Notices by Jane (janeadams@datavis.social)

Tomorrow I’m helping my coworker practice for her driving test, specifically parallel parking, and while trying to find helpful visual resources for her I came across this beauty. Any day now folks we’ll have artificial superintelligence

@ai6yr presented without comment

@0xabad1dea there’s a place near me that has written on the menu “we will not make you a new meal because you ordered it too spicy” lol

Finally had an excuse to bust out the stovetop griddle for all the roommates to have house French Toast for Blizzard Monday #Blizzard #BostonMA @frenchtoast

Hey all, any resources for job hunting for a friend who was recently laid off as a senior front end engineer? Where do people look for jobs these days? Anyone’s company hiring? Bonus points if the company has to do with linguistics, psychology, or design

@badnetmask I've seen "it's a python app" as a big selling point in sciences because people are traumatized by R 😅

Caution: Australians ⚠️

I didn't join the #Forkiverse server because I've actually been on the #fediverse since 2017, and I'm proud of our little instance we have here. But I was so glad to hear @pj on Search Engine bring some new excitement to this space 💕 So per your request PJ, here's a photo of where I was (on my walking commute to class today) when I heard your episode! https://www.searchengine.show/the-fediverse-experiment/

Welcome, newcomers, and remember to alt-text your images, choose post visibility wisely, and support your server costs!

The static electricity from the cold weather on our couch has turned #Greg into a science experiment 🤣⚡️⚡️⚡️

Ten years ago now, before one of my best friends was even an acquaintance, in an act of desperation after a breakup, she just typed into a search engine "how to be alone". The result she found has since reverberated through circles of our friends and their friends and their friends' friends. In case you haven't heard this poem, and are spending time alone this holiday season, I was reminded that I should again share with a new circle of friends:

https://youtu.be/k7X7sZzSXYs

#loneliness #alone

Got to share my favorite “accidental poetry from a technical document” in my guest lecture today on graphs 🤓 #GraphTheory #ComputerScience #NetworkScience

Home sweet home for the weekend #SilentSunday #camp

@esnyder @mapache_tico I believe this is in Worcester MA https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/family-breaks-silence-after-chaotic-ice-operation-in-worcester/3709939/

@kaia @Christian_Freiherr_von_Wolff @cell only 2 of these 5 are real quotes, the others are parody: https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1i94cvq/comment/m8yyjxw/

@michael_w_busch @kelpana @xgranade @futurebird Meanwhile the Rolling Stone article cites the Center for AI Safety as a credible source in the article without any background research on how that org is tied in with LessWrong and the effective altruists / longtermists 😕

If you have small children at home, this might be a good time of year to explain to children the difference between birds, monotremes, and mammals.

Signed,
A former confused kindergartner who, using Easter as factual reference material, insisted that rabbits laid eggs 🐇🐣

#easter

Hey nerds*!
* (affectionately)

@us_rse extended its CFP:

> New submission deadline for Paper, BoF, Workshop, Notebook, Talk: May 16, 2025

> Poster submission deadline: July 20, 2025

> Don’t miss your chance to contribute your work to the growing body of research in research software engineering.

> Get all the details and submit your work here: https://us-rse.org/usrse25/participate/ #research #software #FOSS #OSS #OpenSource

@kims maybe you've already seen this data point but,

From the CDC: "People who were vaccinated prior to 1968 with either inactivated (killed) measles vaccine or measles vaccine of unknown type should be revaccinated with at least one dose of live attenuated measles vaccine. This recommendation is intended to protect those who may have received killed measles vaccine, which was available in 1963-1967 and was not effective."

@wcbdata @munin @ra6bit Literally the CIA handbook. I think about this in every union meeting 🥲 https://www.corporate-rebels.com/blog/cia-field-manual

Microsoft 365 is a master class in bad UI/UX. Just unbelievable. You could write a whole textbook entirely using examples of bad design from this software suite. Impressively dismal.