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guy who sees the gorilla the first time on the gorilla test

One bummer revelation from this most recent business trip is that I may have reached a point in my career where I need a worksona, i.e. a real-name presence on Twitter and possibly even LinkedIn. This was unnecessary when I was doing work way in the internal plumbing nobody would ever see, but when I was at a conference telling real people "hey, you should use this", it became an issue.

shot: all actions are allowed chaser: none are without a price

yeah, many such cases. but there doesn't seem to be a clear solution. just... the inevitability of the void, consuming the souls of the damned. unfortunately this means innocents will also ... *gestures vaguely at the horror*

People often assume that states like Texas, North, or South Carolina are conservative. But they're not at all like people assume.

For example, I live in the Carolinas. And there's a lot of progressive culture. I mean, a dose of healthy liberalism isn't such a bad thing.

Yet sometimes, it's surprising. Like, there's a lot of sex work culture here. That's maybe the most ancient profession of all time, right?

But almost every time I hear from people who are involved in it, it's genuinely horrifying.

It seems like every story goes, "I got into sex work. Then I started using drugs. Then one day I got pregnant. Then I kept doing drugs while I was pregnant. Then I learned my child and I both have [HIV/hepatitis/preventable disease] and my child now has [lifelong condition related to drugs or disease]."

And this is just a super unfortunate and heart breaking set of affairs. Unfortunately it's a super common pattern in the city I currently reside in.

Maybe it's not like this everywhere. But I sort of can't help but view it as an indictment on certain overlapping cultures.

As of 2025, globally, 0.3% of Windows PCs and 0.1% of all devices across all platforms continue to run Windows XP.

I worry that fake depictions of the middle ages are so pervasive that you couldn't even make an historically accurate one.

do you ever think about how machine learning basically started in the 1940s and 1950s but they just didn't have the hardware at the time to implement it in a robust way

My "this isn't complicated" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my shirt.

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