I think that's the intention of it, but we grew up in a small safe town where you basically couldn't get beaten up so it remained a sort of vestigial term
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I think that's the intention of it, but we grew up in a small safe town where you basically couldn't get beaten up so it remained a sort of vestigial term
the chime rings. my spurs clank. I stand in silhouette in the gas station doorway. attendants and customers look up in fear. my shadow falls larger than life upon the roller grill
took the lil monster truck out through the ice and slush
Walking around
for the record, we're talking to a bot with a vested interest in selling this stuff
but you're totally right: the data is extremely malleable and easy to work with in literally any shape it comes in. it's fine
Outdoor fruit stand with huge pyramid of oranges and tall round banana display.
they’re just begging for a car chase
looking back on it, was 'street smart' just a participation medal for kids who were Not Smart as a way of giving them their own thing too?
like tyler and brad in sixth grade weren't street smart. we went to the same church. they're not like, slinging kilos in detroit or whatever
not natively, but if you start to build up a library of markdown (people use obsidian, etc) then it can search through the breadcrumb trails you leave it
a lot of 'memory' is basically just this, reading and writing to known files such that each new instance can pick up where you left off
claude like chat
dust in the wind
also, now that claude can search through all previous conversations from inside a conversation, it's a surprisingly good self-threading notes app too
I'm not a 'second brain' type organizer, but...
I guess you could be dropping it in a pool accidentally every day
shoot, you're right
"reading about hypertext apps from the 80~90s, back when the role was called "hypertext designer" rather than web designer or developer. many came out of academia, and most failed, but there's sth exciting about seeing such a diverse range..."
https://x.com/poetengineer__/status/2005511136037474635
all of the tech I make comes from here
maps can tell you where places are, but not what they feel like
I have no doubt that dario is a True Believer and genuinely took that stand for the sake of genuine conviction
but also, you have to imagine him somewhere looking at whatever dashboard they have for this stuff and smirking at least a little with this outcome
midjourney, ai art, solarpunk, victorian cobblestone, walkable city infrastructure, human scale train tramway
solar LED globemaxxing trampunk
oooh! just bought it
in general I've bounced off of 3D versions of these types of games, I just really really like factorio specifically, but I do like the solarpunk mech vibe
my birthday is the 13th so that sort of always became 'my' number
time to become the anduril of tree saws
www.youtube.com/shorts/KV2AN...
I still have every phone I have ever owned, all the way back to the first flip phones
- when I was a kid I shook the mayor's hand and cried
- I own five pairs of identical pants, and have gone through a succession of 8+ pairs of identical shoes
- as a teen at summer camp we built a potato cannon that shot a potato clean through a steel door
- I've never seen The Lion King
- I've never eaten a corndog
- I've been in the back of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of cop cars
- former president obama called my work "outstanding"
in grade three my whole class got on a bus and took a field trip to my house to see an experimental military robot in our garage
bsky.app/profile/bren...
knitting is kind of interesting as a metaphor because although there are many automations and mechanizations, the hobby of knitting as enjoyed by most people is still primarily the oldest slowest method of doing each purl by hand over and over for hours
haha! great minds, etc
it's possible I just own a lot of woodworking tools, but when I think of "tools" generally, they are of the carpentry type first and foremost, even as we go into this world of digital tooling
when I was a kid raised on Left Behind books I was so afraid that there'd be some anti-christian fascism that rose up and knocked door to door to round up and punish the believers
turns out it was true but exactly opposite
woof
we jumped from $1.20 to $1.40