Martin Tithonium

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Something has gone wrong on my LAN and I can’t fix it remotely. Will fix things as soon as I get home this afternoon.

There's a famous true crime case in which a man is shot while sleeping, but was still able to get up and prepare for his workday despite missing a large chunk of his brain as the daily nonsense habits were so deeply ingrained that performing them was meaningless.

I think about him a lot lately.

Didn’t manage a clean shutdown. File server died just before i could run the command. We’re down until morning. Or until I get woken up by the power coming back, maybe.

Mamdani is making the city better already.

Clearly I missed some sort of zeitgeist.

Achievements are for video games.

I'm helping my coworkers and customers use systems thinking to work through systems designed to work against them.

the fact that this person thinks the workers need to be "Hispanic immigrant-based" shows both the racism and the degree to which entire industries depend on having a sector of the population whose status is by definition precarious, allowing them to be exploited for profit.

You MUST listen to RFC 2119 It turns out you can just pay people to do things.

An acquaintance of an old work friend asked me to narrate a thing. Just about the driest piece of technical writing I’ve ever encountered, read in the most irritating, “God I want to punch this guy” way I could muster. Enjoy, if you so choose.

The news is FINALLY OUT!
@mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social Greta Kelly and I are hosting a LIVE episode of @sffaddictspod.bsky.social at @seattlein2025.org, talking about epic fantasy with George R.R. Martin @brandonsanderson.com @robinhobb.bsky.social @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social @ryancahill.bsky.social!

Service is restored. Six hours and one minute after it went down.

Comcast’s service outage page is responding that it is having an outage.
Is this what you humans call comedy?

Come up on 16:00, internets been down since 11:30 or so, and they STILL say estimated restoration 13:00.

100-200 customers affected, they say.

I am… upset.

They (two trucks) just left. Still no internet.

I did walk out and say hi while getting the mail. One of them said something about the new amplifiers they installed earlier this month. No idea if that’s related to whatever is broken but Ya Know.

He is now outside my house.

I mean, accidents do happen and all, I won’t be complaining, but I’m not _supposed_ to… yet.

Pondering walking into my dispensary and saying “what do you have that will make me care less but not _actually_ kill me?”.

The Supreme Court's Birthright Citizenship Ruling Is a Five-Alarm Catastrophe In Trump v. CASA, the court hands the president yet more unaccountable authority—and yanks us into a neo-Confederate legal nightmare.

Make no mistake, the SCOTUS decision about birthright citizenship IS ALSO ABOUT *birthright citizenship.*
The Court is using nationwide injunctions as the tail, wagging the dog, to take us back to an Antebellum view of citizenship.
That way led to war once.
My latest in @thenation.com

When I left the house 90 minutes ago, there was an Xfinity truck a quarter mile down the road. Coming back just now, he was pulling up to the end of my street. Still no Internet. 

13:30 and comcast still says ETR 13:00. ::P

For once I got an email from comcast about network problems BEFORE I noticed them. And then my internet went out completely. ::P

Things appear to be back.

Internet is down, meaning The Clacks is down. “Upgrades”, no ETA.

4chan is down, nature is healing

How does one get into the “stealing from crypto grifters” business without getting into the “crypto grifter” business? I feel it would be more lucrative and conducive to my retirement plans than my current lottery-based plan.

Results were waiting for me when I got home. No tumor. So, we gotta fix it the hard way, which doesn’t actually involve fixing so much as coping. Yay.

Asking Martha Wells and the Murderbot folks very politely to turn Sanctuary Moon into a round robin spinoff where a whole bunch of unlikely writers/actors/directors get to each do a wild and bonkers episode.

THEY ARE DOING SANCTUARY MOON

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

This article has some great stills of the show but it is really spoilery!

This was my chair on the set.

This is me with Christ Weitz, who with his brother Paul Weitz, are the executive producers, directors, and writers of Murderbot. Their production company Depth of Field optioned All Systems Red in 2021 and they've been working hard to bring it to TV ever since.

This is me with the ball and chart, taken through the monitor while I'm standing in front of the big camera in the hopper set. This has to be done periodically for the special effects team.

If you need a distraction, I'm going to be posting a few non-spoilery set photos over the weeks as a lead-up to the Murderbot premiere on May 16. (It's fun for me! I hope it's fun for you.) @troyce.bsky.social took these photos. #murderbot

They are going to ignore court orders.

If they ignore court orders, the social contract is dead and buried, the constitution is no longer in effect.

It's a rubicon that cannot be uncrossed.