In the sepulchers of virtual machines rarely run live the ghosts of better Firefoxes, shy of the fiber’s light.
Month: August 2020
Land
A book release during a pandemic is bittersweet. What's there: the book. What's not: the book tour, conferences and festivals, a chance to go out, meet readers, talk to people. Virtual events are not the same.
— Shannon Hale (@haleshannon) August 25, 2020
What, you mean the clownworld shit the libs have been spewing about Zoom being just as good and that no one should ever travel again is just BS? WHO COULD HAVE EVER GUESSED?
I know some of that was and is a coping mechanism, and that veneer is failing now. But some (many?) libs seriously believe that. And to hell with all that.
Final Each
I don’t believe in direct translation
Yesterday’s meandering today already
Needs some new interpretation
Given the world born since
Beowulf’s hฦฟรฆt holds nothing for us;
Whatever it embodied in minds long passed
Can only be chthonian in this shifted realm
Buried in our psyche as if in
Grendel’s gloomy cave
It’s been a thousand years
And a new world arisen
In each of those
Days
Hฦฟรฆt means time
Has lost this
one —
Every day, a final goodbye
Vax
i know i said all viruses are weird but honestly i wish we didn’t use flu as a paradigm for everything it is SO weird
people think “ah all viruses will inevitably evolve resistance to a vaccine” when flu is the only significant example of this happening
โ halvorz ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ (@halvorz) August 24, 2020
Yep. And HIV, which he also mentions.
Tucci Subject
We donโt talk about Stanley Tucciโs range enough for me. pic.twitter.com/GowE1Q2gsH
— Iโm Looking for a (redacted) at work, WORK!! (@DUCKedOff41) August 24, 2020
Agreed. Probably the best well-known male actor working right now.
Spark
Speak for yourself. I can resist just fine. I am perfectly ok leaving “profit” on the table when the market goes batty. To invert the famous aphorism, I can remain solvent longer than the market can remain irrational.
Just watch me.
Ranged
If you donโt believe in climate change, come to California.
This is from today. And is just a small part of the nearly 600 fires we are battling this week. pic.twitter.com/iv4stV3Aax
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) August 23, 2020
Oh, a lot of people won’t believe in climate change even as it’s literally killing them. In this I include a lot of liberals who will claim it’s been exaggerated or “won’t be that bad.”
You’ll all see; California is already seeing.
So Ban
Just said this about a small piece of cheesecake I ate a few moments ago: “That was so good the liberals are probably going to ban it.”
No Cheeto
i will never forget the look on hillaryโs face when she went into the home of a working class family pic.twitter.com/VKFXJIXTuf
— Students For Tulsi 🌺 (@students4tulsi) August 4, 2020
She was scared a deplorable was going to jump out of the closet and make her eat a Cheeto.
Too You
I want to get a tattoo that says “Tattoos are stupid.”
Weyland-Yutani
Even if a fraction of this is true, these are horrifying numbers https://t.co/ciLXnRB5Wh
— Adam Ozimek (@ModeledBehavior) August 24, 2020
Bad things, man.
Zeynep
How Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right.
Best systems thinker alive right now that I know of. I’m pretty good, but she’s better. And more people listen to her because I have no credentials. But unlike most with credentials, people should listen to her. What she has is a rare, one in a million skill.
I’m not surprised to see that other than she hopped back and forth between countries as a kid and I did not, she and I had a very-similar childhood. Being a perpetual outsider as a child in an abusive environment really activates the ability to see how systems work and their flaws. Did not surprise me one little bit to hear how she grew up.
GPT-3 Is We
Occasionally recently I've been in conversations with people and get the intrusive thought "wow I am a fantastic gpt3"
— Aella (@Aella_Girl) August 23, 2020
Most people are GPT-3 most of the time — including me. This is the default human mode, particularly for extroverts. That’s why GPT-3 works so well. It does what we all do most of the time, being social creatures. We gush forth what we’ve heard, what we think others want to hear, and just whatever to keep the conversation going.
We’ve made a human-level AI, and it turns out it’s a dumbass, because so are we.
Not Even True
Also, what Ian (and another commenter is saying) about lifting and athleticism isn’t even true. After I’d been working out for less than a year, I packed an entire moving truck up with a houseful of stuff all by myself. Took a whole day.
Before I started lifting again, I would’ve been absolutely exhausted beyond all belief if I’d attempted something like that. Instead, I filled the whole truck up and I was energized at the end. I wasn’t in the least tired. Compared to my workouts, it was cake. I could’ve packed up a few more trucks, no problem.
The next day, I wasn’t sore at all and it was like I’d done nothing. People believe the weirdest shit when they don’t like something for other reasons.
Lifting works.
Hip Thrust
By the way, here’s how you actually do a barbell hip thrust:
Your ass should be on the ground (or the pad) when you start each rep!