Claudia Lo @cwylo@octodon.social

@Fanatical general reluctance to accept that garbage in = garbage out/that NLP/AI/machine learning or w/e will solve EVERY PROBLEM YOU THROW AT IT

@Fanatical but it alone cannot solve all problems, and has many many potential pitfalls that need to be kept in mind as we move forward with it

tfw your girlfriend shares your reservations with regards to machine learning 😍

@LogicalDash I doubt it'll happen, since this will gain less traction. I don't mind so much because I'd rather not have my games writing work kick off with two pieces on the game and issue, honestly

Wrote a preliminary, barely-edited postmortem of my RimWorld article for RPS. http://cwylo.me/a-code-analysis-postmortem/

#gameing #feminism #queer uhhh... append "criticism" to all of those tags? 😅

@brunodias Ahhh, might be it. To be honest, I'd much rather just read a script of the dialogue at this point as a choose-your-own instead of grappling with its combat, which I understand is broken as hell anyway? #letmeskipcombat #easymodewasmadeforme

@brunodias you are braver than I, I loaded up the menu, tried to go through the starter dungeon, couldn't handle the UI and put it down foreverrrr

was getting into Persona during the school term a bad idea orrrr

#gameing

gems from the archive:
"After this, since listening to a telephone for an hour is hard work, everyone took a recess".

(MIT banquet celebrating the move from Boston to Cambridge, June 4 1916)

@radix Found it! http://www.encounterroleplay.com/travel-mechanic/

final edited version of my article sent off to editor! I'M GONNA BE PUBLISHED 🎉🎉😍😍😍🎇🎆✨🎆🎈🎊

...but even with voluntary moving, the hassle of moving passengers, potentially moving baggage, and also lost customer loyyalty, is not a great situation. Not to mention the compensations, monetary and otherwise (e.g. booking a night in a hotel if necessary, vouchers etc.)

AGAIN: there are already measures in place to punish reckless overbooking, but the practice *on the whole* isn't going to go away if we keep working under the logic of maximising profit.

So the thing about overbooking (in airlines, but also in other industries like hotels) is this: it makes perfect sense under capitalist logic, where maximizing profits is the primary driving goal.

The issue is not that they don't offer compensation; by US law, involuntary ticket cancellations must be compensated with at least 400% ticket value, up to a cap of $1350. What they really want are voluntary bumps from flights (tbc)

@iain they already do that though; by US law, compensation for *involuntary* cancellation starts at 400% of the ticket's value, up to a cap of $1350. they make money off volunteers, but even then, it's likely at a loss, especially when you factor in the costs of moving passengers around and lost customer loyalty.

The issue with overbooking is the logic of maximizing profits; under that guidance, there's no reason for airlines (or other industries) to stop the practice.

Was going back through archives on MIT's move from Boston to Cambridge (in 1916)—they make mention of a cablegram sent to congratulate the president, MacLauren... that came from someone fighting in the trenches of France. "No better illustration of the spirit and loyalty of a Tech man to his alma mater" indeed. o_o

been rereading the fascinating story of how we "forgot" how citruses cured scurvy—really about collisions between theory and technology and changing circumstances.
http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

sorry i've sort of slowed my tooting on account of work snuck up behind me and jumped in front of me and oh no deadlines

it is a beautiful warm sunny day, and consequently the birds are out in force, all yelling

woke up to #caturday, mood seriously lifted :)