#Monsterdon too bad about Glauca, then ?

#Monsterdon I'll take Bad Celestial Mechanics for $600

#Monsterdon Lacunt ???

#Monsterdon it's the Small Stonehenge from Spinal Tap

the AI alignment problem is entirely a smokescreen designed to distract from the capital class alignment problem

[Microsoft ex-CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Epstein, and Putin's wife and daughter] @moira ... I took to spending Saturday nights in the computer center, the one building on on the Princeton campus that didn't close. I *was* actually taking my first EECS class that semester, so there was no shortage of […]

[Microsoft ex-CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Epstein, and Putin's wife and daughter] @moira So,... spring 1980: After some months of me missing ever more obvious hints from my freshman year roommate (first real encounter with passive-aggressive "Midwestern Nice" that I, from NJ, found totally baffling) […]

Why do I feel like Vinge's Singularity really *is* about to hit, but rather than politely advancing to posthumanism and quietly fucking off to infinity, it's instead going to make sure that all actual sources of information get overrun with crap, that everybody in our entire civilization who […]

TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND on the :soundtransit_one_line: Line for the Superbowl victory parade TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND that is a big fucken number and it worked meanwhile, :soundtransit_two_line: Line "simulated" runs - as in actually running and taking […] [Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]

Part 6 https://wrog.dreamwidth.org/72287.html in which, having established what (little) math we actually need, we get to the truly fun part: How constant acceleration works a.k.a. What you need to know re Faking Gravity in Special Relativity. It is **a** **lot** weirder than you would expect […]

I of course goofed and left out the explanation of Lorentz Contraction from the obvious place in Part 3 where I should have talked about it. So I've slotted it in here: https://wrog.dreamwidth.org/71271.html#hrel3_lorentz along with a new diagram to […] [Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]

I am inordinately amused that there is a website called laryngopedia.com. The internet is not yet dead

I decided it was time for another go at explaining Special Relativity. I remain annoyed at how few people really get it, even amongst avid SF consumers, who have gotten entirely too accustomed to generations of SF writers papering over the FTL issues with technobabble, 'cause we need that […]

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(yes, I'm avoiding a link to Failbook):

evidently, Tom Stoppard passed away recently. Reminds me of: https://wrog.dreamwidth.org/20761.html (... could be time to rent "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" -- unfortunately, imdb is not turning up any adaptations of "The Real Thing", which is the one I'm actually curious about -- […]

wait. that's it? we don't even get to see fungus fucking off into the sea? one star minus. #Monsterdon

ok, time to set fire to the busses #Monsterdon

"everybody out of here!" and go where? #Monsterdon

I would have thought "point of no return" would be a LOT farther west than Santa Barbara. #Monsterdon

oh well. so much for all of the baggage #Monsterdon

Not a full flight, I guess #Monsterdon

Looking for **A GIRL** #Monsterdon

"typhoid Mary" yeah let's not panic anybody or anything. #Monsterdon

I guess "good looking brunette" really nails it down. #Monsterdon

I'm supposed to be rooting for her to make it onto the plane, right? #Monsterdon

c'mon spores. do your stuff already #monsterdon.

"now she must change her appearance as well." Thank you so much, Mr. Narrator; I would never have figured this out. #Monsterdon

wow, those public loudspeakers everywhere are really useful! #Monsterdon

is her picture in the newspaper already? #Monsterdon

I guess it's good that they're following Proper Procedures. #Monsterdon

hm. I think they reused the payphone set. #Monsterdon

so they're going to narrate the whole fucking movie?? #Monsterdon

umm. yeah. fumigate those tapes!! #Monsterdon

yay "An American in Paris" soundtrack. just another busy day... #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon the social skills are strong with this one.

#Monsterdon "will proceed to devour it" yeah. Nothing bad is going to happen here!

I think those end credits could use a bit more DX7 #Monsterdon

"What a Finale!" um, okay. I do like the birdcalls #Monsterdon

wait. actual special effects? I sense budget being expended. #Monsterdon

I guess this *was* back when MTV still showed music videos. (was this their bid at getting extra air time there?)

and a "Beach" scene. And I guess the mask guys were supposed to be Vampires so, all boxes checked. yay. (why is this song break STILL going...?) #Monsterdon

I guess they've got the "Bikini' part of the title covered #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon SONG BREAK and MONTAGE!

ok, so all of the vampirification happens offscreen? oh wait... ask and ye shall receive (nice masks!) #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon "figure it out on the computer" oh sure. chatgpt will have all of the answers

#monsteron (just tuning in) there's a narrator??? what for

Why TF am I getting Seattle Police recruitment ads? (I thought The Algorithm knew me pretty well by now. Is Google finally choking on its own AI slop? Or is this SPD being super-desperate and completely indiscriminate in its targeting [or being scammed by somebody?]?)

MERCER ISLAND SCHOOL BOARD Wow, you really do have to watch the downballot races. Mercer Island School Board has two (2) candidates (O'Callahan is and Gaspar) that are *both* software CTOs touting their "AI" credentials. Gaspar explicitly wants "free AI classes". Here's a hint: The only "AI […]

Today's curiosity questions: For MIT People (read: anyone who's been there studenting/facultying/visiting/trespassing/whatever within the last decade or two): (1) Is 'Toad Sexing' still prohibited nearly everywhere? (I figure that either it was a passing fad in the early-mid 1980s and the […]