flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 17/08/20261950s-1970s cloud physics, back when weather modification was an active field, was insane. they had so many wacky ideas like that 000
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026tor bergeron's reaction (yes, *the* bergeron): i agree and we should use nuclear energy to evaporate sea water so we change the monsoon. dessens thinks that's even better than going to the moon. 110
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026henri dessens' weather modification experiments in the 1950s: just clear out a patch of equatorial forest to initiate cumulus convection over it, or even better: just burn it down! the plan was to increase rainfall over cultivated areas, because who cares about the savannah anyway? 120
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026i love open peer review for its incredible entertainment value 011
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026that and transitioning have completely nuked all the friendships i was already struggling to maintain lol 020
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026the constant moving around that's expected of you when pursuing an academic career highkey destroying my mental health ngl 130
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 16/06/2026does anyone know when was the first time someone ever mentioned "the year of the linux desktop" 200
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 26/04/2026alternate universe where chatgpt was around in 2020 and people had ai boyfriends during lockdowns 020
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026if you were ever wondering what's the most cited paper by a trans woman (excluding cs and feminism), it's either the chapter on regional climate projections in AR4, coauthored by penny whetton, with 12k citations, or jaia syvitski's 1992 j. geol. paper with 4465 citations (on google scholar) 120
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 14/03/2026the big short but it's the US government shorting its own economy 110
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 10/03/2026thanks to the wonders of free software i have managed to port the euphoria weedbot to discord 010
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 08/03/2026"ai safety" has got to be the best fake job ever invented 030
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 27/02/2026i like how "for loop with an accumulator" isn't even the way to accurately compute integrals numerically lol 010
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026the glassworm shit is so funny. idk about you guys but my text editor can't infect me with stuxnet because it can't execute arbitrary code just like that because it's a fucking text editor 010
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 15/02/2026the chicken-and-egg problem of techbros with the llm speech pattern: you can't tell if they learnt it by mimetism in their daily 3 hour conversations with chatgpt or if they're so naturally reddit ass that the training data is literally their own hackernews forum posts 010
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026there was already a great discord alternative and it was called the xkcd room on euphoria dot io 010
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 26/01/2026every interaction with any doctor ever makes you understand stalin just a little bit more each time 120
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 23/01/2026crazy how french wikipedia misgenders judith butler throughout their entire article and the rationale for this is a poll for six years ago about how they would rather not use the gender neutral pronoun for all general articles 050
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 22/01/2026much of the popular culture of the 20th century will never be in the public domain within our lifetimes but because le AI now the bottom line of the walt disney corporation is everyone's business 040
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 22/01/2026wait people actually think there is something morally wrong with this? 150
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 14/01/2026did you know that you can use your .zshrc to use more inclusive command line aliases? 010
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 12/01/2026guy who clicks "prefer not to answer" whenever he fills out a "what's your gender" form because he's paranoid about anyone getting his personal data 020
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 12/01/2026so many scientific journals putting up super detailed pages for their "inclusive author name change policies" lately... maybe it's not over yet 020
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 11/01/2026what if pluribus was about a boymoder called karl sturka who makes a living as a java developer but all she wants to do is write rust so she's very jaded. and then the hive sends out one of the fallout new vegas love interests to convince her to let it hang and join them. 000
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 10/01/2026what's up with all the answers to that original post. how is every windows user the world's most whiny baby who can't help themselves and actually wants more a return to windows 7 than actual gnu/linux. like yeah freedom has a cost. 060
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026i just realized that it's actually way more of a potential GPL violation to copy paste from stackoverflow than to vibecode 100
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026guy whos against LLM code assistants because it's tivoization in the cloud 120
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026good thing CC BY-NC-ND-SA exists for those who are too afraid to actually share with the world 030
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026the libre stallman stans were annoying but you do start to notice their absence sometimes. i will never use the nonfree repos in debian again, i should have believed harder 0100
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026guy who thinks the GPL is about protecting the copyright of the authors 1202
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026one billion first person videos of cold blooded murder forever every day until the heat death of the universe 030
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026i understand why people love talking to chatgpt so much, asking for feedback and getting glazed in return (which NEVER happens in real life) feels like finding water after walking 100000 km through the desert 020
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026even crazier it's still under really active development apparently? blog.supertuxkart.net/2025/12/kart... i can't believe it lolblog.supertuxkart.netSuperTuxKart Evolution: Karting without a hitchPhysics in SuperTuxKart are a careful mix between realistic elements and gameplay elements to smooth the experience and avoid many of the... 110
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026oh wow they released version 1.5 in october 2025, can't believe it's still a thing 110
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026"there's lower performance" "some games don't work" with how easy things are nowadays it's kinda on you for wanting to play something unsupported 030
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026you can really tell who has attempted to play videogames on linux before proton and dxvk were a thing and who hasn't lol 230
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 12/12/2025like idk man sure why not i believe you when you say your blue rectangle is bigger 000
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 12/12/2025atmospheric scientists be like "sherwood et al. 2020 shows that MY favorite cloud type is THE MOST important regarding climate change!!!!!", meanwhile sherwood et al. 2020 looks like that 110
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 07/12/2025how do they even pump out that many papers? i just checked what was the most cited paper before and it's a 1951 paper on protein assays with "only" 300k citations in more than half a century. even the higgs boson paper has "just" 12k citations! surely no one is reading any of this 030
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025writing c++ when you don't know c++ is like listening to dutch when you only understand german 020
flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 30/11/2025pretty sure there's a queer anarchist text from like 2009 that's about exactly that (maybe bash back?) 130
