syvitski might actually be the most cited trans author

if you were ever wondering what's the most cited paper by a trans woman (excluding cs and feminism), it's either the chapter on regional climate projections in AR4, coauthored by penny whetton, with 12k citations, or jaia syvitski's 1992 j. geol. paper with 4465 citations (on google scholar)

the big short but it's the US government shorting its own economy

the srs bird saying "why tf does the fuckin logger not work"

thanks to the wonders of free software i have managed to port the euphoria weedbot to discord

"ai safety" has got to be the best fake job ever invented

i like how "for loop with an accumulator" isn't even the way to accurately compute integrals numerically lol

the glassworm shit is so funny. idk about you guys but my text editor can't infect me with stuxnet because it can't execute arbitrary code just like that because it's a fucking text editor

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/58/1/1520-0477_1977_058_0004_wmitsu_2_0_co_2.xml

incredible things were happening in the soviet union

the chicken-and-egg problem of techbros with the llm speech pattern: you can't tell if they learnt it by mimetism in their daily 3 hour conversations with chatgpt or if they're so naturally reddit ass that the training data is literally their own hackernews forum posts

there was already a great discord alternative and it was called the xkcd room on euphoria dot io

every interaction with any doctor ever makes you understand stalin just a little bit more each time

crazy how french wikipedia misgenders judith butler throughout their entire article and the rationale for this is a poll for six years ago about how they would rather not use the gender neutral pronoun for all general articles

much of the popular culture of the 20th century will never be in the public domain within our lifetimes but because le AI now the bottom line of the walt disney corporation is everyone's business

wait people actually think there is something morally wrong with this?

did you know that you can use your .zshrc to use more inclusive command line aliases?

guy who clicks "prefer not to answer" whenever he fills out a "what's your gender" form because he's paranoid about anyone getting his personal data

so many scientific journals putting up super detailed pages for their "inclusive author name change policies" lately... maybe it's not over yet

what if pluribus was about a boymoder called karl sturka who makes a living as a java developer but all she wants to do is write rust so she's very jaded. and then the hive sends out one of the fallout new vegas love interests to convince her to let it hang and join them.

free as in free speech, not as in free beer

what's up with all the answers to that original post. how is every windows user the world's most whiny baby who can't help themselves and actually wants more a return to windows 7 than actual gnu/linux. like yeah freedom has a cost.

i just realized that it's actually way more of a potential GPL violation to copy paste from stackoverflow than to vibecode

guy whos against LLM code assistants because it's tivoization in the cloud

good thing CC BY-NC-ND-SA exists for those who are too afraid to actually share with the world

the libre stallman stans were annoying but you do start to notice their absence sometimes. i will never use the nonfree repos in debian again, i should have believed harder

guy who thinks the GPL is about protecting the copyright of the authors

one billion first person videos of cold blooded murder forever every day until the heat death of the universe

i understand why people love talking to chatgpt so much, asking for feedback and getting glazed in return (which NEVER happens in real life) feels like finding water after walking 100000 km through the desert

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even crazier it's still under really active development apparently? blog.supertuxkart.net/2025/12/kart... i can't believe it lol

oh wow they released version 1.5 in october 2025, can't believe it's still a thing

tuxcart and dark oberon and sauerbraten