Peter Berger

I went through security at like 4:30 am. Maybe they hadn't set 'em up yet.

People, calm down about Blue Prince not getting the nomination for GOTY: see, the GOTY nomination is done by rolling dice and Blue Prince just didn't draft the right path to the nomination on this run, it can try again next year.

Someone described Blue Prince as having an enjoyment graph where it goes up and up the more you play and then you cross some threshold where suddenly you regret having spent a single minute on the game and this describes my feelings pretty accurately.

PIT Train's Last Day - I was there!

By pure coincidence I flew out of PIT today and rode this train and I did NOT get one of these stickers, and I have never been so upset in my entire life.

@opg.bsky.social

YouTube video by Bib48_MovieClips Once Upon a Time in the West - called me by name

The "Now that you've called me by name" is a reference to www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEqH....

CW: violence

A deeply upsetting book cover "FORTH on the Atari"

[Stares]. Well. [Spits]. Now that you've called me by name.

I'm desperately trying to stop myself from posting That One German FORTH Book cover.

Pittsburgh native here. I'm willing to bet there's a huge gradient on that green line. Can you provide location lat/long?

Counterpoint: this was not a lie in any sense. It was absolutely true.

Sorry to sea-lion in but you've got me curious now. Can I get a link?

Despite making the mistake 473819547 times, I will never ever ever remember the distinction between `brew update` and `brew upgrade`.

Haskell MOOC: Lecture 4a, Stay Classy (Part 3) YouTube video by Tea Leaves

Sunday morning Haskell streaming. Let's do the last 3 exercises in Set 4a. Posted for a limited time; the edited / selected exercises version will be on my channel in about 2 weeks.

youtube.com/live/JtyDL9s...

My favorite story about my late dad is that he got kicked out of a casino when he was around 10 years old on a family trip because he was calculating the odds on the slots with a pen and paper.

Haskell MOOC: Lecture 4a, Stay Classy (Part 2) YouTube video by Tea Leaves

Saturday Night's Alright For Haskell Streaming youtube.com/live/Z-E6C7F...

Jewish history is full of urban legends that everyone knows were untrue ("My uncle's rabbi appealed to the Russian general, he was moved to tears and will protect us", 2 weeks later the Russian army murders all of them.) But when Christian monks spread the same nonsense, it becomes Real History.

The Wikipedia article is full of weird theories to account for this strange phenomenon yet doesn't mention the most likely theory: PEOPLE REPEATED THE INCREDIBLY OBVIOUS DUMB LIES.

"It began with Frau Troffea who started dancing outside her house and did not stop for weeks" this is a nonsense fabrication made up by someone who was completely deranged and then repeated by barely literate gullible younger brothers who were forced into the priesthood by their asshole baron dads.

can we agree that the medieval "dancing plague" is CLEARLY bullshit that never happened ever, and we all just pretend it did because some moron fucking monks repeated the myth and our society's systems are engineered to make us believe religious people when they say things that are clearly false.

Haskell MOOC: Lecture 4a, Real Classy YouTube video by Tea Leaves

Saturday morning Haskell-streaming. Problem Set 4a from the Haskell MOOC, "Real Classy".

youtube.com/live/Wz-qFDc...

Source material is at haskell.mooc.fi.

I'm told that there are a small number of American credit card companies (notably Citi?) that still support this.

Maybe 15 years ago my credit card had a thing where you could go to their web site and generate a new virtual card number and say "This number can spend up to $53 and no more" and this was the height of all human technology and I'm absolutely furious that no one supports this any longer.

YouTube video by Tea Leaves Haskell MOOC Problem Set 2

Let's take a look at selected exercises from the Haskell MOOC's problem set 2!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7icH...

"This change can't possibly break anything" is the most dangerous sentence in an engineer's vocabulary.

It would be extremely funny if every time Fetterman got gently bopped on the head he switched from having extreme right-wing views to left-wing views and vice-versa.

“Everyone is 12 Years Old“ theory of american politics remaining undefeated.

It's hilarious that you don't realize how shitty this makes you look.

Watching _V For Vendetta_ and hoo boy I never thought I'd be living through it.

chat is this true

Counterpoint: Bond should die at the end of every James Bond movie, and then magically reappear alive at the start of the next one with absolutely no explanation.

I love the word "motonormativity"