Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!

Silicon Valley, 2025:

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

Is there a word in German for "The feeling of mixed anger and despair when you discover that the simple question you had is not easily answered by documentation"?

~6 hours in or so, and silksong has me in a pin, locking my gaze to their lips, growling "Get motivated"

I fear I will never pass the mothman or ant gauntlets. I've not even seen phase 3 of the big scary fly.

It appears that asking the monkey paw for a day off today may have been a mistake.

Ran into a GRUB bootloader problem where it takes forever for a system to hit the menu due to the boot disks being last in the order and grub appearing to enumerate them to find its config.
Never before have I so quickly reached the end of the internet. I am forsaken. Send help.

New blog post: the monad tutorial of my dreams, and maybe of yours! A jargon-free, practical explanation of monads as a design pattern, using Rust and property-based testing as the vehicle

Just got the news today.

Somehow, Shen Yun has returned.

Air BnBs are often the corporate backroom liminal spaces of housing

Waiting for the final run of GDQ where they beat Super Mario 3 with their eye movements while proving the Riemann hypothesis with one hand and performing all the parts of Motzart's last symphony with their remaining motor faculties.

This is your annual new-years reminder that Chronotypes are a very real thing and you probably shouldn't try to turn yourself into a morning person, but figure out how to craft your schedule to accommodate your particular strengths.
Benjamin Franklin sold us lies.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronot...

@patstaresat.bsky.social
1/12 The podcast chat had me thinking about my experience as a GM over the years. The TL;DR is that everyone's first character is a "Main Character", either a clone of a fictional character or self-insert. If they keep making them, they probably don't hear social feedback.