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My 7yo spends a lot of time making fun programs in Tynker. Most of them involve animated cats. She’s a true self-directed learner but every once in a while I get to share a new idea. This weekend it was recursion. We decided to make it “visible” by implementing a simple tree drawing toy. (Later, I went back and made a “fancy” variant.)

Privacy on iPhone – Data Auction: youtube.com/watch?v=NOXK4E…
37 years between uses, works perfectly. Go JPL. twitter.com/sciguyspace/st…
Uh-oh, it looks like the massive cloud of energy from Star Trek has found V'Ger 1. jpl.nasa.gov/news/engineers…

[Press] Elon Musk’s Twitter Bot Problem Is Fake News

Covid quarantine is gonna be hell on my wallet.
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oh wow it's been a while since one of my bots made me bust out laughing (this is over on my independent bot server, you can subscribe to it if you're on Mastodon etc) tinysubversions.glitch.me/m/b357312d174f…
This makes sense when you read these stories in order: Greek PM addresses US Congress, rejects Cyprus 2-state solution, warns against F-16 sales to Turkey: thehill.com/policy/interna… Turkey fucks with NATO: nytimes.com/live/2022/05/1…
I'm in the Wall Street Journal today talking about the difficulty of identifying bot accounts, and more generally whether social media platform metrics mean, well, anything real.
Yes, there seem to be a lot of fake accounts on Twitter, much like there are on other major social networks. But research shows nailing them down accurately is virtually ...
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It’s nice to be back home

New post: fluffy rambles: It's nice to be back home beesbuzz.biz/blog/1343-Its-… #Travels #SanFrancisco #Seattle
Of *course* Onkyo filed for bankruptcy like last week. So… Denon? I dunno.

Are you keeping a watchful eye during eternal Caturday?

Okay, I think I’ve settled on the Onkyo TX-RZ50. Supports 5.1.4, has great room correction, and is supposed to have a very “un-opinionated” and true-to-source sound. Now the issue is that its sold out everywhere… blast!
Pebbles got a surprise bath this evening after I got a bloody nose during snuggle time. Getting blood stains out of a dog is harder than I expected. Pebbles is no longer speaking to me.
Wow. This might be the clearest condemnation of white supremacy and the racist terrorist ideology we face in this country by President Biden to date. He's not mincing words here—though he stops short of calling out Q+GOP+FOX by name. Wow.
The New York Times https://twitter.com/nytimes
President Biden condemned the racist rhetoric that reportedly influenced a white man to gun down Black shoppers at the Tops supermarket in Buffalo. “What happened here ...
Who will flood socials with young royals s2 fanbait
Senior FAANG Engineer Anna Lytical 🌈👩🏻‍💻👸🏻 https://twitter.com/theannalytical
Not Netflix firing its whole queer social team 2 weeks before pride 👀
StumpSF book club: Strugatskys’ The Doomed City (@ Produce Row Cafe in Portland, OR) swarmapp.com/karabaic/check…