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Giving a canjam seminar is the most bizarre experience. I feel like I get up in front of a room and incoherently ramble for two hours, then people keep coming up to me afterwards and saying it was a good presentation. Is this gaslighting?

Upon reflection, the true cure for my feeling that my canjam presentations are incoherent would be doing a deliberately incoherent seminar and seeing if the response was different. I'm sure Warren will be thrilled with Operation Sokal.

Dallas with my boys

Retrospectively regretting cutting the slide titled "I come here to praise Sean Olive, not to bury him" from my presentation for space. It turns out I needed MORE ancient Rome, not less!

Once again, Julian Krause answers the questions nobody else will youtube.com/watch?v=_bV1sf…

No Christmas song speaks to my actual experience of Christmas with such accuracy as Stan Rogers' At Last I'm Ready For Christmas stanrogers.net/the-music/song…

They say that the best revenge is living well, but I'm of the opinion that the best revenge is living well while watching the other person melt down on social media. That seems like a straight upgrade to me.

Anybody got a Renaissance-style picture of at least three of the following philosophers, ideally in dialogue? * Socrates * Plato * Artistotle * Xenophon of Athens * Diogenes of Sinope

I feel like social media has really boosted a lot of people's confidence, and given them the courage to speak their minds, which has revealed that they had the right amount of confidence initially and it should not have been boosted

Has any invention in history been as unhealthy for human discourse as microblogging?

In a rare and momentous occasion, audio is NOT the most toxic online nerd hobby space this week, and I am basking in the comparative calm. We're not doing any better, but at least other people are worse!

In light of the recently semi-enacted ban on TikTok, I'd like to publicly state my universal support of banning any and all social media platforms, regardless of reason or ownership.

Got some QC Ultras for plane usage - I would seriously recommend that any "hifi" company trying to compete in this product space divest immediately.

When I realized that AI is basically the equivalent of a free CS undergrad intern at present, I simultaneously realized why I'm not very excited by it and why some people are very excited by it.

I honestly thought Andrew Lissimore was joking when he mentioned this

Guys I think I have a brain disorder, I just spent a day F5ing a UPS tracking link before realizing that 1, it was of a shipment I was sending, 2, I hadn't shipped it yet and that's why there were no tracking details