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I have pretty ok self-esteem. Except when I am standing directly next to the trash can and attempt to throw something away and miss. Then I think I’m probably the worst person alive

what is the earliest console game that lets you pick non-binary and please tell me it's not fucking austin powers for game boy color of all things

was just reminded of this

As a trans girl, as a lymphoma survivor, as a reasonable person with more than a shred of empathy…. I am so fucking mad at this bullshit 😞

absolutely IN LOVE with this video format, showing not just some cool science but also how you can go about understanding something that's new to you. It's a really important skillset to me, especially given the amount of AI slop going around www.youtube.com/watch?v=N86I...

Some kind of cruel joke that this is the hill you have to walk up to get to the hospital

In other words, the presence of a strategic opponent pushed people to produce very strong random behavior — in many cases, indistinguishable from uniform randomness. This is surprising, and contrary to what we might expect given the persistent failures in human randomization!

Showing a new project today at a party in Oakland! Made by me and @nobr.me

when ppl say the optimal 11 square packing problem is ugly i lowkey think thats transphobic

My brain

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

one of my favorite files on wikimedia commons

tfw a person from friend group A and a person from friend group B are in the same room and A sees you accidentally codeswitch into personality B instead of carefully staying within the overlap between A and B

[cw: food] come to the weird web october kickoff that @jzplusplus.com and i are hosting this sunday! ☆ view a showcase of past year's websites ☆ make your own weird websites ☆ help us clear our browser cache by eating our browser cookies! sun oct 4 78 gough st, sf 1-5pm luma.com/calendar/cal...

(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory

#WeirdWebOctober starts today! Really excited to see kick it off in person in a few days and see what everyone makes! We're already off to a great start for the first theme: octothorp.es/~/Reveal

Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.

TIL active lightning rods are a thing. look at this angry bastard. it tries to, faster than Zeus himself, fire its own lightning (early streamer emission innit) back at the sky to beckon a strike to hit it instead of something more important. long live the fantastical hubris of NF C 17-102

Guy at the grocery store at 8pm on Tuesday trying to buy a single beer at self-checkout and gets mad at the employees for not having better service

@jzplusplus.com and i are hosting a kickoff for this year’s weird web october! (weirdweboctober.website) bubblesort studios 78 gough st, sf sun, october 4, 2026, 1-5pm

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

shoutout to infinite mac, without which this would not have been possible www.them.us/story/early-...

his name is lethargic. he's an IRC chatbot I wrote in 2011 and has been through IRC, skype, and is now on discord (in private servers with friends.) the algorithm has been unchanged since the beginning.

NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...

One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.

Samus & Kirby

I’M AT THE URGENT CARE I’M AT THE TACO BELL I’M AT THE COMBINATION URGENT CARE AND TACO BELL

stages of demographic dismissal: 1. minority votes in massive %s for your party 2. rival party attacks them directly to break this 3. party concedes to rival party to try and get rival party supporters 4. minority % support lowers 5. party labels the minority extremists or a cult to blame minority

HUH?! WHAT?!