skepsi @touskepsi@mastodon.social
I try to push pixels as much as I can
theres too many people these days. runnin around, pointing at cats, shouting at them accusing them of being a human in a cat costume. giving them an existential crisis
"If he had not had people to talk to about physics he would not have been able to make his discoveries. He got a reputation for being alone, but he wasn't totally alone [...] even Einstein needed to talk to other people who knew a lot about physics. I am so aware of the fact that that is the way it works that the idea of getting physicists together is just such a wonderful idea..." -- Munger
@omanreagan "You'll stop that once you're paying taxes" like, fuck, taxes made me MORE critical of unhindered capitalism
you: computers can reassemble strings of words that LOOK grammatically plausible like they have some kind of true meaning, but of course, the computer cannot recognize the difference between a well-formed phrase and a coherent argument
me: yeah thats true. but neither can humans
Legalise Sci-Hub
Ban copyright on scientific publications
petition for "food porn" to be renamed "fewd"
one fidget spinner will alleviate nervous energy but it takes two to achieve human flight
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.
Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong."
Knight turned the machine off and on.
The machine worked.
command-line kirakiratter was useful at work today. I didn't have to check my phone as much
https://kirakiratter.com/media/Yf2LCx__oOFJ2UWq6dA
don't say a site is dead if it's just morning because:
1. if you say that, people will actually think its dead instead of just morning
2. if people think its dead, they will leave
3. if people leave, then it will ACTUALLY be dead
i like this site, please don't encourage people to leave
remember when mastodon was basically one instance? with like, 1000 people? it didn't feel dead then either.
retoot if youre GAY, LOVE DOGS OR WANT TO SEE CAPITALISM BURN
This is a really good and complex webserial. It is fantasy(?) and starts out with a big magic-as-science theme, then <SPOILERS>. Read it here: https://qntm.org/ra
It even has an epub version!
Come on Duolingo put ζ₯ζ¬θͺ on the web version already
"why did the ppl who hate capitalism join the social media platform built to be as anticapitalist and decentralized as possible?"
no fuckin idea my dude
Bottom line is, your instance admin has a hard job, whether they realize it or not. If you want your instance to stay safe, if you want it to last years into the future, pay them a pittance regularly, and thank them for helping you have a reasonably safe space.
The most important computer graphics terminology on one single sheet of paper: https://octodon.social/media/LYwggJtvZxMrRa1ZB8o
You have the power to make today better for someone else. Do that. π
