Shanth
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I am personally okay, but here’s how to support Minnesota right now.
January 14, 2026 at 1:51 PM
I am personally okay, but here’s how to support Minnesota right now.
These ghouls are really out to destroy trust and decency in every single institution
January 23, 2026 at 7:25 AM
These ghouls are really out to destroy trust and decency in every single institution
Pretty sure she is specifically talking about *quote posting* (bad) vs just *reposting* (good) a post when you have nothing to add.
January 21, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Pretty sure she is specifically talking about *quote posting* (bad) vs just *reposting* (good) a post when you have nothing to add.
There was even a play about one of the agents of the god of death collecting the wrong person's soul because of this mixup and spending the whole time trying fudge this so he doesn't get punished for screwing up.
January 16, 2026 at 8:16 PM
There was even a play about one of the agents of the god of death collecting the wrong person's soul because of this mixup and spending the whole time trying fudge this so he doesn't get punished for screwing up.
About 40 years ago the civic authorities renumbered the street address numbering system in Chennai (then Madras). And postal addresses still refer to addresses as Old No. 5, New No. 8 and invented the short hand 5/8 to refer to house addresses on streets.
January 16, 2026 at 8:15 PM
About 40 years ago the civic authorities renumbered the street address numbering system in Chennai (then Madras). And postal addresses still refer to addresses as Old No. 5, New No. 8 and invented the short hand 5/8 to refer to house addresses on streets.
Something something, the only people who made money from the gold rush were selling shovels and pickaxes.
October 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Something something, the only people who made money from the gold rush were selling shovels and pickaxes.
So glad to see you on here again and doing well and helping brighten the world!
September 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
So glad to see you on here again and doing well and helping brighten the world!
Same energy
two knights are standing in the woods and one of them is saying i 've had worse .
Alt: Monty Python scene showing the black knight and King Arthur standing in the woods. The black knight whose arm has just been chopped off, is trying to pay it off saying "I've had worse"
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August 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Same energy
Circlejerks within circlejerks is exactly like what you were originally talking about though 😄
August 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Circlejerks within circlejerks is exactly like what you were originally talking about though 😄
At least epicycles looked pretty when drawn
August 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
At least epicycles looked pretty when drawn
Happy belated birthday! Quite a while back I picked up Piranesi after hearing (reading?) you rave about it, and promptly pushed it on all my friends' TBRs. Well just this past week one of them finally got around to it and loved it, so I'm counting this as an internet-stranger-tier birthday gift :)
July 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Happy belated birthday! Quite a while back I picked up Piranesi after hearing (reading?) you rave about it, and promptly pushed it on all my friends' TBRs. Well just this past week one of them finally got around to it and loved it, so I'm counting this as an internet-stranger-tier birthday gift :)
The use of em dashes may have been a tell for a short while in the way that an A-worthy paper from a student on track to flunk the course would make you suspect plagiarism.
But just like Goodhart's Law, once you simplistically start using it as a measure of AI use, it's no longer a good measure.
But just like Goodhart's Law, once you simplistically start using it as a measure of AI use, it's no longer a good measure.
June 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The use of em dashes may have been a tell for a short while in the way that an A-worthy paper from a student on track to flunk the course would make you suspect plagiarism.
But just like Goodhart's Law, once you simplistically start using it as a measure of AI use, it's no longer a good measure.
But just like Goodhart's Law, once you simplistically start using it as a measure of AI use, it's no longer a good measure.
SO. MUCH. THIS!!!!
I did not learn the option+shift+hyphen combination for the "—" decades before the ChatGPT back when art thieves had the decency to conduct their business as a ragtag ensembles of likable misfits getting together for one last heist
I did not learn the option+shift+hyphen combination for the "—" decades before the ChatGPT back when art thieves had the decency to conduct their business as a ragtag ensembles of likable misfits getting together for one last heist
May 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
SO. MUCH. THIS!!!!
I did not learn the option+shift+hyphen combination for the "—" decades before the ChatGPT back when art thieves had the decency to conduct their business as a ragtag ensembles of likable misfits getting together for one last heist
I did not learn the option+shift+hyphen combination for the "—" decades before the ChatGPT back when art thieves had the decency to conduct their business as a ragtag ensembles of likable misfits getting together for one last heist
I want to saw, surely that was satire? But the LinkedIn mindset is so poisoned I'm can't even sure
May 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I want to saw, surely that was satire? But the LinkedIn mindset is so poisoned I'm can't even sure