Cory Ottenwess

Cory Ottenwess

@coryottenwess.com

Former designer. Future biology teacher. Current work in progress. Autistic, atheist, wobbly-sympathizing, Trotskyist adjacent. I read too much sci-fi and think about it too hard. Diabetes dad. Solo gamer. I cook, therefore I am.

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I remember the cartoons from my childhood that were there to sell toys. But these new shows are so much worse. Hyper capitalist consumerism. Yuck.

honestly, how many months are we away from being able to create a playable game on the fly? cause claude is rapid prototyping one for me now…

Do your cats watch you intently while you’re changing their litter? Do you think they are concerned that you are stealing their poops?

the new bobiverse book is out. The Infinite Extent, and it is only 8 hours 22 minutes of audiobook. THATS IT?! thats all i get? i need at least 18 hours of bob!

i want a sequel to Flight of the Navigator. A different ship can crash on Earth, on a recovery mission to collect the now multiplying puckmaren is to be re-introduced to its home planet. the ship needs to find the adult david to regain the map data.. maybe?

Insulting: paying additional subscription fee for 4K video. Added insult? The ads they insert are full 4K. So it’s just a limitation not a technicality

i went down a rabbit hole reading about HG Wells and his eugenics beliefs, and then went on to find that he wrote The Rights of Man, which went on to be an influential text on the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. full fucking circle man. wow.

bookshop.orgThe Rights of ManH. G. Wells's passionate and influential manifesto--never before available in the United States--was first published in England in 1940 in response to World War II. The progressive ideas Wells set out...

Every service promising to save you money is begging you to link other services to it, or to enroll in other subscriptions further defining the profile they have constructed of you. There is a digital version of you out there.

when looking for borosilicate petri dishes.. why does the item description say "for science"? is that not obvious? what else would you do with a petri dish?

It’s been a long day, and I’ve got a bottle of scotch bigger than my head. Not that anything bad happened today, it’s just that I don’t know how to tell time without wearing my watch and I’m in a good mood.

arrgh! there's too many books to read! not enough time! my reading list has grown too damn long. my to-be-read list is 176 titles. i need to make sure i have spare glasses in case of the apocalypse.

does anyone else think their email and text messages have become uselessly inundated with spam? perhaps time for a new messaging system that replaces both with some sort of consent system that prioritizes your privacy?

Next administration needs to push through a law that sitting presidents cannot have shot named after themselves, and a moratorium on naming things after presidents must wait 25 years, or something. His name is everywhere!

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What does a court case about drivers reporting police checks have to do with social media and freedom of speech? Potentially, a lot. A new ruling of the EU's top court risks pushing platforms to monitor what we say online. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

eff.orgNew EU Court of Justice Ruling on Platform Liability Could CauseIntermediary liability laws around the world recognize that social media platforms, search engines, and other online service providers have become an integral part of our lives: they shape how we

for some ungodly reason, classmates[dot]com has been sending me a stupid amount of marketing email lately. it took forever to figure out how to delete my account. that is some bullshit predatory practices. someone should in court for that shit.

Is Rubio the new McCarthy? We never learned our lesson the first time did we? He’s just going to start calling American citizens “un-American “ because they don’t lick trump stump?

my birthday is coming soon.. and steam currently has a bundle sale on Dorfromantik+Star Birds :) i mean… if you're feeling generous for my birthday and all…