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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 15h

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

www.apmreports.org

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 11h

DM'd

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 11h

That's just the injection of novelty the Bond franchise needs!

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 12h

A

I'm sympathetic to people who view it as B for shorter, A for worse graphics, but because the meme creator coupled them so casually and directly, I have to assume they meant A for both, regardless of many people's appreciation for shorter games. (Of course they COULD have meant B, what do I know)

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 12h

To be clear, I'm looking for *readers*. You don't have to implement it, maybe I shouldn't have humorously abused the term "beta-test".

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mattachine meowppy machine @spookybiscuits.com · 1d

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 12h

It's a good example but he explains it terribly.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 15h

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 5d

I will never understand why anyone grants this guy any authority.

Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 15h

they've done a lot of shenanigans to allow for-loops on ints to remain efficient. i believe some of the C Undefined Behavior optimization stuff has been because of this (e.g. maybe something like assuming 32-bit loop index can't overflow allows it to use a 64-bit int)

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 16h

I've written an article with a hopefully-complete technical description for implementing planetary atmosphere rendering as seen from space.

Looking for readers to beta-test the rough draft. Mutuals get priority. DM for link.

a CGI rendering of a colorful sunset seen from low-Earth orbit, with a tiny bit of the sun peeking out over the horizon

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · Jun 4

Sigh.

Darth Vader Fortnite AI stuff dropped less than a week after I decided to quit. I don't know what I'd have done if I hadn't already decided.

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 18h

As one who in 90s dutifully manually typedef'd int32, int64 for portability and used bare ints for 'natural register-sized'—as wisdom of the time recommended—the betrayal in 64-bit era of ints being declared permanently 32-bit 'because too much code would break' put me on permanent F.U. to all this.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 1d

As I’m sure you already know, the Edmund Fitzgerald met her doom 50 years ago today. In honor of this somber occasion, here’s a very detailed bathymetric map of Lake Superior.

Bathymetric map of Lake Superior showing shallower areas in red, yellow, and green, and the deepest areas in dark blue. The location of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is marked.

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jami lynne @lynnedrum.bsky.social · 1d

no joke Seattle: check your fucking ballots to make sure they were counted!! there are a Bunch of incomplete or invalid ballots in our age range right now, and it's a quick check to see if yours went through okay. it's not too late to fix it!

info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

King County Elections

Led by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters.

info.kingcounty.gov

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like I pondered this very issue not four weeks ago, although I don't remember who now.

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Dan Isaacs (Kelce's Version) @danisaacs.bsky.social · 1d

3 years ago Elon enabled the funniest day in Twitter history.

My Facebook post of @ChiquitaBrands and @Chiquita posting "We've just overthrown the government of Brazil", to which the later replied "We apologize to those who have served a misleading message from a fake Chiquita account. We have not overthrown a government since 1954"

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

r/ExpectationVsReality u/Additional-Simple858 • 3d
Join
Al 'doctor' said my back pain is depression, not a slipped disc. Now physical therapy won't get approved.
Al Expectation

We are reviewing claim #&
submitted on
09/28/2025. Our records indicate the claim was filed under diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while the corresponding prescription and referral history list treatment for lumbar disc herniation (back pain).

Re: Incorrect Diagnosis in
Record

Hi
Thank you for reaching out. We have reviewed your visit documentation and can confirm that the notes in question were generated using our Al scribe system. It appears the Al tool assigned diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while your visit notes and treatment plan reference lumbar disc herniation (back pain).
Per compliance policy, certain Al-generated fields cannot be manually updated by clinic staff and require vendor correction. We have escalated this to our vendor support team and opened ticket # . We'll notify you once we receive
confirmation or correction from the vendor.

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doomsmoker (just memes) @doomsmoker.bsky.social · 2d

*google search* how heavy is the average man

Al Overview

The average weight for an adult male in the U.S is approximately 199.8 pounds

Average weight by age group

20-29 years: 188.6 pounds

30-39 years: 377.2 pounds

40-49 years: 754.4 pounds

50-59 years: 4923.1 pounds

60-69 pounds: 1 year

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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 3d

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

www.statnews.com

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woke mayor @brianvan.bsky.social · 3d

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 3d

The only way I'd tolerate it is if the VAs were literally paid exactly what they would have been paid to record the lines later. (The studio still gets a benefit of guaranteed to get the lines in a timely manner and locking in the rate.) But I'm sure that's not the deal; that will never be deal.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 4d

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 4d

OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 4d

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5d

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 4d

I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.

New York Times snippet: A Decade Later, Supreme Court is Asked to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision; Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk once jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, has asked the court to reconsider its landmark 2015 opinion. 6 minute read

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 5d

Remembering that amazing brief period on Twitter, dunno, maybe 3-6 months after Elon's acquisition, when we spontaneously decided it was coming to an end and everybody started posting their favorite past tweets of all kinds. It was a beautiful wake for a service which still technically hasn't died.

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