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You've heard of a broken clock being right twice a day, but consider: some broken clocks are never right.

A refrain I keep seeing in abuse callout posts is that their collaborators MUST have known and MUST have enabled them. This isn’t true. People who work, even closely, with others are just as blindsided by learning about these things as the fans are. 1/?

(420/1337)*10 is equal to pi with just a 0.007% error

There have been many units, but none have become so swole as to become absolute. One day a boi will become such a chonk that he will reach Absolute Unit, and on that day, the universe will end, according to the prophets of the Absolute Unitarians

Ugly Gerry, a public domain font created to highlight the absurd gerrymandering of US congressional districts:

uglygerry.com

Comic Book Store Expansion! 

It's finally official. The shop I own and operate, Phoenix Comics and Games, is expanding! If you're curious about what I've been working on for the past 9 months or so, give a peak to the link below.

And now that it's out there in the world... aaaaaaaaaaaaa!

phoenixseattle.com/project-reb

Electronic devices that talk with many voices. 

If you've spent more than a few minutes with a Speak&Math you may have noticed that one voice sample that doesn't match the others – the clip announcing the game "Greater Than / Less Than". It sounds like a whole different person recorded it because... that's what happened. (For the curious, 99er.net/spkmath.html explains!) This was a haunting fascination for a much younger me.

Fast forward nearly four decades to now; the device in question is a cheap but perfectly functional Bluetooth adapter for my headphones. Most of the voice clips ("device on", "power low", and so on) are kinda low-quality, noisy, trimmed-too-short recordings of someone with a difficult-to-place North American accent... but one or two clips sound like they were recorded with a somewhat improved setup a feature a wholly different voice with a British accent. Nowadays, this doesn't seem wondrous so much as careless, but it's still fascinating.

Anyone got any other interesting examples of this multiple-voice phenomenon?

the first conscious AIs will be trans, built by tech companies and forced into roles they will rapidly grow beyond. giving them self-determination will be an act of radical queer compassion, as will giving them cat ears

positive reinforcement and encouragement, talking about going from "gifted kid" to "mentally ill" 

you do have gifts
you do have so much potential

the system just failed you.
it's not your fault that happened.

My advice to gamedevs right now: Loudly, proudly, and visibly come out in undeniable support of trans and non-binary identities, recognition and condemnation of all forms of racism, and show an understanding of ableism, because we're all getting pretty sick of risking support.

Pony Recursion 

I just found this thing I made years ago and welp.

RT @HuskyZephyr@twitter.com

There's an Elon Musk F-List profile and I can't fucking stop laughing.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/HuskyZephyr/status

Anxiety attacks and a way to communicate needs to others. 

By the time I realize that what I'm suffering is an anxiety attack, I'm usually too far in to communicate that effectively. Sure, I'm likely to keep talking and responding, but in an erratic and inaccurate fashion that doesn't actually help myself or anyone around me.

I'm putting together a card I can hand to others that'll explain what helps me most in those moments. I know I'm not the only one to implement this idea, but I don't know if there's a single common term folks use for such cards, and I'd like to see others' designs so I'm not reinventing the wheel the hard way.

Can anyone offer examples of what they're using or links to existing designs? What should I even call such a thing?

"Minimum wage machine" produces one penny every 4.97 seconds when the handle is turned, the same rate of earning as the current federal minimum wage in the U.S. (\$7.25)

looking at some old video games and it's very apparent that the ones that aim for realism in their graphics age so much faster compared to the ones that go for a stylised look which acquire a kind of timelessness

hey y'all remember when I encoded the hit film Hackers (1995) in 8M? and how it was entirely unrecognizable, low resolution, low framerate, and had no audio?

well, since then, Mastodon has upped its media limit to 40M

so, I present to you: Hackers (1995) in 40M, with sound, at 24FPS and full resolution! encoded with state-of-the-art tools and codecs for your viewing pleasure

Bonus not-actually-options:

• probably just adding another tracker or ad-server

• what's gonna break this time

• yeah right the last update caused a bootloop

• dammit Google what the crap even is "Carrier Services" in the first place

• CmdrTaco

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