An effective way of torturing a civilization is repeatedly smacking it into a Great Filter with great speed, so a basilisk dungeon will look like a universe full of civs failing the Fermi Paradox
đ Finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Donât Have with People You Donât Like Doing Things You Donât Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide) by Sarah Knight
đ Finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Donât Have with People You Donât Like Doing Things You Donât Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide) by Sarah Knight
Writing parsers like it is 2017 | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/08/15/writing-parsers-like-it-is-2017/
About the impermanence of things
Thinking about the impermanence of things is a reoccurring theme for me. It usually happens if I get mad at something I donât like, which used to be quite often no long ago. I still notice situations that are less than desirable for my point of view, but I no longer get mad every single time. I am trying my very best not to get upset for anything, or with anyone. Yet, the thought of everything being temporary still surrounds me. The last time it came to mind was whe ⊠â Read more
on street lamps and buildings and in the corners of underpasses, the cameras grow like mushrooms, and I wonder when theyâre going to burst open and what kind of spores theyâll spread
How to Think Like a Medieval Monk | Laphamâs Quarterly https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/how-think-medieval-monk
The old nightmares have become old companions, the dread is gone and theyâre like that willow that was once really spooky but is now a place of welcome quiet and shadow
âA Sloppy Machine, Like Me”⊠https://wearethemutants.com/2018/01/09/a-sloppy-machine-like-me-the-history-of-video-synthesizers/
Web application design is like a generation of people looked at that text adventure written in postscript and said LETS WRITE ALL FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS IN POSTSCRIPT EMBEDDED IN SELF-MODIFYING LATEX DOCUMENTS FOREVER
Mastodon makes the internet feel like home again | The ⊠https://theoutline.com/post/2689/mastodon-makes-the-internet-feel-like-home-again
If you leave books alone to build their own library hives, they end up hexagonal like those of bees. To protect the printing press that serves as queen, intruders are often trapped in endless mazes, for example Borges stumbled into one of those
Curled around your bed, your pet ouroboros falls asleep. The outside world vanishes, you find yourself floating on a moonlit quicksilver ocean, metallic polyhedra rising around you like bubbles
What Shonen Jump Was Like 30 Years Ago - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIh85_bCudk
An umbrella that looks like a soap bubble and changes in color and texture accordingly
1: animated masks, covered in breathing feathers, clockwork, small animalsâ”2: screens in place of faces, some still look like faces, others play reaction gifs or random streamsâ”3: the above, but theyâre touchscreens and touching anotherâs face is just⊠normal, why donât you?
a contest for the most layers of simulation, with entries like âtetris in minecraft in a vm in a vm in a vm submitted by some dude wearing a mask whoâs a sleeper agent in real life which btw isnât real anyway but thatâs the free level everyone gets anyway
maintain a steady infohazard diet like those animals that eat poisonous plants, so that your mind will poison those that try to eat it
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Iâd really like to know how you managed to use twtxt via XMPP. đ
What a new U.S. civil war might look like â Foreign Policy http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/10/what-a-new-u-s-civil-war-might-look-like/
like twitter, but instead of infinite posts with finite length, you get finitely many posts with infinite length
like twitter, but you can be followed by 280 people at most
âŒ: Wow you fuck like a machineâ”â»: Th-â”âŒ: Not a compliment. Agent Sears, Anthropol. When have you last renewed your Turing license
An exasperated sigh. âNo, this is like the twentieth dream in a row Iâve woken up from. Whenever I doâ she opens her eyes a second time âthi
@leveck@leveck.us Why not just use a menu and link your posts, friends and comments? I like the idea to use fts for comments!
Like a pond someone threw a stone into, the sky ripples, clouds bob. Itâd be serene and peaceful if the stone hadnât also brought Armageddon
Most of us donât remember their last life because it was that of a bacterium - nothing bad, just the most likely place for a soul to be
The council of gods schisms every time it tries to decide what the universe should look like, which is the only reason we get physics
Re: support for other protocols, it seems like twtxt would be pretty easily adapted to work over the p2p file network DAT, though itâd need client support for DAT or some way to follow people via files and sync in the background, which might be simpler for clients to support but would still require changes to most clients.
much of this tech needs active maintenance or breaks down, some sit on tech stockpiles, others go through bodies like vampire lords
@benaiah@benaiah.me sounds a lot like why many years ago, I went with Drupal for a simple Blogging site vs Wordpress. WP was easier but Drupal allowed me as an admin to not have any filters. Which allowed me to put raw HTML in the posts to control certian that I was doing at the time
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org I could probably put something together, but I went this route originally because existing generators felt like they took too much control from me over the exact output. I want very small, static pages I can throw behind nginx, and I want to know exactly what the contents are. My current mess of spaghetti Racket is getting hairy since Iâm halfway through an unfinished rewrite I started a while ago and forgot about, but at least I know exactly what itâs doing.
@kas@enotty.dk I like the personal touch that we are greeting new users! Hi, @leveck@leveck.us
@pete@petedeas.co.uk thatâs a clever solution; Iâll have to set up something like that.
I hate rewritting code just because someone else does not like the way it is!
tfurrows it is likely to be really barebones. I am just screwing around
like it.
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When you cut open an ouroboros, it has rings like a tree, one for every time itâs eaten itself
Since a bunch of catgirls escaped in a lab accident 15 years ago, catpeople have bred like crazy, helped along by many a lonely citizen
This is how Netflixâs top-secret recommendation system works | WIRED UK https://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-do-netflixs-algorithms-work-machine-learning-helps-to-predict-what-viewers-will-like?imm_mid=0f5ddc&cmp=em-data-na-na-newsltr_20170906
Worldâs gone crazy? News donât make sense? Looks like the dreamâs lost its lucidity again. Hey! Solipsist! Hey, you, fix this shit, ïœïœïœïœ
molting tip: donât leave your past self lie around just like that, its reproachful stare is bad vibes
a truly eye-opening experience, yes, but we can open even more body parts if you like, belly-opening experiences are all the rage right now
elevator pitch: itâs like the internet, but not a warzone
so basically, software forks are like blockchain forks but you get to doublespend 0days instead
When not out to devour you, shoggoths can be really pretty, like sentient dust clouds or miniature murmurations that leave behind trinkets
Blind from birth, when asked to imagine colors, she makes it sound like sheâs found something better than us and we donât dare fix her eyes
Not only are AI memes nearly impenetrable to humans, humans who do pick them up are often chastised by other AIs for talking like spambots
Indistinct at first but everywhere, TV static grows over the windows of the world like mold, softly hissing, blocking out the outside