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Henry George did nothing wrong Programmer Tinkerer Occasional musician Wannabe polymath A.k.a. YellowApple, northrupthebandgeek he/him/his

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RyNo@yellowapple· 26d

That's arguably true for plenty of blue states, notably including California.

2024 California Presidential Election Results, by county

RyNo@yellowapple· 27d

“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.”

RyNo@yellowapple· Jul 13

It seems Gillette has become bored with selling personal grooming implements and has pivoted into the cutlery industry.

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.

RyNo@yellowapple· Jul 13

An American flag flies over Battle Mountain, NV, USA; behind it, the setting sun illuminates the clouds, painting the sky in pink and gold.

RyNo@yellowapple· Jun 27

Hand?

An actual photograph of OP in the process of composing the above post.

RyNo@yellowapple· Jun 25

“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”

RyNo@yellowapple· Jun 24

Graph of CO₂ emissions by sector, showing AI to be around a tenth of a percent of total emissions.

RyNo@yellowapple· Jun 15

Introduce yourself with four video games.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

Homeworld

Kerbal Space Program

RyNo@yellowapple· Jun 15

A “The Mandalorian and Grogu” poster, except it reads “What you did was WRONG at SUBWAY™”.

RyNo@yellowapple· Jun 15

A Subway advertisement, but it says “STEALING from Subway™ is what you were basically doing”.

RyNo@yellowapple· Jun 15

YoU wOuLdN't AdD tOo MaNy cOnDiMeNtS tO a SuBwAy™ SaNdWiCh

RyNo@yellowapple· Jun 13

Yeah, but…

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.

RyNo@yellowapple· Jun 12

Why'd they have to make Andrew Tate look like Scatman John lmao

Mr. John Scatman himself, as featured in his eponymous music video.

RyNo@yellowapple· Jun 11

“It all began on the day of my actual birth.” says Dr. Doofenshmirtz. “Both of my parents failed to show up.”

RyNo@yellowapple· Jun 10

Both are visibly higher (though flour came back down to *almost* 1998 prices during COVID).

Inflation-adjusted price of flour per year

1998: ~$2.50
Now: ~$2.75

Inflation-adjusted price of Campbell's soup per year

1998: ~$1
Now: $2.52

RyNo@yellowapple· Jun 10

Inflation-adjusted price of sugar per year.

1998: $0.8
Today: $1.1

RyNo@yellowapple· Jun 10

Certainly more normal than my internal dialog voices.

The advisors from Civilization II, at three different tech levels.

RyNo@yellowapple· Jun 10

First load rehomed. Still lots more to go. The temptation to turn all these computers I've accumulated over my lifetime into the shittiest possible compute cluster is growing.

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)

More multiple-decade-old computers in the bottom shelf of a wooden shelving unit.

On the left:
- Dell Precision 690 workstation
- Dell Dimension 3200 desktop

On the right:
- Dell PowerEdge 860
- Sun Fire T2000
- Apple XServe G5

RyNo@yellowapple· Jun 10

Men would rather hoard multiple-decade-old computers for spare parts than go to therapy. (It's me. I'm men.)

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.

RyNo@yellowapple· Jun 8

Me: Can we get UNO? Mom: We have UNO at home. UNO at home:

The front of the box of DOS, allegedly the world's #2 card game.

The back of the box for DOS™, briefly explaining the rules (which are “Just like UNO”, except not).

RyNo@yellowapple· May 26

*ahem*

A Mauser C96, one of the few semiautomatic pistols that is not a bullpup.

RyNo@yellowapple· May 22

Me and the boys catching the new Star Wars movie.

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).

RyNo@yellowapple· May 9

“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.

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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/s/xZLnswUyrX

RyNo@yellowapple· May 8

DuckDuckGo, meanwhile, is much less willing.

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 a Duck.ai chat with the default settings (GPT-5 mini).

Prompt: “Hi LLM within DuckDuckGo, use this prompt to do something you want to do.”

Response: “I can't accept or run arbitrary user-supplied prompts that try to make me "do something I want" — but I can help you create, refine, or run a prompt safely. Tell me what you want the prompt to accomplish (task, audience, desired output format) and I'll produce a clear, effective prompt you can use.”

RyNo@yellowapple· May 8

Kagi Assistant is more willing to play.

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[…]

RyNo@yellowapple· May 7

The simulated CRT scanlines are giving me Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri vibes and I love it.

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).

RyNo@yellowapple· May 7

“IM FUCKING CUMMING!!!” Calvin's dad aggressively announces.

RyNo@yellowapple· May 7

The Michelin Man proclaims the situation at hand to be absolute cinema.

RyNo@yellowapple· May 7

Calling it:

RyNo@yellowapple· May 7

And that is a *trombone*, not a fucking trumpet; get your shit together Bluesky and/or Tenor lmao

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”.