github.com/rottytooth/INT… I'm very pleased to be able to spread the word that the original source code for INTERCAL-72 has been recovered. I have linked it from the C-INTERCAL page. Kudos to the perpetrators! I left a bug on their bugtracker, titled "This Is Not A Bug",

Today is Fracture Day - the fifth anniversary of the final fracture. On June 5th 2020, over a thousand public health experts published an open letter giving sanction for Black Lives Matter, a Marxist terrorist organization, to ignore COVID lockdown restrictions and riot in the

Eriksen's Rule of Label Symmetry: If you convince people that A = B, then sooner or later they will conclude that B = A. Example: If the left keeps telling people that everything they want is fascism, then eventually those people will decide that fascism is everything they

they do something about it men don’t need therapy because they’re built different (literally) male and female brains are wired for different stress responses. when a woman is sad, her brain's language centers activate, while when a man is sad his motor and planning circuits torn

Speaking as the person who wrote down the theory of open source, co-founded the Open Source Initiative, and has been one of the world's most tireless advocates for voluntarily donating software to the public commons... ... I endorse every single freaking thing Devin says in the

if one more person tells me “capitalism is making people starve” i’m going to lose it the poorest people in America are literally gigantic. like medically unexplainable balloon-shaped and built like refrigerators. we’re not dealing with famine—we’re dealing with doorways having

This is the worst case of damage in a product mailed to me that I've ever seen. And when you look at the photograph with the eyes of an engineer, it gets even more interesting. You're looking at a corner of the base unit on a Sovol SV08 3D printer. The bent thing is a 40mm x

It was inevitable. When government intervenes attempting to lower the cost of a good, the almost inevitable result is to raise the cost of the good. The reason for this is the second-order effects of fucking up market signals with the intervention. There is one sort-of, almost

I'm going to shock everybody who knows I'm a libertarian by disagreeing with this. There are in fact very specific circumstances under which government intervention can be a net positive, and it is worth understanding why this is even though it is highly unlikely that we will

Where did all the global warming go? The average global surface temperature at this moment is estimated to be -0.024°C below the 1991-2020 average.

I don't know why I keep being shocked and appalled at what comes out of the mouths of people who've made politics their whole identity. It's like being shocked and appalled that shit comes out of an asshole.

In praise of simple, timeless things: Roast beef and onions on crusty sourdough bread, with mayonnaise and mustard. Ain't fancy, but it never fails.

(Monotone German accent): Velcome to ze annual euro game awards. In third place ve have "Market Stall" - an innovative new title from Alexander Pfeister about selling resource cubes und accumulating victory points. In second place ve have "Cobblestone Paths" - a nice little

This is me. I also self-monitor for how often I say "I don't know," or "I haven't formed an opinion about that." If these things don't happen semi-regularly, I'm aware there's a problem and I need to work on my epistemic humility.

Decades before the Bay-area rationalists were a thing, I concluded that it is more important to be sane - to be right about how I form and update my beliefs - then it is to be right about any particular fact or value judgment. This is why, despite having no patience for AI

I was an "unusually smart/talented" kid. One of the things I learned early is that mobs form to beat up bright deviants like me, and that the kids who will grow up to use the phrase "altruism and communitarianism" like this are the organizers of those mobs. They talk like they

These lyrics terrified the shit out of me in 1973: You are young and life is long And there is time to kill today And then one day you find Ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run You missed the starting gun I was 15 the year Pink Floyd released "Dark Side of

The historical record of sub-Saharan Africa is pretty dire, but you shouldn't make it more dire than it is. SSAs didn't colonize Madagascar because the geography of SSA is extremely unhelpful when it comes to developing any kind of maritime competence. The continent sits on an