Bill Seitz @BillSeitz@mastodon.social

*sits down across from you*
The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both drink, and find out who is right... and who is dead.

I'm so old I remember when the entire tech industry FREAKED THE HECK OUT at the idea of 'Total Information Awareness' and now it's just 'yeah, that's literally our business plan, what's wrong with it'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness

Nothing worth understanding is worth live debating. Knowledge production progresses by stretching out debates in time. Debate dilation. Even a few seconds of deliberative delay between debate moves increases the intelligence. This is why Twitter at its best is much wittier than live conversation.

The Cat People remake is on shudder now

Yes, the one with the David Bowie score

Maybe part of my problem is that I need to get on meds. I keep ending up in adversarial conflicts with managers, in almost every job that I've ever had. It's hard to focus. I run up against deadlines. I procrastinate everything.

My therapist says I need structure. And he's right, but it's hard to be patient when all the solutions boil down to life hacks.

It's either amphetamines or weird structural adjustments that are hard to commit to

"We Catholics believe that life begins when a baby first moves its hand to use some accounting software.

We call this the Quickening."

any fediverse folks going to MLA? i'm in chicago starting tonight, would love to hear about any interesting goings-on

glitterally starving

I wanna bring back the term webmaster because now that I have a server running I can call myself webmistress and I'm all about that

Myers-Briggs? No thanks, the Voight-Kampff will always be my favorite fictional personality test.

"Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 90+ building blocks to arrange and combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs. The game will embark on a story of ecology and understanding as additional resources are always needed to unlock new blocks, configurations, and combinations to create more prosperous neighborhoods. Throughout the design process, players will need to avoid the decay of their city blocks by making sure each unit doesn’t run out of resources and become a strain on the complimentary units around them."
https://www.gog.com/game/blockhood

#solarpunk

@natecull

can I tell you how much I want to build an actual drone that looks like a witch now

(a lot, in case that wasn't what you inferred)

I want someone to make a late sequel to Commando (1985) called 'John Matrix'

and then make it a Matrix crossover just for laughs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commando_(1985_film)

reading a paper on Dance Dance Revolution and this quote is amazing out of context

"For [film scholar Steven Shaviro], this visceral contact resonates with contagion, a term that aptly accommodates both the “dance fever” that overcomes DDR’s players and its implicit threat of homosexual infection."

Just as gays stole the rainbow from God, leftists have stolen mastodon from the tech Bros

Mary: “Here comes that fucking drummer boy again”

Jesus Christ: “Jesus Christ”

"Since they first appeared, ‘Smart Home’ devices have been marketed as faithful servants, ready to aid and assist their owners. The truth is that they have been designed to serve only the interests of capital as houses become assets. We need to start imagining digital technologies that could serve emancipatory projects aimed at ensuring homes for all that are not just ‘smarter’ but happier, safer and more secure" http://autonomy.work/portfolio/beware-the-smart-home/ #autonomyinstitute