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help, i'm being pursued by ontologists! i don't know where they all came from!

i suppose then he'd have to change his name to Has Smithed and it wouldn't be as marketable

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"Release her," the knight demanded.
"Why?" the princess said.
"Because dragons are an endangered species."
"Told you," the dragon muttered, and pulled against her bonds.
"And also," the knight added, "they are sentient beings. You can't keep them as pets."
"But I want one!"
"No!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

he's been called Will Smith all his life, so you'd think he would have at least tried making a fire poker or some coat hangers or something by now

"i am wisest of all, for i know only that i know one thing"
"and what thing is that, socrates"
"i literally just told you dude"

zuckbook, caps, iOS 

macrumors.com/2020/12/16/faceb

HA HA HA HA HA CRY MORE YOU PATHETIC PILE OF GARBAGE

*ahem*. More politely, I expect and hope that Facebook’s ad campaign will be as counterproductive as it looks to me. It’d be nice if the other major phone OS provider would follow in Apple’s tracks here, openly abandoning their own data mining.

"i am wisest of all, for i know only that i know one thing"
"and what thing is that, socrates"
"i literally just told you dude"

Just a reminder that I made a mastodon export data viewer :3
github.com/blackle/mastodon-da

supports images, video, audio, polls, content warnings, and alt text!

A friend sent me this from his recent presentation on Machine Learning (and why he dislikes it) and I think it's a great pic for many occassions :D

begpost, family situation, not too urgent 

I'm currently trying to collect enough money so when Covid is over and we can finally travel again I can move out of here and move in with my partner to get out of this family situation I'm currently in where I don't feel really welcome nor safe here. It's going to take quite a bit of money for us to be able to do it so any sent at all will be to much help and will be appreciated.

kofi: ko-fi.com/maciiuwu
paypal: paypal.me/macii69

Clickspring context 

In January 2017, Clickspring started a new series demonstrating the reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient astronomical mechanical calculator - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZi - accompanied by a side series on some of the technological speculations of its manufacture - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZi

It's been a really enjoyable series, showing off a great deal of careful work and analysis, and we've been quite interested in the work.

In October 2018, Episode 9 of the series aired ... and then nothing for two years. Because, as Clickspring has now confirmed, in the course of making a CAD model of the wreckage to base the reconstruction off of, he found a discrepancy with the common assumptions of a hundred years ago about its nature ... an assumption which has turned into an entire research collaboration and two academic papers.

Which is extremely exciting for both people interested in the mechanism and in Clickspring's excellent videos, because the papers are being published now and the mechanism is resuming construction.

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baked shadows? what am i, a proletariat? all my shadows are delicately hand-bruléed every morning immediately before the render pass

here's something that the dolphin emulator has that every fucking program that does automatic updates should copy immediately:

when it checks for updates and asks if you'd like to install the latest version, you can check a box to say "yes, but only after this session"

you can do whatever you were about to do without waiting, and when you close it, it does the update and you get the cool new stuff next time you're going to play

What’s a dad’s favorite kind of card game? 

Deck building

if i make a vacuum cleaner powered by a rechargeable battery, is that LiPo suction

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