emily s.

post. not too much. mostly jokes.

Meet our Solar System's newest dwarf planet candidate: 2026 ED138! Orbiting past Pluto, scientists found it in NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data from earlier this year. Early analysis suggests it's ~600–1500 km across, one of the largest found past Neptune!🔭🧪 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-f...

as i get older, i've come to place greater importance on not minimizing crimes and harm to society. but part of that is that in order to properly grapple with harm, you cannot feed perpetrators into a gratuitous torture engine. it eclipses the gravity of the crime and obscures the debt to others

If the goal is Software User Liberation, we must do all of: 1️⃣ recognize that LLMs liberate some users 2️⃣ recognize it ensnares others 3️⃣ use these tools to build good things faster than our enemies do 4️⃣ replace these tools as quickly as we can, but knowing that “quickly” might be years or decades.

oh thank god Ghostty finally updated

Big news- I am a winner this year for the Wendy and Eric Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications! More here: www.nationalacademies.org/news/nationa... 🔭🧪🎢

not dissimilar to how handing abortion rights to each state creates a regulatory regime that's just bonkers

Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!

just FYI, today's Apple OS updates still put the bad eMudhra certs in /etc/ssl/cert.pem, so /usr/bin/curl and /usr/bin/git and so on still relies on them. if you already remediated /etc/ssl/cert.pem last week, install the update and then do it again.

TIL: someone has ported English to Rust github.com/Aaryan-Kapoo...

little bit of a tangent: i once had a department chair who physically threatened me because the graduate student he was having an affair with was struggling in my class. i ended up resigning a few months later. so dating a student can have far-reaching consequences beyond the abuse of the student.

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the talk doesn't quite put it this way but I had a revelation reading it: it's completely backwards to be generating plans and code alone and then collaborating on the review. we should be doing nearly all our collaboration on the planning. we do this in various ways already but it should be More

bragging about my low-background offline wikipedia archive from 2018 on the discord voice chat like a menace I think everybody logged off around that time. not sure why

Bumper sticker reading “MY OTHER MAP IS THE TERRITORY”

It's a rough time to be an indie dev, so we got to thinking what we could do about it... Announcing MATES' RATES 🍻 We're offering 12 month-long co-dev engagements where we work on whatever you need to succeed! Very permissive terms. Flat rate of US$5,000ea (+ taxes). 🎟️ yarnspinner.dev/mates-rates

nothing tastes as good as being alone laid out on the couch on Friday feels

okay, Torchlight II got a major update (in beta) with controller support? lmao wow

30,000 years ago, a wolf tentatively approaches a fire…

I have bonus pictures today. I've been walking through alleys and back roads around where I live, and while I've seen a lot of fungi and lichens, I haven't seen anything quite this nice. I suspect the stalks are Cladonia transcendens.

look, okay, I'm desperate to see "You Can See Everything" but going to the movies is not the easiest for me, so like...anybody have a cam rip I can borrow? willing to even buy a ticket online regardless

if i take this poll as indicative of a referendum on the status quo, my guess is that the older you are, the more financially stable you are (and therefore the more insulated from *~*~ current events ~*~* you get) ...right up till retirement age, where financial stability starts to fall off again.

Baby’s first industry gig, 2007-2008 These were for BioWare’s brief foray into handheld market with Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. Every level was meticulously hand painted.

might have to tear down Plex :(

awww, jeez, I'm sorry we lost Tom Skerritt. 93 years, though, as good a run as any.

I built a fun little Chrome extension that lets plants invade your abandoned tabs the longer you leave them unread. To access them again, you have to slash through the vines 🪚🌿

free horror display name idea to a good home: The Green Miley Cyrus

I learned today that if you have macOS 27, you can type `fm chat` in a terminal and then have the dumbest AI conversation of your entire life with Apple's system foundation model

call her remote code execution the way a single text from her has me doing things i shouldnt

try this handy mnemonic, it’s so simple

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ok non-tech ppl might be hearing some scary things about "critical vulnerabilities" involving certificates. the main thing you need to know, without getting down in the weeds about it, is that the fourth seal is broken. lo, a rider approacheth upon a pale steed, and his name is Death

I realized earlier that we're in for days of discourse about PHP being a bad language. no, all this proves is that C is the bad language.

accidentally had nightpepsi so now i gotta play torchlight II at nearly midnight