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"Retrocomputing is about a lot of things, and I feel like it differs per person. For me, it’s a little bit of nostalgia, but primarily it’s about learning....There’s a lot to learn from platforms that are no longer among us..."

"Too much water on exoplanet surfaces would mean high pressure ices, not life."

"When technology becomes absurd, we must respond with absurd inventions.
More than that, we must straight-faced embrace the absurdity. Otherwise the pomposity of today’s technology will eat us alive."

"Linkwarden is an open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages."

"Together, Smith and Graves risked travel unchaperoned, often donning men’s clothing and cowboy hats. In their photos, they can be seen joyfully handling cameras, guns, and kingsnakes, while at the same time capturing on film all the wilderness they encountered."

"I’ve been thinking about how to say this for a long time now — I love time travel stories, but I don’t love the kind of time travel stories where everything falls into place and you realize that the rubber duckie at the beginning of the story was actually put there by the guy at the end of the story."

"Just like cremation is a euphemism for body incineration, terramation simply means composting human remains. The big selling point: It’s a natural process that creates almost no pollution."

"It turns out that Benjamin Franklin was on to something in 1747"

"My rewrite of Scott Alexander's "Janus' Simulators" about the nature of LLM's"