Today is the 36th anniversary of the pale blue dot picture. Yesterday we did a journal club about a classic Sagan paper and my grad student BP ended by sharing this video. I’d heard the more polished pale blue dot speech so many times but I find this one to be more human
youtu.be/tgQ1PtkZvGU?...
Hear me out: living in the void of unknowing is fun.
Hi. I moved to the Bay Area. Happy 2026 and see you in 2027, bluesky.
@raquelstecher.bsky.social getting a lil ahead of myself, but I'm wishing you the happiest glowingest birthday of all time!
Thank you a lot for sharing, I enjoyed it! I'm impressed by how much you conveyed through the economy of your writing.
Decapitation? CO2
Charley horse? CO2
New site's up & I'm pretty happy with it! I built my first personal site back in 2017 with React just to show potential employers I could. This time around I get to say it's plain HTML/CSS & JS because that's all it needs!
Hi! I genuinely can't tell if you're being sarcastic... so I cautiously agree?
Really nailing it, might move on to one of these if energy. Thank you a lot!
But first, it's 420 somewhere.
Damn. 'S actually perfect. Thank you!
Home, open on the genre just nothing depressing
Rough week, got any movie recommendations?
I got laid off yesterday.
Last day is 13 October.
If you are a hiring manager looking for a web developer with 7 years of experience or know of open roles, please lemme know! I've tons of React/JS/Node experience & I'm proficient in Python as well.
Counterpoint: I would gladly go back to a 56k modem if that meant the internet would revert to a 2002 state as well.
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If you don’t want to drink alcohol there are more alternatives now than ever before
Not arguing but we don’t have to imagine, it happened to Aaron Swartz. His outlook was so grim that he died by suicide.
Not quite the same but Suchir Balaji also died by suicide for trying to expose OpenAI’s illegality.
Oh damn. That really sucks. I’m not being sarcastic. Been using them for years.
Thank you for posting this! You probably already know and read it, but in case not, I really recommend Colson Whitehead’s historical fiction “Crook Manifesto”. That’s how I learned of these events.
I think one reason I was perceived as a valuable team member in my first two roles as a web dev was that I always volunteered to take on IE-only bugs.
How do newer devs get by with pretty good browsers across the board these days? 💀
I also don’t remember any in “Parasite” or “Cloud” to name a couple recent ones.
Pretty much anything Kurosawa or Yasujiro Ozu directed. I don’t recall there being any in “Killer of Sheep” or in “Black Orpheus”? This is a really good question, appreciate you posting!
Ha, I just got a new throne, didn’t realize I’d not removed the price tag.
A DW bop drumset, sunburst in color
I’m just gunna sit on my ass all day.
Never mind, scrolled!
What were you gunna go see?
I want to be very careful how I say this because I literally knew nothing of them, but I’ve been thinking of this image and the initial impact it had when I saw it. I can’t imagine what it must feel like to be in the presence of one.