FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

watching this great video essay about tears of the kingdom. dude pauses while talking about the story to ask for someone to comment if "secret stones" is a direct translation of the word used in japanese, which is something i've wondered myself so of course i checked the comments and, man,

https://youtu.be/a4ldmt3eU2I

Blends right in, doesn't it? Call me, ISO.

the generational shift from

"haha [degrees] isn't that hot, try [my region] in summer!"

to

"wow that's crazy. try to stay safe out there!"

"un-teach me strength,
I am too tired to hold it all"
pleads Desperation
grasping frantically for Comfort
blindly on his knees in midnight sand.
"no, un-teach me bad lessons,
dislodge this history
and allow it to wash downriver,"
he sighs, resigned. "or yet,
un-teach me fear,
I will never be troubled again."

"No, I will not."
owl-eyed Presence draws
a glittering starry cloak
across Desperation's naked shoulders.
"I will not un-teach
strength. I will teach footing
to learn when and how to bear the load.
I will not un-teach
the bad lesson. I will teach truth
so your reaction is informed.
I will not un-teach
fear. I will teach experience
to understand when you may relax."

his rebuttal dissolves in the breeze
as Presence pushes her cold finger
against his weary lips.
"I will not un-teach history.
I would never shame you, my friend,
for dwelling. but to even visit safely,
you must first be able to leave."

#poetry

And the second prototype: Snake – but you are the apple! #GMTKJam

From today's "Browser history of a #translator":
BSDM glossary
Kitchen tools list
Male names related to minerals
Synonyms for rectal
Jokes on mining
Curious dophin
Sentences written with numbers
Footbal common expressions
How do you call someone who lends money at high interests

just reposting the 2014 leaked email about how Scott Alexander (Scott Siskind) had specifically intended Slate Star Codex to promote neoreaction and race science

not a single person denied the email, they were just outraged at the leaker for breaking confidence

Yudkowsky even declared that they should be shunned, lol

this email is surprisingly little spoken of, I keep finding SSC/ACX readers who've never heard of it. for once the rationalists had the good sense not to fuss about it

i keep pointing centrists at this email and they can't reconcile the SSC article they liked with the writer of SSC explicitly saying he's trying to make them more racist

reasons to keep the fuckin receipts

text of scott email: https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/lm36nk/old_scott_siskind_emails_which_link_him_to_the/gntraiv/
topher brennan tweets when posting the email: https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/643403673004851200/reddragdiva-topher-brennan-ive-decided-to-say

#nimona #transgender

me: i'm washed up. i've got nothing left in the tank. it's over. i'm finished

also me: [writes 4200 words on Yellowjackets in an afternoon]

What I like best about #mastodon

i wrote a polite letter to @tailscale asking them to suggest 9.9.9.10 (no filtering) instead of 9.9.9.9 (filtered) because clearly quad9 cannot be trusted with picking the third parties that can potentially break your DNS

was wondering why resolving plushy.love returns NXDOMAIN, turns out i was using quad9's 9.9.9.9 and instead of Giving Me The A Records In The Order They Were Posted they use a bunch of third parties to determine 'threats' to block

plushy.love was blocked by bfore . ai, which advertises something called "PreCrime"