lexi
@barredspirals.bsky.social
thought launderer, accursed magus, aspiring victim of communism
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lexi
@barredspirals.bsky.social
· Nov 5
now if youll excuse me ill be in a bathroom stall boofing precisely 512mg of authentic soviet-era phenazepam to increase my posting powers and own the bourgeoisie
gods the libs really live in their own little fantasy world
December 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
gods the libs really live in their own little fantasy world
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christmas caroling is an ancestral memory of the ainulindale
melkor tried to corrupt the music with commercialism and industry, but his dissonance was merely subsumed into the tapestry of Holiday Spirit
melkor tried to corrupt the music with commercialism and industry, but his dissonance was merely subsumed into the tapestry of Holiday Spirit
December 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
christmas caroling is an ancestral memory of the ainulindale
melkor tried to corrupt the music with commercialism and industry, but his dissonance was merely subsumed into the tapestry of Holiday Spirit
melkor tried to corrupt the music with commercialism and industry, but his dissonance was merely subsumed into the tapestry of Holiday Spirit
my world has been turned upside down
December 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
my world has been turned upside down
I wonder what the ideal programming language for our current crop of LLMs would be. my hunch is probably Forth, but i'm curious what a novel language built purely for use by LLMs would be like
December 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I wonder what the ideal programming language for our current crop of LLMs would be. my hunch is probably Forth, but i'm curious what a novel language built purely for use by LLMs would be like
these kind of thumbnails are so obnoxious, and theyre fucken everywhere. even the good channels use smarmy smoothbrain clickbait thumbnails now
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
these kind of thumbnails are so obnoxious, and theyre fucken everywhere. even the good channels use smarmy smoothbrain clickbait thumbnails now
harassing CERN on twitter demanding they respect my second-amendment rights to keep & bear antimatter
December 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
harassing CERN on twitter demanding they respect my second-amendment rights to keep & bear antimatter
a while back I was reading the Cradle series and my initial reaction to the setting was like, oh this world is built completely on undisguised video game logic, huh. kinda cringe but okay
then a few months later I learned that p much all the weird video game logic actually came directly from Taoism
then a few months later I learned that p much all the weird video game logic actually came directly from Taoism
December 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
a while back I was reading the Cradle series and my initial reaction to the setting was like, oh this world is built completely on undisguised video game logic, huh. kinda cringe but okay
then a few months later I learned that p much all the weird video game logic actually came directly from Taoism
then a few months later I learned that p much all the weird video game logic actually came directly from Taoism
man SSDs are still so expensive
December 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
man SSDs are still so expensive
i hope that, if we learn nothing else from the failure of the American project, we will at least recognize that "checks and balances" do not actually work
December 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
i hope that, if we learn nothing else from the failure of the American project, we will at least recognize that "checks and balances" do not actually work
so much has happened in the last few years i'm honestly starting to the Singularity semi-seriously, and that's such an alien thought to me that it kinda makes me feel like a crazy person
well. crazier
well. crazier
December 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
so much has happened in the last few years i'm honestly starting to the Singularity semi-seriously, and that's such an alien thought to me that it kinda makes me feel like a crazy person
well. crazier
well. crazier
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“we should morally mandate things out of existence,” scream the people on the trans-centric website, certain the leopards they are invoking against the dreaded nerds will never eat their faces
maybe if you stopped screaming at clouds all the time you wouldn’t feel so old and out of touch
December 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
“we should morally mandate things out of existence,” scream the people on the trans-centric website, certain the leopards they are invoking against the dreaded nerds will never eat their faces
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trans people that are not visible greatly threatens "what's your preferred pronouns" types of people and bigots.
they want to identify you. they dont want you taking hrt; they want you to believe you dont need hrt to be trans; they don't want you to pass. they need to know your jewish i mean trans
they want to identify you. they dont want you taking hrt; they want you to believe you dont need hrt to be trans; they don't want you to pass. they need to know your jewish i mean trans
December 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
trans people that are not visible greatly threatens "what's your preferred pronouns" types of people and bigots.
they want to identify you. they dont want you taking hrt; they want you to believe you dont need hrt to be trans; they don't want you to pass. they need to know your jewish i mean trans
they want to identify you. they dont want you taking hrt; they want you to believe you dont need hrt to be trans; they don't want you to pass. they need to know your jewish i mean trans
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why do boomers always say "i dont understand" even after explaining- in crystal clear plain language- why you are stressed and on edge. no matter how clear you are they will refuse to actually listen and instead apply their own lazy simple reasoning onto why you are not doing well
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
why do boomers always say "i dont understand" even after explaining- in crystal clear plain language- why you are stressed and on edge. no matter how clear you are they will refuse to actually listen and instead apply their own lazy simple reasoning onto why you are not doing well
the problem with learning Janet is that once you've been exposed to its expressive brilliance you'll never be able to endure the lesser programming languages again
December 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
the problem with learning Janet is that once you've been exposed to its expressive brilliance you'll never be able to endure the lesser programming languages again
"it says here you're proficient in Python," says the interviewer. "can you give me a code sample"
my eyes roll back in my head, body seizing as I scream in an unrecorded dialect of priestly Akkadian, charred pigeon corpses dropping from the sky. the sun has gone black
"great! when can you start"
my eyes roll back in my head, body seizing as I scream in an unrecorded dialect of priestly Akkadian, charred pigeon corpses dropping from the sky. the sun has gone black
"great! when can you start"
December 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
"it says here you're proficient in Python," says the interviewer. "can you give me a code sample"
my eyes roll back in my head, body seizing as I scream in an unrecorded dialect of priestly Akkadian, charred pigeon corpses dropping from the sky. the sun has gone black
"great! when can you start"
my eyes roll back in my head, body seizing as I scream in an unrecorded dialect of priestly Akkadian, charred pigeon corpses dropping from the sky. the sun has gone black
"great! when can you start"
this is cryptofascist propaganda meant to keep us from going back and killing baby hitler
Time travel is biphobia but we're not ready for that conversation.
December 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
this is cryptofascist propaganda meant to keep us from going back and killing baby hitler
i wonder how rebol3 compares to Janet for my use cases. rebol's interesting bc it's one of the only non-lisp homoiconic language families. used to use a palmos port when i was a kid but i barely remember anything about it
December 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
i wonder how rebol3 compares to Janet for my use cases. rebol's interesting bc it's one of the only non-lisp homoiconic language families. used to use a palmos port when i was a kid but i barely remember anything about it
China gives me some real hope for humanity https://youtu.be/t5oSxg5iG44
December 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
China gives me some real hope for humanity https://youtu.be/t5oSxg5iG44
interesting alternative to PNG, though webp is probably better in most cases https://github.com/phoboslab/qoi
December 27, 2025 at 8:03 AM
interesting alternative to PNG, though webp is probably better in most cases https://github.com/phoboslab/qoi
part of me really wants to spend a stupid amount of money on an AR headset but afaict the FOSS situation is still pretty dire with that tech
December 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
part of me really wants to spend a stupid amount of money on an AR headset but afaict the FOSS situation is still pretty dire with that tech
one problem I do worry about with AI is the extent it's going to be used as a band-aid to paper over technical or procedural problems, especially in areas like security. like, do you spend Big Money ensuring the rigor of a formal system, or Much Smaller Money just having an AI monitor everything
December 27, 2025 at 6:36 AM
one problem I do worry about with AI is the extent it's going to be used as a band-aid to paper over technical or procedural problems, especially in areas like security. like, do you spend Big Money ensuring the rigor of a formal system, or Much Smaller Money just having an AI monitor everything
the whole Datacenters IN SPACE! meme is one of those things that is so impossibly ridiculous and idiotic that it makes you feel like you must have misunderstood something extremely fundamental about the problem. because nobody would ever actually suggest an idea *that* stupid, right??
right???
right???
December 27, 2025 at 6:29 AM
the whole Datacenters IN SPACE! meme is one of those things that is so impossibly ridiculous and idiotic that it makes you feel like you must have misunderstood something extremely fundamental about the problem. because nobody would ever actually suggest an idea *that* stupid, right??
right???
right???
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this post fucking haunts me. every time anything goes down or doesn't work i think "nine fives" in a loop
my health insurer's website has nine fives of reliability
December 27, 2025 at 4:36 AM
this post fucking haunts me. every time anything goes down or doesn't work i think "nine fives" in a loop
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this actually reminds me that someone on the academic biblical subreddit said you should read the priestly law code in the torah like the instructions manual for a nuclear reactor: a very dry and very detailed description of how to control something immensely powerful and dangerous
December 27, 2025 at 5:06 AM
this actually reminds me that someone on the academic biblical subreddit said you should read the priestly law code in the torah like the instructions manual for a nuclear reactor: a very dry and very detailed description of how to control something immensely powerful and dangerous
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me when the three persons of the trinity are consubstantial: noice
December 27, 2025 at 5:14 AM
me when the three persons of the trinity are consubstantial: noice