Notices by jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)

@james See that line at the end, beginning with "WELL ACTUALLY"?

That was for you.

I put that there for you specifically.

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein I have a time-machine fantasy
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/01/17.html?utm_source=sp_ma

@kosi2801 @agreeable_landfall @obsoletesony Yeah, that might be the one I was thinking of...

@codinghorror @Muddobbers @dangillmor Yeah but if I had just said "almost all journalists are lazy hacks" it wouldn't have sounded as deep, and I get paid by the word.

@xinit @pixel Do you want incels showing up with guns searching for the basement of a pizza restaurant? Because this is how etc etc etc

@agreeable_landfall @delroth @fosdem Yes, also Taylor.
Sorry,, @SwiftOnSecurity

@toddz Well the turbolift-space is like 10x the size of the ship itself, right? When you climb on the roof you're in a pocket universe.

But I Want To Believe that the Severance people don't suck that much.

@agreeable_landfall @delroth @fosdem There is no billionaire who is not a monster. Being a monster is a prerequisite for the level of acquisitiveness that turns you into goddamned Smaug.

Also, Dorsey would be a piece of shit even if he was broke.

@dangillmor

The pessimist in me says they don't want to acknowledge any venues that they can't later try to manipulate an algorithm to control who sees what

@delroth @agreeable_landfall @fosdem Not All Kardashians, some of them are on the teevee!

@Muddobbers @dangillmor I think it's simpler that that. It's not the owners behind this, it's the writers. The journalists do not get fellated and lionized here the way they do on the corporate social media sites. They do not get the immediate elevated status they have come to believe they deserve, just for publishing listicle round-ups of "here's what people are saying on twitter" and calling that writing. Here, they're just punters. So this does not exist.

@pixel Thank you for the reminder to begin all of my staff meetings by intoning, RENDER NOT MY CREATIONS IN MINIATURE.

@codinghorror "Windows needs a drop of your blood to continue. Please give it to me."

@agreeable_landfall @obsoletesony
That existsed, there were laser needles -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable

recall a project where someone managed to extract audio from a vinyl record by scanning it a (90s) flatbed scanner. It was crappy, especiially on the diagonals but it was an interesting proof of concept.

@mdhughes They do also hint (but do not state) that S02E01 is taking place in a different facility entirely. And, I guess we don't know that days inside to days outside are 1:1 so the whole place could be rebuilt every inside-day. Which is just more Kubrick again and we're all freezing to death in a hedge maze.

@fraying YES! She is so sketch. I think the musical cues were also saying she is so sketch.

@mdhughes I mean it *could* just be SCP Infinite Ikea, but it might *not* be....

@mdhughes Well we can't know that until someone tries to make the map, can we!

See also Room 237 and interior windows. I think that the constant single-point perspective of Severance shows that the creators have a passing familiarity with Kubrick, by which I mean an obsession.

Has anyone tied to map out the Severed floor? There are lots of continuous shots of running down those hallways, and D&D has trained 3 generations with graph paper, right?

@tek No.