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Hal Hartley! Has a new movie!

Bay Area tech history nerd friends: Paul Terrell, the founder of the Byte Shop–Apple’s first dealer—is holding a 50th anniversary party next month. It’s open to all and I’ll be there! byteshop50thyearbirthdayp.rsvpify.com

@ruffinprevost.com so, wanna do this anthropic settlement?

Same, but the Gen X one.

The United States is restricting entry for “certain nationalities.” In my case, the restricted nationality is “United States.”

Since it is teleoperated (ie a person far away is driving the robot by watching through its camera eyes) you are basically paying a huge amount of money for the lowest wage worker they can find to do your chores poorly

The scariest part of House of Dynamite was when the president said “I was listening to this podcast and…” you’re the president you can get real information why are you treading the word salad infosphere slop with the rest of us

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head. Let the Right One In It Follows Under the Skin Evil Dead 2

my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke

Hamnet: men would rather write the greatest play of all time than go to therapy.

Hamnet at the MVFF — Chloe Zhao and Jesse Buckley Q&A (…I’m in the last row of the theatre obv)

Bolinas sunset, six seconds til end of summer.

Moving the team to the “perverse bonbon” methodology just because I like the name

Bad idea Friday: I made an MCP server that lets Claude run applescripts on my computer.

Headcannon birth of the first order: Dedra Meero spends 3 years in prison on a work crew building parts for Death Star II. She becomes a crew (later floor) leader. After the Emperor dies she is released in a general amnesty for political prisoners—after all, she was jailed for being a rebel spy.

The fictional Terminator manifests in our reality as a roomba with a knife duct-taped on top, but still manages to wipe out humanity.

Inverse correlation? So everything is fine as is?

Blue Origin 2 for 2 at sending a celebrity to space for PR purposes only to have the celebrity prefer earth

Back from travels.

I got to play this and I’m pleased to report that your game character appears to shoot enemies with, what else, finger guns.

New Disney princess just dropped

Just don’t lose in the play-in game.

Ending the season on a lane violation on an otherwise tie-up made free throw — just heartbreaking for those kids.

In our benighted times, competence has a very strong liberal bias.

The acronym to learn is EDI — electronic data interchange. This is a 70s technology where you hand an agency a file of a particular (binary) format that says “send money from here to there”. These files were sent via X.100 networks, direct dial up, later email and ftp.

How many output tokens will 9 billion names for god require

Technical fouls keeping Virginia alive

The SNL special is weird, good weird, in a Michael O’Donoghue kind of way.

Two shots later, let’s stop play and reconsider the foul we didn’t call

We doing Carolina/duke on this app? @ncbags.bsky.social you here?

It was not different. But this year!

Ludicrous sunset on the Bolinas ridge. The ocean looks like mercury and the farallons look like shark fins.

Can’t see a full block away. Hi @karlthefog.bsky.social

Age yourself with your first computer.

“Thank you for making a simple door very happy”

I have a brilliant plan, all I need is: - the copyright to everything - all the money in the world

My kid took C++ at the community college last semester and complained about having to do null checks. Now he’s the one who complains.

How was Austin Reeves not the most hated player on Duke

My daughter liked the Sirius Black fireplace thing so much she made one of me

Waiting for the time travel movie where they go into the past and are suddenly floating in space because the earth was in a different spot in its orbit at their arrival time I guess that sucks as a movie

If you’re still looking for an Xmas gift for me, I suddenly need one of these

High on my “I wish this was true” 2024 scorecard

Kicking off the holiday hacking with my Apple //e gpu project! Let’s get the RP 2350 onto an Apple // peripheral card. I picked this Pimironi board because it looks like a classic gpu chip.

Anti-jetlag exercise. Poppy in the redwoods.

How jet lagged am I? I’m at “cracking the eggs into the sink and throwing the shells into the bowl” levels of jet lagged.

Europe’s nice and all, but home is hard to beat.

walking through stinky parts of the airport to ensure I can still smell

tfw you’re sitting in Berlin and your phone buzzes to say there’s a tsunami coming to your house in California

Holiday hacking underway. Following the blog post from @cyrilzakka.bsky.social I'm trying to read data from a Colmi R02. Let's see how this goes! The post is here: huggingface.co/blog/cyrilza...