Shanth
towardstengen.bsky.social
Shanth
@towardstengen.bsky.social
Something something, the only people who made money from the gold rush were selling shovels and pickaxes.
October 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
So glad to see you on here again and doing well and helping brighten the world!
September 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Circlejerks within circlejerks is exactly like what you were originally talking about though 😄
August 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
At least epicycles looked pretty when drawn
August 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Happy belated birthday! Quite a while back I picked up Piranesi after hearing (reading?) you rave about it, and promptly pushed it on all my friends' TBRs. Well just this past week one of them finally got around to it and loved it, so I'm counting this as an internet-stranger-tier birthday gift :)
July 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The use of em dashes may have been a tell for a short while in the way that an A-worthy paper from a student on track to flunk the course would make you suspect plagiarism.

But just like Goodhart's Law, once you simplistically start using it as a measure of AI use, it's no longer a good measure.
June 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
SO. MUCH. THIS!!!!

I did not learn the option+shift+hyphen combination for the "—" decades before the ChatGPT back when art thieves had the decency to conduct their business as a ragtag ensembles of likable misfits getting together for one last heist
May 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Asses to asses
May 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I want to saw, surely that was satire? But the LinkedIn mindset is so poisoned I'm can't even sure
May 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
If a PR firms manages to salvage his reputation that means that our civilization is doomed.
May 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
You say stuff like this to them and they'll believe you typed it *in* the 1940 and ask you if fought in the second world war.

Nothing makes me feel as old as the Cleopatra-to-the-building-of-the-pyramid-at-Giza effect of distant historical events seemingly collapsing together
May 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
So brainwashed by misogyny they'd place a quantifiable "value" on human beings, including themselves, as is we're all just commodities.
April 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The official report said that the accident was due to instability caused by poles in the right half plane.»

Explanation for folks without a control systems background:
web.mit.edu/2.14/www/Han...

3/3
web.mit.edu
February 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Everyone in the seats on the left immediately got up and crowded into the right side, leaning over the other passengers to try to see out the window. Because of the sudden shift in weight, the pilot lost control, and the plane crashed.

2/3 ... continued
February 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Thanks for sharing!
February 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
And it's an ad to install the StyxGo app so you can prepay Charon for the next time your back here.
January 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM