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Developer/architect @ Miles Oslo, Norway .NET / Javascript / Functional programming https://www.miles.no/ Previously: Philosophy @ University of South Florida

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Worst remake of “The Odd Couple”, coming to CBS this fall

28.02.2026 06:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Network TV: Evening News Ratings Over Time by Network Year ABC CBS NBC 1980 12.6 15.9 13.8 1981 13.6 13.4 13.2 1982 12.5 14.2 11.6 1983 11.5 14.0 11.6 1984 11.5 13.0 11.1 1985 11.7 13.5 12.3 1986 10.9 12.4

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27.02.2026 15:35 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Another #KYE tongue bath of a “reformed” paleo-con. The show has always suffered from some basic conceptual incoherence, but post-Hochman I’ve just found it impossible to listen to. Now the are vouching for their guest’s lack of anti-semitism - hope it works out for you, Sam!

24.02.2026 19:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Gernsback Continuum - Wikipedia

It’s pretty prescient to read your review right after listening to a podcast on William Gibson’s short story «The Gernsbach Continuum»

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ger...

16.02.2026 16:46 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Salutations to your plumber!

12.02.2026 17:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Of course! I hadn’t considered the EA connection for their house philosopher

11.02.2026 15:20 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Dumb tubes are such Twentieth century tech. Today we use precision guided munitions.

02.02.2026 20:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Never forget that the people who convinced you trans people are a threat to your children all belong to a network of child rapists.

31.01.2026 21:40 👍 2416 🔁 970 💬 11 📌 16
Bluesky user shinobi602 says: "Video game stocks are suddenly crashing today with the launch of Google's Project Genie as investors think games will start magically getting made with AI" and then shows four images of stock numbers going down for take two, roblox, cd pronekt, and unity.

Bluesky user shinobi602 says: "Video game stocks are suddenly crashing today with the launch of Google's Project Genie as investors think games will start magically getting made with AI" and then shows four images of stock numbers going down for take two, roblox, cd pronekt, and unity.

From Fortune: "A sharp selloff in tech stocks on Thursday underscored investors' exhaustion with the "spend now, profit later" model that has propelled the AI bull market for three years. Microsoft led the retreat, with its shares plummeting 12% by noon, erasing more than $440 billion in market value, a collapse it hasn't seen since the pandemic. The Nasdaq was down almost 2% at time of writing."

From Fortune: "A sharp selloff in tech stocks on Thursday underscored investors' exhaustion with the "spend now, profit later" model that has propelled the AI bull market for three years. Microsoft led the retreat, with its shares plummeting 12% by noon, erasing more than $440 billion in market value, a collapse it hasn't seen since the pandemic. The Nasdaq was down almost 2% at time of writing."

Also from Fortune: "The sentiment shift is not limited to Redmond. Oracle has seen its shares halved from their September highs, erasing nearly $463 billion in value. Once a darling of the AI trade, Oracle has also struggled with investor confidence that the massive data centers it is building for OpenAI will get funded eventually. Additionally, the timeline for several projects has reportedly slipped to 2028, creating a gap between the company's heavy debt-funded spending and the arrival of actual revenue.

OpenAI has made about $1.4 trillion in commitments to procure both the energy and compute it needs to fuel its operations. But its revenue barely crossed $20 billion in 2025."

Also from Fortune: "The sentiment shift is not limited to Redmond. Oracle has seen its shares halved from their September highs, erasing nearly $463 billion in value. Once a darling of the AI trade, Oracle has also struggled with investor confidence that the massive data centers it is building for OpenAI will get funded eventually. Additionally, the timeline for several projects has reportedly slipped to 2028, creating a gap between the company's heavy debt-funded spending and the arrival of actual revenue. OpenAI has made about $1.4 trillion in commitments to procure both the energy and compute it needs to fuel its operations. But its revenue barely crossed $20 billion in 2025."

Right, so video game company stocks are crashing because the power of AI supposedly renders them irrelevant. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Oracle stocks are crashing because they spent too much on AI and the market knows they'll never make a return. The economy is absolutely hosed

30.01.2026 18:18 👍 1154 🔁 349 💬 15 📌 27

Red Dawn (2027)

30.01.2026 11:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So it’s some custom diff css in GH diff? Should absolutely be fixed

30.01.2026 11:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Larping Babbage’s soirees I’m developing a larp where participants play guests at one of Charles Babbage’s Saturday night soirées in the 1840s. Here’s a sneak peak – I hope to publish the materials l…

My passion side project is about the Saturday night soirées Charles Babbage hosted at his London home from the early 1830s until the early 1850s. There were so many fascinating people at those soirées. Last week I ran the larp I'm developing about it for our students. jilltxt.net/larping-babb...

30.01.2026 10:29 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

Can you show the result of ‘git diff —color-words’ locally? Does it correctly highlight the change?

30.01.2026 10:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Given your last sentence, there are probably some interesting ideas from MS Exchange and Lotus Notes since they were also building arbitrary apps on their workflow infostores

20.01.2026 12:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house." 

Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

20.01.2026 03:40 👍 2856 🔁 897 💬 12 📌 78

You start the thread with «would» but end it with «might eventually» - but those are two very different scenarios!

18.01.2026 12:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tommy Shaw - Remo's Theme (What If)
Tommy Shaw - Remo's Theme (What If) YouTube video by Dióda Zener

youtu.be/wDW4CV-Ge-4?...

13.01.2026 21:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.

An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

08.01.2026 17:38 👍 5154 🔁 1546 💬 61 📌 142

Like sending Heydrich to Prague

05.01.2026 12:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just viewing any list should sort the people you currently follow at the top

05.01.2026 07:53 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

09.12.2025 17:35 👍 12439 🔁 2909 💬 120 📌 445
Letter to the Guardian.
The protection of badgers has a long pedigree (Report, 29 August). Arthur Gore, known as "Boofy", the eighth Earl of Arran, was a fanatical defender of them. He was also a tireless campaigner for the rights of homosexuals. In 1967 he managed to push through a law in the Lords that decriminalised homosexuality but failed to pass a bill to outlaw the cruel hunting of badgers. When asked why he had not received enough support for his badger bill, he replied: "Not many badgers in the House of Lords." Tony Lywood Keswick, Cumbria

Letter to the Guardian. The protection of badgers has a long pedigree (Report, 29 August). Arthur Gore, known as "Boofy", the eighth Earl of Arran, was a fanatical defender of them. He was also a tireless campaigner for the rights of homosexuals. In 1967 he managed to push through a law in the Lords that decriminalised homosexuality but failed to pass a bill to outlaw the cruel hunting of badgers. When asked why he had not received enough support for his badger bill, he replied: "Not many badgers in the House of Lords." Tony Lywood Keswick, Cumbria

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

08.02.2025 22:39 👍 3170 🔁 1083 💬 21 📌 28
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After some savory grilled cheese, Chef Eilif is here with something #sweet. Check out how to make #homemade Norwegian #CinnamonBuns – with some American icing. Don’t forget to follow us and Chief Eilif (@chefeilif) on Instagram for more delicious stories! tinyurl.com/44e4h75r

29.10.2025 19:14 👍 378 🔁 72 💬 11 📌 52

Well, you can still be the first to show him Buckaroo Banzai

04.12.2025 19:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Part of our 2025 Advent Calendar, a black and white line drawing showing my version of Bigfoots wearing wintery clothes and bearing various wrapped Christmas presents.

Part of our 2025 Advent Calendar, a black and white line drawing showing my version of Bigfoots wearing wintery clothes and bearing various wrapped Christmas presents.

Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...

29.11.2025 13:41 👍 482 🔁 334 💬 35 📌 32
Ray Monk: Preparing for the Second Coming: Ludwig Wittgenstein in Vienna 1925-1929
Ray Monk: Preparing for the Second Coming: Ludwig Wittgenstein in Vienna 1925-1929 YouTube video by Wittgenstein Initiative

Here's the talk I gave in Vienna last month as part of the Wittgenstein Week, held in the very splendid Palais Schönborn.

youtu.be/Cgl5cgoInNs?...

26.11.2025 12:41 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

He uses national median for income, but slides into national average for the expenses. So are we doing medians or averages?

24.11.2025 12:59 👍 26 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵

21.11.2025 10:06 👍 1264 🔁 510 💬 30 📌 68

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

17.11.2025 02:06 👍 1642 🔁 490 💬 84 📌 121
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My twitter is dead. I don’t wanna a burner. All I want is 27K bluski subs

31.07.2025 12:56 👍 2204 🔁 519 💬 25 📌 14