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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 5h

Huh, weirdly consistent with a certain kind of bad US conservatism.

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 5h

This is a common feeling while programming; my read is that if you look at old stuff and think “who’s the idiot who wrote this,” it means you’re growing; it’s when you start thinking “wow, this is genius, I wish I could write like this” that you need to worry

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 6h

Did not expect how much of parenting a toddler would be protecting my crotch.

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 6h

Is this another thing where weird UK right wing stuff has Living Marxism as the missing link

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 6h

Not sure about this new Civilization advisors roster

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 6h

Achieving world peace by taking advantage of Trump being a utility monster

LOWρUFO 🐁🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 7h

I think the Nobel committee should be making explicit offers to Trump for the peace prize and just keep moving the goal posts

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 14h

Walmart is planning to tear down Monroeville Mall, the big mall east of Pittsburgh where they filmed Dawn of the Dead. What a bummer. Lots of memories there.

Walmart files application for grant money to tear down Monroeville Mall

The company recently applied for $7.5 million in state grant funding that would be used to tear down the existing mall structures to make way for redevelopment.

www.cbsnews.com

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 17h

yeah, this is just Euthyphro, inside out and backwards

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 1d

I've been writing an NES emulator, and I've gotten to the point where to increase its fidelity I need to get the video output pipeline to be cycle accurate. Spending this morning trying to grok this diagram. What's befuddling me is how the fine x affects things.

ASCII art of the NES PPU pixel output process; see link.

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 1d

Learned here a few days ago that at Stanford he would hang out with a young university student named Ted Danson.

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 1d

And, perhaps more pertinently, the first five Led Zeppelin albums, which makes that timeframe not seem much of a stretch.

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 1d

There are fundamentally two culinary cultures: fish sauce, and not fish sauce

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Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 1d

Ancient Roman trying a banh mi: "ah yes, this is tasty and recognizable"

Ancient Roman trying eggplant parmesan: "what the fuck"

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 3d

For some reason there’s extremely low rates of recidivism among the 9/11 perpetrators.

Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 4d

Trying to explain to the toddler that two people can like the same thing, and one person can like two things. It’s a many to many relationship. This would be easier if he knew UML.

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 4d

And these statements are usually about ethnic groups, often with extremely fine gradations. Dude had unnecessary opinions about eg Chinese Cubans

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 4d

Bravo.

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Kiyone @kiyonescarlet.bsky.social · 4d

lol