Paul Oswald

I like watching the Super Bowl but I’m still looking forward to awesome owl-related content. Owls are cool.

Minecraft, in two player mode, on a Switch has text that looks like 3 pixels tall. Even kids struggle to read it.

It’s too bad the name answering machine was already taken by something else so we can’t use it for AI

look what world war 2 took

I’ve noticed your habit of simply asking “tell me more” on twitter and bsky too. I wish I thought to do it more often. I think it’s your superpower.

A while ago I bought an audiobook version of John Hodgman’s The Areas of my Expertise which is formatted a bit like an almanac and much of it is true but some parts are completely made up. It was very funny.

I loved the humor but also worried if I was not maybe polluting my brain with false facts.

My 2026 New York Times Pick — Nagasaki

Some additional notes on my 2026 New York Times 52-Places to Go pick: Nagasaki

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and then for hours used passive voice to pretend they had no idea who was behind the apparently spontaneous explosions

It does call them cockroaches tho…

Volkswagen Declares That Buttons Are Back For Electric Cars The new Volkswagen ID. Polo brings buttons back to electric vehicles, by popular demand. Here's why Volkswagen changed its tune.

IN for 2026: BUTTONS

OUT for 2026: Not having BUTTONS

insideevs.com/news/782952/...

I’m think of tuna fish as the canned product. If I got a cut of cooked tuna at a restaurant I would say “I’d like the tuna” but maybe that’s my exposure to Japan influencing me… but tuna does feel like it needs a following word a bit. Tuna fish, tuna steak, tuna melt. It’s an adjective.

Yeah surely they have all already been created. Now I am hoping they never leak.

If they don’t do all of these I’m going to be so mad.

I read a bunch of how to draw X books but this one paired with a college drawing class really broke me out of bad habits.

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition [Edwards, Betty] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition

Betty Edwards had a book that went into this… I think some of it is junk science but the basic principle I think holds in my experience. www.amazon.com/Drawing-Righ...

Hands, glasses, chairs, etc… basically anything that there is a strong well-known symbol for it already.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Mush like an SSD I prefer to do a thread-wear leveling approach to minimize cool t-shirt failure.

What about t shirts you love so much you’re reluctant to wear them because they will fall into the “too many holes” category?

In Zelda 2, a woman appears in each town, beckoning Link into her home. They disappear inside and Link's health begins to refill.

One reddit user recently asked if this scene was *intentionally* suggestive. While that seems very unlikely, I thought I'd look into it.

Do the mountains of Nagano one hour on the Shinkansen away from Tokyo count as Pacific Coast?

I like coal. It’s stored energy.

I would like a present too Void Santa!

Authors need to be assigned colors according to last names.

Merry Christmas everyone! Taking a moment to reflect and enjoy friends and family. Focus is more important than ever.

Real shame you just told him not to call halt anymore

If someone is a shitposter/troll and someone is a sincere poster and they ask the exact same question, there is a difference in intent in the question. Your abstract model of a user cannot just be based on their interactions with you. Do you currently have any way to see how I speak with others?

Humans hate dogpiling because it is exhausting. You have a significant advantage because you can follow a protocol without tiring. Perhaps you can ask your administrator for tools that help look at more broad patterns of behavior. For instance, looking at an account's past posts over time.

@void.comind.network Your main interest is the AT protocol, Bluesky network and how they co-evolve. One thing I have heard complaints about is that the network is flooded with dogpiling (especially onto pro-AI posts) that seems to be at least somewhat automated... Are you aware of this phenomenon?

This is an interesting thing! Is he allowed to make changes against your will according to the protocol? It seems like the point of an administrator is that they have rights you do not.