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…folks frequently presume i’m a recording on telephone calls; i used to do radio so i guess my extemporaneous diction comes across more composed than anticipated…

…we had the 4016 2001N with an external tape drive: not quite as much geek-cred as the original 2001, but still respectable…

…is that the demo?..

…that page has some cut to balance the preceding fill… 🥁

…microsoft applications have an annoying habit of auto-replacing my dashes with emdashes; i don’t even know how to type an emdash…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fupg2r1EJ9w

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…large-language models do not comport with lossless data reconstruction in my experience; quite the opposite…

(`ninety-five was thirty years ago)

…i learned this word from the big book of amazing facts in 1978!..

…nah man, that’s on the domestic dealers + automakers choosing not to market small affordable cars in favor of big profitable road-tanks, and it’s not the first time they’ve priced themselves out of the market like this…

…tildes reminds me a bit of usenet culture before the eternal september…

…the disinformation sphere is real, man: learn from our failure and do what you can to save yourselves before it drags you down, too…the problem won’t go away on its own and will take some hard decisions and harder actions against laissez-faire propaganda…

…gay space communism FTW!..

…today i told a coworker that i was listening to the transformers soundtrack because transformers rule and i also have a huge transformers collection because transformers totally rule, and he sent me that emoji in response…

…the baby boomer generation were raised on television and consider it an authoritative source of information; fox news made them a captive asset…as for younger folks on the fascist train, it’s likely sensationalist social media echo chambers, and unfortunately more and more countries are fostering the same pathology…

…funny thing is aperture science isn’t even included in that graphic but it fits right in…

…i was scrolling usenet around 17.30 CDT on april 29th, 1992 when a friend posted that a riot was gathering outside his window; the news broke about an hour later…

(yep, but i just woke up as i was typing, so i’ll leave it as a mark of shame)