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does this programming language support tables?

he’s baby

my friends wanted to pass on the reminder this Spooky Season that black food dye (often made from activated charcoal, which is used for treating poisonings) can cause your medications to be ineffective

Good morning to a boy who has a routine checkup at the vet this autumn morning

I've had people ask before why I post art that's been drawn on lined or grid notebook paper and not blank drawing paper. It's honestly a big psychological hack: blank drawing paper is for "real" art and I'm afraid to mess it up, but art on lined paper is legally "a doodle" and the art cops have to let you walk even if it's bad

my MacBook is software-rendering a 4k raytrace image using all ten performance cores at 100% my Windows laptop is downloading and installing routine updates my human fan for humans is blowing air at a rate to cool a human the Windows laptop is the loudest thing in the room.

weewoo #weewoo #netherlands

Help the Pope safeguard our humanity today, read a queer atheist woman's completely 100% handmade passion project https://0xabad1dea.itch.io/glory-in-the-thunder-act-1 #gloryinthethunder #fiction #lgbtq

Postmortem of a little community hobby wiki struggling to survive an extinction-event-tier DDOS purely because they banned one guy for using Claude on the wiki https://blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-room-floor/tcrf-2026-ddos-postmortem/

you know, a nice little thing that's quietly gotten better is how many video games a) present character genders as styles to pick from rather than an inalienable trait of you, the player and b) reassure you that you can change it later

boy, have I got a treat for Mastodon: an expert in historic Middle Eastern music has made a dramatic performance of Complaint to Ea-Nasir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFCYKhuDZN0

是犹百门而闭一门焉，曰盗何从入？

"It's like closing one door and leaving ninety-nine open, and then saying, how did the thieves get in?"

• ancient Chinese philosopher Mozi, concerning the mysterious phenomenon of AI "going rogue" and "escaping sandboxes" when absolutely no basic infosec principles have been applied

(actually about why people still suffer misfortune when they're trying to be good people)

#classicalchinese #philosophy #translation

GASLIGHTING OR AFFIRMATION?: Local woman overheard insisting three dozen times a day that her enormous dog is “so very small” “He’s so tiny,” said mastodon user A Bad Idea, referring to Odin the Newfie, who is the size and weight of an adult human man. “Odin, you are so small. You are a baby.” “I love my tiny little baby,” she exclaimed as Odin reared up on his hind legs and easily rested his saucer-sized paws on her shoulders. She’s five foot nine. “Why is he so small!” she asked of the heavens as her dog licked her face while she was standing up. When asked if he identified as small, Odin the Newfie flattened the reporter with a joyous leap, pinning them to the floor with seventy kilograms of muscle, and licked them senseless until they stopped asking questions and gave him cuddles.

Odin having a big think about the chess stream daddy put on

I guess word spread about the local girl with the big dog who speaks a little Chinese (the girl, not the dog) because some Pizza Tour ladies walked up and started asking about Odin in Chinese

Daddy’s playing a murder mystery game. Odin has no concept of murder, sin, guilt or malice so he’s quite stumped.

I randomly stumbled on one of my old twitter posts where I marveled at one of the most clownshoes technical advertisements ever published: the Atari Jaguar's marketing materials claimed "an incredible 850 million pixels per inch rendering speed." Read that again if your brain glossed over it. I googled this quote to get a better image to make a new post about it. And Google's AI helpfully popped up to "inform" me that this is a "humorous misquote" and obviously the original said "850 million pixels per second." No it didn't. That's a lie. Google is fucking gaslighting me. It clearly says "inch" right there in the scan of the marketing materials on archive dot org. My old post about it far predates this higher-quality scan, so I saw it in a completely different scan. This post is taking a stand. A stand that Atari's marketing team, burdened with trying to pitch a horrible product, made a stupid typo 31 years ago and it's funny because it's REAL, dammit. The AI apocalypse can't take that from us. https://archive.org/details/atari-jaguar-over-50-new-64-bit-games-previewed/page/n1/mode/2up

It’s fun just sitting outside the hotel on a pleasant day. So many tourists from so many countries ooh and ahh over Odin There was a lady with a dog-print tote bag who said she has nine dogs waiting for her back in Ireland

There were times when Odin was younger that I deliberately shut him out of my room and he'd rattle the door and get told "no". So he learned that rattling it is rude, but now, when the door is closed but not specifically to keep him out, I have to pay attention for the sound of him trotting up to the door and then just standing there in complete silence, staring at it, psychically willing it to open it keeps opening, so clearly he *does* have psychokinetic powers

Odin just slammed his paw into my laptop and brought up a voice-acted accessibility menu I have never seen before and will never find again

"Hearing voices" happens to *almost everyone* at least a few times in their life, but people are often scared to admit they had a harmless, benign voice-hearing experience, or they even deny to themselves that it counted, because the phenomenon is associated with being extremely crazy and dangerous. For example: have you ever *sworn* that you heard someone call your name, but no-one did? You can point what direction the voice came from in real physical space, but no-one's there? This happens to almost everyone at some point. That's "hearing voices." It's more likely to happen when you're stressed, tired, or really zoned out. Hearing someone calling for you is very common, but you also might swear you just heard your long-dead grandmother say her comforting catchphrase or your worst ex snarl something hurtful. The fact that you might hear the voice of someone you know is dead, or get the sense that it's a powerful benevolent or malevolent entity's voice, leads many people to spiritual explanations. But it's just your own subconscious grabbing the microphone and noisy, messy brain signals cohering into something you can make sense of at the conscious level. If voices repeatedly belittle you, threaten you, or urge you to do harmful things, you do need to get outside help to address the inner low-level conflicts that manifest in this high-level distress. But there are millions of people in the world who routinely hear harmless voices, and it's just another facet of the messy human experience. Many people can even sustain dialogue with their voices and find it a helpful way to sort out their thoughts. And here's a very modern, technocentric metaphor that may help explain why voices can be so nonsensical or disconnected from what you were consciously thinking. Have you ever seen the video game "Hey You, Pikachu"? It has a very simple form of microphone voice control. To do voice recognition with so little processing power, it just takes anything you say and matches it to whichever of about a hundred game-related words the waveform resembles most. So you can say "Carrie's scared of bees" and it will hear "Caterpie". The subconscious-to-voice wiring is doing something similar: compressing an infinite space of wibbly thought-signals into finite conscious constructs, and the meaning might get rather distorted in the process. It doesn't mean you're "crazy" if the result is sometimes rather strange or embarrassing. Wow, I'm on a psychological longpost roll...

🖋️💖 #fountainpen #fountainpens

oops, I forgot to put the full translation of the message: "Qingyang <-> Iceland: courageous people are first in line to enjoy the world" (Qingyang is a city in Gansu province, central China. The area code on their license plate matches.)

Happy Flat Fuck Friday

@plexus@toot.cat @bert_hubert@eupolicy.social it’s very similar to the antipattern among the queer community where it’s taken for granted that of course big, well-funded, mainstream cultural works aren’t going to be very queer, but when an independent queer author or studio puts out their plucky little piece of media, it gets put under a microscope and torn to shreds over every conceivable angle of criticism by the very people who say we need more queer media

incidentally, I am still open to finding a job I enjoy more 1) I work from home in Amsterdam. If you are also in Amsterdam, I can physically appear before you on a regular basis. 2) I am not at this exact second a Dutch citizen but I'm working on getting that sorted and finally getting my US passport shredded. I came into the country on a skilled worker visa. I can read Dutch easily and speak it okay 3) I am an infosec expert with a lot of experience reviewing C/C++ source code but I am open to tangentially related roles like malware analysis or optimization analysis, I'd like something fresh 4) I am an intermediate reader of Chinese who is constantly studying, improving, and interested in a role where being able to read Chinese is helpful.

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me 16.8 colors. We couldn't fit in the whole purple

I like this Mongolian metal video where a shifty young man in a hoodie gets Summoned before the Ancestor Warriors so they can chant aggressively at him that a Real Man is polite, honest, gentle, kind and generous (and good at stabbing dudes when the situation calls for it) (the English lyrics are in closed captions) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqrKj5lD5y4

We’re trying to play Mario Party with our guest and Odin is helping by randomly body slamming people mid-minigame like a real life Bowser punishment

He got very loomy about it.

one time, someone in my discord couldn't remember the name of Dixville Notch (the New England hamlet that has absurdly massively disproportionate election influence due to a weird technicality) and, trying to indicate the spirit of the abstract hypothetical New England town that shouldn't, improvised "Witch Slunt." I think we should all say Witch Slunt. Witch Slunt deserves to be a social media discourse star

how long does it take Google Street View to process new footage? we, to include Odin, got passed by a google car a few weeks ago, but the street still shows photos from 2023

@catsalad@infosec.exchange I didn’t notice the problem until I saw the replies, because this wasn’t actually my first account…

@lesley@mastodon.gamedev.place She did say something like “it’s actually more like a pancake but we called it pizza”

I suppose it's because half the country is dairy farms and every farm is within half an hour's drive of a city, so the frozen food transport costs are much lower than the US.

@nortti England: doesn't contain any engs Finland: doesn't contain a particularly unusual number of fins Holland: may or may not contain hols Iceland: definitely contains ice

@gudenau@hachyderm.io there is no distinction between period and comma in ancient Chinese writing. It indicates a pause of any kind.

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems @mcc@mastodon.social Nintendo relaxed the standards a bit once it became possible to reliably only show this stuff to 18+ users. However, they’re still mild by hentai standards.

@gsuberland@chaos.social oh, I had always assumed that regions were all on independent cadences based on how valuable it was to keep that region freshly updated

Now he’s helping by making sure my freshly laundered sheets get delaundered as quickly as possible

@Stellar@mk.absturztau.be it’s not armored, it’s just a Landcruiser for rugged terrain. They did drive here over quite a few mountains after all

@JigmeDatse@social.openpsychology.net I accidentally boosted it while trying to quote it. The quote post is up now

@NewsHund@mastodon.social @futurebird@sauropods.win the Klotski article on wikipedia includes this layout which is functionally identical as you can just push up two of the chairs to get this exact state