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@futurebird if they're not reference, I can just check them out with my regular library card, right?

@futurebird you enjoy your times new ramen, I'm slumming with champon sans

@beandreams @futurebird

tarot deck:

* stack of paper
* all look the same until drawn, then there's a meaning
* reasons for what was drawn are complex and obscure

copier/printer paper:

* stack of paper
* all look the same until drawn, then there's a meaning
* reasons for what was drawn are complex and obscure

@futurebird what if I'm a heretic who believes in Spider Jesus who died on the eight-legged asterisk?

@futurebird either way, thank you for fixing it.

@futurebird did you mean Theia, with the too-easily forgotten i between the e and the a ?

Theia (hypothetical planet)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theia (hypothetical planet) - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

@futurebird but I need amnesty!

@futurebird it's not so much that I find them exciting, it's just, you know, other kinds of databases are unrelatable.

@futurebird @hipsterelectron
and the Lord said "Behold!" and he did shew forth a programming language, and shew fly a pie.

@futurebird ai was invented because global warming wasn't making deserts fast enough.

@futurebird well, for most of the first century of movies, object permanence was at best an inconvenient side effect of the need for physical sets and physical models. Then along came CGI ...

@futurebird @PizzaDemon
I got caught in the tar pit of trying to figure out what paleontological sites a Los Angeles based organization would be physically nearby.

@futurebird @PizzaDemon
I have conflicted feelings about it, because I've met so many people whose knowledge of the actual Jurassic, and of biology and history in general, is so bad they'd have no idea it wasn't intended to be scientifically true.

@futurebird
as far as I can tell, microsoft has already shifted to "charge people for *not* using it". And I suspect there are enough other companies going that direction to make it the overall industry direction.

@futurebird chatGPT is to LLMs what kitchen hotpads were to asbestos.

@futurebird I thought buy-it-on-layaway was mostly replaced by "rent-to-own"?

(I know they're different, because with "rent-to-own", the item goes home with the renter, but there's a lot of overlap, and it seems most people will tolerate more predatory policies when they get to take it home right away.)

@futurebird
what the working people of america built.

@futurebird always get it mixed up with the desert.

"need more apple compute on table 3!"

@futurebird @jgordon
I guess about 15 years ago, Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote a popular book about what a great genius he was for figuring out how to get rich by betting on "black swan" and "grey swan" type disasterous market crashes. He was cautiously vague about the role shorting had played in the subprime loan crash, but his contemporaries shouted it from the rooftops. And so betting on the bubble bursting went from an obscure aspect of bubble dynamics to a famous aspect of bubble dynamics.

@futurebird remember _Friend Folio_, which included grrreat friends like the Flumph and the Guardian Familiar?