People trying to push the “national security” angle are so funny. Oh no, America having a monopoly on some specifics of slop tech was the only thing keeping terrorists away! Jensen’s adultery has doomed us all!

Peak US election season and the best propaganda the chuds can muster is “what if cartoon villain is good actually and also my TS loli tradwife”? I’m actually glad to see it, this is pathetic.

Oh, so that’s what it’s referencing. I can’t really tell if the release artwork and song are poking fun at AI slop itself or people who criticize Fish Linucks for accepting slopped code contributions in the base system while NetBSD is lauded for not doing so.

New OpenBSD is out and the commemoratove artwork is definitely trying to say something about genAI.

Shout out to the combined power of ibuprofen and my venting tolerant polycule group chat for allowing me to endure the two hour Copilot 365 training meeting at work. The nap I had afterwards was a bliss like escaping the fucking samsara.

Makes sense. If I were hiring for an org that funds musicians, I’d consider it a plus for a candidate to have experience in the music business. I’m sure the same applies to an org that funds scammers.

I like the spooky skull head from Spirit Halloween.

Nice summon

I never use the word “exclaim” on non leap day Saturdays unless I’m wearing a hat, because there’s a nonzero chance God exists and considers that specifically a sin worthy of eternal damnation.

I would kill every cat and dog in the world to make sure Tamagotchi isn’t discontinued

Tired of people misrepresenting HPMOR as a Harry Potter fanfic where Harry uses science to study magic.

Anyone who has actually read the fic knows it’s a Death Note/Waiting for Godot/Spaceballs crossover fic about aristocrat failchildren bringing glowstick swords into an airsoft match. There are zero superfluous sentences. Every sentence a painting, especially when Glup of the Most Noble and Ancient Judean People’s Front of Shitto casts Compelled Duel on Backgroundella O. C. Technicallynot of the Superlatively Posh and Antiquarian Judean Popular Front of Whatsherface.

In the words of Anton Chekhov: if you establish in the first act that you must never burn anything you have transfigured, you must have a character transform something into a rocket in the third act and then fire that rocket without any harm done. This will prove you’re a better writer than Chekhov.

Final exam question: You are facing the most reddit serial killer of all time and his dumbass henchmen. Armed with only your wits and a spell that can transform anything into anything else, devise an escape. For extra credit, invoke one or more of the following science fiction plot devices: nuclear fusion, carbon nanotubes/fullerenes, wormholes/warp drives, neutronium, wave/particle duality, brown notes, grey goo, the anthropic principle, quantum tunneling, Maxwell’s demon.

HPMOR: the only novel that has been fully read by fewer people than mistakenly believe to have fully read it.

Many are contrasting the demand for gay marriage with the demand for human-animal marriage.

I feel like the ratio of homophobes to zoophiles making this comparison is a lot more skewed than the ratio of transphobes to promptphiles making the other comparison.

I told my friends I invited Taylor Swift, Zohran Mamdani and the pope to my birthday party

Sour indeed. There are some decent observations in there. He correctly notes that the book is dissing Stalinism specifically. Newspeak never became a real problem and superficially similar phenomena don’t mean language is losing its expressive power. And yes, those depictions of working class people have more than a whiff of classism to them.

Then there’s a lot of complaining about leftist infighting. It’s pretty appropriate for this to be hosted on that site. It’s only anti-revisionism if it comes from the Vanguard Party region of Marxism-Leninism, otherwise it’s just sparkling sectarianism.

The communists, who were the best organised, won out and Orwell had to leave Spain, for he was convinced that if he did not, he would be killed

Better organized than the POUM, I’ll give it that. “Won out” is an interesting choice of words to describe any republican faction in the Spanish civil war.

And then there’s the cringe. No robots and computer? My stories have robots and computer because it’s impossible for someone to always pay attention to spying a bunch of people. The panopticon doesn’t work, actually, because even if at anytime someone could be watching you, they couldn’t possibly be watching you all the time unless they have robots and computer. Also why isn’t this dystopian society more feminist?

I can do it, I have to email a bunch of stuff today anyway. (Edit: sent.)

Technically you could transmit it consensually but anyone consenting to something like that is freaky enough you probably wouldn’t have to infect them with horny disease anyway.

If the plan is to make women want sex with you by giving them the horny virus, why make it so you have to have sex to infect them in the first place? Why not engineer an airborne virus so you can just mist it on the victim? This supervillain plan makes no sense even if you ignore how depraved and evil it is.

Jeffrey Epstein? The New York extortionist?

Maybe Jeffrey Epstein offered us a large sum of money, maybe he didn’t. I’m not sure and I will make a public statement without bothering to check with anyone. We keep getting large donations so often it’s easy to forget whether we did or did not receive an offer of three hundred thousand dollars from the random nobody called Jeffrey Epstein. What I do remember is that whether we got the offer or not (not that I can remember if we did) we certainly looked into whether he was a bad guy or not, even though it’s not standard practice and I don’t we should have to do so either. In any case we looked into him and maybe turned down the offer he may or may not have made. Probably. Again, I’m making this statement without checking with anyone who knows for sure but I heard someone say something to that effect. Later we took a fifty thousand dollar donation from him anyway, but that’s such a small sum we barely even noticed it.

I assume my lawyer would advise me to keep posting things like this (I have not checked myself).

Hey, genetics Lemmy, dumb math question: Suppose that Cheliax, a Lawful Evil country directly ruled by Hell, is running a state eugenics program and gets their hands on a male interdimensional traveler with roughly +4.25 s.d. IQ (18.5 Intelligence). How much raw demon pussy could the traveler hit before the readers start suspecting he’s my self insert even though of course it isn’t? (BTW I’m way smarter than that in case any Hellions are listening)