deathflare:

this is what i spend 90% of my playtime doing

catgirlhell:

olreid:

help

max1461:

max1461:

max1461:

Had my car fixed by a quantum mechanic. Now whenever I look at my speedometer my GPS stops working.

Had my car fixed by a relativistic mechanic. Now whenever I drive too fast my clock gets out of sync.

Had my car fixed by a classical mechanic. It’s working great.

smol-blue-bird:

smol-blue-bird:

smol-blue-bird:

I went to a library book sale this weekend and I found a very old book called “Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers,” which was published in I think 1975? I’ve been reading it kind of like how I would read a historical document, and it’s lowkey fascinating

There’s a whole paragraph that’s like “okay, find the keyboard. Don’t panic if it has more keys than a typewriter, that’s normal. Really, it’s fine. The extra keys don’t make things harder. It’s FINE”

Thought this section was particularly interesting:

Can the computer create something? At first glance it seems obvious that it can. Animated computer graphics, with their fluid transitions and whiplash perspectives, look strikingly new. And if one watches the machine doing animation work, there seem to be lengthy periods when the computer is acting “on its own.”

But if one observes these processes in more detail, it becomes clear that creation is not occurring within the machine. First of all, computer graphics are not unique. Computers have yet to generate anything that cannot be done by hand—and usually already has been done. Second, the apparent ability of the computer to “act on its own” is the outcome of thousands of hours of patient human effort to refine its instructions. The computer can manipulate a shape for us if we have already informed it what a shape is, what the rules for shape manipulation are, what this specific shape is, and so forth.

You can start an automobile engine and it will run by itself, too, but that doesn’t mean it’s being creative. It’s just running.

meltingpotofinterests:

ryebreadgf:

cognitohazardous:

sapphling:

i wish dykes were 1/20th as predatory as i was told all my life. i’m out here shaking my ass displaying my weak wrists like a plate of prime rib in a tiger enclosure jut to get a Smidgeon of the pervasive and corrupting negative intention i was promised

kvothes:

kvothes:

the way i feel about the new richard siken poems is. okay look. people are always always saying what does this mean, what’s happening, why can’t you just say it? people do this to poetry in general but him in particular. who died? what happened? and these poems feel like him staring straight at the camera saying okay, i’ll tell you. come and fucking get it. is this what you wanted?

peer. fucking. reviewed.

headspace-hotel:

bigandgreedy:

Where’s that post about how most people who think they want a dog actually want a cat