Noah Liebman @noleli@mastodon.social
Information scientist, UX∩audio, whistler. Almost-PhD at Northwestern TSB. UX at Shure.
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Repressurizing the orbiter is the most important step of cleaning my room.
(Shut up, it’s super sophisticated and age-appropriate decor.)
Frederick Law Olmsted dropping some design wisdom in 1892
In Firefox's addressbar, you can limit results by typing special characters before or after your term
^ for matches in your browsing history.
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# for matches in page titles.
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The latest iTunes update finally wrote the custom icon back to its default. Good thing I keep an old version hanging around for just this purpose.
How to network at #chi2018:
1. Find a Facebook employee.
2. Say, “Hi, your employer is morally bankrupt, you’re a sellout, and you’re all complicit.”
3.
Getting into a punctuation disagreement with The New Yorker is probably about as good an idea as getting involved in a land war in Asia, but…
I thought you hyphenate a noun–adjective phrase when it functions as an attributive adjective, but not a predicate adjective.
The State Department has a proposal to collect social media identifiers on nonimmigrant visa applications. They’re accepting public comment until May 29 https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=DOS-2018-0002-0001
For info on why this is bad, see ACLU’s statement here https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2017/11/16/trump-administration-wants-racist-ai-for-extreme-vetting-initiative/
/ht t@designatednerd
I know, let’s compile a list of Jews and give it to a company that complies with 80% of data requests from the US government. What could go wrong? https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?user_data_produced=authority:US;series:compliance&lu=user_data_produced
Robotic ottoman.
Not to be confused with mechanical turk. https://mastodon.social/media/e5eiN4EAg9flRF9sA4A
Couldn’t Gandalf just have send the eagles to get the #SuperbOwl ring directly? Kind of a plot hole if you ask me
The 12-y/o daughter of our shabbes dinner hosts last night was horrified to learn that Bhutan’s ethnic Nepalis have been living in refugee camps for over a generation.
“You mean grandparents are telling their grandchildren about a homeland they’ve never seen?”
It took every ounce of self control not to be like, “Just wait till you learn what people are doing in the name of your own people!” 🤐
My Grandad's advice for safe driving was: "Always remember you're controlling a potentially lethal weapon". I think it helped me to take driving even more seriously.
Perhaps it's good advice for us technologists too...
"Always remember you're programming a potential platform for bullying and harassment".
"Always remember you're designing a potential system for mass surveillance".
"Always remember you're deploying a potential tool for mass social unrest".
Nothing quite as satisfying as a re-sort with object constancy. https://mastodon.social/media/YtJYEDgr_ts2LFXAIvQ
Looks like someone forgot to get the Macintosh Security Kit (sold separately) https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/10/macos-high-sierra-app-store-password-bug/ https://mastodon.social/media/7YwPeCJHqt4L6-0iMbU
It’s been over 8 years since this stunning scientific breakthrough and I still lose olive oil to the side of the bottle every time. Like, are you people even trying? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/415946/the-death-of-the-teapot-effect/ https://mastodon.social/media/amIEYMoW_gFU54yKfyQ
If you have any Apple stock, vote in this year’s annual shareholder meeting.
The issue on the table: a proposal to establish a human right committee.
The board recommends voting against.
I recommend voting for. http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AAPL/5654593168x0x966568/E199AFD4-4BD8-48D8-9CEB-47141C91899B/Apple_2018_Proxy_Statement.pdf https://mastodon.social/media/rYQSetBZJd5QUJxTeaw https://mastodon.social/media/MvZOyqFrSd7FGNd9fno
When the air becomes uranious,
we will all go simultaneous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs
Just a couple degrees to go before I’m all caught up.
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