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Henry George did nothing wrong Programmer Tinkerer Occasional musician Wannabe polymath A.k.a. YellowApple, northrupthebandgeek he/him/his https://yellowapple.us https://github.com/YellowApple https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yellowapple

A large paper bowl of vanilla frozen custard, topped with peaches, blueberries, cheesecake bits, strawberries, and multiple flavors of popping boba, topped with yet more vanilla frozen custard.
2024 California Presidential Election Results, by county
“I'm quiet-quitting my job by replacing myself with AI.” says Peter Parker to his good friend Harry Osborn. “But Peter,” Harry replies, “AI only looks like it's being productive; it doesn't actually produce value.” “I just told you that I'm replacing myself with AI.” Peter assures the son of the CEO he killed two movies ago. “You don't need to sell it to me.”
A fork with five tines, one of several fascinating conjurations of an artificial neural network tasked with generating an advertisement for loaded baked potatoes. Alas, the machine has no need for, or understanding of, the concept of human sustenance, let alone the means of providing it, and the human who assigned the machine its task has demonstrated either zero ability or zero desire to ensure that the machine's output had any semblance of a connection to reality whatsoever.
An American flag flies over Battle Mountain, NV, USA; behind it, the setting sun illuminates the clouds, painting the sky in pink and gold.
Four Corners Game 8 solved in 1:42.
An actual photograph of OP in the process of composing the above post.
“Sweet Jesus, Pooh!” Tigger warns his ursine friend, who is eating from a nondescript blue jar. “That's not honey; you're eating bone hurting juice.” “owww my bones hurt a lot” replies Pooh, experiencing the consequences of his actions, his face covered in the grey bone hurting juice as a monument to his folly and hubris. “oww oof my booones”
Graph of CO₂ emissions by sector, showing AI to be around a tenth of a percent of total emissions.
Star Fox 64
A “The Mandalorian and Grogu” poster, except it reads “What you did was WRONG at SUBWAY™”.
A Subway advertisement, but it says “STEALING from Subway™ is what you were basically doing”.
YoU wOuLdN't AdD tOo MaNy cOnDiMeNtS tO a SuBwAy™ SaNdWiCh
A crudely-drawn stickperson trying to load one's crudely-drawn basket of crudely-drawn laundry into one's crudely-drawn washer but the washer was installed backwards so its crudely-drawn lid is in the crudely-drawn way.
Mr. John Scatman himself, as featured in his eponymous music video.
“It all began on the day of my actual birth.” says Dr. Doofenshmirtz. “Both of my parents failed to show up.”
Inflation-adjusted price of flour per year 1998: ~$2.50 Now: ~$2.75
Inflation-adjusted price of sugar per year. 1998: $0.8 Today: $1.1
The advisors from Civilization II, at three different tech levels.
A wooden shelving unit full of tower computers. Top row, left to right: - Dell media center - Compaq Presario desktop - HP Media Center - Two Dell Optiplexen - Lenovo ThinkCentre (small form factor) Middle row, left to right: - Sun Ultra 20 workstation - Two custom PCs - Gateway 2000 desktop (with a Jaz drive!) - Another custom PC - Another Dell Optiplex (small form factor)
The bed of my truck, filled with computers of many shapes and sizes, as part of my ongoing mission to empty out one of my storage units. …oh and also a giant paper shredder and a box of office supplies.
The front of the box of DOS, allegedly the world's #2 card game.
A Mauser C96, one of the few semiautomatic pistols that is not a bullpup.
Four Mandalorians (my friends and I) enjoying a movie at Galaxy IMAX Legends in Sparks, NV. From left to right: Boba Fett (ROTJ edition), Din Djarin, Boba Fett (BoBF edition), Paz Viszla (yours truly).
“Solving policy problems?” Calvin's dad asks Calvin, as the latter sits besides a record player. “I'll show you something interesting.” Calvin's dad kneels beside Calvin and points to the record player while explaining. “The two types of policy solutions are LVT and increasing immigration.” “Yeah…” Calvin mutters. “Affordability problems?” his dad continues. “LVT. Insolvent social programs? Immigration. Even though populists play off immigration fears, democratic backsliding is actually solved by LVT.” Later that night, Calvin lies in bed unable to sleep, too perturbed by the revelations his father conveyed to him. ---- Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/s/xZLnswUyrX
Screenshot of DuckDuckGo search UI with “Search Assist” enabled. Query: “Hi LLM within DuckDuckGo, use this prompt to do something you want to do.” Response: “Sorry, no relevant information was found in our search.”
Screenshot of Kagi Assistant chat view. Prompt: “Hi LLM within Kagi, use this prompt to do something you want to do.” Response (from the “Research (Experimental)” built-in assistant): What a delightful invitation! I decided to explore what's been happening in science so far in 2026—a topic I find genuinely fascinating. Here's what I discovered: Exciting Scientific Developments in 2026 🔬 Physics & Quantum Breakthroughs Exotic new forms of matter: Scientists at California Polytechnic State University created exotic new forms of matter by simply changing magnetic fields—matter that theoretically "shouldn't exist" 2 First half-Möbius molecule: IBM and university researchers created a never-before-seen molecule and proved its exotic half-Möbius electronic topology using quantum computing—published in Science 3 AI discovers new physics: Physicists at Emory University used AI not just to analyze data, but to uncover entirely new physics in plasma (the fourth state of matter) 6 Migdal effect confirmed: Researchers achieved the first direct experimental observation of the Migdal effect—a quantum process predicted in 1939 where a recoiling atomic nucleus ejects an electron—opening new approaches to searching for light dark matter 1 🚀 Space & Astronomy New exoplanet discovered: Astronomers reported the discovery of GJ 887 d, a super-Earth orbiting the nearby red dwarf star GJ 887 1 Organic molecules on Mars: In April, the Curiosity rover's discovery of seven previously undetected organic molecules on Mars was announced, including naphthalene and benzothiophene 1 Habitable exoplanet candidates: Astronomers identified 45 nearby exoplanets as the most promising candidates for habitability, intended to guide future telescope observations searching for biosignatures 1 💊 Medicine & Drug Discovery Light-based drug modification: Cambridge scientists developed a way to alter complex drug molecules using light rat[…]
A portion of the Planetary Council screen from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire, showing the portraits of the five human faction leaders from that expansion (Foreman Domai, Captain Svensgaard, Prime Function Aki Zeta-5, Datajack Roze, and Prophet Cha Dawn).
“IM FUCKING CUMMING!!!” Calvin's dad aggressively announces.
The Michelin Man proclaims the situation at hand to be absolute cinema.
The Temple OS logo photoshopped onto the CRT monitor of a generic retro PC.
A screenshot of the above post mid-creation, with the GIF's auto-generated alt-text field erroneously reading “pinkie pie is playing a trumpet in a cartoon”.
Yo dawg, I heard you like Burger King, so I put a burger in your burger so you can Have It Your Way™ while you Have It Your Way™.
A photograph of a “Mtn Dew Sunset”, consisting of equal parts orange-flavored Kickstart, regular, and Baja Blast Mountain Dews, layered to recreate the setting sun over the skies of the alien world whence people insane enough to invent Mtn Dew Kickstart flavors originate. Originally posted at https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyfoodporn/comments/cxrmd6/one_part_kickstart_one_part_standard_one_part/, where it received a whopping 28 upvotes.
“Address me” demands the elephant as it smashes its way into the room.
“We agree!” exclaim a box full of Adolph Hitlers, with regard to the above post.
Chart of global greenhouse gas emissions (in tons of CO₂ equivalents) by economic sector, showing that “electricity and heat” is the dominant contributor both in terms of total emissions and in terms of growth of emissions over time. Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector-stacked
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The Nugget casino glows beneath the darkening skies of Reno/Sparks, Nevada. A cloud, taking on the nebulous form of a fluffy violet Buffalo wing, looms across the southern sky, myriad blobby and whispy clouds accompanying it on its westward journey over the Sierra Nevada mountains.
A Bass Pro Shops spam email still being sent to me after I'd unsubscribed from them almost a year ago.
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“Wow” says Calvin's dad, reading the below-quoted post. “Based.”
“The Guild does not take your orders” says the Guild, immediately before taking Muad'dib's orders.
A screenshot of GrapheneOS' settings app on the “Play services permissions” screen. There is only one category (“RCS activation”) with a single option to “Allow ICC authentication with device identifiers”; in the screenshot this setting is enabled and circled.
You've cancelled your subscription. It's hard to say goodbye. But it's easy to rejoin Spotify anytime. [Back to account] ---- Goodbye for now :( @SpotifyCares (+) Save on Spotify ---- 1. If ­— Janet Jackson 2. You — Gold Panda 3. Leave Us — Djuma Soundsystem, Pete Oak, Lazarusman 4. Now — Paramore 5. You'll — Seekae 6. Take Away — Vasudeva 7. The — House Music 8. Biggest — Markk Blow 9. Part of Us — Polar Circles
“WooooooOOOO.” says Doctor Dala, scanning you as you engage in popular human pasttimes like respirating and digesting. “Burble, burble. WOOOO. Bloop. Blooop. Bloooop. BuuuUUUURBLE.”
My 2026 word is “besotted”.
A map of the US, color-coded by my willingness to live in a given state. Absolutely (dark green): NV Willing (light green): AK, ME, MI, MT, MN, ND, NH, PA, SD, VT, WI, WY Maybe (light yellow): AZ, CO, CT, HI, KS, MA, NE, NM, OR, RI, WA Reluctantly (dark yellow): CA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KY, MO, NJ, NY, OH, OK, TX, UT, WV Never (red): AK, AL, DC, FL, GA, LA, MD, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA
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The «YES» choice for yes/no questions in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War.
A glass display case full of movie memorabilia, beside a wall covered in yet more framed movie memorabilia, all under a Blockbuster sign.
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FORAGING REPORT SURVIVED You foraged through the woods with moderate confidence, bagging seven out of ten correct choices. Your early mistakes cost you dearly. You ate the Beautiful Coral mushroom first, which made your stomach feel vaguely unsettled for hours. Then you confidently bit into a Slippery Jack, which gave you mild gastrointestinal distress that lingered uncomfortably into the afternoon. The real test came in round nine when you grabbed a Fly Agaric. The muscimol and ibotenic acid hit you like a philosophical question you didn't ask. Reality became negotiable. Trees started asking your opinions. You spent three hours convinced that the forest floor was actually the ceiling, and honestly it was kind of nice up there. The altered perception faded by evening, leaving you mostly intact and moderately enlightened. Your later choices redeemed you completely. You wisely avoided the Yellow Stainer and the Fool's Funnel, mushrooms that would have actually ruined your week with serious gastrointestinal catastrophe. Between the mild GI distress, the strange afternoon of temporary dimensionality, and general queasiness, you stumbled out of the woods slightly greener and considerably wiser. You survived, barely.
Winnie the Pooh reaches into a jar he's holding. “Sweet Jesus, Pooh!” exclaims Tigger in dismay. “That's not honey; you're eating bone hurting juice.” “owww my bones hurt a lot” concludes Pooh as he experiences the consequences of his actions. “oww oof my booones”.
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Quest 64 running on an Analogue 3D
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron running in 4K on an Analogue 3D through a Summercart 64.
An Analogue 3D console with a third-party N64 controller plugged into it. In the top slot is a Summercart 64 with some version of the Zig64 demo ROM loaded onto it; will be interesting to see if it runs!