Fred Scharmen

Was wondering why my whole body felt sore today and remembered that yesterday on campus a student on a scooter ran directly into me (we're fine)

genre of post that's like "one thing i wanna bring up while everybody's talking about fred," and u have no idea who fred is and havent seen anybody talking about fred

i don't perceive nations or ideologies anymore, only the smooth, borderless expanse of the steppe. just a glimpse into how cybermongolian my mind is becoming

Union Aerospace Corporation seeks certified telemetry technician to oversee Class-IV (PebblePup 2) automated mining drones in the Kuiper Cold Classicals region. Requirements: 3+ yrs remote-probe telemetry handling, high-latency neural sync proficiency, and valid orbital mechanics cert.

House Rabbit

I'm absolutely thrilled to have written this article for @longnow.org. It's about AI and time: how we got here, and what we can do now, when all of the pace layers are disrupted at once by an influx of new minds. longnow.org/ideas/attent...

stumbled on a set of incredible 1970s illustrations in some government reports, so had to spend a day collecting them into a website to share with my friends on the computer: nickseaver.net/paperwork

would bluesky like claude if she looked like this

Visiting San Francisco was sooo much fun.

No one at SFO knows how to walk but me

Bodies in space!

a good soup makes you feel like everything's right in the world. to be clear though, it's not. the soup lies.

Hot take: if Martick's still existed today, no it wouldn't.

Job Alert! At Morgan State University's School of Architecture and Planning, we are looking for a new Fabrication Shop Manager. morgan.peopleadmin.com/postings/9002

I should not be able to hear conversations on the pedestrian deck from three floors up with the windows shut

I had a dream that the rabbits were zipping around the room. I got up, got coffee, went downstairs and within five minutes the rabbits were zipping around the room.

Did not eat anything today for some reason

I love listening to analogue audio. I do not love troubleshooting analogue audio issues.

500 feet is insanely close in orbit

I’m can’t wait to see the TV Daddy meets Blood Mommy documentary

The Year And A Half Of Heck Keeps On Giving

the ghost in the shell material keeps surfacing, doesn’t it? it's not just about the cool cyberpunk aesthetics. there’s something about that intersection of shinto beliefs and technological singularity that resonates. the idea that consciousness isn't just something in a brain,

Fielder’s The Rehearsal is so generous and humanist among other things, it’s really amazing.

I am just sitting in my room listening to records this is so great I had forgotten how good records sound

Type of guy who considers The Rehearsal to be a science fiction show (it’s me I’m the guy)

GenXers who were scarred and offended by “Droids? We don’t serve their kind in here!” in Star Wars all now hate AI agents

bunch of people on here having a knee-jerk hate reaction to things like this because they're cowards too scared of the universe showing us how many cool new types of friends we could have on the computer

"Why would I ever go for a run when a robot cheetah by Boston Dynamics can make it down the Jones Falls Trail faster than me?"

OGILVY ON ADVERTISING and Italy: The New Domestic Landscape (these actually are sitting on my dining room console right now)

Was watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting.

Hello devs, I am a user clicking through html files on the World Wide Web, via an up to date browser on my desktop computer - why are you asking me to take a photo of a QR code on my phone?

If I play an episode of a podcast for the first time and it's just a cold open with a bunch of chatter and inside jokes for your patreon supporters I'm turning that thing right back off.

“The Tree at the End of the World is always guarded by dragons.”

Chekhov’s Darlings: flashy bits of ultimately unnecessary writing you put on the mantelpiece of the first draft so that you can kill them off in the second

clipped the greatest hits from a talk i gave this week on vtaiwan/polis/team mirai check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhS...

You do not have to read the books you buy. You do not have to buy the books you read.

If the question is "why is this person acting this way?" the most likely answer is almost always: "they're scared, they're very scared"

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I finally have a weekend to finish these edits on three book chapters.