Ethan J. A. Schoonover

seeds for the seed god

plot twist: reprehensible billionaire DOES manage to upload his consciousness as an AGI but it leaks onto torrent sites and he is trapped in a hell of endlessly being rebooted by script kiddies to perform the most menial labor.

moving back to a dedicated music player has been one of the best moves over the past couple years. no idea where i put my phone down in the house. don't care. i have a book and music. incredibly liberating honestly. it was harder than in 2006 (no big co wants to make it easy in 2026) but worth it.

moving back to a dedicated music player has been one of the best moves over the past couple years. no idea where i put my phone down in the house. don't care. i have a book and music. incredibly liberating honestly. it was harder than in 2006 (no big co wants to make it easy in 2026) but worth it.

Look, "AI will destroy humanity" is a pretty big claim. I'm willing to settle for "AI will destroy just one or two very specific guys".

Look, "AI will destroy humanity" is a pretty big claim. I'm willing to settle for "AI will destroy just one or two very specific guys".

This is Curtains for Zoosha, to me

10 cent fix (big silicone rubber band) to stop the robot vacuum from getting caught up on the long metal rod foot of this chair. I am loathe to cede environmental aesthetics to machines like this but I am, it would seem, equally loathe to both dirty floors and vacuuming them by hand every day.

I use my beets.io config to calculate classical composer musical period based on their birthdate+30. Works surprisingly well but I now have a handful of exceptions. Satie, Arvo Pärt, Rachmaninoff, the usual suspects who bridge periods I guess, but I'm sure there is a better way in beets to do this.

I use my beets.io config to calculate classical composer musical period based on their birthdate+30. Works surprisingly well but I now have a handful of exceptions. Satie, Arvo Pärt, Rachmaninoff, the usual suspects who bridge periods I guess, but I'm sure there is a better way in beets to do this.

just realized that i'm basically cosplaying marty mcfly today

I interviewed 83-year editor & sound designer Walter Murch, a legendary figure. The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, Ghost, The Unbearable Lightness of Being...and The English Patient, which turns 30 this year. Info on a free zoom talk included. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/t...

need a good node js vuln to drop around 3 am right now, that would be the icing on the cake

computers are now battlefields

more like DROOPal right now amirite

excited to find out what critical vuln drops in the next 24 hours to complete the hell-of-exploits trifecta

RDR2 on the lil steamdeck/legion go still makes me stop and just marvel at the scenery. Lightning struck tree, moonlit swamp, sunset on the bayou, it's all so pretty. Don't need a new $1800 xbox to enjoy great gaming.

Elon absolutely sucks but this is just a preview of the kind of control AI companies are playing for with their push into government, education, and every other industry

truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

The new xbox pricing makes me very happy that I switched to Steam as my primary platform. I've been enjoying using JUST a steamdeck (legion go s) as my primary console (happily driving the TV in this photo). Have been slowly working my way through RDR2 with it & performance has been great.

Moon bounce amateur radio transmissions (EME == Earth->Moon->Earht) are a fun mode to operate in with the right equipment. A group of hams just completed the first amateur radio terrestrial origin transmission VENUS bounce (EVE, Earth->Venus->Earth). Very impressive stuff. www.camras.nl/en/blo...

An hour after this photo the fearsome tiger got itself stuck in the linen closet (has since been rescued)

the tiger padded menacingly down the rocky mountain precipice

the ancients used bones, entrails, and vapors in caves for divination. in order to be more modern/urban, I will be standing in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood next to this utility box outside the used book and record store and will use this patina of old posters to tell your future.

First time changing oil and son didn't spill a drop on the driveway 💧🛢️. I told him I hope he doesn't have to do too many of these since we'll be driving long range EVs in the future, but it's still a solid skill to have.

First time changing oil and son didn't spill a drop on the driveway 💧🛢️. I told him I hope he doesn't have to do too many of these since we'll be driving long range EVs in the future, but it's still a solid skill to have.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

giving my son his true inheritance, the sacred torque wrench (then teaching him how to change the oil in the truck)

friend: (very seriously) "you know, it's like that saying: a nest in your hand is worth three birds" me: "wait what" friend: (chagrined) "that's not the saying is it" me: "it is now"

A bad update: we're getting reports of pro-No Kings creators who have been suspended today as well. And we still lack backend access to the official No Kings account. Stay tuned, will report news when I have it.

It doesn’t take a quiz whiz like @kenjennings.bsky.social to know 645 is wrong for Washington. Vote NO on 645. 🗳️ no645.com

i used to buy a motherboard and then shop for ram. now I'm scrounging through my ram pile and shopping for a motherboard based on what i find

White House press secretary tenure will continue to halve until Zeno's paradox is refuted

White House press secretary tenure will continue to halve until Zeno's paradox is refuted

just thinking about how a bunch of Ukrainian ops folks went off book and blew up a pipeline on their own and how that kind of moxie could solve all sorts of problems

arrived!

intellectually and emotionally at the "reminding myself that all men are mortal" stage of things right now

USPS obv using their new "special 2026 ballot routing algorithm" to get this package to me

Babe wake up someone just discovered new code in House of Leaves, a 26 year-old book. www.reddit.com/r/houseoflea...

going in for an MRI on a sports injury and the phone call questions included "are you oxygen dependent" and I really REALLY had to refrain from responding "as a member of the kingdom Animalia, yes" (I answered no to just make the tired sounding woman's life as easy as I could)