My next #novel will feature the following disclaimer: "This book was written completely without the use of #LLMs or #generativeAI. I refuse to participate in a system that demeans and devalues #artists and #writers, destroys the distinction between truth and #propaganda#writers#artists#generativeai#llms#novel erodes the human […]

I don't know why I have to compare myself to people whose career is #programming who have developed their #vim and #emacs workflows over decades, and #Linux #youtubers whose job it is to one-up each other with their mastery of tiling window managers, #BASH scripts, and #texteditor#bash#youtubers#linux#emacs#vim#programminggs. The […]

The #youtube #algorithm is now dredging up #comedy classics from the distant past. Wow! #mario #gameover#mario#comedy#algorithm#youtubeps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpBGRA6HHtY

I've been using computers all my life, #Linux and #Unix since the 90s, and word processors since #Wordperfect 5.1 for #MS-DOS but I still can't grasp the #vim and #emacs keybindings. I know it's not necessary to learn all of them if all I'm doing is #writing#emacs#vim#wordperfect#unix#linuxls but I still feel like I'm not […]

I comment on a single #instagram comic about a future #dystopia where elderly people are forced to die for the "greater good" and juxtaposing it with all of the high hopes we had for the future in the #1980s, and now all it wants to show me are creepy cartoons about #death and #suicide#death#1980s#dystopia#instagram how […]

How surprising, the sociopathic #techbros in charge of #ai companies have created the ultimate #sociopath ... I think it's time for a #butlerianjihad#sociopath#ai#techbrosttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9HwA5IR-sg

Today I learned that attempting to recursively compute #Fibonacci numbers past the first twenty or so is enough to lock the #lua #lualang#lua#fibonacciompiler up for several minutes, and I'm running this on a relatively fast machine. Fib(50) is going on nine minutes and counting. Perhaps this would be […]

The #Etsy #witches#Etsywill save us all https://youtu.be/aIFeMrNz4ac?si=PGddjilnG-UaY8UN

#Trump plans to fire federal employees based on their political affiliation if the government shuts down. He will specifically target #democrat#trumpcivil servants. That's extremely frightening. It doesn't matter if it's legal or not--fascism is accelerating too much and I can't deal with it anymore. […]

I'm on to my third programming example in #Lua : calculating square roots using the Heron of Alexandria trial and error method. This time it only took me an hour and a half to wrestle with the correct syntax. I originally wanted to make it a recursive […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

My first #Lua program--a function to print a list of prime numbers via the Sieve of Erathosthenes #algorithm. It's the second programming example you get after #helloworld. I know I can do this better with Lua's table commands but for some reason I couldn't […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

IS AMERICA GREAT ENOUGH YET? MY FAMILY CAN'T AFFORD TO EAT! https://thehill.com/business/5518798-grocery-prices-beef-coffee-record-highs/

No, I will not be shamed by #unix #greybeards into using #vim or #emacs for all of my text editing needs. Yes, they have a lot of good features, but I'm just too used to the #cua keybindings to completely rewrite my muscle memory. #obsidian and #kate#obsidian#cua#emacs#vim#greybeards#unix% of what I need text editors to do […]

So apparently #threads is accusing random users of being members of #antifa and nobody knows if it's a hoax, a hack, or a chilling effect by #meta#antifa#threadso destroy free speech... ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.

Exactly this 💯 #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent

This clip from one of my favorite childhood movies completely encapsulates the experience of giving my cat a "treato" #cats #transformers #transformersthemovie #universalgreeting#transformersthemovie#transformers#catstps://youtu.be/C687RBDfUx4?si=-g5zcFoDMRk9ljul&t=54

I was honestly hoping #jimmykimmel would say #fuckyou to #Disney and the #trumpire regime and start a left-wing revolutionary podcast with #colbert in a country with no extradition treaty to the United States. Oh well. Nothing like #censorship#colbert#trumpire#disney#fuckyou#jimmykimmeloost your ratings, though […]

I'm not trusting my children's health or safety to a government that refuses to release the Epstein Files

My goodness, #mastodon actually allows you to filter specific posts by keyword so you don't have to be bothered by things you do not wish to be bombarded with. I wish other social medias had this... but I guess that would cut into their ability to spread panic and hatred on a worldwide scale.

I don't know, I think this #tylenol thing is just a plot by Orange Julius to crash #kenvue stock so he and his cronies can buy it up for pennies. At the same time, he can also use the spurious connection between it and #autism to further demonize women and #neurodivergent#autism#kenvue#tylenolople. I'm […]

Guess I got to go stockpile #tylenol before Agent Orange makes it illegal too...