Darius Kazemi @darius@friend.camp

Seeing as it's winter here, I have decided to make abgoosht next week. It's a unique and incredibly rich Persian peasant stew where you separate the solids from the liquids and eat everything in piecemeal perfect bites accompanied by fresh bread and herbs and pickles.

The photo here is close in both presentation and preparation to the best I've ever had, served in traditional crockery called a dizi.

So, AI Dungeon 2 has been making the rounds on Twitter and it's pretty amazing. It basically fine-tunes the GPT-2 text model on text adventure transcripts and creates something interactive and remarkably coherent, like having an improv partner. It's ridiculously good.

https://www.aidungeon.io/

Just eating my breakfast like a normal guy

In my mind this is what @casey does all day long

(from this brochure describing the Tektronix 4002 Graphic Computer Terminal, https://vintagetek.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Tek-1970-T4002.pdf )

@lichen ahem https://www.amazon.com/Bizarre-Adventure-Jotaro-Sweater-Printed/dp/B07SSXCF4R?th=1

I always feel better when I'm reminded that even https://example.com/ can't keep their certs up to date sometimes

I love the weird little easter eggs that programmers have always put in their programs. Like this remote job entry program by RAND Corporation in 1972 which featured a "BYE, BYE BANANA" message when you quit.

https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-307

My @glitchlogos t-shirts are for sale once again! I've brought back the PlayStation and Starbucks editions, and I've added a glitched Seal of the President of the United States for good measure.

Teespring is running a promotion, if you order today with the code F3STIVE you'll get 10% off!

https://teespring.com/stores/glitch-logos

This article about WikiHow is great and is full of wonderful gems like this.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/wikihow-history-founder-jack-herrick-good-internet/601627/

It's November, which means it's National Novel Generation Month, where people write code that writes a novel!

I would love to see more beginner programmers participate, so I just wrote a blog post that highlights some very simple novel generators that were made last year.

https://tinysubversions.com/notes/nanogenmo-2019/

#NaNoGenMo

For the purposes of this exercise let us imagine a procession of Umberlands, beginning with the 1st Umberland, followed by the 2nd Umberland, extending to an arbitrary Umberland we shall call the

This aged well. Though I guess it was rotten to begin with. (Washingtonian Magazine July 2002, found at a Five Guys Burgers and Fries in London.)

"Okay I'll click on this new metaethical framework for aligning AI to human values"

*one paragraph in*

wait you suppose WHAT now

*finishes intro article*

ohhhh she is on the Yudkowsky/Bostrom train lol ok

https://medium.com/@june_ku/formal-metaethics-and-metasemantics-for-ai-alignment-2e72533cad6d

FINALLY, a "flush only toilet paper" sign that closes what I call the human waste loophole

Jordan Schnitzer: real estate developer, patron of the arts, philanthropist, utter piece of shit, and arguably the most powerful person in Portland.

https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/10/11/27287641/developer-jordan-schnitzer-admits-wapato-jail-will-probably-be-demolished-by-2020

@anna I added a "Blob" category to our emoji picker. Mr. Blobby is in there as an honorable mention

This is the first time I've ever seen this on a google search.

I love this screenshot from LucasFilm's 1986 graphical online world, "Habitat".

more on that project here: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/227045/rebooting_the_worlds_first_.php

Idea: let google autocomplete write your blues lyrics

Peggy Karp's RFC 247 is the first RFC to make me laugh out loud since the early RFC 100s I think