Wizard without portfolio

Washington, DC
Joined August 2007
I never used Twitter’s official client and I’m not starting now, so I suppose I’ll be going. Find me at mastodon.sdf.org/@mikeash or wherever good books are sold.
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Here’s Joe Parrish @joecparrish, the Mars Exploration Program Manager at @NASAJPL, on how to protect life on both Mars and Earth.
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If there's one thing I think we can take away from the last few years, it's that nobody — absolutely nobody — is ever playing 4D chess
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To anyone investigating potential TOS violations: this is just a reference to a sailboat part, a friend named Donald, a random web site offering Unix shells, and my own Twitter handle.
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Elon’s brain broke.
Replying to @jasondebolt
My plane is actually not trackable without using non-public data
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Seconded.
I think one of the things I dislike about c++ the most, is that passing value by reference is invisible at the callsite.
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Le pull de Noël parfait n'existe p... shop.lesjoiesducode.fr/produ…
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Reading about AI is a lot more fun if you pretend it’s just a guy named Al.
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Imagine paying forty-four billion dollars for something and then describing it like this.
Twitter is both a social media company and a crime scene
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Surely this consumer electronics purchase is the one that will finally bring me true happiness.
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The Twitter meltdown is distracting me from fully enjoying the FTX meltdown.
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Dental plan! Pitt the Elder! Dental plan! Pitt the Elder! Dental plan! Pitt the Elder! Dental plan! Pitt the Elder! Dental plan! Pitt the Elder!
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Man goes to Doctor. Says his business is failing. Says he fired all employees. Says his customers abandoned him. Doctor says, “Treatment is simple. Great CEO Musk is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.” Man bursts into tears. Says, “But doctor…I am Musk.”
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Free speech is where anyone can be "verified" but contradicting your boss gets you insta-fired.
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Where’s my Tough On Crime Lawn Order crowd when it’s a big company violating labor laws?
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flatmate has just asked me whether i think the lettuce voted leaf or romaine in the brexit referendum and im frankly furious at how funny i found it
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