The Fresh Prince of Donair
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Coder, writer, weightlifter, metal dive bar enthusiast
Boston // Athens
Coder, writer, weightlifter, metal dive bar enthusiast
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Cosmovore
YouTube video by Ulthar - Topic
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I should start posting songs from whichever band I'm wearing a shirt of, so here's Ulthar's Cosmovore, Lovecraftian blackened death metal from VA. Chaotic but with good riffs that aren't just mindless technicality that death metal can kind of fall into.
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This is aimed at anti-ai folks who are anti-technology who don't have much of a leg to stand on in the seizing of anything when they can't seize the fact they're in the 21st century.
November 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This is aimed at anti-ai folks who are anti-technology who don't have much of a leg to stand on in the seizing of anything when they can't seize the fact they're in the 21st century.
Great, Napier 2.0
A person familiar with the search says Florida is moving on from Lane Kiffin and targeting Tulane’s Jon Sumrall as its next head coach.
Florida is moving on from Lane Kiffin and targeting Tulane's Jon Sumrall, AP source says
A person familiar with the search says Florida is moving on from Lane Kiffin and targeting Tulane’s Jon Sumrall as its next head coach.
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Great, Napier 2.0
I saw these guys randomly at an in-store at the Newbury Comics in Shrewsbury in early 1999 when I went in to get some nu metal album, we had no idea what was going on but suddenly I’m moshing in the aisles with guys twice my age, some kid put my brother on his shoulders so he could see, great times
"what you got" by reveille (2001)
November 29, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I saw these guys randomly at an in-store at the Newbury Comics in Shrewsbury in early 1999 when I went in to get some nu metal album, we had no idea what was going on but suddenly I’m moshing in the aisles with guys twice my age, some kid put my brother on his shoulders so he could see, great times
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Hot take: Your analysts doing "some basic data engineering" is killing your analytics function. The MTA hired 5 dedicated data engineers and it unlocked everything else. Stop asking data scientists to maintain pipelines. www.mta.info/article/less...
Lessons learned in starting a central data team
Learn how the MTA succeeded in setting up a central data team and a general purpose, cloud-based platform for data analytics.
www.mta.info
November 29, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Hot take: Your analysts doing "some basic data engineering" is killing your analytics function. The MTA hired 5 dedicated data engineers and it unlocked everything else. Stop asking data scientists to maintain pipelines. www.mta.info/article/less...
My brother just taunting me from the Sanguisugabogg show in NYC rn
November 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
My brother just taunting me from the Sanguisugabogg show in NYC rn
He ShOuLd LeArN To DrAw
Saw an exhibition by Shohei Fujimoto that I liked. (At Artechouse Houston.)
Split between fully digital work I'd call "generative art" and a bunch of laser installations where the lasers have enough perceived volume to look like kinetic sculpture. A few examples in the thread below.
Split between fully digital work I'd call "generative art" and a bunch of laser installations where the lasers have enough perceived volume to look like kinetic sculpture. A few examples in the thread below.
sfjmt.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
He ShOuLd LeArN To DrAw
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
This is my Thanksgiving day movie
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
This is my Thanksgiving day movie
Great thread but wanted to highlight this piece: independent creators of all stripes struggle with copyright, many are actively harmed by it.
So why are supposed fans so staunchly pro-copyright?
So why are supposed fans so staunchly pro-copyright?
The Discord piracy drama, constant copying debates etc, to me reveal copyright's failure, not its necessity. Designers struggle economically even when they *have* rights. No publisher has ever taken a "selling finished objects" case to trial. The designer making $50/month can't afford to sue anyone!
November 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Great thread but wanted to highlight this piece: independent creators of all stripes struggle with copyright, many are actively harmed by it.
So why are supposed fans so staunchly pro-copyright?
So why are supposed fans so staunchly pro-copyright?
I thought people were exaggerating when they said so-called leftists on here were getting mad about lab grown meat, but nope.
When you become indistinguishable from the conspiratorial freaks I grew up around in the south, you don’t get to call yourself a leftist anymore.
When you become indistinguishable from the conspiratorial freaks I grew up around in the south, you don’t get to call yourself a leftist anymore.
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I thought people were exaggerating when they said so-called leftists on here were getting mad about lab grown meat, but nope.
When you become indistinguishable from the conspiratorial freaks I grew up around in the south, you don’t get to call yourself a leftist anymore.
When you become indistinguishable from the conspiratorial freaks I grew up around in the south, you don’t get to call yourself a leftist anymore.
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bro copyright is so good for creators you can make something that's about to be turned into a huge fucking franchise directed by michael bay and some predatory company can take it from you for pennies and lock you out of it with legal threats
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 AM
bro copyright is so good for creators you can make something that's about to be turned into a huge fucking franchise directed by michael bay and some predatory company can take it from you for pennies and lock you out of it with legal threats
When people say that they produce bad code and that they’re developers, I assume they’re bad developers (unless they’re using some niche languages without much representation)
At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
November 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
When people say that they produce bad code and that they’re developers, I assume they’re bad developers (unless they’re using some niche languages without much representation)
Damn it’s crazy how people who actually spend most of their time on the thing actually know about the thing
November 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Damn it’s crazy how people who actually spend most of their time on the thing actually know about the thing
Giant utility refuses to build out capacity to address growth, instead collects greater fees at lower costs until things come to a head; blames bogeyman. News at 11
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Giant utility refuses to build out capacity to address growth, instead collects greater fees at lower costs until things come to a head; blames bogeyman. News at 11
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journalism is often functionally the institution of paying young people who speak Left and Young fluently to justify the behavior of the establishment, which is neither Left nor Young
Every journalist post: hey guys I know you think that we should have said something about the child trafficker who hung out with our boss and emailed with our coworkers, but you guys are making some real journalistphobic assumptions and forcing us to do emotional labor, please examine your attitude.
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
journalism is often functionally the institution of paying young people who speak Left and Young fluently to justify the behavior of the establishment, which is neither Left nor Young
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Kirbussy
Nintendo Kirby Face Fuzzy Slipper Socks $8.94 via Box Lunch. https://ow.ly/TwOz50XwRzb
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Kirbussy
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William H Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
November 27, 2025 at 4:27 AM
William H Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
The whole industry should be burnt down and the earth salted where it stood.
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 AM
The whole industry should be burnt down and the earth salted where it stood.
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I was never really convinced of the stats about American illiteracy until I read the replies to this post
Some people are drawing an inference that because I'm an EA I'm also a capitalist who believes large private companies should be able to purchase water from utilities, so I'm going to come right out and say that yes to all that.
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I was never really convinced of the stats about American illiteracy until I read the replies to this post
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but: data centers consume currently 4-5% of all power, nationally. AI workloads take up a substantial minority of that (15-25%).
Do some multiplication: 10-15% of your bill is due to consumption, of which 4-5% is from DCs, of which 15-25% is AI
So 0.1-0.3% of your power is "AI"
$0.15 - $0.50 / mo
Do some multiplication: 10-15% of your bill is due to consumption, of which 4-5% is from DCs, of which 15-25% is AI
So 0.1-0.3% of your power is "AI"
$0.15 - $0.50 / mo
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
but: data centers consume currently 4-5% of all power, nationally. AI workloads take up a substantial minority of that (15-25%).
Do some multiplication: 10-15% of your bill is due to consumption, of which 4-5% is from DCs, of which 15-25% is AI
So 0.1-0.3% of your power is "AI"
$0.15 - $0.50 / mo
Do some multiplication: 10-15% of your bill is due to consumption, of which 4-5% is from DCs, of which 15-25% is AI
So 0.1-0.3% of your power is "AI"
$0.15 - $0.50 / mo
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I remember having a UBI. It was called “living with my parents,” and I had all my food/shelter needs covered, plus free access to a (shared) TV, music, books, a library card, cars I could borrow and more.
I still worked drudge jobs, because I wanted to buy lots of comics and take girls to movies.
I still worked drudge jobs, because I wanted to buy lots of comics and take girls to movies.
Always grinds my gears when people say "No one would work drudge jobs if there was a UBI"
But even staying completely capitalist, I disagree. If I received a baseline living-wage UBI, and then I was offered REWARDS for drudge jobs, I'd take it! I want to save up for treats and travel and hobbies!
But even staying completely capitalist, I disagree. If I received a baseline living-wage UBI, and then I was offered REWARDS for drudge jobs, I'd take it! I want to save up for treats and travel and hobbies!
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I remember having a UBI. It was called “living with my parents,” and I had all my food/shelter needs covered, plus free access to a (shared) TV, music, books, a library card, cars I could borrow and more.
I still worked drudge jobs, because I wanted to buy lots of comics and take girls to movies.
I still worked drudge jobs, because I wanted to buy lots of comics and take girls to movies.