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- OBBTKN14
My father turns 82 today. He’s still going strong—he rides his bike three or four days a week, and plenty of young people would struggle to keep up with him.
He’s quite a character! I know I’ll regret it later, but I just can’t seem to find the time to be with him as much as I should right now. Between this damn job and the time I have left for my wife and daughters, I barely have a moment for myself.
I just called him; he knows I’m always thinking of him and Mom—though today, a call is all it’s going to be.
That said, we’re having a family meal on Saturday to celebrate, and damn, are we going to celebrate in style!
- I wish I could do that. I lost both parents in the 80s. (not their 80s)CyBrainX
- Enjoy that! I miss my old manstoplying
- Yes, enjoy it man, I miss mine tooprophetone
- Sounds great. Enjoy.Longcopylover
- That's great man, maybe you can make it a tradition... maybe for Sunday. I'm jealous of families that do that.canoe
- My plan was to spend Saturdays with my parents... realistically, once a month wouldn't be bad.OBBTKN
- I don't know how you guys do it, but after working a thousand hours, I barely have any time left for my wife and daughters...OBBTKN
- yeah if any of you have the luck to still have your parents, go visit them often. It can happen quick. Lost my mom this year suddenly.HAL9001
- I'm happy i visited her every 3-4 weeks and talk to her on the phone almost every Fridays.HAL9001
- sorry for your loss HALOBBTKN
- Sorry HAL :(canoe
- thanks guysHAL9001
- palimpsest2
"[ ] The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip.
The body count climbs through a series of globewars. Emergent Planetary Commercium trashes the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic Continental System, the Second and Third Reich, and the Soviet International, cranking-up world disorder through compressing phases. Deregulation and the state arms-race each other into cyberspace.
By the time soft-engineering slithers out of its box into yours, human security is lurching into crisis. Cloning, lateral genodata transfer, transversal replication, and cyberotics, flood in amongst a relapse onto bacterial sex.
Neo-China arrives from the future.
Hypersynthetic drugs click into digital voodoo.
Retro-disease.
Nanospasm.
[ ] Beyond the Judgement of God. Meltdown: planetary china-syndrome, dissolution of the biosphere into the technosphere, terminal speculative bubble crisis, ultravirus, and revolution stripped of all christian-socialist eschatology (down to its burn-core of crashed security). It is poised to eat your TV, infect your bank account, and hack xenodata from your mitochondria.
..."
— Nick Land - Meltdown
https://allpoetry.com/poem/14655…
- stoplying9
Just watched "Disclosure Day" on a flight home from Miami and I have to say, it was not nearly as bad as I thought. I'd seen plenty of damning reviews when it came out, and I have to admit, the story wasn't what I thought it would be - but I liked it. I found it refreshing to have a cast of kind of unknown actors - aside from Emily Blunt - Tons of eye rolls, and chuckles, but (full disclosure) I was entertained.
- username checks out : )MrT
- https://www.bbc.co.u…_me_
- i hated it so muchHAL9001
- Haven't seen it yet, really wanted to see in theatres but couldn't, the reviews are so split on it, it's great, no it's trash lolprophetone
- I'll wait until it's added free on Prime probablyprophetone
- I dug itGuyFawkes
- @HAL9001 *makes eye contact, raises glass*jagara
- Good work from everyone but the script writer(s). Such middling garbagerobotinc
- OBBTKN0
Right, okay.
It’s really late, I’m half-pissed, but...
In a moment of clarity, after a "conversation" lasting over half an hour with Claude (using its most advanced model), I’ve arrived at the most precise conclusion—its exact definition.
Artificial Idiot!
Someday, if I feel like it, I’ll flesh this idea out properly.
For today—at least as far as I’m concerned—you can all sleep easy.
This synthetic shit is absolutely not "better" than "us."
Sweet dreams!
- Seriously... it only dazzles those who are prone to it.
ZzzzzzzzOBBTKN - Maybe I’m the biggest idiot for trying to reason with a machine, but... ugh, what a drag!OBBTKN
- You're not asking it for creative shit are you? If so, no duh.
You're the creator, AI's just your robot slave, that's how I see and use it.GuyFawkes - I just wrapped up an App last night, worked from 8:a to 2:a last mon-fri, it took ME to make it good, when they say you can make an app in 30s, you can...GuyFawkes
- but it will suck shit.GuyFawkes
- I'll post it here once it's in the store, I have to do third party testing first.GuyFawkes
- shit by 30s I meant 30 minutes my badGuyFawkes
- https://youtube.com/…monNom
- https://youtube.com/…monNom
- Hehe... I was drunk, asked Claude for personal (humanlike) questions, hence my assessment. It’s very useful for my work with web-related tasks, not much more...OBBTKN
- Sounds like you were trying to get a prescription for the blue pill.palimpsest
- Seriously... it only dazzles those who are prone to it.
- PonyBoy1
Wow I need to change my diet... but at least it wasn’t another heart attack!!
- more red meat and sugar?neverscared
- Not bad ;)
More veggies? More wine?OBBTKN - lol, neverscared... and yes - more veggies, felix but time to shelve the wine awhile <3PonyBoy
- take care brother!GuyFawkes
- thanks i willneverscared
- tequila timeprophetone
- get your steps in, tooSquiddy
- walk after dinner always helps, and you're still drinking after a heart attack?canoe
- Ianbolton1
was i dreaming or did somebody post Aldous Feehand on here they'd recreated as a web app? I never got round to trying it - maybe because i dreamt it and nobodies actually recreated it in the first place
- I think you just nominated yourself. Love this idea.monNom
- I've been building a modern, similar-ish type thing, as it goes. Aldus Freehand sounds like some sort of Victorian Gentlemen.set
- hello setmonospaced
- hello mono, hope you're well.set
- Haha, Hi Set.Ianbolton
- Been a minuteIanbolton
- Hey pal :)set
- Realised after sending the message it was Macromedia's Freehand, which sounds less Victorian haha. What are you making man?Ianbolton
- I made a Flash app, perhaps that's what you're thinking of. https://spark-bc6d6.…ShenanigansTV
- I think Aldous created Pagemaker. It took me way too long to make the switch from Freehand to Illustrator. Haha, and Quark too. I’m a dinosaurGreen_Pork
- @IB Well I started building a fairly complex vector brand design tool, which also can convert jpegs/pngs of logos/UI to editable vector paths.set
- ..but it's on hold currently because of other more important/quicker revenue creating projects. I'll finish it one day.set
- It's called Cornelius Steadyfinger®set
- haha, shut up!! "Hold my finger"Ianbolton
- Ianbolton4
Mort, you were right man. I put my hand too far in the cage and the trolls ate it. Can we have a disclaimer under Build your portfolio with Kropp saying 'Do not feed the Trolls'. Just for me?!
- That shit was worse than anything from grafician in my opinion. Hard not to react.mort_
- F'sure. Fucked up stuff. i'll always fight to the death for those less fortunate, because their lives are already floating in hell.Ianbolton
- Clearly, I missed something.Continuity
- Come for the design, stay for the bigotry.palimpsest
- ^ and the filthIanbolton
- i see the disclaimer the 'Do not feed the Trolls'. ... its a qbnpro featureneverscared
- He is the Colin Robinson of QBNjamesbeat
- I caught up.
It was fucking gross.
And I really hope you're well, Ian!Continuity - what happened?renderedred
- drama moves pretty fast.. been off for a day and what happened exactly, i have no ideaautoflavour
- ^^ T-shirt of the day, George Floyd t-shirt postIanbolton
- ^^ Meme of the day also. Rzu-rzu spreading the love.mort_
- sorry for shitting on your prophet :) but now I found what your religion is and what topics are actually taboo on qbn.rzu-rzu
- which topics are taboo on qbn?neverscared
- Oh, I see.renderedred
- Eh, sometimes you forget and roll with the pigs.garbage
- OBBTKN5
It’s raining!
It’s raining today and yesterday—like it hasn’t in a year.
The drought this spring and summer was incredible (though it never actually becomes a problem here, given the huge water reserves).
Autumn is here, and the darkness returns until May... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- palimpsest4
I don't think I'm telling tales out of school when I say most of this community leans left. I'm a commie myself, though to my chagrin, I also have a techno-libertarian streak.
To borrow from Bookchin: I'd like to see affinity groups spread out from this community, self-organized and loosely confederated under the QBN banner. We already have a small one on Discord to that end. Let a hundred flowers bloom, and build your own.
That goes especially for those of you on the right, our own marginalized minority. Whatever your intentions, you've chosen to share your ideas with this community. I'd love to see how they live in a self-organized space among like-minded peers. I'd rather see more rooms than fewer voices.
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They say don't feed the trolls: I say give a troll a fish and you feed him for a day, give him his own Discord server and he feeds himself.- The message is clear. Free borders, free bodies, free choice and free from fucking fear.neverscared
- Aldous Freehand.palimpsest
- Perfidia Beverly Hillsneverscared
- https://i.haasie.com…mort_
- I am a passenger, but you can't be neutral on a moving train.garbage
- The least we can do is honk. Even on a toy interface those closest to us can still hear us.palimpsest
- ^ Tangential: have you played Big Walk? Honking the monorail is a cathartic experience.garbage
- Red Army Needs Youfuturefood
- @garbage
I haven't but I'm all for honking shenanigans. Added to my list!palimpsest - u went full halalneverscared
- https://tenor.com/OM…_me_
- That’s beautiful Palimort_
- Coincidentally it's from the creators of Untitled Goose Game, another honking shenanigan masterpiece.garbage
- Krassy11
set!
welcome back!
- Yeah welcome back set :)mort_
- It just feels right.Continuity
- Woot!GuyFawkes
- He's back with a vengeancefuturefood
- Who?utopian
- Will the memes return as well?Akagiyama
- lol I was thinking is this THE set? Am I seeing things? Are these old notes lol_niko
- GuyFawkes11
I quit ma jerb! I'm 52... it's time.
Been living in Mexico for exactly 20 years this month.
Moving to Seattle in 4 weeks, just accepted my first non-design or even computer related job in 30 years.
Very good money, company vehicle, free rent, I couldn't pass it up.
I'm going from way too much sun to none at all. lol
- But... what will you be doing??? I need inspiration for my exit strategy.duckseason
- nice. what kinda work? all the best to you!Squiddy
- Nice, Moldy!! <3PonyBoy
- Fuck yeah!thumb_screws
- No fucking way lol. It is hilarious that you're moving in on almost the equinox and it will be the stereotypical shock. What part of town?garbage
- Courage! Love it man. Best of luckstoplying
- Hell yeahbezoar
- Sick, great food/snacks found at https://www.uwajimay…prophetone
- Good luck Moldero!! More info @ career switch? Inspire us ;)OBBTKN
- There's plenty of sun/heat here during the summer now; We don't get full winters any more either.evilpeacock
- That sounds rather empowering. Godspeed. Take vitamin D.set
- Wow, congrats. But yeah, enlighten us, what are our options?Longcopylover
- Bold moves get bold outcomes. Maybe you can enjoy design more from the sidelines. What on earth job pays for accommodation though?Ianbolton
- OBBTKN0
I’m planning to take it easy, but my plan—working from 8 to 6, exercising from 6 to 7, and cycling on weekends—is turning out to be a total failure.
I’m completely consumed by work and the daily grind.
It’s gotten so bad that I hadn’t even realized Monday is a public holiday!
Make some room for me, Moldy; I don't think this job is healthy ;)