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12 votes
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AI ‘street photography’ isn’t photography: What we lose by simulating experience
11 votes -
Storyteller is now on PikaPods
6 votes -
The Just World Cultural License—a copyleft license to make the world a better place
11 votes -
Beyond Borgmann: Single-task tools and the future of meaningful technology
7 votes -
Poem from my 13-year-old son
The Skibidi Wonderland Imagine a world with skibidi rizz Where the rivers run with flowberry fizz Every tree has a W gyat Everyone is ruled under Kai Cenat Everything, even the hills looksmax...
The Skibidi Wonderland
Imagine a world with skibidi rizz
Where the rivers run with flowberry fizz
Every tree has a W gyat
Everyone is ruled under Kai Cenat
Everything, even the hills looksmax
Criminals will have to pay a fanum tax
Every December we celebrate Rizzmas
Where we get candy and gifts from St. Grimace
From the screen to the ring to the pen to the king
Every October we celebrate Hawktuahween
Everyone follows the sigma grindset
Everyone thinks with the sigma mindset
The skibidi sky has a rizzy aurora
All citizens have skibidi aura
Can you imagine a world where all is rizzy?
Can you think of a world where all is skibidi?
Can you fathom a world where all cheese is drippy?
'Cause I yearn for a world where I can hit the griddy
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Echoes of the Depths
The earth, once scarred by shadow’s hand, Now trembles soft, a waking land. From soil soaked with roots that bled, New shoots arise where death had fed. The storm has passed, its howling stilled,...
The earth, once scarred by shadow’s hand,
Now trembles soft, a waking land.
From soil soaked with roots that bled,
New shoots arise where death had fed.The storm has passed, its howling stilled,
The air now warm, the silence filled.
With whispers light, the seeds take hold,
Their leaves like sparks of green and gold.The soil hums with tender grace,
A pulse of life begins its race.
No longer bound by gloom’s demand,
It rises tall, a fearless stand.Though remnants of the past remain,
They sing of hope, not loss or pain.
The cycle turns, as it must do—
To bury old, and birth the new.7 votes -
The comet’s path: on cycles of presence and withdrawal
4 votes -
DuSable Bridge, Chicago: Is this dangerous infrastructure decay? Should I report it and where?
10 votes -
TV in 2024
16 votes -
My late suggestions for Noirvember!
7 votes -
Why and how I version my blog
11 votes -
New day thoughts, and then a reply
The Universes laws of light speed are constant. Life can only reach so far in an ever expanding Universe. The time it takes life to reach as many galaxies as possible is finite and in a certain...
The Universes laws of light speed are constant. Life can only reach so far in an ever expanding Universe. The time it takes life to reach as many galaxies as possible is finite and in a certain amount of life times that time is locked in. The matrix of viable life is universally shrinking… forever.
What you’ve described captures a profound and sobering perspective on the nature of life and the universe, touching on some of the most fundamental aspects of cosmology and existential limits.
The speed of light as a universal constant sets an unbreakable boundary for how far and how fast we can interact with the cosmos. In an ever-expanding universe, driven by dark energy, galaxies are moving away from each other at accelerating speeds. Over time, more and more galaxies will cross the so-called “cosmic event horizon,” beyond which their light can never reach us, no matter how long we wait.
This means that the “reachable universe,” or the portion of the universe we can observe and potentially interact with, is continuously shrinking in a practical sense, even though the universe itself is expanding. For life that evolves within this shrinking window, there’s a finite amount of time to explore, communicate, and potentially colonize or understand the available galaxies.
Your phrase “the matrix of viable life is universally shrinking” beautifully encapsulates the idea that the possibilities for life, tied to the resources and connections within the cosmos, are dwindling. The vastness of the universe becomes increasingly inaccessible, not because of a lack of potential, but because the very fabric of spacetime pulls it apart faster than life—bound by the speed of light—can reach.
In this context, life, and the civilizations it produces, may face a race against time to make the most of the observable and reachable universe. This inevitability highlights the fragility of existence in a cosmic sense and underscores the urgency of seeking understanding and connection while the opportunity still exists.
8 votes -
My impressions of the Retrobat emulation frontend
7 votes -
Phonetic matching
10 votes -
Selfishness in AI
15 votes -
In praise of inconvenience: The hidden costs of a convenient world
33 votes -
Desktop icons are surprisingly hard!
30 votes -
Random thoughts at daybreak
In shadows cast, a serpent sleek, With bands of black and white. In self-encircling, fate draws near, A moment tense, a future unclear. Yet, ere the bite, a raptor bold, Descends with grace, a...
In shadows cast, a serpent sleek,
With bands of black and white.
In self-encircling, fate draws near,
A moment tense, a future unclear.Yet, ere the bite, a raptor bold,
Descends with grace, a tale unfolds.
Its talons clasp the serpent’s plight,
A dance of choices in the fading light.Two paths converge, in present’s hold,
Humanity’s tale, a story bold.
Betwixt self-will and forces unseen,
The dance of fate, on history’s screen.17 votes -
New 3D Golf Simulation (video game series)
7 votes -
Proving that SU(2) is compact (and other group theory bits)
2 votes -
Moving my game project from C to Odin language
15 votes -
The (new) Excel Turing machine
18 votes -
Hiring in tech is harder than ever. AI isn’t helping.
37 votes -
Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer
38 votes -
Can we ever detect the graviton? (No, but why not?)
26 votes -
Calls from the Depths
The sky unravels, thick with ash, A chocking breath, a world's last grasp. The trees, once proud, now twist and writhe, Their shadows stretch, and darkness thrives. The wind hums low, an ancient...
The sky unravels, thick with ash, A chocking breath, a world's last grasp. The trees, once proud, now twist and writhe, Their shadows stretch, and darkness thrives.
The wind hums low, an ancient curse, A whispered doom, rehearsed, rehearsed. It claws the earth, it bends the bone, And leaves the living cold, alone.
Yet deep beneath the fractured stone, Where roots have bled and seeds have grown, a pulse remains, defying fate, a quiet spark, through dark, awaits.
Its wings beat soft against the gloom, A fragile light within the tomb. Through darkness reigns, it does not see
The dawn will come. It always frees.11 votes -
Ultimate beginner guide to random intermittent reward
16 votes -
Encrypted Root with LUKS and Opal
6 votes -
A haze of inspiration
3 votes -
I'm a game developer with a special interest in horses and riding. I wrote a lengthy guide on what could be done better when adding horses to games.
55 votes -
Visuals
4 votes -
'Touch of Evil' lacks a soul
4 votes -
My impressions of Bear Blog
5 votes -
The cheapest countries to live in Europe
10 votes -
The birthplace of arabica coffee - Ethiopia
4 votes -
This behavior is by design
12 votes -
What happened to “personal computing”?
29 votes -
Ode to the cute boy I met from Surrey
Pork bun; pot belly; spare me the tears; I'm getting on; you're getting old; you're getting off here. I can't quite tell; it's hard to see; you're somewhere in my mind; Or is it me? It's hard to...
Pork bun; pot belly; spare me the tears;
I'm getting on; you're getting old; you're getting off here.
I can't quite tell; it's hard to see; you're somewhere in my mind;
Or is it me? It's hard to see; you're losing—I think I'll try. No, no, I won't.
This happens sometimes. All the time.
I think. Do I forget?
A half forgotten memory. Still vaguely tinged with some regret31 votes -
Building an intermittent reward system that motivates you
5 votes -
Using OrgMode note and task system with Kate text editor
8 votes -
Stapler: I remade a thirty-two year old classic Macintosh app
12 votes -
KIO Thumbnailer Support
2 votes -
Getting started with intermittent reward as a motivation tactic
12 votes -
TETRIS for Sharp Electronic Notebook (1989)
8 votes -
Search Moby Games using Alfred app
4 votes -
The Last Idealist - 7/28/24 - Upside down and all around
3 votes -
Impacts Project
8 votes -
PSA: Internet Archive “glitch” deletes years of user data and accounts
34 votes -
Taking command of the Context Menu in macOS
14 votes