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This is the remembering of Walter Koenig he deserves. This is the one that matters to me. Chekov was good, Bester was grand.

Some mad genius baked a cupcake into an ice cream cone and now I want that all the time

this but I'm waiting to dig out my favorite 3 meter long scarf

Burner art project: copy of Brussels' "Manneken Pis" but with an ignited stream of liquid fuel coming out. Title "It burns when I pee" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manneke...

Theatre says 'costume makes the character', and I think that rhymes with what derek is saying, and I want to come back to this thread and reconsider what costume and character I am making for myself

OW. this wet slick metal bridge expansion joint that decided my bicycle wheels should go left while most of my mass tried keep going straight. wipeout. ow. People are awesome and two runners stayed with me a couple minutes until I was good to go.

this art made my day better

the wild thing is that several of the parts of this two year old PC are now so expensive I wouldn't want to replace them or build new with them. my whole life in tech things got cheaper every 18 months— until the current bubble where everything got expensive and got stuck expensive

the pattern of "vendoring" dependencies is _owning the libs_

This is a beautiful tribute to a bunch of "little" projects that are wildly successful and make our world go and make things better sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

I had a vacation; I was actually too busy (pleasantly) vacationing 95% of the time to check my phone, and at the down moments it just didn't have the appeal, the real world was better, didn't need phone world. anyway, did I miss anything since last Wednesday?

The average person is neutral on chaos vs order, but Chaos Georg should not be counted and really the median person is solidly in favor of order

I have hand crafted manually optimized assembly code. This is part of why I'm grumpy about vibe coding

Oh come on. I know LLMs smarter than Trump

New study suggests that raising school ventilation levels to ASHRAE 241 targets could reduce flu cases by 33% for the WHOLE POPULATION! We need clean air in schools so bad!!! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

in the asymmetric war with bullshit, bullshit has deployed the nuclear option

The FALL of the empire, GET IT!?

A current snapshot of English Wikipedia text is "25 GB compressed (expands to over 105 GB when decompressed)" I have a 12.8GB probabilistic distillation of human knowledge; what knowledge remains in this is ... weird A toy LLM I can run on my macbook, a curiosity, not quite useful

If you want the news delivered to you in the form of a comic with a cat announcer telling you the story, NPR has you covered

This is beautiful. 527,001 known asteroids; 35,165 satellites and probes. Best viewed on the biggest screen you have. space.bl2.net

google/fitbit is correctly detecting that I'm on my bike, but making shit up for heart rate data it can't possibly have because I'm not wearing the thing. Now that I know they're making up data, how can I trust any of their data?

Variation: some people have gotten lucky as if they flipped heads 30 times in a row, believed it skill, and are wholly unprepared for when their luck changes

if beef didn't already exist and it was growing fast we'd all hate it. I am also rationalizing being in the tech industry and the tradeoffs that come with that; and I was also already a grumpy vegetarian

{song} is ok, but {artist} has better stuff But at this point {song} has its own network effect and people like it because people like it. Everyone knows it because everyone knows it

Amazing. I once bought a custom built suit that only worked if you stood around statuesque in it. (Indochino is garbage, avoid)

'this way lies madness', but, so does the other way, so maybe sometimes wisdom is choosing the better madness

I feel like @smbccomics.bsky.social called this one www.smbc-comics.com/comic/case

The new "ai" stuff can do some neat tricks, but I'll be really excited when the trillion dollar companies profiting off of everything ever written are taxed to give back to everyone now alive #UBI

@datadoghq.com your docs are bad and you should feel bad. The Python SDK has no notes on using the new personal access tokens. The best way I've found to design a new query is to use the web 'explore', then turn on browser debugging, reload, and watch what queries it does

I believe they will "cheat like hell", they will id-challenge people, they will throw away ballots, they will intimidate with armor and guns

Make a band edible: Buns n Roses