Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 2heven if you ignore the rowling of it all (you shouldn't), it doesn't have the true awful stink of the other new harry potter projects, so it's not even Hatewatchable you won't see a zombie horse pick the wizard president. you won't play through putting down a goblin slave revolt 020
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 2hthere are too many potterlikes that do it better to bother with the remake. we've grown beyond it as a people 130
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 2halso it does seem strange to drop them all at once like this instead of just as soon as they're ready? (I mean it's not *that* strange because I know doing it like this is serving some PR/marketing function) 170
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 2hgood cosmic monkey paw joke. we can have all the theorems and counterexamples we want, if we can just accept rapidly increasing piles of technical debt 1110
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 4hvery briefly skimmed through a few of these titles & abstracts. some big deal claims I noticed: - unique games conjecture is true - Hadwiger conjecture is false (generalized four-color theorem) 2170
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 05/10/2026you can tell Kerry's a cop from Gotham because she does something grossly corrupt or cruel every single episode 160
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 05/10/2026it's kinda like Waco but if Koresh had orbital lasers and the only one punished was the guy who called the cops 3150
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 05/10/2026still not really clear to me why Hal Jordan ended up in prison for 10 years 3140
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I...think I liked Lanterns? but also like what in the surf dracula 4291
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 04/10/2026buddy nobody is calling your ass "the gangster of love." you're maurice 050
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 04/10/2026it's pretty weird the mad king is also dumb as shit? feels like a hat on a hat situation 160
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 03/10/2026(explaining literature as an american): so it's kinda like a burger 0121
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 03/10/2026re: that particular comparison, I'm willing to say they're actually pretty close tbh in general, there's nothing wrong with liking junk food fiction but you should at least recognize when you're consuming the literary equivalent of refined sugar and fat 391
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 03/10/2026[guy who still doesn't get it]: ah thanks now I get it 1293
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 03/10/2026can LLMs do arithmetic? probably eventually but right now they're all just doing spicy quaddition 1120
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 02/10/2026worst part of having philosopher brain: mere seconds after asserting anything you can think of several reasons why it can't be right after all 2240
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 02/10/2026idk why you would ever want a perfect facsimile of a person on a video call? at least the dinosaur zoo has a gift shop 1120
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 02/10/2026you can tell you're in a jurassic park situation when there's an undeniably impressive technical achievement but the potential applications were clearly the very last consideration 2120
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 02/10/2026these days you're seeing more and more scientists preoccupied with whether or not they could 2264
Reposted by Evan Washingtonhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory 361864277
Reposted by Evan WashingtonDoctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026prestigurgitating 1206
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 01/10/2026if you're looking for new flavors of depression, I highly recommend a pulitzer-prize-winning novelist telling you there's nothing valuable in your work 080
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 01/10/2026speaking of princeton writing professors dismissing genre: once jeffrey eugenides refused to give me any comments at all on a story I wrote because it was fantasy. it was so fucking mean he was nice and helpful for my other stories but then I committed the grave sin of Writing Genre 1160
Reposted by Evan WashingtonJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026just secured my first round of funding for my startup! it's called OMELAS. Its goal is to make Omelas in real life 30951149
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 30/09/2026harry/malfoy ship is so much better as a dynamic that it works no matter how you change their genders and frankly, the only good star wars ship there has ever been is R2 and C-3PO 290
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 30/09/2026nah, no way. michael bro we just wonder what you would look like after taking a real-life hadouken. we're just asking questions that serve the public interest 1130
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 30/09/2026zutara is totally different because that's about projecting yourself onto the blank slate of katara and thinking zuko is hot 170
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 30/09/2026a reylo ship, like a harry/hermione ship, represents a weakness in mind and soul oh you want the two most prominent characters to kiss? how revolutionary, how bold 6342
Reposted by Evan WashingtonRude Law Dog @esghound.com · 29/09/2026Kyle Gordon can't keep getting away with this 810916
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026yeah Batman would hate it if you bulldozed Crime Alley. where would Joker threaten to kill his newest Robins if you got rid of that 060
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026probably would stop Ra's al Ghul though? YIMBYism could totally eliminate Gotham's "my immortal father-in-law wants to raze my city to the ground to prove a point" problem 190
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this has happened already but also no social program is fixing "the Joker wants to poison the water supply" or "ancient bat god has a ridiculously circuitous scheme" or "luchador prison escapee wants to aura farm over Batman's broken body" 1210
Reposted by Evan Washingtonnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Toy Story toys crave to be played with even though it requires them to feign inanimacy. What they truly crave is death 619630
Reposted by Evan Washingtonlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 29/09/2026you're still fw poultices? it's all about broths now dude 2739925
Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 27/09/2026what I said in 2023. things have changed, probably 0130