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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i want to make an entire essay about how calling CDs/DVDs "physical media" is misinformation but i think that would get people very mad at me (they're just as much digital media as an SSD! you own the content on them just as much as you own the content on an SSD! they were putting DRM on CDs/DVDs!)

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i think the joke is more that spiky hair like this was popular 25 years ago, when the 40 year old was 15

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

writing undergrad essays was literally the first thing it was any "good" at, which mostly proved to me that writing undergrad essays is not and has never been an indicator of intelligence

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

have you literally never, once in your life, said "oops I didn't know that"? because that's what consultation is for

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

as a superfan for approximately as long as i've been sapient, i'm pretty excited

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i think this is a situation where you want less software instead of more?

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i almost don't believe that's a real quote just because you'd think anyone with even a modicum of a math background would've heard of "gambler's ruin"

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It works reliably, no better way to do it by my reckoning

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pascal's Mugging is the usual term for this, with "give me all of your money" being the key focus, even

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

lot of places allow you to get a bank account (and thus a debit card) before you're 18, while the same places will not allow credit cards before then

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

they would, but you can still sell CC-BY-SA stuff (there's no NC clause, and in fact the fact that there's no NC clause when there *could* be is an implicit declaration of intent that you're allowed to commercialize this content)

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A24 is potentially doing something really fucked up here, but also they have the opportunity to do something extremely fucking cool and make the movie Creative Commons people would still pay to see it in theaters. but you want to benefit from a community project? then contribute to it

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

scp-093 was written in 2008 and the fishmonger was weaving some real crazy stuff, pretending it was ever anything *except* sci-fi novel writing is what the kids call "larp"

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

dread's a Perfect Sequel to Fusion. most of the bad stuff (i.e. everything outside of controls) people complain about with Dread was in Fusion but slightly worse. and they're both great games actually. come on

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

that's a roast. probably all minced

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

for some reason people who are extreme splitters on everything are very very loud and will assume anything but "this game killed my dog" is positive and/or anything but "this game gave me a lifetime supply of money" is negative

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

i walk up to a conversation and they're talking about how they aren't interested in dating sims but like it when they're funny like date everything. i cover my mouth so they can't see me seethe

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

too bad they're allergic to skin darker than untouched powder snow

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.

bloodinthemachine.com

Why office workers are turning against AI

Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

at one point i learned a bunch of people thought spamton was just supposed to be funny & random and not the scariest fucker toby fox ever invented and i realized that's the generational gap

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

they cost less than avocado toast where i live anyway

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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 27/08/2026

📣 Heads up Dwarf Fortress Fans! Myth & Magic begins this year! 🧙‍♀️ youtu.be/8P-FTy6hhp0

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Don't worry, I know my way around... (I actually do know exactly where this is)

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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 24/08/2026

attn dwarves of #paxwest! Important information: - Zach Adams & Putnam will BOTH be autographing from 2 - 4pm on Friday Sept 4 - @fangamer.com will be selling Dwarf Fortress books and pins a perfect setup to get a Guidebook or Expedition Leader's Journal and get a personal message from DF devs!

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

i assume pretty much 100% of these are spam. if you just send a "hello" then you're trying to pig butcher me, i just know it

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TONY GRAYSON 🗻 @tonycomputerentertainment.com · 19/08/2026

This is such a brazen lie that you almost have to admire the balls they've got.

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You literally have to prove that!! It's not something we actually know!! Point to me the law of physics you're describing if you're going to cite it! Pseudoscience is bad even if it's fighting evil!

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

just reject their personhood out of hand because a bunch of people got cached arguments about reality built entirely on opposing evil companies at every possible front down to the very atom; you can't just invert statements made by evil people and get good out of it

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

yes, i think the most important part is that people were thinking about this before LLMs and LLMs haven't changed my mind at all on this stuff because they are not conscious and not people, just like every computer program before. but if a computer does start running a person, I'd rather we not...

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Okay, so an organic alien with a significantly different method of cognition wouldn't be a person? I'd say most machines don't have minds, but minds don't just pop out of brains, either. There's some other thing that causes them, and we don't know if machines *can* run minds, yet

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm a proponent of ape personhood, unlike some people around here; this argument *does* argue for ape personhood, to an extent, but only if you take personhood and mind-body as if-and-only-if, in which case it also argues for C. elegans personhood

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I don't think LLMs are conscious, but this argument is *too* strong, solves *too* much, and leads to absurdities if you follow it all the way. Also, like, "machines are by definition not persons" is itself a positive? And the universe doesn't run on definitions? Proof-by-Webster isn't valid.

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

No, you're asserting a positive here: "Machines are by definition not persons so they're not subject to the same mind-body relationship.". You have to prove that not-persons cannot have a mind-body relationship. This is tough, since that mind-body relationship exists in, say, most animals.

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There was a time we understand fire, but did not understand breathing; turns out, they're the same process. Understanding of one thing but not another doesn't mean they're different things. I agree LLMs aren't conscious, but this argument is unsound, historically.

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You can't just assert things like this, you have to prove it. Like, this is essentially an argument on faith.

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

you can't just post hoc ergo propter hoc etymology!! it ain't right!!

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

it doesn't "come from that" at all, this sketch and the common use of it in memes are over 5 years apart. strong bad literally specifically says the origin of the word *in that sketch*, right after homestar says it

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"thingpunk" got away from punk pretty bad. and "thingcore"... actually also took off from punk. is there anything more punk than becoming mainstream and losing meaning

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures. it's a nice little adventure game with a wild control scheme. god forbid game devs have fun at the expense of the player

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

there are conspiracy theories afoot that the entire AI industry was actually propped up to bring stadia back. gamers are the most oppressed of all

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

god i played it so much as a kid. need for speed 2. both on PC for some godforsaken reason

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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 12/08/2026

Upcoming Dwarf Fortress talk! @putnam3145.bsky.social will be at SLICE 2026 talking about getting acclimated to Dwarf Fortress' codebase.

I'm speaking at SLICE
SeattleSLICE.org
McCaw Hall, Seattle
September 2nd, 2026

Seattle Indies

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

90 is also too hot and so is 80 in some contexts, 30 is already too cold and 20 is worse. the 0/100 argument doesn't really work for me

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

why is 70 the good temperature instead of 50

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

it's amazing how much of our lives get recontextualized to *ourselves* sometimes lol

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

really like "the AI vape" as an analogy

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

check out two sentences later

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

like you know it'd be fine to get them 5 drinks if they could be a little sippy. but they're not sippy. give them 5 drinks and they will quintuple fist them

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

the latest DF update's "tavern keepers will no longer all serve dwarves at once, causing them to die of acute alcohol poisoning" is actually a hackish patch over the real weird behavior, which is of course that dwarves always drink what's in all mugs they hold until they're empty

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