Anton Leuski

@anton_leuski
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@gruber Thank you for this: “…if you don’t want to vote for a ticket with two women, or a ticket with gay man as VP, just because, then fuck you.”

A squire rushed in to the great hall.

"Someone," he shouted, "has taken the sword from the stone!"

The assembled knights halted their dinner.

"At last, a king?"

"Who?"

"I don't know," the squire said. "The sword is gone!"

Elsewhere:
"This," Indy muttered, "belongs in a museum.

#TootFic #SmallStories #TootFic

Ooft. Ryan Gosling getting an Oscar nomination for Barbie, but Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie both missing out is a bit on the nose, eh?
Turbo Pascal turns 40. who here remembers this one?
New blog post: Google and Apple: The Future https://www.asymco.com/2023/11/30/google-and-apple-the-future/
Google and Apple: The Future

In yesterday’s post, I proposed a way to inspect the Google-Apple distribution deal. It could be understood as a flat-rate deal where default placement of Google search in Safari is paid for …

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"I thought this was meant to be a temple dedicated to learning!"
The angry man's question was a statement.
"We do not usually use such grand words," the librarian said, "but yes."
"Then how come the building is full of fiction!"
"You do not know what can be learned from fiction?"
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic
Here, I made you a Slack emoji for when you're talking about GenAI
"Ah," the robot said, "now I understand."
"Understand what?"
"The concept of 'uncanny valley', where something is subtly wrong, unnatural, but you can't pinpoint why. I've experienced that now."
"Oh? How?"
"I talked to ChatGPT."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

“Is mastodon like twitter?”

“No, not at all. Mastodon is still a thing.”

I take a few ragged breaths. The Void waits, patiently, in case I need to shout some more.
"I'm sure you've heard that before," I say.
- yes
"Actually, are there things people have stopped shouting about?"
- smallpox, the hole in the ozone layer
"Huh."
- and most gods
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories