Danny O'B @mala@mastodon.social

Liz is reading "Zoflaya the Moor", scandalous gothic novel by Charlotte Dacre from 1806. She read to me a fantastic bit of drama between two anti-heroines. The style is so good that I immediately pasted it into GPT3 to see if it could keep up the tone, but to make it more relevant to my interests, I changed the names of the anti-heroines to those closer to my heart, namely Richard M. Stallman, and Eric S. Raymond, a place name, and a half-sentence or two of related references, and let it run:

I love our slightly-bent galaxy:

(From: https://earthsky.org/space/milky-way-warped-twisted-study-cepheids )

Also enjoying reading: https://c4ss.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Aurora-ScaleAnarchy_ful-version.pdf

A really strange-looking lady just came up to me and handed me this card. Bizarre.

What typeclass are you?
https://impurepics.com/quiz/

Best bit of #prelingerwiki event was me finding this hanky-code for hexadecimal in a 1968 copy of Datamation, and Liz insta-popularising it:
https://twitter.com/lizhenry/status/1165819980568350720

This is the best thing ever

Dashboard is mirin #cat

All aboard!

Basically in my anarchist utopia future all entertainment will be as autonomous, chaotic and driven by its participants as this

The rock cats! #acrocats

The #acrocats hasn’t even started and I’m already so happy

Shaved the beard off.

Upside: New face has a bit of a James Burke’s Connections vibe going on.

Downside: my phone has no idea who I am.

Meanwhile, on Twitter, Verizon is using the hashtag "#brands" in a message to me that I didn't ask for and can't prevent. Aieee.

omg guess what just turned up in my mail

Sigh. #genx

God, I love Matt Levine’s Money Stuff
http://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/moneystuff-signup

Oh shit I just realized why the person thought I was a senior citizen.

I’ve been meaning to bring this hat home from work since the summer and it was easiest to carry it on my head!

Brewster introduces the blinking lights in the alcoves of the church, actual servers, serving 10 petabytes of the commons, and the little terracotta statues of folks who work or have worked at the Archive #dweb #internetarchive (yes, the psalm numbers are deliberate)

The Case Against Voting: https://c4ss.org/content/51460

( @rechelon keeping his head when all other anarchists are holding their noses )