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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 13h

Also, all the people he tortured, raped, enslaved and mutilated were also people of their time. I suspect if anything they felt rather *more* strongly that Columbus was a bad person than even the most fingerwagging person on Bluesky does.

Always worth thinking who we count as "of their time".

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13h

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 16h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 12h

Later, in the forums/early Twitter era, I realized that anyone who said they were "fluent in sarcasm" could barely order sarcasm at a restaurant

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, you're still doing agentic? Get out of the way, grandpa. Innovators are switching to fusion computing.

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12h

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3h

The Dragonborn is basically Tamriel's paperclip maximizer, aren't they

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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 20h

Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.

“I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing an assholes,” Pattinson said in an interiew with Variety in November. “You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.”

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3h

On page 782 the hero accidentally falls through the level geometry and sequence breaks directly to the final villain. Thinking on her feet, she combines a bunch of random junk from her pockets to make a Keen Honed Villain Vaporizer and deletes him. Then she makes his bones into shitty daggers.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3h

Writing the first ever Bethesda book. It starts with the opening act of an epic adventure, followed by 600 pages about the smithing of shitty iron daggers.

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Séamus Aran @seamusaran.bsky.social · 6h

As a fiction consumer, my primary concern & motivation is the sheer volume of words I can consume. And the limiting factor is that publishers just aren’t pumping out slightly different combinations of words fast enough to sate my appetite. When will someone think of meee

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wolscott @wolscott.bsky.social · 6h

did it AGAIN today

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Dec 4

How to clean a burned pan

Dissolve 1tbsp of baking soda in water
Set to simmer over low heat
Go play video games in the meantime
Hey what's that smell
Oh shit oh fuck

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

There is a cult of action at the heart of tech.

This cult says: don't mind that the systems are broken. Don't try and fix them. You can just do things, using you ubermensch will.

AI has plugged into this cult to promise 10x-ing your action. But instead your will becomes subservient to the machine.

"Just doing things" is not a path to value

Action for the sake of action feels good, but the path of least resistance leads you to surrender your own agency.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10h

Cow Tools comic with a speech bubble coming out of the cow.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11h

Pilot the Tik-Tok, Shinji. Or Sundin will have to do it again.

The Tik-Tok costume from Return to Oz: a pot bellied copper hued robot with a samovar-like body.

Tik-Tok was a main character in Disney's Return to Oz, adapted from The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz. His legs are very stout and he speaks with his mustache rather than his teeth. In the film, he is the entire Royal Army of Oz, which is ironic considering his general haplessness, partly from the character's in-book inability to wind up his clockworks for himself. In an interview for the Elstree project,[5] director Walter Murch explained that Tik-Tok's physical performance was created by the acrobat Michael Sundin: "he would put his legs down into Tik-Tok's legs, and then he would bend over looking through his legs, through his thighs, and then he would cross his arms [across his chest] to operate Tik-Tok's arms." He used an LCD feed inside the costume to monitor his movements. Due to the heat and physical exertion of being upside-down, according to Murch, Sundin's "limit was two and half minutes from the moment the lid went on." Sean Barrett provided his voice, while Tim Rose remotely-operated the head.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11h

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

r/SaaS
u/soasme
I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP.

Everyone's busy adding Al to everything.
I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work.
I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything.
Guess what?
I see more registered users and higher retention.
That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better?
Here's my question:
Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12h

Wait what?? I've been there a bunch of times, I thought it was like a sandwich place

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12h

these are the guys that take you to horny jail

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 15h

I suppose if the question here is 'why don't these fields produce new discoveries at the same rate as the sciences' the answer is a pretty obvious, 'because they're not funded like the sciences.'

We could do a lot of archaeology with, say, a few billion dollars a year!

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13h

There's an interesting contrast between these do-nothing apps and non-finito prototyping AKA provotyping: a research technique that hands participants a deliberately purposeless product to see how they will use it.

The difference being that the provotype is the start, not the end, of designing!

Non-Finito Prototyping: A New Technique for Digital-Physical Product…

In art, an unfinished work remains unfinished. In design, an unfinished work opens up possibilities for the user.

www.delve.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13h

This gem by @fasterandworse.com skewers a type of product somehow becoming ubiquitous: a thing that does nothing in the easiest, most intuitive, delightfulest way possible.

Often it's pitched as productivity software so managers can feel like they are doing something by forcing workers to adopt it.

Complicated Sticks.

Potential in place of purpose is what separates an iPad from an iPod, blockchains from databases, and generative AI from text editors. The more complex the product, the more potential it has to have p...

fasterandworse.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13h

Heck yeah. Sally's is so much better than Frank Pepe imo. Still need to make my way to Modern to round out the famous three though.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13h

Which one did you end up going to?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13h

In celebration of Canadian Thanksgiving — a tradition started by Mr. Northwest Passage himself, Martin Frobisher — the big boat is finally no longer stuck.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14h

perfect bluesky reply thank you

Rocketboy1313 @rocketboy1313.bsky.social · 14h

Would you prefer the white nationalism replies?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 14h

how could he have dysphonia if he is on his phone??? checkmate atheists

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 14h

Well, let's discuss the In The Barrel mode of personnel management. Like Sauron's eye, searching the office, everyone lived in fear of his malevolent attention. Nothing you could do is right. EVERYTHING wrong is your fault. All you can do is endure until it's someone else turn in the barrel.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 14h

After a tense 30 minutes with HR, I have been reminded that it is not considered polite to use this term to refer to management.

Catherine “Halloween meme participant” Winters @catherinewinters.com · 14h

Vampires? They're probably not real. Probably. #WritingPrompt

“You didn’t go in!?” Nia blurted, spying Luca and the doll hovering outside the back door.

“We weren’t invited,” Luca protested. “I knocked, but I don’t think Matteo’s home.”

“I gave you the key!”

“I don’t need keys,” the lockbreaker reminded her. “But you didn’t actually say—”

“Are you a lifedrinker?” Caz sputtered. “You don’t have to be invited!”

“Okay, come in,” Nia said, snatching the key back and ushering them inside. “But we have to be quiet.”

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