I think Netflix is doing that thing with the Witcher, where nothing happens until the last episode in the season.
Posts by David Wlazlo
Halloween decorations.
Silverbeet and Hawkwind kind of morning
Petite bourgeoisie = owns the means of production but is less than 6 ft for men / 5'7 for women / 5'10 for enbies. I don't make the rules, Lenin did
- they became fodder for the genius janitor trope
- they were instrumentalised as living encyclopaedias
- they held the knowledge
- they pushed the boundaries
- they wrote the books
- they weren't expected to be who they were not
- they were told they were dumb until they believed it
- they embraced being weird and gave no fucks what you thought
- they lived in a less normative society so fit in anyway
- their peers bullied them until they withdrew completely
- they found their people
Where were all of the neurodiverse people throughout history?
Let's start.
- they stayed on the farm
- they moved to edge of town and became witches
- they were sent away by their parents
- they disappeared into factories
- they disappeared into the military
- they stayed in the small town
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What do we want? More topsoil! When do we want it? Soonish!
Nice work. I just have mine leaning up against the wall and they slide down behind things all the time π
"And remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear." nemiksmanifesto.wordpress.com
Finally found it after all these years π€£
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Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
This was interesting: I was expecting physical memory, but the discussion was around what I'd call 'session history', not the anthropomorphic term 'memory'.
I guess it's memory in the same vein as 'memory foam' π
Good discussion nevertheless. www.shloked.com/writing/clau...
Let's aim for peak personalisation, where every software application we deal with is prefixed with 'My'. I want to see 'My grep', 'My kubectl'. I want to scroll on my phone's app list and have the alphabetical sorting indexed on the fourth character. I want to feel my eye twitch as the default UX.
Really enjoyed this. I don't think anything is lost by laying out all our assumptions and preconceptions blog.apiad.net/p/the-four-f...
Look over the wall
The garden is the prison
Cool secondhand shit
#haiku
They did this in the restoration of Tower Hill in Victoria's west in the 80s: based the revegetation plan on a painting by Eugene von GuΓ©rard, Tower Hill, 1855.
Merge it and apply.
Accept functional only.
Continue as guest.
With cultural capital, insider trading seems to be the rule.
Sovereign citizen AI
What if the US economy of the last 50 years is just stage one of a long running pig butchering campaign?
Yeah it's kind of timeless... Perhaps because it's standing on the shoulders of giants? Viz. Sheep? π
Does the music from Gotye's "somebody that I used to know" really contain the riff from Baa Baa Black Sheep or am I delirious?
"illegally boycott" π
"Not even the President of the United States knew what that was all about. It was as though the country were saying to its citizens, 'In nonsense is strength'.
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions, 1973
The ghost of Nancy Reagan.
Can we have a condescending LLM chatbot and call it MansplAIn?