So he had an accident while flying a cesna that he shouldn’t be flying, and suffered a head injury.

Infinite Loop, the book about Apple stuff, said that “Coming out of the semi-coma had been like flipping a reset switch in Woz’s brain. It was as if in his thirty-year old body he had regained the mind he’d had at eighteen before all the computer madness had begun. And when that happened, Woz found he had little interest in engineering or design. Rather, in an odd sort of way, he wanted to start over fresh.”

Yep, the guy who figured out how to use NTSC to show colors in 4 days of coding because he wanted to play breakout with colors, with a $1 chip.

I’m pretty sure his plane crash robbed us from great things.

And doing so while eating chips.

Colombia.

Me, the rare linux user: “You have no power here.”

This is some State-of-the-art (SOTA) bullshit right here.

That’s a Japanese Sabaton tribute band. I guess. ¯\(ツ)/¯

Citizens of Iran! The cruelty of the old Ayatollah is a thing of the past! [crowd cheers] Let a whole new wave of cruelty wash over this lazy land!

figure A. Whataboutism.

Sounds like Nix is a pathway to many abilities I consider to be unnatural.

This is the most glam rock cat I’ve ever seen.

You stole my words. Though mine had more expletives.

Do I tell you how to live your life?

I think some memes should have a sign that says: “You must be this high to ride”.

I guess someone told Lang to Jack off elsewhere.

Be careful.

It’s like tex-mex, shrimp scampi, deep dish, etc… When a foreign cook tries to accommodate to their new home’s preferences and tastes with local ingredients, and then the recipe evolves locally, distancing from its origins.

More often than not, it makes no linguistic sense: scampi are small lobsters, salsa sauce is a repetition, and deep dish is just deliciously wrong.

I see, a game of cat and mouse.

Yeah, that part ducks.

I know nothing about philosophy, but the Absence of Myth is often a heavily discussed topic since last century, and iIrc there’s a school of thought that I adhere that says “if you take the gods from the hearts of men, they will make new ones*”.

The idea is that our brains are constantly trying to make sense of an otherwise chaotic world, and in doing so, we create (or adhere) to myth to help us keep being rational (and focus on the stuff that matters(?)).

So even those of us that don’t subscribe to organized religions still have some mythos going on. But I’m not educated enough to explain or understand well this point.

*e.g. technological progress, artificial intelligence (well mostly LLM bs.), nuclear era will save us all, internet era will save us all, new-age stuff, cosmology, predestination, if we upload our conscience to a computer = heaven, etc. etc.

A link: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/on-the-absence-of-idols-on-mythopoetic-meaning-making/

EDIT: I forgot! One of the most common religious activities that we often don’t recognize is playing the lottery. It seems odd, but it is a communal activity solely based in faith that a better life is possible, and it is around the corner. But this is a faith-based activity, as anyone with some cursory statistics knowledge will tell you the odds are nought to nada.

I have often been split apart between telling someone or keeping the “lie”, as it seems it helps them keeping hope there is a better tomorrow.

If someone mentions their neighbor won the lottery, I would remind them the difference between empirical and anecdotal evidence.