Andron Ocean

Yeoman programmer and crafter of fine websites. I enjoy space, spaceships, old books, gardens, long walks, and beautiful things. Here be occasional silliness.

[Andron Ocean @AndronOcean]

🧵Evidence thread of reasons why you need to own and control your digital world. Don't build things of meaning on rented land.

(I'll add to this over time as I encounter examples. Comment with your own, too.)

[Andrew Snyder @Andrewnsnyder]

We should bring back the tricorn hat.

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@Andrewnsnyder I will if you will.

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People losing sleep over LLM consciousness, meanwhile we’ve still got some seriously unaddressed questions about human consciousness :/

[yasmeen @YasmeenRoumie]

timelapse of the heytea teabar line today at around 12:45pm

probably the longest line I’ve ever witnessed in NYC

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@beyondmach5 @FedRateUnch And the leaking module (Zvezda) is over 40 years old.

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@MichaelFKane Dapper looking rancor

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@goblinodds @visakanv I mean it might be…

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@Molson_Hart Eee me late!

That is one catchy riff.

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@YoungbloodJoe Nothing ever changes…

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@Truthful_ast Haumea is a silly planet, how can anyone take that setup seriously?

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@ArtemisConsort Aristotelian virtue.

But also, it is wholesome to assume that everything in the universe has some iota of worthiness, so that it is good to respect even inanimate things that one might not deem “conscious”.

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@stan_maximin Huge congratulations!

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@MartinSkold2 Everybody thought American exceptionalism was just, like, our opinion, man.

Including us.

[TK-B0NK @MatchewMiller]

Padmé pushes this button to retransmit Obi-wan's message to Coruscant, then in the same scene pushes the exact same button to bring up a map of nearby systems.

One can only assume she's holding ctrl or shift just off screen with her other hand.

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@TallRomanStatue Harold Washington?

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@MattPenny99 @wesbos @i_am_brennan There is ugly design and there is bad design.

Those are very different things and if you cannot tell them apart you’ll get in trouble sooner or later.

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@MichaelFKane A single log would probably knock it over. Two logs coming down like a Nutcracker? That force has nowhere to go except into breaking the bonds at the corners. Armor is usually designed to protect against unilateral forces.

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@goblinodds @crogers_htown Worst part? She found out and did not correct me. I just go blithely sailing on for weeks, wondering why everyone is acting weird all of a sudden.

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

the four horsemen of the apocalypse

[Andron Ocean @AndronOcean]

@selentelechia Small children are basically parrots.