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The gurney is the reward.
What is protest, if not rage persevering?
#TCMParty #NoirAlley
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Recovering engineer.
The gurney is the reward.
What is protest, if not rage persevering?
#TCMParty #NoirAlley
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· Nov 9
Tonight I'm watching the original #GoneIn60Seconds which just gets right into it. I like a crime procedural from the criminal
POV.
POV.
February 19, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Tonight I'm watching the original #GoneIn60Seconds which just gets right into it. I like a crime procedural from the criminal
POV.
POV.
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I'm gonna repeat my comment.
Talking about nonexistent "super intelligent" machines is like talking about the Cookie Monster rather than corporations creating real things causing harm. A non existent machine god bringing apocalypse or utopia is a framing that is harmful. Period.
Talking about nonexistent "super intelligent" machines is like talking about the Cookie Monster rather than corporations creating real things causing harm. A non existent machine god bringing apocalypse or utopia is a framing that is harmful. Period.
February 19, 2026 at 3:19 AM
I'm gonna repeat my comment.
Talking about nonexistent "super intelligent" machines is like talking about the Cookie Monster rather than corporations creating real things causing harm. A non existent machine god bringing apocalypse or utopia is a framing that is harmful. Period.
Talking about nonexistent "super intelligent" machines is like talking about the Cookie Monster rather than corporations creating real things causing harm. A non existent machine god bringing apocalypse or utopia is a framing that is harmful. Period.
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Awww! He’s beautiful, too! Found kitties are the best. I feel like socializing them a lot when they’re young makes them sweeter, but that could also just be a random coincidence.
November 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Awww! He’s beautiful, too! Found kitties are the best. I feel like socializing them a lot when they’re young makes them sweeter, but that could also just be a random coincidence.
As part of my research into Parisian milliners of 1831, I found a delightful illustrated monograph on the 19th century attitudes towards the omibus! It has pictures like this one. /
February 19, 2026 at 12:37 AM
As part of my research into Parisian milliners of 1831, I found a delightful illustrated monograph on the 19th century attitudes towards the omibus! It has pictures like this one. /
Victor Hugo did not make an error when saying that his protagonists saw Venus as a morning star in autumn 1831, as long as it was past mid-October.
I think this means he more likely confused the data on 1823-12-24 & 1832-02-04 and deliberately made the moon full on the latter date.
I think this means he more likely confused the data on 1823-12-24 & 1832-02-04 and deliberately made the moon full on the latter date.
February 18, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Victor Hugo did not make an error when saying that his protagonists saw Venus as a morning star in autumn 1831, as long as it was past mid-October.
I think this means he more likely confused the data on 1823-12-24 & 1832-02-04 and deliberately made the moon full on the latter date.
I think this means he more likely confused the data on 1823-12-24 & 1832-02-04 and deliberately made the moon full on the latter date.
From the indignity of being a cat in the rat race, obvs
"is the cat's anger coming from being the only cat accountant at an all-human firm? or is it something else?"
February 18, 2026 at 7:58 PM
From the indignity of being a cat in the rat race, obvs
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I bought this book to add to my classic movie source collection, but I love it as much for the cover as the contents. Do you have any books with display-worthy covers?
#VintageBooks #BookCovers #ClothBound #AntiqueBooks
#BookCollectors #VintageStyle #Bibliophile #OldBooks
#VintageBooks #BookCovers #ClothBound #AntiqueBooks
#BookCollectors #VintageStyle #Bibliophile #OldBooks
February 18, 2026 at 4:42 PM
I bought this book to add to my classic movie source collection, but I love it as much for the cover as the contents. Do you have any books with display-worthy covers?
#VintageBooks #BookCovers #ClothBound #AntiqueBooks
#BookCollectors #VintageStyle #Bibliophile #OldBooks
#VintageBooks #BookCovers #ClothBound #AntiqueBooks
#BookCollectors #VintageStyle #Bibliophile #OldBooks
I considered it for a long time, but finally had to add this feature to the daily Les Mis prompts. It became unavoidable once Hugo started describing Cosette's transition to his notion of womanhood.
"Laissez les deux yeux rouler"
"Laissez les deux yeux rouler"
February 18, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I considered it for a long time, but finally had to add this feature to the daily Les Mis prompts. It became unavoidable once Hugo started describing Cosette's transition to his notion of womanhood.
"Laissez les deux yeux rouler"
"Laissez les deux yeux rouler"
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“My bot, called Molty, likes to call itself a ‘chaos gremlin.’”
I’m gonna go ahead and stop you there.
I’m gonna go ahead and stop you there.
I Loved My OpenClaw AI Agent—Until It Turned on Me
I used the viral AI helper to order groceries, sort emails, and negotiate deals. Then it decided to scam me.
www.wired.com
February 18, 2026 at 3:23 PM
“My bot, called Molty, likes to call itself a ‘chaos gremlin.’”
I’m gonna go ahead and stop you there.
I’m gonna go ahead and stop you there.
Ursula Le Guin wrote a response to this kind of nonsense years ago. Read it instead.
www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
February 18, 2026 at 5:17 AM
Ursula Le Guin wrote a response to this kind of nonsense years ago. Read it instead.
www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
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The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 3:51 AM
The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires
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Something about LLM hype culture renders a man immune to the experience of embarrassment. If I couldn’t tell the difference between PhD-level scholarship and grammatical gibberish I simply would not announce that to a global audience.
February 17, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Something about LLM hype culture renders a man immune to the experience of embarrassment. If I couldn’t tell the difference between PhD-level scholarship and grammatical gibberish I simply would not announce that to a global audience.
On Mastodon, we're looking at a watch on 2/28. Anyone here interested?
OK #NoirAlley noiristas and #TCMParty Fam. The movie based on Landru's story, written by Orson Welles and starring Charlie Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, is available on Criterion.
Who wants to do a group watch?
www.criterionchannel.com/monsieur-ver...
Who wants to do a group watch?
www.criterionchannel.com/monsieur-ver...
February 17, 2026 at 3:28 AM
On Mastodon, we're looking at a watch on 2/28. Anyone here interested?
receipt of the day, found in the back cover of my used but pristine copy of McGee's 2004 update of On Food and Cooking.
I think placing the receipt in there was the only time the spine was cracked.
Thank you anonymous purchaser. I paid $14 for it from Kitchen Culture on SE Foster.
I think placing the receipt in there was the only time the spine was cracked.
Thank you anonymous purchaser. I paid $14 for it from Kitchen Culture on SE Foster.
February 16, 2026 at 10:01 PM
receipt of the day, found in the back cover of my used but pristine copy of McGee's 2004 update of On Food and Cooking.
I think placing the receipt in there was the only time the spine was cracked.
Thank you anonymous purchaser. I paid $14 for it from Kitchen Culture on SE Foster.
I think placing the receipt in there was the only time the spine was cracked.
Thank you anonymous purchaser. I paid $14 for it from Kitchen Culture on SE Foster.
'[Duvall immersed himself] for other...roles...[such as] Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, who loved “the smell of napalm in the morning”...For years...people would routinely come up to him and recite that line, as if it were some little secret known only to him and them.'
Parasociality is a helluva drug.
Parasociality is a helluva drug.
February 16, 2026 at 7:31 PM
'[Duvall immersed himself] for other...roles...[such as] Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, who loved “the smell of napalm in the morning”...For years...people would routinely come up to him and recite that line, as if it were some little secret known only to him and them.'
Parasociality is a helluva drug.
Parasociality is a helluva drug.
The concept of the "miners" of society looking to undermine it and return to despotism was used by Victor Hugo in Les Miserables, 3.7.1, Mines and Miners (Les mines et les mineurs), which came out a little after Lincoln wrote this, I believe. You can read it in translation and original here: /
“They are the vanguard — the miners, and sappers — of returning despotism. We must repulse them, or they will subjugate us.”
February 16, 2026 at 7:24 PM
The concept of the "miners" of society looking to undermine it and return to despotism was used by Victor Hugo in Les Miserables, 3.7.1, Mines and Miners (Les mines et les mineurs), which came out a little after Lincoln wrote this, I believe. You can read it in translation and original here: /
Local Idiot parks car illegally during telephone-pole replacement and will be surprised if car covered with cement dust, creosote, and possibly a pole.
February 16, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Local Idiot parks car illegally during telephone-pole replacement and will be surprised if car covered with cement dust, creosote, and possibly a pole.
I can't see the title of #IRememberMama without thinking of the 70's horror movie they titled similarly. #TCMParty
February 16, 2026 at 7:10 PM
I can't see the title of #IRememberMama without thinking of the 70's horror movie they titled similarly. #TCMParty
Claude is proof that software guys will burn forests and drain lakes rather than talk to users.
February 16, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Claude is proof that software guys will burn forests and drain lakes rather than talk to users.
OK #NoirAlley noiristas and #TCMParty Fam. The movie based on Landru's story, written by Orson Welles and starring Charlie Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, is available on Criterion.
Who wants to do a group watch?
www.criterionchannel.com/monsieur-ver...
Who wants to do a group watch?
www.criterionchannel.com/monsieur-ver...
February 16, 2026 at 6:33 PM
OK #NoirAlley noiristas and #TCMParty Fam. The movie based on Landru's story, written by Orson Welles and starring Charlie Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, is available on Criterion.
Who wants to do a group watch?
www.criterionchannel.com/monsieur-ver...
Who wants to do a group watch?
www.criterionchannel.com/monsieur-ver...
I want to emphasize what a revolution this statement is:
"Even when the LLM makes changes that work, they're not what a human would do and they don't care."
Code has 2 purposes: communicating to humans and instructing the machine. The Slopware Revolution is giving up on the first. They don't care.
"Even when the LLM makes changes that work, they're not what a human would do and they don't care."
Code has 2 purposes: communicating to humans and instructing the machine. The Slopware Revolution is giving up on the first. They don't care.
1 (cont'd) The codebase itself is treated as slop, so slopifiying it more with LLMs isn't considered bad. Even when the LLM makes changes that work, they're not what a human would do and they don't care.
2. Devops, where those responsible for creating code were made responsible for running it. /
2. Devops, where those responsible for creating code were made responsible for running it. /
February 16, 2026 at 5:47 PM
I want to emphasize what a revolution this statement is:
"Even when the LLM makes changes that work, they're not what a human would do and they don't care."
Code has 2 purposes: communicating to humans and instructing the machine. The Slopware Revolution is giving up on the first. They don't care.
"Even when the LLM makes changes that work, they're not what a human would do and they don't care."
Code has 2 purposes: communicating to humans and instructing the machine. The Slopware Revolution is giving up on the first. They don't care.