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Beating old NES games for the first time like 40 year old vendettas from my youth.
December 26, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Beating old NES games for the first time like 40 year old vendettas from my youth.
this is christmas in vancouver in case anybody was wondering
December 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
this is christmas in vancouver in case anybody was wondering
explain your username:
it's my actual name and it rules and i finally grew into it in my late teens and have been camping on 'dorian' everywhere i can since efnet
it's my actual name and it rules and i finally grew into it in my late teens and have been camping on 'dorian' everywhere i can since efnet
Explain your username:
i dwell in others' burrows. nothing to do with ants
i dwell in others' burrows. nothing to do with ants
Explain your username:
I’m a librarian to narwhals.
I’m a librarian to narwhals.
December 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
explain your username:
it's my actual name and it rules and i finally grew into it in my late teens and have been camping on 'dorian' everywhere i can since efnet
it's my actual name and it rules and i finally grew into it in my late teens and have been camping on 'dorian' everywhere i can since efnet
being told to face the other way as kitchen island is conscripted for gift wrapping despite moratorium on xmas gifts this year
every year: no moar xmas gifts we are all adults now
every year: defections all around
every year: no moar xmas gifts we are all adults now
every year: defections all around
December 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
being told to face the other way as kitchen island is conscripted for gift wrapping despite moratorium on xmas gifts this year
every year: no moar xmas gifts we are all adults now
every year: defections all around
every year: no moar xmas gifts we are all adults now
every year: defections all around
can't wait for the meta-analysis supercut in a couple years that estimates the costs from all the externalities generated by AI
Is it just me or is AI making MORE legal work to respond to AI bad legal advice?
December 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
can't wait for the meta-analysis supercut in a couple years that estimates the costs from all the externalities generated by AI
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just be web browser 💢
October 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
just be web browser 💢
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so funny story the first time i heard the phrase "human flourishing" i was on a first date with someone who later turned out to be one of those NXIVM girls
So hear me out: what if we had like a coding academy that would make us into philosophers—but not the lame kind of philosophers that *think* things. We’d be the cool kind of philosophers that *do* things. Things like blockchain. And AGI. And human flourishing. Hey are people still doing NFT’s?
December 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
so funny story the first time i heard the phrase "human flourishing" i was on a first date with someone who later turned out to be one of those NXIVM girls
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At long last, we’ve created the Spectacle from classic French critical philosophy book Don’t Invent the Spectacle
December 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
At long last, we’ve created the Spectacle from classic French critical philosophy book Don’t Invent the Spectacle
loooolllllllll feelin' treach
The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery."
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
loooolllllllll feelin' treach
December 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Dorian and I are both available for hire. At least I know I am. Probably Dorian too.
lol love how we were both like 'they hundo-p fucked this up but we are too lazy to confirm it'
December 23, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Dorian and I are both available for hire. At least I know I am. Probably Dorian too.
love how "classic redaction fail" is enough of a thing that you know exactly what it means
i can't remember my pdf spec at the moment but how much you wanna bet there's even moar text in these things
i can't remember my pdf spec at the moment but how much you wanna bet there's even moar text in these things
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
December 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM
love how "classic redaction fail" is enough of a thing that you know exactly what it means
i can't remember my pdf spec at the moment but how much you wanna bet there's even moar text in these things
i can't remember my pdf spec at the moment but how much you wanna bet there's even moar text in these things
given that there *is* a nonzero footprint of utility for these things, i submit the next question should make a distinction between the technology proper and its specific incarnation as a product category, and the archetypal relationship with the vendors (i.e., renting an API endpoint in perpetuity)
also developing a language for things they *are* ostensibly genuinely good for, like discovery and abductive situations, to build some consensus on a role for it in society, instead of arguing from a position of 100% good vs 100% bad
December 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
given that there *is* a nonzero footprint of utility for these things, i submit the next question should make a distinction between the technology proper and its specific incarnation as a product category, and the archetypal relationship with the vendors (i.e., renting an API endpoint in perpetuity)
haha thinking also hercules, james woods, and the 'nuge
nicki minaj's maga turn is extremely predictable, her husband has been bled dry by his sexual abuse victims suing him and winning their cases. of course a has been artist will go full reactionary to get a cash cow
December 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
haha thinking also hercules, james woods, and the 'nuge
i tire of this Discourse
December 22, 2025 at 7:02 AM
i tire of this Discourse
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lol, my job is smart cow
January 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
lol, my job is smart cow
you guys my mom just made an all your base joke
December 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
you guys my mom just made an all your base joke
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in re the waymo meltdown in the power outage: you know what's a really good disaster escape vehicle? a bicycle
December 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
in re the waymo meltdown in the power outage: you know what's a really good disaster escape vehicle? a bicycle
thinking about this, like do people:
• genuinely believe it won't make a difference who's in power
• believe the bad won't actually affect them much (or others worse)
• feel compelled to vote for their "team" (or who they're told to vote for)
• believe the outcome will actually be good for them
• genuinely believe it won't make a difference who's in power
• believe the bad won't actually affect them much (or others worse)
• feel compelled to vote for their "team" (or who they're told to vote for)
• believe the outcome will actually be good for them
nothing condemns Our Times more than the fact we appear to have *mostly democratically* elevated to power some of the most stupid assholes who have ever lived.
something is wrong with a country and system that ferrets out its most undisputedly horrible citizens and then gives them nuclear codes
something is wrong with a country and system that ferrets out its most undisputedly horrible citizens and then gives them nuclear codes
December 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
thinking about this, like do people:
• genuinely believe it won't make a difference who's in power
• believe the bad won't actually affect them much (or others worse)
• feel compelled to vote for their "team" (or who they're told to vote for)
• believe the outcome will actually be good for them
• genuinely believe it won't make a difference who's in power
• believe the bad won't actually affect them much (or others worse)
• feel compelled to vote for their "team" (or who they're told to vote for)
• believe the outcome will actually be good for them
you know you internet too much when you see a still from a talking head show and in your head you're like "oh that's [random person from the internet]"
December 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
you know you internet too much when you see a still from a talking head show and in your head you're like "oh that's [random person from the internet]"
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Obviously knowing both fixed and marginal expense gives us a slope and intercept of the total life cost. But in tech circles I have to dig to find compute per watt calculations. That’s backwards.
December 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Obviously knowing both fixed and marginal expense gives us a slope and intercept of the total life cost. But in tech circles I have to dig to find compute per watt calculations. That’s backwards.
i have somehow had an entire pot of coffee and it is not enough coffee
December 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
i have somehow had an entire pot of coffee and it is not enough coffee
saw this earlier (via @hypervisible.blacksky.app )and i read this as palmer luckey's version of the elon musk flamethrower
December 20, 2025 at 5:27 AM
saw this earlier (via @hypervisible.blacksky.app )and i read this as palmer luckey's version of the elon musk flamethrower