My new enamel pin just arrived.
Hat tip @pluralistic@mamot.fr
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In today’s post @pluralistic@mamot.fr writes
“So it's not surprising that we don't ask why these AI god-botherers need our stupid money while they're immanentizing the eschaton”
RAW would be proud.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/13/go-meta-meta/#meta-meta-meta
Seven years ago I became old.
This is an amazing idea. I'm eager to watch where this goes.
There will be a reckoning when people want to reclaim their digital sovereignty. Unfortunately, with the current AI-driven price increases hardware is now getting priced out of the budgets of many.
Using open source to breathe new life into older harder seems to be a solution to this.
I came close to seeing a Fnord
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Never Read the Comments
A short post about a recent trip to Barcelona
@phocks@bne.social $2.169 a gallon? That’s great. It’s $4.199 here.
@Dr_Bombay@mstdn.social you still have a Tempest machine?
Snek
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@sil @lmorchard I do want to point out that on my last trip to London I asked two young people about The Who and they had no idea what band I was talking about
@phocks@bne.social I’m not trying to defend the Fahrenheit scale but the reason a brine solution was chosen was due to the fact that the phase change was easier to see.
The water/ice transition can be difficult with pure water as it can “superheat” or “supercool” due to the structure of the molecule.
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I know insects may end up being a major source of protein in the human food chain but I just ate a bug and it was nasty.
It was the same color as my green Kool-aid
Watch Duty is now available across the US.
If you live in areas with wildfires, check it out.
@matdevdug@c.im I'm still getting that error. Just tried with the new OPML file.
Man, I am into this music from Mon Rovîa
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@tante uh oh. I have an unusual name so I almost always capitalize my family name.
Guess I'm a knob.
Interesting story on how the combination of AI scrapers and prediction market opportunists took down a 30 year old website focused on movie financials
https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all
I've been reading books faster than I can review them, but I just finished my write-up on Brandon Sanderson's Elantris
Remembering Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation
A short post about email. Spoiler alert, the "friend in Reno" was @hevace@techhub.social and a hat tip for @Paul_Taylor@mathstodon.xyz
Made a new equal proportion cocktail last night with mezcal. Very nice.
Hat tip: @fredericyarm@better.boston
Bunnies
RE: @freequaybuoy@mastodon.social
I use the word “post” not “toot” but this made me giggle.
@Dr_Bombay@mstdn.social Night Rider pinball machine. Just for old times sake.
We had a cabinet-sized emulator in the old office and I mounted a scroll wheel just to improve Tempest
Baby beavers are cute, but I still don't want them blocking the overflow drain to the lake.
Made another equal proportion cocktail which brought me to a realization about an inherent weakness in these drinks: The Spanish Lady
Sing, beast, sing
As an old, I just got a pair of 0.5 diopter reading glasses and they are life changing