"He has a mind of metal and wheels; and he does not care for living things, except as far as they serve him for the moment."

If Star Wars (a new hope) were released this year, lasers would've been first built in 2009.

I wonder if the same people who look up to billionaires "because of all the value they've created" also think that car thieves are talented manufacturers.

Receipt printer toggle for folk.computer

My six year old was still awake at 1am feeling sad that nobody knows how to interpret quipu and nobody can teach him how to make them. Honestly, same.

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." - Gen. Smedley Butler, a guy who knew war

A 2023 German psychiatric study found that playing Super Mario Odyssey significantly improved depressive symptoms in clinically depressed individuals compared to regular psychotherapeutic treatment, reducing depression by 43%.

Ramadan Mubarak and remember it's okay if you accidentally fall sometimes. youtu.be/aDdOchBejcc

Only if that ancient evil brings the same energy as this demon when you scan it.

I still think about this tweet often.

MBA Considered Harmful: Teaches that which is priceless is worthless

"Sousveillance" is the recording of an activity by a member of the public, rather than a person or organisation in authority. It's a great word and an essential thing for us to be doing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousvei...

I've been looking for typing games for my kids and Typing Land is by far the winner so far. It's so cute and fun it's hard to stop playing. typingland.higopage.com

After a 5 hour flight, I really appreciate that SLC is designed to minimize the time spent taxiing. The tradeoff is that it takes longer to walk through the airport but it's so worth it to be able to get off the plane and stretch my legs.

It was an amazing party. Thank you to everyone who came. There was a big event where the folk2 merge happened through the system and you can see the aftermath in this photo.

Folk Computer is doing a v2 launch party this Friday in Brooklyn. I'll be there if you want to come say hi. partiful.com/e/Y5L66oPibg...

Lasers were first built in 1960. That's 15 years after the atomic bomb dropped. I always pictured them being an earlier 20th century invention. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser?w...

One must imagine Icarus happy. Flying is fun as hell.

Inspired by @arquipelago.org I printed and bound some PDFs I've been wanting to have around for reference. I used this video to learn the saddle stitch. youtu.be/aWHkY5jOoqM

I'm trying to get more comfortable with C. @b0rk.jvns.ca's Memory Spy tool has really strengthened my intuition for the bits behind the variables. memory-spy.wizardzines.com

The best part of trick-or-treating last night was seeing people out in the neighborhood being social and supportive. It's humanity's forte.

Wikipedia is hands down the very best of the internet. This is a great interview with co-founder Jimmy Wales youtu.be/YJezMMCogXw

Shoutout to @cuttlexyz.bsky.social's experimental 3d printing. I'm printing some husky earrings for my wife.

A bicycle for the mind.

Forrest let me try this out and it was perfect for what I needed! This dino has a new arm now.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time was 19 years ago.

3yo: "I want to read Fox in Socks: I don't want that food" Me: "Green eggs and ham?" "Yeah"

I'm excited to share Mario Paint with my kids without worrying about my Super Nintendo getting destroyed. youtu.be/Ok8hd9D6ImM

Forget carrier pigeons, we need to create a starling modem.

"Knowledge is something that when you share it there's just more. There's no scarcity." youtube.com/clip/UgkxvKs...

Cleaning is fun when you find the right solvent. I just cleaned this duct tape off with gasoline. It came off in minutes.

As long as it "smells like a computer," I think we've got it 🕺. Please ask me questions about Folk. I love sharing it.

I love that python's uv can read dependencies out of metadata in a single script. Thank you PEP 723. That means people can reliably run a single file I send, even if it requires other libraries. See this in action in this quick script an LLM mostly wrote for me: github.com/ppkn/rss_dow...

Senate Republicans are fucking cowards.

I made a @val.town because the IRS doesn't want to send me a notification about 501c3 approval. It checks every couple of hours and sends an email when the org finally shows up in search. www.val.town/x/dpip/nonPr...

This feels fundamentally different to a chat interface. The context is always available to be edited and tweaked. There is no distinction between user-input and machine-output.

Ten thousand of us showed up and one of us won't be going home tonight. I'm heartbroken. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

I'm so sick of hearing about AI coding, but Steve's talk was a very refreshing take on the current state of things.

I spent $500 to drive as a cow and I'm not disappointed.

I wish to someday love a programming language as much as Bill Gates loves BASIC.

Heartbreaking news. I have loved Polygon's work over the years. Sad to see it go.

In the end, the real Dynamicland was the friends we made along the way.

Are we giving Nathan Fielder too much power? This man is a menace. The Rehearsal S2E1 was fantastic btw.

I have a Retroid Pocket Flip 2 on the way and these brackets have been somewhat useful when thinking about what roms I want to curate for my new handheld. e.g. "Oh yeah, that's right! Super Monkey Ball is a really good one."

New goal for 2025: get a StreetPass. Hopefully as organically as possible. I'm not going to meet up with you just for a StreetPass.

Walking around Midvale today has reminded me that it's truly a car's world and we're just living in it.

Even to the extent that I love this book, I always forget how full of gold it is. Hoping to get through it again on my trip this week.

I love @hankgreen.bsky.social's framing of "skeptical hedonism" i.e. "if I'm asked to do something that inconveniences me, it must be bad." If your skepticism comes more from your own inconvenience than it does from curiosity, reexamine those thoughts. youtu.be/FRjGhCQi4U8

It's going to get worse before it gets better. For absolutely no reason.

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