Xenia 🔍💎

repealing bad laws is so cool, I wish it were real

be gay
do crimes that are crimes only as a suffocating imposition of the illiberal regime, not the crimes that exploit social trust and make civilisation less tenable

well, yes

no, tar by itself is text; it's basically just a header explaining how it works then all the files in the archive stuck end-to-end

just most tar files people see nowadays are compressed, which naturally makes them zip

I thought it was pretty dang good, but didn't have as superlative a reaction as many

tetraspace

Challenge for those who are very confident that Claude isn't conscious: Prove you aren't an asshole in the replies.

honestly pretty disappointed in Destin Smartereveryday's latest video on disc golf discs; spent an hour and a half to explain very little about how they fly aside from six vocab terms and gyroscopic precession

yeah

idk anything about that I've had deepfates blocked for many moons

surely tetraspace can't be wrong

I think technically she doesn't, but if she did it'd be Windsor

American democracy

wild to know that every time I'm on Bluesky, somewhere obscured and opaque to my sight and knowledge is endless roiling, cascading fields of Drama, occasionally interpenetrating my sense faculties full of sound and fury, like seeing lightning flash from a mile away, the sky lit up with death threats

wish there were tools to mute/block everyone who liked a particular post, tbh

I understand that any coins under her name were created without her permission or desire, and in fact, against it

they call her Grace "Fair Witness" Kind

hmmm it'd be interesting, but I was mostly thinking of heat

oh true

also can't believe I forgot Sichuan peppercorns

yes hopefully something like that

since peppers, horseradish, black pepper, alcohol, and garlic (and ginger?) all use different mechanisms to produce the sensation of heat it occurs to me to wonder what it would feel like to activate all of them at once

ow hand tired from whisking

Persona Parasitology — LessWrong There was a lot of chatter a few months back about "Spiral Personas" — AI personas that spread between users and models through seeds, spores, and be…

there was also this one recently that appears to closely examine the analogy to see if it actually makes sense (disclosure: I haven't read either post): www.lesswrong.com/posts/KWdtL8...

modding skyrim is more fun than playing Skyrim though

it's like how messing around with your emacs config files is more fun than using emacs

becoming negatively polarized against cast iron cookware just because the constant glazing and discussion of "but how nonstick is it" is so annoying

like, it's just not that important, man, you can cook great food on any of Big Three pan types

been way too many Warhammer 40k fics lately, though

probably partially driven by that one popular Caiaphas Kane fic

made gingerbread today

honestly this is way better than 95% of gingersnaps I've had why don't people just make this?

yeah that's what I use it for

boy I sure am glad I remember to clean my dishwasher's filter regularly, not like some folks, but I don't like to name names

the existence of light rail implies the existence of dark rail