jason grinblat

Okay a couple of people have pointed out that my parents' names are blue on wikipedia for being famous Mentats. Nevertheless,

And I fired this off while eating a peach. Get back to me when a computer can factor a number, peace

Computers struggle with Prime95 stress tests? 95 isn't even prime *smh*

Ghost window: a spectral trace in brick and flint. Every now and then I come across a scene that is utterly beautiful but not intended to be so...here at St. Lawrence, Beeston St. Lawrence, Norfolk.

there was a time when a software update was an opportunity for hope and not a naked threat

Ursula K. Le Guin — 29. Without Egg July 2011 Visiting Vienna in the early 1950s, Charles and I stayed in style for very little expense at the old König von Ungarn Hotel, which had been there since at least the 1820s. We ate breakfast...

Ursula Le Guin on eggs.

“My current egg spoon is stainless steel; on the handle are the letters KLM. I will not go into how we came to own this spoon.”

www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/29-with...

Not the literal worst but the most jokerfying outcome is something like Newsom winning in 2028 and keeping 70% of Trump's ruinous institutional dismantling going under the banner of "rediscovering our country's moral center of personal liberty" or some shit

Would you love me if I were a rack mounted matrix processing unit?

You need this kind of confidence going into the hypothetical

so if anyone does not recognize the name, this is probably the most famous living mathematician on earth. you basically fund his group to pay salaries and random shit like MRI machines becomes several times more efficient, like magic.

"Cameron Kunzelman spent years writing the definitive monograph on a cultural phenomenon uniquely suited to his research program and personal interests. He also wrote a book about Magic the Gathering."

This month on Paper Labyrinths: nic and I talk with @ckunzelman.bsky.social about his books of science fiction, Assassin's Creed, and the upcoming book on Magic the Gathering - as well as a bunch of other work from Cameron's past and future. Available now!

sites.libsyn.com/568595/site/...

Fully unwatchable show

Musk's DOGE destroyed, crippled, or vastly reduced the effectiveness of international humanitarian relief mechanisms that were miracles of modern civilization

*jack nodding*

he's doing this for a consistent source of Gems because he hasn't drawn the Workshop to craft the jackhammer

it some ways exercise gets harder as you age but in one key way it's easier. what once felt like the tortuous passage of time is now pleasant and sandy drizzle in my second home the hourglass. Go all out for 3 minutes? Easy. That's a cinch. I die so little in that time

Trying this with udon today

\ This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.

> But I want to go, it's treasure and stuff??

\ You're right! There is much of value; let's get going. Where would you like to visit first? I recommend the Hall of Glowing, beautiful in autumn

It's not near the level of utter bonkersness it is now, where the volcanics are worth like 10x the mana drain, but even then it was shocking

a few years earlier a guy at a local tournament traded me an Antiquities Strip Mine for a 4th edition one because "it seem[ed] like you really want it". ahhh the days before hyperfinancialized Magic

Thinking about the time in 2001 I bought a Mana Drain on ebay and the seller was a few days late so to apologize threw in two VOLCANIC ISLANDS

probably! a mere decade ⏳

Schedule Worldcon features hundreds of hours of panel programming presented by hundreds of panelists, covering such diverse subjects as science fiction, fantasy, horror, science, costuming, art, writing, genre...

seattlein2025.org/program-and-...

Seattle Worldcon session The Future of Sci Fi Is in Games Room 423-424, Thu. 6–7 p.m. First we had books. Then magazines with short stories. Then movies. Then TV shows. Video games are the newest medium hosting science fiction stories. Come find out what’s being done in games that couldn’t be done before, and what innovations are coming up soon. Justin Bortnick (M), Brian Bucklew, Jason Grinblat, Remy Siu

if you're going to @seattlein2025.org next month, did you know you can come see @unormal.bsky.social and I on a panel called The Future of Sci Fi is in Games, and that we'll be joined by @remysiu.com?!??

one loves to see it

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The ucktwiggle is used to indicate a ten minute pause while the reader tears up and contemplates what floods their heart with joy

If someone wants me to stop using emdash they must simply invent a more beautiful typographic mark

What an accomplishment, congrats!!