@mcdemarco to my business associates, but you can call me M. C. DeMarco.

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I'm a web programmer and speculative fiction writer [mcdemarco.net], likely to post about #bioinformatics, diseases, board games, #linguistics, Boston weather, and the MBTA.

Shiny is better.

@33MHz This year I've gone particularly large with an interactive story that the reader can take in various geographical directions like the Fabled Lands books, although it's neither RPG-style nor quite as flexible; time passes and you can't go backwards.
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@33MHz @olszowka I don't tend to rebel by revising (not that anything counts as rebellion anymore), but I have never managed to write a Whole Thing in a month, even when I've hoped to keep it down to 50k. That's just not a good thing size.
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@33MHz I guess I'm not shaving... wait, no, @olzowka isn't shaving but he hasn't in a year. I'm doing #NaNoWriMo. I'm two days behind on my word count and need to catch up.
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@33MHz Thanks! Consistency is the bugbear of something something...
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@33MHz I thought it was a little gimmicky, but it could be fun. @olszowka is particularly annoyed by gerrymandering; hopefully he'll enjoy it. Or come up with some anti-gerrymandering rules where you try to make the districts fair and representative, ha!
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I just backed Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering Game on @Kickstarter http://kck.st/2NEioN2

Shipping is only reasonable to the US and possibly Canada, and the only other choices are UK and Australia, FYI.
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@blumenkraft I'm not sure my lobbying worked, though, so don't get your super-hopes up! @33MHz
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@33MHz I lobbied for the one with rampant censorship led by an unstable supernational organization whose member states boast an impressive history of fascism but none of freedom of speech.
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@33MHz ...for trackers!
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Funny, if I delete all Google's tracking cookies in Safari, they think I'm on a new phone (and annoyingly send me lots of security warnings when I open non-Safari apps).
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@joe @Skematica Though it was producers complaining, the problem is actually for consumers like me. But I never trusted YouTube's suggestions and always went directly to the video list of a particular producer to find new videos. Maybe I'm just paranoid.
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Feed curation has hit YouTube and, as usual, people are unhappy about it. If I were going to start a social media network, my first promise would be never to forcibly curate your feed, ever.
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It's like when the Patriots play in the snow and win: everybody else has roof on their stadium but we make our guys play in the snow all the time so they're used to it.
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The weather was so bad here today that an American woman (from Michigan, where the weather also regularly sucks) won the marathon.
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"This field is full of conflicting data, shifting methods, unreplicated surveys, and – and I didn’t even realize this was a problem it was possible for a field to have – is super-confusing because everyone involved is named Diener." -- SSC on the Amish [slatestarcodex.com]
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@33MHz You're welcome. At least it's threaded...
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Slate Star Codex reviewed Jordan Peterson's self-help book, and the comments thread goes into more detail about his politics or lack thereof. I thought this comment [slatestarcodex.com] was the most interesting take on the intersection between his philosophy and psychology.
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@33MHz @EchoDunk An interesting theory: https://www.reddit.com/r/StructuralEngineering/comments/84p2vu/fiu_pedestrian_bridge_whilst_under_construction/dvt59ob/
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@EchoDunk @33MHz My first guess was the novel self-cleaning concrete, but nobody seems to be pointing fingers in that direction.
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@EchoDunk @33MHz Inspections are all about catching the corner-cutting subcontractors before the whole thing collapses, so it's unlikely to be entirely caused by missing corners.
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