Reuven Lazarus

@thingskatedid I'm getting out of here too, but I'm glad to have shared this website with you for a while.

@IanColdwater yeah. it's probably time, isn't it

@aedwardslevy surveys indicate this event was wildly popular, stunning industry analysts and casting doubt on the nielsen ratings which purported to show that absolutely nobody watched

just as soon as they make "immediately recognizing a pollster from a screenshot of the toplines" an Olympic sport, I'm in with a a chance

the pollster olympics: tracking and fielding weight shifting data diving lacrosse-tabs

@PUPWITCH REAL

@nylerodgers @thingskatedid it's not just a phase, mom!

somebody please invent noise cancelling headphones but specifically for christmas songs

@thingskatedid you're right there's no 2.718mm either

oh i forgot to take estradiol

why do metric Allen key sets have every number but 9.0! including 1.3! fuck you, fibonacci!

@ManishEarth stopping at absolutely nothing to collect all the paperclips in the world in order to give them to Manish in exchange for new basilisks

@rlazarus tbh inventing new basilisks sounds like a great job i think i'd be really good at it

tbh i'm surprised the ai risk folks haven't yet gedanken-invented a new kind of basilisk that destroys everyone who didn't support their favored ceo

@JanelleCShane I think the M&Ms bar is my favorite, for how comparatively normal it seems until you think about it for a second

it's halloween and this is your loot (generated these with DALL-E3, because this is where the weird ai-generated text lives now) aiweirdness.com/choose-your-ca…

@thingskatedid classic shell game

i (accidentally) mislead you about the output. it's 3am. when i said "x" is output, the exact formatting is: x: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string

behold! language i'm debugging goes like: > blah blah -run sh -c 'echo x y' outputs x Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string > blah blah -run sh -c "echo x y" outputs x y incredible bug. you may guess why this happens

@AstroKatie "C-FCGA, radar contact 3.00000000000000000000000000000000000000002 miles east of the Northampton airport. Say airspeed." "Um, unable."

If you’ve ever said, “I’d like someone to explain quantum superposition to me, but in an airplane, between ATC calls and clearances,” have I got the video for you! ⚛️ youtu.be/1uUUsJ59yLI?si… 🛩️

@ryanqnorth speaking as another disheveled man named Lazarus, I couldn't agree more strongly

@timhwang Einstein would turn over in his grave!

prob one of my favorite

🌴 dreaming about doing a one-day symposium in NYC in the fall focusing on the topic of "tech trees", bringing together game designers, historians of science, and metascience folks would anyone attend something like that?

@GretchenAMcC @MerriamWebster Yes YES The dictionary is out

Got a tour of @MerriamWebster headquarters! Featuring: editions over the years (oh no I had that CD ROM??), looking up "linguistics" in the citation card catalogue, the dictionary has escaped from its cage (help!!), and the obligatory MW swag (the dictionary says gay rights!)

@dessadarling oh you were thinking AHEAD

Cassettes. What do we think?

@KenJennings "Tom Cruise returns as the titular pilot in this sequel about his upper gingivitis" -Jeopardy category where you change one letter, BEFORE AND ALTER

@thingskatedid We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. but they're away for the long weekend and I know where they keep the good stuff babyyyyyy Password:

update: *do* drink and sudo. it's sudo, not sudont

@sarahclazarus I don't know if I could handle getting an email telling me in all caps every time I have been unsuccessful, that's messed up

tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all

@shoofle @AnomalousMuffin you, squirming around at 2 AM trying to get comfy: "how, then, am I so different from the first men through this way? like them, I left a settled life, I threw it all away..."

@AnomalousMuffin you know. i stand by my position here

i should have a body pillow of glacial lake missoula

@sophaskins me

@jtkantor First time back at Fenway in a few years, glad to hear you again. Trying to take your parting advice to heart.