I think in this one, I started to notice it when the Swiss army knife has two scissors at 3:22, and found it very distracting from that point forward; I kept wondering if I had to check the author's work or not.

I think it depends a lot on the specific examples. Your examples I probably wouldn't even think about, but the more its used the more tiring it gets. Here's a concrete example from recent memory of a talk where I found it really obscuring the content. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGB...

In a pre-AI internet you plausibly believe that a photo found on google images depicts a thing that actually happened (a reality), whereas AI output is not a thing that has ever happened; it is a fabrication, a non-reality. What other non-realities is the speaker presenting as reality?

ten years ago five of those things would have found a way to involve bacon. bacon salt, bacon scented soap in the shape of bacon, bacon advent calendar, alligator bacon, bacon flavored bullets, bacon truck nuts

so many sci-fi stories are “robot wishes to pass as human” or “human finds out they were a robot all along” and not enough “human wishes to pass as robot” or “robot finds out late in life they were actually human the whole time”

as a programmer I do not accept tools that harm non-programmers just because they might be useful for me. That’s textbook sociopathic behavior, the type of thing that becomes normalized when programmers only talk to other programmers. It’s like saying “but asbestos is a good insulator”.

this is Jedi: Fallen Order erasure

his little "All In" badge is incredible in this context. Well done, sir.

“private” inasmuch as “private between your institutions”, not “end to end encrypted”. Your university or employer could read your email.

I want a feed where each person I follow has like … posters mana. posting costs 30 mana. max mana is 120. mana regen is 1 per minute. replying to someone who doesn’t follow you costs an additional 20 mana.

this cheese also sponsors an olympic gymnast so what does it mean that it is both a sponsor to athletes and has a talent agent of its own? makes you think

it’s extremely rad but I haven’t used it in years

a Tom & Jerry if you can find it. Failing that, Hot Buttered Rum. Brandy Alexander if you want something cold.

you don’t need a multiverse, just some perl

github.com/dancerj/dsh

if you do `cd a b` it should produce two shells, one rooted at `a` and one rooted at `b`, and all commands should go to both

Lobsters is a place that makes people more capable of building the Torment Nexus, but no less willing. That is, I would argue, the opposite of the foundational spirit of free software, and the thing I find concerning.

The Torment Nexus pays well. What, if not culture, can countervail that?