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@volkadav ("Mike Jackson") retweeted:

@hephaestus5 ("Man, I hate Illinois Nazis") wrote:

"porn is causing society to degenerate"

meanwhile, at the birthplace of society:

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@QueenCommunism ("A Sexy Motorbike") wrote:

Need someone to treat me like I'm 8000 year old cave art from Tassili n'Ajjer

@volkadav ("Mike Jackson") retweeted:

@IanColdwater ("Ian Coldwater 📦💥") wrote:

my phone just tried to autocorrect "omfg" to "infosec" and honestly, fair

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@amywestervelt ("Amy Westervelt") wrote:

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”

Tons of Ursula K. LeGuin quotes for this moment in time. I’m heading into 2022 with this one

@volkadav ("Mike Jackson") retweeted:

@QuinnyPig ("Corey Quinn") wrote:

Quoth @awscloud when trying to convince people to take a job there: “we build in a conservative 15% growth in our stock to our target compensation number.”

@Amazon in 2021: stock increases by 4.64%. Inflation was 6.8%, SP500 was 28.7%.

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@JessRobynLoney ("💕❤𝒥𝓮𝓈𝓈𝒾𝒸𝒶 𝑅♡𝒷𝓎𝓃❤💕") wrote:

Heads up everyone.
If you see "Bio-Trans", they are GCs creating burner accounts to harass us.

Please spread this for awareness.

@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") wrote:

An actors life! The Trixie And Katya Live Stage Show is a coffee lovers dream! ☕️

@alicegoldfuss ("mx claws") replied to a tweet by @alicegoldfuss:

I know now that the period of time when everyone seemed to care about their community was actually just people scared for themselves

as soon as they felt out of danger, the facade dropped

@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:

@bluegal ("Frances Langum 🧶") wrote:

And now a year later she's PRIMARYING Rodney Davis. OMG.

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@probably_margot ("Margot McGowan Staebler Arno") wrote:

Not a great look for a freshmen Congresswoman to be caught on tape at a rally in the Nation’s Capitol saying “Hitler was right.” @Miller_Congress

And for those who want to nitpick what she said, let me just stop you right there—Hitler was right on literally nothing.

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@alicegoldfuss ("mx claws") wrote:

I'm so, so happy we have vaccines and better testing

but also nostalgic for the weeks when everything was closed, restaurants were selling flour and butter to the community, and everyone seemed to give a shit about others

@alicegoldfuss ("mx claws") wrote:

I want the library to do curbside pickups again

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@InkedHellHound ("Michael Fisher") wrote:

"Kitten has gotten a hold of a slice of salami and decided it's worth fighting to keep"

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@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@LuxAlptraum ("Lux “Trash Phoenix” Alptraum") wrote:

They correctly predicted that 2021 would be the year we all lose our minds

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@HannaBarberaCap ("Hanna-Barbera ScreenCaps") wrote:

Sealab 2021 is now set in the past

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@GingerSlim ("Roni Sighs") wrote:

Oh my god

@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:

(okay last #showerthought on this topic: Ada-1. never rebooted. how? well, one difference is that she was created by Niobe Labs, rather than Clovis...)

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@NW_Horadam ("Nathaniel Horadam, 2022 Edition") replied to a tweet by @NW_Horadam:

Well this blew up. So while we're here...

The correct response is to provide Texas the aid it needs, while visibly needling Abbott's recklessness & hypocrisy.

"The federal government is taking care of Texans because their governor thinks its politically advantageous not to."

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@NW_Horadam ("Nathaniel Horadam, 2022 Edition") wrote:

Hours apart. Unbelievable.

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@CryZe107 ("CryZe") replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:

@steveklabnik tbf this would've resulted almost definitely in a panic in Rust, which would've likely been worse for the player experience.

@volkadav ("Mike Jackson") retweeted:

@AHappierDay ("A happier day") wrote:

found this fancy lookin cat in a San Francisco liquor store.

@steveklabnik wrote:

"memory safety doesn't matter for single-player games" https://youtu.be/pCrawefoaW8?t=3877

thanks to bounds checking, this is a harmless failure with a diagnostic rather than who-knows-what

@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:

also a major component of the overarching story is about conway's game of life

basically destiny's writing team are huge philosophy and computer science nerds, it seems.

@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:

and if you don't play destiny, one of the biggest concepts in the story is "paracausality", that is, the idea that things can happen without a cause, which means that some of this sort of thing can be inaccurate in ways and that may even actually be okay inside the game lore

@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:

if you found this interesting and want to go another step deeper, this time involving the second law of thermodynamics, here is a very good reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyLore/comments/k9lepe/deep_stone_crypt_symbols_reveal_why_clarity_is/

@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:

anyway that is the surface-level connection: essentially, exos are only possible if you also accept the Cartesian answer to the mind-body problem.

@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:

exos developed a unique cognitive disorder called DER, that is, Dissociative Exomind Rejection.

yep: the brain was like "what the fuck is this body i am in, NOPE NOPE NOPE".

@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:

when this happens (or before, for prevention's sake), you can like, wipe the brain clean. the exo doesn't retain any memory of their former self. so then they have that to deal with.

Cayde-6: the sixth version of Cayde, mind wiped five times.

@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:

(some people believe DER was artificially created by Clovis for his own ends but gosh darn it this is already way too long)

@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:

Clovis Bray developed exos in order to try and give humans (and more specifically himself) immortality; when your body dies just copy your mind over, no biggie.

but there was problems

@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:

Destiny has these characters called "Exos", they are human minds in a robot body.

too bad I didn't start this thread two days ago or i could have made a good reference here

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@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:

cartesian dualism is basically the idea that the mind and body are two separate (hence "dual") things. the "mind/body problem" basically asks "are these two things separate or not" and cartesian dualism says "yepp"