yea yea free love and whatever but surely it’s no one’s fault if the invisible hand of free market decides a company with a lecherous CEO is less valuable an investment for it

I formally dedicate this to public domain wherever possible, CC0 where not possible and heartily discourage attribution and royalties.

The ego!

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Let me introduce another related concept: olfactory zombies. Imagine if there are people who can’t actually smell farts. These O-zombies physiologically have the nerves to detect the volatile chemicals responsible for fart smell, but they don’t actually feel the experience of smelling a fart. They may react to farts in the same way as non-O-zombies who smell a fart, but it’s a non-conscious programmed response and they are not aware of how it feels to actually smell a fart.

There’s no reason not to assume O-zombies are real. There’s also no reason not to assume there’s a good reason to care even if they were.

Oh look, bicameral mind is in the spotlight again.

I posit that farts were odorless until some time after the invention of writing. This is not a hypothesis. You can’t falsify it. Therefore it’s true. White people invented smelling farts.

People trying to push the “national security” angle are so funny. Oh no, America having a monopoly on some specifics of slop tech was the only thing keeping terrorists away! Jensen’s adultery has doomed us all!

Oh, so that’s what it’s referencing. I can’t really tell if the release artwork and song are poking fun at AI slop itself or people who criticize Fish Linucks for accepting slopped code contributions in the base system while NetBSD is lauded for not doing so.

New OpenBSD is out and the commemoratove artwork is definitely trying to say something about genAI.

Shout out to the combined power of ibuprofen and my venting tolerant polycule group chat for allowing me to endure the two hour Copilot 365 training meeting at work. The nap I had afterwards was a bliss like escaping the fucking samsara.

Makes sense. If I were hiring for an org that funds musicians, I’d consider it a plus for a candidate to have experience in the music business. I’m sure the same applies to an org that funds scammers.

I like the spooky skull head from Spirit Halloween.

I never use the word “exclaim” on non leap day Saturdays unless I’m wearing a hat, because there’s a nonzero chance God exists and considers that specifically a sin worthy of eternal damnation.

I would kill every cat and dog in the world to make sure Tamagotchi isn’t discontinued

Tired of people misrepresenting HPMOR as a Harry Potter fanfic where Harry uses science to study magic.

Anyone who has actually read the fic knows it’s a Death Note/Waiting for Godot/Spaceballs crossover fic about aristocrat failchildren bringing glowstick swords into an airsoft match. There are zero superfluous sentences. Every sentence a painting, especially when Glup of the Most Noble and Ancient Judean People’s Front of Shitto casts Compelled Duel on Backgroundella O. C. Technicallynot of the Superlatively Posh and Antiquarian Judean Popular Front of Whatsherface.

In the words of Anton Chekhov: if you establish in the first act that you must never burn anything you have transfigured, you must have a character transform something into a rocket in the third act and then fire that rocket without any harm done. This will prove you’re a better writer than Chekhov.

Final exam question: You are facing the most reddit serial killer of all time and his dumbass henchmen. Armed with only your wits and a spell that can transform anything into anything else, devise an escape. For extra credit, invoke one or more of the following science fiction plot devices: nuclear fusion, carbon nanotubes/fullerenes, wormholes/warp drives, neutronium, wave/particle duality, brown notes, grey goo, the anthropic principle, quantum tunneling, Maxwell’s demon.

HPMOR: the only novel that has been fully read by fewer people than mistakenly believe to have fully read it.

Many are contrasting the demand for gay marriage with the demand for human-animal marriage.

I feel like the ratio of homophobes to zoophiles making this comparison is a lot more skewed than the ratio of transphobes to promptphiles making the other comparison.

Sour indeed. There are some decent observations in there. He correctly notes that the book is dissing Stalinism specifically. Newspeak never became a real problem and superficially similar phenomena don’t mean language is losing its expressive power. And yes, those depictions of working class people have more than a whiff of classism to them.

Then there’s a lot of complaining about leftist infighting. It’s pretty appropriate for this to be hosted on that site. It’s only anti-revisionism if it comes from the Vanguard Party region of Marxism-Leninism, otherwise it’s just sparkling sectarianism.

The communists, who were the best organised, won out and Orwell had to leave Spain, for he was convinced that if he did not, he would be killed

Better organized than the POUM, I’ll give it that. “Won out” is an interesting choice of words to describe any republican faction in the Spanish civil war.

And then there’s the cringe. No robots and computer? My stories have robots and computer because it’s impossible for someone to always pay attention to spying a bunch of people. The panopticon doesn’t work, actually, because even if at anytime someone could be watching you, they couldn’t possibly be watching you all the time unless they have robots and computer. Also why isn’t this dystopian society more feminist?

I can do it, I have to email a bunch of stuff today anyway. (Edit: sent.)

You’ve done a really good job of picking your subjects. Each episode so far has managed to push the limits in some direction, whether it’s one or more of the F.A.G. scores, the fame of the main character or some other type of intrigue. I did not expect the jungian clusterfuck of bad penises and breasts episode to be overtaken in sheer WTF value so soon.

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you go to Azure if you’re running Windows or you hate yourself — or both

one will quickly lead to the other