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@nothingfuture@mastodon.social yes, yes, all of this. I landed on buying a very small EV and it is a bit terrifying that the top of my car is lower most truck hoods.

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@nothingfuture@mastodon.social but are they street legal? I really wanted a tiny car and was trying to get a dune buggy but they are basically illegal to drive here.

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I want less resolution on all my devices.

So the Terminator's name is Carl. Huh.

"At what point does a hoarder of data, driven by a sense of loss and of fear of same, turn from a mere accumulation of piles and end up with something resembling an archive?"

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5443

/me regards 30 years of personal text files.

Still a pile.

Never could skate but this is so good.

"To ride a skateboard is to get hassled. To get chased off of spots. To have cars stop and yell at you. Or worse: to try and run you off the road. Cities are rebuilt to keep you out. Benches and curbs marred forever just to stop you. It doesn't stop you."

https://dansinker.com/posts/skating/

If y'all aren't running finger 640kb@happynetbox.com in your terminal every few days, you are missing out on some great ascii.

The latest Tech Pod from @will@mastodon.content.town and brad is an excellent and pragmatic look at our current "situation" vis-a-vis AI...

...and also features a great section dedicated to Will talking about using AI to generate pop art portraits of goats, which uhh, IS MY PRIMARY HOBBY.

https://techpod.content.town/episodes/170-the-robots-hopefully-arent-coming

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