Look what’s for dinner tonight 😋. First attempt to grow corn! #gardening #vegetables
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@gabrielesvelto@mas.to is what I always say when people ask me whether I’m worried about winter biking. Am I worried about falling over? Not very. Am I worried about falling under a truck? Very.
This is gonna be one of these there’s-no-bad-weather-just-inappropriate-clothing kinda hiking days, isn’t it. #hiking #jaspernationalpark
I thought that we'd discuss the Alberta referendum (the one on potential separation) in Pragmatics class in a few weeks, and wanted to look up the question text.
Which means I saw the other questions and HO BOY.
https://www.elections.ab.ca/elections/referendum/
#linguistics #pragmatics #abpoli #canpoli
Taking photos of sand is as hard as taking photos of snow
#magicinthemundane
Made a fancy tart with the terrible plums. Which first involved making jam out of the terrible plums.
The jam is not even terrible, I’m just not a jam person. Colour is amazing.
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#garden #terribleplums #baking #cake
Had a meeting that was shorter than anticipated, so I ran out and harvested the saskatoons. Not bad for my three very young bushes…
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Project completed (only the table). #projectcompleted
Here you see me “hiking” on a “trail” in the Picos de Europa. I used the opportunity to develop my vocabulary. #PicosDeEuropa #amINuts #hiking
Can I use #magicinthemundane when showing a photo of alabaster, one of the least mundane materials imaginable? #chillidaleku
Look who woke up and is all sleepy and fuzzy! #pollinators #bumblebee
My kohlrabi seed packet claims that kohlrabi is a good replacement for chocolate.
I can think of few food couplets that are LESS interchangeable. Flour and gherkins, maybe.
January the… 114th. I think. This will never end. #spring #Saskatchewan
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@AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca not nearly enough non-tarragon! (spring onion, basil, dill, hard-boiled egg)
The crust is AMAZING and I just feel that the filling is a bit too intense and too much leaf.
When my son was very small, he misunderstood my excited squeal of “rhubarb!” He was very disappointed when I showed him the “rhubot”.
Today, I can squeal “rhubot!”
The cat tree is developing structural problems. #catsofmastodon
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@Kuchenschwarte@fnordon.de Nee nee nee, so geht das nicht. Wenn man Regen anlocken will, muss man sowohl das Sofa als auch den teuersten Computer des Hauses zum Lüften auf die Terrasse stellen.
May 10, 2026
April 26, 2026.
Up before the sun. #sunrise
RE: @star_phoenix@flipboard.com
I am currently listening to a recording from one of my research projects where the interviewee talks about his experiences at the Ile-a-la-Crosse residential school. It is horrifying.
The settlement won't undo what was done to him, but hopefully it will give him some financial stability.
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@AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca Yoghurt worked really well!
And yes, I think I'll have to do some bastardization of this recipe. Although also: if this had been part of my dinner rather than all of my dinner, it would have been fine.
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@APBBlue@thepit.social that actually would explain why I (who obsessively filters her water) consider it undrinkable ink
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@SnowyCA@social.vivaldi.net @DiverDoc@mstdn.ca @deborahh@cosocial.ca this also can be automated, with similar caveats.
I would be fine with automated transcription if a) I didn’t have data security concerns and b) if I knew that the medical personnel had enough time to check the transcript for accuracy. As things stand, neither seems to be the case.
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@jfmezei@cosocial.ca @NunavutBirder@mas.to they are really well adapted to the cold: not only massive fluff for insulation, but also large body size to reduce heat loss through surface area. You can see that in the picture of the hare with its tiny ears (tiny for a hare, anyway)
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@linux_mclinuxface@fosstodon.org I could have made a kohlrabi cherry cake this morning. I chose not to
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I parked sideways in the hope that they'll remove the pile by the time I go home. Wouldn't want to interfere with their machinery!
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@sunumbral I'm definitely getting closer to my limit
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@DiverDoc@mstdn.ca @deborahh@cosocial.ca my area of expertise is transcription, not pharmacology … I guess it shows!
But as a linguist, I appreciate the mab explanation!
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@sorenhave@mastodon.nu the biggest losers are the authors, I'm sure. @hauschke@mastodon.social @davidho.bsky.social
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@SnowyCA@social.vivaldi.net And that is where we run into the issue of "how big a deal is it". The number of children/pregnancies or having lived in Vancouver or not are relatively easy errors to spot and most of the time, the info there wouldn't put you at risk. (I can totally think of scenarios where it *would* put you at risk, though.)
But:
Wrong drugs or diagnoses can actually kill you, or do other severe harm to you. So ... say no when they ask if it's OK to transcribe automatically.
@deborahh@cosocial.ca
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@deborahh@cosocial.ca as someone with some exposure to the field: this is not surprising at all.
Drug names in particular are likely to run into the out-of-vocabulary problem simply because they are not very common in training data (and this is assuming that multiple people would pronounce "adalimumab" similarly enough to yield training data). (*and yes I know that this is not a drug name but the active ingredient in a bunch of drugs.)
Unsupervised use of automated transcription is hugely problematic.
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@Pollinators@epicure.social I lied. I have two pasque flowers and three violets. That’ll have to do!
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@Pollinators@epicure.social nothing is out yet! It’s been so cold… if it hangs on another day or two there should be something
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@NunavutBirder oooh a dual! One inuk, two inuuk?
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@tschfflr@fediscience.org Meine Antwort war übrigens "NEIN".
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@Kuchenschwarte aus der Erde. Jetzt arbeiten wir an Blättchen. (es sind noch 5 Wochen bis zum Pflanzen...)
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@tschfflr@fediscience.org Ich hatte genau dazu gerade ein Notfallmeeting. Eine Frau fällt ein paar Wochen aus, alles bricht zusammen, "maybe we can all put in some weekend hours".
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@imgemuesegarten verdammt, bin ich zu spaet dran?
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@AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca oh and it’s not the plums that are so pale: that’s a sour cream filling!
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@dar Hunh. Interesting! I have several plants, so I could do a controlled experiment
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@dar this never occurred to me! But it doesn’t tend to get very stringy in our short growing season. Maybe that’s why?
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@feodora expected for Thursday. Until then, we’ll have to make do with the strategic reserves under the deck
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