A winning lotto ticket costs the same as a losing lotto ticket, which is about 2 USD. So, I’ll buy a winning lotto ticket for every lotto I can remotely cash in via phone call. The rest can go into hiring a lawyer to provide me legal protection from lawsuits caused by my sudden inexplicable luck.

Do you have a moment for our Lord and Savior, WGS84?

He had a lot of money and free time and chose to document his hyperfixation rabbit holes.

Prologue: Magic died at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London after a precise photograph of the Moon was recorded, seen, and accepted as reality by the general public. Now, with the emergence of generative AI, diffusion models have loosened the public’s hold on reality, magic, and all the associated rewriting of history, is reëmerging.

No, don’t you see? You’re saying immigrants are basically slaves to capitalism right? Well, why can’t I own slaves? That’s the real problem here. — Racists

I have a public gitweb repository. I am constantly being hit by dumb crawlers that, left to their own devices, request every single diff of every single commit simply because links requesting such operations are presented. All of which are unnecessary if they would only do a simple git pull, then my server would happily provide the 50 MB of the entire git repo history. Instead, they download gigabytes of HTML boilerplate, probably never actually get a full commit history, and probably can’t even use what data they do scrape since they’re just randomly pulling commits in between blocks and bans.

All of this only became an issue around a year ago. Since then, I just accept my public facing static pages are all that’s reliable anymore.

The trick is to lock in a sustainable situation where power is spread out more than it is centralized. Democratic republics achieve this but, if your goal is simple “efficiency” (e.g. your personal political faction not restrained by rule of law) and you ignore the benefits of freedom of expression and movement that democracy gives you, then centralized autocratic control is tempting.

This sounds like a clip from a LOTR × Ghostbusters crossover. They try using a trap but the One Ring upgrades the trap to catch almost any spirit or demon, including Balrogs, tempting the Ghostbusters to use it to capture Sauron, which, of course, is pure folly.

But I just can’t stop.

Is that unusual?

This is like a SimCity news ticker item.

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Emojis in text just reeks of LLM chicanery.

Corollary: Quit if you don’t get paid to perform tasks you don’t want to do.

IRS: Your work is worth doing because it indirectly helps people pay taxes to government which indirectly increases the United States’s gross domestic product compared to other nations by helping corporations consolidate into monopolies which indirectly allows corporations to [directly control government via regulatory capture to] indirectly lower prices via consumer welfare doctrine which (allegedly) indirectly lowers living costs of consumers to buy food to feed themselves.

Hot Dog Stand: You feed people, making them happy.

The insects were dried protein snacks from a Boy Scout’s wilderness guide training; they were like salted sunflower seeds with the shell still on. It was the Wal-Mart goldfishes that were alive and swallowed Attack-on-Titan-style.

The ability to force any two conscious beings to feel empathy. Like in the 2015 novel ::: spoiler Title Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky :::.

One of the few surefire ways people have to make the powerful face personal consequences: waste their time.

If it weren’t Docker-dependant, I’d imagine this would be a good FreedomBox app.

High gasoline prices.