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𝕶𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖓 𝕳𝖔𝖋𝖋𝖒𝖆𝖓 @kevinhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 10

My compulsory #AI action figure. I'm disappointed at how many people's custom action figures don't come with Kung Fu grip.

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 4d

claude makes me more productive because I look at its output and then I'm like "damn this sucks, I guess I gotta write it myself"

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Dgar @dgar.bsky.social · 5d

I saw a cashier scan the eyes of a rude customer with a barcode reader.

The look on their face was priceless.

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usrbinkat.io @usrbinkat.io · 5d

That's hot 🥵

Linux Kernel Ported To WebAssembly - Demo Lets You Run It In Your Web Browser

Open-source developer Joel Severin today announced his work on porting the Linux kernel to WebAssembly and has successffully gotten the kernel up and running within WASM-capable web browsers.

www.phoronix.com

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𝕶𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖓 𝕳𝖔𝖋𝖋𝖒𝖆𝖓 @kevinhoffman.bsky.social · 7d

And then shortly thereafter this will become the default style used by generative AI assistants coding in C 🤣

𝕶𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖓 𝕳𝖔𝖋𝖋𝖒𝖆𝖓 @kevinhoffman.bsky.social · 27d

I never wondered why it was called that. Now I finally know and I love it.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 27d

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

𝕶𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖓 𝕳𝖔𝖋𝖋𝖒𝖆𝖓 @kevinhoffman.bsky.social · Oct 5

This is a pro move. I used to put my pizza box in a high place, which was a messy way to discover just how high my dog can jump.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Oct 5

Apple caved to the Trump DOJ and removed the anti-ICE apps from its App Store. Cowardice.

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𝕶𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖓 𝕳𝖔𝖋𝖋𝖒𝖆𝖓 @kevinhoffman.bsky.social · Oct 5

I need this button.

Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · Oct 5

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𝕶𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖓 𝕳𝖔𝖋𝖋𝖒𝖆𝖓 @kevinhoffman.bsky.social · Oct 5

Every time you buy AI generated content, a creative human is sacrificed to a hungry wombat. #GenAI

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · Sep 23

why are so many ferengi verified on twitter

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · Sep 24

wait when did everyone by bullet engraving supplies, was that after the sourdough craze

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Sep 24

‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’

It was originally ‘ekename.’

‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”

Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.

Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · Sep 24

is the rapture the same day on every planet

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𝕶𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖓 𝕳𝖔𝖋𝖋𝖒𝖆𝖓 @kevinhoffman.bsky.social · Sep 24

This is sublime

Dgar @dgar.bsky.social · Sep 24

Yoda tells Luke a joke during training.

“WHY WAS FIVE AFRAID OF SEVEN?

BECAUSE SIX SEVEN EIGHT”

𝕶𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖓 𝕳𝖔𝖋𝖋𝖒𝖆𝖓 @kevinhoffman.bsky.social · Sep 24

Everybody got your Antifa membership pins? You should get them when you pay your Antifa union membership dues next month.

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · Sep 23

game idea: the rapture has happened. society is mostly unaffected, aside from lots of people doing your job: going through the now-empty houses to find stuff to sell.

it's like those self-storage auction games, but for christian houses

RAPTURELOOTER

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Sep 23

brain rot | noun | mindless digital content; the fixation on it and harmful mental effects of it

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𝕶𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖓 𝕳𝖔𝖋𝖋𝖒𝖆𝖓 @kevinhoffman.bsky.social · Sep 23

I knew it!

The pearly gates have to be exactly the "antique white" color, not "bone" and sure as hell not "cream". Each gate must be no less than 6' and no more than 6' 1".

If the gate doesn't function properly, they're gonna have to get Lucifer involved.

alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · Sep 23

bad news: i'm posting this from heaven and it's an HOA up here

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𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑠 @petestaiano.com · Sep 23

Fun fact, if you already have autism and take Tylenol, WHAM that’s DOUBLE AUTISM

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𝕶𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖓 𝕳𝖔𝖋𝖋𝖒𝖆𝖓 @kevinhoffman.bsky.social · Sep 22

All of them. Every. last. one.

𝕶𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖓 𝕳𝖔𝖋𝖋𝖒𝖆𝖓 @kevinhoffman.bsky.social · Sep 22

There's other potent alcohol that was never banned. It was banned on junk science reported by a guy who'd had 9 glasses of wine prior to drinking Absinthe, who then blamed absinthe for it. Wine producers also conducted smear campaigns against it. All this led to a 90+ year ban for nothing.

𝕶𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖓 𝕳𝖔𝖋𝖋𝖒𝖆𝖓 @kevinhoffman.bsky.social · Sep 22

"Never underestimate people's ability to make a better idiot."

𝕶𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖓 𝕳𝖔𝖋𝖋𝖒𝖆𝖓 @kevinhoffman.bsky.social · Sep 22

Anyone who thinks people are smart enough not to believe that Tylenol causes autism has forgotten that the US (and many other countries) banned absinthe because they thought it was poison.... for 95 years.

This belief was, conveniently, stoked by competitor wine companies.

𝕶𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖓 𝕳𝖔𝖋𝖋𝖒𝖆𝖓 @kevinhoffman.bsky.social · Sep 22

I've been using a Tufte theme for my blog for a while. Easy to read, simple, works on mobile and desktop and great typefaces.

If I feel like I'm interacting with "a blog" rather than the content, it's frustrating.