danl

danl

@danlisreal.bsky.social

this shit aint nothin to me man

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Wisconsin is one of two states I've lived in whose insularity leads to the kind of evolutionary cultural craziness you find in animals in the Galapagos or language in isolated settlements. This is what hath been wrought in the name of sausage

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The problem for cybersecurity enjoyers is that there hasn’t been enough incidents to achieve the regularity and excitement of say, watching sports. Finally, with AI we have solved this

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operator: 911, please state the nature of your emergency me: hey. why was liberty biberty beheaded operator: he constructed the forbidden fractal me: i don't know what that means operator: some 300 light-years from earth, there exists what you might describe as a "palace of time." the me: nevermind

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i answered the last question, rocked asiimov's foundation. i smoked that shit that made arthur see clarke and wrote down the nine billion names of god. i deflowered algernon, tickled leibowitz's can, electric sheep dream of me. dune.

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"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

niki grayson@nikigrayson.com

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

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*babylonian king who got access to social media* i defeated my haters. i quoted them. i mocked them. i went to their friends' DMs. i rejected their slander and revealed that time they said a slur in 2008. i blocked ten thousand accounts. i reported three hundred men. i threw them down. i stood on th

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Oh no, there's a Steam sale! Who wants a good old Casey recommendation thread? I'm gonna run through what's on my Curator page, because this is how I keep track of all the games I recommend, but I'll give you all a few choice picks for the Spring Sale. 👍 store.steampowered.com/curator/2834...

store.steampowered.comSteam Curator: Casey ExplosionFocusing primarily on indie and mid-tier games, I present a list of games I find exceptional, underappreciated, or have something interesting and unique about them.

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of all the many terrible things that seem to be afflicting the public, the prevalence of defeatist mindsets with zero capacity for creative problem solving (or indeed the unwillingness to even *imagine* possible solutions to problems) might be the thing which freaks me out most.

Technology Connections@techconnectify.bsky.social

Electricity generation has always felt like an impossible engineering problem. Demand has to match supply - yet we managed that with ancient, all-analog equipment for over a century. Now we have so many more tools at our disposal. Why should this be hard?

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Success! The transit lightcurve of the hot Jupiter Qatar-9b! This one was harder due to sudden unexpected clouds right before the transit that made it impossible to capture much of a pre-ingress baseline. The star itself is also so dim I needed a 3-minute exposure to get the right SNR. Very noisy.