r.stricklin

then you need an AI to tell you which AI you should choose.

I originally entered the replies to pump Talk Talk “Spirit Of Eden”, not remembering it was two years too early.

The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s From Lauryn Hill to Radiohead, My Bloody Valentine to Janet Jackson, Nirvana to Wu-Tang Clan, and so many more, these are the albums that changed music forever.

the first place is worth paying attention to. pitchfork.com/features/lis...

“perfect” is a funny word. like any such list there’s a lot here to ponder, digest, and discuss but I’ll absolutely give them Iris DeMent’s “Infamous Angel” which I never even thought of as a ‘90s album. Anyone who can make me feel a profound sense of loss for something that never belonged to me in

OG classic: DJ Format - We Know Something...

I have a box of Sour Patch Kids and it is making me unaccountably happy.

the wikipedia article on it is, let’s say… quite sparse. apart from noting it was not a success

everybody wang chung tonight

with @drpunk.bsky.social

or perhaps it’s been sold to Qatar?

happy obstructed fog!
there’s a Space Needle back there somewhere

If you spent any time at the Kitsap Mall between say 2005 and 2015 you probably saw him keeping the food court clean and never knew.

I guess you'd have been in marching band together? My brother went to Olympic, and graduated in 2000. She's about six weeks older than he is.

and an adopted sister

Spent the last few months with a lot of thoughts; mostly ones best kept to myself. Survived fall quarter. Gastrocnemius tear mostly healed. Thanksgiving plague has continued to linger. Did myself another MCL tear, trying to avoid inflicting a worse injury on an out-of-position intern. So it goes.

A thread on obscenity. I'll get back to these cars. But first: tonight I took my 12yrold to see Nuremberg. He's a pretty serious movie watcher. Thought Zone of Interest was genius. I knew he could handle this. But this isn't a movie review. It's about IRL... 1/

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Lying awake with my brother giving it his all in the midnight snore-us. Christmas often gets me feeling extra pointless, but reviewing the past year in friends’ text messages is making a strong antidote for that.

“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?”

sure, fine, why not

i traded my object permanence for a commemorative godzilla popcorn bucket. who dis?

or perhaps it's only happening because I have already been driven round the bend

I keep hearing the Tom Hulce Amadeus giggle in my head in response to whatever obscene/absurd thing I happen to have just observed

I can't tell if it's helping anything,
although it makes them seem less dreary
but it might be making me crazy

also FO "performant"

dirty rectangles done dirt cheap

had some sort of vile Thanksgiving plague the last couple days. just caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and it’s giving hard Fester Adams

Nearly time again to blow the dust off the only Christmas song I'll ever need: Christmas Wrapping. (The Waitresses, 1982)

Wilson Phillips have just arrived in a time machine from 1990 and would like to know, "...how you like us now?"

Today I:

reported to my cell provider as junk an unsolicited text message from my cell provider about a branded credit card offer.

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

I walk the thinnest line