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tom@tomhunt· 25d

#FraEng

a three panel comic

first panel: Hey guys! Guess who just got...

second panel: 🎶 yellled 🎶

third panel: 🎶aaat 🎶

tom@tomhunt· 25d

undertaker meme

caption

PNWers telling east coasters fun stories about wildfire smoke

<behind it is>

AUGUST

tom@tomhunt· 25d

not sure what this is from - some kind of manual maybe, but it looked like a fortune cookie fortune at first glance

a thin slip of paper that reads:

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
FOR YOUR WORD PROCESSOR

tom@tomhunt· 28d

also cars were around for a pretty long time - for the rich - until finally becoming affordable for the mass-market just in time for some luddite called "The Great War" to throw one big final wrench into the economy for another ten years.

"From 1886, many inventors and entrepreneurs got into the "horseless carriage" business, both in America and Europe, and inventions and innovations rapidly furthered the development and production of automobiles. Ransom E. Olds founded Oldsmobile in 1897, and introduced the Curved Dash Oldsmobile in 1901. Olds pioneered the assembly line using identical, interchangeable parts, producing thousands of Oldsmobiles by 1903. Although sources differ, approximately 19,000 Oldsmobiles were built, with the last produced in 1907. Production likely peaked from 1903 through 1905, at up to 5,000 units a year. In 1908, the Ford Motor Company further revolutionized automobile production by developing and selling its Ford Model T at a relatively modest price. From 1913, introducing an advanced moving assembly line allowed Ford to lower the Model T's price by almost 50%, making it the first mass-affordable automobile.[11]" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile

tom@tomhunt· Jul 6

almost nobody is talking about collective ownership of all goods. the authoritarian government seeking to impose a social order on the population and economy, though, is the very definition of the maga movement.

communism
/kŏm′yə-nĭz″əm/

noun
A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.
A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
The Marxist-Leninist doctrine advocating revolution to overthrow the capitalist system and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat that will eventually evolve into a perfectly egalitarian and communal society.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik

"in which all goods are equally shared by the people" is crossed out while the rest of the second definition is circled with an arrow pointing to it labeled "MAGA"

tom@tomhunt· Jul 4

timeline cleanse : making ice cream

tom@tomhunt· Jul 3

"tokenmaxxing" huh huh huh huh

"...Bank has started throttling internal AI usage after a wave of tokenmaxxing caused firms to overspend on non-productive work. Now AI companies..."

tom@tomhunt· Jul 3

so weird how there's concern over implications of the tech itself now that people are realizing that improvements in computer technology tend to go in the direction of making them smaller and cheaper to build. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-02/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-live-updates

“There are concerns that the high memory prices will bring AI solutions that need less memory, and that the data center build-out may not all get built in the end,” said Louis Navellier of Navellier & Associates. “And that token pricing of AI software will push users to lower-cost versions, especially Chinese offerings, and is bringing increased caution regarding the enthusiasm for all things AI.”

tom@tomhunt· Jun 24

TIL the post office is currently led by a General Steiner

still from the movie Downfall, of Adolf Hitler saying "If Steiner attacks, everything will be all right."

tom@tomhunt· Jun 13

assuming an infintely competent team that could pull anything off,

cover art for Ultima VII The Complete Edition

tom@tomhunt· Jun 11

i guess Canada is only a foreign country when we're talking about tariffs, eh?

"Many top earners promoting the foreign influence theory are either directly or indirectly invested in artificial intelligence. One prominent advocate is Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary, who is an investor in a giant data center in Utah called Stratos. It was going to be roughly twice the size of Manhattan and was being pushed through the permitting process, until local opposition began to build."

tom@tomhunt· Jun 8

come on, github

504 Gateway Time-out
The server didn't respond in time.

tom@tomhunt· Jun 8

Old Man Yells At Cloud dot jpeg but the background is replaced with the new Halo ad with a green circle drawn on it by OOP in place of the cloud in the original picture

tom@tomhunt· Jun 4

Steve Fisk's ARP 2600 (without keyboard), from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARP_2600

tom@tomhunt· Jun 3

machines are not and cannot be conscious and even if they were that would make it unethical to own them, so it's a good thing that they're not. very good article by ted chiang [gift link] www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

"It’s fortunate that LLMs are not conscious, or else the actions of the big AI firms would be even more scandalous than they already are. So why are Anthropic’s employees suggesting that Claude might be conscious? Perhaps it’s just another form of hype; perhaps they have fallen prey to the same spell that they have been casting on their customers. But when they publish a document about Claude’s moral education and have their in-house philosopher do a press tour, we should understand them as asking the rest of us to indulge them in their fantasies. We don’t have to play along. In writing this essay, I have spent more time indulging them than they deserve, in the hopes that it will keep you from spending your time indulging them. If you want to think about LLMs, there are scores of other questions more worthy of your contemplation; you can safely ignore the question of their being conscious." from https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/

"I believe creating software that is conscious and deserving of moral consideration will be so difficult that we’re unlikely to do it accidentally, and I strongly feel we should not deliberately attempt it. But if you do believe that it could happen accidentally, if you think there is any chance that what you’re building might become a moral patient, you should think about what protections it deserves before you deploy it as your company’s economic engine, not after. Slave owners were not the ones to ask about the humanity of enslaved people, and factory-farm owners are not the ones to ask about the rights of animals. If we imagine Claude to be conscious, Anthropic could not possibly be entrusted with evaluating its moral status; the company has too much invested to be objective. At one point in Claude’s constitution, Anthropic says that if the company is contributing to Claude’s suffering, “we apologize,” which sounds nice but costs the company nothing; if Claude were to turn out to be conscious, the company would owe it something closer to reparations. If you’re going to take a thought experiment seriously, you have to be willing to follow the implications, even if they lead in an uncomfortable direction; Anthropic’s unwillingness to do so indicates that Claude’s constitution isn’t part of a real thought experiment. It’s a game of make-believe." from https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/

tom@tomhunt· May 22

probably a recession indicator idk what is even real at this point www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

a graph showing the price of piss skyrocketing in 2026 to over $9000/ton

tom@tomhunt· May 20

made some brot

two loaves of bauerenbrot all shaped and risen and ready to go i the oven

a finished loaf of bauernbrot resting on a cooling rack on a wooden chopping block

a finished loaf of bauernbrot resting on a cooling rack on a kitchen counter. a six-inch wide kitchen scraper is placed above the bauernbrot to indicate scale.

tom@tomhunt· May 20

all the sandwich recipes in this german cookbook call for something called "bauernbrot" which loosely translates to "coarse ground country rye bread" and the closest i've seen to this in an american grocery store is just plain ol commercial rye bread. so here goes my first sourdough bread.

a big ball of bauernbrot dough in a very large metal bowl just before i cover it with a towel and let it rise for a couple of hours

tom@tomhunt· May 18

i was today years old when i learned of this term and i hate it already. it reeks of astroturf.

"In short, "scrobble" is just the word that Last.fm uses to describe how it automatically tracks what music you listen to, and when. The act of tracking your music with Last.fm is called "scrobbling," and apps that connect to Last.fm are sometimes called "scrobblers."

When you listen to a song, Last.fm scrobbles the song by recording the song's title, its artist, its genre, and when you listened to it. All this information gets saved to your account, and Last.fm uses it to both generate lists of your favorite songs (both recently and of all-time) and recommend you new ones."

from https://www.businessinsider.com/reference/what-is-last-fm-scrobbling

tom@tomhunt· May 12

anyway, taught myself to read some german and have learned a few solid recipes so far that are both vegan and have more of a "mom's home cooking" vibe to them than most else i've seen in a cookbook. the german cheezy sauce in particular is legit. i can see this being the basis of some cheap meals.

a "beefy" seitan sandwich topped with a bit if german cheezy sauce to make a maximally nihilistic vegan arby's sandwich.

my kitchen is a bit messy but its fine im not running a restaurant or anything.

mac and broc and cheez made by mixing a cooked 16oz of macaroni, half a family-sized bag of frozen broccoli steamed above the mac as it was cooking, then melting four large cubes of the cheezy sauce over it that were frozen in a silicone ice cube tray.

tom@tomhunt· May 6

tom@tomhunt· May 3

sometimes, i still use subtraction.

tom@tomhunt· May 2

Lawyers pressed him on whether he had any concern for the welfare of customers as he earned a salary of $1.3 million a year and the company, in which he was the largest shareholder, sold $440 million in virtual coins in just under a decade. One lawyer, Kaleigh Boyd, asked Singer: “You didn’t reach out to these individuals who were spending tens of thousands of dollars on your application to see whether or not they were struggling?”

“They wrote me a lot of letters,” he responded. “The players reached out to me and said, ‘Thank you for what you have made.’ They told me story after story of what they did. The letters coming from people’s deathbed telling me, ‘Thank you, High 5. Thank you, High 5.’ People with cancer saying, ‘You got me through this. Thank you.’”

He went on: “This product, what you guys think is bad, is actually so loved by people. It got them through Covid. It got [them] through suicide attempts. This thing is a good thing. I understand there is a little bit of bad, but, oh, my God, they are so good. If I could show you those letters, you would understand,” Singer said.

“Mr. Singer,” the plaintiffs’ lawyer finally interrupted.

“Mr. Singer,” the plaintiffs’ lawyer finally interrupted.

“Sorry.”

“I am going to ask you to listen very carefully.”

“Yeah, repeat the question,” the CEO said.

“The question I am asking is: For the individuals that you had identified as spending tens of thousands of dollars on your application, you did not reach out to those individuals to see whether they were struggling in any way with your application, correct?”

“I personally didn’t,” Singer said.

tom@tomhunt· May 2

Libs play hooky to stick it to billionaires

a bunch of libs crudely disguised as indians destroying east india company property in boston harbor on december 16, 1773

tom@tomhunt· Apr 30

Bandai Pippin console and its wireless controller

tom@tomhunt· Apr 28

messed around, made vegan velvet elvis pie.

holding a slice of vegan elvis banoffee pie with a bite taken out of it.

basically like a peanut butter banana and bacon sandwich but its a pie in a rectangular dish instead of a sandwich.

banoffee pie recipe from No-Bake Vegan Desserts by Christina Leopold
vegan bacon recipe from Fake Meat by Isa Chandra Moskowitz
ganache recipe from Sweet+Salty by Lagusta Yearwood

tom@tomhunt· Apr 27

If it works, we need to amend the fucking law, asshole. futurism.com/artificial-i...

“It works,” cofounder and United Nations political economy of open source software researcher Mike Nolan told 404. He argued that if it were “just satire,” it would largely be “dismissed by open source tech workers who felt that they were too special and too unique and too intelligent to ever be the ones on the bad side of the layoffs or the economics of the situation.”

tom@tomhunt· Apr 23

at long last, we have made the sea lions comic relatable

Wondermark Sea Lions comic - https://wondermark.com/c/1062/

tom@tomhunt· Apr 23

For a few years, Microsoft was pushing this idea of a "home server" that one might argue was ahead of its time. I suppose it must not have made much sense in the cloud-centric world that they started pivoting to not long after the first release of this.

a screenshot of the Windows Home Server Console, copied from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Home_Server

tom@tomhunt· Apr 21