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Researcher researching research (and software engineering). Observing observability. Co-imagining more expansive futures. More at threlk.net (🚧 under construction 🚧) 🔗 https://ln.ht/~threlk/linkinbio
The Colorado Sun asked every Democrat in the General Assembly whether they think Gov. Jared Polis should commute Tina Peters’ sentence. None said “yes,” and many used expletives in emphatically saying “no.”
i absolutely wrote threlk.net/AGENTS.md as a shitpost but every time i turn around it seems like there’s more reason to wonder how many justin-rulez.md files have been created lol
on the upside i am getting pretty
good with regex lol
technically it’s a transpiler for the moment but still
tfw you’re working on a stupid side project and realize you might be writing a compiler
They're calling her the goat, the greatest to ever do it, the genius of the 21st century, the most vindicated bitch who ever lived, her haters in shambles her doubters in tears she's loosed the faithful lightning of her terrible swift sword, HER TRUTH IS MARCHING ON
MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED
more analysis to follow (as soon as I add the logic needed for d20 systems and various dice shenanigans)
two dot sized based scatterplots showing the distribution of probabilities at various levels of ability and difficulty for The Burning Wheel and Year Zero Engine. I am sorry but describing these is going to be difficult also take my word for it these are very bad charts lol. the gist is: BW has both more discrete steps and more intersections that result in impossible or barely possible matchups
at the risk of outing myself as a tremendous nerd: I got curious about the relative ability/difficulty scaling across various ttrpg systems and the probabilities therein. enjoy these terrible plots from my wip python notebook
"Man convicted of manslaughter after girlfriend dies hiking in winter storm" sounds insane until you get into the details.
He put an inexperienced hiker into harm's way despite explicit warnings and waved away numerous attempts to rescue her! The punishment was too lax here, not too severe.
The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.
historical precedent setting idiots? in my contemporary period of world events? it’s more likely than i would like
the great idiot of history theory is a lot more fun when it’s in the past and not actively spreading mass death both at home and abroad
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
i don’t even have words.
only anger, grief, and shame.
so do we think there are concepts of a war plan or
i uh, had a slightly different path
every once in a while i remember that, despite my best efforts, my younger brother ended up in the tennessee national and attending liberty university
"The architecture itself, as architecture, is generally conventional... But as the scaffolding for an especially invasive sort of digital surveillance the venue takes on a darker cast...I had the unshakable sensation... that the arena was doing its best to mine my body for information..."
spent a few years on projects
that touched various facets of “smart space”, watching some of this stuff emerge. it was very hard work to get stakeholders fixated on the less-dystopian technologies like projection mapping or accessible wayfinding, but i like to think i helped delay a bit of this:
the purpose of a rube goldberg machine is what it does eventually
i think it tells you a lot about who i am when i'm writing code that i can remember `git pull --rebase github main` but usually need at least two attempts to remember to use -m when committing
well this was fun diversion from the case study writing I was supposed to be doing www.are.na/threlk/good-...
meanwhile in denver colorado, linkedin has been recommending this role to me non stop for the last week
amazing things happening in the worlds of commerce, business, economic growth, etc
it’s not exactly the same as what’s currently happening but reading station eleven on a plane in february of 2020 was a particularly dramatic
version of this
chat is this good
"the way forward is indie art" yes largely absolutely. but sometimes art costs a lot of money!!!!!!!!!!! now bear with me. what if the "means" by which the art was "reproduced" was "seized" in some way
as something of a (fictional) dystopia appreciator i’ve gotta say: don’t love how often i look up from a game or book or film and see the same plot points playing out on the actual news
a shitty image macro: internet justin explain to ignorance of the dark arts it’s not my fault, i wasn’t exposed to pokémon based on: the office (US) murder mystery scene where dwight asks angela’s very culturally insensitive character to explain her dalliance with the dark arts and she responds “it’s not my fault, i was exposed to harry potter”
a shitty image macro: internet justin explain to ignorance of the dark arts it’s not my fault, i wasn’t exposed to pokémon based on: the office (US) murder mystery scene where dwight asks angela’s very culturally insensitive character to explain her dalliance with the dark arts and she responds “it’s not my fault, i was exposed to harry potter”