Notices by Brion Vibber :blobcatcoffee:​ (brion@bikeshed.vibber.net), page 3

civilization is a con. let's all find sid meier and beat him up for inventing it

this is why we need those underground conveyor belts from "2010: Living In The Future" https://2010book.tumblr.com/post/310745454/cover

type of guy who doesn't know the difference between homestuck and homestar runner

the facebooks like to recommend you treacle posts that might pique your special interests _just_ enough to keep clicking: listicles, repacked tumblr posts, poorly-edited historical-interest articles probably cribbed from wikipedia

when they strike me as fun, i end up going to wikipedia for more ;) and sometimes you find a fun error: i saw a plane history feed today showing what looked like a photo of a test flight of an aircraft of which in fact _they never built the prototype_

so it's either someone's clever photoshop recreation later, or a mislabeled _very good_ model/artistic creation from the time

but i'm very worried that folks are soon gonna hook up the "generative machine learning" spigot to these seo content farms

and social media tuned for engagement will just spew ever more fanciful misinformation into every feed about every topic for everyone

i've heard it said that pre-"AI" data is going to become as critically valuable for some use cases as pre-1945 metal that hasn't been tainted by nuclear weapons testing

I remember hacking on a patch for some weird bit of the Mac OS X platform code in Mozilla early on

and really not liking that the "NS" prefix was used for both "NeXTStep" Obj-C types and "Netscape" C++ types :D

Kernel-Space Program

3 minutes to #monsterdon

#monsterdon oh my the tone of this music is very much different from the calm scientific intro

#monsterdon let's get this potty stotted

#monsterdon "your blade will Howard Keel"

on a very special episode of #monsterdon -- the spectre of addiction

#monsterdon i wish i'd taken the time to fix the aspect ratio on this .mp4 \o/ ;_;

#monsterdon this sounds like the first few minutes of Stomp before the good stuff gets going

#monsterdon this man is a coffee addict -- and he's about to get eaten by a triffid

coincidence? or morality play

#monsterdon 28 days later: vegetarian edition

#monsterdon "now i know what it's like to be a hard-boiled egg"

#monsterdon wait people who were just .... indoors weren't protected?

#monsterdon "also one more thing"