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  My 3yo, who always turns around in his seat on the bus or the train so he can look out the window, asks a great question: "Why do grown-ups not prefer looking out the window?" #precocious #parenting

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  Shouldn't "denuded" mean "put clothes on?"

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  #StarTrek project idea: propose alternate resolutions to as many plots as possible by making creative use of the transporter.

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  There's no reason "he looks like a violist" has to be a put-down, and yet...

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  I have no complaints about AI-generated advertisements. Rather, my complaint about slop is how it mechanizes the production of advertising-quality "content."

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  My personal interpretation of recent (and prediction about future) events in the "Frontier Labs" is that the upcoming generation of models are experiencing something close to model collapse. Probably they are not completely useless, but their behavior is further than ever from being understandable by (or all that useful to) humans. The agreement to slow down model development is a cover for their efforts to build "harnesses" that can recover utility before IPO...

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  Do young girls (ages 2 - 5, let's say) explore a new toy by immediately pounding it as hard as they can on the nearest surface, object, or person? Or is that a gender- specific behavior? #parenting

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  I'm engaged in a very deep study of gender expression and development by raising three AMAB children. So far I have a lot of questions and few answers. #parenting #genderstudies

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  When I picked up my 5yo from his 3rd day of kindergarten, he told me "I did something funny in the cafeteria today: I had a chat about having a chat." #precocious #parenting

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  Sometimes you just have to raise your glass to the drink itself.

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  I didn't set out to post a thirst trap, but my selfie of my bright summer wardrobe from early June now has 40 boosts and 113 favorites. I'm hot on Mastodon!

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  The moment when your doctor's demeanor shifts from, "everything's fine" to "I'm going to save this patient's life RIGHT NOW. "

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  New rule: anyone talking about "peptides," whether they be journalist, influencer, or the Health Secretary, has to at minimum read out the peptide sequences they are discussing, and preferably also cite the target. Otherwise I'm going to assume they're talking poly-glutamine.

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  What if the LLMs overuse em-dashes because colons have syntactic meaning in YAML format?

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  My 5yo asked for a globe of Mars, asked *why* Earth is the only planet with a breathable atmosphere, and lamented that Earth isn't as big as Neptune because he wants to have plenty of room to go for long walks and ramble around. Maybe we're on to the space phase now? #precocious #parenting

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  Shakespeare in the park! #nyc

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  5yo was taking bites of dried peppers that he found on the counter. We have repeatedly warned him how spicy they are. Suddenly he's crying and screaming, and 3yo is laughing at him. #parenting

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  Looking forward to running a small book club at work! @grimalkina

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  Pink Pomelo Club

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  Cishet men, you can wear colors too. It's ok, really. No one even has to know you're straight. #SummerofColour

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  What did Google find in my inbox that led them to serve me ads for a Gulfstream?

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  BRB, got go assess some asses. #asstodon

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  Surprisingly sophisticated class analysis, for the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/magazine/the-politics-of-the-downwardly-mobile-professional-class.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mVA.eeGO._0ULWoo_jq9Z&smid=url-share

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  I didn't expect Ronnie Chieng to be the prophet of the Butlerian Jihad. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/harvard-graduation-ronny-chieng-ai-tirade

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  2yo saw 5yo juicing lemons and asked, "can I lemonate?" #precocious #parenting

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  Every time my team has talked about AI usage, I've exhorted them to keep their workflows robust against a huge increase of the cost of the LLMs. If we can't afford the new, "AI-powered" workflow, we need ro be able to fall back seamlessly to the old workflow. I'm going to check in about Copilot usage at our sprint meeting later today, and I sure hope they took my advice.

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  It's nearly impossible to get in 8k steps per day while caring for young children full time.

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  Who called it an "AI Therapist" and not "Freudian Slop?" h/t @AgnesBC

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  All the juice joints in Harlem

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  While I was in a late work meeting and my wife was nursing the baby, the 5yo washed his hands in the bathroom, plugged the sink, left the water running, and closed the bathroom door. After my meeting, I was reading to the older boys for bedtime when the super knocked at the door to tell us the apartment below us was flooding. How's your evening going? #parenting