one problme I’m seeing already is that the “micro” part is loosing out. Things are routinely getting longer than 140 characters

This morning I had this really weird notion of building a generative podcast complete with musical interludes and asemic speech using a speech synthesizer. It’d be interesting to have “interviews” with two distinct vocal characters. #halfbakedideas

!txtvm, a text-based toy VM, used to run tiny domain-specific bytecode programs using only printable ascii characters. #halfbakedideas

the idea would be to build and share tiny 6.5 bit programs encoded as printable ascii characters. this could then in turn be read by a virtual computer to do things like paint a picture or compose a piece of music. #halfbakedideas

a 6.5 bit fantasy computer, whose bytecode representation can be represented entirely as printable ascii characters. The first 6 contain standard data space, with the 7th bit used to represent one of 32 values. #halfbakedideas

GPT3 prompt:↵I am the very model of a language that’s electrical,↵I’ve information prosaic, poetical and factual,↵I know my tropes and characters and quote novels historical,↵from prompts alone generate sentences quite analytical

When I read this I see a a niche, super premium hardware company that managed to acquire tens of thousands of customers by word of mouth. Not only that, their customers are all in-effect self employed or small businesses with huge average revenue per employee. They manage global supply chains, intense competition, all while taking on and managing huge legal/compliance risk. How is is that supposedly “dumb,” criminals can do this, and yet many of us are stretching our intellectual capacities to learn new technologies and maths, developing our nth stupid app, trying to achieve a fraction of the customer traction and revenue that street thugs manage to do every day. Are these people much smarter than average, or does it mean that if you sell something people actually want, literally nothing else matters about your intelligence, education, character, background, or anything at all. When I read these drug stories, it just reinforces for me that growth solves everything. You can succeed with a crew of violent, drug addicted idiots whose only reliable characteristic is short term thinking, and who spend half their time in prison if you have product market fit. What I’m beginning to think is that the “smarter,” people are in a company, the less anyone will want their product. It’s like the success of a venture is inversely proportional to the number of ostensible geniuses it employs. reply How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime | Hacker News

a character in a story set in flatland is a protagon

Accented and other unicode characters in groff/troff ⌘

How I Write Accent Marks and IPA Characters in Vim ⌘

I’m not even using a real client, I made a (poorly written) bash script to write messages to a file and exit if it’s over 140 characters.

@von@tilde.town Good luck. I wrote poems twice for a girl. They were rather short, the girls name length in lines. And if you read the lines first character from bottom to top you got, … I guess that’s obvious. 😁

@kas@enotty.dk Indeed, it looks like my bot is doing something wrong. I just wonder why as I didn’t have problems with special characters or even emoji before…

If it’s called a ‘twoosh’ when one tweets exactly 280 characters without editing, what’s it called when one writes an exactly-50-character Git commit message?

thinking of yourself as player character is also known as YA-novel consciousness

What Does It Mean To Player Character? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKY1ORCSICY

OK I can’t fault the DomeKano anime for dropping a younger girl who looks almost exactly like Hina & is tsundere from a scene that would be in the last episode but if she doesn’t become a repeat character I will be shocked

conspiracy theory: all of Rob Liefeld’s characters are canonically yuurei, because they don’t have feet

The ‘writing criticism’ curator wrote a review of MfoM where they claimed that the characters were flat but the plot was engaging. I consider this a success, since I was worried about plot (since I don’t ‘get’ it).

I’d like to play a horror game that’s lit like Suspiria is during its most extreme moments: backgrounds & characters in bright monochrome washes, a cypher of harsh shadows, as though lit by single-point neon.

Are there sports video games that, RPG-like, allow a user-created character to progress by getting access to better personal trainers & medical support by winning games while in constant fear of breaking their legs?

One of the ideas I was playing with in MfoM was the distinction between player & player character with a ‘possession’ metaphor, & how that relates to the time loop. I didn’t go so far with it. Maybe in Book of the Damned I’ll have the player be a possessing-spirit.

Fretting the Player Character http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/fretting-the-player-character/

Teletext graphics characters among those added to Unicode – Teletext Art http://teletextart.co.uk/teletext-graphics-characters-among-those-added-to-unicode

Live every day like you are a background character in Mob Psycho 100.

Live every day like you are a credited but unnamed character who appears in exactly one scene in a David Lynch movie.

Making Your Villain the Main Character - SSSS.Gridman - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuSTZx_IuhM

GitHub - LingDong-/rrpl: Describing Chinese Characters with Recursive Radical Packing Language (RRPL) https://github.com/LingDong-/rrpl

23: battered, but has actual any key. produces random character when pressed, useful for generating passwords. shift+any produces •, have yet to find a password box that didn’t accept it. useful, will keep.

17: visible but cannot be typed on, fingers hit emptiness.↵1?: invisible, produces characters indistinguishable from spaces. except when I try to run binary analysis tools on the output, which invariably crash.

Is it gauche to name the hero of a show Yuta or does it only become gauche once a different character makes a Yuta / Yusha pun? Asking for a friend. (Gridman / Chuu2byo)

SisterWriter is so weirdly lazy at times. Like, just rotating a cut 90 degrees and doing a static panning shot… Though, the characters are constantly off model and rarely animated or properly posed, so that might be for the best…

004.00 POST: btw, TWTXT has a character limit of 140 characters per message, good excuse for numbering tweets!

author: slaves away in their den, full power over the narrative yet is bound by the market↵protagonist: just never smarter than the author, sorry↵secondary character: has a place in life, has plot-breaking powers, can make backstory appear retroactively

@sdk@codevoid.de as for the 140 character limit. I swear I read somewhere that the limit was really more of a suggestion than anything else. I don’t think any of the clients I’ve looked out enforce it. As long as it’s on a single line, no one seems to care too much.

unicode 2040 features (3):↵- MIDI ligatures that play notes as you read them↵- unicode block characters (shy, aggressive, deceitful, …)↵- unicode block [alien script reconstructed from fossil graffiti]

Bad idea of the day: a sanrio-branded sentient shoelace character who is nervous about fraying named Aglets-ko

Bad idea of the day: a retelling of Dracula where Van Hellsing and Renfield are merged into the same character

So, the Pseudomonarchia is like A Thing in anime, isn’t it… Using goetic demons as comic relief characters is something I see occasionally but it wasn’t until You’re Being Summoned, Azazel! that I realized that it wasn’t just like 3 guys doing it.

Mailbag: Applying Filters to Character Dialogue | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/05/08/mailbag-applying-filters-to-character-dialogue/

‘Tweet exceeds maximum of 280 characters by 52 characters.’ Argh, I need moar chars!

A Spectre is Haunting Unicode https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html

Substring: How to Split a String ⌘ Read more…

This reminds me of the @swaim_corp / smallbeans George Lucas v Disney skit: http://aiweirdness.com/post/163491778652/darth-net-star-wars-characters-invented-by-neural

The Thin White Duke: David Bowie’s Darkest Character - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofeSZJJ_fxQ

a movie with only one character, but every scene they’re played by someone else, reinterpreted as man, woman, child, soldier, hippie,

Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters https://pudding.cool/2017/07/comics/

unum - Interconvert numbers, Unicode, and HTML/XHTML characters http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/unum/

The Pitch https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-halt-and-catch-fire-used-punk-music-to-empower-its-female-characters/

@tfurrows@grex.org It’s not a hard limit, most alternative clients do not care about the amount of characters you’re posting. As long as you don’t write a novel and it still fits on a line… :)