Erin

@ChateauErin
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Games writer (Hack n' Slash), aerospace engineer at JSC, first queen of RPOP. Demon-frog apologist. Trans woman. Avatar: Shia the Cat.

I star posts very inconsistently and have disabled notifications about being starred. Please don't infer anything from me not using the star.

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not 100% sure how to interpret the (pseudo?)physical sensations of phantom weights pulling down my head and fuzz/noise/bubbles in the front part of my brain

vaguely proud that I recognized pretty quickly alcohol was not making any of this better

guessing it's something to do with the ol' chronic depression again. But maybe it's a brand new malady; life is rich and full of secrets

i don't see enough people with one of the best tool improvements i've ever made for reverse engineering, so i had to write a blog post about it!

https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/

your hex editor should color-code bytes

I'm seeing some other statements that it only holds that "talk therapy" to try to torture kids into breaking down would be ok, rather than other methods of torture.

The dissent more-rightly indicates that healthcare isn't speech but does not go so far as to call the rest of the court deluded fuckwits so I think it's a bit weak

SCOTUS overturned a ban on conversion therapy EIGHT TO ONE on FREE SPEECH GROUNDS?!?! WHAT THE FUCK

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-conversion-therapy-colorado-92b34295f9ef497a4a1cbeb56c9b74c6

Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on LGBTQ+ ‘conversion therapy’

The Supreme Court has ruled against a law banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that banned the discredited practice. The high court majority sided Tuesday with a Christian counselor who argues the law banning talk therapy violates the First Amendment. The justices agreed the law raises free speech concerns and sent it back to a lower court to decide if it meets a legal standard few laws pass. President Donald Trump’s Republican administration supported the counselor. Colorado said the measure simply bars a practice of using therapy to try to “convert” LGBTQ+ people to heterosexuality, a practice that’s been scientifically discredited and linked to serious harm.

AP News
Tom Scott's return to Youtube is lovely. (He's also on Nebula if you're into that. Which I am.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpaNijzRaJI
I helped break a 142-year-old bell, and that's okay.

In Leicestershire, at @johntaylorsbellfoundry, there's fire, sledgehammer swinging, and metal hotter than a volcano. Also, several questions about cheese. ▶️...

YouTube

I was just in a meeting where someone used a thing called Fathom to get an 'AI' summary of the meeting. Aside from some understandable typos arising from not understanding terms of art and replacing them with common English words, one of the key points that it concluded was that A was faster than B. It reached this conclusion because it missed one of the digits in the time for A. This completely inverted the key takeaway from one important section of the meeting.

Do not use plausible-nonsense generators for anything important.

We report: new moon on a clear night. Since the last time we saw the stars like this, a lot has changed. Some of them are gone, new ones have appeared. We ought to remember what spring constellations look like, but we barely do. It is too cold to try and jog our memory tonight.

💾 NEW PODCAST!💾 In January we played Settlers II, the 1996 sequel to the first Settlers game by German developer Blue Byte.

The Settlers was and remains a staple of PC gaming in Germany and they even have coined their own terminology to describe it.

So listen now and learn all about what the "Wuselfaktor" means!

https://www.dosgameclub.com/the-settlers-ii/

#dosGaming #retroGaming #podcast

The Settlers II – DOS GAME CLUB Podcast

Monthly online discussion and roundtable podcast featuring one DOS game per episode.

DOS GAME CLUB
oh no what have you done

shit I already don't know who's retooting this. That was fast.

Take this skeptically folks. I'm not an expert. I read blogs like The War Zone and occasionally glance at the Wikipedia article for the 2026 Iran War to try to keep a coherent picture of what information is available.