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Jim Shepherd
@Zathraslives
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Another mammal with opposable thumbs and inconsequential opinions. I like MST3K, books, art, music, and kind people.
neville park@natecull IIRC Charles Stross has described steampunk as "what happened when goths discovered the colour brown"
Elizabeth BonesteelThe parents of The Kid's dance friends are so different than the parents of her school friends.
The school parents smile at me politely and otherwise ignore me, and when I say something they get kind of wide-eyed, like the sofa just spoke up.
The dance parents chat with each other, and with me, and sort of casually accept my presence. They may very well find me odd, but if so they don't reject me for it.
Sometimes people are OK.
The Desert of the BanalAnyone interested in the well-being of their community should divide their time between emergency preparedness and charity.
Nate Cull (.social)One of the things that most annoys me about computing circa 2017 - which has kinda always been true but I hoped it would get better, and it hasn't - is that we have a serious lack of truly fundamental, correct concepts.
Information is almost literal thought-stuff. Costs a bit of energy, space, time, yes, but compared to bricks, it's like magic super-Lego. Almost anything we can imagine, we can create.
But we've created a vast tangled web we can't really understand. Didn't mean to. Just did.
And you know, I don't mind *irreducible* complexity. I don't mind complexity that comes from sheer size, from people, from the various problem domains we're mapping and trying to solve. That complexity was there before we came and if it's there when we leave, well we didn't make things *worse*.
What I mind is complexity that's purely *caused* by software, that doesn't need to be there. That's a mess that WE made. We took something moderately complex and we made it far worse. It's a failure.
Finally got around to seeing Thor Ragnarok this afternoon. Surprisingly funny for a Thor movie, after the last two. Think I'll go see it again.
kae, by the ocean
úlfur 🐺You know what would be *really* awesome? Instead of seeing these, 'you'd also like' or 'other users installed' messages, ones that say, 'other apps with proven encryption' or 'doesn't spy on you' or some sort of user trust level.
Instead of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️ or 🔐🔐🔐🔐🔐
Hello, welcome to Amazon Prime. What would you like to purchase?
I'll take two Golbach's Conjectures thanks
Certainly. And do you have your payment number ready?
Uh, yes
Please state it
1138
Sir, that's not a prime
Um, 1140
No, sir
1142
Sir, you realise you just added two to a number divisible by two, do you even understand how division works
1144 then
I'm sorry sir, we're going to have to terminate your Amazon Prime subscription
1146??
And we've notified Stephen Wolfram. Good DAY.