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Also I can't stop thinking about alien sea monsters now which is cool but making it a little hard to wind down for sleep.

Suddenly reminded of this short story about a superintelligence trying to mitigate the end of the world:

"Valuable Humans In Transit"
qntm.org/transit

(the fiction on that site is pretty funky/cool in general)

like how does _that_ sales pitch go, exactly?

"yeah, listen, we've added a new feature - we're gonna do you a one shot ad post on a fringe social network full of gay space communists, people who identify strongly with cartoon animals, and programmers who are weirdly intense about ideological shit that we're not entirely sure is even real. oh yeah, and did i mention the sex professionals? that's been big lately."

cc: @yourgreenpal21

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Every possessive in English: 's
Third-person-singular possessive pronoun in English: s

-flips table-

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The fact that "its" has no apostrophe is honestly the best evidence for the fact that lithographic conventions are even more fake than the rest of language

Tweezers should be *sharp*. A really strong edge is both better at gripping and is super handy for things like getting out tiny splinters.

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katt's tool tip for the day: premium tweezers with precision ground/machined edges are so much better than the common ones.

Tweezerman is a good brand. S'not even that expensive.

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Reposting: does anyone in the Seattle want a free 20" 1200x1600 IPS LCD monitor?

'Cause I have one.

all major projects cost π times as much and take e times as long as predicted.

Okay, todo: listen to more VNV nation.

Anyone have recommendations for a first album?

Weird question of the day!

What's some of your favorite religious music?

(not a subtoot, I'm just really pleased with myself for that phrase.)

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Social Media Interferometry: reading between the lines of multiple different people's vague posts to try and figure out what the hell happened.

One thing I don't understand is people complaining about graffiti on trains and walls but they couldn't be bothered a bit by ads being everywhere in our daily life actively and literally trying to manipulate everybody's thoughts and actions. But it's legit because that access to your brain is bought with money.

Hm, this is a bit of film criticism that actually applies really well to tabletop RPGs as well: "fight scenes should advance the plot, otherwise they don't really mean much."

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