<To the tune of “House of the Rising Sun”, by the Animals. A poem for your sprog.>

There is… A bot… With GPT…

THEY CALL a “rising sun”…

AND IT’S BEEN… The ruin… Of many a project…

And god… I know… Mine’s one.

MY MOTHER WAS a coder…

She used three Emacs themes… (“It’s for my workflow, son”)

But my father liked that AI gen…

When he made all his memes.

Now the only things a vibe coder needs…

Are an ENTER KEY and a thumb…

And the ONLY time he is satisfied…

Is when his code’s a dump.

I’ve got one eye on the chatlog…

The other eye on my commits…

I’m going back to spaghetti code,

So you can’t tell where it’s shit.

So momma, tell your children…

NOT TO DO… What I… Have done…

Spending your life in sin and misery,

Praying to the 0 and 1.

As someone who was raised in a rather racist in-group, I can say that it took a really long time to purposefilly unlearn the automatic gut responses my father ingrained into me. I would, for several years, think or say something without considering it, and immediately realize what I had just said. Actions and attitudes are often automatic, especially when taught for a long time. I can certainly see where the uncle’s coming from, because I’d imagine that the only reason I’ve been able to mostly get through it is because I got away from that situation when I went to college, rather than later in life.

Was looking for this.

And yet, I had to remind my fiancee that it ever happened last week. People have just… forgotten.

So many people seem to have just forgotten the crowd strike outage, which halted air traffic for a day and stopped a not-insignificant amount of public infrastructure

Are we just forgetting the gigantic Crowdstrike outage a year ago by Microsoft that halted air traffic for a full day?

Umm, but what if I’m a science teacher? Like, my specialty is history and presentation of science experimentation. The primary limitation is whether I am allowed to bring the tools of my trade (books), which would help me survive in England or Iceland as far back as 900 AD.

My Instagram handle is '); DROP TABLE AccountNames;–

Let’s be very clear: only one of those two sexual acts is illegal. The other one is just hilarious proof that we live in the most stupid timeline.

Fair enough! For me, it scratched the itch of “procedural exoplanet biogeochemistry” that I always had, but could never scratch.

If you love seed ship, you have to try beyond the Chiron gate. It’s genuinely the culmination of what seed ship started. Its amazing.

Just when you think that this, the worst timeline, had found the human limitation of “stupid”, it seeks to hurl feces into your eye in ever-more-inane and obscene manners, like a caged ape with no outlet for its struggles.

Is this why everything went south after Harambe died? He found heaven vacant, the throne abdicated and the world forsaken, and thus took that high most seat and wept, having no greater spaces to conquer, and so began to hurl reality itself like shit through the bars of heaven?

FOSS (no ads, available on FDroid):

Puzzle games:

• Simon Tatham’s Puzzle Collection
• Gurgle (Offline, infinite Wordle Dupe)

Strategy games:

• Mindustry,
• Tanks of Freedom
• Unciv (It’s Civilisation V, but free)

Mindless games:

• Ricochlime

Emulator:

• RetroArch (just need the ROMs)

Free (no ads): Seedship (by John Ayliff)

Paid (no ads): Beyond the Chiron Gate (also by John Ayliff)

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There are at least four more appropriate appendages by which to hang someone who has committed crimes against humanity.

Inb4 the next Ramanujan sidles up onto YouTube and breaks the entire concept of mathematics

“Rules for thee, but not for me” is literally the foundation of conservatism.

I think they meant “isn’t it also much better at blowing up when you want it to?”

I would think that a Kia-branded version of gasoline fumes would fail to sufficiently cause cancer when huffed, or be disappointingly unlikely to cause death by spontaneous combustion.

Eyjafjallajökull

Roughly pronounced: AY-yuh-FYAT-la-YUH-kuh-dl