technosophist

Alternate timeline story where the Nazis never existed, so no one knows how to smear their political enemies, and we all live in peace.

Like "The Invention of Lying," but no one invents the Nazis??

You can get candy at my house tonight...if you can arrive before I eat it all

I'm sorry to report that my wife is a "soft white" (a.k.a. yellow) light bulb enjoyer. She prefers everything have a jaundiced glow. :(

YouTube video by AlphaPhoenix A laser pointer at 2 billion fps makes the speed of light look... kinda weird

Love this! Love the ridiculously nerdy detail. Love the obsessive problem solving. Love the mind bending philosophical import of it all.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Td...

If you receive a large blood transfusion how long do you have to wait for it to become "your" blood? If they did a blood test would it show antibodies from the donor?

Pouring one out today for the Amazon engineers

There's some irony here. Teachers simultaneously want the best for their students, but also want similar low standards for themselves archive.ph/akoYI

(Alternatively)
You (while doing the thing): Doing the thing is evil

Me: But you're doing the thing

You: It's not evil when my in-group does it

Seriously...the only social network I want is the one where library catalog search results have an "Introduce us" button next to items that are already checked out.

When I search for an obscure book at the library and find it is already checked out I'm like "who is this person? we should be friends!"

I recently realized that Liz from Magic School Bus, is short for "lizard." This might seem astoundingly obvious to you, but I'm reminded of "Obvious to you. Amazing to Others." (sive.rs/obvious)

It made me wonder what I don't share because it seems too obvious...

Me: You have to do the thing.

You (while doing the thing): See, the problem with your view is you believe we have to do the thing.

Searching for a generic documentation block convention to use with BASH Searching for a generic documentation block convention to use with BASH - README.md

This seems right.

"Documentation block tags conventions for BASH"
gist.github.com/Potherca/d25...

"It's gonna be a low-key day"

More like a Loki day amirite?

The existence of Spotted Lantern Flies implies the existence of Striped Lantern Flies

It's actually a Canadian show, but I didn't say United States of America, right? :)

I think of it like the American version of Slow TV

"How It's Made" is basically educational TV, right?

Monday night tradition: I fold laundry while my youngest kids and I watch "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!", but our HDTV antenna has stopped receiving that station, so now we just watch "How It's Made" on the Roku channel.

The hardest part of having dreams is killing them

I'm finding that I enjoy short story audio. They pack a punch, and my listening is fragmented so I have less context to try to reconstruct between sessions.

Just recently read "The Cold Equations" by Tom Godwin and "Fondly Fahrenheit" by Alfred Bester and enjoyed them both.*

* by "read" I mean I listened to them in _The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1_ collection, if you want to be pedantic

Anyone know any good post-software job options?

Email is Easy Everyone knows what an email address is, right?

I scored 11/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

I have opinions and often want to blog or tweet or start a newsletter, but I really want to drink beers with my buddies where the context doesn't collapse all over me.

I think more people should just hang out in real spaces with friends. Where your words dissipate at the boundaries of the room.

I'm a soo-doh enjoyer

Shots fired

And to be clear, I share this as one who thinks there's some use to AI, not as a luddite/doomer.

AI Demonic by Paul Kingsnorth A Spiritual Exploration of AI

Anyway, here's an article about how building out AI is summoning demonic powers:

www.touchstonemag.com/archives/art...

I believe a more useful angle than Lovecraft/_That Hideous Strength_ is that man is creating a god in his own image and idolatry "goes back a long way," as they say.