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Studied online in Edinburgh, attended the graduation IRL and absolutely fell in love with the place. If I were capable of generating my own body heat I’d move there in an instant. Unfortunately I’m a tropical fish so I’ll stay swimming around the islands of southern Japan. Originally Polish/Canadian/British, but my soul yearns for a loch.

Appreciator of architecture and urban planning, intrigued by all things STEM. Occasionally tries to art or knit.

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Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD) · 5d
Friends, I have two years to figure out how to sneak in some positive change. It's already an event I absolutely love, so it's actually hard for me to come up with what I would want to change, but cur...
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@nprofile1q... Although ECR was meant to be more widely inclusive, it still tends to be interpreted as 'young'. While ancient ECRs like myself have more variety of life experience, it doesn't reduce the acute imposter syndrome that comes with being new at something. At the same time we're trying to not dominate because we also want to make room for the young. But sometimes the result is becoming one with the acoustic wall panels.
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Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD) · 5d
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Chaplin Tokyo _Hello, world!_ · 5w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq34l6qrm6saynma9h6dc7qwcqedf92hsw0jgyrv3v3faxyrhw6l3q4aud5s I would’ve preferred sriracha sauce instead of the sweet chilli sauce they used, but I guess they would have needed to put ‘super hot!!🥵’ graphics prominently on the packaging ...
myrmepropagandist · 7w
A “curb” is a raised lip that separates the sidewalk from the street. At the margin of the sidewalk and street you will find the gutter. The gutter directs rainwater and other waste away from buil...
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@nprofile1q... I always understood it to mean hold your dog in check, the same way we say curb your anger. Even the part of the road is called the curb because it kinda holds back the road. Never ever occurred to me that it was about toilet habits😅 Cus like, you should be picking up after your dog regardless of where they go.
myrmepropagandist · 8w
If you think of US military might was overwhelming. If you think of US nuclear weapons as a kind of automatic win. And if you see wars as only contests of might and firepower why couldn't the US just ...
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@nprofile1q... Of course it was, and everyone outside of America understood it that way. I'm not sure why the very intelligent and actually strong people inside America have so much trouble reaching the same conclusions as everyone else.
Kim Possible :kimoji_fire: · 9w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqlrpfuj I am reading a novel, and one simple but profound musing immediately made me think of ...
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... It would make sense if we were ten ants. アリが十 is how you say there are 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜 in Japanese, but if you post 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜 to someone who speaks Japanese they immediately know you mean thank you. Because the pun of arigato (thank you) and arigatou (there are ten ants) is one of the first you learn.
myrmepropagandist · 13w
This is not what the people who say the word AI right now are doing at all. But let's consider a one-to-one physics based simulation of the brain of a cat. It couldn't run in real time like a living...
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@nprofile1q... I think you mist have a very low opinion on the complexity of a cat brain. But consider, cats have domesticated humans. I don't think we're going to get very far into cat brains until we can reasonably model human brains.

No, Pica did not write this toot, but I'm not saying that Pica didn't make me write this toot.
myrmepropagandist · 15w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq34l6qrm6saynma9h6dc7qwcqedf92hsw0jgyrv3v3faxyrhw6l3q4aud5s I think a lot of us have been screaming. We are now in the era where consulting an e...
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@nprofile1q... I wish humans were logical creatures but so far I have zero evidence of that. Because who gets to be the expert and who is listened to for pushing back? We know the answer to this question. Which means we we have a lot more work to do.
myrmepropagandist · 15w
Listen. If you are thinking of buying a book about bugs you can share the cover or title on here and someone will tell you if it is slop or not. Some poor ant-loving kid is going to get this slop bo...
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@nprofile1q... Ugh. I teach EFL and I have been literally screaming about all the dead canaries in the coal mine for as long as I can remember, everyone not in EFL has just been looking at me like I'm nuts and telling me to pipe down. I literally have not been able to find legitimate textbooks in at least 3 years. Now it's hitting domain specialists like it's a new thing. If we had done something when it was new we might've stopped it. Too damned late now.
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myrmepropagandist · 15w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq34l6qrm6saynma9h6dc7qwcqedf92hsw0jgyrv3v3faxyrhw6l3q4aud5s I think a lot of us have been screaming. We are now in the era where consulting an expert is required to just find something safe to read. I do think that when people see a subject t...
Count Buchla · 17w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq34l6qrm6saynma9h6dc7qwcqedf92hsw0jgyrv3v3faxyrhw6l3q4aud5s Yeah, it’s just trying things creatively as dictated by your curiosity.