allison / is on Nostr

Poet, programmer, game designer. Assistant Arts Professor at NYU ITP. she/her 🏳️‍⚧️

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2025-05-22 17:35:22

measuring my age in how many glitch dot coms i've outlived

2025-05-13 21:58:48

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@nprofile…ekkm would you say that makes you an antidereferenceablitarian

2025-05-08 00:23:31

my little stack-based programming language for the game boy now has enough stuff in it that i can make a little guy move around the screen!
https://friend.camp/system/media_attachments/files/114/469/354/888/914/290/original/71b00978c8661e16.mp4

2025-04-25 21:05:27

hi everyone! my new book _Two of Pentacles_ comes out tomorrow (april 26th), and you can order a copy here: https://shop.nothing-to-say.org/products/two-of-pentacles if you've ever wanted to read a long experimental poem-essay(?) on the topic of a single tarot card that was composed using cut-up methods, randomness and combinatorial optimization, published in such a way that no two copies are alike, boy howdy are you in luck!

2025-04-08 13:12:42

"Calling it 'AI' is fast becoming yet another kind of anticipatory obedience." https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/calling-all-mad-scientists-reject-ai-as-a-framing/

2025-03-26 16:12:21

who decided to call it the myth of theseus and the minotaur and not "bull-terminated string"

2025-03-21 19:58:44

is it okay to use four-space tabs in C code, or will people get mad at me if I do that and then put the code on the internet?

2025-03-20 16:07:03

reminder that whenever the gop complains about "censorship" what they always always mean is "you're making me feel bad about being a white supremacist." when they say that universities shouldn't be able to "indoctrinate" students, what they always always mean is "you shouldn't be able to tell people that white supremacy is bad." it is never a good faith argument and it should never be treated as such

2025-03-07 19:40:17

so when i restarted firefox after updating to 136 there was an "ask google gemini" option in the contextual menu (right click). i couldn't find a way to disable it in settings, but there *was* a "hide google gemini" option in the contextual menu itself, so I clicked it. but there isn't a way to *re-enable* it in settings either, and now i'm wondering if i imagined the whole thing??

2025-03-03 18:50:01

i think you could make a pretty good cross-disciplinary multi-year high school math curriculum around the question of how to make decent offset curves from cubic bézier splines

2025-02-27 21:54:03

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@nprofile…j0he a lot like algorithm-driven social media in this way!

2025-02-24 01:13:18

here's how i got my kindle books into calibre on linux, without a current kindle serial number (1/n)

2025-02-19 19:15:37

please god give me the fortitude to think about python packaging today

2025-02-17 21:37:12

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@nprofile…qjds the gop will keep doubling down on the idea that the crashes are being caused by immigrants and DEI, while simultaneously rolling back safety regulations, and plane crashes will become a daily occurrence. it won't be a problem for the aviation industry though because Musk fanboys will doxx and assault anyone that reports on the crashes. Megan McArdle will write a WaPo column called "What Really Counts As A 'Plane Crash' Anyway"

2025-02-13 17:20:48

[in the faculty meeting] listen, this new technology is here to stay, and it's useless to fight against it. if we want to prepare our students for the jobs of the future, we *must* teach them how to (responsibly and ethically) purchase and consume up to five Taco BellⓇ Naked Chicken Chalupas™ each day

2025-02-08 16:14:01

https://friend.camp/system/media_attachments/files/113/969/124/767/857/361/original/b98f4200c54b7be4.jpeg
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2025-01-23 16:40:37

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@nprofile…9y5a this is wonderful, wow