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Engineering

Interesting article on John W. Campbell and how his contributions to midcentury SF were actually regressive as hell and held the genre back for decades: https://alis.me/x/everything-wrong-with-science-fiction-is-john-w-campbells-fault/

Nagas are just snake-taurs

Starfleet UX designers learned that if they didn't make some bridge consoles explode, captains would ignore damage until the shields failed.

Family decals are getting weird.

If someone blocks or mutes you, using other accounts to circumvent that block is not good. Ever.

me: I like to see things in entirely new ways!

but then later:

Airplane mode is a disappointment. I turned it on but I’m still a caribou.

Tired: snarky arguments about how this-or-that food is gross.

Wired: joyful celebrations of our favorite foods with people who also like them.

Coffee simplified.

:V

Sorry I've had this joke in my head all day and I had to get it out.

"Human cultures vary a lot," the human ambassador said, "but we all agree there are things that should not go on pizza..."

The alien looked up. "But it fnaggles my splanch so nicely."

"And one of those things is people."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Unix will give you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot. If you didn’t think rope would do that, you should have read the man page.

This is literally the least helpful thing you could have possibly designed your voice assistant to do

Yo, yo, yo! If anyone's interested in this particular angle, you *need* to read Duncan Watts' summary of #MusicLab, the sociological experiment that showed what happens to the same set of artists in socially-separated "worlds". To me it's the experiment of the century:

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/magazine/15wwlnidealab.t.html

It touches on the core ambiguities in "why is this successful?", and is the most productive thing I think about.

"The Road Not Taken"

I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Remember to reduce the number of hyphens in your console.log('----here-----') statements before you go to production. Gotta keep that bundle size down.

all aboard the murder train

why is everyone on this site like "hello friends :) im a happy smol bean :) lets do the revolution :) I love cats :)"