I regret to inform you all that earlier today my children escaped their sandbox. I told them explicitly “stay in your sandbox” but they are just too powerful.
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MinmiTheDino
@minmi@sfba.social
mastodon 4.7.3#Sf raised and sf returned. I’m a #data scientist working in #sustainability. Mom to two gremlin children and one angelic senior dog. She/her
Profile pic is a drawing of minmi, a dinosaur with an armored back. Header is a pic of the bay bridge from inside a building, with a brick wall visible and in the corner, a bit of curly hair belonging to a very sweet, very devious child.
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#Statistics #CausalInference #Climate #Sustainability #SFBA
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Joined April 25, 2025
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My friends were asking me last night how I handle ppl who won’t stop talking about themselves and I was like, idk man, I think I get so bored I just start looking around and there’s usually a cool bird and then I go
“Oh wow! Look at that bird!” And the conversation immediately improves.
Just wrapping up a trip to nyc from sf and I want to share this one thing:
There is ZERO benefit to you to participating in facial recognition. I had resolved to opt out but was worried I would make myself a nuisance or have to submit to some additional verification or something.
No.
You just say “I’m opting out of facial recognition” or “I don’t want my picture taken” and the person waves you through.
That’s it. You save time. No one cares.
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If you’re in San Francisco and feeling left out of the whole #jimothy experience, I want you to know we have our very own mutant raccoon.
Her name is Lyra. She lives at the (free) Randall museum. She’s a star.
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Part time remote IT position! Truth or consequences school district needs some help. I trust no one to help them more than you nerds.
My friend works there, feel free to dm me and I’ll connect you.
#getFediHired
My husband, beloved normie: have you ever used an operating system other than windows?
Me: like…MacOS?
Him: oh no like, other than those two
Me, slowly lowering book and raising eyebrows: you mean like, #linux ?
Friends. I think it’s happening.
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@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online whatever they’re doing it’s honestly past my powers to understand but here’s what I do know, you should probably invest a lot of money in them
Heard a roaring in the distance.
Horns beeping.
What is that?
ITS DYKES ON BIKES
I am overcome. I am in religious rapture. I love dykes on bikes.
I am just so into #agrivoltaics. Love a win win win
#climate #solarhttps://www.canarymedia.com/articles/food-and-farms/virginia-solar-with-farming
I am annoying my children mightily this morning as they want to play king and queen of the dragons and I’m insisting we should be a dragon anarcho-syndicalist commune
I have been cursed with the dumbest curse.
Any time I get a new soap/shampoo that wants me to turn the spout to unlock it, I just turn and turn and turn forever and it just doesn’t unlock.
I have never felt so dumb and I dont understand what is happening.
Someone please release me from this curse please.
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@sushee@ohai.social my friend teaches middle school and three kids handed in the same LLM generated essay. When asked about it, they said they had used an LLM but then they had each typed it out themselves. They were honestly shocked this wasn’t considered their own work and there was any issue. Poor kids.
If you are in or around San Francisco and have kids, you have got to check out the open days for mission science workshop.
Incredible array of things for kids to experiment with, build, take apart. And animals they can touch and learn about. I could not be more impressed and my kids are obsessed.
Every living billionaire has already had their best idea and now they’re just squashing threats.
(And their best idea usually kind of sucked)
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@ahimsa_pdx every once in a while part of me is like “ok let me take a step back and reflect on whether maybe I’ve got this wrong and actually these guys are ok” and then they so helpfully say shit like this and I can just wrap up my whole reflection cause like nope, they’re really that out of touch with reality, morality, everything.
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@farah@beige.party @HG@beige.party a few weeks ago I went to pick my kid up from preschool to find him holding court at a table of his friends telling them Santa was just their parents 😳
Ok etiquette question.
You’re on a plane, you have a middle seat. Two people get on and they’ve bought the aisle and window seat in your row, in the hopes no one would take the middle. Seeing that their plan has failed, they offer you your choice of the aisle or window so they can sit together. Your feelings about this:
Ok etiquette question. You’re on a plane, you have a middle seat. Two people get on and they’ve bought the aisle and window seat in your row, in the hopes no one would take the middle. Seeing that their plan has failed, they offer you your choice of the aisle or window so they can sit together. Yo
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@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social to be fair, a lot of dudes did have a free version of that (and so much more!) in the form of a wife they treated like property.
Still, point holds
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
So much this.
Also, once you no longer need the data, do not keep it.
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@HG@beige.party God I know this feeling. My kid has so far brought the kids in his class along with him on his hyper fixations. But I’m certain this won’t last and I just dread the day it runs out. I know he’ll be ok eventually but man it’s not gonna be fun there for a bit.
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I came across a book that was called “English poetry from Tennyson to Whitman”. Ok cool. Flipped through it, all the usual suspects. Tennyson, Poe. Some poems from Dickens and Brontë for some reason.
No Emily Dickinson.
First i thought, maybe it’s just British poets? But Whitman’s right there. She’s in the right time period. There were (one or two) women in there.
Someone more cultured than I tell me what is going on…
#poetry #books #bookstodon
Braved the flight from sf to ny with the 5 and 3 year old
They did pretty well, though they didn’t nap
Half hour from landing we’re told, nope, diverting to Philadelphia. Storms.
Land in phl. Told we’ll refuel and head out.
Told we have to wait 30 mins for ground halt to be lifted at jfk.
Told that again.
Told that again.
3yo becoming more and more insane with every passing minute.
We flee. Thank god for family friends in phl.
See lightning as we’re driving in.
Well…happy 4th to us! Kind of a cool thing to stumble into spending the 4th in Philadelphia.
God traveling with children is a whole other ball game.
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@harmonycorrupted@kinkycats.org yea people are not cuts of meat. There’s no “grade A” people. There’s people you, individually, at whatever point in life you’re at, mesh well with. And people you don’t.
It’s not a judgment on either of you if you’re not a pair or if you are. It doesn’t make you good or bad or attractive or not.
The people you fit with are special to you, and you to them. That’s it.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116835173319377612
@404mediaco@mastodon.social I switched to tidal over the whole joe rogan thing back in the day and stayed cause it introduced me to really good music and I liked that artists got more $$. Feeling good about that choice today.
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Spotify competitor Tidal built a reputation by collaborating with musicians and focusing on audio quality. How will it handle the era of AI-generated slop?
https://www.404media.co/tidal-says-it-wont-pay-royalties-for-ai-generated-music/
Open quoted postJimmy Cliff just came on the radio and my 5yo in the back sits up and goes WHAT IS THIS?!
Amazing how he can feel just in his little instincts the power of the music.
New badge unlocked: survived Costco on the weekend
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@kimlockhartga@beige.party I adore the exploratorium though. Also very very fun as an adult! They have adults only evenings sometimes that are fantastic.
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@kimlockhartga@beige.party not the exploratorium? That place is still the coolest. (But this place is free haha)
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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io I don’t totally understand. It’s definitely a problem genocidal maniacs have this kind of power. But I feel like the problem is that we allow anyone to have that kind of power. Because there will always be a few genocidal maniacs in the mix, and they’ll always be the most adept at exploiting paths to power—cause the rest of us just don’t want it as much.
So shouldn’t we be focused on the structure that concentrates power?
I guess I’m making a big assumption that there will always be genocidal power hungry maniacs…but it seems true given my lived experience.
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@pluszysta @DanMorgan @tantramar
So beautiful!! Can you imagine willingly giving that up just to…idk…maintain a sense of dominance over other men?! What a miserable existence these guys have given themselves.
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@FluentInFinance@mastodon.social well that’s gonna play in every political ad for the next year
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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io @nh@mastodon.gamedev.place
Hmm, are there systems that highly concentrate power but manage to disqualify people from power based on character? Am I just really cynical and tunnel visioned to my own cultural context?
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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io oh ok! I was reading it as like “just convince people not to be evil or give power just to nice people” and… I had a hard time believing I was reading it right 🤣.
Thanks for clarifying!
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@nh@mastodon.gamedev.place @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
Ha yea I’d consider this moment at the Vatican pretty anomalous in history
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- Took my 5yo to the pharaoh exhibit and he was engaged, curious and thoughtful (and wants a cobra diadem)
2 & 3. Saw what was advertised as a “performance” but was actually an incredibly powerful and moving ceremony around a chilkat blanket that I just feel so honored and lucky to have been able to witness. I’m honestly just still a bit in shock at it.