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RT @johnmyleswhite: Recruiters exist in the uncann…

RT @johnmyleswhite: Recruiters exist in the uncanny valley between automatically generated spam and e-mails written by real people interest…

“we start at 6pm, and we go until we’ve fixed the world’s problems”

QFT: “Tech industry, in its majestic equality, permits the sons of both steelworkers & tycoons to seek investors in their startups”-@miniver

@bgzimmer thanks! I grew up in Georgia but was hyperliterate; knew early that the apostrophe represented elided letters; insisted on y’all

RT @eassumption: “Things I haven’t learned yet are hard!” is just as annoying when aimed at terms like “cisgender” as when aimed at terms l…

@sesquiotic @bgzimmer @PeterSokolowski @arikaokrent … or have better random-access to chunk index. digestion vs computing metaphors

@sesquiotic @ProbFact @PeterSokolowski @arikaokrent @bgzimmer IIRC there’s >1 Pratchett plot revoving around manipulating conditions thus

@NFRAggie @VerbingNouns @LINGUISTICSHULK I’m not saying it’s prescriptively right, trying to explain why people might use it #descriptivist

.see @ProbFact tweet above, @PeterSokolowski @sesquiotic @arikaokrent @bgzimmer – great example of chunking for humor!

RT @ProbFact: ‘Million to one chances crop up nine times out of ten.’ — Terry Pratchett