Jay Blanc @jayblanc@awoo.space

Wanted to sleep. Now all my neck muscles are hurting. Blargh.

Welp. Majo No Tabitabi - The Journey of Elaina, seemed to be a pleasant Traveling Witch story. And then Episode Three took a sharp turn into "Whoops I got someone killed but guess there's nothing to be done" and "Well, forcing your affections onto a slave girl is okay actually".

Your good news today is that a defunct satellite did not collide with a discarded booster rocket to trigger a catastrophic kessler cascade.

@FuchsiaShock But not actual 'time travel' from our point of view. Time-like-closed-curves are where a particle of matter can exist because it was sent back in time to the moment when it started existing. If these occur naturally, they are very short lived. You can't use them to send a message back to yourself, because as a closed loop they will always be existing at the time and place they existed, and in effect cause themselves.

I reorganised my iphone homepage, and I feel so accomplished, I did something today!

Best beans?

@porsupah It certainly wins awards for fastest paced deconstruction of the genre.

@porsupah Of course, I could immediately identify the anime you're watching.

@porsupah I'm also pretty sure I've recommended this to you in the past too.

@porsupah They're all good frogs, Brent.

Imagine if you made a co-op zombie defence game, and then when no one bought it you turned it into a Battlegrounds game with a hat based economy, and then suddenly you had someone perform a concert in your Battlegrounds game, and now you're a social media platform. And this is all producing horrendous amounts of money so you can never admit you don't know what you are doing. And the giant terrifying multinational that owns you is asking, demanding you make more money. So you sue Apple.

I just realised that in the not too distant future, someone will eventually end up writing a video game patch notice that includes "Fixed: Breast feel haptic feedback exploit that could crush users fingers."

The impending horrors of the Near-Future VR Anime Tiddy Hackable Threat Vectors are not my fault.

@porsupah What do you intend to use it for?

Dear Millennials,
We're all very tired, and we're might get cranky once in a while, but we're okay with you just taking over now. Just keep us supplied with updated remakes of our nostalgic media, and we'll be happy. We love you, please take care of the world.
- Gen X

Happy Bastille Day, and remember there's only one way to check if the 1% are made of cake.

As I do the last minute catch-up reading on the Hugo awards shortlist, I am pondering a way of deciding zero-or-more Laurel awards for science fiction writing. Perhaps approval voting on the combined short lists of the Nebulas and Hugos?

It may come as a shock that it was not possible in 2015 to get a broadway production that outright called the founding fathers slave owners.

But I don't want to see white people telling black people they weren't brave enough to talk about slavery.

@porsupah Desktop/Notebook performance scale has been there for a while. (It's already at Server Rack scale.) The blocker really has just been the problem of transitioning software. Intel were strongly enforcing their patents on anyone who tried to ship bytecode translation from x64 to Arm64. Intel's basic patents on x64 have all expired now, and AMD's expire next April. Only patents left cover extensions such as AES acceleration that are mainly used in libraries, so can be intercepted at that level instead.

@porsupah Was not expecting them to be able to bring this to market till the AMD64 ISA patent expires next April, but I guess AMD have given them a grace period on it. (Intel's prior 64 patents have all expired.)