Alex I. Thymia
@maia.computer
programmer in the streets, shitposter in the sheets queer, trans, leftist, metalcore enjoyer, tech nerd, retrocomputing enthusiast, reluctant southerner pronouns: she/they languages: English (native), German (okay-ish)
I hate that control resonant has twitch drops because I hate twitch drops because I don't watch streamers because why would I want to watch a stranger play video games, but I hate even more that I'm a sucker who got FOMO'd into "watching" a stream muted & minimized in order to get those twitch drops
this only bolsters my belief in Roko's Basilisk But Specifically Just For Eliezer Yudkowsky To Get Wedgied And Stuffed In Lockers Forever
Chris Palmer@fugueish.bsky.social · 6d agoIn 2004 I saw Yudkowsky give a talk in which he said that when we upload our brains into the cloud and enter machine heaven, we will be able to taste the tastiest possible potato chip. That was his positive vision of the Singularity. I know it sounds made up, but he did say it.
love too have different degrees of astigmatism in each eye so every time I get new glasses every rectangle becomes a trapezoid until I acclimate to the new prescription
this is in iOS 27. could nature be healing? are Easter eggs returning to software? (probably not at least to the first one, I don’t think we’re un-ringing the “computers woven into the very fabric of our lives” bell)
Alex I. Thymia@maia.computer · 3mo agohot take: we fucked up when we let computers get so important to society that developers had to stop putting easter eggs into software because they were seen as unprofessional and untrustworthy
thank god we have AI so now we can recreate the experience of having to wonder whether your pizza order was heard, understood, and entered correctly without the inconvenience of a human being on the other end
I have no illusions that I am or ever was meaningfully in touch with popular culture but few things drive that notion home harder than fast food collaborations with people I have to google to find out who they are, like this at Dunkin
just remembered how COVID lockdowns extincted a flu strain and am now angry all over again about...fuckin' everything that's happened since march 2020
imagine how disappointed a fish would be upon finding out that "findom" has nothing to do with fins
why isn’t the future the way we thought it would be
I wonder if cyrillic "kid's handwriting" fonts commonly mirror Я and И like latin ones mirror R and N
I feel like a hypocrite because I find pandering nerd-"culture" mashups to be eyeroll-worthy at best but at the same time I also think shit like danny dorito is hilarious, even though it's ultimately not especially different in spirit
5 words from my birth year (1983) that describe my vibe beta test cryptid cyberpunk gender transition information superhighway it is legitimately hilarious to me that there are a bunch of tech terms AS WELL AS “gender transition” and “gender nonconforming” first recorded the year I was born
🔞CammyRose🌹🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@camburger666.northsky.social · 2mo ago5 words from your birth year that describe your vibe (91) bdsm bestie cybercrime cybersex hoochie
gonna default on my student loans and tell them it's because I didn't want to destroy something that bloomberg news called "beautiful"
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2mo agoWe admire great works of art, architecture and engineering. Why not debt?
hot take: we fucked up when we let computers get so important to society that developers had to stop putting easter eggs into software because they were seen as unprofessional and untrustworthy
oh, to be a cat and live a life where the gravest injustice I face is a human making me vacate the window on whose sill I had been lounging
Hey guys. Stella here. Just wanted to say I figured out today that “baked beans” is an anagram for “naked babes”. Well, have a good one
the existence of neutral milk hotel implies the existence of a heretofore undiscovered acidic milk hostel and basic milk motel. in this essay I will
shout-out to Pluto TV for having an all-Bob Barker-era Price is Right channel so I can relive my childhood when I have to take a sick day
the more I rotate this fact in my head the more I start to think the problem is the economic incentives dictating that any product that fails to capture less than its entire addressable market is considered an abject failure
rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 3mo ago3 has a huge problem in that people actually fucking despise reverse chronological as a timeline order by a wide margin and get very angry when their timeline doesn't use any form of salience sorting
I will never get over the fact that "jackfruit" is the name of an actual fruit and not what you would call someone if you think "jerkwad" is too explicit
fun fact: although North Korea is widely considered the world’s only necrocracy with its 1998 constitution naming Kim Il-sung “eternal president of the republic”, it is neither the only nor even the first currently-existing necrocracy—though it is probably the only *state* that is a necrocracy…
confusing americans and annoying the rest of the world by continuing to call american football "football" but calling soccer "association football"
