@hollywooddfpd why not both?!

@LeftistLawyer despite itself. or true to itself despite those who most control it.

@LeftistLawyer run that one!

@Alexander_Anotherskip_Davis yeah, but a social media poll isn’t a conversation (and it isn’t information in the sense that a more scientific poll might claim to be). it’s a conversation starter. of course, in the conversation, the fact the the poll forced a artificially stark choice in order to provoke hopefully more nuanced conversation (or just consideration) should be acknowledged.

@Benfell @Alexander_Anotherskip_Davis social media polls are never reliably informative, a survey of a self-selecting subpopulations of an ill defined biased whole. but middle options understandably attract almost everyone and reveal little. social media polls are more interesting if they are omitted, so you can see in which direction people think it best to err.

@stephenjudkins “measurement” by poll leads to wave function collapse.

@MiriamLatane hi! as an alumn, i’m really struggling with this one. i can’t imagine a more absurd juxtaposition, wonder how people are dealing with it.

@Alexander_Anotherskip_Davis because that’d be a less provocative and informative poll! choose one, pick your poison.

the state.

God is the entity that gets all the jokes the waves and storms are powered by Their laughter.

how long until AI puts only fans out of business?

my alma mater, a site of great beauty and intense transformations. they complain about low enrollment at 700, but i opposed expanding it from 500 when i was there. there is so much does-not-compute in this. https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/06/gov-ron-desantis-wants-conservative-overhaul-at-new-college-of-florida/69784941007/ ht @mdslock and others offline

they made a kids movie about when emacs saves a backup file of your mom.

@danhon @ianbetteridge @mmasnick revenue models that can't justify valuation are so often how firms corner themselves into not not being evil. it's not the public that is the victim here. we are. we are providing amazing things, and they won't pay what's necessary (justifying the valuation is necessary, that's non-negotiable), so of course whatever it takes to shake or shape or spy it out of them is fair and right and it's their own damned fault.

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@stephenjudkins @Hargreaves yeah! it'd be pretty rough to make myOpaqueInstance.asInstanceOf[Object].toString() not leak. but while scalac types the variable as MyOpqueType, i was a bit surprised that Object.toString was called in preference to extension (mot: MyOpaqueType) def toString() = ??? (which extension scalac was perfectly happy to let me define).

i'm having overdone fun with #Scala3 opaque types, but toString() seems to be a leak in the abstraction that can't be plugged? #Scala

@buddyyakov #evergreen

I hope this year the wars will end.

but of these scenarios, which, in fact, is the counterfactual?