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You probably heard about me because I am the founder of the Twisted python networking engine open source project. But I’m also the author and maintainer of several other smaller projects, a writer and public speaker about software and the things software affects (i.e.: everything), and a productivity nerd due to my ADHD. I also post a lot about politics; I’d personally prefer to be apolitical but unfortunately the global rising tide of revanchist fascism is kind of dangerous to ignore.

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AlSweigart, to random
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Man, every since my visit to Pittsburgh I've been low key into funiculars, these twin cable cars on hill sides where one is the counterweight for the other.

I never thought of myself as a "guy on the spectrum who is into trains" but I guess I never found the right kind of train.

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

glyph,
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@AlSweigart In the United States, public transportation infrastructure in general and trains in particular have been systemically underfunded, resulting in a low level of awareness in the general public about different types of transport. Also, autism spectrum conditions are systemically underdiagnosed. In this essay I will

glyph, to random
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Had the dissonant experience today where I saw a newsletter claiming that it had “content in this issue” from … me … and when I looked to see what that meant, it meant that they linked to my blog. They’re not pirating my writing or anything, and more exposure via links is fine so… good, I guess? I don’t want to complain but it seems like such an odd and misleading way to phrase it

foone, to random
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Terrible idea: an author writes a book, but instead of releasing it, they train an LLM on it, and release the model.

So readers can ask the LLM to generate text based on it, but can never know the original text.

glyph,
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@foone I seem to remember a performance-art bit in the floppy disk era which was a single-user experience (a hypertext book, IIRC) that deleted itself after viewing, and was never put online. This reminded me of it but I cannot remember what it was called. Fitting, perhaps.

glyph, to random
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honestly not sure how I feel about this trend discovery, exist.io

glyph, to random
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Sci-fi story prompt: someone invents a drug that allows its consumer to remain cognizant of all the stuff that they doom-scroll through but without any impact to their executive function or mood. Like they still feel the moral impetus to act but they don’t feel any of the paralysis or despair. Not “limitless” style infinite executive function or anything, just regular neurotypical function that isn’t impaired by constant oppressive knowledge of the omnicrisis. How does this change the world?

glyph, to random
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Absolutely blew through this game in a few hours with the kiddo, and while it is disappointingly short, it is absolutely a worthwhile experience. If you’ve ever recited that now classic quote about wanting shorter games with worse graphics, buy it immediately: https://kotaku.com/duck-detective-secret-salami-how-long-1851497669

zzzeek, to random
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I'm drinking this pretty decent cotes du rhone for the past few hours and let me just say it's made my one off opinions and social media takes of things totally awesome

glyph,
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@zzzeek cheers, here’s to you not regretting them tomorrow

zzzeek, to random
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write a fairly inflammatory toot then see how many of them blocked you. but I've been thinking about this a lot, for literally decades, and I can't avoid this conclusion.

glyph,
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@zzzeek @faassen I keep falling into this trap myself. Yelling at pudding-brained anarchists who are ostentatiously posting about not voting, while I know that they're this vanishingly small population who have such a fundamental misunderstanding of the political system that it's a waste of time to try to convince them of anything. But it is precisely because they are such a perfect crystallization of a particular type of misunderstanding that they are such an attractive nuisance

glyph, to random
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Does anyone happen to know if it is possible to get a projector for an open space at ? I have some ideas that involve discussions of code where it would be useful if a participant could share their screen with a larger group.

glyph,
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@matt I did other things during the open spaces and did not attempt to cut against the grain like this :-)

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