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futurebird , 1 day ago to random

I taught a mini-course on Computer Science and my students had their last class on Friday. They came to me not knowing how to program, they have left writing classes, and building out their own microprocessors from scratch.

I packed a whole lot into two weeks and I'm so proud of them!

vampiress , 1 month ago to random

It’s post-luncheon.

Time for some more Dungeons of Freeport work.

But first: a quick trip down to the shops to grab a few things.

vampiress , 2 months ago to random

It's a year old now but John Oliver's episode on Tech Monopolies still does a great job describing just how how fucked the monopolies the major tech companies have is. [26m]

(I realise this is almost certainly preaching to the choir given I'm posting this on a specifically decentralised and NOT corporate-run social media network.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXf04bhcjbg

futurebird , 2 months ago to random

OK Maybe I just don't see ads often because I have them blocked so hard but the little box that shows ads in the CurseForge start up screen on Minecraft caught my eye. It's google adsense. I saw:

• Ad from local college they want people to apply to teach STEM
• Thriftbooks
• Discount on makeup and brown foundation

I was disappointed there were no ads for antkeeping products. But this is CREEPY. Is this the current typical state of ads?

This is in ... a minecraft modpack login screen.

futurebird , 2 months ago to random

Sometimes over on formiculture, the premiere ant-keeping discussion forum, parents show up and post because their kid is keeping ants and Something Has Gone Wrong. These are some of the most cryptic and unintentionally hilarious posts on the site.

Title: Random shoots from ant sandwich?
Post: "My son bought an ant farm. It contained a box a tube and a sandwich. He started with lasius Niger ants these died. We bought some fire ants. Now there are shots."

I have SO MANY questions. 1/

futurebird , 4 months ago to random

There is this trope in fiction: A boy gets bullied on his way to school; his dad teaches him to fight. It always seemed so bizarre to me.

Somewhere in there is a less perplexing story about a young person learning to deal with conflict--

But, I spent a lot of my childhood waiting to be "jumped" on the way to school. Because, I was being bullied, just not physically.

I was looking forward to learning kungfu and taking them all out. LOL. 1/

zkrisher , 4 months ago to bookstodon group

I've Finished: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway

I like the Noir Detective trope and I love SF&F.

This is an SF story about a world where the rich are semi-immortal as well as physically powerful, as a result of the rejuvenation process.

For most of the novel, it seems like the only concession to Sci-Fi is making the power of the billionaires more obvious. However as the chips finally start falling down, the payoff is very well done, and leverages many aspects of the T7 rejuvenation process.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a3d608f7-0571-477c-bdff-949163edcfc4

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roytoo , 4 months ago to random

One of my daughters is a DM for her school's D&D group. She's mentioned several times that the players in her group always blame anything bad that happens on rust monsters since they had a really bad experience with rust monsters in an earlier campaign.
That inspired me to make this modification of the "it's aliens" meme:

#DND #RustMonster #DungeonMasterProblems

KikiElara , 5 months ago to bookstodon group

Latest read:
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner.
Continuing my quest to fill in blanks in my classic sci-fi knowledge. This is one of those books that will stay with me. It packs a punch.

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