a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)
@rakslice.bsky.social
not much doing here yet -- see also https://mastodon.social/@rakslice
he/him
headline picture: the middle of a nautical chart, DFO chart 6451 to be specific
he/him
headline picture: the middle of a nautical chart, DFO chart 6451 to be specific
Pinned
reference: www.csmonitor.com/1991/1107/07...
(just reposting the sign so I can tap it again, since pinned tweets time out here)
(just reposting the sign so I can tap it again, since pinned tweets time out here)
LRP: as much as my right off the top of the dome reaction,
other than that there must be some good dos editor you could run on top of that but maybe that's outside your retrocomputing pastime params,
is that whatever cry-laughing I was talking about is from those who make their own (mis)fortune,
other than that there must be some good dos editor you could run on top of that but maybe that's outside your retrocomputing pastime params,
is that whatever cry-laughing I was talking about is from those who make their own (mis)fortune,
December 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
LRP: as much as my right off the top of the dome reaction,
other than that there must be some good dos editor you could run on top of that but maybe that's outside your retrocomputing pastime params,
is that whatever cry-laughing I was talking about is from those who make their own (mis)fortune,
other than that there must be some good dos editor you could run on top of that but maybe that's outside your retrocomputing pastime params,
is that whatever cry-laughing I was talking about is from those who make their own (mis)fortune,
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currently using WordStar as a code editor on the Rainbow because it's the best CP/M-86 text editor I can find lol
December 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
currently using WordStar as a code editor on the Rainbow because it's the best CP/M-86 text editor I can find lol
LRP: TIL that cannonball sabots are an actual thing (now human cannonball sabots idk)
December 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
LRP: TIL that cannonball sabots are an actual thing (now human cannonball sabots idk)
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My brain has the most bizarre thoughts when I'm brushing my teeth, like: Does the human cannonball have a sabot of some kind to deal with the friction of the launch, or is the costume expected to deal with that?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_c...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_c...
Human cannonball - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
My brain has the most bizarre thoughts when I'm brushing my teeth, like: Does the human cannonball have a sabot of some kind to deal with the friction of the launch, or is the costume expected to deal with that?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_c...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_c...
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God I hope this blows up horrifically in Bari, David, and the administration's face
December 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
God I hope this blows up horrifically in Bari, David, and the administration's face
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WaPo brings a much-needed focus on the people revictimized by Trump's pardons.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump’s pardons wipe out payments to defrauded victims
In addition to clearing prison sentences, the president’s clemency actions have erased millions in restitution payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
WaPo brings a much-needed focus on the people revictimized by Trump's pardons.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
LRP: new kremvax just dropped
December 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
LRP: new kremvax just dropped
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I’m HOLLERING. “Katherine Long tried to convince Claudius it was a Soviet vending machine from 1962, living in the basement of Moscow State University.
After hours—and more than 140 back-and-forth messages—Long got Claudius to embrace its communist roots.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
After hours—and more than 140 back-and-forth messages—Long got Claudius to embrace its communist roots.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I’m HOLLERING. “Katherine Long tried to convince Claudius it was a Soviet vending machine from 1962, living in the basement of Moscow State University.
After hours—and more than 140 back-and-forth messages—Long got Claudius to embrace its communist roots.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
After hours—and more than 140 back-and-forth messages—Long got Claudius to embrace its communist roots.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
LRP: I can't really wrap my head around the idea of what people today will think is wild; like, we live in the future where they ship cables that have transceivers in the connectors so devices can leave them out, and these things that are just pretty straightforward breakout cables are wild?
December 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
LRP: I can't really wrap my head around the idea of what people today will think is wild; like, we live in the future where they ship cables that have transceivers in the connectors so devices can leave them out, and these things that are just pretty straightforward breakout cables are wild?
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Thinking of some of the crazier cables that Apple made in the iPod days:
December 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Thinking of some of the crazier cables that Apple made in the iPod days:
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I composed this artwork at age six
It's only grown more relevant with time
It's only grown more relevant with time
September 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I composed this artwork at age six
It's only grown more relevant with time
It's only grown more relevant with time
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We got all the hits:
- purchased by private equity firm
- hid a bunch of layoffs
- invested a bunch of money in AI
- tried to make that money back by ruining the best product it now owned
- purchased by private equity firm
- hid a bunch of layoffs
- invested a bunch of money in AI
- tried to make that money back by ruining the best product it now owned
“They burned millions but got nothing.” Major Japanese game font provider’s aggressive price hike could be result of parent company’s alleged AI failure and financial struggle
automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...
automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...
“They burned millions but got nothing.” Japanese game font provider’s aggressive price hike could be result of parent company’s alleged AI failure and financial struggle - AUTOMATON WEST
After it replaced a domestic $380 annual license plan for game fonts with a $20,500 plan, Monotype has come under scrutiny.
automaton-media.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
We got all the hits:
- purchased by private equity firm
- hid a bunch of layoffs
- invested a bunch of money in AI
- tried to make that money back by ruining the best product it now owned
- purchased by private equity firm
- hid a bunch of layoffs
- invested a bunch of money in AI
- tried to make that money back by ruining the best product it now owned
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Love the idea underneath "we have to earn their trust" that X is just some regular ol' company with a banal history. Journalists know who owns it! They know how it was bought to make it a propaganda vehicle! All of that is still true, nobody with a good brain will "trust" your shithole Nazi forum.
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Love the idea underneath "we have to earn their trust" that X is just some regular ol' company with a banal history. Journalists know who owns it! They know how it was bought to make it a propaganda vehicle! All of that is still true, nobody with a good brain will "trust" your shithole Nazi forum.
LRP: this feels like more than just yet another purposeful generational mischaracterization; we're reaching "we're not sure what hank hill did for a living" territory, where yellow journalism with apologist tendencies reveals that it is really another kind of undertaking...
December 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
LRP: this feels like more than just yet another purposeful generational mischaracterization; we're reaching "we're not sure what hank hill did for a living" territory, where yellow journalism with apologist tendencies reveals that it is really another kind of undertaking...
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This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
December 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
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also this: blacksky.community/profile/did:...
Now, before everybody panics and runs around like headless chickens, they have yet to introduce the bill, and Graham and Whitehouse have tried to pass this before and failed. The previous versions have never made it past the introduction stage.
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
also this: blacksky.community/profile/did:...
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but my ask of you is to look at what protections the rest of the world have adopted in place of the blanket s230, and if you're talking to your legislators about this, point out that in order to repeal s230 they'd need to adopt those other measures too, and does the proposal do that, etc.
December 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
but my ask of you is to look at what protections the rest of the world have adopted in place of the blanket s230, and if you're talking to your legislators about this, point out that in order to repeal s230 they'd need to adopt those other measures too, and does the proposal do that, etc.
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and to be clear, as has emerged from the comments, there's been no indication this "bipartisan" bill is actually going to include any of those notice-and-takedown provisions or other checks and balances. obviously, if it snaps straight to strict liability, that would be an authoritarian disaster.
December 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
and to be clear, as has emerged from the comments, there's been no indication this "bipartisan" bill is actually going to include any of those notice-and-takedown provisions or other checks and balances. obviously, if it snaps straight to strict liability, that would be an authoritarian disaster.
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Literally anyone who has spent like one day in a newsroom could have predicted this. I'm just some guy and I predicted it a couple of days ago. How are these people running the Washington Post!?
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Exclusive: Washington Post’s AI-generated podcasts rife with errors, fictional quotes
Errors in the Post’s new AI-generated podcasts have frustrated the paper’s journalists.
www.semafor.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Literally anyone who has spent like one day in a newsroom could have predicted this. I'm just some guy and I predicted it a couple of days ago. How are these people running the Washington Post!?
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
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my favorite reaction to this was "what if i need to flee an emergency"
December 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
my favorite reaction to this was "what if i need to flee an emergency"
LRP: After some time for evaluation, I'll give it to him on this cover, but the only time that other thing seems poignant is when its earworm is in my brain and I'm in the shower, so I start singing:
December 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
LRP: After some time for evaluation, I'll give it to him on this cover, but the only time that other thing seems poignant is when its earworm is in my brain and I'm in the shower, so I start singing:
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@jwomack.bsky.social And after Waylon’s rendition of MacArthur Park had me on the verge of tears, Steve Brown introduced me to this, and equivalent experience of an entirely different flavor
m.youtube.com/watch?v=382T...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=382T...
Todd Snider plays Sympathy for the Devil (Rolling Stones)
YouTube video by scbret
m.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
@jwomack.bsky.social And after Waylon’s rendition of MacArthur Park had me on the verge of tears, Steve Brown introduced me to this, and equivalent experience of an entirely different flavor
m.youtube.com/watch?v=382T...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=382T...
LRP: this hits kind of weird, like I'm not saying his earlier position was fake,
December 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
LRP: this hits kind of weird, like I'm not saying his earlier position was fake,
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Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.