Lafe Long

“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.” — Thomas Paine

@GodIsVoluntary I'd definitely consider an M4 mini... every Mac I've gotten after my G4 Sawtooth have been Apple refurbs (both G5 towers).

@LafeLong The Apple Silicon machines are pretty sweet TBH. Despite having the 2019 Mac Pro my main desktop right now is the base model M4 Mini I got as a refurb. My main laptop is a 64 GB M1 Max.

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@GodIsVoluntary My next and (maybe last) Mac will be probly be either an older cheese grater (hate the case - the G5 was the ultimate) or a trash can. Either way, I'll try to run an older OS (10.14/15?).

I got a good 10 years out of my Launch Day Trash Can and could have gotten a few more out of it if I really wanted to. It still works, but haven't thought of anything interesting to do with it yet. I've got a nearly maxed out (other than ram) 2019 Mac Pro someone gave me last year too, I'm playing around with AI on it but it's not that well supported by any of the LLM frameworks.

@MarvKard It's not difficult. Throughout elementary school, buy them books that you know (classics, subjects they may be interested in, etc)... after that, they can read whatever they want. You certainly don't want to limit them to "school approved" books.

@LafeLong I am not a parent, but I think that it would be difficult for me to parse the sheer amount of content, for dissemination to my child. I don't envy that task, at all.

"The required reading seemed to have been selected for the sole purpose of turning the hearts of young people against books. That, however, seems to be a universal pedagogical complex; to make the acquiring of knowledge a punishment, rather than a pleasure." Edgar Rice Burroughs

Happy International Whisk(e)y Day AND Wear A Hat Day! 🥃👒 #InternationalWhiskyDay #InternationalWhiskeyDay #WearAHatDay

The milves of March. DAIly AI pAInting experiments. 027 - International Whisk(e)y Day AND Wear A Hat Day #pAIntings #AIart #PinUps

The milves of March. DAIly AI pAInting experiments. 026 - National Spinach Day AND Purple Day #pAIntings #AIart #PinUps

The milves of March (2026). 🧵 Themed pin up art thread - based (mostly) on daily holidays. #pAIntings #AIart #PinUps #pinupart DAIly AI pAInting experiments.

@ColdCathodeMan @Kornstalx @SomeBitchIIKnow I agree about Bill vs. Bob. In the early days, Bob didn't keep it a secret that he learned from Bill, and I think it was obvious to those of us that had watched Bill first. Wozniak was the smarter, more talented Steve. I don't hate Jobs for the marketing, though.🤷‍♂️

@Kornstalx @SomeBitchIIKnow 1: Bill’s show was nationally syndicated on PBS. 2: Bill was slandered, but seemingly not as much, probably for his lack of pop-culture fame. You never addressed my two points: Bob ripped of Bill’s show and Bill was the better artist, and teacher.

Bob Ross was almost universally hated by fellow artists during his career. The number of snide New York Times articles about him from the early 90's is shocking to me. web.archive.org/web/2020040823…

"Suddenly there's cocaine everywhere -"

@vvestiges Bro has a self portrait painting of himself with his dick in a hamster wheel hanging above his bed.😭 True playa.

Robert Bonfils cover art. (‘68)

@Tnatoons A lot of younger people won't get this joke.

Mort Temes #cartoonist

The greatest con job in human history—how commercial banks manufacture money from absolutely nothing and call it lending. When you deposit $1,000 cash at JPMorgan, the bank doesn't lock your money in a vault. They keep maybe $100 (a 10% reserve requirement) and immediately lend out $900 to someone else. But here's where the fraud begins: they don't delete your $1,000 balance. Your account still shows $1,000 while they hand $900 cash to a borrower. The money supply just expanded to $1,900 from your original $1,000 deposit. And the scam multiplies. That borrower deposits the $900 at Wells Fargo, which keeps $90 and lends out $810. The depositor's account shows $900, the new borrower gets $810 cash—now we have $2,710 in circulation from your original $1,000. This fractional reserve process continues until the banking system transforms your single deposit into roughly $10,000 of circulating money. Banks collect interest on money they created from thin air while paying you 0.5% on your "deposit." They profit from lending money they never had, backed by deposits they've already lent out multiple times over. The Federal Reserve enables this pyramid scheme by acting as lender of last resort when depositors actually want their money back. Every dollar in your checking account represents a claim on the same underlying reserves as nine other dollars. When you swipe your debit card, you're spending digital entries backed by a fraction of real money—and the banks are collecting interest on the difference. This example is taken from Murray Rothbard's "The Mystery of Banking".

@LizzyStarrrdust You're pretty.😘

Life is short, in spite of your plans, so tell the girls they are pretty while you can. Cause one day they're gone and all you got left is some empty bottles and an old country song.

@JessicaTheGreen While we're at it, I've got some bad news about the North Pole being "up"...

Happy National Spinach Day AND Purple Day! 🥗💜 #NationalSpinachDay #PurpleDay

My political journey: 1. Started reading Heinlein when I was 8 2. libertarian

@VanessaChaseOG My in-laws watched my kid for 2 hrs every day before she started going to school. Wife worked 1st shift, I worked 2nd. I dropped her off at 2, wife picked her up at 4. No daycare. Weekends were done - but rare because that was our family time.

Gen-X, and millennial parents: did your parent(s) offer to take your kids for the weekends? Please chime in.

@RealUnsweetDee That's for hitting the geode spot.

Everything reminds me of him