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Joined Jan 2020
Look, "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'" is really just one of the best X-Files episodes from start to finish.
I realized too late that I should have included this scene in the X-Files watch update thread:
Look, I hate the current crop of AI tools, but one use I would genuinely welcome is an AI tool that can recognize and auto-mute image-based meme formats. Give me a tool that would let me never see that Rapunzel screenshot with all the swords ever again.
What is Constable Odo's favorite part of working at a startup?
...the liquidity events.
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i think there's a lot of things which i don't necessarily actually want. i don't want the thing. but i do want to make the thing. or, if not me, i want someone to Have Made the thing. i want there to be a person in the world who makes those things, who understands them enough to do so, who values them, who has something to say that reaches others, who can teach other people about that thing and themselves. i think that improves the world and the people in it, and that's what making things is for
I've decided to spread blatant misinformation and claim that the Holy Roman Empire had earthquake-proof construction techniques that were significantly better than anything we have today. See, that's why we call it Byzantine fault tolerance.
I am very open about my antipathy towards AI image generators, but I appreciate when people use them for illustrations in blogs, because it tells me I can safely skip those posts. Like bright animal coloration, but instead of "I am poisonous" it means "I have shallow and uninteresting opinions."
Look, I watched The Clone Wars: Pre Vizsla definitely would have had a Space Twitter account with a marble statue pfp where he tried to push some kind of scam raw-meat Mandalorian diet.
…I wonder if the people who started responding to stuff with, "This is the way," after watching The Mandalorian will ever have to reckon with the fact that, in the context of the show, it's the slogan of a bunch of fascist RETVRN morons.
(This is, to be clear, not edited: I have no idea whether this was some kind of classification bug or if someone else did this as a joke, but this is the real page as I found it. Also, this only shows up on the "Paperback" version of the page; if you switch to "Hardcover" or "Kindle", it gives you the correct third book.)
Amazon helpfully supplied me with a list of all of John le Carré's George Smiley novels, and I apparently had some tonal misconceptions about them.
See, sometimes mediocre authors make up fake languages to trick nerds into reading bad books, which is why we call them "con-langs".
Now that this Bluetooth keyboard has arrived, I can finally use my iPad the way that Steve Jobs intended: with a nub mouse.
I ended up chosting about different axes of "complexity" in TTRPGs and the way I like to articulate them: https://cohost.org/aysamanra/post/890523-i-hang-out-in-a-ttrp
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that spooky janitor character in the direct-to-video movie of your life
formerly @keweddji as well as @aisamanra and @uzhdanra on birdsite. he/him
Joined Jan 2020
