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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't played Magic: The Gathering since Zendikar and I don't have the brainpower to figure out all the Final Fantasy SKUs.

AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 2d

The new AP Comp Sci maintains what I think is defective ordering, starting with the connection between booleans and other values via comparison, moving to control structures, then backwards to boolean expressions.

UNIT AT A GLANCE
Topic Instructional Periods Suggested Skills
2.1 Algorithms with Selection
and Repetition
1 1.A Determineanappropriateprogramdesignto
solve a problem or accomplish a task.
2.2 1 3.A Determinetheresultoroutputbasedon
statement execution order in an algorithm.
2.3 3 2.A Writeprogramcodetoimplementanalgorithm.
3.A Determinetheresultoroutputbasedon
statement execution order in an algorithm.
4.A Describethebehaviorofacodesegmentor
program.
2.4 Nested if Statements 2 2.A Writeprogramcodetoimplementanalgorithm.
4.A Describethebehaviorofacodesegmentor
program.
2.5 Compound Boolean
Expressions
2 2.A Writeprogramcodetoimplementanalgorithm.
3.A Determinetheresultoroutputbasedon
statement execution order in an algorithm.
2.6 Comparing Boolean
Expressions
2 2.A Writeprogramcodetoimplementanalgorithm.
3.A Determinetheresultoroutputbasedon
statement execution order in an algorithm.

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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 4d

I was told by a therapist friend when you tell this kind of client to act better they simply stop coming

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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 4d

We haven't cyberbullied this nerd off here yet? What's the point of this website

Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · Sep 26

Chart from "The Anxious Generation." How do we reverse this? We get young people to stop spending 5-9 hours a day on social media and video games, and we get them back to real life.

AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, I do. From what I've read of it it seems contained/modularized pretty well

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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 8d

Making my unit 2 slides

Screengrabs from that episode of one piece where Luffy did gear second but captioned with Unit Second

AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 8d

They really did call themselves the Sad Puppies, what an era of history

AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 8d

shaw.

AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 9d

Discussion of Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded's endorsement of young ladies having sex with socially sanctioned partners at the appropriate time does remind me of one over my favorite bits of Starship Troopers: that state approval dominates Rico's dating life.

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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 9d

... implicitly agree with conservative premises when we engage on these or other issues. Which is, you know, bad! Don't give up the premises, full court press all the way!

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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 9d

Speaking of nuance, it's difficult to talk about pieces of conservative thought DNA that have gotten into how progressives and liberals talk about fiction but this book does a really good job. It's not that they are the same in magnitude or negative impact - it's that we sometimes...

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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 9d

what if frasier have ipad

Peter @spezbaby.bsky.social · 9d

Do you ever sit and wonder which classic TV characters would have embraced newer technology? Stuff that appeared after their run.

#TVsky

Jerry Seinfeld and Kosmo Kramer drenched in red light. Jerry looks on with concern and asks, "What is going on in there, Kramer?"

Kramer looks back and then looks at Jerry with alarm and hesitancy and says, "It's the Instapot, Jerry!"

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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 9d

There's a thread through the intro about how people think they are immune to fiction's possible propagandistic qualities but OTHER people aren't that reminds me of studies that show people think everybody else is much more impacted by advertisements than they are.

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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 9d

Also that "apolitical" really means a certain level of status quo realism that doesn't challenge norms, which is nuance I think many folks who say "all art is political" still miss. They are fighting the wrong battle because they've misunderstood what the other side means by "apolitical art."

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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 9d

I'm stamping my feet and cheering at the argument that "art for art's sake" doesn't mean apolitical art, it means treating the whole spectrum of art seriously

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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 9d

I think Ebert's own hobby horse of film as a medium created empathy pushed me away from the idea. I've seen plenty of folks without empathy watch movies and simply not engage with the idea that the filmmakers have forced them to inhabit another viewpoint. They didn't climb to the outer circles

Heatmaps indicating highest moral allocation by ideology, Study 3a. Source data are provided as a Source Data file. Note. The highest value on the heatmap scale is 20 units for liberals, and 12 units for conservatives. Moral circle rings, from inner to outer, are described as follows: (1) all of your immediate family, (2) all of your extended family, (3) all of your closest friends, (4) all of your friends (including distant ones), (5) all of your acquaintances, (6) all people you have ever met, (7) all people in your country, (8) all people on your continent, (9) all people on all continents, (10) all mammals, (11) all amphibians, reptiles, mammals, fish, and birds, (12) all animals on earth including paramecia and amoebae, (13) all animals in the universe, including alien lifeforms, (14) all living things in the universe including plants and trees, (15) all natural things in the universe including inert entities such as rocks, (16) all things in existence

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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 9d

Very into the discussion of sophisticated stories as vegetables and YA, comics, pulp, etc as junk food, because "eat your vegetables" is an oversimplification for kids and the real advice is "consume a variety of things both within and between food groups." Junk food metaphor fails on its own terms.

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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 9d

Starting to read @lytagold.bsky.social 's Dangerous Fictions as rec'd by @erikhane.bsky.social . Introduction does a very good job setting up the subject as worthy of time and about which interesting, new, and nuanced things will be said.

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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 12d

Underrated battle royale typing game strat: go on voice chat after the first few passages and just start saying fucking numbers

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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 14d

I'm being inundated with Tron: Ares posts on my Twitter For You page and there's no way that it isn't undisclosed paid advertisements.

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 16d

I've called the process of designing a system from an inspiration set "story interpolation" (middling term, admittedly). I love to use this slide from a talk Tarn gave at Northwestern's Progression Mechanics to illustrate the concept

A slide from Tarn Adam's talk at Northwestern's Progression Mechanics, giving a systemic diagram to the sentence "A flock of sparrows landed and ate most of the pill bugs, but one managed to survive to lay some eggs."

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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 19d

I'll check it out

AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 22d

Hey there are federal agents disappearing people on the streets but, yeah, sure, this slop is "100."

People need to grow the fuck up.

Dogshit meme that turns Trump into a drag queen

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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 24d

This is frighteningly specific and I'm sad to say I understand it

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 24d

me perusing memory beta

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AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist @ajmarquis.bsky.social · 25d

Where are the kid defenders to get mad about hormones on this one?

Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 26d

So a thing quietly happening in the background for awhile now is rich parents dosing their kids with growth hormone.

I think it's hilarious we're gonna have a generation of seven foot three ogres who claim a working class background and get mad when you ask how they paid for that trip to Europe.

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