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1000 Heroz: nearly there
Up to day 926 now, and I'm all-but-out of the RLLMUK leaderboard, as Donny Rosco is 40,000 points ahead and while I beat him on most days, that's only gaining me 100 points a day on average. My period of not playing has come back to haunt me. Most days see me getting a global rank of around 200, which is pleasing. I think at the moment I'm 50th in the world, but there's a fair bit of time still to go.

Don’t joke around with #Siri AI. I was saying “I’m falling off a cliff” and she began calling emergency services. #Apple

found this little fella in our kitchen. anyone got any idea what it is?

I resolved this year to have my slides for my graduate level stats class do more to engage with the eugenics and elitism that forms the backbone of academic quantitative methods. I think this representation of Fisher in my lecture on logit/probit regressions today turned out nicely.

For future reference: a simple documentation of the pattern that Meta follows wherein the company breaks the law it violates people’s privacy, gets caught, waits a while until the storm blows over or people get distracted, and then does it again until people stop fighting. I write it down so you can share it with media or policy makers when they get fooled by this stupid truck over and over.

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National Geographic Society sent my mother a fundraising letter. She asked if she should donate, and i said absolutely not, they partnered with the Murdochs, the infamous reactionary propagandists. I checked my facts though and it's worse— the magazine and TV channels and everything anyone actually knows about in 2015 became 73% owned by 21st Century Fox which itself is now owned by Disney. And they fired all the magazine writers in 2023. So i feel that this is fully a for-profit ope…

Thinking about how using a lot of conjunctions (and, then, but, etc) in my writing may have been an (unconscious) reaction to continually not being believed. It's like a person who learns to keep talking fast because they're used to being interrupted.

FIFA 13: loss after loss
I'm rubbish at this.  I'm rubbish at most football games (with the possible exception of International Sensible Soccer on the Mega Drive), but this is harder than most.  As well as the standard controls to battle with - in particular, I can never remember which is shoot and which is a high pass - EA have included a number of touch-screen controls.  

Shoutout to all my students who patiently tolerate my use of @… 's dithered QR code generator every time I want to give them a URL in the slides.
https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/