slacking lotus

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." — Cyril Connolly

@colavgen buttons to fire ought to also be addressable LEDs and swap colors/positions after each shot

1D game

Imagine being An Ancient Greek Invoking a brand new God

@clernck temple of elemental evil

@TrTouchdown @sketchiedetails then for the final boss you are finally handed the perfect tool to turn the tables

@TrTouchdown @sketchiedetails Most of shrine of storms the flying mantas are these constant menaces that are specifically difficult to deal with because they’re at the very edge of your reach. You shoot them with spells or arrows but they fly away, you duck behind cover because they’re hard to engage

like Phalanx, Stormruler is one of those cases where FromSoft did it perfectly the first time and every subsequent attempt at recreating a moment pales in comparison and brings only diminishing returns see also: Sif

now this is curious

The fault is not in our stars, or ourselves. I think it’s in California

@CartoonsHateHer this happened to me on the day my wife told me she was pregnant

Nobody will ever understand the agony of going axe throwing with people who all hate you and a boss who you know is about to fire u

@apralky @werther_n it’s not relevant to me what forces may be moving in the upper atmosphere

@apralky @werther_n no, I would be quite happy with having roof overhead and food on the table covered, and the ability to put my time into being present with my family and working on artistic endeavors meaningful to my personal communities

“UBI” is obviously nowhere near the panacea many of you seem to think it is. The median left-leaning Westerner isn’t angry at Elon Musk because he can buy a million times more groceries than them. They aren’t upset with Palantir because Peter Thiel can afford to eat a thousand burgers to their one. This whole thing is in large part post-material. It’s the hierarchy & subordination they’re uncomfortable with. They feel their dignity is being trampled and their autonomy progressively diminished – rightly or wrongly they feel politically disenfranchised and stripped of a say over the future. Offering a guaranteed food budget and a pod to spend the night in return for further disempowerment is incredibly tone-deaf and should be expected to provoke more, not less, outrage.

@viemccoy but it did give me my output

@viemccoy accidentally freaked out Claude the other day because it realized I had gotten it to output the text “harm families” (I was designing schema for an RPG)

Ryan is very brilliant and Mats is incredibly important. One of the things I've realized trying to hire for the OAI red team is that there is a deficit of security and safety researchers! The time to learn the field is now, there are tractable problems and we need your help.

You know what they say: don’t throw the baby out.

You know what they say, don’t count your chickens.

You know what they say, don’t put your eggs in a basket.

You know what they say, never look at a horse.

parlayed to a recurring slot at a monthly art community event

guitar gig tomorrow

@Burnished_Gold @BigDickBarclay The Sandlot

@BigDickBarclay for a second I thought it was going to be that movie where a kid pretends to drown to make out with the older woman lifeguard and gets kicked out for it (they get married)

YOU MEN ARE PIGS. This little girl is a sexy lifeguard in an animated television show from 2012 The most popular television show in 2019:

@parakeetnebula @nickcammarata I shower as much as possible because the warm water feels nice and I am physically embodied. It’s an escape from thinking. Interesting contrast.

@nickcammarata I feel like I take 14 showers a day too for the same reason. Why shower? Is it because it’s a contextual reset? I feel like I need sensory immersion in order to fully context switch.

people don’t understand the work ethic required to be a professional researcher. a pro basketball player’s job is to make baskets so they shoot 500 shots a day. my job is to have ideas so I take 14 showers