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“I’ve done… questionable things.”

Suburban crank monitoring the airwaves from the High Castle. Longtime listener, baby ham. Deep space janitor. Miniboss / Agile bagman. Python daily driver and hater. Secret Perl Sicko. Standard ML dilettante.

ACAB, ACARS, LCARS. Welcome to AVALANCHE

“First we shape our tools, then our tools shape us” —Marshall McLuhan

he / him / sir

ACAB includes- Marty Crane - CoPilot
Preferred BowieThe Thin White Duke
Preferred Frequencies223.500 MHz WFM / 5825 MHz 256-QAM
My other computer is aTIS-100P
The leader of the X-Men is Dr. Egg Zavier

Me watching the new Sesame Street on PBS Kids:

1’30”: This is still too Elmo centered and overproduced

8:00”: Cookie Monster storming out on his overbearing mother is Fucking Real

White Punks on Zope
Finally saw Project Hail Mary and my mind is still buzzing with how top to bottom it is a Reaponse to Interstellar
All of these “actually datacenters don’t use a lot of water” takes are gonna age as well as the “actually Hurricane Katrina wasn’t caused by global warming” takes did

@strangefour @Taweret Wait, this is genius. This can't be the only film within a film. How many double features could you run this way, cutting to the other film every time a character goes to see a film?

EDIT: at least one person made a blog dedicated to this concept: https://moviesinothermovies.com/

Movies in Other Movies

Films and TV episodes that cleverly incorporate films or TV episodes. Each article has a clip--watch them!

Movies in Other Movies

45 years ago today
"Ghost Town" is a song by British two-tone band The Specials, released June 12, 1981 with the songs "Why?" and "Friday Night Saturday Morning" on the B-side

#punkrock #ska #skabands #thespecials #ghosttown #history #skahistory

The Mythical Mythos Man Myth Month

Amazon Web Services was built when Moore's Law was still happening, meaning they knew their data centers would be cheaper to repair and cheaper to upgrade in future.

AI data centers will only get _more_ expensive to maintain as the helium runs out and international shipping faces state sponsored piracy and so on.

They're spending trillions to do what AWS spent billions on because Moore's Law stopped, but their business model depends on it continuing.

If you ever feel bad that sometimes you have bad ideas, remember that Steve Jobs liked Coldplay