getting along with extremely complex algorithms (in this case, humans) is already a survival skill. it is! what's scary is the alien, multicellular nature of corporations reaching into the single-cell space of embodied actors.
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18 Aug
I feel like pandemic + Relatable Content have conspired to make a LOT of us recently come into a neurodivergent understanding of ourselves.
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Part of learning a new identity should always be about who else shares it, and how to advocate for them—especially in times of influx.
This is a particularly cogent writeup (more often the case for Tumblr than anyone wants to admit) about the history of the terms neuroatypical and neurodivergent, and how they intersect. Take the guidance with awareness that discourse is ever-evolving.
phineasfrogg.tumblr.com/post/954716156…
Specifically in relation to neurodivergence, the key takeaway is that nobody's trying to keep ADHD or autistic people from using it—we should just also be aware that it includes folks with schizophrenia, OCD, dyslexia, some forms of depression and anxiety, and more.
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16 Aug
Just catching up on Chirp discourse. Quick thoughts:
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I think it's a major misstep to let content fonts shoulder the weight of a product's brand. That's what wordmarks are for. If everyone did that, the most usable typography would only be found in the most unambitious products.
Ironically, the Chirp implementation actually DOES communicate a lot about Twitter's brand: features nobody asked for rolled out with great fanfare, somehow phoned-in anyway, at the expense of truly popular requests, with remarkably little critical diligence around accessibility.
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14 Aug
might have no choice but to pursue a graduate degree in understanding the decisions which resulted in this plastic Home Goods statue A molded plastic statue of a meditating Buddha at a home gooA closeup of the statue’s German newsprint clothing, with The back of the statue, which has changed to feature ItalianA closeup of the Italian sheet music.
A Berlin newspaper from July 15, 1933—reporting on the Four-Power Pact, perhaps? Signed in Rome, which might explain the Italian sheet music? But also, whose ineffectuality mostly served to increase tension in the buildup to WWII??
Also I only just noticed this tidbit
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