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Co-founder/CTO @ Estima Scientific. Programmer; python, etc. PhD, ADHD. Used to lecture/do formal HCI research/haskell @ Swansea Uni.
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It’s the same thing where if Elon touches an industry you work in you can immediately recognize he’s full of shit. Old Twitter heads and Reddit users and forum goblins cannot abide him but people who reply on Facebook with 😂 are beyond our help

It's really wild when you sit down and think about it, that really, the only actual idea that demonstrably is elon musk's own, entirely, and not him buying a company to do something, is "there should be a website called X" and that has been his definitive life's work, his real driving passion

wolf proverb: inside you there is one guy

🪦

This is a beautiful tribute.

TLDR Stands for: Tried Legumes Didn’t Regret

Whoa, we’re halfway there Whoa, we’re halfway there Whoa, we’re halfway there Whoa, we’re halfway there Whoa, we’re halfway there Whoa, we’re halfway there Whoa, we’re halfway there Whoa, we’re halfway there Zeno’s Karaoke

me: alexa, play that song by the ting tings siri: that’s not my name

conclave was so good. that part where those two i think south african cardinals with white dreds turn into ghosts and fly out of the exploding car as morpheus slices open the gas tank

Marriage getting stale? Fake your own death and go live with your secret second family. Get jealous when your first wife moves on too quickly. Abandon second family to live in the walls of your old house. Subsist on mold. Your skeleton will be discovered when the building is demolished

my favorite game to play when determining the root cause of any global or political strife is “ronald reagan or 9/11?”

“I don’t understand what produce in the Central Valley has to do with fires in LA” this is the subject of one of the most famous movies ever made, in which it is explained to Jack Nicholson at length by the director of The Maltese Falcon

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

Why Pigeons Make Bad Nests: A defense of pigeon aesthetics

That's 100% the biggest appeal of history; digging beneath the serious, romanticized version taught in school to find proof people have always been dumb little horny freaks

(before the invention of sliced bread) damn these sandwiches thick as hell

gaslighting my dog into thinking he's a good boy

Just saw a no-longer relevant evacuation notice on instagram from five hours ago and remembered — that’s right, due to hyper-monetization every major social network no longer shows you life-saving breaking news as it happens. They turned it over to an algorithm that finally noticed “he likes fire.”

From a security perspective, this is how the future looks: Gated communities (GC) In survival-favourable locations Defended by private military companies Using lethal and non-lethal weapons To secure GC inhabitants and infrastructure / resources (food, water, energy) From climate displaced people

jk rowling naming a russian-irish character

Sure the world is rapidly decaying but the semiotics are amazing

WARNING: This product contains programming languages known to the State of California to cause memory unsafety

Feel obligated to repost this every time this comes up

www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

Me: [sits down to be productive] [THREE HOURS LATER] Me: So it turns out the designer was also Chief Architect of Milton Keyes

several times a day i ask “am i hungry or am i just bored” and then i have a little snack while i think about it

tetraethyl linear algebra

My list is just a post-it note with SKYRIM written on it in crayon.

Werner Herzog: Something as organic as a cheesecake is too feeble for the American mind, to even enjoy it as a concept they must remove its reality, let you know it was conceived in industrial horrors Waitress:...Okay WH: The cheeseburger spring rolls sound like a delightful abomination. Thank you

And Tiny Tim, who did *not* die, lies dreaming still beneath R’lyeh, and in strange aeons, will bless us, every one

Men, what's stopping u from looking like this?

Slowly at first, then all at once.