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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 19/06/2026

you can also use this to prove that a block of code won't panic (only works when panics unwind): play.rust-lang.org?version=stab...

play.rust-lang.org

Rust Playground

A browser interface to the Rust compiler to experiment with the language

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 08/11/2023

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 07/09/2023

emotional regulation by enforcement

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Friday @friday.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

A story of love & trust in 4 pictures

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 02/08/2023

but wherever we live, whatever our scene, we have a choice! we can choose not to defect!

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 02/08/2023

hypothesis: flakiness as a friendship norm is a nash equilibrium in cities because city social patterns encourage people to believe life is a series of uncorrelated finite games rather than a continuous interconnected infinite game, as it obviously is in smaller communities

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 02/08/2023

Well There's Your Problem should do an april fool's episode entitled "weehawken-alameda burrito tunnel collapse"

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 01/08/2023

ffmpeg stands for Fast & Furious: Moving Picture Experts Group

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 01/08/2023

the next level is realizing that when you do this, the film also has a vivid mental experience of where you were when you watched it

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 01/08/2023

realizing that if i've seen a movie once or twice, i can listen to the audio track alone and have an extremely vivid mental experience of the film

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 01/08/2023

"When staff for a task force of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee asked the Congressional Research Service (CRS) to update its 2008 calculation of criminal offenses in the USC in 2013, the CRS responded that they lack the manpower and resources to accomplish the task."

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 01/08/2023

"ignorantia juris non excusat"

a photograph of the Annotated United States Code, showing that it fills several bookshelves with its volumes

a screenshot from a book selling website showing that the cost of purchasing these 466 volumes is $2,495.00

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 31/07/2023

better yet: ffmpeg -i "Top Gun (1986).mp4" -vn -acodec copy "Top Gun (1986).aac"

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 31/07/2023

"Opening Theme from TOP GUN" (including the jet sounds and the transition into "Danger Zone") is the perfect alarm clock ringtone, change my view

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 29/07/2023

ponder me like one of your french orbs

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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

guy rolling up to the DMV in a car with four flat tires, the paint somehow keyed completely off, with every window & mirror broken: hello. I would like to return a license plate

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 27/07/2023

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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

self-care as altruism: you cannot give what you do not have. if you want to provide stability, you must be stable. if you want to provide clarity, you must see clearly.

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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 23/07/2023

there can be a certain innocence or obliviousness to being an agent of chaos, which serves an important smokescreen function for those in the social ecosystem for whom it is guilty and entirely deliberate. that people sometimes cause problems by accident also makes it easier to cause them on purpose

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 23/07/2023

marshmallow test fail: if lions read a little charles darwin they would be snacking instead on the Fastest, Strongest antelopes to breed easier prey

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 19/07/2023

from your current ideological perspective, the concept at hand is occluded in the semantic shadow of a different, similar idea

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 18/07/2023

the real consent of the governed was the friends we made along the way

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 18/07/2023

this kind of dense, walkable, mixed-use polycule is illegal to build in most cities

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 14/07/2023

apropos of nothing, i recently had a conversation with someone who claimed as an established obvious fact that if one thinks one can personally meaningfully contribute to making the world a better place, one is practicing "adventurism, which is a kind of fascism"

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 14/07/2023

gary gensler's Focusing technique for internally oriented psychosecurities regulation

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 13/07/2023

"It is not your duty to configure the options, but neither are you at liberty to neglect them." — Rabbi Tarfon, Pirkei Avot 2:16

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 03/07/2023

i went into nimona knowing absolutely nothing about it and loved every minute

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 03/07/2023

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 02/07/2023

i desired the wild blackberries and am being punished for my hubris after flying too close to the poison oak

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 30/06/2023

OH: "if you're not seeing movies, what even are you doing? you get to look at stuff, you don't have to talk to people, what's not to love?"

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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 30/06/2023

the usual argument against privacy is that if you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to hide, but this fails to account for the fact that everything you do is considered to be wrong by someone

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 30/06/2023

last night i dreamed that i decided to take my cat with me everywhere i went, and i was the most content and fulfilled i had ever felt

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 29/06/2023

for sale: ape juices, never slurped

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 29/06/2023

what happens next in the lifecycle may surprise you

photograph of the Apollo lunar lander module sitting on the moon

diagram of bacteriophage and cell infection cycle

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 28/06/2023

government agencies ranked from cringe to based

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 28/06/2023

"E•MO•TION" and "E•MO•TION: Side B" are two perfect albums

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 28/06/2023

if you run haskell on an ibm laptop, call it a thunkpad

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henry @hdevalence.bsky.social · 26/06/2023

happy pride weekend, everyone! something i’ve found valuable to reflect on over the past few years:

chat man hering to fixed commandments bur by leans. hot by adhering to fixed commandmentsbur by leanings. in habit our own situations in ways that make us more g pable and more jointly alive.
Someone gets in touch with bird migrations, insects, weather patterns: they affect her more and more deeplyas she tunes into their rhythms, over months and years. They begin to make her up. The loss is palpable as fewer return each year, and her hatred of the destruction grows along. side her love of the few remaining refuges for nonhuman creatures where she lives. Her rage and despair finds reso. nance with others, similarly entwined, and they figure out how to fight together. This is neither individual self-interest nor moral altruism. It is relational ethics: the willingness to nurture and defend relationships.16
Two friends fold their lives together; they draw new capacities out of each other. They hurt each other, and they work through it, emerging more intertwined than before.
They are no lo

ofeverything that affects us. While this kind of thinking and practice may be intuitive, it runs against dominant strands of both Western knowledge and morality, which strive for universalism and generalizability: they tend towards pinning things down, dictating how we should act, or predicting what is likely. They ask what humans are and always will be, what we should always do, or what we usually do (and how we can be controlled). In contrast, a Spinozan ethics is attuned to the singularity and openness of each situation: what are we capable of here and now, together, at this time, in this place, amid the relations in which we are embedded?
From this perspective, it is not about creating self-contained units but about participating in complex, shift-ing, relational processes. We always begin in the middle: amid our situations, in our neighborhoods, with our own penchants, habits, loves, complicities, and connections.
There is no individual that comes before the dense network of relat

them ... the freedom to uproot oneself has always been a fantasmic freedom. We can't rid ourselves of what binds us without at the same time losing the very thing to which our forces would be applied.7
Freedom here is not the absence of restriction or attachment but the capacity to become more active in shaping our attachments. This becoming-active is not about controlling things but about learning to participate in their flow, forming intense bonds through which we become implicated in each other's struggles and capacities.
Within the Spinozan current, friendship is being reval-ued: not as a bond between individuals but as an ethical relation that remakes us, together, in an ongoing process of becoming otherwise. Similarly, feminist philosopher Donna Haraway has argued that "making kin" across divides of species, nation, gender, and other borders is perhaps the most urgent task today.I Through friendship or kinship we undo ourselves and become new, in potentially radical and dangerous

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 26/06/2023

chesterton's emotional boundary

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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 21/06/2023

sometimes doing the right thing is going to feel impossible, but you have to do it anyway, and you'll have to make it possible by sacrificing something you value less than doing the right thing—and if you don't ever seem to make those sacrifices, people will notice this about you.

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 22/06/2023

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full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · 23/05/2023

this kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 15/06/2023

close quarters boundary-setting

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plaidfinch @plaidfinch.net · 14/06/2023

chaos drive is when you have high openness to new experiences for other people

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