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Reminds us of this @theonion.com banger.
Millions Of Barrels Of Oil Safely Reach Port In Major Environmental Catastrophe
PORT FOURCHON, LA—In what may be the greatest environmental disaster in the nation’s history, the supertanker TI Oceania docked without incident at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port Monday and successfu...
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cars are the country’s last oil fired power plants
I've become a fair but more circumspect about LLMs, but dissuading the kinds of antisocial people who make and follow such lists is good An important part of any community is finding ways to exclude people that add negative value. The people shoveling slop need to be excluded, as do these
Nothing better summarized opera people for me than an Amazon review from years ago that began (quoting/paraphrasing from memory): “I truly loathe Levine’s Parsifal, which I’ve had the misfortune of seeing some 30-odd times at the Met.”
We're nearly just a week away from the Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest which will be held at the Tukwila Community Center on May 2nd and 3rd. Come checkout over 25 exhibits and see what the community is up to. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing vcfpnw.org
After France, Denmark is moving too: its Digitalisation Ministry plans to phase out Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice in the coming months. The goal is clear—reduce dependence on a handful of global tech giants and strengthen digital sovereignty.
Why bother with any of this when Excalibur (1981) is already available, tastefully restored and scanned from the original negatives, in 4K UHD bsky.app/profile/ign....
Alex Garland’s live-action adaptation of FromSoftware’s masterful, 30-million selling video game hits theaters on March 3, 2028. It’s filmed for and will be released in IMAX, A24 said, with production already underway. https://bit.ly/4cnrGdM (1/2)
It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you
Update: it has taken 36 hours of hacking on the dark web but I have found the Code Class! video www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nab...
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hating AI isn't an ontological good. hate it for reasons that are correct or keep it to yourself and maybe listen to people who are comfortable with arriving at stances using reasoning when you hate it for trivially disproven reasons or stick your fingers in your ears, it weakens our entire side
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RIP Tracy Kidder, who inspired so many of us, and gave us permission to feel unapologetic passion for our chosen craft bcantrill.dtrace.org/2019/02/10/r...
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aaahhh fuck~ ahhh~ uuuaahhhh my fucking bubble!~ youre gonna burst it! ahhh~
It really was true bsky.app/profile/ihav...
today is 20 years since twitter launched. i am much richer for it, in terms of friends i've made, projects i took part in, writing gigs i got through it, the music i discovered. how did the good days of twitter impact your life?
derek's right and good, but also consider: i use my RSS reader every day. i (obviously) post on a 30 year old vbulletin forum. i keep a gmail tab open all day. i'm still on soulseek ffs you can still live in the old ways. you will miss out on insta and fb, but i promise you, you will not miss them.
2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30
Ok, I'm gonna start a little thread here for something I've been doing for fun lately: making designs for things that don't exist. First up: ah, yes, that classic computer game of the early 90s:
Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends https://theonion.com/crab-just-happy-to-be-in-bucket-with-all-his-friends/
The other year we found and scanned the best bits of a graph paper catalogue from 1958. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/g...