@daveparisi
Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1 Mostly reformed goth
Every time I see a comedian from the 90s is doing transphobic stuff on X, having not heard about them for 15 years, the next thing I see from them is proper unhinged stuff. It's like the trans views is a jenga block that causes the whole tower to come down.
Online book launch this friday
#gothic #Horror
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At some point, someone is going to explain to Trump that starting a war with Iran is such a ludicrously awful idea that even George W. Bush didn’t get tricked into it.
Stop analysing how a pigeon plays chess. Stop it now.
One of the sucky things about student LLM use: the resources we provide to help them learn more easily are repurposed into resources to help them cheat more easily.
One of my favorite stories is a Dutch food story.
I was in Amsterdam for several days after my bar exam en route to a month-long safari in Kenya. Seeing the sites. Doing the thing. Last evening there I walk up to the concierge:
“Where should I go to get some traditional Dutch food?” I ask.
Stop 👏 having 👏 unrealistic 👏 body 👏 standards 👏 for 👏 camels 👏
It's a "can we have class outside today?" kind of day & if they ask I might have to say yes.
The way the MSM treated the campus Gaza protests established that any criticism of Israel's actions is antisemitism and now Trump has codified that into law.
If Biden had received just 1% of the media coddling given to Trump he would have won reelection in a landslide
But orange man said on my tee vee!
Every morning I wake up and read about fucked up shit happening in the US, but I can’t remember the last time the shit was this shockingly fucked up.
If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.
People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.
A campaign poster with large text reading "Mayor Mamdani" and a message urging to fund NYC public libraries at 0.5% of the city budget. Two photos of a man in a suit (Zohran Mamdani are shown, with a website link for more information.
You can let the Mayor know what you think about him breaking his promise. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
Ruin a dad’s week by saying the TV display looks weird and refusing to elaborate
The whole fkn thing is a war crime. Now, chemical warfare. More proof that the goal is extermination
FeckinYahu is the single biggest existential threat to the state of Israel. No one should get heat for wondering whether a state that racistly kills its neighbors should continue to exist. And yes,
And to the extent that they've gone after academics, it's also been those with the least institutional support. A TA at the University of Oklahoma lost her job for being trans: I haven't heard about that happening to any full professors at Yale.
pro tip for AI enthusiasts who want people to stop being mean to them: maybe stop talking about how it's going to take everybody's jobs all the time
(and if you really do believe that, then 1. consider how that'll come off to the people whose jobs will be lost and 2. become a UBI stan)
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Keeping in mind the corruption of not only Silicon Valley, but capitalism in general, protecting consensus reality is exactly the problem. We shouldn't be trying to be maintaining it we should be trying to dismantle it.
Does anyone know serious studies trying to estimate PS2 piracy rates?
Stuff like NES is tough due to bootleg consoles, but anyone playing God of War 1 back then needed an actual PS2. Comparing PS2 flagship game/console ownership rate with non-pirataleable consoles should be at least interesting...
The man is in a complete fog, which means the rest of us are, too.
I have no idea what comes next or even who to look to for meaningful insight into what they do next
The answer is because Democratic leadership has the collective political smarts of precisely one medium-sized clam.
Q: You just suggested Iran got a Tomahawk & bombed its own school. But you're the only person in your govt saying this. Even your defense secretary wouldn't say that. Why are you the only person saying this?
TRUMP: I just don't know enough about it. It's something I was told is under investigation.
The industry keeps pushing the realism framing for controller haptics, but it doesn't seem to resonate with players. I'll be discussing this a bit at scms in a couple of weeks framed as "a new banality of virtual touch," building on an argument Tom Boellstorff made around VR more generally
Been struggling with the question of how much these small hardware changes matter at the macro level, but the narrative--graphics tech has hit its limit, we're pivoting to new forms of sensory engagement--depends on convincing players that incremental changes are building to something bigger.
"Muslims don't belong in American society," says Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) www.huffpost.com/entry/andy-o...
Lots going on under the hood with Joy Con 2 controllers, nice write-up on granular changes to haptics:
"As hardware makers expand the frontiers of portable and hybrid console design, the industry is undergoing a paradigm shift in high-fidelity tactile feedback."
www.mkaugaming.com/haptic-heave...
“Fairness” to Republicans always means workers getting screwed.
