Posts by powersoffour@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AScOo1UfoylckA5MOW by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2023-02-12T23:18:32Z
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@TedUnderwood This meme gets used a lot, but this is perhaps the absolutely most spot-on, true-to-the-source-material version that I've ever seen. Nicely done, Ted.
(DIR) Post #ASx3LJQM3lkPEngyqu by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2023-02-22T22:26:45Z
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@nicole @apolaine I love love love thinking about how play factors into different careers and expressions of a craft! Thank you for this!
(DIR) Post #ATAsO6RoNqs8ZswOEC by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2023-03-01T14:30:11Z
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@TedUnderwood I too thought we'd be well into double digits by now. This is not the future we were promised.
(DIR) Post #AZeZsq3fT7jNSYLvBw by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2023-09-11T09:35:08Z
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@mjg59 Do you remember if you continued to follow NNTP throughout the day? Was it really active?
(DIR) Post #AdaL9kotmuEIphrLMm by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2024-01-06T21:57:43Z
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This editorial by Josh Marshall gets at something that I've been feeling and unable to express deep in my gut.https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-january-6th-is-more-important-now-than-its-ever-been"No republic is safe if it contains a major political faction which allows itself to resort to subterfuge and violence if it can’t succeed in a free and fair election."
(DIR) Post #AhPTp13S9WIqbVAY1w by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2024-04-30T09:44:56Z
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@futurebird I recently read the article on "NanoProcessor" from a 1985 issue of "Home Computing Magazine" and it sorta fits this.https://archive.org/details/HomeComputerMagazine_Vol5_05/page/n13/mode/2upIt's fascinating that this was an article in a popular magazine! (The BASIC listing is in the back.)
(DIR) Post #AhkIHtytYwRF86ZZC4 by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2024-05-10T10:44:23Z
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@futurebird gotta love perpendicular coordinate axes!
(DIR) Post #AhwodsvnfvxWfsAcWu by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2024-05-16T11:43:20Z
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@futurebird @cyberlyra Googling "where are my packages" would, at one time, return links to USPS tracking based on Gmail results. I haven't tried it in a while but I seem to recall it got disabled. So the capability is there, maybe?
(DIR) Post #AiSLLUb2jVMeNP3ZBo by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2024-05-31T16:46:11Z
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@futurebird That would be pretty rad (and hard). I love modifications like that.I attended a student presentation from a game studies class where one team had augmented Dots & Lines to include some very tricky changes to point allocations by which type of square you enclosed, etc etc, and it was *hard*.
(DIR) Post #AidBjEgnM1egoPFXbk by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2024-06-05T22:20:16Z
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@futurebird you know, if I am remembering correctly Gary Cole (on the right) played an evil, possibly-the-devil sheriff on American Gothic that repeatedly was able to weaponize the local government in order to bring about nefarious ends. Huh.
(DIR) Post #Aisn5Dico2aVPlzxtQ by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2024-06-13T10:59:30Z
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@futurebird I thought (and could be wrong) that the distinction was being made between pardoning (which I thought indicated that the crime or conviction was not valid, etc) and commutation, where excessive sentences could be dealt with. But maybe this is my misunderstanding.
(DIR) Post #AlF0MEcgHJo9e3VNLM by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2024-08-22T23:56:07Z
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@futurebird I feel like I want to ask, "Which of [numerous candidates] are you referring to?"
(DIR) Post #AlWfChfsoFJ2evtZRI by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2024-08-31T12:23:52Z
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@futurebird If they're what I'm thinking, I've used them on miniatures for detail work and they've been pretty alright.
(DIR) Post #AmCaNdfzfxnaJRevZI by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2024-09-20T17:47:41Z
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@futurebird I remember enjoying reading "Red Son" about Superman landing in the USSR. May not have aged terribly well and I read it in the mid-aughts.
(DIR) Post #AmCggtBEr8sPclptU8 by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2024-09-20T18:57:45Z
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@futurebird I don't think this is necessarily too technical, but it might be. The era of reionization, when the universe became transparent ("optically thin") in visible light and once again visible to a human observer, is a really cool concept. It lends itself really well to demonstrations of the way stars and galaxies formed.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kifF3RYcfn0This is a viz of a simulation of reionization and it's really evocative. (We simulate universes as periodic cubes, thus the boxiness.)
(DIR) Post #AmtXTUAWRNJG1tu6K0 by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2024-10-11T11:07:44Z
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@futurebird did you read Fire Upon the Deep? I confess to having read that, but not yet Deepness in the Sky. I rather enjoyed it but may just not have picked up on the lionization of trade etc.
(DIR) Post #An53E2rDXdxf6gn4im by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2024-10-17T00:25:20Z
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@futurebird I got mine through a GOTV org but they were all for CA. I felt a little deflated till I saw they were going to a swing district the Dems barely lost in the House last time and now I am psyched up!
(DIR) Post #AndlmAjcrBHlOFWrjM by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2024-11-02T18:24:41Z
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@futurebird first let's defenestrate all the cows, though!
(DIR) Post #At5fnJ209oTe6FTklU by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2024-04-18T14:09:40Z
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@futurebird @w7voa Hilariously, I read it first as falling back on the familiar grift of a multi-level marketing scheme. "Down-ballot" becomes "downline" etc.
(DIR) Post #At5fnKqjOgeNjsDmTY by powersoffour@mastodon.social
2024-04-18T14:14:31Z
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@futurebird @w7voa Aahhh, of course! And traditional architectural pyramids have more than one layer of bricks before the tippy-top, right?