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ZachWeinersmith

@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social

The SMBC guy.
New book: A City on Mars (Nov 2)

Co-author of Soonish
Illustrator of Open Borders
Scop of Bea Wolf.

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thatgeoguy, to random
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Holy shit yesterday's absolutely killed me. Wonderfully done @ZachWeinersmith

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/repugnant

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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J'apprends la Francais par lire Reddit, et... "gant de toilette" ? Qu'est ce qui passe dans les douches francaises?

DavidBHimself,

@ZachWeinersmith LOL.
In France, we don't usually have washcloths but "wash gloves."
Not actually a glove, but two washcloths sewn together on three sides if you want.

Apparently, it's called "washing mitt" in English (TIL too)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washing_mitt

Tutanota, (edited ) to privacy
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Our CEOs Arne and Matthias signed an open letter against the EU Chat Control bill.

➡️ https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/48-NGOs-and-26-experts-warn-Mass-surveillance-and-undermining-encryption-still-on-table-in-EU-Council.pdf

Let's fight for #privacy together! 💪 🔒

And check here why Chat Control must fail: ➡️ https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism

j_bertolotti, to random
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"Non-commutative Math is the least weird idea in history!"
(by @ZachWeinersmith )
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commute-2

nyrath, to random
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Article about extraterrestrial settlement
By @ZachWeinersmith

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/21/space-isnt-the-final-frontier/

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Trillion dollar VC idea:

New search engine. You enter a query, it searches Google, ignores sponsored results and obvious SEO, returns information.

skaverat,
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@ZachWeinersmith isn't that basically what Kagi does?

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Look it's me!

https://youtu.be/JDh2QTYYA6o?si=tvhfdO9_0gxomCQM

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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The first rule of Etymology Club is, wait hold on did you know that the word "club" meaning a group of people with a common goal is of 17th century origin and refers to the idea of a mass of people as being like a club, in the older sense of a cudgel, what were we talking about?

johnhattan,
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@ZachWeinersmith I thought the first rule of Etymology club is "We study insects and spell poorly".

boulesdefourrure, to random French
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Wow wow wow @Bouletcorp et @ZachWeinersmith congrats for the 2024 Hugo nomination !
https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/2024-hugo-award-finalists/
#Hugo

olafurw, to random
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My new video is out.
DOOM in Space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zthssUIFG6c

parismarx, to tech
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Elon Musk wants us to believe our future is on Mars, but will settling another planet really be as easy as he makes it seem?

On , I spoke to @ZachWeinersmith about the challenges that will keep us from building space settlements for a very long time.

Full ep: https://techwontsave.us/episode/214_what_elon_musk_wont_tell_you_about_settling_mars_w_zach_weinersmith

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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So, maybe it's just the random assortment of books I read, but it seems like social media has been a mental health calamity for teens, especially girls? I'm always wary of theories that Things Were Better in My Day, but it does seem like smartphones + addiction psychology + social media is a dangerous combination for developing brains.What's the argument against?

glyph,
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@ZachWeinersmith Maybe social media is actually great for kids and engagement-maximizing algorithms are toxic. Maybe group chats are bad but public feeds are good or vice versa. As far as I can tell there is hardly any science going on that actually teases apart the interesting features of these platforms, it's all just "rectangle is bad"

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Full comic here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/grinch

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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I have an idea for a version of rock paper scissors. here's the idea: it's the normal game, only you start with 6 tokens. Two for rock, two scissor, two paper. when you throw one, you have to give up a token and reassign it to one of your other piles. What do you think would happen?

Inclination is it gets boring because nobody wants to go below 1 token. Maybe there's some way the opponent can force? E.g. if they have 3 on one pile they can kill 2 to destroy one of yours?

irving,
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@ZachWeinersmith What do you want ɣ to be (the discount rate)? Here's a close-to-exact solution for ɣ = 0.9. It has some of the expected structure (it's bad to have only one kind of token), but I need to find a better visualization to show the finer details.

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1AzS1FyRhNxS5mi38cEp3aRWd8DyK4YF8?usp=sharing

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Surprised nobody's done this yet.

Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/augmented-3

firecat,
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@ZachWeinersmith This has meme potential

Pxtl, to random
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It's 2:30 AM but it's done. I've never technically implemented an online multiplayer game before, but I did this on a whim and it works:

@ZachWeinersmith 's idea of "Kriegsspiel Tic Tac Toe".

https://github.com/Pxtl/kriegsspiel-tictactoe

It's tic tac toe where you can't see where the other player placed his pieces. With N players and M-size square board and fileshare-based multiplayer.

Attached is a picture of 2 windows playing with the game running on a fileshare.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Posted this yesterday on the Bird site, because it's where I'm regularly told I'm anti progress. So far no bets.

LucasWerkmeister,
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@ZachWeinersmith I knew https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/space-3 was pre-autobiographical.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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French authors insulting the British: their food is bad, their men are weak, their women are ugly, their writing is boring, they are cold and dull and weird and pointless

British authors insulting the French: they're always being French

ancilevien74,
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@ZachWeinersmith
Un échange (certainement apocryphe) entre le corsaire Surcouf et un officier anglais.
(Copié de : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Surcouf )

Quand un officier britannique a contesté la noblesse de Surcouf avec ces mots : « Vous, Français, vous vous battez pour l'argent. Tandis que nous, Anglais, nous nous battons pour l'honneur ! » Surcouf a répliqué : « Chacun se bat pour ce qui lui manque. »

😂😭😱🧌

nickwedig, to random
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TIL the guy who created the Ultima videogame series claims to own a chunk of the Moon.

In 1993 Richard Garriott bought two space exploration craft still on the Moon from an auction at Sotheby's, and he claims that legally gives him ownership over the section of lunar terrain they surveyed.

As @ZachWeinersmith 's book A City on Mars succinctly puts it "No space lawyer we talked to shared this view."

StefanEJones, to random
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Well-informed cold water on the notion of space being a "frontier," in the romantic American sense of the word. (By @ZachWeinersmith and @fuschmu.)

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/21/space-isnt-the-final-frontier/

setiinstitute, to random
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Next : A City On Mars with Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
TODAY, Jan 18, 10:00 AM PST

With deep expertise and a winning sense of humor, the Weinersmiths investigate perhaps the biggest questions humanity will ever ask itself—whether and how to become multiplanetary. Join them in a special conversation with SETI Institute's Beth Johnson.

WATCH LIVE ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j15EZUepsbw&ab_channel=SETIInstitute

festal, to random
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It's probably a case of confirmation bias, but I had to impulse-buy this (comic) book on how the many ways in which the vision of space colonization makes no practical sense. After reading @pluralistic 's review:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/09/astrobezzle/#send-robots-instead

pluralistic, to random
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In A City On Mars, biologist and cartoonist @ZachWeinersmith set out to investigate the governance challenges of the impending space settlements they were told were just over the horizon. Instead, they discovered that humans aren't going to be settling space for a very long time, and so they wrote a book about that instead:

https://www.acityonmars.com/

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inuvanda, to Podcast

https://overcast.fm/+S_7lU9WX0

Just heard Kelly and @ZachWeinersmith on The Mindscape . The episode is super fun, y'all should check it out!

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Quotation
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/quote-2

klauspforr,
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@ZachWeinersmith the context of the quote doesn't make it any better

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