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  1. Comment on The lost documentary about an impossible house in ~books

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    Spoiler pieces-> pisces is a typo that recurs in HoL. The pieces/pisces 'mistake' occurs verbally in this video as well. The astrological grudge runs deep with the man!
    Spoiler pieces-> pisces is a typo that recurs in HoL. The pieces/pisces 'mistake' occurs verbally in this video as well.

    he said

    The astrological grudge runs deep with the man!

    3 votes
  2. Comment on The lost documentary about an impossible house in ~books

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    The book is about a "lost" documentary that never existed. It is pseudo-academic in tone, with multiple unreliable narratives woven together in meandering, often bizarrely-laid-out footnotes. This...

    The book is about a "lost" documentary that never existed. It is pseudo-academic in tone, with multiple unreliable narratives woven together in meandering, often bizarrely-laid-out footnotes. This video is part analysis, part adaptation of the work.

    4 votes
  3. Comment on The lost documentary about an impossible house in ~books

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    You may already be familiar with House of Leaves. If you are, then you should have a pretty good idea of whether you'll like this video. I think it adapts the content and themes well for 2026 and...

    You may already be familiar with House of Leaves. If you are, then you should have a pretty good idea of whether you'll like this video. I think it adapts the content and themes well for 2026 and examines the subject matter critically. I'm glad to have thoughtful essays like this to watch when it can feel like everything's gone to pisces.

    If you aren't familiar with the source material, and you don't mind heavy spoilers, I think this may be an excellent introduction.

    12 votes
  4. Comment on The woes of writing markdown in ~tech

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    Not necessarily, I think. If you can read the panels mostly left-to-right*, top-to-bottom, without having to put too much thought into it, it wouldn't count in my mind. Some comic books/graphic...

    Not necessarily, I think. If you can read the panels mostly left-to-right*, top-to-bottom, without having to put too much thought into it, it wouldn't count in my mind.

    Some comic books/graphic novels certainly are ergodic literature; Meanwhile by Jason Shiga is one excellent example. It's a supercharged, semi-looping choose-your-own-adventure connected by illustrated tubes and physical tabs on the pages.

    As a rule of thumb, I think if you ever have to hold the book upside down, hold it up to a mirror, or read sections in an arbitrary order based on your own choices, one is dealing with ergodic text.

    * or right-to-left in manga
    2 votes
  5. Comment on The woes of writing markdown in ~tech

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    The common example back in my day was House of Leaves. The footnotes took on more than a life of their own, sending the reader forward and back through the book, as though navigating the titular...

    Ergodic literature is a mode of textual organization in which nontrivial effort is required for the reader to traverse the text, beyond ordinary eye movement or turning pages.

    The common example back in my day was House of Leaves. The footnotes took on more than a life of their own, sending the reader forward and back through the book, as though navigating the titular labyrinthine house.

    In Snuggle Squiggle's writing, most notably Weave Me Another Cocoon, one must often navigate the story's unfolding through notes hidden in clickable...

    ... <details> elements.

    (TIL how Tildes handles those, haha.)

    6 votes
  6. Comment on The woes of writing markdown in ~tech

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    Thanks for reporting that! She's updated to fix that issue and said it was ok if I pass along her explanation of what happened with the CSS -

    Thanks for reporting that! She's updated to fix that issue and said it was ok if I pass along her explanation of what happened with the CSS -

    a few weeks ago i added display: grid to the body, which interacted very strangely with the code blocks on this post, causing the article body to display several screen widths to the right of the initial viewpoint. i only saw this when proofreading the post on the day of its publication. adding an overly hasty width: 40em to main seemed to mostly fix this. this is what causes the scrolling regression on mobile.
    removing display: grid fixes both errors. with a bit more tinkering, i can mostly achieve what it was meant to accomplish with display: flex + a few more rules

    5 votes
  7. Comment on The woes of writing markdown in ~tech

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    The Woes of Writing Markdown (And the wishes of SquiggleMark) is an essay about some of the technical and artistic challenges inherent to writing ergodic text using markup language. I posted her...

    The Woes of Writing Markdown (And the wishes of SquiggleMark) is an essay about some of the technical and artistic challenges inherent to writing ergodic text using markup language. I posted her story Weave Me Another Cocoon last year, and it's a fantastic example of how art can push the limits of a medium and the machinery that supports it.

    But the real superpower of pandoc is that, much in the way switching to neocities escapes the prison‍-roads of locked down platforms, switching to pandoc escapes at once the restrictions of both rich text and standard markdown.

    ...

    Even writing raw HTML isn’t as powerful as what pandoc lets you do, because pandoc has a convenient interface for reading and writing the AST that it translates all its inputs and outputs to.

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    If you aren’t familiar with my work, then when I said I loved the details disclosure element, or that I’m experimental writer doing creative things, you could have brushed it off as a cute yet idle exclamation or an otherwise meaningless remark. If you aren’t familiar, then gaze upon Weave Me Another Cocoon and let its depths ensnare you.

    ...

    And that, finally, is what this year started me down the road to writing my own markdown parser.

    Snuggle Squiggle's website is a work of art in its own right too.

    7 votes
  8. Comment on A "Real BMO" local AI Agent with a Raspberry Pi and Ollama in ~tech

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    Update! Some improvements to BMO's voice and some hardware comparisons/benchmarking. The update video continues to show the author's thoughtful and careful approach to using AI in an ethical,...

    Update! Some improvements to BMO's voice and some hardware comparisons/benchmarking. The update video continues to show the author's thoughtful and careful approach to using AI in an ethical, non-exploitative way.

    3 votes
  9. Comment on US Supreme Court strikes down Donald Trump's tariffs in ~society

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    While I agree with your underlying frustration, I believe the bitter truth is that there is truly no way for the 30-40% to learn any lesson whatsoever. No matter how extreme or obvious the lesson,...

    But apparently like 30-40% of my compatriots need to do so -- potentially repeatedly -- so they may learn the lesson.

    While I agree with your underlying frustration, I believe the bitter truth is that there is truly no way for the 30-40% to learn any lesson whatsoever. No matter how extreme or obvious the lesson, no matter how much one's personal wellbeing or one's family is affected, said 30-40% would sooner burn themselves and the rest of us to death than learn anything, ever. They will always, always, always, always double down.

    8 votes
  10. Comment on The Funny Men in ~creative

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    I don't think you meant to leave this line in the final post; or perhaps you did. Either way, reading it reminded me what a strange time it is to be alive.

    Here you go! I’ve rewritten the text to avoid direct reference to the theme:

    I don't think you meant to leave this line in the final post; or perhaps you did. Either way, reading it reminded me what a strange time it is to be alive.

    5 votes
  11. Comment on The mega-rich are turning their mansions into impenetrable fortresses in ~finance

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    No your comment is great I think you just unintentionally duplicated some text and while reading it I had a moment of thinking I accidentally scrolled back up or something. 😅Sorry for the noise...

    No your comment is great I think you just unintentionally duplicated some text and while reading it I had a moment of thinking I accidentally scrolled back up or something. 😅Sorry for the noise comments

    5 votes
  12. Comment on The mega-rich are turning their mansions into impenetrable fortresses in ~finance

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    I got deja vu reading this comment ;)

    I got deja vu reading this comment ;)

    9 votes
  13. Comment on A "Real BMO" local AI Agent with a Raspberry Pi and Ollama in ~tech

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    If you aren't familiar with Adventure Time, BMO is a fictional character who is a sort of sentient game console. This struck me as a more fun and lighthearted take on AI than I've seen in a bit,...

    If you aren't familiar with Adventure Time, BMO is a fictional character who is a sort of sentient game console.

    This struck me as a more fun and lighthearted take on AI than I've seen in a bit, with some real DIY charm and thoughtfulness.

    From a craft standpoint it's a beautiful build. From a tech standpoint, it really goes to show what kind of systems a non-specialist can put together these days with freely available resources.

    7 votes
  14. Comment on US discussing options to acquire Greenland, including use of military, says White House in ~society

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    Judging by the apparent lack of any real strategy in Venezuela beyond projecting power, I think he's just using the world as a punching bag to generate headlines so he can control the narrative.

    Judging by the apparent lack of any real strategy in Venezuela beyond projecting power, I think he's just using the world as a punching bag to generate headlines so he can control the narrative.

    13 votes
  15. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of December 15 in ~society

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    The Hill: House GOP will not allow amendment vote to extend ObamaCare subsidies

    The Hill: House GOP will not allow amendment vote to extend ObamaCare subsidies

    Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said there will not be an amendment vote on extending expiring ObamaCare enhanced subsidies as part of a House Republican health care bill this week[..]

    “Many of them did want to vote on this ObamaCare COVID-era subsidy the Democrats created,” Johnson said. “We looked for a way to try to allow for that pressure release valve, and it just was not to be.”

    The House Rules Committee will meet at 2 p.m. EST Tuesday to tee up the House GOP health care bill — dubbed the “Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act” — that includes funds to pay for “cost-sharing reductions,” reforms to the pharmacy benefit manager industry, and expansion of association health plans.

    Johnson said he expects all Republicans will unite around the underlying health care bill, which is set to hit the House floor Wednesday, arguing it would reduce costs for all Americans rather than the small percentage of Americans who get health coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplace.

    7 votes
  16. Comment on Taylor Swift gave $197 million in bonuses to Eras Tour performers and crew, on top of their salaries in ~music

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    I was also being extra silly, since 197 million is right there in the headline and is obviously a lot, but paying out 10% gross revenue in bonuses is definitely noteworthy as you say

    I was also being extra silly, since 197 million is right there in the headline and is obviously a lot, but paying out 10% gross revenue in bonuses is definitely noteworthy as you say

    7 votes
  17. Comment on Taylor Swift gave $197 million in bonuses to Eras Tour performers and crew, on top of their salaries in ~music

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    Heh, that's not that mu- spit take whoaaaaa

    10%

    Heh, that's not that mu-

    of the gross revenue

    spit take whoaaaaa

    15 votes