This thread is very well put. I'm a lefty anarchist through-and-through but, like, I'm well aware that I'm going to live and labor under capitalism until I die. Folks shouldn't feel bad about getting money however they can in order to push that death date further into the future.

Not just _Crash_, no. A lot of his work deals with the sublimation of suburban tedium into violence. A great place to start on both his works and that theme is _High-Rise_.

J.G. Ballard was the prophet of our generation.

"To Mr. and Mrs. Grumley, a child, Toss."

CTRL+F "house rules". The author of this piece has never played D&D. If people want the non-woke stuff back in, they'll just put it back in. I come bearing this message on behalf of every table who has completely ignored encumbrance rules for the past several decades.

What is that rust-colored stain on his pajamas? It looks like he spilled some of his child's blood on himself.

Strong dub. Nicely done.

Which David Cronenberg movie is this?

It is truly wild how insightful Turing's original Imitation Game paper was. I've taken to just quoting Turing's own words to people talking about the 'Turing Test' w/r/t LLMs in the past few months:

"The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion"

Why are the letters reject fortune cookies?

You were going to be my long-shot celebrity invite to a ballyhoo this weekend, but I guess now I have to send this hand-made card to John Darnielle instead...

I hiked Hadrian's Wall a couple of years ago and my favorite fact I learned is that the reason the wall is most visible in the most remote places (e.g. on top of the Great Whin Sill) is that it was too annoying for post-Roman folks to hike up there and pull stones off of it to make houses out of.

I want to get this engraved on a desk plaque. I work in cybersecurity. I only have a career because code that runs usually runs in undesirable ways. (Also, I've become convinced that LLMs are going to give me another decade or two of easy job security.)

They'll have to toss a copy of a long-out-of-print operator's manual for an obscure mainframe into the cylinder like putting a treat at the back of a cat's cage to get it to go to the vet.

Rest well and thank you for all the light you've shed.

I think they're a negative for infrastructure (they interrupt meaningful local communities which could share infrastructure) and that statistics are a red herring. The need for statistics at a fixed level of abstraction is just an expression of the government demand for legibility over everything.