Austin Seraphin

@LundukeJournal I use Mate because it has better accessibility.

Which has a better User Interface, GNOME 2 or GNOME 50 (latest release)?

@SirBylHolte "Leave the gun. Take the canoli."

"The Godfather" is a timeless masterpiece about power, family loyalty, betrayal, and the brutal cost of empire-building. It’s masculine cinema at its peak — and it couldn’t be made today. Because the men are unapologetically MEN, and the women stay in their lane. Now compare that to today’s woke feminist garbage: Guy Ritchie’s "MobLand" immediately hands real power to the wives, mothers, and scheming matriarchs, while the men are reduced to violent idiots or confused pawns. Then you have Taylor Sheridan’s revisionist feminist crap: "Yellowstone": Tough rancher men terrified of one unhinged toxic girlboss, Beth Dutton. "Mayor of Kingstown": Hardened criminals constantly schooled and dominated by strong-willed, foul-mouthed women. "Landman": Oil tycoons and roughneck men being lectured, manipulated, and put in their place by sharp-tongued women. The tough guy realm doesn’t feel dangerous anymore — it feels henpecked. "The Godfather" respected the game. Modern shows mock it by pretending the women were always the real bosses. I’ll take Coppola’s cold truth over this revisionist fantasy any day.

@LundukeJournal I love Forth! I wish people would use it more.

It's Star Wars Day (May 4th) "May the Fourth be With You" A solid, nerdy pun, to be sure. But it can be made nerdier. Here's some code, written in the Forth programming language, to help you celebrate this illustrious day. "My the FORTH be With You." A nerdy pun, nested inside another nerdy pun. Perfection. github.com/susam/may4

Boards of Canada announced their first album in thirteen years!

One week has passed since Artemis II returned to Earth after a historic mission around the Moon. We laughed, we cried, and we pushed the boundaries of what’s possible, setting the stage for future innovation and exploration. We’re just getting started.

@BowTiedTrance I am a ham radio operator and get the same thing.

Years ago, I memorized the NATO Phonetic Alphabet because I thought it was the most accurate. Over the phone, even if you're trying to say something like, "N as in 'Night'," it can still be misheard as, "M as in 'Might,'" you know? So I just went with the standard NATO template. I got off the phone this morning with a guy at a business where I needed to give him my email address, so I'm doing the thing, "... Alpha ... Kilo ..." etc. He says, "What branch of the service were you in?" Apparently "no one ever says 'kilo,' that's a dead giveaway." 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

And splashdown! America is back in the business of sending astronauts to the Moon and bringing them home safely. Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy did an outstanding job. These talented astronauts inspired the world and represented their space agencies and nations as humanity’s ambassadors to the stars. This was a test mission, the first crewed flight of SLS and Orion, pushing farther into the unforgiving environment of space than ever before, and it carried real risk. They accepted that risk for all we stood to learn and for the exciting missions that follow, as we return to the lunar surface, build a Moon base, and prepare for what comes next. And they were not alone. The entire NASA workforce, our commercial and international partners, and the hopes and dreams of people all over the world were with them. The astronauts know it, and you should too. This mission would not have been possible without you. Congratulations. Artemis II, mission accomplished.

They're halfway home. The Artemis II astronauts have hit the "halfway" mark between the Moon and the Earth. They will splash down in the Pacific Ocean around 8:07 pm ET on Friday, April 10 (0007 UTC on Saturday, April 11), off the coast of San Diego.

Approaching the near side of the Moon. The Artemis II astronauts have surpassed the record for the distance from Earth at 1:56 ET (1756 UTC). This record was previously set during the Apollo 13 mission when the astronauts traveled 248,655 miles from Earth. The Moon continues to grow larger and larger in the windows of the Orion spacecraft as the Artemis II mission gears up to observe the far side. The astronauts are predicted to make their closest approach of the Moon around 7:02pm ET (2302 UTC).

Liftoff. The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon. Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.

@BrianRoemmele I loved this episode of X Minus One when I first heard it about twenty years ago. It still seemed like science fiction then.

Robot companions must not steal the hero's journey; they must carry the luggage. Let the machines remember the anniversaries, so we never forget to celebrate them. Let them handle the labor, freeing billions for creativity and connection on a scale never before possible. Technology amplifies every heartbeat, every laugh, every irreplaceable human kiss. We return transformed, integrating the machine world without surrendering the human heart.

Yesterday Mark Cuban reposted my work, DM'd me, and told me to keep telling my story. So here it is. I'm a Master Electrician. IBEW Local 369. 15 years pulling wire in Kentucky. Zero coding background. I didn't go to Stanford. I went to trade school. Every week I'd show up to a home where someone just bought a Tesla or a Rivian. And every time, someone had already told them they needed a $3,000-$5,000 panel upgrade to install a charger. 70% of the time? They didn't need it. The math is in the NEC — Section 220.82. Load calculations. But nobody was doing them for homeowners. Electricians upsell. Dealers don't know. And the homeowner just pays. I got angry enough to build something about it. I found @claudeai. No coding experience. I just started talking to it like I'd explain a job to an apprentice. "Here's how load calcs work. Here's the NEC code. Now help me build a tool that does this." 6 months later — @ChargeRight is live. Real software. Stripe payments. PDF reports. NEC 220.82 calculations automated. $12.99 instead of a $500 truck roll. I'm still pulling wire. I still take service calls. I wake up at 5:05 AM for work. But something shifted. Yesterday @vivilinsv published my story as Claude Builder Spotlight #1. Mark Cuban saw it. The Claude community showed up. And for the first time, I felt like this thing I built in my kitchen might actually matter. I'm not a tech founder. I'm a dad who wants to coach little league and be home for dinner. I just happened to build something that helps people. If you're in the trades and thinking about using AI — do it. The barrier isn't technical skill. It's believing you're allowed to try. EVchargeright.com

I live near a Zen Leaf medical marijuana dispensary, a Zen Beer and Soda store, and Zen Nails and Spa. I guess Zen Buddhism didn't make the list.

@cgtwts @senjoregg I just started watching it again last night.

Silicon Valley was really so ahead of their time

William Melvin Hicks born 16th December 1961. The aliens came for him 26th February 1994. He continues to explore space, both inner and outer.

Is it weird that AI coding assistance is not giving me identity fracture? A lot of software developers are feeling disoriented and threatened these days. Programming by hand is clearly going the way of the buggy whip and the hand-cranked auger. Which is how we're finding out that a lot of people have their identities bound up in being good at hand-coding and how it feels to do that. That's not me. It's not me at all. Rather to my surprise, I don't miss coding by hand, not any more than I missed writing assembler when compilers ate the world and made that unnecessary. (That was in a couple years back around 1983, for you youngsters.) Maybe the fact that I'm not feeling any of this disorientation disqualifies me from having anything to say to people who are. On the other hand...if you can learn to emulate my mental stance and be completely unbothered, maybe that would be a good thing? So. If you're a programmer, and you're feeling disoriented, try this on for size: I like being a wizard. I like being able to speak spells, to weave complex patterns of logic that make things happen in the world. Writing code is a way to manifest my will. Yes, I've piled up a lot of arcane knowledge over the 50 years I've been doing this. But languages of invocation, they come and they go. Been a long time since I've had any use for being able to program in 8086 assembler, and that's okay. I have better spells now, and these days some rather powerful familiars. What I'm inviting you to do is think of yourself as a wizard. Not as a person who writes code, but as a person who is good at assuming the kind of mental states required to bend reality with the application of spells. And if that's who you are, does it matter if the spells are painstakingly scribed in runes of power, versus being spoken to an obedient machine spirit? It's all one; it's all the manifestation of will. Arcane languages come and go, machine spirits appear and then diminish to be replaced by more powerful ones, but you? You are the magic-wielder. Without you, none of it happens. Same as it ever was. Same is it ever was. And so mote it be.

48 years ago today, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launched CBBS, the world’s first dial-up bulletin board system — and online communities were born. 48th anniversary to the pioneers who started it all. #BBS #CBBS #RetroComputing #SysopLife #DigitalHistory #Compute

@thedorbrothers @AutismCapital @LinusEkenstam @minchoi @AngryTomtweets @MattWalshBlog @ianmiles @Rainmaker1973 @joerogan @DarrenAronofsky Amazing! Can you make an AI audio described version for the blind?

We just made a $200,000,000 AI movie in just one day. Yes, this is 100% AI.

AI killed the video star.

@NolteNC And the Trump mocked the reporter with a disability hoax.

Or it could mean less of this... · ‘Melania’ Doc Is a Box Office Flop Hoax · The Rural America Can’t Live Without NPR/PBS Hoax · The ICE Detains Five-Year-Old Hoax · The Hegseth ‘Kill Everybody’ Hoax · Trump “Destroying” White House Hoax · Photo of Starving Gaza Baby Hoax · Israeli Troops Murdered Food-Seeking Palestinians Hoax · Trump Tariffs Will Explode Prices Hoax · Maryland Man Hoax · Black Newborns Much More Likely to Die If Doc’s White Hoax · Elon Musk Nazi Salute Hoax · Mass Hysterectomies Performed on Immigrants Hoax · The All-White Trump Party Hoax · Springfield Bomb Threat Hoax · Trump Called for Liz Cheney to Be Executed Hoax · Violent Crime Down Under Biden/Harris Hoax · Arlington Cemetery Hoax · Kamala Was Never America’s Border Czar Hoax · Russia Collusion Hoax · Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Hoax · Jussie Smollett Hoax · Covington KKKids Hoax · Very Fine People Hoax · Seven-Hour Gap Hoax · Russian Bounties Hoax · Trump Trashes Troops Hoax · Policemen Killed at Mostly Peaceful January 6 Protest Hoax · Rittenhouse Hoax · Eating While Black Hoax · Border Agents Whipping Illegals Hoax · NASCAR Noose Hoax · Georgia Jim Crow 2.0 Hoax · Trump Assaulted Secret Service Agents and Grabbed Steering Wheel of Beast Hoax · MAGA Assaulted Paul Pelosi Hoax · COVID Lab Leak Theory Is Racist Hoax · Hunter Biden’s Laptop Is Russian Disinformation Hoax · Joe Biden Will Never Ban Gas Stoves Hoax · COVID Deaths are Overcounted Is a Conspiracy Theory Hoax · Mass Graves of Native Children in Canada Hoax · Trump Killed Japanese Koi Fish Hoax · Trump Told People to Drink Bleach Hoax · Hamas Hospital Hoax · If Reelected, Trump Will Execute People Hoax · The 900,000 Kids Hospitalized with Coronavirus Hoax · Dozens of Environmental Hoaxes · The Alfa Bank Hoax · Libs of TikTok Murdered Non-Binary Teen Hoax · Aaron Rodgers Sandy Hook-Truther Hoax · ‘Bloodbath’ Hoax · Biden ‘Sharp-as-a-Tack’ Hoax · Iowa Poll Hoax