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Highly recommend the author of this post, or any other psychonauts, to read Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson. He recounts a period of several years in his life where his psych…

Glad I’m not the only one who thought of L-space. It’d be interesting to see if you could get something like GPT-3 to heavily weigh a given author’s corpus when generating output a…

The Power of Nightmares - Curtis traces back the history of leaders abandoning the approach of holding on to power through a shared vision of a better tomorrow that people can rall…

My enjoyment of his films comes from appreciating his attempt to thread a narrative through a complex series of events and images. The linked New Yorker article makes it clear that…

I get that the settlement plumbing constraints led to stock halts, but still trying to figure out why $DOGE stopped being tradable a few hours ago* Edit, removed some tin foil. *I …

Absolutely, but funny how often the fallacy plays out time and time again.

No provider wants the cesspool to be pinned on them. I get that emotionally, but this is nuts. Obviously they have the right to make these moves, but god knows what happens when th…

I’m not saying it will be impossible to access, just harder for Average Joe who doesn’t understand App Store versus WWW. It’s fascinating, if somewhat terrifying, watching communic…

Glad I downloaded it yesterday since this was obviously an unrealistic deadline. It’s getting harder and harder to keep tabs on both sides now. Things have really fragmented in the…

Big tech is so desperate to score points with the new administration as soon as Trumpism is in its death throes (hopefully). As much as I hate the content on things like Parker, th…

Good overview of what’s known so far about the situation: https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-based-solarwin...

I spent a good 5 or 6 years reading philosophy and psychology in my spare time. I don’t claim a formal understanding of the subject that would come close to what you would get from…

yeah, I’m seeing event bridge errors and am unable to load cloudwatch log groups. happy short staff day!

I’ve been feeling the physical symptoms I associate with depression, but not the changes to cognition. I feel like I’m wearing an iron mask, if that makes any sense. Really heavy h…

It actually is an interesting topic to look at the history of Blood Libel and see the Satanic Panic and QAnon as the evolved/remixed version with different actors. I think with the…

I do have some hope that the more extreme conspiracies pass in time and don’t permanently damage the psyche of those involved. Growing up in the Bible Belt during the Satanic Panic…

I got pooperhole.com after a few refreshes

I think ideally it should be up to the employee to return when they feel safe. That being said, I look forward to going back to the office. It’ll be nice to see people again —- few…

I assume you’re being sarcastic but I’ll give a datapoint anyways. Small home in Austin, ~1400 square feet, costs a little over $200/month in the summer and I keep it a nice cool 7…

Same here, I haven’t used Instacart in months and my account was locked on July 12th from bad login attempts.

I wonder if a lot of people sent test amounts to see if it worked or not. 5000 people sending $10 adds up fast.

I suspected some sort of internal tool was used to target prominent users but I’m still curious why there were thousands of unverified accounts tweeting the same scam. Searching fo…

I’d be surprised if Twitter didn’t have some internal tool like this but I’d expect it to only be accessible over a VPN that few had access to.

There was at least one masterpiece of educational software in the early 80s: Robot Odyssey. I think it was just too hard and obscure at the time to get much recognition, but I was …