As a retired computer person I'm sorry we didn't do more to stop this. We knew since the nineties the future was going to be a shitstorm even if we weren't clear on the details. We should've started with the terrorism three decades ago.
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RE: Fwiw, computer people are starting to sound like climate scientists started to sound 5-6 years ago.postato in Uncategorized
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RE: The astronomy cloud computing system is down.postato in Uncategorized
hope, duct tape, and someone's leftover grant money from 5 years ago
.... describes so many worthwhile things in my experience. both online and offline!
We should do better as a society.
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RE: I mean Melissa might seem like she's joking but no, you really could just surround all their offices and demand they come out with their hands up.postato in Uncategorized
Melissa is a hell of a lot smarter than what people think. I love her dearly.
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RE: I mean fwiw, I told you a while ago - they don't care.postato in Uncategorized
Yes. They're working to bring about a global collapse, the sooner the better.
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Sobre el crucero del hantavirus sólo diré que el turismo le ha hecho muchísimo daño no sólo a Tierra del Fuego sino al resto de nuestra Patagonia, que bien merecido se lo tienen, y que espero que no vuelvan más.postato in Uncategorized
Sobre el crucero del hantavirus sólo diré que el turismo le ha hecho muchísimo daño no sólo a Tierra del Fuego sino al resto de nuestra Patagonia, que bien merecido se lo tienen, y que espero que no vuelvan más.
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RE: PermaComputing is when software makes your hair curl.postato in Uncategorized
Mine is already falling off from slop radiation damage.
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RE: I mean folks, it's not just US, America, okay?postato in Uncategorized
"But my government would never use it for anything bad!"
(Apply to just about anything.)
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RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@angelastella/116386204600961063postato in Uncategorized
RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@angelastella/116386204600961063
¿La deriva de esta conversación es semejante a señalar la Luna y que te miren el dedo, o es que yo soy una psicópata?
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RE: En la mesa de al lado están estudiando anatomía con un cráneo.postato in Uncategorized
Demasiada gente he visto estudiar de esquemas fotocopiados.
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En la mesa de al lado están estudiando anatomía con un cráneo.postato in Uncategorized
En la mesa de al lado están estudiando anatomía con un cráneo. Me muero de amor. Ganas renovadas de donar mi cuerpo como material didáctico si los órganos no sirven para trasplante.
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Been dumspter-diving into old machines.postato in Uncategorized
Been dumspter-diving into old machines. Got a particularly clean list of books I've been (re-)reading in the past few years, sorted it by title (yes, there's one mistake or seven: still learning this shit), posting it for no particular reason. Oh, yeah, "so you can know me". Whatever.
Want to ask me something about them? Go ahead. I may take a while to reply, but that is what notifications are for.
(Spare me your thoughts about how this or that author is No Good At All Because Reasons. I probably know. And I don't fucking care.)
- Borges, El Aleph
- Egan, Axiomatic
- Shilts, And the Band Played On
- Kessel, The Baum Plan for Financial Independence
- Stallworth, Black Klansman
- Watts, Blindsight
- Varley, Blue Champagne
- Levinson, The Box
- Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron
- Graeber, Bullshit Jobs
- Toeps, But You Don't Look Autistic
- Bazterrica, Cadáver exquisito
- Collins, Carrying the Fire
- MacLeod, The Cassini Division
- Gorodischer, Casta Luna electrónica
- Plokhy, Chernobyl
- Clarke, Childhood's End
- Simak, City
- Weinersmith & Weinersmith, A City on Mars
- Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
- Schlosser, Command and Control
- Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason
- Thomas, Confessions of a Sociopath
- Sagan, Contact
- Gibson, Count Zero
- Harris, Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches
- Sterling, Crystal Express
- Vance, Cugel's Saga
- Ellison, Dangerous Visions
- Koestler, Darkness at Noon
- Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea
- Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky
- Camenzind, Designing Analog Chips
- Huxley, The Devils of Loudun
- Cristoforetti, Diario di un'apprendista astronauta
- Le Guin, The Dispossessed
- Egan, Distress
- Gorodischer, Doquier
- Forward, Dragon's Egg
- Herbert, Dune
- Beaton, Ducks
- Stewart, Earth Abides
- Asimov, The Edge of Tomorrow
- Minsky, The Emotion Machine
- Asimov, The End of Eternity
- Dick, Eye in the Sky
- Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- Gbur, Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics
- Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
- Gorodischer, Floreros de alabastro, alfombras de Bokhara
- Collins, Flying to the Moon
- Wylie, Generation of Vipers
- Scalzi, The Ghost Brigades
- Stross, Glasshouse
- Ellison, The Glass Teat
- Varley, The Golden Globe
- Clarke, Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!
- Walker, The Hacker's Diet
- Emrys, A Half-Built Garden
- Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
- Brown, Here Comes a Candle
- Hersey, Hiroshima
- Sterling, Holy Fire
- Landis, Hot Earth Dreams
- Turtledove, How Few Remain
- Matheson, I Am Legend
- Clark, Ignition!
- Zwolinski and Tomasi, The Individualists
- Egan, Instantiation
- Swanwick, The Iron Dragon's Daughter
- Swanwick, Jack Faust
- Turtledove, Joe Steele
- Vidal, Julian
- Crichton, Jurassic Park
- Craig, The Killing Zone
- Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
- Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
- Meadows, Randers and Meadows, The Limits to Growth
- Scalzi, Lock In
- Stewart, Making It So
- Escudero, Malvinas, el gran relato
- Dick, The Man in the High Castle
- Weir, The Martian
- Spiegelman, Maus
- Spiegelman, MetaMaus
- Lakoff and Johnson, Metaphors We Live By
- Higginbotham, Midnight in Chernobyl
- Sturgeon, More Than Human
- Niven and Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye
- Asimov, The Naked Sun
- Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
- Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Harris, Why Nothing Works
- King, 11/22/63
- Kearny, Nuclear War Survival Skills
- Caplan and Weinersmith, Open Borders
- Varley, The Ophiuchi Hotline
- Eco, Il Pendolo di Foucault
- Asimov, Photosynthesis
- Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
- Niven, Protector
- Linebarger, Psychological Warfare
- Fallon, The Psychopath Inside
- Hasegawa, Racing the Enemy
- Mullane, Riding Rockets
- Spinrad, Riding the Torch
- Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial
- Vincent, A Self-Made Man
- Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
- Alexander, Skies of Thunder
- Sheldon, Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
- Bester, The Stars, My Destination
- Varley, Steel Beach
- Langewiesche, Stick and Rudder
- Chiang, Stories of Your Life
- Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
- Pais, Subtle is the Lord
- Amado, Tereza Batista, cansada de guerra
- Le Guin, No Time to Spare
- Benford, Timescape
- Kaszeta, Toxic
- Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant
- Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
- McCloud, Understanding Comics
- Grandin and Barron, Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships
- Clarke, Voice Across the Sea
- Turtledove, The Wages of Sin
- Bancroft, Why Does He Do That?
- Butler, Wild Seed
- Niven, World of Ptavvs
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Con todo respeto, pero es muy gracioso ver españoles opinando sobre el colonialismo yanqui o nipón.postato in Uncategorized
Con todo respeto, pero es muy gracioso ver españoles opinando sobre el colonialismo yanqui o nipón.
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Día del Programa Antártico Argentino.postato in Uncategorized
Día del Programa Antártico Argentino. Qué ganas de fumarme un pucho en la Base Marambio.
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RE: A better photo of the sign / bus shelterpostato in Uncategorized
Wish I were there. We could have a lot of fun together.
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RE: A better photo of the sign / bus shelterpostato in Uncategorized
Wonder how many minutes of angle grinder would one need to, you know.
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RE: I got me my drillpostato in Uncategorized
Nothing sad about it, darling. You're your own girlfriend!
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RE: I've been trying to teach someone a bit about watchmaking ...postato in Uncategorized
Yeah, that's why I wouldn't even think of teaching anything now. "I asked ChatGPT..."
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RE: I've been trying to teach someone a bit about watchmaking ...postato in Uncategorized
War flashbacks of trying to teach electronics. Even back in the day when every component was visible to the naked eye.
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Tusky 32.1: still broken, in a charming "who ordered this?" way.postato in Uncategorized
Tusky 32.1: still broken, in a charming "who ordered this?" way.