Em

Em

@emgran.bsky.social

Vintage internet, from an internet vampire. 🟨🟣🏳️‍⚧️

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Also, writing on your own wall is self-promoting and rude.

Em@emgran.bsky.social

I think Facebook should go back to being monetized by Gifts.

Lots of people have followed me this evening; please do not be disappointed as I post here about once a month or so. Happy New Year!

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Intel launched the Pentium processor in 1993. Unfortunately, dividing sometimes gave a slightly wrong answer, the famous FDIV bug. Replacing the faulty chips cost Intel $475 million. I reverse-engineered the circuitry and can explain the bug. 1/9

In The Old Days, we died younger and were much shorter. Nevertheless, the white men dutifully wore a suit and tie. Even in ancient Rome.

There's an old parable about two AIs, one which cannot tell the truth, and another which cannot tell the truth.

First Sundar Pichai, now Tim Cook, both admitting that generative "AI," by dint of its very foundations (cf. "Bias Optimizers"), will not and cannot stop bullshitting (cf. "On Bullshit Engines"). futurism.com/the-byte/tim...

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There's an old parable about two AIs, one which cannot tell the truth, and another which cannot tell the truth.

First Sundar Pichai, now Tim Cook, both admitting that generative "AI," by dint of its very foundations (cf. "Bias Optimizers"), will not and cannot stop bullshitting (cf. "On Bullshit Engines"). futurism.com/the-byte/tim...

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I didn’t leave X because people there had different opinions and ideologies, I left because it stopped being fun. I get on social media to chat with people who think thinking is fun. X stopped being a place where that was true.

I'm told Bluesky Moderation is getting a bit more aggressive lately. Are sexy tables allowed? These are not allowed on The Meta.

In 2011 we all briefly joined Google Plus, the new social media platform which was going to replace Facebook. This was my reaction.

The CAT was an acoustic coupler modem (pictured below). I think it's beautiful. 21st century modems look like a Google Nest. I think modems should look useful, like they might send you a picture of a cat. The CAT's peak bandwidth was 300 bits per second, or as we would say nowadays, 0.9 Cat/μcc

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Oh, I almost forgot! Cat (Cat - binary digits) = 300 bits

I would like to propose the following Standard Units of Measurement for my Skyposting. b (banana - distance) = 20 cm B (Banana - mass) = 120g cc (scaramucci - time) = 10 days

I would like to propose the following Standard Units of Measurement for my Skyposting. b (banana - distance) = 20 cm B (Banana - mass) = 120g cc (scaramucci - time) = 10 days

Hello The Internet, I am Em and I will be Skying. Some of you may remember me from The Book of the Face (2005-2017), The Twix (2008-2022), or The Tumbler (2010-2014). I don't, so please be patient.

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