L…l…l…l…look at you, hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?

Mysticism has a way of filling a volume. They’ll ask question after question until they get the answer they want: “No, we’re not sure why charge is a property that a particle can have in our universe, but…” - “Got it, mystery.” Then they’ll turn around and shepherd all these “mysteries” into their god of the gaps to demystify them anyway, so they can feel wise when they should feel curious.

Obligatory Gremlins 2 Brainstorm Key & Peele sketch

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

100%

The spiral’s more fun, anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_periodic_tables

From the chaote perspective, any dynamic system with chaotic properties can be used for divination. But a science? Nah.

Vibe coding in assembly.

I only read the blog because of the thumbnail.

I don’t think they have much on Krypton anymore.

And in that environment, everyone who actually understands how things work quits or gets quit. It’s my understanding that there are large sections of code bases that MS just doesn’t touch, because everyone who understood how they function is gone. Continuity of institutional knowledge is difficult in the best cases and impossible under leaders that discourage dissenting perspectives.
/gestures about wildly

Joe Rogan is Joe Garrelli in News Radio

Thank you. I was just pushing the up arrow a hundred times.

It shows which US states contribute more to the US incarceration rate and clearly shows that even those that contribute the least are above the majority of the nations’ incarceration rates. The latter is not obvious without visualizing the data in this way.

Just out of curiosity, what would the Star Trek equivalent be outside of eurocentric experience?