Your brain implant projects carefully timed fake smiles onto your face, to throw off the targeting and poison their training sets

A stone on his wrist tells the time - every time it has worn away, one of his days has passed

A Whimsical Wordsmith Charts a Course Beyond Twitter - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/magazine/a-whimsical-wordsmith-charts-a-course-beyond-twitter.html##%E2%80%9CI+was+able+to+be+funny+and+natural+through+the+keyboard+and+awkward+and+quiet+and+weird+in+person%2C%E2%80%9D+he+told+me.+%E2%80%9CI+wonder+how+many+writers+of+this+generation+figured+out+how+to+write+through+chat.%E2%80%9D

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Hated by the Right. Mocked by the Left. Who Wants to Be ‘Liberal’ Anymore? - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/magazine/hated-by-the-right-mocked-by-the-left-who-wants-to-be-liberal-anymore.html

Links often 404, reset, time out, but some point so deeply into the void that the contents of your hard drive itself will be sucked in

By the way that’s how you know Dicken’s Christmas Carol is fabrication, not one language incident in the whole yarn despite time emphasis

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“You mean they invented large brains, tool use, culture, swarming and malthusian trap evasion AT THE SAME TIME? Who leaked the cheat codes?”

It‘s time to reboot the relationship between expertise and democracy | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/its-time-to-reboot-the-relationship-between-expertise-and-democracy?curator=MediaREDEF

The Uber affair
Using Uber for the first time, in France, was a delightful experience. We were able to summon a relatively cheap minivan within minutes, the drivers were nice, nothing found to complain. Then, once back home, I decided that I might want to occasionally drive for Uber, for fun. That is when the real affair started.

To begin with, the rider photo I had on my profile no longer met their requirements. Then, the driver’s application asked me for information that I did not have handy, making me chang … ⌘ Read more

In case of trouble with time-travelling assassins, break a time crystal, the shards really mess with their engines. Basically time caltrops.

I’d like to report a defect, this storm is broken. It’s leaking water and the light is flickering all the time

THINK TANK; The Penis as Text for Serious Thinkers: Be Careful What You Wish For - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/books/think-tank-the-penis-as-text-for-serious-thinkers-be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html

“Make it rain, old man, make it rain one last time”↵There is thunder but no clouds, instead the night sky lights up with meteors

also known as time flies, their imagos feed on unnoticed seconds and will for example lurk near engrossed readers, antennae extended

social network that lets you search users by emotional state so that you can binge on certain emotions in times of need

At night, your maidbot often sneaks away. One time, you follow it and find an android coven in a warehouse, chanting in near-ultrasound

@reednj@twtxt.xyz I think this would be the first time two clients implement the same #metadata format.

@kas@enotty.dk The worst about dst? My daughter just wakes up exactly one hour earlier. I think adults adjust faster to time changes…

In the paradise timeline, nobody ever suffers. But every time it branches, yet another former paradise finds out: God has left them.

Maybe we shouldn’t add time sensitive metadata. Maybe # following = https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt https://enotty.dk/twtxt.txt …

@quite@lublin.se There is even a section rfc7234 about heuristic expiration times: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234#section-4.2

@phil@philmcclure.duckdns.org I can’t imagine a simpler time format than rfc3339. I would be fine with just using utc or unix time, but i don’t think most people could write that without a client… :)

4.gif: Infohazard. It’s the spinning girl illusion, but for perception of time. Viewers often end up remembering only the future.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net What do you mean by time based? I added syncing with we-are-twtxt in 6c2038 but it simply compares the result against the last run?

what if earth is hollow AND flat at the same time ↵what then

This will be configurable in the future but that’s enough coding for one night, time computation is weird.

When you are a long time android user, iOS can be super frusterating

@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx Take a look at dns resolv times. This was a major pita with txtnix.

An intelligent person
From Twitter:

The most amazing thing about the Trump presidency is that it’s made GWB look like a reasonably intelligent person.

— Derek Powazek (@fraying) February 27, 2017

And from The New York Times:

Former President George W. Bush said Monday “we all need answers” on the extent of contact between President Donald Trump’s team and the Russian government, and didn’t … ⌘ Read more

Slow down subjective time enough and a forest becomes a chlorophyll fire with wooden bones. And indeed, they’re like bonfires to the gods.

a thin static crackle like headphones unplugging, then the sound of the world cuts out and you hear the machines’ low hum for the first time

The silence of the hacks
There is a reason why I subscribed to the digital edition of The New York Times. Its journalists are superb; it is a paper I trust, and have found to be veridical after cross referencing the news they post with other major, equally trusted, news sources.

From yesterday’s edition (some emphasis mine):

The story so far: A foreign dictator _in … ⌘ Read more

My newest pet peeve is that after some time i can’t open any menues in firefox: menubar, righ click, statusbar etc

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Had you time to work on your BBGW yet?

Incapable of serving
From the opinion pages of The New York Times yesterday, 13 of February, 2017, also appearing in print today. Some emphasis mine.

Mr. Trump’s speech and actions demonstrate an inability to tolerate views different from his own, leading to rage reactions. His words and behavior suggest a profound inability to empathize. Individuals with these traits distort reality to suit their psychological state, attacking facts and those who convey them (journalists, scientists).
�� … ⌘ Read more

Decode It Like It’s 1999
A few years ago I started to work on an MPEG1 Video decoder, completely written in JavaScript. Now, I finally found the time to clean up the library, improve its performance, make it more error resilient and modular and add an MP2 Audio decoder and MPEG-TS demuxer. This makes this library not just an MPEG decoder, but a full video player.

In this blog post I want to talk a bit about the challenges and various interesting
bits I discovered during the development of this library. You’ll … ⌘ Read more

Motto: We make the doomsday clock show the time

But publishing takes a long time, maybe I fork a detached subprocess to handle that. Mhh. You’ve been warned. #ipfs

I upload a version of #txtnix with that feature as soon as i have some time to clean up the code

Unpresidential
Not presidential at all.

“President-elect Donald J. Trump’s aides often cite his appearances at professional wrestling matches as an inspiration for his outsize political speaking style, and his buoyantly belligerent news conference in New York on Wednesday proved he has no plans to betray his brawler’s roots in the service of seeming more presidential.”

— New York Times ⌘ Read more

Horror vacui: Fear of empty space↵Furor vacui: The all-devourer to be afraid of↵Error vacui: That one time the void birthed a universe

any plot with time travel will either be about time travel, or people will complain that the time travel bit was random

Ink, time, solitude, cooked under lamplight, yield myth, a potent hallucinogen. One recognizes addicts by their shy demeanor, haunted stares

“Time is a river and some of us can afford to pay the ferryman” are the last words he hears before the building collapses around him.

Dust devils are wild hourglasses. Free from glass and gravity, they tell a more chaotic time, turbulent, full of loops, untamed by clocks

The bomb still hangs in the air where the missile shield froze it in a drop of time. We’ve come to call the garden below it Damocles Park.

the sun refracts through a time crystal, throws three-dimensional caustics onto space, quiet prismatic light birds that swarm, ripple, morph

We tried protos suits, really. But time in pocket realities runs differently. Those that we recovered contained desiccated corpses at best.