Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 09/10/2026wait TIL it is not in fact related to "Morgen" (morning) so this is correct 240
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 08/10/2026if you're looking for something a bit more expansive than "the map is not the territory!", but shorter than Seeing Like a State, may I suggest Wisława Szymborska's "Map" 000
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 07/10/2026also the connection to the northern part being completely cinched between two hills 010
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 07/10/2026kind of wild how much space the railway tracks to the central station plus that one cemetery take up 100
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 07/10/2026imagine you're in your mid to late 20s and you just made Good Will Hunting and are screening it to the president at Camp David, incredible picture 010
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett 8467441578
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 30/09/2026Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict 9573146
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 30/09/2026this is what your statements turn into if you add too many hedges 1887
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 26/09/2026I call it the english garden school of cable management 1270
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 24/09/2026pov you forgot to install your dependencies before getting on a german train 010
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 22/09/2026I can’t explain it but the supermicro logo looks like they make mozzarella 1129728
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 20/09/2026keep being greeted by this guy each time I open instagram and it‘s a great nudge to do so less often 0182
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 20/09/2026finally wrote this thing that's been swirling around my head for a while benjaminschneider.ch/2026/09/19/k... 1163
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 20/09/2026when life gives you lemons, resist the urge to squeeze them on the post at the end of this staircase 0601
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 19/09/2026TIL it was this one — I genuinely have no clue why I so desperately wanted to see it, it seems kind of unremarkable tbh 250
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 18/09/2026you might think this piece of art is dumb because the robot doesn't actually need to sweep up the fluid to keep working, but maybe that makes it deeper 000
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 17/09/2026thoroughly enjoyed the great Lowrey-Cowen gripefest of 2026 000
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 17/09/2026it really looks like they just neutered the existing branding in a weekend 000
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 17/09/2026TIL someone took over 850 McDonald‘s locations after they decided to pull out of Russia and is now selling de-/re-branded versions of essentially the same menu 100
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 16/09/2026close to where I live there's these old foundations along the river, which as it turns out where used for mechanical power transmission via rope from what is now a hydroelectric plant 1131
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 16/09/2026I like to think of it as a great abstraction over energy/work, it's not just location but also what kind of work and when you do it (though the latter is obviously work in progress...) benjaminschneider.ch/2022/07/24/a... 290
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 16/09/2026never thought about this before, but makes total sense: when industry started to become electrified, every machine getting its own motors with electricity used for within-factory power transmission was not entirely obvious or immediate 511116
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 16/09/2026thinking of James Cutler's backyard office cabin again 4707
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 13/09/2026taking care of my parents' various animals while they're on vacation and my factorio brain already has a hard time accepting the inefficiencies, like wdym I have to manually portion out some of the feed and the water lines don't go exactly where needed 111710
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 12/09/2026surely this kind of thing shouldn't count as "one" figure 041
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 08/09/2026this feels more fitting than ever, and the irony is that it would only take one more prompt 190
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 07/09/2026it‘s only a torrent if you download it from here, otherwise it‘s just sparkling piracy 0140
Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 06/09/2026I always thought the French word for computer ("ordinateur") was an example of the government doing anything to avoid having their language polluted with foreign terms, but it turns out it was coined for advertising purposes 000
