1960s: the computer when programmed correctly can perform trillions of operations without a single mistake:

Pentium fdiv bug era: in some rare cases excel may let a bug in the CPU slip past.

LLM era: we rolled 6x10E9 dice and days have 37 hours, finger count is random, your files were deleted lol.

You wake up and go to the front door. Your bestie has left you a cage containing a breeding pair of velociraptors. You take the cage inside - and you’re confident nobody saw anything.

What do you do?

It’s everywhere.

Nintendo was founded closer to the founding of the USA than to its destruction.

Currently traveling at a fraction of the speed of light.

If my calculations are correct, and as a stats major I always am*, my bones are about 15% metal.

I think that makes me an ISO standard cyborg.

* depending what you're counting and mean by "quantity", "percentage", and "metal"

Torment Nexus™️LLC - the professionals choice.

An old one laying around from August 2004. The iBook was still being sold when I pixelled that one up.

“Stop making your pain your whole personality”

My lovely it’s shaped every experience I’ve had, stopped me from doing others I’d have chosen, forced me to take paths and experiences I’d have rather not, and sculpted the shape of the few precious free parts left. There’s not much else.

The precise geometry of that is still me, of course. A little grace, thanks.

It’s time to simplify shift patterns.

Today here is July 14. It’s exactly 128 days after International Women’s Day and 128 days before International Men’s Day.

It’s also my birthday ‘cos my writers are hamfisted hacks.

But still, happy birthday me!

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