Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

@Ffangohr@mastodon.social Now I’m a libertarian.

@Ffangohr@mastodon.social I’m glad to hear it. Sometimes I think I should start it up again.

@Ffangohr@mastodon.social (A cliché, I know.)

@Ffangohr@mastodon.social I certainly hope that at least some people of the time thought those boring fonts with bad rhythms were as ugly as I do.

—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.