Liz is reading "Zoflaya the Moor", scandalous gothic novel by Charlotte Dacre from 1806. She read to me a fantastic bit of drama between two anti-heroines. The style is so good that I immediately pasted it into GPT3 to see if it could keep up the tone, but to make it more relevant to my interests, I changed the names of the anti-heroines to those closer to my heart, namely Richard M. Stallman, and Eric S. Raymond, a place name, and a half-sentence or two of related references, and let it run:
My son's scout troop meets in a room in a Catholic church. The church is requiring all adult volunteers to complete their youth protection training which they call "VIRTUS." I can think of nothing other than this classic 4chan post.
Me at 11 am this morning: I've got a neat idea for a story, I want to write it.
I might want to work on it from my desktop or laptop or mobile device, so I should use some kind of cloud editor. But I don't want to put my stuff in the hands of Google or any other 3rd party, let me see if I can self host something.
Me at 11 pm: so, Nextcloud is slow and buggy, Onlyoffice screwed over their open source users, Filestash is docker only, this all sucks, and meanwhile I haven't written a word.
intel CPU history
intel has made a fuck ton of CPUs. do you know how many? lots of them. every new process requires new factories and all kinds of waste. but did you know there's a DARK secret? ok maybe not DARK or a secret, but something really worth digging in to. so let's look at the history here
Happy birthday to TROGDOR THE BURNINATOR. sbemail #58, "dragon" was originally released on January 13, 2003.
Archaeologists uncover a beautifully-frescoed street food stand in Pompeii: https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/26/europe/pompeii-shop-archaeology-intl/index.html
discovery s3e11 spoilers
The more I think about this the more pissed off I am. The writers still have a couple of episodes left to redeem this but I'm not hopeful. I have been positive on Disco for its entire run so far even through the rough parts. But this is just too dumb.
Survey: Who Are Star Trek Fans?
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdRuEMwRV82suYXH5GXPeFblIs5pErIObOl1qTJYLmtBDrucQ/viewform
LGBT, feminist, and lefty Trekkies, please fill this in
Uhhh, fascist Alex Jones is on mastodon.
https://brighteon.social/@AlexJones
Guessing fediverse admins may want to block that instance (it calls itself "The pro-liberty social network" which is fash speak)
Just a heads up to anyone who isn't a fascist lol
Enrolled actuary in the works. Network admin for fun. Father, husband. Citizen of Earth.