Coda

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Standing athwart history, yelling Yes Daddy

the battery on my phone isn’t holding a charge very well anymore so i’ll probably need to get a new phone soon. i’ll keep you all posted on the timetable. while i’m not an expert on spiritual matters, my best guess is that you’ll all be reincarnated

Based on both the observation that the weird little guy phenotype is readily prevalent and the “if George Costanza shaved his head” discourse from last week, there is an abundance of evidence that weird little guys can and will get it

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d ago

Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this

Bob Hoskins with Roger Rabbit

I can’t help but notice that the testosterone homologation set isn’t super concerned about fairness or safety when it comes to cis boys competing against their peers who are already into puberty. No one’s protesting the 200lb 14 year old with a beard.

Love too watch the FedEx website grunt and twitch while it tries to load enough Javascript to load enough ??? to show me several hundred bytes of content

Me, who knows the tune to “Cocomo” but couldn’t bring himself to care about the lyrics: potato, tomato, lady why don’t they go, tortuga, lechuga, oh baby beluga, manhattan, a caftan, lazily a-raftin’, mojito, poquito, Samuel Alito, big knockers, old rockers, feral food TikTokers, Canseco, Prosecco,

1/ Initial reactions after some hours with this groundbreaking result proving the NP-hardness of poly-approx CVP/NCP: It is most likely correct, but more importantly, it is original, elegant, and beautiful! (Also: it is easy to improve, quantitatively.) openai.com/index/ten-ad...

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.

openai.com

“Hank Green admits to AI use” and I’m furious that my short-form vertical video science-communication-adjacent parasociality content wasn’t produced artisanally by a team of free-range, grass-fed PhDs working off handwritten notes

New album out today from everyone’s favorite jazz virtuoso duo slash 70s sci-fi androids, DOMi & JD Beck

really enjoyed the breadth of household language options in our school district’s new student information system. on þyssum hūse sprece wē Englisc 😤

a screenshot of the language picker for a new student information system that includes the options Elamite, English, English, Middle (1100-1500), English, Old (ca.450-1100), Erzya. This field is REQUIRED

The cool thing about having once donated to a political campaign is a never-ending stream of text messages and emails which all say shit like “Coda, it’s me — Gunt Plunther — and you’ll never believe what Hordy Tordenport just said. Give me $5 by midnight and I’ll slap him. Or the world ends.”

Can’t help but notice that all the folks outraged at Nolan’s Odyssey never said a fucking thing about all the bad Beowulf adaptations