Adrian O’Connor

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Software developer who just wants to try and do his bit to make the world a slightly better place. I sometimes make educational apps in my spare time. I don’t really post much on social media.

Current side project is educational programming language SmolScript https://smolscript.org

I love how projections for games on Steam are like "if above X wishlists you will likely sell between 3% and 30% of that number in your first week"

Doesn't make me anxious at all

Anyway if you're hyped for Kitsune Tails release this year please let me know it always makes me feel less anxious to hear that

EDIT: I have been told to put a link here so people can wishlist it: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

Kitsune Tails

Explore the complicated relationships between kitsune and humans in this platforming follow up to Super Bernie World.

Kitsune Games
live your life in such a way that the LGBT employees who report to you never post an apology to the official staff account of your own website about how they’re so embarrassed about your recent behavior and you don’t represent their views https://staff.tumblr.com/post/743224389484625920/a-message-from-a-few-of-the-trans-staff-at-tumblr
A message from a few of the trans staff at Tumblr & Automattic:

We want trans people, and LGBTQ+ people broadly, to feel welcome on Tumblr, in part because we as trans people at Tumblr and Automattic want it to be a space where we ourselves feel included. We want...

Tumblr

As previously mentioned, here's what Einstein had to say about segregation:

"There is a separation of white people and colored people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."

For the last 20 years of his career, Einstein declined almost all public speaking engagements, except those at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

This photo was taken at Lincoln University, an HBCU.

I am re-reading Dune. This quote by the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam is remarkable:

“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

It's not about a Terminator-style AI-apocalypse where the machines want to kill us all dead. It's just an accurate prediction of what actually appears to be happening.

oh: you've heard of github actions, but are you ready for github consequences?
I came up with this joke when I was asleep, so forgive me if it's not very funny
Roots of Barbershop Harmony

Lynn Abbott, a jazz archivist at Tulane University, was an expert on early African-American popular music and gospel quartets. He discovered overwhelming evidence that barbershop quartetting was pervasive in African-American culture in the late 1800s and early 1900s, including among many men who went on to become the pioneers of jazz.

Roots of Barbershop Harmony | Barbershop Harmony Society
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot

Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.

Ars Technica
Eric Idle being the best surviving Python

Hey, people. Foone Turing (the "I go way too deep into computer investigations of vintage tech" person) has indicated they're officially laid off, and running out of money while trying to find a new job. If you have a job, hit them up. Otherwise, please throw some dollars:

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