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I’ve been using Linux for like 25 years now. I just installed and launched Red Dead Redemption 2 on it. What a trip.

As tragic and stupid as watching Twitter self immolate is, it is nice to see Mastodon light up with new voices. Also nice seeing more and more posts pop up here that aren’t also cross posted to Twitter. It’s dead, Jim. Let it be.

My Mandela-effect moment is thinking Fred Willard played Joe Isuzu. In my defense, he should have.

Back to the task at hand and deeply unsettling takes an early lead. HO HO HO!

Ok, that's a little TOO on the nose.

Not sure why it's so hard to get it to spit out a picture of Richard Nixon slapping a small child. I'm sure that happened all the time.

Decided to try my hand at Stable Diffusion and I think I may have found a new hobby. If I can stay disciplined, learn and refine the tool, well, next year's holiday cards are going to be amazing. And if not, next year's holiday cards are going to be baffling and deeply unsettling. I'm perfectly comfortable with either outcome.

A fun thing about working public sector in NYC is sometimes there are situations where the interpreters need interpreters.

It is the final day of Thanksgiving 2022. I'm ready to say goodbye.

When i was a kid, I thought draculas bit their victim and used their fangs like straws to suck the blood. I pictured it a lot like drinking a Capri Sun, except the draculas teeth were the straws. I still kinda believe this.

Few things as satisfying as day after thanksgiving chaos plate dinner. Second thanksgiving is awesome.

The US is fucked on guns cause half the country thinks the alternative to gun violence is tyranny.

I sat on the fence as long for as long as my ethics would allow me to, but bringing Trump back to Twitter was it for me. I used Twitter as a consumption/aggregation type service for news and analysis and Mastodon is distinctly not that. However, it does remind me a bit of the BBS systems I loved growing up so that’s been a pleasant realization. Gonna be tough not being a wallflower though. I fully intend to post through it. I’m sorry, everyone.

I kinda just want to sit around, drink beer and write code tonight. Might just fall asleep. Got a world of possibility ahead of me.

I think about “runk” on a near daily basis.

Based on my uselessly small sampling, turn out in my neighborhood looks pretty good today. That’s encouraging. Can’t wait to be disappointed. My fellow Americans, please vote today. Bonus points for not voting for sociopaths!

There is something wildly amusing to me about the fact that I’ve gotten more actual, human engagement with my posts in less than 1 week on Mastodon than I have in 13 years on Twitter. It’s almost as if monetizing engagement artificially shapes conversations. Or maybe I just got way better at posting overnight. It’s probably that second thing since the alternative means business guys are bad at people stuff and that capitalism has uncorrectable problems.

Question: at what point do folks consider themselves programmers? Or scientists?

I've written programs, but don't feel I've earned the title "programmer". I've used the scientific method to identify and resolve issues, but "scientist"? Not I. At what point do folks feel comfortable identifying themselves that way? Just wondering if anyone else is pondering what I'm pondering.