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Ally. He/him.
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UI 101: don’t make toggles negative
”Don‘t auto-load files“
November 29, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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I should buy a boat meme with a well-dressed cat reading a newspaper at the breakfast table but it says I should start a blog
November 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Part II of the AI quiz today, when was this published?
"In another place, we have predicted that within ten years a computer will discover and prove an important mathematical theorem. On the basis of our experience with the heuristics of logic and chess, we are willing to add the further prediction that only moderate extrapolation is required from the capacities of programs already in existence to achieve the additional problem-solving power needed for such simulation."
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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OK players, guess the year this was published!
The need for a critique of artificial reason is a special case of a general need for critical caution in the behavioral sciences. Chomsky remarks that in these sciences "there has been a natural but unfortunate tendency to 'extrapolate,' from the thimbleful of knowledge that has been attained in careful experimental work and rigorous data-processing, to issues of much wider significance and of great social concern." He concludes that the experts have the responsibility of making clear the actual limits of their understanding and of the results they have so far achieved. A careful analysis of these limits will demonstrate that in virtually every domain of the social and behavioral sciences the results achieved to date will not support such "extrapola- tion."29 Artificial intelligence, at first glance, seems to be a happy exception to this pessimistic principle. Every day we read that digital computers play chess, translate languages, recognize patterns, and will soon be able to take over our jobs. In fact this now seems like child's play. Literally!
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Enjoy the amazing colors of tonight’s desert sunset
Desert sunset with Eero the cat making faces Desert sunset with Eero the cat making faces Desert sunset with Eero the cat making faces Desert sunset with Eero the cat making faces
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Mochi update
Tray of slightly eaten Hawaiian Butter Mochi
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Keeping it simple with some chicken but I’m making Hawaiian Butter Mochi for later, wish me luck with that (first time!)
Roast chicken with asparagus, onions and basmati rice
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Atari Portfolio wishing a Happy Thanksgiving 2025
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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shadows
A monochrome photo of three objects on a marble table: the Art Direction May 1961 issue, a resin bowl and a “Fuck this fucking Shit” coffee mug; the objects are casting long, intense shadows
November 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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they got too excessive which was their downfall
a woodgrain TV that looks sort of baroque
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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spoiled for choice here
#retrogaming #thanksgiving
Text mode DOS game "Tommy's Turkeys" asking what game type to play, e.g. Turkey Runs or Turkey Invaders
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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paging @lgr-yt.bsky.social
A "Cordless TV Remote Control System You Can Install Yourself" that's a woodgrain box covered in wood grain on all sides, did I mention woodgrain.
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Average desert sunrise
Desert plants backlit by a bright red glowing horizon and purple and blue sky
November 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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remember kids, don't let your cat burn down the house today
Apple ad from 1981 A cat is sitting next to a partially melted Apple II computer. Baked Apple. Last Thanksgiving, a designer from Lynn/Ohio Corporation took one of the company's Apple Personal Computers home for the holidays. While he was out eating turkey it got baked. His cat, perhaps miffed at being left alone, knocked over a lamp which started a fire which, among other unpleasantries, melted his TV set all over his computer He thought his goose was cooked. But when he took the Apple to Cincinnati Computer Store, mirabile dictu, it still worked. A new case and keyboard made it as good as new. Nearly 1,000 Apple dealers have complete service centers that can quickly fix just about anything that might go wrong, no matter how bizarre. So if you re looking for a personal computer that solves problems instead of creating them, look to your authorized Apple dealer. You'll find everything well-done. The personal computer. (Apple logo)
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Part of a 1980 ad, "Thanksgiving Special" A guy with a mustache in judge robes plus a gavel who's wearing a pilgrim hat with an arrow through it is holding up a Speak & Spell. "Buy $1,000 worth of merchandise from this ad and we'll ship you Texas Instrument's (sic) Speak & Spell with your order"
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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[Meanwhile in 1973]

What’s wrong babe? You haven’t touched your jello turkey.
A jello turkey, yes it’s weird
November 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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My guess something like this
Desert scene
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Fisk main cast
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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You will be visited by three spirits
The three pirate leaders in The Secret of Monkey Island
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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"958K views"
~87 hour longplay of Red Dead Redemption 2
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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4 hours is basically a teaser trailer when it comes to YouTube retrospectives
A 12 hour “quick analysis” of Elder Scrolls IV
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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“It looks like you’re trying to get into the spirit”
Clippy Xmas sweater
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Cactuses with a foggy valley in the background
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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what sort of desert is this
It’s 48° with 97% humidity
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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wonder if in a few years they'll make Nvidia shirts like that
"Enron Accounting Department"
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM