Mastodawn

i mean look, my sandcastle hasn’t fallen over yet. it only took me an afternoon to build. i can even go inside it! all these so-called “architects” whining and crying about “tides” and “erosion” (whatever that means) and taking years* to make “real” buildings should simply get good. i’m faster than them. skills issue

* you may think i’m exaggerating, but this is a real timeline that an architect told me about 🤦🏻‍♀️

elle mundy 21h ago

when i told them about this, they laughed. i told them i wasn’t joking, and they looked at me like i was stupid. but at the end of the day, you have to look at the results. i have a magnificent sandcastle, and they just have a bunch of drawings on blue pieces of paper

elle mundy 12h ago

well this is embarrassing. looks like it’s time to eat my words a bit. i sure ate a fair amount of sand. i got woken up in the middle of the night when my sandcastle collapsed. i was covered in wet sand from head to toe. who knew that a formidable looking castle could be so easily taken down by a few little waves? i’ve learned a lot from this incident. next time, i’ll build an even bigger sandcastle. but i’ll need quite a lot of sand—perhaps an entire beach’s worth of it

elle mundy 12h ago

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the esoteric programmer 7h ago

@exchgr is this a reference to something? it's funny though, for sure :p

elle mundy 6h ago

@esoteric_programmer it’s just a reference to the power and capability of sand-based castle engineering methodologies

the esoteric programmer 3h ago

@exchgr no like, is it really about sand castles? it sounded an awful lot like the tech industry though

@exchgr have you checked out the multi shovel sandcastleing eXtreme tool? comes with shoveling, digging and watering skills and a new mud tool!!

elle mundy 6h ago

@sushee yes and they’re AWESOME

@exchgr I wanted to make a counter-joke with this (real) pic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288#/media/File:Bagger-garzweiler.jpg but it's one of the single most destructive-for-the-environment "tool" just like LLMs I realized...

Bagger 288 - Wikipedia

elle mundy 2h ago

@sushee it looks like a painting

👽🐦🦇🐉💻6h ago

@exchgr you should try reinforcing the sand with something and maybe shielding the water side with something (piece of cardboard maybe?)

elle mundy 2h ago

@loganer no thanks, i’m pretty sure i can get it working reliably only using sand. it’s a solid substance after all

👽🐦🦇🐉💻2h ago

@exchgr well... if you insist on using only sand, maybe you could use a bunch of heat to make the grains of sand stick together.

elle mundy 2h ago

@loganer now there’s an idea

👽🐦🦇🐉💻2h ago

(you know I mean glass, right?)
anyways, good luck.

elle mundy 1h ago

@loganer buddy, as long as it’s silicon

Alessandro Corazza 🇨🇦11h ago

Huh this could almost be an allegory about something, but I don't know what. I think I'll ask Claude.