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Anyone with an interest in #xcom: my partner is going live streaming #openXCOM right now at twitch.tv/canageek

MATRIX (2017): Set in a world like ours, one where everyone has seen THE MATRIX (1999), except that afterwards everyone became viscerally aware that film was true—all of humanity is living in a simulation.

More a documentary than an action movie, MATRIX captures the effect of this revelation on society. There are three kinds of people: those who didn't care; those who wanted to escape to reality; and those who fell into catatonia.

Spoons are an object of ridicule and dissent. They are banned.

following up with as many of you as i can but i have to log off now so i can eat. my email is sarah@sarahjeong.net if you want to reach out directly!

hi guys i'm hoping to write another piece about mastodon, a sort of wrap-up for my experiment a few weeks ago where i tried to replace twitter with masto.

i'd love to to interview a bunch of you guys? looking for old users and new users alike

Question time!

Artists who use Free Software (GIMP, Inkscape, Krita, Blender, etc), I have a question for you.

I'm writing a new dock/panel engine for Gtk (which is the UI toolkit that GIMP and Inkscape use).

Tell me the things you like, love, and hate about panels/docks in any of the artistic applications you use. Things you like about various commercial apps is also useful info to me.

(if anyone plays a game of S.P.Q.R. please tell me how it works out for you)

I wrote a tabletop RPG for the 200 word RPG challenge. Its called S.P.Q.R and it's about ancient warfare & chickens: https://oceangrunge.itch.io/spqr

If you like #mastodon you would have loved the internet in the late 90s.

Here's your one and only chance to take that back. No, not only on twitter.

Don't centralize your life. Don't rely on a single corporation helping them accumulate too much power. Like Facebook or GMail.

Diversify and try to control your own data.

#mastoadmins #mastoadministration

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That missing student has also been mentioned on the CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/university-rcmp-missing-1.4076100

A student at my university is missing. He was in a small (20 student) year-long class I led two years ago, so I knew him well but haven't talked to him since it ended in 2015.

I know there aren't many people here from Vancouver, BC, but he sometimes went to Seattle too. We're widening the search beyond the local area.

Please see here: http://www.straight.com/blogra/898451/search-continues-missing-21-year-old-ubc-student-louis-gonick

#letsfindlouis

@Canageek I would think there almost certainly is. discussing anthropological research in strictly scientific terms is sort of not the done thing anymore thanks to the field's troubling history with pseudoscience as a tool to justify colonization and prejudice. you're most likely to find science-speak in archaeology and medical anthropology because what you're dealing with there is more in line with the experimental sciences

@Canageek There's not a lot to say about #lingchat. We get together and talk about a topic using a hashtag. There are discussion questions. Sometimes there's a lot of people and it's fun; other times it's just me explaining my master's thesis to the other moderator.

For anyone who's interested in #language: #lingchat starts in 20 minutes on the birdsite. I am comoderating tonight's discussion of accents and dialects.

Fun fact: I sit two feet away an autoclave

Not so fun fact: Autoclave alarms are really damn loud

@Canageek yeah, chemistry sounds like a rather different beast than the social sciences (and I'm also speaking from an undergrad/recent graduate perspective where we're still focused on meeting certain length requirements). you have a good point re: the "armchair experts" from different fields too, that was a very common thing in early anthropology and contributed to a lot of the early attempts to make it a hard science (and all the mess that follows when you try to classify culture as biological)

@Canageek here it is. part of this was touched on in one of the articles you sent as well. http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/the-science-of-scientific-writing/1 I especially like this article because it's a guide for how to make writing better