I’ve long believed STEM people should do more humanities, but seeing twitter authors threaten lawsuits left and right because some guy counted words in their book is really convincing me humanities people need some tech literacy classes.

It only lost its 10% meaning upon entering English, where Dec has no connection with the number 10. It’s understandable for people to parse it as a generic word instead.

There is someone with like 500 likes on the discover feed who appears to genuinely believe only soldiers die during a land invasion and no one is pushing back on that.

I'd be surprised if AI art starts being genuinely respected in fine art circles as opposed to a curiosity, but a stock image for an article that's only going to make the writer $100? No one can afford a commission for that, AI it is.

I think people with this view are largely missing the point. Humans will always be better than machines in some ways. Even in manufacturing, things like handmade Lamborghinis are much nicer than mass produced Toyotas. There's a reason I drive a Toyota though.

You’re telling me that the post twitter field is split between a usurper that uses the name of the previous hegemon as a shield, the young upstarts, and an established power that holds all the most valuable territory from the start? I’ve heard this one before.

Hi Mithila! Trying to stay more pseudo-anon on this app. Will DM you.

The number of paragraphs in a book about Chinese linguistics before Yuen-Ren Chao is mentioned is kind of like it's Chinese linguistics Bacon Number, and I think this one takes the case. The second sentence of this book is the earliest I have yet seen. It deserves an award!

Seafood siumai has an honored place at the table, and that place is being ordered on basket less than the pork siumai

Also a good reminder that nothing is new under the sun. The problems we’re dealing with today are largely the same problems we dealt with in centuries past with tweaked variables.