@DirectrixGazer

Military Operations Researcher, aspiring Eucatastrophist

 Warm Water Port, Texas Oblast
Joined June 2023
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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, let that shitty Verhoeven mal-adaptation fade away to a well-deserved oblivion.
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caesararum, BS, DOGS
@caesararumOct 21
"here in the Great Kingdom of Isekai, we don't recruit soldiers from our own people; instead, we draft highschoolers from neighboring realities. it's a lot cleaner and no one misses them when they die."
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Was thinking of suggesting the Titus Crow novels to my daughter (seasonally appropriate), and got to reminiscing about how amusing they were, especially the de Marigny character, who plays Watson to Titus' Holmes.
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They are not the ultra-orthodox Lovecraftianism which I prefer, but they are carried off with such tongue-in-cheek verve, and with such evident sympathy for the work they built on, that I was won over despite myself.
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The only sour note was an awkwardly spliced anti-nuclear diatribe in one later novel that made it seem like Lumley had endured a struggle session by CND hippies for the crime of having his heroes defeat the Cthonians with sub-surface A-bomb detonations.
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Fair bit of discussion of media ecology in this, @Andrey4Mir. Unusual to see in this kind of venue, at least for me.
Isegoria@IsegoriaOct 16
“Post-literacy isn’t illiteracy.” youtu.be/XYKYcm1UVL8

We’re Entering the New Dark Ages

Literacy is declining sharply across the West. In the era of vertic...

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the key to lewis' fiction is to remember that they are only superficially fun stories, only slightly less superficially christian allegories or space fantasy, and fundamentally subtle propaganda for late antique and medieval neoplatonism
Megan Fritts@freganmittsOct 15
Based on my twitter feed, I feel like the only person who actually doesn't really like the Chronicles of Narnia...?? It's great. I'm so zen, couldn't care less what Gerwig does to it.
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The Necronomicobbler has returned
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I do so miss autumn in the state I grew up in...
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@DeathAngelUSAOct 9
spent the past few days driving around upstate new york exploring peak autumn and couldn’t escape the smell of what i thought was my tires burning or low oil. until it dawned on me that everyone is burning wood on their fireplaces and this is just the coziest place in america.
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Speaking of that book, it predicted that space industrialization would be enabled and incentivized by the demand for orbital telecommunications infrastructure. We all assumed the advent of fiber-optics had obviated this path, but Heppenheimer gets the last laugh.
Directrix Gazer 🧭@DirectrixGazerOct 1
I've loved this creature since I first read about it in TA Heppenheimer's 'Towards Distant Suns' in middle school.
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Have we figured out who is behind the Sophie-Swarm? Seems odd to make a bajillion bots all with the same name. For legibility on the outputs of an automated process, maybe?
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The Amazon recommendations algorithm unfairly profiles me.
Nemo
@thecaptain_nemoOct 6
will never understand this
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(screenshots from several Octobers ago).
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If one witch-hunter unintentionally gets another witch-hunter burned, would that be considered a 'friendly-pyre incident?'
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Good old scaling laws.
John Ridge
@WeaponScientistOct 3
50% of the capability of a CVN for 70-80% of the cost. Not a good trade. Scaling factors strongly favor larger carriers.
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Henry Kozachkov
@hkozachkovOct 2
Bro took his [Norbert] Weiner out in the sauna.
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@dioscuriOct 2
Protip: if you’re ever having a sauna and it’s getting a bit crowded, try explaining enthusiastically to your fellow saunees how perception, intelligence and even life itself can all be modelled as homeostatic control systems, you’ll be amazed how quickly it thins out
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One of the most common conversation patterns around here goes something like: Person A: "Tastes vary." Person B: "NO THEY DON'T!"
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So many places where, 5 years ago, "huh, I wonder..." would have ground out after ten minutes of unsuccessful Googling/Arxiv crawling now lead to wells of knowledge I could never drink dry.
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I've loved this creature since I first read about it in TA Heppenheimer's 'Towards Distant Suns' in middle school.
L5Resident@L5ResidentOct 1
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