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Hoy en la mañana se aprovechó para hacer la ruta llamada Flores del Mictlán, trazada por un buen compañero (@gatoladron) del medio 🚴 Hay que aprovechar la oportunidad de la temporada y ver los cultivos de #cempasúchil de #Xochimilco #CDMX Les dejo el enlace a la ruta: ridewithgps.com/routes/48858...
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The full team was like 1000 people. People outside of the “core team” did some major heavy lifting. This is outsourcing. What you are doing is outsourcing and then downgrading their contributions. There is nothing innovative about this.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer was made by a core team of 75 people. "What we wanted to do was keep that core small, smaller than perhaps you might have done in the past, and scale capacity and capability with what we call distributed development." https://bit.ly/4hT02qg
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I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.
Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than a few years ago, according to a new analysis. “It really does look like a free fall,” Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology, said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”
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I found weird that this post blow out but looking inside turn out that some ANn accounts decided that dunk on the OP was the cool thing to do.
This "fucking weebs" genre of elitism is so silly. Why should the English version of titles be the standard? Why should MAL use the English names for anime by default? He doesn't even provide a good reason for this stance.
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Replying to @lethalityjane.bsky.social
BlueSky saying "well I've never heard of this person" like it means something. Last week you were all telling me you'd never heard an Ed Sheeran song. At some point you have to stop and ask yourselves if the real problem is that you haven't been in touch with new music since 2013.
There is a say about language learning: "use it or lose it", I guess it applies to other parts of the cognition.
In a study of doctors in Poland, using an AI for three months, then ceasing to use it, resulted in a 20% loss of skill and accuracy. Cognitive systems are metabolically expensive. When your brain knows there's a substitute, it resents not having access to it.
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The most charitable thing I can say about Snyder is that he is very hyper competent in a narrow camp that is producing images and nothing else. That is why he doesn't understand subtext and why he is very ideologically confuses.
300 is indeed very gay. It's also one of the key texts of the War on Terror: a clash of civilizations between the masculine, enlightened West and the decadent, subhuman East that hit theaters two months after the Iraq troop surge was announced. variety.com/2026/film/fe...
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Almost 24 years since Mike Webster passing and 20 after the NFL lost its legal battle with his state, was plenty of time for the League to change the game enough to make it less dangerous. Instead, the current zeitgeist around fans is the modern game is too soft and players should endure more abuse.
A new study shows an alarming rate of CTE among former NFL players: At least 1 in 4 who died from 2016 to 2021 had the degenerative brain disease. And the rate might be even higher. Read more: nyti.ms/4ggtNSx
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“There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible” it's such a hard line to drop as a critique, that I will simply applaud uncritical Wilson's essay.
‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Probably an event/shift status quo that would hold incredible well in a modern context, but for a teenage me reading the main Batman title and other tie-ins was an unbearable slog. To the point that stopped reading DC comics for a while. lol
#EventsDearBoy 12. NO MAN'S LAND (1999, DC) *Tammy Wynette voice* "All bound for No Man's Land..." - this Bat-monster gets the award for the highest placing of anything I hadn't read at all before. It just seemed too huge: the year-long central plank in a saga of catastrophe and rebuilding