This is a review of a manifesto associated with a learning program.| maya.land
The styles that defined Sailor Moon personal shrines and Cardcaptor Sakura LJ icon edits and so forth reached me before Animal Crossing (I was dropped out of college before meeting the latter) and are probably most formative in my sense of what letterforms are unpresuming-appealing, cute-appealing, etc. But I think when it comes to roundedness in letters that’s all AC!| maya.land
I don’t know how much we ought to trust this source but I’d definitely believed the included myths without any sources at all, so this may be of interest to others.| maya.land
The ILC developed a database of tens of thousands of dissidents living in the Eastern Bloc and carefully targeted the books it sent. Paris became a critical hub where travelers could load up; the Librairie Polonaise, a venerable Polish bookshop, let visitors take several volumes for free on their way home. Its manager sent a bill to the CIA, which by the mid-1980s was covering half of the store’s inventory.| maya.land
Female velvet spiders exhibit a remarkable type of maternal care unique among arachnids. Upon the birth of her brood, the mother spider liquefies her internal organs and regurgitates this material as food. Once her capability to liquefy her insides is exhausted, the young sense this and consume the mother.| maya.land
Every day I spawn in. Emerge wriggling out my skibidi bolus of slime. Whence and where? Lol. Idk. Vibes here be mad shady fr. Shit is not aesthetic. Shit is not bussin. Shit is burned-out cars piled in barricades across the street. Shit is THE END IS NIGH scrawled across bridges. Shit is roofs caved in, windows boarded, thin trees already rising out the wreckage, with roots that slip through gaps in the brickwork to return the brief work of man to the senseless rubble that came before. This s...| maya.land
Monthly Packet of Evening Readings, Volume 19, (London: Mozley and Smith, 1875), page 213: —and the rule for sowing is, ‘One for the mouse, one for the crow, One to rot, and one to grow’| maya.land
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up with packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. Ah,...| maya.land
The Goomba fallacy is a reasoning mistake. When there are two contradicting opinions in one internet community, some readers think that everyone in the community is stupid, because the opinions are contradictory. They do not realise that there are separate people posting in the community, with separate opinions and beliefs. In other words, two groups with contradictory views are perceived as one group that contradicts itself.| maya.land
Rather than engaging with my concerns, some editors have chosen to mock, speculate about my motives, or label my arguments “AI-generated” — without explaining how they are substantively flawed.| maya.land
Work on motivations for using Facebook also supports the distinction between connection-promoting and non–connection-promoting use. A longitudinal study conducted across two time points looked at the impact of Facebook use on adolescents’ well-being. Use motivated by compensating for insufficient social networks predicted increased loneliness at follow-up, while use motivated by the desire to connect with other people predicted decreased loneliness at follow-up (Teppers, Luyckx, Klimstra,...| maya.land
meet me in the sheets / we can CSV| maya.land
Henry Stern was the commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation for almost 15 years. […] One of his idiosyncrasies was giving agency employees and many others an individual “park name,” which was to be used in communication by radio or email. Julius Spiegel, a long-time Brooklyn borough commissioner, was called “Mirror,” his last name translated from German. Stern conferred upon himself the name “Starquest.” Commissioner Stern also directed the departmen...| maya.land
For drawing reference purposes I have had this tab open for longer than I want to admit.| maya.land
I remember hating seeing these little colorful jaggies. The advance of screen tech past them was something I celebrated even as most screen tech advancements seemed to me silly and unnecessary.| maya.land
Like – are they? On the one hand, I love the idea of sheer panels as an easy-mode approach to the giant baggy silhouettes the moment favors. On the other hand, the raw edge where the denim’s been cut away – eugh. (On the third hand – even though that Renaissance mesh pulls toward kitsch, I’m still down!)| maya.land
The promptuary, also known as the card abacus is a calculating machine invented by the 16th-century Scottish mathematician John Napier and described in his book Rabdologiae in which he also described Napier’s bones. It is an extension of Napier’s bones, using two sets of rods to achieve multi-digit multiplication without the need to write down intermediate results, although some mental addition is still needed to calculate the result.| maya.land
This is a long blog post. If you’re not inclined to read something long, please still click through and read the one section the author recommends!| maya.land
“Paul Graham has published a blog post where he is wrong about something” is not a news item so much as expected background radiation of contemporary life. However, I have something specific to say about this one.| maya.land
This application uses a unique approach. It employs statistics and smart algorithms to automatically create typing lessons that match your current skill level.| maya.land
My friend sent me her video on lactose tolerance and intimated that she reminded him of me. This is massively complimentary, I feel. I no longer have round glasses, and I can’t say that my houseplants are as lively as hers, but I still have arbitrary bones around so I’m going to cling to the comparison.| maya.land
Act II, Scene 1: Ophelia tells her father about how a half-naked, deranged-looking Hamlet barged into her room, physically assaulted her, and ran off into the night. Since we never hear anything about Polonius’ wife, we must assume that the strain of raising two children on his own has rendered him non compos mentis, as this leads him to believe that Hamlet is in love and not a booze-shattered date rapist. He decides to tell the King and Queen about it, because Ophelia’s personal life...| maya.land
Through the DARPA award, Szablowski will work with Miao-Hsueh Chen, an associate professor of pediatric nutrition at Baylor College of Medicine and an expert on [brown adipose tissue], to enhance nonshivering thermogenesis. A drug that boosts BAT response could help first responders treat victims of hypothermia and even lower the cost of arctic exploration. “If you have a drug that makes brown fat more active, then instead of having to spend weeks and weeks adapting to cold, you can perfor...| maya.land
One thing you’re not supposed to admit to: not enjoying basic activities of hygiene maintenance. I get that it’s suspect. I swear to you I do shower enough, but the whole process (the hair removal! the exfoliation, body and facial! the shampoo-rinse-shampoo-rinse-conditioner-rinsing!) is to me tedious at its core, and I know few enough of you all in real life to be able to admit it here.| maya.land
The definition above implies that the “World Wide Web” uses the http protocol to send its data. Why then, do we still need to add the “WWW” subdomain? It’s a waste of time to type it. Wouldn’t it be easier to just type in the domain name, without the “WWW”?| maya.land
I'm going to summarize this a bit and then muse about it because I think it's really, really important. There is support for all these points in the article. If you let people choose who they want to "friend" and those friends don't have limits on posting to an amorphous "feed", there will be more content than is reasonable to read through If you present this content in strict chronological order, people will end up getting whatever random sample of stuff that was posted right before they hap...| maya.land
…year so far: “radioactive data.” They write:| maya.land
And we can’t settings-toggle our way out| maya.land
the vampire part: look, I’m effortposting! There is a time-sensitive link in there – scoped to the next day, so I guess click through? Or don’t. You’re gonna be okay either way.| maya.land
