Thomas Dickerson

IN A WORLD OF HER OWN (2016) Acrylic on Canvas - 36" x 48" This painting arose from musing on an interview that Stanley Kubrick gave in 1968, a source of inspiration I have gone back to over the years, revisiting comments made by the director. #art

Dutch PhD theses require a summary. I wrote mine last minute while sitting in a shopping mall (it was 40°C outside and malls have AC). Now I checked it again and it's... surprisingly good. Recommending shopping malls for focused writing

So who has been sending emails from mozzarella’s account since then??

Need the “FBI Agent Posting” meme template but for NSA

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Koenig taught me the difference between "everyone's the hero of their own story" and "villains should be sympathetic." Bester was an advanced class in how to portray evil with depth without losing moral clarity or portraying horrific behavior as justified or sympathetic.

Bluesky has four kinds of users

Seems fair and accurate tbh

RIP to a legend

RIP to an incredible actor, Alfred Bester is one of my all time favorite Lawful Evil villains

It’s Count Rascula Season 🧛🏻

Maturing as a software engineer doesn’t mean writing fewer Horrors, it means knowing when to write A Horror and how to construct the proper containment zone around it

Gm Bluesky

Turns out the perfect personal advice is often “why don’t you think just a little harder and ask me again in 2 minutes if you’re really stuck” but people don’t really want that as a product

This is such a niche joke

It’s this plus the natural corollary that SF deals with ethical issues and fantasy deals with moral ones

We should increase access to G&T programs so smart kids who don’t have parents championing them to the school district can get an education that meets their needs, not handcuff the ones who do so they hate school and burn out

This is just out, reprinted in the Fall 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse. #scifi #SFF #poem #speculativefiction #speculativepoetry #alliterative #poetry #alliteration #poems #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #aliens #wings #hunters #sciencefiction

Daylight has been saved, Sam. But not for me.

Time to board a ship from the grey havens I guess

Okay Star Wars lore / interpretation question - is there an actual reason frog lady can’t let her spawn go through hyperspace or is this the Star Wars equivalent of “wi-fi gives me headaches”

Evening walk

“It’s MoviePass but for Lean”

The iOS 27 update really wrecked camera controls for easily toggling to 48MP 🤪

tell me you’ve never needed a decent non-Wolfram CAS without telling me you’ve never needed a decent non-Wolfram CAS

Heavy is the tooth that gets a new crown.

You can tell I’m raising Vermonters because the 5yo spelled “planet” phonetically as “pleni” (all short vowels)

Yglesias might have been the first account I ever muted on Twitter

All recipes should be in hexadecimal in which case a tablespoon is 1/10 of a cup and 1/100 of a gallon.

So I think LLMs are bad at prose in exactly the same way they are good at writing code - overall order / narrative structure don’t really matter, and every concept that matters gets defined in relatively narrow local scopes and then redefined as necessary over and over again

See, *this* is how you maintain APIs for older versions of mobile apps - most apps are just like "sorry, you can't make this payment you need to do right now or pick up this parcel, first you need to update your 3-weeks-old version of the app over cellular and log in again"

3 nights in a row of frost

The bugs were always already there and the guys with a $250M SIGINT enabling budget are probably pissed they got fixed

It’s a morel hazard

Evening walk

One random tree in the spotlight???

Um...Robot Block? jaysbrickblog.com/news/lego-da...

4 CAs 4 Furious