put your own mask on first before attempting to help others

this is why villains never have competent helpers

Watching some of the open source package distribution governance issues playing out has me increasingly inclined towards the value of publishing packages via AT repos and reducing the package managers to replaceable app servers (appviews)

Few years ago was on a walk and pictured the street without cars. Kept walking around picturing everywhere without cars. Eventually got myself real pissed off for having to imagine what the park’s wildflower garden would look like without cars in view. I was surprised how radical that exercise felt.

wait, the headline says sexy shoes bad on candy but tucker is angry they made the shoes less sexy?

of all the people you know, who has the most niche special interest?

I have come here to read bad poetry and eat cookies and I am all out of cookies

these are the only photos that wikimedia commons has of this keyboard

Hey everyone! We are trying to rename an inportant part of bluesky and we need your opinions!

How do nonhuman animals deal with mosquitos?

bush walk thought: why are there so many bad generative AI uses, when the ideal and legitimate use would be in game dialog? bring back the text adventure!

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What do you call a mouse that stands on two legs? Mickey Mouse. What do you call a duck that stands on two legs? Literally any duck.

btw, "higher level" emoji are created by gluing together regular emoji with unicode zero width joiner (U+200D) which will render as the two components on software that doesn't support the composite - so you actually can create future emoji like this. blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-zwj-se...

This paper is pretty exciting. Near-zero-carbon steel production costs only 36% more than steel from a blast furnace (under reasonable electricity price assumptions); a carbon tax like the one in the EU is already enough to make it cost-competitive. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

current status: peaches by POTUSA except replace "country" with "islands" and "peaches" with "coconuts"

The whole roko's basilisk idea depends on the basilisk intentionally putting itself in a situation where it MUST punish everyone ("precommit") who was even vaguely against it. How it might do that wasn't established except a handwavy "blockchain?" it's a very weak premise.

has the one on the left smeared vegemite on his face???

evo psych is an okay basic idea but it turns out if you let people use evolution as an explanation they just use it as a scientific sounding way of saying whatever they already believed

We call them Skeets because of this guy and we call it Bluesky because he was blue

There should be an amusement park for children designed to look like a maritime disaster and you get to go down the slide and ride the lifeboats and stuff

Gonna start signing all my emails, "Dominic Tarr, Human Being" so that the receiver knows I didn't write it using AI

not uncommon for secret societies to claim an ancient lineage, but I think the furries are quite right here

in a distributed system, actually really deleting things is actually a lot more work than not deleting them

in 2012 the most blockheaded guy i knew said "there is always someone richer and dumber" but he's wrong. there is a last rich dumb guy, it's the government.

if you are building a comms platform with emoji reactions, please let me react with more than one emojii, geez

LOL Musgrave

the parents are neurodivergent too, but havn't realized yet

very few people know this

“History is best told as a story of organised crime,” Kemp says. “It is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory and population.”

first they make it hard to enter, later they make it hard to leave

my mother warned me: don't marry a computer program if you can't read it's source code

once I reported a bug in google maps cycle directions (it was giving not just wrong, but dangerous, directions) and I managed to escalate it through social media contacts and actually got it fixed

Pretty cool! www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

why I just influence the influencers

Well, I don't know if it helps, but here is what I would cite in the absence of wikipedia: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/geo...

you don't say!

happy Danny Devito day for all who celebrate

zero is enough for me! youtube.com/clip/UgkxSwe...

time to return to server side rendering and jquery

Because most client devices are now battery powered some (or all) of the time, we "get" more CPU every year, but when that only turns into more cheap, slow devices being sold, *the average speed can regress*. And that's exactly what happened over the past decade.

Jemaine Clement as Judge Dredd, LFG

what if that was just science with a bit of extra showmanship?

ACAB - dashare.zone ADMIN

oh hell yeah. fresh heresies just dropped.

The boat from the original waterworld screenplay: a horse propelled raft youtube.com/clip/UgkxafI...

Its a variation on the plot from Snow Crash futurism.com/commitment-j...