A: We're here to ask the guy who is selling the thing if what he's selling really works. So, does it? B: Yes it does A: And who are we to judge? We're not selling the thing after all. Well, that clinches it. Join us next time...

Love to be stared at like an alien for asking questions about a thing you're supposed to know about and then running off. Thanks for meeting me halfway, junior cowboy

I took care of this hangnail so expertly I want to brag about it There, that's a good compromise

that person who used to like your posts, wonder how they're doing these days

If I get told to do better one more time I get a free rental

@jdag.bsky.social @daisyowl.com Had a question about Cobalt Core, not sure if it's better by email but don't see private contact info

want a way to type musical notes into a search engine and have it give me likely songs the notes reflect because this is making me deranged... it's also surprisingly slippery to hold on to

@evanedinger.bsky.social On the topic of your vid today, another YTer from a different place who moved read similar things about his former home-- stuff like "well, we can order food and have it delivered... we don't get in trouble if we put garbage in the dumpster late at night." Like... OK?

Program that responds to those sending messages to a user by telling them how many people have made that same joke already

Thing you have to do every day that's unarguably important to continued existence but is so mundane and routine that you do it by rote, so much so that even a few minutes after the appointed time you can't remember if you did it, but doing it again brings its own risks

Managed to accidentally delete all the files on a destination USB drive when setting up a recovery utility My rule has usually been not to put anything into just one place. I think, at least. This was before I knew how flightly flash drives were ...

Want a silence chamber, not only to keep sound out, but also to allow me to practice talking actually out loud without wondering how it's being received

If the digital facade were all we are, then sure, mutate me. I have a whole design spec I've honed down over the decades, ready to go. But no, we're more: carriers of weight, of history. Some changes gradual, some unwanted: through those changes, we share some glimmer of connection. Don't sever that

@handelabra.com Noticed the unity update, was wondering if there's any development or expansions possible on the Sentinels games given the state of GtG

Uh... how are those generators holding up? You know, the ones that keep the materials cool? I don't think it's in anyone's best interest for those to pop. Thanks

Search has a machine that tries to answer my questions unless I shut it off, but it doesn't remember I shut it off so it pops on again. Somewhere a server heated up slightly to tell me that Star Trek refers to warp engines as "hyperdrives." Basic geek level failure here, time to give up on the dream

Find myself slipping into a "if only this aesthetic can be achieved I will find peace" sort of mindset. Cults take advantage of this "if-only" desire for an ascent of some sort. My internal circular needs are also a trap, though my attempting to ascend, because it's MINE, leads to things being built

What else could all those servers be used for? Everyone gets hosting for Minecraft? SETI calculations?

@misfitsattic.bsky.social Hey, was looking at the website for your company, seems the link to Duskers on the main page in the upper tab-like menu is in the old format, with the dash between the words. Even is in HTTP

There's a thing some writers talk about, where you don't really want to tell others until you've fully written your piece, because letting it out too early can feel like the release you were looking for and the fire dies. I worry that ubiquitous release machines can sometimes extinguish our fire

I'm going to go hydrate now. That's how it's said, I think. I mean I'm going to go to another room where I left my glass, bereft, probably in need of a scrubbing but whatever, go to the one faucet I trust above all others, and ask it for clean water. It will provide it, and I will gratefully drink

Been thinking about the mutability of language symbology, like you can be misinterpreted, willfully or accidentally, especially if one is careless, and as time passes and contexts shift the chance of meaning-drift increases, and yet there's a pressure to be elegant, efficient

Win's note pad apparently has a feature I only learned about today but it is MADDENING to try to look up any sort of anything about how it does it. The searches all talk about plusplus, which has more features but is not what I want to learn about. There's no documentation, the help is unhelpful

Getting rid of bureaucracy by maintaining a bureaucracy anyway (because it turns out it's necessary to have repeatable, modular processes to deal with millions of people), but removing all human judgement that makes such a system capable of course-correcting to allow for at least a chance of decency

@mote.bsky.social Wound up starting Prelude first, chronological order instead of publishing order for Foundation (past re-reading the first). So far it's much more interesting... you can tell he's had 40+ years of writing practice. Also, it's a blueprint for a part of the current season, apparently

Just log on for a naturally organic Absurd Horror Generator, new hard-to-swallow capsule every refresh

When one fancies oneself Hari after reading Foundation in one's teens, but one blooms into The Mule

@stamfine.bsky.social Looks like you're getting a huge amount of views relatively recently, glad more people are discovering your channel!

Walked to the store. Foggy, morning after a rainstorm pelted the neighborhood. High hedgerow along the sidewalk, maybe a hundred full spiderwebs covered in dew all facing the road, each spanning trimmed branches. Scattered raindrops fell on my face as I walked, only passed a few people. Bought bread

@nomansbsky.bsky.social Simulpost or you hang around here now and then?

I think the window for vaguely detailed nostalgia research has closed for me... I try to look stuff up now and half of it is made up garbage trying to please a *sense* of that reminiscence but not the actual artifacts, the rest are churned out SEO made last year. The net's been paved over by twerps

I tried the bell feature that tells you when someone you're following is posting but... don't like that it shows up as an undifferentiated notification first. I'm a low volume poster so when I see one it's like I'm activated, then it says: "Someone well-known is talking again" and I'm like "yeah.."

If I wound up downloading all of the GreatWiki and storing it somewhere using some 3rd party whatever... I wonder if, should things all be cut off except for electricity I guess, I could actually continually learn things from it, or if I'd run into inadequate pages with tons of circular definitions

Dislike how sandboxed genetic algorithms that learn sometimes surprising solutions through iterative processes are being lumped in with unchained autocorrect string creators. The former was in the news and kind of amazing; now it's been sublimated under a single, aggressively nebulous term

A: "Keep it secret. Keep it safe" B: "About that, I already posted pics on insta" A: "Ah. Fucking hobbits..."

Emerging from the shower like "I am renewed, for a time"

@mattlees.bsky.social Have you tried any of the TI4 codices? Codexes? Was also trying to do a strange calculus/calculation: If you subtract Eclipse (efficient mechanisms) from Twilight Imperium (prolly 4), what's left? Negotiability, thematic layers? I wonder if there's a game in that space, too

I mean, if this is some sort of food intolerance or whatever I'll happily take the dystopian food-in-a-pill as an alternative, assuming one could have any control over what was in it. Give me the essentials so I don't have to balance local availability, price, and feeling worthwhile to eat...

@drawmanley.bsky.social You said you wished that book or type of book never stopped, but the direct market doesn't tend to get it over others, but what type of book was it? Anthology? The art's very slick but I don't know enough about comics I guess to understand what you meant

The correction engine will smooth over obvious errors in translation... except the original was slightly off on purpose, as a form of expression. Your expression was sanded down to make it more machine readable. The end result was certainly smooth, like a photograph so blurry as to be blank

We managed to uncover the original Ship of Theseus, but we were told it had aged so much it wasn't the same anymore

I don't want to upload myself but I wouldn't mind a digital ghost of me hanging out with people I've met on spaces like this. We'd sip drinks while our airship sailed over a cloudy purple planet, chasing the sunset, taking pictures of sky whales, blithering about trivialities. They'd send postcards.

@stopkillinggames.bsky.social Congratulations!

@thiojoe.bsky.social You on here much? Had a question you might have an answer to

Miss the days of Masque of the Red Death, where the fancy parties were private. Don't really want to know what they're up to or what they're thinking anymore

Maybe I should get that Geiger counter after all

A: Why are you grabbing the skillet handle?? It's still hot! B: Preparing to log on and read the feed

@officialmelbrooks.bsky.social Oh hey, you're on here. Welcome! You written about your caregiving skills? Heard you were self-taught in medicine, thought it'd be nice to learn a bit from you about learning things that way. But you're busy, I know. Happy to hear about "The Search for More Money"

Feel like most of the adults who actually want to talk to me in this neighborhood are pretty low key reasonable people, but a lot of the kids it's like Children of the Corn or something lately. Naturally I wonder what their parents let them watch but it could be anything, incl. Getting Old Syndrome

Why are we making it do our research and write our papers? It can't handle all that. All it wants to be is the little homunculus under the floorboards that whispers plausibly hallucinatory nonsense to you as you sneak out of bed to take a midnight piss