jonathankoren™

High Weirdness accelerationist
Known hummus supporter
Infowarrior
Together, we can win the War on Bikes.

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2026-04-22 18:13:12 UTC

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The same, but only earnest.
"Carbon dioxide. They call it pollution. We call it life."
https://youtu.be/R5D_WeWXioU

2026-04-16 18:13:42 UTC

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let us know how it smokes

2026-04-08 00:29:41 UTC

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there’s no way to spin this. It’s a complete strategic defeat.

2026-03-29 17:29:58 UTC

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Personally, I like how the Pakistani foreign minister phrased it. Doubly funny if the reports of Pakistan being a key intermediary are true.
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/116/313/641/591/734/251/original/38d3c30a9cac1b81.jpeg

2026-03-23 18:12:24 UTC

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exactly. I’d actually like to see a report of ICE *actually doing something* at the airport before people people start fear mongering with “tips”. From all the photos I’ve seen, they’re literally just standing around in the unsecured area getting in the way.
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/116/279/836/889/637/694/original/ffa77a36ce8a5f65.jpeg

2026-03-22 03:24:37 UTC

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Answer: respectability politics
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/116/270/682/519/976/938/original/e2af26c7566259ba.jpeg

2026-03-21 18:38:45 UTC

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wow. I just assumed that was a scam

2026-03-17 18:23:19 UTC

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my grandmother bought me that game for Christmas, AND IT WAS FUCKING EXPENSIVE!!!

2026-03-15 23:39:58 UTC

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hope she ran up on stage like this
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/116/235/827/009/889/337/original/2120d295eb3f2c9e.mp4

2026-03-07 20:37:38 UTC

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All hail friend computer!
Death to the commies!
Wordle 1722 2/6
⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

2026-03-03 17:12:32 UTC

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Reminds me of this quote from
“American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism” by Matthew Avery Sutton
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/116/166/346/866/864/959/original/bba043b3bef1cdaf.jpeg

2026-03-01 04:33:53 UTC

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at least they’ve changed the tv display Twitter to a static map for photo purposes.
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/116/152/044/248/301/304/original/75105e7450eb51db.jpeg

2026-02-23 13:25:50 UTC

Wow, people really are crashing out over Doctorow saying that LLMs do have legitimate use cases.
Jesus. Someone literally wrote, “i consider spell checking to be a fascist technology” and demands to be taken seriously.
But yeah. Doctorow is the insane one.

2026-02-16 20:07:06 UTC

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C2C with Art Bell was fun. I came across this ode to Art Bell last year
https://youtu.be/G3M58o7r-w4

2026-02-12 00:15:40 UTC

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I prefer the British way
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/116/054/772/583/499/851/original/1070c659bf0c3d03.jpeg

2026-02-05 04:01:33 UTC

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I love my slide rule. (K & R log-log duplex decitrig (12 inches, maybe 14)) complete with the case, box, and booklet.
I have a bootleg instructional booklet to teach me how to use it. Although, only learned how to multiply with it. Obviously it can do other things, but I’m under the impression you need tables of logarithms and trigonometric functions

2026-01-21 14:07:05 UTC

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https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/933/472/447/325/798/original/00e147c04b2894be.jpeg

2026-01-21 03:51:54 UTC

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fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

2026-01-21 03:51:20 UTC

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even 2x? 3x has been behind a paywall for a while now.
Damn that monopoly needs busted.

2025-12-17 20:16:02 UTC

Nothing owns the libs quite like crime!
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pam-bondi-dismissed-charges-against-a-surgeon-who-falsified-vaccine-cards-it-emboldened-others-with-similar-cases

2025-12-09 15:16:00 UTC

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my problem is that they send it out on the , “you’re going to die” channel. Odds are, i’m never going to find them. Same with statewide amber alerts. I dont want to be bothered. And since they always startle me with things that i have no action to take, i turn off the alerts, and thus could miss important information

2025-12-08 21:09:42 UTC

https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/685/990/200/294/450/original/ad463620bd57ed99.jpeg

2025-12-03 23:12:40 UTC

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my parents exclusively had rotary phones until 2001. The last phones were hardwired to the wall. Not a single RJ 11 in the house until the mid 90s when I spliced in a phone jack to my bedroom for a modem.
Even in the 90s, my mom would complain about phone menus because “not everyone has touch tone phones!” (“No mom. YOU are the only person without a touch tone phone.”)
They replaced them when wire to the handset finally started to break and cause static after almost 40 years of use.

2025-12-02 21:08:57 UTC

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it’s worse than that. Your notional 3.8% interest rate is basically inflation, or maybe just above inflation. So in 18 years, you have the equivalent of your principal.
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/652/014/707/186/304/original/bea747a29d800a82.jpeg

2025-11-19 04:49:56 UTC

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If you dont want to understand the intellectual underpinnings of antitrust enforcement in the United States for the last 50 years, that's on you.

2025-11-19 02:15:35 UTC

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Look. You’re making wild assumptions without actually being informed and thinking you’ve really out smarted someone with One Weird Trick™.
I have no interest in continuing to have a conversation with an arrogant dullard.

2025-11-18 21:07:11 UTC

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I’m saying that Bork isn’t wrong.
I believe Bork would say that as long as the prices either remained low, or did not rise above predumping levels, it’s fine. The consumer benefits from dumping (lower prices), and if the prices return to predumping levels, the consumer is in no worse of a position than before. Why should the government protect, and how does the consumer benefit from, the continuation of an inefficient and uncompetitive business? If the monopoly increases prices (cutting services is effectively the same thing), then there is consumer harm and the government should intervene. So you see, Bork agrees with you there.
What Bork shrugs his shoulders at are monopolies where prices *don’t* increase, or even *decrease*. For example, big tech, or Walmart versus small businesses.
Now the argument can be made that having a single company or a cabal of companies dominate a market is bad for society, but that’s a political rather than an economic argument.

2025-11-18 19:35:35 UTC

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it’s not just that. I think it was Robert Bork who made the argument that the only thing antimonopoly actions should consider is how much it costs consumers. If prices don’t go up, the government shouldn’t care.
In light of this view, Microsoft running Netscape into the ground was actually good for consumers since IE was free and Netscape cost money for the release version. Yet, MS still lost.
I mean, prices certainly should be the primary concern. And yes, network effects are hard to beat, but here we on a much better network. When just a few years ago people kept crowing about how “Twitter should be made a public utility”.
Too many people are incapable of imagining building a better world to make the existing guard irrelevant.

2025-11-16 19:48:07 UTC

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https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/561/100/429/597/298/original/9688302377cf765f.jpeg

2025-11-12 19:01:24 UTC

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I think that’s a taking it a bit far. I think their relationship is exactly what Trump has said about it. They were good friends that bonded over womanizing and financial deals. Then had a falling out about a teenage “masseuse” and a Florida estate.
Personally, i think the most likely explanation, is the one Trump has basically said. Trump knew Epstein liked to rape teenage girls, but didn’t care. Maybe Trump participated a once or twice, I’d say likely did, but I don’t think he made it a habit like Epstein or Prince Andrew. I honestly believe Trump when he said, “He likes them a bit younger than I do.” Not only is that confessing that he knew about Epstein, but also that it wasn’t a deal breaker, no more than someone that takes their coffee different than you do is.
The casual off handedness is what makes it believable to me

2025-11-04 15:26:45 UTC

He’s shooting imps in the face now
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/492/122/301/923/189/original/940dfcdbb79231fc.jpeg

2025-10-31 02:43:00 UTC

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them hiding out on a military base is actually good.
Hopefully they start only getting their food from the PX as well due to high urine content and general refused service

2025-10-28 17:37:04 UTC

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https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/453/003/106/803/224/original/d6a8d23df4f08c53.mp4

2025-10-11 21:52:31 UTC

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don’t recognize the goth in the back, but Marceline got princess bubblegum goin’

2025-10-10 23:09:04 UTC

Of fucking course.
"While Congress appears poised to pass the repeal, it is unclear whether President Donald Trump will support it. During his first term, his administration cited the 2002 Iraq resolution as part of its legal justification for a 2020 U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani. It has otherwise been rarely used."
https://apnews.com/article/congress-war-powers-iraq-trump-a6bc311c0b0890022cb818550758c94e

2025-09-29 16:13:29 UTC

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I’m so glad that it said typos was key to knowing it was slop before he misspelled “emdash”
Same with writing in all lower case

2025-09-28 04:16:04 UTC

I'm tired of talking about "resistance" and "returning to normal"
Give me the fucking revolution.
I want something better.

2025-09-25 15:19:07 UTC

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You can’t have Measles Mary hanging out in your waiting room infecting everyone with a deadly disease. It’s irresponsible to the rest of the patients. So yes, pediatricians do deny care to self centered parents in order to protect the rest of their patients.
What’s surprising is that DeSantis doesn’t think that the free market will provide a solution.

2025-09-23 18:05:01 UTC

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It blew my mind when I found out Jim Jones was seen as a political powerbroker in San Francisco politics in the 70s. It was like finding out the biggest get in every San Franciscan mayoral race is securing Frank Chu’s endorsement.
Apparently, the People’s Temple was a reliable GOTV operation, which completely tracks.

2025-09-13 20:49:22 UTC

Check out them cum gutters
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/198/951/854/754/973/original/505775aa61477154.jpeg

2025-09-11 17:32:44 UTC

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I don’t know if it’s an op or not. I suspect not. That said, it’s pretty wild that the “paper of record” would straight a report a rumor that even the ATF doesn’t have faith in.
Even Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz put in more work than this to get their lies published.
Now just what some rando says on Twitter is enough

2025-09-07 20:29:43 UTC

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i see someone is flying Southwest.

2025-09-03 17:25:43 UTC

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open carry went away because the black panthers were carrying guns.
I mean, Reagan was right about it being a tacit threat to murder, but at the same time I understand why the BP were doing it, but then on the gripping hand, how likely is it someone is going to actually go through with it and shoot an abusive cop? No one even dared to shove Derek Chauvin even while they knew George Floyd was dying.

2025-09-03 07:51:08 UTC

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Rated E for everyone!

2025-09-03 07:48:08 UTC

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I took an gun safety class, and the guy teaching it says, “The safest way to store a gun is unloaded with a trigger lock, but I don’t do that, because I want to be able to fire as soon as I can in case of an intruder.”
JFC man! Where do you live? We don’t live in a John Wick movie.
I am 49 years old, and know TWO people that were killed, and another wounded by “unloaded” guns.

2025-08-24 19:50:19 UTC

lol
Listening to “On The Media” and they’re talking about shortwave radio, and while scanning the dial they find an end times flat earth ministry, and the guest points, “shortwave wouldn’t propagate like this on a flat earth but you know, details, details.”

2025-08-21 22:13:53 UTC

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I love how he also recently said AI needs one trillion dollars of additional investment.
He’s talking about making chatbots the size of the oil industry.

2025-08-21 16:31:01 UTC

Well this is dystopian on multiple levels.
From a real ad I just got served.
Ubiquitous AI Male Voice: Were you imprisoned at San Bernidino Juvenile Correction Center? If so, this is the infinite money glitch for you. If you were abused click here.

2025-08-07 04:07:53 UTC

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https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/985/509/271/388/159/original/93fb4a102387543a.jpeg

2025-08-04 20:59:50 UTC

Here’s a fun project for someone to do.
Build a facial recognition database of California police officers, and then cross reference it with this.
If you could, integrate it into Meta’s Ray-bans.
“Welcome back Officer Jones! Did you go anywhere interesting on your recent paid administrative leave?”
https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/08/police-misconduct-records-database/

2025-07-31 11:56:17 UTC

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it all seemed so innocent once
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/947/716/710/935/576/original/52eafaffcb82fca4.jpeg

2025-07-26 01:40:56 UTC

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It looks like a football instead of fur

2025-07-25 03:32:54 UTC

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I was going to say they couldn’t do that then, but they used that as a plot point in season 1

2025-07-24 20:28:55 UTC

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the fact that it’s Twilight fanfic will never not be funny to me.

2025-07-24 19:36:46 UTC

50 Shades Of Grey Colorized

2025-07-23 22:43:24 UTC

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“Investigators found that Peltola’s plane was manufactured 70 years before the accident and underwent multiple major repairs so that almost none of the original airplane existed”
Plane of Peltola is the new Ship of Theseus

2025-07-23 04:53:34 UTC

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6 is one of my favorites

2025-07-21 06:46:20 UTC

Genuinely surprised Garbage changed the lyrics to “Because The Night”
They toned it down.
Da fuq?

2025-07-20 21:35:11 UTC

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https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/887/707/991/360/638/original/f042b6aa23e8264c.mp4

2025-07-18 00:34:02 UTC

ICE are the gestapo, and they won’t stop.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-arrests-federal-courthouses-sacramento-san-francisco-diego-denver-immigration-hearings-arrests-volunteer-observers/

2025-07-15 23:30:03 UTC

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go out with a bang

2025-07-15 22:56:30 UTC

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It's a list to be proud to be on

2025-07-12 20:17:28 UTC

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I did get a good picture of the other shuttle though.
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/842/102/370/417/445/original/2dc6c02283759917.jpeg

2025-07-12 19:45:32 UTC

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We almost missed it that day. We were looking out over the runway like the announcer said, but instead it passed behind Hanger 1, and I just barely caught it on video.
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/841/970/982/564/838/original/0bb3f50e343c135f.jpeg

2025-07-10 20:07:04 UTC

When you see ICE, always let them know they’re a piece of shit and they should kill themselves. Make their lives a living hell.
I heartedly endorse this nonviolent act.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/trump-ice-morale-immigration/683477/

2025-07-06 02:32:47 UTC

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Ha ha. Only serious.
https://www.idahoednews.org/top-news/attorney-general-everyone-is-welcome-here-sign-cannot-be-displayed-in-idaho-schools/

2025-07-04 18:34:13 UTC

I ended up with the black flag and the regimental banner
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/796/392/025/097/404/original/2022fdc7dcb9c6dd.jpeg

2025-07-03 18:50:22 UTC

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It's worse than that. "The Resistance" has so much learned helplessness they won't even yell at an ICE agent, let alone actually disrupt anything.
rEmEmBeR nO WeApOnS aNd LiStEn To ALL LaW eNfOrCeMeNt iNsTrUcTiOnS. We'Re PeAcEfUL.
Fucking losers won't even fight for their own country
Fuck 50501 and Indivisible.

2025-07-03 15:57:01 UTC

Remember that TSA facial recognition thing at the airport they want you to use instead of just looking at your photo? It’s training data.
https://gizmodo.com/we-live-in-a-surveillance-state-reddit-users-explode-over-reports-of-ices-new-face-and-fingerprint-scanning-app-2000623746

2025-06-30 16:12:47 UTC

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how could you not have espresso?

2025-06-30 04:22:57 UTC

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unfortunately it feels like the dragons we have just horde wealth, prefer to burn the world through greenhouse gasses

2025-06-24 22:59:17 UTC

``White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN in a statement: “This alleged assessment is flat-out wrong and was classified as ‘top secret’ but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community. The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”``
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/intel-assessment-us-strikes-iran-nuclear-sites
We are still waiting for his lies to catch up with him.

2025-06-13 06:40:13 UTC

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stay strong. We only have each other.

2025-06-13 06:36:27 UTC

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my experience is in San Jose.
The 50501 things are super normie white and old. Large though. (A few thousand)
The repurposed homeless turned emergency immigrant rally this week about the city budget vote was younger and more diverse, but smaller. (A few hundred)
We’re also talking about a Saturday afternoon versus a Tuesday early evening as well.

2025-06-13 06:26:39 UTC

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wha? Every one of these I’ve been to in the SFBA has been whiter than mayonnaise. What are you talking about dude?

2025-06-12 03:21:10 UTC

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couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy

2025-06-09 05:22:47 UTC

Maybe this #cyberpunk dystopia isn’t so bad?
#ProtestPorn
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/651/727/300/212/216/original/8fbd96474d4650b8.jpeg

2025-06-06 05:36:37 UTC

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while I still hold that the navy is the only people that do squadron marking right (RIP high viz paint), seeing Nighthawk silhouettes in the checkerboard is nice

2025-05-31 21:44:55 UTC

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the pacific garbage patch is full of nostalgia

2025-05-25 05:45:45 UTC

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If I could afford any plane, I’d be tempted to buy this one, just because it’s weird. Canards and pusher props? 💉💪🥰

2025-05-14 20:03:44 UTC

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I understand memecoins even less than I understood NFTs, and I didn’t understand the appeal of NFTs at all.

2025-05-08 17:53:29 UTC

The pope is American? 😮

2025-04-29 22:24:20 UTC

I mean... It's not wrong. I am a dad.
It's just...
Fuck.
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/423/586/698/094/952/original/0db46e322e5e5b2b.png

2025-04-29 18:58:29 UTC

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Is this the reason why the Linux kernel used bubble sort? If I remember, the lists were like 6 items.

2025-04-10 17:29:55 UTC

✋ “Fuck your sensitivity”
👉 “Fuck your insensitivity”

2025-04-09 22:46:25 UTC

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Did it generate this?
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/310/431/803/683/287/original/cc6a5e44fcbfcc6c.jpeg

2025-04-05 19:16:01 UTC

I know I’m being a downer, it the stupidest normie sign I’ve seen is “WWRBGD?”
Probably write an impotent letter and then refuse to give up her seat so a fascist would take it.
Fuck Ruth Bader Ginsberg. I hope she’s burning in whatever hell she feared the most.

2025-04-04 12:55:37 UTC

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what if the quasi world government were the friends we made along the way, and now we decided to piss all over them?

2025-04-03 01:49:25 UTC

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No. It’s dumber.
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/271/515/765/363/272/original/7091e5bcf8f57d0e.jpeg

2025-03-27 05:28:16 UTC

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I’d love to see a spitfire in USAAF livery. I didn’t even know the Americans used Spitfires during the war, but a guy that went to my parents’ church flew them in North Africa and Italy. 31st Fighter Group apparently. They flew out of Casablanca or there abouts.

2025-03-20 01:59:24 UTC

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Blank Reg is coming for you.

2025-03-18 01:44:42 UTC

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So this is the story Hunter S Thompson was talking about!
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/180/899/526/904/874/original/48ccdebfb4a6c917.jpeg

2025-03-18 00:01:51 UTC

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FYI: “Fuck you” uses less chars, and means the same thing. HTH!
https://sfba.social/@jonathankoren/114179911842587649

2025-03-17 19:18:51 UTC

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put modern editing features in you cowards!

2025-03-12 18:17:03 UTC

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I can tell you this with full authority of someone that went down this rabbit hole just last year.
Not without external 3rd party libraries.
The C++ standard is not Unicode aware. Even the parts you think are, aren’t. It’s absolute trash when it comes to modern text processing. C++ will iterate over *bytes*, not code points. I had to make a library to do this very thing. Sadly, I can not share it, or I would.
Parsing utf8 is not hard, you look at the high order bit and that tells you if you need to read the next byte. If I remember correctly, the number of consecutive high order bits tells you the number of additional bytes you need to read. (Check the Wikipedia article) I think the max bytes to represent a code point in utf8 is four. If you need the code point value, it’s a bit annoying to get because you have to mask off certain bits and shift for each utf8 byte, but again it’s not hard, just annoying
FYI Not all emojis are a single code point. Some can be like four or five code points

2025-03-12 14:58:02 UTC

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«So I think that we should start a movement to—one hour a day or one hour a week—take a little chisel, a little hammer, and put a little hole in some of this plastic, and just see some earth coming up and put a seed there. And then put a little ring of—mandalic ring—of something around it. I can see the highways, and I can see the subways, and I can see the patios, and so forth: suddenly the highway department comes along, and says, “There’s a rose growing in the middle of Highway 101!” And then—then—the robot power group will have to send a group of the highway department to kill the rose and put the asphalt down on the gentle, naked skin of the soil. Now, when they do that we’re getting to them. There’ll be pictures in the paper. And consciousness is going to change. Because we’ve got to get to people’s consciousness. We’ve got to let people realize what they’re doing to the earth.»
— Timothy Leary, Feb 1967
https://www.organism.earth/library/document/houseboat-summit

2025-03-09 05:47:28 UTC

I attended a UC Master Gardener class today at the library, and found out that several branches in San Jose have a seed library. You can just ask for the seed library, and they’ll bring out cases of donated seed packets for you to take home free of charge.
The library! It’s more than just books!
#sanjose #gardening #libraries
https://www.sjpl.org/seed-libraries/

2025-03-09 03:45:03 UTC

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Please stop taking photos of landscapes. You are destroying my illusion that I am a good photographer.
When it’s a plane, I can rationalize it as, “Oh, he just knows when the plane is coming. I could do that.” When it’s a canal, I’m stuck looking at my canal photos and finding them lacking. 😅
Seriously though. This is cool.

2025-03-06 22:21:31 UTC

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We Fail is delightfully disturbing.

2025-03-05 19:32:02 UTC

Spoiler Alert: Cassian joins Starfleet
From: @npub15wh…e9hw
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114111402786551834