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William Albright
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William Albright
@ewilliam_
i talk with my hands - sometimes humans and machines understand me
San Francisco, CA Katılım Aralık 2008
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@markessien @GallaudetU VL2 has some storybook apps in American Sign Language
apps.apple.com/us/app/bilingu…
apps.apple.com/us/app/deaf-ga…
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Remember this deaf girl - Enwongo - I met in the village in 2023? She could not communicate with anyone as nobody could sign in the village. I put her in a school for the hearing impaired, and now she can sign very well. See video.
I want to give her a phone with good apps for the deaf - so that during the holidays she can communicate with people. Right now she has nobody to talk to during the holidays.
Any tips on good apps to keep an isolated, deaf girl entertained and communicating?
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Either these people are complete fools, or someone is paying them to destroy the American economy
Acyn@Acyn
Lutnick: Tariffs are going to drive America better.. Wouldn't it be amazing to stop paying taxes to the internal revenue service and have the external revenue service of make America great again replace our taxes? That is the goal of Donald Trump,
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@Noahpinion DEI is to find qualified diverse candidates that end up being the best in hiring pools. not hiring unqualified over qualified tho there might be a minor number of cases. GOP talking points BS for decades, no need to give them credence. good thing to have diverse role models etc
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If you don't want Elon types going on an ideological crusade against American institutions, you shouldn't have the institutions do ideological stuff like this.
John Sailer@JohnDSailer
NEW: The National Science Foundation is currently giving $10 million to implement a DEI-focused hiring program at universities in Maryland, Texas, and North Carolina. Exclusive docs show how this fellow-to-faculty scheme discriminates by race/sex—and favors scholar-activists 🧵
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@ewilliam_ Transcripts here: thesocialradars.com/episodes
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I've been thinking about this too, since the concept of meritocracy has come up in the last two Social Radars episodes, Harj's, which we just released, and Alex Wang's, which is coming up next.
pod.link/1677066062/epi…
Paul Graham@paulg
The startup world is more meritocratic than most things in America. That's one reason I like it. So why are people on the far left so desperate to invent stories about how biased it is? Because the outcomes are so skewed.
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@sdamico @ImpulseLabs_ is there (or plans for) a thermometer probe that measures food temperature? like breville control freak
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Bunch of people asked how fast it is with a larger amount of water. This is 10 cups of tap-cold water — and it’s about 1:30 to rolling boil with @ImpulseLabs_
Other induction products are 8+ minutes — you need our power electronics stack to do this.
Sam D'Amico@sdamico
may need to rename “power boil” to “ludicrous” or something
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@paulg thought more about. if “extrajudicial killing” was used, it’d likely register less emotion. same but different
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@paulg not racist but distasteful? when i was younger (& stupid) i used terms like “rape” to describe “winning” or asym results in general. not hard to understand why word choice matters
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One of the interesting things about Twitter is that old tweets form a dated log of the zeitgeist. One retro sign here is the use of "lynch mob" as a metaphor, which was banned soon after because you were diminishing the victims of actual lynch mobs and thus racist.
Sam Altman@sama
Most smart people I know have decided to just not discuss anything sensitive because of the internet lynchmob looking for any slight mistake
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@starsandrobots made me chuckle cuz know exactly what u mean. my solution is to make big batches and freeze. also eat once a day mostly
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I’ve been learning to cook for the last 3 years or so, and my path is kind of weird. I only recently realized that I’d been making meals 7 days a week that are kind of intermediate and difficult, because I’ve primarily been learning from like, nonbeginner/pro-am chef blogs.
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@JSPartyFM @Rich_Harris @sveltejs @nomadtechie @jerodsanto looking forward to the transcript. deaf devs like me need that stuff
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🥳 New episode of JS Party!
💬 Type War (what is good for?)
💫 with @rich_harris from @sveltejs
⚡️ hosts @nomadtechie & @jerodsanto
🗄️ #typescript #javascript #culture
💚 jsparty.fm/292
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@bobbysiebert nice idea but i think i’m done here 😊 this is the most public writing i’ve done in a while lol
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@bobbysiebert yeah i think a big one is that someone with the personal history of a video that made fun of deaf people’s civics knowledge probably should be careful with name calling… anyways yeah s&s ‘s accomplishment is a political statement in itself and that’s cool
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“We must cultivate more citizens like Scott and Shayna who see the perilous mountaintop ahead, but have the audacity to hope that, despite fears and anxieties, something better awaits if we reach for it, nonetheless.”
Brilliant stuff by @BrendanUStern:
fredericknewspost.com/opinion/column…
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@bobbysiebert basically sherpas are commoditized at everest. i’d expect more nuance while analyzing social ills - sport is not a suitable metaphor for the democracy fight
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@bobbysiebert it’s such a huge problem that a rant isn’t particularly useful. s&s is fine - more talking about how stern uses their trip as a rhetorical device
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@signscloser can give you an invite. think im out of here lol
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deaf talk: tom brady pei pei deflate balls hearingspeak: Tom Brady is skilled at deflating balls. hearingspeak.com
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deaf talk: u tru biz champ i ever see hearingspeak: You are the true business champion I ever saw. hearingspeak.com
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