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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

@harpaa01 Yes, and maybe in the end this is more about my own reaction as well - I reacted strongly to the story at first, and only then started thinking about it afterwards.

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h

I don't know which level this is I'm on now, but, I'm feeling a bit iffy about this story making the rounds of Marissa Mayer using AI to describe her child. Because, yeah, sure, it's ridiculous AI psychosis bullshit and sociopath behaviour. But is it any worse than the million examples we have […]

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

What good day to have always been strongly bigoted against PHP.

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

This book also predicted cryptocurrencies, which isn't that surprising because there were already people trying to figure out how to create them at the time, even though nobody had quite succeeded yet, but it was also pretty good at predicting the consequences of cryptocurrencies.

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@bryan I know, but I LIKE the channel. I want it recommended. I want it recommended a NORMAL amount.

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Getting just a little bit fucking tired of the Youtube algorithm regularly going "Oh, you watched two videos from this channel? Would you like to: WATCH NOTHING BUT THAT CHANNEL FOREVER NOW?" and making literally 75% of the front page be ONE SINGLE CHANNEL. Who thought this was a good feature […]

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

What I like most about it, I think, is that it asks the question, "When did humanity lose control of its destiny", in a world where it most definitely has, and then lets its different characters give different opinions, with some saying it happened in the real past, and some in the fictional […]

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Look, this was written in 1994, and it refers to the "First Gulf War", nine years before the second one happened. Not the most difficult of predictions to get right, granted, but it sets a tone.

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

If you want to read the whole passage - and I think you should - I've included it here. As I said, this really stuck with me very strongly.

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

This is a book that by all measures should be fairly unremarkable, but, for some reason, in writing this Bruce Sterling makes prediction after prediction that ends up weirdly prescient. I know, of course, that sci-fi is never about predicting the future, just exaggerating the present, and that […]

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

So. There's a piece of writing that has stuck with me for all of the thirty years since I first read it, in Bruce Sterling's _Heavy Weather_. It is a book about storm chasers in a future ravaged by global warming and collapse, and towards the end, there is a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

April Logan stood up. “Forgive me for interrupting your
deliberations, but if it’s all right with the group, I’d like to ask all of
you something.”
April Logan looked at Jerry. Jerry lifted his brows.
“Actually, it’s something of a poll query.”
“Go ahead, just ask,” Jane hissed at her.
“My question is: When do you think the human race conclusively
lost control over its own destiny? I’d like everyone here to answer, if
you don’t mind.” April produced a handheld notepad. “Please just
start anywhere in the circle—here at my left, will do.”

Ed Dunnebecke stood up. “Funny thing, but I think the French
Revolution had a very good chance and blew it. Europe wasted the
next two centuries trying to do what the Revolution had right in its
grasp in 1789. But once you stumble into that public-execution
nonsense … Hell, that was when I knew the Regime had lost it
during the State of Emergency, when they started cablecasting their
goddamn executions. Give ’em to Madame Guillotine, and the
Revolution will eat its young, just as sure as hell.… Yeah, put me
down for 1789. I’ve said enough.”

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Sam Stokes @five-eights.com · 07/10/2026

Coding agents reduce software development to a simple matter of: * specifying requirements * verifying correctness and quality * maintaining and operating software you didn't write As we all know, those have always been the easiest, most well-understood parts of the craft, so everything is fine!

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Ok, so, we all know skyfish, right? They are famous cryptids that are particularly popular in Japanese occult circles, and are more commonly known as "rods" in English. According to the OFFICIAL history, they were first discovered in Roswell, New Mexico in […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

An artist's impression of a skyfish, a long worm-like flying creature with many pairs of insect wings along its body.

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

@davidgerard "I am intuitively opposed to veganism" sure are some words to type out on a keyboard.

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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

@davidgerard if you block more than three people in one go that's a block chain

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Uuuugh. Migrated my server off DigitalOcean to OVH. Let me know if you notice anything breaking, but, I don't really use the server for a lot of things anyway so probably won't be too disruptive. Why does tech have to be like this.

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rar is win @xyla.zip · 08/09/2026

ham radio vegan alternatives

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Nintendo just deciding to torch the entire speedrun leaderboards of all of Mario Kart 8, a twelve year old game, is an incredible bit.

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

I have added demo videos to all the iOS card games on patience.c3.cx. If you saw them and wondered what on earth all the different games were like, you can now have a quick look! If you didn't, go look now! They are all in beta on TestFlight for now […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

@davidgerard LLMs are levelling the playing field by offering everybody a chance at the type of stupidity previously only available to bosses and rich people.

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Trying to figure out how to make good looking preview videos for patience.c3.cx

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

@davidgerard These are the bitcoiners who are NOT in the Epstein files, right?

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

So it turns out the correct way to think of it is: Game states and moves can be thought of as nodes and edges in a directed graph. However, what is interesting is not individual states, but strongly connected components of this graph. Each strongly connected component represents a set of states […]

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

The actual problem being solved being: Is a solitaire-like game lost? This turns out to be a pretty throny problem to solve. It's easy to see when there are no more moves available to make, but the tricky part is that you might have moves you can still make but they do not progress the game. And […]

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Ended up with this little code to do it. Much cleaner than earlier attempts to solve this problem.

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

I think I figured it out: I can use en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarjan's_stro…, and exit early the first time it triggers the case to create a new strongly connected component. What I am looking for is graphs that have a single strongly connected component […]

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

The expected nature of the graph is such that if the graph is complex, a counter-example should be easy to find, and if there is no counter-example, the graph should be fairly simple.

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

I need an algorithm. Given: a dynamically generated graph (you have to visit a node to calculate the list of its neighbours, at a cost), and a starting node, I want to find out: * Whether every node can reach this starting node. * With an early exit as soon as a counter-example is found […]

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Working on something excessively silly: Rendering preview videos for my card games directly from an Xcode test case. patience.c3.cx

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

@Gargron's wife guy bit about alt-texting every photo that has his wife in as "A beautiful woman..." will never stop being endearing.

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

@davidgerard I think the thing you slightly missed there about Claude and friends is that nowadays they DO actually work, a lot of the time. They can produce quite reasonable code now. But if anything, that makes them MORE dangerous. Because they don't ALWAYS do. But they do so often enough […]

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Also, I've said before (mastodon.social/@WAHa_06x36/1163529…) that it's weird that cyberpunk is still such a thing even though at this point it's pure retrofuturism, so I appreciate that this show is 100% leaning into this. This is pure retro through and through. Zero changes […]

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Also who greenlit this, in 2026. Who was asking for this.

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

All that said, I still loved the original, and this adaptation is reminding me of why.

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Wow, the new Ghost in the Shell sure is... a thing. It's an insanely direct adaptation of the original manga, for good and bad. It's just as dense and hard to follow, it's insanely intense and imaginative in its action scenes, it's got Shirow's weird rightwing nonsense, and it's wacky and […]

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

Things that won’t be in the first release but may come later includes iPad and macOS support, solvability sharing, and maybe a solver engine to help out.

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Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @waha-06x36.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

Not everything is quite perfectly polished yet, and I want to add some descriptions and history of the game in addition to existing rules descriptions, but this is getting close to a first release.

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