Shanth

Something something, the only people who made money from the gold rush were selling shovels and pickaxes.

The bank robbery industry which sustains thousands will collapse if banks insist on locking their money in those pesky vaults

So glad to see you on here again and doing well and helping brighten the world!

two knights are standing in the woods and one of them is saying i 've had worse . Alt: Monty Python scene showing the black knight and King Arthur standing in the woods. The black knight whose arm has just been chopped off, is trying to pay it off saying "I've had worse"

Same energy

Circlejerks within circlejerks is exactly like what you were originally talking about though 😄

At least epicycles looked pretty when drawn

Happy belated birthday! Quite a while back I picked up Piranesi after hearing (reading?) you rave about it, and promptly pushed it on all my friends' TBRs. Well just this past week one of them finally got around to it and loved it, so I'm counting this as an internet-stranger-tier birthday gift :)

The use of em dashes may have been a tell for a short while in the way that an A-worthy paper from a student on track to flunk the course would make you suspect plagiarism.

But just like Goodhart's Law, once you simplistically start using it as a measure of AI use, it's no longer a good measure.

SO. MUCH. THIS!!!!

I did not learn the option+shift+hyphen combination for the "—" decades before the ChatGPT back when art thieves had the decency to conduct their business as a ragtag ensembles of likable misfits getting together for one last heist

Asses to asses

I want to saw, surely that was satire? But the LinkedIn mindset is so poisoned I'm can't even sure

If a PR firms manages to salvage his reputation that means that our civilization is doomed.

You say stuff like this to them and they'll believe you typed it *in* the 1940 and ask you if fought in the second world war.

Nothing makes me feel as old as the Cleopatra-to-the-building-of-the-pyramid-at-Giza effect of distant historical events seemingly collapsing together

So brainwashed by misogyny they'd place a quantifiable "value" on human beings, including themselves, as is we're all just commodities.

July 4, 1776. Read your primary sources, kids.

Fun bit of wordnerdery for the day:

So I knew that "butler" was derived from the word "buttery," referring to a type of cellar, but that _butter_ wasn't actually kept in the buttery. But I've just discovered that the words aren't actually connected at all; they don't even have a shared root.

Ha ha WTF

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but start living. The days are flying by and all you do is work, pay bills, and stress. Enjoy what you can like walks, sunsets, music, laughter. Joy doesn't have to be expensive. You deserve it🩷

The official report said that the accident was due to instability caused by poles in the right half plane.»

Explanation for folks without a control systems background:
web.mit.edu/2.14/www/Han...

3/3

Everyone in the seats on the left immediately got up and crowded into the right side, leaning over the other passengers to try to see out the window. Because of the sudden shift in weight, the pilot lost control, and the plane crashed.

2/3 ... continued

Ah! My time to shine!

«As Polish airlines is flying into New York City, the captain announces, “for those of you on the right side of the aircraft, you can see the Statue of Liberty out your window.“

1/3 ... continued

My whole life is a lie. 😭

Thanks for sharing!

And it's an ad to install the StyxGo app so you can prepay Charon for the next time your back here.

*excited Shesheshen noises*

My biggest regret is that I listened to Someone You Can, as an audiobook the first time around, so I assumed Shesheshen was spelled Shoshashen like a slightly off brand version of Shoshanna and missed out what I think is an objectively hilarious name for a people eating monster.

@tkingfisher.com!! I stumbled across What moves the dead last year and every book by her that I've read has been brilliant in a different way. If you're into fantasy, alternate history, horror and everything you won't be disappointed!

I feel this so strongly. My pet conviction is that our instincts and emotions evolved to handle the opinions of a few dozen people we know well and now we're being firehosed with way, way, way beyond that capacity.

We are exposed to too many people's thoughts and opinions and can't handle it.

Was watching an academic lecture on Caravaggio on YouTube (premium is so worth it) and found myself irrationally angry when people in the audience started asking questions. "I'm not here to listen to the comments section!!!" 🤣

Also why I no longer argue with people online. They hijack your time.