Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

—Karl Marx, 1867

Need to figure out a way for web fonts to be free but type designers to live lives of lavish comfort.

@mtchl We’ve had a lot of catching up to do.

We did it, everyone; we’re Abnormally Dry: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA

@sgillies Like a union? Or summary statistics?

Had to think about the UV index before stepping out for a burrito, so happy first day of meteorological spring I guess.

I’m at the point in this ML essay where I’m imagining Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi as a YouTube influencer. I may be a bit out of practice writing.

@ingrid well, well, well – how the turntables

@evanwolf I’m not an academic (or a news person), so I don’t really know. I think the nexus here might be the tenure committees and how they evaluate outreach and engagement. But I could easily be wrong.

I would really like to live in a world where some small but significant proportion of academics get to consider it part of their job to collaborate with news outlets on accessible and self-contained explainers of stuff in the news.

Mildly concerned that the LLM explainer I’ve seen get the most traction is by a someone whose professional and personal behavior seem very questionable. (And who is also very litigious.)

For what it’s worth, some places I do subscribe to are:

LAT: https://www.latimes.com/

HCN: https://www.hcn.org/

Oaklandside: https://oaklandside.org/

Each of them has done things I disagreed with, sometimes deeply, but not with the sort of broad scope and ugly conviction that the NYT has shown.

Tired of feeling bad about what I’m paying for with my crossword subscription.

I was having unbidden pansharpening thoughts again, so I fixed typos and a pseudocode bug in my old 10,000 word gist on the topic: https://gist.github.com/celoyd/5bb5417b24801e0446ad5977cc3581e4

Proud to say that it’s the best non-academic introduction to the topic on the entire internet. Also, I admit, the worst, because it’s the only one. I don’t know why there aren’t more people interested in this.

@stephenjudkins I don’t think there’s time for an informed take yet. I think we non-experts just have to be hopeful and understand it might not pan out.