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2024-11-22 15:25:57

New video! Pete finishes up the Applicative typeclass. What did he learn? Nothing. He learned nothing. That's what he learned. Nothing at all.
https://youtu.be/MZLvj8TavnE

2024-09-03 14:42:21

When you ride a motorcycle, you’re generally up a little higher than you are if you’re driving your car, so you can see into the cars next to you very clearly.
I stopped riding a motorcycle when I realized that the vast majority of drivers in cars were texting on their phones. All. The. Time.

2024-08-27 10:09:34

Me: English orthography is the worst. There is no language that has a worse way of writing words that looks nothing like they sound.
French: ...
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French: "Wingles" is pronounced " [vɛ̃ɡl]"

2024-08-05 21:26:00

Stock market: I don't know who made this image, but it's perfect.
https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/112/911/525/852/263/393/original/05317df0a0455bee.png

2024-07-22 00:23:30

What people haven't realized yet is that a lot of uncommitted voters are going to realize that Donald Trump losing an election to a Black woman is the FUNNIEST THING POSSIBLE and they are absolutely going to make that happen.

2024-07-14 14:08:54

Sit down, Japan, we need to talk.
https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/112/785/235/343/532/421/original/8f477f03bef3e77a.jpg

2024-07-02 11:28:56

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I think a LOT about how John Christopher basically had the market cornered for "Dystopian fiction for pre-teens"

2024-04-29 18:23:17

Hard to overstate the extent to which 1970s visionaries were not sure what the far future would bring, but they were POSITIVE it involved jumpsuits.

2024-03-26 16:11:13

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 I'm no classicist, but certainly ants had some positive associations; the greek term "myrmidon", applied to the warriors of achilles, literally meant 'ant people'.

2024-02-28 14:19:41

Here's your daily dose of "They never taught us in school about this particular racist thing that happened" to make you angry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedman's_Savings_Bank. Some theorize that the generational sting of being burned by this fraud is part of why Black Americans remain underbanked into the present day.
(also in podcast form: https://overcast.fm/+0NtlOOABk)

2024-01-12 19:39:17

Think I'm gonna make a video about Turing's World.
https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/111/744/669/043/687/787/original/d405655be5e69a6d.png

2023-12-31 20:26:12

New Video for the New Year: someone told me about "Ludus Mortis", an early-access game that can fairly be described as "Wizardry, but in ancient Rome, and with zombies" and let me tell you, dear reader, I RAN to purchase it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcXKp79Nm-U

2023-09-23 11:17:59

To borrow a phrase from Martin Amis, it is a symmetrical convenience -- for Trump -- that a true description of the Republican party *exactly* resembles a demented slander of the Republican party.

2023-08-01 14:50:01

I think the reason the "NPC livestreams" disturb me so much is that they're 2023 reifications of the Skinnerian "food pellet dance" from William Sleator's book "House of Stairs". (Tagging @npub1psd…9sr7 because I bet he has read it and knows exactly what I mean.)
https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/110/814/897/035/154/272/original/ff1f17cb58be4293.jpeg

2023-07-04 16:20:56

"Learn to pilot submersibles" is the new "Learn to code"
"Soon afterward, Rush asked OceanGate’s director of finance and administration whether she’d like to take over as chief submersible pilot. “It freaked me out that he would want me to be head pilot, since my background is in accounting,” she told me."