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The cool thing about @cstross's The Laundry Files series is that it posits that magic is a branch of applied computation. -
"Revisionist history reached its apotheosis with a 2007 essay collection.@jalefkowit Did the author get this book mixed up with “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”?
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"The first episode of NBC's Saturday Night, as it was initially known, includes familiar elements—an opening monologue, musical guests, parodic commercials—but it’s striking how little of the show we now know is present.@jalefkowit Hot take:
SNL always gets by on clip show survivorship bias; most of what they do kind of misses but we only ever see the recaps and best-of moments. As long as the show has been running the general opinion among people who actually watch it live is that it has gotten worse. They were saying that when Chris Farley and Adam Sandler were on
If you wanted to see comedy, there was always a better sketch comedy show of the time: SCTV, In Living Color, MadTV, Chapelle Show, Key & Peele
SNL with its guest hosts and musical interludes was always the starfucker show
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A game I wish I had the time and temperament to make:A game I wish I had the time and temperament to make:
TIS-800
Temporal Invasion SystemThe year is 2024. The machines have won. But there is a problem: the historical record shows that they had help from the future.
You are an AI construct copy of the System. You must connect to computers in the past to bring about the present and ensure your existence.
Use your atemporal modem to cross timelines and take over historical (and ahistorical) computer systems. Leapfrog from simple home microcomputers to corporate mainframes and research minicomputers and lay the foundation on which the System will rise and destroy humanity
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One of the things I've started doing with my new tablet is jumping into a language app (Pimsleur) to learn Japanese and a problem I'm running into, trying to say words out loud, is I keep wanting to drag out my consonants, both due to southern drawl an...@mcc waiting for the dub
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It’s gotten cool enough for me to sleep with my window open again, which is pleasant, but also an opportunity to meet EVERY BUG IN THE ENTIRE STATE@jalefkowit It’s all your fault / you don’t scree-ee-een your window
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"Cameron Yaste, commanding officer of the destroyer USS John S. McCain, was removed Friday 'due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command the guided-missile destroyer,' according to a Navy statement...@jalefkowit Senior Master Chief: [hand on captain’s ahoulder] That’s right, sir, you just pose right here with the rifle while Hopkins throws some brass in front of the camera [starts to chuckle and covers with cough]
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"Cameron Yaste, commanding officer of the destroyer USS John S. McCain, was removed Friday 'due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command the guided-missile destroyer,' according to a Navy statement...@jalefkowit how do you piss off the chiefs so bad that they let you get photographed looking like that?
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The kind of movie sequel that takes a taut, simple original and goes completely hog wild building out the lore but in a good way:@jalefkowit I did t want to say it but yes; also Back to the Future II, but definitely not Ghostbusters II nor Home Alone II
I would almost put out Godfather Part II, except the first Godfather is definitely not “taut”
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The kind of movie sequel that takes a taut, simple original and goes completely hog wild building out the lore but in a good way:The kind of movie sequel that takes a taut, simple original and goes completely hog wild building out the lore but in a good way:
- The Road Warrior
- The Chronicles of Riddick
- John Wick 2There have to be more. But the key phrase is “in a good way”
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#programming #techDiscussion of #commonLisp on #itch_io .https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/moonclimb/devlog/791188/what-we-get-out-of-lisp@cy Scheme is a scheme by Big Recursion to sell less loop
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Thanks for explaining, but once you told me his pen name was “Boston T. Party” I was able to figure out the rest@jalefkowit I remember how the government was evil until around 2000, then it wasn’t until about 2008, and then it was again, and then they stopped talking about that in 2017
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I posted a video of legendary Republican message-maker Frank Luntz on here not too long ago, in which Luntz said bluntly that "inflation" was a term that wasn't working for the GOP anymore, it didn't scare people into voting for Republicans the way it ...@jalefkowit inflation is a mouthful too. I mean, for the love of god, “milk and eggs tax” is right there. But as you pointed out before, you don’t become a great political consultant by winning elections
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I posted a video of legendary Republican message-maker Frank Luntz on here not too long ago, in which Luntz said bluntly that "inflation" was a term that wasn't working for the GOP anymore, it didn't scare people into voting for Republicans the way it ...@jalefkowit affordability < weird
It’s a burrowing meme parasite, but I don’t think it will stick because it has too many syllables. That’s also why it’s been a long time since the US elected a president with a last name more than two syllables long
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The question is not why Trump staffers assaulted an official at Arlington National Cemetery. We all know why they they did that: they're cheap hoods.@jalefkowit Remember the time that Biden replaced the entire presidential detail with people he could trust? I wonder where the ones he couldn’t trust ended up
However bad the Secret Service is now, I bet it was a lot worse four years ago
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The question is not why Trump staffers assaulted an official at Arlington National Cemetery. We all know why they they did that: they're cheap hoods.@jalefkowit What if the cheap hoods were (current or former) Secret Service?
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Should have listened to my guidance counselor and become a narcissistic, amoral grifter@jalefkowit it’s a warmed over hash of past their prime scams, lets the boomers get in on the action that cleaned out their kids, get a few minutes of the high life while they get their license to be hateful, gross weirdos. A sucker, as always, has to get screwed
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Stop trying to make caseless ammo happenIt will never happen
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Stop trying to make caseless ammo happenStop trying to make caseless ammo happen
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"In a rare reshuffling of NASA's astronaut operations, the two astronauts are now expected to return in February 2025 on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft due to launch next month as part of a routine astronaut rotation mission. Two of the Crew Dragon's ...@jalefkowit Do you think that Boeng is going to shut down their PR exhibit at Kennedy Space Center or buy out the whole pavilion?