Dave Lehman πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

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Rails programmer, pico-8 game dev, 3d-printer, mechanical keyboard builder, coffee lover. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
"Persistent Drive for Autonomy" (via comments on @kottke) is relatable too.

I feel this: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/03/pop-culture-hype-aversion/686312

I wouldn't say I strictly shun popular things, but "hype avoidance" is accurate. If something is super-popular, I'm inherently suspicious of its merits.

The People Who Shun Super-Popular Pop Culture

<em>The Pitt</em>, <em>Severance</em>, <em>Sinners</em>, you name it: For some reason, the more hype something gets, the more likely I am to resist it.

The Atlantic
@verge We’re only 1 degree of separation from Batman’s utility belt…
GitHub - ClaytonHunt/carl: CARL: Context-Aware Requirements Language - AI-optimized planning and development system for Claude Code

CARL: Context-Aware Requirements Language - AI-optimized planning and development system for Claude Code - ClaytonHunt/carl

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Pick the best fallacy
Sunk Cost has been my favorite since 1982
14.7%
Proof by Assertion is best
2.6%
Why y'all hate Strawman so much
3%
I just heard about Recency Bias
6%
If you don't vote Ad Hominem you're ugly
3.6%
Any fallacy fan knows No True Scotsman is best
7.6%
God told me Appeal to Authority is his favorite
4.4%
"Vote for False Attribution" - Abraham Lincoln
2.7%
The best is Circular Argument because it's awesome
8.1%
Category Error is the prettiest fallacy
3.7%
You said Tu Quoque so I did too
1.2%
C'mon vote Bandwagon everyone's doing it
5%
Vote Slippery Slope, next thing you're doing drugs
8.1%
I like turtles and also Non Sequitur Fallacies
9.6%
If Appeal to Probability can be chosen then it is
2.8%
Motte-and-Bailey is best, but I meant kinda good
2.9%
These are all bad and wrong, vote Fallacy Fallacy
14%
Poll ended at .

A - DNS Record
AA - Battery
AAA - Battery
AAAA - DNS Record

edit: originally by @kevin , inadvertently copied https://mastodon.km6g.us/@kevin/113724524588964200

Kevin P. Fleming (@[email protected])

A - DNS record AA - battery AAA - battery AAAA - DNS record #DNS #Battery #Confusion

KM6G Mastodon

"It is a good exercise, in empty or ugly hours of the day, to look at anything, the coal-scuttle or the book-case, and think how happy one could be to have brought it out of the sinking ship on to the solitary island. But it is a better exercise still to remember how all things have had this hair-breadth escape: everything has been saved from a wreck."

β€”G.K. Chesterton, via Austin Kleon

https://social.ayjay.org/2026/02/05/chesterton-from-orthodoxy-stories-of.html

https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/everything-has-been-saved-from-a#media-0ef0cc44-8b3e-485c-bc20-0adf2fc39722

Alan Jacobs

Chesterton, from Orthodoxy: Stories of magic alone can …