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@bront.rodeo

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less cyber, more punk. itinerant computer sicko. writing at blog.bront.rodeo

vic falls with a rainbow
a cat cuddling a blanket and looking sad
me hanging off a sailboat in the hudson giving a thumbs up
Greetings. I am a time traveler from the year 2036. I am on my way home after getting an IBM 5100 computer system from the year 1975. My "time" machine is a stationary mass, temporal displacement unit manufactured by General Electric. The unit is powered by two, top-spin, dual-positive singularities that produce a standard, off-set Tipler sinusoid. I will be happy to post pictures of the unit.
sculpture of oedipus gouging his eye out
a very shagadelic hotel room
the slack app with a red notification bubble
a fox
store with a big VIM sign
“whale signals” app account that tracks crypto trades
"Mr. Andreessen has told friends a story about a confrontation he had about a decade ago with David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, at the headquarters of Condé Nast, which owns the magazine. Mr. Remnick’s team argued that the tech elite were out of touch, a person who heard Mr. Andreessen’s version of the story said, but when the investor saw how well appointed the Condé Nast offices and bathrooms were, he concluded that it was the media elite who were out of touch."
me, my brother, and my mom in asheville in 2018
da rockwilder - method man & redman (1999)
reddit comment: “the only time i ever use AI is for roleplay sex chats with Farnese or Morda. Aside from that, I really hate everything about AI”
xteink e-reader with Devil House on it
“‘made over 50 replies yesterday” “posts over 20 times per day on average” “replies over 20 times per day on average”
poster for ewoks: the battle for endor
xi jinping with a huge chad chin
a dusty old pachinko machine that is still in pretty good shape
a white cat sitting in between my legs blinking at the sun
NYT headline reading "The 2028 Democratic Presidential Contenders, Ranked by Nate Silver"
red pill scene from the matrix: morpheus: I got us some drugs neo: Thats Interesting because I take drugs morpheus: And me. That's why I got two.
crying soyjak says "only the present moment exists" while a time worm of a chad says "I am eternal"
darth vader statue chained to a tree with a wooden sign saying “mr. neil security”
excerpt from royall tyler's Japanese Tales reading "Although nearly every tale has a title in the original, I made up all the titles in this book. The old ones sound like this: "How Retired Emperor Uda Revealed the Ghost of Minister of the Left Toru, of Riverside Palace" (no. 190), and this: "How the Fox of Koya River Changed into a Woman and Rode on the Croups of Horses" (no. 207). Old-fashioned titles like these are usefully descriptive, but they seem awfully poker-faced.?
twitter screenshot: @pjreddie • Follow "We shouldn't have to think about the societal impact of our work because it's hard and other people can do it for us" is a really bad argument. Roger Grosse @RogerGrosse Replying to @kevin_zakka and @hardmaru To be clear, I don't think this is a positive step. Societal impacts of Al is a tough field, and there are researchers and organizations that study it professionally. Most authors do not have expertise in the area and won't do good enough scholarship to say something meaningful. Joseph Redmon @pjreddie • Follow I stopped doing CV research because I saw the impact my work was having. I loved the work but the military applications and privacy concerns eventually became impossible to ignore. x.com/RogerGrosse/st... Roger Grosse @RogerGrosse Replying to @skoularidou What's an example of a situation where you think someone should decide not to submit their paper due to Broader Impacts reasons?
a japanese guy sitting with a katana in a dirty room. the caption reads "a young japanese man living as a hikikomori in 2004"
gohan reaching super saiyan 2 in the hyperbolic time chamber
$100 donation to the women's foundation of minnesota
All of this helps explain why the Church had been so uncompromising in its attitude toward usury. It was not just a philosophical question; it was a matter of moral rivalry. Money always has the potential to become a moral imperative unto itself. Allow it to expand, and it can quickly become a morality so imperative that all others seem frivolous in comparison. For the debtor, the world is reduced to a collection of potential dangers, potential tools, and potential merchandise. Even human relations become a matter of cost-benefit calculation. Clearly this is the way the conquistadors viewed the worlds that they set out to conquer. (p. 319)
Page from Great Teacher Onizuka reading: "Education means a better edge for Japan's youth; a better edge for Japan's youth means better future computer engineers; better future computer engineers means better advancement in the field of internet science; better advancement in the field of internet science means better porn sites. You catch my drift?"
chester, one of st croix’s world-famous beer-drinking pigs, with a bunch of froth on his snout
a sign saying “number 1 japenis restaurant”
a screenshot from chaos:head showing a shelf of anime figurines with the text "I've got almost 100 wives, big sisters, and daughters, and I can't let them get hurt. They keep me going, so they're very important to me".
"zohran for new york" ad but it says "the industial revolution and its consequences have been a distaster for the human race"
a sweatshirt that says “normal” with an “i voted” sticker on it
tumblr post: toby fox saying: "So... I really owe a lot to Homestuck! It made me better at music, allowed me to make my game, connected me with many important friendships, and it taught me lessons on how to deal with fandom and the importance of valuing your fans. In my mind it's basically a debt I might never be able to repay." reblog saying: "homestuck taught me lessons on how to deal with fandom" is maybe one of the most colossal euphemisms i have ever read in my entire life, it's like pointing to chernobyl and saying it gave you a very valuable lesson on the importance of workplace safety
a spanish(?) post with a guy in a penis costume
marge holding a sign that says “i’m protesting because itchy & scratchy are indirecrtly responsible for my husband being hit on the head with a mallet”
white cat with a cone alternative that looks like a big orange slice
"sickos yes" meme but with jacopo from house in fata morgana