The Birdbassador
@Birdbassador
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enthusiast of things you like, detester of the things you don't like, but not in a mean way so i don't seem off-putting. just generally a solid follow
Joined March 2011
the Tao that can be tweeted is sure as hell not the eternal Tao.
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Making a second brief return to twitter to report that @TBQuarterly sent me a (very nice!) rejection letter for a poem I wrote about tacos, which I am using as permission to just throw the thing on Medium along with several paragraphs of commentary
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The problem is that today, in the double movement of the progressive commodification of aesthetics and the aesthetification of the universe…
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Does this mean I get to write a “why I’m leaving not-quite-academia” blog post, is that a genre already.
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Briefly back on twitter to say that I got laid off, so let me know if you know anybody who is interested in the stuff I do enough to pay me for it.
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had a dream that i submitted something so bad that they gave me a video of looping stock footage of sharks with the words “CAN’T WRITE” prominently displayed that i was (legally?) obligated to prepend to all future writing. mockup attached
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if and when this website dies i will just retreat down a strata or two to earlier websites. see you all on the something awful forums to discuss the plot progress of keenspot webcomics and uk twee/anorak. failing that, my aim screenname is also available on request.
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Christ and there’s a “significance” field too. This is what I get for just reviewing free form and only checking the actual review form at the last minute. Just give me a text box and a final score, thanks.
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Why do conferences/journals sometimes ask reviewers for a novelty/originality score? The only thing it does is create bad incentive structures. Reject work if it’s plagiarized, sure, but why on earth should a reviewer care about “originality” beyond that?.
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RT @AlexJB497: Phenomenal. Bar-tailed Godwit has broken its own record: a first-year bird (five months old!) has flown 13,560 km—just shy o….
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RT @bobbyteriyaki: “I can’t believe twitter is free” it isn’t, there is an inconceivable toll.
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I kept this to sub 2k words, that’s gotta count for something. Also I am over a week behind on work emails.
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in scooby doo, the desire to get those teens away from the pirate gold or whatever is, in a libidinal sense, more "real" than the villain's identity as an inn keeper etc. so, the mask, to me, is precisely what fred paradoxically "reveals" when he removes the visage of the monster.
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After several months of truly insufferable writing, I have completed my initial summary of the Lacanian elements of the anime where master tactician Zhuge Liang becomes a club promoter.
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RT @MaijaKarala: According to The Inner Bird by Gary W. Kaiser, the true bird is ”a strange goblin-like creature”, ”a puppeteer behind a sc….
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it’s a testament to charlotte the spider’s inherent goodness that she can say “salutations” and we think it’s endearing instead of being the start of an e-mail where they try to convince me that the IRS needs iTunes gift cards.
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relaxing post conference trip to the museum of osteology
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I will be giving this talk in mere minutes. I was convinced by well-meaning friends to cut out the five slides I had about Jacques Lacan and the 12 slides about Gettier problems in epistemology #ieeevis.
What will VIS look like in the future? What are people worried about when they think about visualization as a field of research? Investigate our laundry list of anxieties @birdbassador #ieeevis
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