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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 7h

I think the one he linked upthread?

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Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 11h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 8h

i don't taste very good

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 8h

but what if I implement an AI made out of mentats?

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 9h

The range reduction step in glibc is elixir.bootlin.com/glibc/glibc-...

elixir.bootlin.com

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 9h

Okay, I'll amend myself, fsin is old-school and unfriendly to fast implementation; modern compilers generally use SSE/AVX instructions for floating point, which only have basic arithmetic ops, and leave trig functions to a library implementation

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 9h

Shouldn't she be about 130?

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 12h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 10h

I have a feeling a lot of the Butlerian Jihad people didn’t really read the space DMT books

⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 11h

the butlerian jihad of dune is a story about a civilization giving up on positive sum cooperation, embracing religious fanaticism, and devolving into zero sum power struggles with frozen science, frozen knowledge, and brutal resource wars

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 11h

Where do I sign up to get some of this money?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 11h

It super sucks that the for.shame.wtf labeler is shutting down and i hope someone else makes a clone of it because it's the most useful labeler on the site.

for.shame.wtf

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 12h

that's why they built so many bunkers, to hide from the pussy

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Halloweean Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 13h

Never seen a labeler get poster’s madness before. What a time to be alive.

Follow Tracker @for.shame.wtf · 13h

Some of you are blaming @jay.bsky.team or @bsky.app in general, or claiming that this is being forced by @moderation.bsky.app. That could not be further from the truth. I'm shutting it down of my own volition because some of you can't be trusted to use this information reasonably and responsibly.

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 12h

You signed up for this when you tolerated app stores

404 Media @404media.co · 13h

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 13h

on Intel's x87 implementation in particular, there's apparently also an issue related to doing range reduction with insufficiently many bits of pi baked into the hardware: randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/i...

Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 quintillion

Intel’s manuals for their x86/x64 processor clearly state that the fsin instruction (calculating the trigonometric sine) has a maximum error, in round-to-nearest mode, of one unit in the last place…

randomascii.wordpress.com

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 13h

Oh look, more doom

Alex Koppelman @alexkoppelman.bsky.social · 14h

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 14h

That aversion to religious symbols thing has to be a *bitch*

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 14h

Extraordinary

Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 14h

alter the cosmological constant

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 14h

Is Pam Bondi aware she just used a pronoun?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "The judge also would not refer to the defendant by his biological name -- referred to him by the pronouns."

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 14h

'The papyrus also recommends putting a clove of garlic in your vagina before bed': The texts that reveal the baffling healthcare for women in ancient Egypt | Live Science
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

'The papyrus also recommends putting a clove of garlic in your vagina before bed': The texts that reveal the baffling healthcare for women in ancient Egypt

In this excerpt from "Born: A History of Childbirth," author and historian Lucy Inglis reveals records from ancient Egypt that show how female physicians treated issues of "the womb," how men reacted ...

www.livescience.com

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 14h

"I'm mad you're smarter than me"

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 15h

saying "Sephirothposting" is a remarkably useful "ignore this person" indicator

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 15h

Of course you would download a car, dipshits! Information isn't economically scarce!

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