~somasis
@somas.is
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the purest symbols of passion and ingenuity (unironic)
November 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
the purest symbols of passion and ingenuity (unironic)
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Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
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Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
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Let me just say that Valve really knows their audience by picking these two as poster children for the Steam Machine:
store.steampowered.com/sale/steamma...
store.steampowered.com/sale/steamma...
November 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Let me just say that Valve really knows their audience by picking these two as poster children for the Steam Machine:
store.steampowered.com/sale/steamma...
store.steampowered.com/sale/steamma...
applied to a job that specifically was asking for someone with Nix experience and got a rejection email literally 2 hours later 💔
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
applied to a job that specifically was asking for someone with Nix experience and got a rejection email literally 2 hours later 💔
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The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.
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![(Showing the tcrf.net page for Sex 2; having the game's thumbnail censored for probably obvious reasons.)
(Developer: Stone Heads[1]; Publisher: Aypio[1][2][3]; Platforms: PC-98, DOS, Windows)
"Sex 2 is the sequel to Sex where you follow the same basic premise: sex with sexy members of the opposite sex."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3mrjblg7toe5op6fnac2bivg/bafkreie56tphjkqwsyd55uapw62u64j4dvmgxpsru22vfe4sr6sxc7w66q@jpeg)
phish - birds of a feather (2018-08-10 @ walnut creek, raleigh, nc) phish.in/2018-08-10/b...
Listen to Birds of a Feather from August 10, 2018
An open source archive of live Phish audience recordings
phish.in
November 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
phish - birds of a feather (2018-08-10 @ walnut creek, raleigh, nc) phish.in/2018-08-10/b...
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I know you ALL want to hear more about my transition... 🏳️⚧️
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TO LINUX! 🐧
playingps2.xyz/musings/linux/
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TO LINUX! 🐧
playingps2.xyz/musings/linux/
Transitioning...To Linux!
No dual booting, either~
playingps2.xyz
November 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I know you ALL want to hear more about my transition... 🏳️⚧️
...
TO LINUX! 🐧
playingps2.xyz/musings/linux/
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TO LINUX! 🐧
playingps2.xyz/musings/linux/
wrote a post explaining how beets, the command-line music organizer, actually works; I've always found my grasp of it to be really loose and kinda confused in the apst, and figured it'd be useful to share my new understanding of it. somas.is/note-underst...
November 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
wrote a post explaining how beets, the command-line music organizer, actually works; I've always found my grasp of it to be really loose and kinda confused in the apst, and figured it'd be useful to share my new understanding of it. somas.is/note-underst...
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
jack dejohnette (RIP) - stratocruiser www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNrW...
Stratocruiser / Jack Dejohnette
YouTube video by Sarasvati Music Ashram
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
jack dejohnette (RIP) - stratocruiser www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNrW...
![screenshot of an email that reads "Dear Kylie, Thank you for expressing interest in the not available. We are pleased that you have chosen to consider [redacted] for your next career move. After careful review of your application materials, we have decided to proceed with other candidates whose skills and experiences best align with this role."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o27o7ntm5kmjjx65hmsuwukb/bafkreihylsdqejk5nhq7l3ncpp57m2uz6oh7p3jmc4aeb6oeggivz7m2jm@jpeg)
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WE MUST BAN SHORT FORM VIDEO TO HEAL SOCIETY
October 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
WE MUST BAN SHORT FORM VIDEO TO HEAL SOCIETY
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i think they should keep knocking down the white house and build a big taco bell there instead. like a really big taco bell
October 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
i think they should keep knocking down the white house and build a big taco bell there instead. like a really big taco bell
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a world in which abuse or starvation or genocide or homelessness or drug use or suicide or severe mental illness or murder or sex is "adult content" is one in which children's experiences are rendered shameful and explicit and the people who experience it are no longer allowed to be children
October 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
a world in which abuse or starvation or genocide or homelessness or drug use or suicide or severe mental illness or murder or sex is "adult content" is one in which children's experiences are rendered shameful and explicit and the people who experience it are no longer allowed to be children