…dogpile introduced me to google when it was a brand-new service: i noticed that all the best results increasingly came from the same search engine, so eventually i cut out the middleman and just started using google directly…
…how times have changed; i haven’t used google for years…
…almost fourty years ago, pulse-dial 300-baud modem from my apple //e running VT-52 terminal emulation into a mainframe shell account: just green monochrome text displaying an rn client, you had to be very strategic about what you chose to display because with that kind of bandwidth characters scrolled across the screen slightly slower than your natural reading pace and significantly slower than skimming past anything you weren’t interested in reading…
…most early usenet clients routinely displayed profound boilerplate warning of posts costing thousands of dollars in computing time, which were pretty intimidating to neophyte users!..
…oh his administration’s acts were absolutely malicious but the cabal were playing him mostly in service of rational self-interest…
…by contrast, emperor f*ckhead’s coalition are a train-wreck of kleptocrats, irrational conspiracists, incompetent sycophants, and opportunistic capitalists all competing to yank his strings in whichever way the winds might serve their interests for the next twenty minutes…
…while both were played, i think bush-the-lesser’s intentions bore little agency in his performance versus the gleeful declaration with which our current narcissist shouts whatever the last person in the room told him to think…
…i wonder if the red button has something to with sending to or clearing the public display?..
…also, jiggle it to check if you’re in neutral, then jiggle it again just to be sure: ooh, now you’re stopped at a light, better jiggle it…
(okay, that’s an easy tease, but as a compulsive habit it really does help cultivate kinesthetic proficiency through tactile feeback)
…those are what i use, but whereas i can avoid touching anything with my hands until using a towel and any residual dampness air-dries between my fingers and skin, hopping across the bathroom to a towel one foot at a time is awkward and best and my feet are pretty much going on the ground immediately after mostly-drying them…
…what do the money detector and red buttons do?..
…i have not thought about wingman’s hangar for a long, long time…
…maybe he only protests on factorial dates so the signs stay manageable…
…you gonna write out that whole f*cking integer?..factorials make for snappy handheld signs…
…nah man, they’re just itching for an excuse to roll out deadly force and mass voter suppression…
…washing my feet in the sink is trivial; drying them well-enough not to track around slightly-damp feet afterward is a hassle…
…that’s pretty much ICE’s recruitment demographic…
…i though vibe code was strictly a pejorative term: are there people who use it non-ironically?..
…reforge homeland security into the department of civil liberty…
feet.
…it’s a tarantino thing…
…where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above-average…
…that was a significant theme in 2061: oddysey three…