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qntm @qntm.org · Mar 5

11 November 2025.

Book cover: A vast, ruined monolith in a forest at sunset. Text: "THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION. A NOVEL BY QNTM"

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 11h

meta-analysis on whether AI generated content is art

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQwOhjBufBKovQHoNqOj5l91AOGrTDsuiGLLdNxDOQ_fQ6hvSH7kAWSpwdcUvUSToALoFw6E6gfRfUZ/pub

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qntm @qntm.org · 1d

THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION made it onto the American Booksellers Association's Indie Next List for November 2025, which is legitimately pretty major!

The November 2025 Indie Next List Preview

Here are the 25 Indie Next List and 6 Now in Paperback picks on the November 2025 Indie Next List flier.

www.bookweb.org

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qntm @qntm.org · 1d

Yes. The slightly weird author byline is one of the things which I think gave the story some initial traction with wider audiences. And publishers like things which grab attention

qntm @qntm.org · 1d

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Search interface with options "Search by ISBN/ASIN", "Search by Title", "Search by Author" and "Search by Publisher". "Search by Author" is selected. Under "Author Full Name", "qntm" has been entered. There is an error message in red: "Please enter a minimum of 5 characters"

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qntm @qntm.org · 2d

JSON is not UTF-16. JSON is a text format, UTF-16 is one of several possible binary encodings of that text

qntm @qntm.org · 2d

That canal bank is filthy. I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole

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qntm @qntm.org · 2d

* Hornet shouts "SHAW!" during fights with the knight (player character) in Hollow Knight
* Hornet has lots of dialogue in Silksong but never once says "shaw"
* Maybe "Shaw" is the knight's name? Or at least it's her name for it

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Lindsey B @lindsey.codes · 3d

Bad actors will SQL inject you, but they will also find ways to take your “good faith” features and abuse them: location services, community tagging, voting, auto-moderating with mass reporting.

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Lindsey B @lindsey.codes · 3d

Someone recently asked my github had no messaging feature and I laughed, because we’ve built it and scraped it internally like 3 times.

I worked on one of them because I was like if we build this I want it to be anti-abuse focused.

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qntm @qntm.org · 4d

NO I SAID "COPSE LOCK", "COPSE"! WE CAN STOP SHOUTING AT EACH OTHER

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The Verge @theverge.com · 5d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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qntm @qntm.org · 5d

[blindfolded, of course]

qntm @qntm.org · 5d

Man this boss is really hard, 30+ attempts so far. Maybe I'll try again tomorrow [looks over on YouTube where the 100% Hitless Glitchless World Record Using A Fishing Controller just fell below 30 minutes]

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qntm @qntm.org · 6d

26 Polyhedra that Fit Through Themselves, and 5 that Might Not

YouTube video by David Renshaw

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qntm @qntm.org · 7d

[start of the Hundred Years War] So, uh, what's with the name

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qntm @qntm.org · 7d

Oh, wait, no

qntm @qntm.org · 7d

Whyyyy does Node.js's built-in test runner have no ability to exit immediately on the first failure

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qntm @qntm.org · 9d

How about the hyphen in "tele-phone"

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qntm @qntm.org · 9d

The noun "internet" is short for "internetwork" and means "an interconnected network of computers", whereas the proper noun "Internet" refers to THE Internet, the specific internet which you and I are using to communicate right now - both have their own separate and distinct uses

IMO anyway

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qntm @qntm.org · 9d

Are you old enough to remember the hyphen in "e-mail"

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qntm @qntm.org · 9d

"Possum" is Latin for "I can" and I think that's inspiring

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qntm @qntm.org · 10d

The grammar is recursive so that big expression won't actually be strictly regular, it'll have to refer to itself recursively somehow... Is that a problem?

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qntm @qntm.org · 10d

Very pleased to announce that the narrator for the audiobook version of THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION will be... Rebecca Calder!

Calder, Rebecca - Dean Street

deanstreetvoices.com

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qntm @qntm.org · 11d

Wow I highly recommend not attempting to traverse [area of Silksong] until after you obtain [item at the far end of that area]

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qntm @qntm.org · 11d

Yes, of course we have a place you can rest. It's up on that ledge. Just haul yourself up there