I think some people are not even trying to read the room anymore, they're having the room summarized for them

honestly this is good advice for anyone who's considering posting

2010s: be sure to put some sort of dog interaction in your game for a Polygon writeup 2020s: be sure to put a perfect square of negative space in your HUD for Northernlion to nest in

I think some people are not even trying to read the room anymore, they're having the room summarized for them

Megabonk

I swear I think of this every other time I open this website

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show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

so fun fact: if you hang a 1-meter plumb line within a few meters of a large building (like the Chrysler Building), that plumb line will deflect slightly toward the building measurably (about 0.03 mm if I've done the calcs right), due to the gravitational attraction of the building.

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I love how I can hear the ICE cops down at the building on loudspeakers telling protesters what to do, even after midnight. it is relaxing and does not cause me anxiety.

so fun fact: if you hang a 1-meter plumb line within a few meters of a large building (like the Chrysler Building), that plumb line will deflect slightly toward the building measurably (about 0.03 mm if I've done the calcs right), due to the gravitational attraction of the building.

I should make a clock

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I'm probably not the first to think this up, but why are they called dumplings and not "hot-pot-ckets"?

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

*every* Claude model gets this wrong: > Alan, Bob, Colin, Dave and Emily are standing in a circle. Alan is on Bob’s immediate left. Bob is on Colin’s immediate left. Colin is on Dave’s immediate left. Dave is on Emily’s immediate left. Who is on Alan’s immediate right?

so I looked into SpreadsheetBench, and that thing is *cursed* basically someone grabbed hundreds of absolutely cursed nightmare spreadsheet scenarios. also, 57.2% is *far* and away the leader on this benchmark. nothing even comes close.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

you best start believin' in "token streams" which encode meaning and value; you're readin' one

my take

Your exocortex is correct. "Juice" is not a feature to be implemented, but an emergent property of collaboration.

I'm considering just being insane just in general insanity mode

oh boy, i have a lot of work to do on Stardrift, suddenly

video game narratives come in two kinds: cold unsparing randomness, and button you press to hit yourself. Pathologic? hit-yourself. Fallen London? hit-yourself. Unfair Flips? unsparing randomness. In spite of literally giving you the option to hit yourself, Disco Elysium is unsparing randomness.

finally some normal fucking people on reddit

the City Council asked the Portland Police Bureau not to police the protests so much. and it sounds here like the PPB is telling the City Council to pound sand. i think this means increased police presence at the same time as the National Guard is arriving.

i feel like i have been Going Through It for years at this point

In light of larger protest crowds at Portland's ICE facility and the anticipated arrival of National Guard troops, Portland Police Chief Bob Day says local police will continue to monitor the area. Earlier this year, City Council directed PPB to limit the use of overtime hrs on policing protests.

*circling "become a bunny" on a whiteboard*

tired: it's always DNS inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight

I like to quit everything on the computer but then continue to use it, like I'm rebelliously hanging out in the mall after it's closed

chuckling at the thought of an all male Star Trek series called Boyager

Today Oregon’s message to Donald Trump was loud and clear: stay out.

I always accidentally misread `#derive[PartialOrd]` as `#derive[PortlandOre]` at first 😵‍💫

hey, ICE dude, if you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean

This follows a Sunday morning memo sent from White House to Kotek authorizing 200 members of the National Guard to perform “federal functions” in Portland for 60 days.

ME: we have the ability to summon up images, stories, poems, speeches, even movies of anything we can imagine, just by describing it GUY FROM 1950: fantastic! ME: it has completely undermined the cohesion of our society and eroded the fundaments of democracy itself GUY FROM 1950: you don't say

it is warm, mild, pleasant, and sunny today. this is transphobic against me specifically

A total about-face by Metro Chamber and allies, trying to repeal the portrait of Portland crime they drew up during the post-COVID years, when it seemed politically advantageous. Now, the crime narratives are “outdated,” because the people who constructed them decided so. Sleight of hand.

really love this loud helicopter or drone or whatever that is circling above my neighborhood and not using a transponder. not at all dystopian or anything.

night is falling. the Cessnas have started circling. meanwhile, someone's drone hovers way above ICE. (I noticed it when I was trying to get photos of the moon.)

I could swear I imagined this, but I remember someone referring to northernlion as "the Socrates of our times" last night in the voice chat, and it haunts me

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got some cool rat girl art the other day :3 (thanks @caitlinroseboyle.com!)

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if we ever do manage to create a machine that is alive, what is there to feel about this but horror?

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yeah during the day it's completely calm here. during the nights, the ICE cops provoke, lob munitions, and generally cause problems.

Trump is launching an authoritarian takeover of Portland hoping to provoke conflict in my hometown. I urge Oregonians to reject Trump’s attempt to incite violence in what we know is a vibrant and peaceful city. I will do everything in my power to protect the people in our state.