The Birdbassador

the Tao that can be tweeted is sure as hell not the eternal Tao

Making a second brief return to twitter to report that @TBQuarterly sent me a (very nice!) rejection letter for a poem I wrote about tacos, which I am using as permission to just throw the thing on Medium along with several paragraphs of commentary @Birdbassador/objet-petit-t-a-poem-and-prose-reflection-on-the-shitty-taco-e91017cc4475" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@Birdbassador/…

Does this mean I get to write a “why I’m leaving not-quite-academia” blog post, is that a genre already

Briefly back on twitter to say that I got laid off, so let me know if you know anybody who is interested in the stuff I do enough to pay me for it

@BUSSCRO is the number of truffles found inclusive of the ones eaten during the competition? what’s the margin of victory “on the books”: 12-8? 11-5? or do you get partial credit for truffles found but then observed having eaten? apologies if this is covered elsewhere

NUMBER OF TRUFFLES FOUND: Me: 12🧐🔦 Him: 8🫣👓 NUMBER OF TRUFFLES SLYLY SNARFED: Me: 2🤫😋 Him: 0😮‍💨🫠 NUMBER OF TRUFFLES BLATANTLY GOBBLED: Me: 1😬😓 Him: 3🙄😠 WINNER: Me😊 WHO DINES ON TRUFFLE FRIES TONIGHT: Me🤤 WHO GOT CALLED A TUBBY GLUTTON BY THE JUDGE: Pissman🤣

Tomorrow Pissman and I have to wake up early for the truffle hunt. Then after I win we're going to watch trains and he's going to pretend to not be jealous of my latest well-deserved blue ribbon.

@sh44sti twitter.com/gshowitt/statu…

dark souls NPC: found me down here did you..? rotten luck…i’m bald now ha ha ha….would you mind telling me the football score…? it’s all fruitless now anyway..

@Brakeman90 @Monster_Anatomy It was the one chain we never went to since my great aunt went to one at bit into a bullet in her sandwich

@jkohlmann trying to find that essay that made the comparison of the form "just like we look back at the 1910s with their radium patent medicines and think they were nuts for not regulating that poison, in the future they will similarly think we were nuts to use the internet like we do"

(I mean, like, if you want, obviously)

@Birdbassador @jkohlmann/109277591721337512" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.social/@jkohlmann/109…

@paynushaver the grocery store had already started emptying candy from the “seasonal” aisle and putting full price christmas stuff in it on the 30th. we live in a world where even the smallest wins are taken from us

Anyone find any good discount Halloween candy this year?

had a dream that i submitted something so bad that they gave me a video of looping stock footage of sharks with the words “CAN’T WRITE” prominently displayed that i was (legally?) obligated to prepend to all future writing mockup attached

@JessicaHullman @sharoz I am half-tempted to make a “here’s what Steve is talking about with within-subject stats in VIS papers” RMD page somewhere because I think it’s an important issue (and base R doesn’t make it as trivial to do as you’d hope) that both I and others have screwed up periodically

For the record, I don't think @sharoz's skepticism is bashing the field unfairly. I think its healthy and warranted. 3/3

The responses to this thread bother me. I understand @sharoz pointing out stats issues in vis papers makes people uncomfortable. But when the response from senior leaders is essentially 'shut up & do something useful' what does it say about the field's orientation to truth? 1/

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@Birdbassador I'm spinning up a vBulletin instance as we speak.

if and when this website dies i will just retreat down a strata or two to earlier websites. see you all on the something awful forums to discuss the plot progress of keenspot webcomics and uk twee/anorak. failing that, my aim screenname is also available on request

We are permanently logged out of cyber heaven. ☯90DEC

@DownPedestrian One day you heard somebody’s door closing sound and never again heard their door opening sound…

@Birdbassador I'm sure my pithy AIM away message is still, spiritually, up

@AsMirry It is still wild to me that we’ve made a system where so much of our self-worth and professional prospects depend on whether we can get a small set of grumpy strangers to agree that we did a good enough job writing things down

@Birdbassador Isn't it also wonderful just to say I like this work and you did a good job? (In a rigorous manner)

Why do conferences/journals sometimes ask reviewers for a novelty/originality score? The only thing it does is create bad incentive structures. Reject work if it’s plagiarized, sure, but why on earth should a reviewer care about “originality” beyond that?

@AsMirry I was considering just copy pasting something snippy in every review but that might not be the most worthwhile or helpful strategy. I went with “tweeting into the void” as a way to express displeasure without adding even more annoyances to everybody’s plate.

@Birdbassador It's tough. I just railed at the originality/significance and said yes is a small thing and not "Novel" but it'll change lives for the better and soon. So what's the metric?

BREAKING NEWS. TOUCANS CAN LOAF. HE IS OFFICIALLY: BANANA BREAD

Phenomenal. Bar-tailed Godwit has broken its own record: a first-year bird (five months old!) has flown 13,560 km—just shy of the direct flight limit of a Boeing 787—from Alaska to Tasmania, seemingly non-stop, in just 11 days (avg. speed: c.51 km/hr). facebook.com/43794949621875…