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  please tell me I caught the best 2 minutes of this movie. #Monsterdon

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  are we going to get in one last High Priestess Snog? oops. guess not. Oh well. #Monsterdon

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  #monsterdon wait, this is still going?? (recognizing James Horner, wtf)

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  I had forgotten how much more carnage there was in this one. Then again, John Carpenter. #Monsterdon

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  oopsie. Time for Mark Hamill to buy it. #monsterdon

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  Yeah that's not quite how the NSF grant approval process works. #Monsterdon

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  I think the writer had a very weird idea of what the NSF does? #Monsterdon

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  but at least we get Guy Asleep on the Grill #Monsterdon

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  woah.. Mark Hamill ?? how did I forget he was in this? #Monsterdon

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  They really just didn't do denouments back then, did they? #monsterdon

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  Guessing that dog is not long for this world #monsterdon

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  (I've said various versions of this before, but maybe this makes the point clearer:) The Turing Test is **NOT** a benchmark. It's a **warning**. i.e., Turing *knew* that trying to define "intelligence" was, at best, way more difficult than people gave it credit for, likely completely futile. His proposed "test" is, "If you can be fooled into thinking there's something intelligent there, then there is (or at least there mi...

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  https://cloudisland.nz/@freakboy3742/116691013883402288 Reminded of the POPL conference I went to where the hotel conference room had a stupidly low ceiling and so the bottom half of the screen wasn't visible from the middle->back of the room. ... so Phil Wadler redid all of his slides the night before to ONLY use the top half of the screen. Suffice it to say the slides were Very Short (I think he broke the title across two slides). It was a really good talk. (Also reminded...

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  https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116694520503463037 @moira yeah I had this funny feeling that Stuff That Other Rich People Are Going to Care About was not going to fly quite so easily (of course I sold a lot of shit in IRA Land anyway -- basically everything that listed Microsoft, Amazon, and Google as their biggest holdings -- (yay that that can be done without tax stuff happening). Getting the idea that maybe everything should just go in international funds and call it a day...)

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  "never make the mistake of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s (...yeah I know, 14 years old, but I only just saw it today,...)

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  stupid question: What is the actual obstacle to being able to run Linux on a cellphone (i.e., and be able to use it as a cellphone)? Is there some crucial interop spec that's being kept proprietary/secret? Or is it there some particular software component that's encumbered by patents and so there can't be a free version of it? Some weird licensing structure that the operating companies have been able to enforce (and the EU hasn't gotten around to saying, &am...

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@sparklepanic/116434925982021556 (seeing a few HTML5 things I really ought to learn... buh)

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  @kentpitman @ramin_hal9001 @cdegroot @mousebot @dougmerritt @screwlisp ok, finally finished my codeberg post https://codeberg.org/martianh/mastodon.el/issues/340#issuecomment-11431738

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  @dougmerritt I don't think it had anything to do with SMS. Twitter was an internet service from the start and Dorsey's decision was a matter of taste/branding/marketing; the notion of a service that *only* allowed short posts was Something New. Receiving a twitter feed as SMS texts on a cell phone would have been insane (and probably also expensive back then).

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  @moira@mastodon.murkworks.net @RobynGoodfellow@mastodon.murkworks.net #monsterdon definitely needs to do Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

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  @ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz oh I'm sure. It's just early 70s I have this memory/perception of him having been in basically everything (or at least everything that made it to US network TV)

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  @moira@mastodon.murkworks.net @elebertus@eigenmagic.net 476 wasn't a tragedy, but 235 arguably was The assassination of Severus Alexander touched off a 50-year Crisis that destroys the internal trade network, the economy, and basically everything else that mattered... which I would say was the true End of Rome. There is so much we're discovering *now* about where they were then. Archimedes came ⟶⟵ this close to inventing calculus (Ptolomy effectively *did* invent Fourier). People...

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  @kentpitman@climatejustice.social @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @cdegroot@mstdn.ca @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org @JamesGosling@universeodon.com I should note that seeing this https://universeodon.com/@JamesGosling/116173132555028212 reminded me that I didn't actually totally understand this https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@wrog/116169652684073570 until it came time for me to implement my own garbage collector for ASTLOG, and I'm definitely **not** any kind of GC expert. I used a dirt-simp...

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  #Monsterdon too bad about Glauca, then ?

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  #Monsterdon I'll take Bad Celestial Mechanics for $600

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  #monsterdon Lacunt ???

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  #Monsterdon it's the Small Stonehenge from Spinal Tap

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  @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @mousebot@todon.nl @dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @kentpitman@climatejustice.social @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org @cdegroot@mstdn.ca yay, actual experience, actual review. thanks.

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  @mdhughes@appdot.net @dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @kentpitman@climatejustice.social @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org @cdegroot@mstdn.ca > I stick to posting longer-than-two-posts content to my blog, ... yeah, that's clearly the Right Thing, but has the disadvantage of not inflicting my text on people directly 🙂

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  @dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @kentpitman@climatejustice.social @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org @cdegroot@mstdn.ca what I *currently* do is compose inside Emacs (the *only* non-painful alternative for long posts), then manually decide how I'm going to break it up -- which actually has some literary content to it, because in some cases, you *do* want to arrange the breaks for maximal dramatic effect (generalized How to Use Paragraphs) Problem 1 being that emacs doesn&...