Kaye @kaye@octodon.social

I saw a kid today who had a paper glider attached to a rly long spool of transparent twine. So you can toss it from the balcony, watch it fly, then reel it back and repeat. That's actually pretty clever, huh

In the 2050s, AR and VR gear is commonplace. "Emotive apps" offer a risk-free way to experience almost any desired state of consciousness, but the market is controlled by a small cartel of tech firms, driving up prices and suppressing creativity.

But that's about to change. We've spent the last year reverse-engineering the platform, and we're about to release an open-source alternative. Tonight, we break the emotive monopoly. Tonight... we bring down Big Mood.

Sometimes I feel bad about not really engaging with the furry community. Then some shit happens on social media and I'm incredibly relieved I neither know nor care about anyone involved. 👌

Also, a second application that loudly announces you're not using the first one whenever a Forever Cancellation becones likely. Ideally we'll get a nicely anxiety-riddled social hellscape out of this

An application that montors social media traffic and uses big machine learning amalytics to predict who will be Cancelled Forever next, so that you can unfollow them before your peer group

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[Small brain] Rolling your own cryptography
[Big brain] Rolling your own math functions
[Galaxy brain] Rolling your own private in-house language that compiles down to VBScript

Alternate caption: "if yOU THink BiTcoIN SucKS whY don't yOu SHoRT iT?"

TEchNiCal anAlYsiS Is mEANinGFUL

The day my childhood ended was when I realised the solution to the Masks of Mayhem is that the name of the wizard - who is obviously the traitor - is "Ifor Tynin." As in, "iFOR TYnin". As in, when the book tells you that "you should know what to do if you know the traitor" it expects you to turn to section 40. That was some bullshit.

TROKK only collapsed because of a nuke, so

You can't tell me that everybody just went "a choice between a soul crushing corporate dystopia or a lawless gang warfare dystopia, sounds good to me"

Where's my sweet Coastal Anarcho-Syndicalist Association

Yes, yes, not the point of the book

I know it's extremely not the point of the book, but I wonder what other states there are in Snow Crash. We hear about the corporate franchise-states and the somewhat more loosely-managed burbclaves, but you can't tell me that TROKK was the *only* attempt to establish an independent mini-country.

Look, all I'm saying is like... if you told me there was a comic book set in the Back to the Future Extended Universe, where Doc and Marty must depose President Tannen by exposing his affair with a porn star, I'd believe you.

I just read an interesting article about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmanskop and the shit the colonists did to the local workers, and it got me thinking. There's never been a real debate about Germany's colonial past, I think? I guess the two world wars - and, you know, the Nazi stuff - kinda overshadowed it.

They all laughed when I introduced the extensible and future-proof n-state boolean. "What, do you expect the nature of logic will change?" Those fools. Who is laughing now?! Well, events no longer follow causes, but

Get it get it do you get it
Because of polygons, see

"She seems a lot happier now with her new partners. I guess increasing her poly count really rounded out her personality."

Do u think we could enlist subs to protest for democracy by giving them signs asking for "free doms" 🤔👏🤑

I'm starting to think that part of the reason I like coffee so much is semi-conscious self-medication? I get terrible headaches and caffeine helps a lot. Doesn't make it easy to keep intake levels reasonable, haha

[Small brain] Saying "happy birthday"
[Large brain] Saying "hippo birdies"
[Galaxy brain] Posting a Phelddagrif with no context