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Dynamicland's new website, documenting ten years of work, will be released tomorrow at dynamicland.org

In the meantime, this video about Dynamicland's precursor gives some backstory and motivations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI7J3II59lc

i think one of the coolest sci-fi world building window dressings we ever saw was a standard issue cybernetic augment that made hair prehensile

not enough to like, be a useful tool, but enough that it could untangle itself, or work itself into braids, without intervention

Fun fact about my programming career:

My first program ever written was around age 10 and it was a port of a game from one language to another.

Not first "completed game" or even "first serious program": the very first code I ever wrote was me reading a BASIC game out of a book, then reading the DOS 5 manual enough to figure out how to port the game to a DOS batch file.

@NanoRaptor I guess another way to think about it is that a term gets coined, is subject to rapid semantic drift, but then later its movement slows down as it gets closer to a fixed point of the "semantic drift function".

Semantic drift annealing? Linguistic gradient descent?

Years ago, I created a bot that posted Sun Tzu quotes, if Sun Tzu had written about cyber war. When X closed up API access that bot broke, and it never was high on my list of priorities to bring here. Well, I just fixed that. May I introduce you to @SunTzuCyber, which posts hourly. The posts are set up as unlisted/quiet public, so they won't show up in timelines unless you follow it.

Seriously, WTAF, NYT and WaPo.

Let me be clear: extreme heat kills. Do not try to tough out a heat wave. If your home or apt. is very hot, find a place with air conditioning.

https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/how-extreme-heat-kills-you

Our actual climate policy

go into software, easiest field in the world, get paid to go on the computer

The three genders

I just made @alice LOL

writer: "she quickly dragged a brush through her curly, thick hair"

me: she absolutely did not

did you know bash supports generics