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personal computing, magazine, cover (1977) archive.org/details/Pers...
February 6, 2026 at 5:47 AM
personal computing, magazine, cover (1977) archive.org/details/Pers...
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reading a bunch of emails from dracula with the subject line "re: bood" body text "nd more thalls 4 blod" and being like "did he disable spell check, how is he even sending these out like this"
February 5, 2026 at 3:51 AM
reading a bunch of emails from dracula with the subject line "re: bood" body text "nd more thalls 4 blod" and being like "did he disable spell check, how is he even sending these out like this"
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this is a great point and to that end: why isn't Anthropic building a salesforce competitor or whatever? Surely they could with the magic of Claude Code based on all the crap I've read
Once again: if these LLMs could actually do all the things their owners claim, they wouldn’t be selling access. They would be building and selling all the things they claim their software can do.
February 5, 2026 at 12:54 AM
this is a great point and to that end: why isn't Anthropic building a salesforce competitor or whatever? Surely they could with the magic of Claude Code based on all the crap I've read
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It should frankly be illegal for corporations to willingly share your information with law enforcement without a judicial warrant.
Hell, it should be illegal for corporations to share/sell/trade any aspect of your information with anyone.
Hell, it should be illegal for corporations to share/sell/trade any aspect of your information with anyone.
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:20 AM
It should frankly be illegal for corporations to willingly share your information with law enforcement without a judicial warrant.
Hell, it should be illegal for corporations to share/sell/trade any aspect of your information with anyone.
Hell, it should be illegal for corporations to share/sell/trade any aspect of your information with anyone.
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hey wanna see 39 seconds of perfect video editing?
February 3, 2026 at 4:42 AM
hey wanna see 39 seconds of perfect video editing?
Watched the 1990 movie "Hired to Kill" recently. It's bad! In a boring way! It's all down hill after the first 30 seconds, but what a way to open.
February 2, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Watched the 1990 movie "Hired to Kill" recently. It's bad! In a boring way! It's all down hill after the first 30 seconds, but what a way to open.
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Here ya go!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/rif...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/rif...
February 2, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Here ya go!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/rif...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/rif...
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the pain and pleasure of video games!, article, art, score!, magazine (1983) archive.org/details/Scor...
January 25, 2026 at 11:33 PM
the pain and pleasure of video games!, article, art, score!, magazine (1983) archive.org/details/Scor...
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i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org
xikipedia.org
February 1, 2026 at 11:43 PM
i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org
xikipedia.org
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So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume
An unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume angrily confronted Santa Clara city officials during a joint meeting of the City Council, city authorities, and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority on Monday, using his public comment to condemn the city’s stance on cooperation with ICE.
January 31, 2026 at 9:52 PM
So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume
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I got a message from Bluesky today that one of my posts violated their community guidelines regarding respectful discourse but they dont tell me which post it was. How am I supposed to double down!?
January 31, 2026 at 4:31 PM
I got a message from Bluesky today that one of my posts violated their community guidelines regarding respectful discourse but they dont tell me which post it was. How am I supposed to double down!?
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I'm starting to feel a little better about After Earth.
This is for the Friday 8pm show at one of the big multiplexes in the Bay Area.
This is for the Friday 8pm show at one of the big multiplexes in the Bay Area.
January 29, 2026 at 3:54 AM
I'm starting to feel a little better about After Earth.
This is for the Friday 8pm show at one of the big multiplexes in the Bay Area.
This is for the Friday 8pm show at one of the big multiplexes in the Bay Area.
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"let people enjoy things"
January 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
"let people enjoy things"
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WHO'S READY TO GET MERKED
January 28, 2026 at 6:05 AM
WHO'S READY TO GET MERKED
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ALERT! We're giving away ten 3-month subscriptions to the OTTSS Patreon. You have until next Wednesday, January 28th to enter, but why wait??
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forms.gle/J1KWYnFzQty6...
Oh These, Those Stars of Space! Membership Drawing!
Wow! Fill out the below form for a chance at winning a three-month subscription to the OTTSS Patreon. Come see some moons with us!
RULES
Drawing will run until Wednesday, January 28th, Midnight EST ...
forms.gle
January 21, 2026 at 5:37 PM
ALERT! We're giving away ten 3-month subscriptions to the OTTSS Patreon. You have until next Wednesday, January 28th to enter, but why wait??
forms.gle/J1KWYnFzQty6...
forms.gle/J1KWYnFzQty6...
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can you imagine being the federal agent assigned to bluesky, just getting scolded by deep space nine experts while all your buddies get like challenge coins
January 24, 2026 at 10:34 PM
can you imagine being the federal agent assigned to bluesky, just getting scolded by deep space nine experts while all your buddies get like challenge coins
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that outfit all like
January 22, 2026 at 9:43 PM
that outfit all like
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Y'know those "mark if you're safe" things for earthquakes and stuff? We need that for if a major sport is happening. Like it makes you click on that before you post, then it remains in effect for the length of whatever big sport is going on, auto-adds #sports to your posts
bluesky needs a “DON’T GET WORRIED / EXCITED: it’s just sports” banner
January 20, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Y'know those "mark if you're safe" things for earthquakes and stuff? We need that for if a major sport is happening. Like it makes you click on that before you post, then it remains in effect for the length of whatever big sport is going on, auto-adds #sports to your posts
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My take is that professional politicians have to give an offramp to regretful Trump voters, but I, as a regular person, don't have to do shit. I will hold it against them until I die
Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives
This is aggravating, because on the one hand I think it's really important to give fascists an off-ramp and positive reinforcement when they use it...
...on the other hand, FUCK that guy, in particular.
...on the other hand, FUCK that guy, in particular.
January 18, 2026 at 8:53 PM
My take is that professional politicians have to give an offramp to regretful Trump voters, but I, as a regular person, don't have to do shit. I will hold it against them until I die
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teenage mutant ninja turtles, magazine screenshots (1989) archive.org/details/game...
August 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
teenage mutant ninja turtles, magazine screenshots (1989) archive.org/details/game...
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[cascading Home Improvement grunt sounds that overwhelm my speakers and explode my brain]
“.. Are we really gonna be the Gestapo, 'Where's your papers?' Is that what we've come to?"
January 13, 2026 at 9:16 PM
[cascading Home Improvement grunt sounds that overwhelm my speakers and explode my brain]
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Scott Adams dying at 68 rather than 69 is the perfect capstone to a life of being almost — but not quite — funny
January 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Scott Adams dying at 68 rather than 69 is the perfect capstone to a life of being almost — but not quite — funny