Ned Dameron. From Robert E. Howard, Kull, Donald M. Grant, 1985. #NedDameron

woman with hands up and laurel wreath

Shout out to Rosie Ruiz. In 1980 she cheated her way to a Boston qualifying time by hopping on the subway during the 1979 New York City Marathon, where she "finished" 11th. In Boston, she managed to sneak her way onto the last mile of the course unnoticed and ran last mile to become winner.

Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told.

These fools are about to be absolutely fuckass mad, just infuriated and offended beyond all belie, when they find out that truth does not consist in a proposition corresponding to facts but rather is a disquotational device used for blind ascriptions.

The Star Trek Battle Manual by Lou Zocchi from 1972, later withdrawn for legal reasons, would become the basis for the long-running Star Fleet Battles tabletop wargame.

Space Patrol, a sci-fi tabletop roleplaying game published by Lou Zocchi's GameScience in 1977, heavily influenced by Star Trek.

RIP Lou Zocchi, master of weird dice & creator of the d100 Zocchihedron; also a key figure in #StarTrek games history, writer of the 1st (unlicensed) ST tabletop wargame that evolved into Star Fleet Battles + publisher of Space Patrol, arguably the roleplaying game that set the tone for ST RPGs. 🖖

it's a machine that superficially resembles a human. who gives a shit? how stupid must you be to lack basic intellectual defenses against this kind of unthinking?

the visibility of black rentiers & the obamas & inevitability of 1st black billionaire seem like big factors here -- along with, i suspect, post-9/11 usa conservative turn & early-21C coding of new american money as tech/finance i.e. autistic-white

well, what do i know. good read tho

A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Man does all this feel like it's leading up to "Democrats win a landslide in 2026, barely retake the Senate, then Fetterman becomes the deciding vote to let Trump appoint replacements for Thomas and Alito"

nothing is more purely pleasurable than reading a shit-poor critique of a thinker you admire. nothing!

Projected this earlier today and was transfixed by the cel markings and human hands and unfinished edges in motion! This vid has a glimpse of all three, keep your eye on the bottom edge below the port window frame

Max Rebo emerges from the blue.

#ReboRepost "The Pianist," oil on panel, 10 inches by 10 inches, 2022.

if you can get a ticket to a chic manhattan cultural event, yet to DC power brokers (or indeed hollywood ones) you don't exist, then you have one kind of power but not another; when the blades come out, the difference is everything. NYT flatters those types but can't save them.

the NYT uses 'elites' to mean both cultural and financial elites: the (variously) 'privileged,' and the rich. mira nair and her husband are the former not the latter. the NYT does this as a kind of kickback to its median reader, who is in nair's stratum.

the NYT is gross that way.

fans of SML should hear the 2015 album THIS IS NOT A MIRACLE by Food, on ECM.

interesting. i think i lost 2 followers by deriding Tom Waits. it is what it is.

'boots on the ground' will be added to the pile of 'songs i will try listening to once, out of a felt sense of obligation, even though i know tom waits sings on them and they're going to sound fucking stupid'

please do not INTERRUPT ME while i am DOWNLOADING the ENTIRETY of the NO CONTEXT GILLIAN ANDERSON bluesky account to my LAPTOP

please do not mistake me for one of those hapless 'wifeguys' who, if Gillian Anderson showed up at his door, would hesitate to ABANDON HIS FAMILY for her

as long as pitchfork has been around, people have made fun of it for *this specific bullshit,* and it's nice to see the shambling zombie-pitchfork keeping up appearances

Three panel comic. Panel 1: scene from the movie Aliens; Ripley is in a mech suit and delivers her iconic line: “get away from her, you bitch!” Panel 2: the xenomorph queen lunges at Ripley in the robotic suit and they engage in a fight. Panel 3: later, the xenomorph queen is standing in the shower, mid wash. She says, “‘it takes one to know one, honey.’ That’s what I should have said.”

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the *chefkiss* of all *chefkisses*. my dweebs, this is LaTeX tex.stackexchange.com/questions/62...

*taps the sign*

Pedro Friedeberg, Who Ate The Dice, 1972

Pedro Friedeberg, Who Ate The Dice, 1972

through years of LLM research, we have finally managed to invent a human-usable interface for ffmpeg

@coldhealing 2 days ago i think coffee is a vacation drug. not worth it spending your tolerance to fill out spreadsheets 15% faster. use it like healthy cocaine to be more attentive at the museum

god almighty i wish people would stop describing self-organization and selection as 'smart' for FUCK'S sake. the bird didn't choose to descend from a successful genetic line!! sometimes random processes generate cool shit that works!!!!!

maintain discipline on this so AI doesn't ruin you utterly

herbie hancock was part of three revolutionary working bands--miles's late-60s quintet and his own 'mwandishi' and headhunters crews--and was a big part of miles's epochal early-70s electric run from IN A SILENT WAY to ON THE CORNER.

happy birthday to a master musician and model human.

This is rather brilliant - Having Super Mario Kart Racing in your own home, the live-action version.

This course features collectible LEGO figures of Mario, Luigi and the gang.

The creation is part of a Rube Goldberg-style machine featured by Joseph's Machines.

#mario #lego #racing #fun

because i already assume that every act trump takes will be at once incompetent, cruel, and myopically self-interested, the remaining indignity here is the reminder that he really has *no idea* that khamenei and khomeini are different names for different guys.

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