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Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

Today is the day from “There Will Come Soft Rains” https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf

There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...

Me: The new agent harness is great. You feed your tokens into the machine. Then you run simulations which, if successful, produces tickets. If they fail you have to buy more tokens and keep running the sims. Once you have enough tickets you can redeem them Boss: are you at dave & busters, yes or no

Join us in discussing Meadows’ “Leverage Points”? ‘“This is a HUGE NEW SYSTEM people are inventing!” I said to myself. “They haven’t the SLIGHTEST IDEA how this complex structure will behave,” myself said back to me. “It’s almost certainly an example of cranking the system in the wrong direction”’

Ruth Malan@ruthmalan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Next in our #PapersInSystems discussions: Donella Meadows' "Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System." When: Mon, Aug 3, 2026, 1PM - 2PM Eastern Time (US/Canada) (19:00 CEST) The reading is at: donellameadows.org/archives/lev... More info/sign up (free, of course): ti.to/bredemeyer/p...

imo we should replace everyone's phone with great stone spires watching silently over the endless desert at the edge of our world

You will live to see your greatest intellectual aspirations dismissed as trivial

Doing some of my famous relatable humor

obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo

immanentize the margaritaville

HP's Spaceball 2003 (1991) was real-life cassette futurism.

Shame Water False Wife Parkvision Pass Without Grace Power Word: Dill Create Unread

arachnocapitalist@arachno.capital · 7d ago

Poll the Dead Hunter's Lark Witch Dolt Dimension Doot Raise Mead Poodberry Cope of Cold

the people rejected her doctrine

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

god i wish that were me

what is Cernunnos the Horned doing in my backyard. wrong continent buddy

this is pretty cool, a trackpad for the mouth and tongue https://www.augmental.tech/

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

which would you choose: - £50,000 immediately - a coin flip for £1,000,000, but you have to play the ultimatum bargaining game with an anonymous bystander. if they reject your proposed cash split, you get nothing.

do you think for Midjourney v9 release, they'll switch from a model card to a natal chart?

George Pearkes@peark.es · 2w ago

🧐 *AI STARTUP MIDJOURNEY BUYS ASTROLOGY APP CO-STAR; NO TERMS

it’s like if idling your car 24/7 occasionally produced counterexamples to centuries-old math conjectures you could then exchange for posts

high Scoville counterclaim: Paywall Web is a natural, if tragic, consequence of material development in web tech

Elixir of Progress@elucidating.extradimensional.space · 2w ago

One major failure of the modern web is that we have talked ourselves into believing that website publishers *ought* to have a right or say about how other people consume their content, because monetization and copyright and "the future of the web." Huge mistake. Massive mistake.

este es mi homúnculo, debo mantenerlo en un estado de miseria perpetua o si no se rebelará contra mi tiranía freudiana

worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 2w ago

extremely normal guy voice: I cloned myself so I can become my own blood boy.

ThinkPad durability test

one of the things from Neuromancer that seemed especially ludicrous but now seems increasingly likely: Chinese black market AI-powered hacking software will have graphics that look like a cool shark.

forever really angry that pirate ethics lost, not because of any coherent argument, but because spotify and netflix were usable for 15 consecutive years. it's really weird watching social mores be shaped by convenience so plainly, and makes it impossible to take most people's beliefs seriously

St Margaret is surrounded by some wonderful creatures in this folio:

Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.