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We need a 4-day week, a 16-day month, and a 256-day year. It would make everything so much easier!! Who do I call to make this happen?

.ui mi ca klama la jbogu'e

We finally have it. For 30 years, the greatest minds across the globe have been perfecting the spread of information, dopamine release cycle, filtering & popularisation of content, and creation of the ultimate form of humour. So tiny and so diamond-perfect as to have no meaning whatsoever. But this would not be innovative enough to even survive in the modern net's amusement landscape. It is also so truly incontaminable as to be unable to ever attach any meaning to, especially so now that we have recently achieved global mindshare. So meaningless, so diconnected from reality, and so unbelievably hilarious (or enraging) as to immediately induce insanity in the mind of the victim. This is true brainrot, taken to its ultimate logical conclusion. We have distilled all of the world's funniness into a single, definite compound. It has 100% purity, maximum concentration, and supreme potency. We are, at last, ready for worldwide activation of the perfect mind-disabling superweapon, for the achievement of the metaphysical ideal of [DATA EXPUNGED]. The compound is not known by any standard name – only by its unique compound ID number: 67.

What's stopping me from using tomato soup as pasta sauce?

When I die I want my brain to be uploaded into a 130 000 node Kubernetes cluster, and to have my life's savings pay for the compute bill.

You've heard of "this meeting could've been an email", but have you heard of "this 501(c)(3) non-profit could've been a DAO"?

Make no mistake – generative AI is the biggest, most pervasive, most powerful weapon we have against the intellectual monopoly. Globalisation of the internet marked the beginning of the end for copyright. Generative AI is our hope for dealing the final blow: to permanently sever the connection between art and artist, thereby making copyright unenforceable.

A week ago I held 0 sats. Now instead I hold 0 bitcoins, and my entire life has changed. Thank you Square!

How many Lojbanists does it take to change a broken light bulb? 2: One to remove the existing bulb, and the other to figure out what kind of bulb emits broken light.

October monthly update out now! https://gist.github.com/Heliodex/8cebaa43e8d9537c7a50e79a2b0499bd Nobody ever reads these, and the fact they're only published as Markdown files on my GitHub Gists page is certainly no help. I'll either start posting them to my website or potentially to here soon™ though.

Don't know who needs to hear this, but it's never selfish or greedy to give something away for free.

It takes a lot of luck to be this lucky

I'm now convinced that the AWS us-east-1 datacentre is the most important building on the planet. But hey, Nostr's still up!

1984 is such an amazing book. It now sits proudly on my top shelf along with all of my other instruction manuals.

More educated groups of people tend to have fewer children. Coincidence?

The perennial generative AI debate is actually pretty awesome. It's got parts about IP & copyright, environmental benefits & consequences, impact on the future, control by government/corporations, technological feasibility, mathematical inner workings, deep philosophical musings about the nature of imagination/cleverness/creativity/consciousness etc, and of course a touch of existential risk. Each argument has a bit of everything in it and I learn a ton from every conversation! It's also one of the few topics where I can debate about it online and not feel my blood pressure rising during the process.

Welp, that's Hack Club's Summer of Making (https://summer.hackclub.com) effectively over now. Was it fun? Yeah, I guess. Was the voting system broken? Absolutely. Was it better than similar previous events (Arcade, Low Skies, High Seas)? A little, though it did also continue for a lot longer.

Art: anything that's not part of nature

Deception tip 101: Why try to find niche sources in a topic that support your point when you can probably find more popular, widely trusted sources, and meld them to fit whatever conclusions you want? You'll gain an appearance of higher reliability, though at the risk of increased misinterpretation of your view.

Our hearts were ringing In the key that our souls were singing As we danced in the night, remember How the stars stole the night away Give some love to the bongos in the background this 21 September.