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Topics:

Remembering the Dynowarz
Instagram private server, and social media thoughts every Mastodon user had already
Why don't CPUs do analog arithmetic?
Leaves, by Ursula LeGuin
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148293/leaves-5bd9e153d78b2

Microtopics:

DogTroid, the first Metroid ROM hack to star a dog.
Self-finishing games.
Sparkling water: it's like water but a lot more interesting.
Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi.
What sodas foam the most in response to a mento.
Foam persistence.
Foaminess reactions of a mento on various vintagesn of Diet Coke.
Jolt Cola: all the sugar, twice the caffeine, three times the foam.
A can of soda that's safe to open in a bathroom stall.
Artisanal Coca Cola cans on Etsy that finally allow you to open a can of soda in a bathroom stall without anyone realizing you're drinking a Coke on the toilet.
Flushable soda cans: as flushable as a flushable wipe.
Why do toilets have pee traps when the pee deserves to be free?
The second worst game in your NES collection.
Desert Chrome title screens.
Playing as a little spaceman until you enter the dinosaur mech.
Shooting some alien brain or maybe a heart.
8bitnintendo.science
How to pick what video games to buy in the late 1980s.
How Metroid improved on the maze-with-keys genre.
Nanosaur.
A velociraptor with a techno-backpack.
A game that is exhilarating and scary and endless when you're a child turning out to be a twenty minute trifle when you're an adult.
Trespasser (1998)
Simulation dinosaur emotions but you can't find a good balance so you just permanently lock them all to angry.
Installing a violent action game about dinosaurs in the elementary school computer lab because dinosaurs are technically educational.
Revisiting games that perplexed you as a child.
Playing bad video games because no matter how bad they are they're still better than going outside and talking to people.
The one where Kirby eats a car.
The Roblox-like games you can find by logging into third party Minecraft servers.
Starting your own Pixelfed server.
Following the only person you know on Mastodon.
Bluesky's recommendation algorithms recommendeding you nothing but bots.
Inventing Internet forums from first principles.
When your brain makes up garbage and you need a void to shove it into.
Doing your part to make AI worse.
CSS Crimes.
How to find people to follow on Cohost.
Signing up for a social media site and looking around and realizing you doing know anyone here.
Mining and reposting.
The ongoing maintenance requirements of running a Mastodon server.
Ways you can interact with your family that only work if you have an iOS developer in the family.
Off-box SQL database backup.
Hypothetical IRC servers that support chat logs.
Hardware random number generation.
The pot of boiling water every Intel CPU draws thermal noise from for random number generation.
The most commonly used analog computers in 2026.
The market forces that led to semi-modular synthesizers being available for $300.
Using your analog CPU to run a million instances of Lunar Lander at once.
A rustic summer retreat ranch in the hills of Napa Valley, California.
What makes us perceive the gradient of identities over the course of someone's life as a single identity.
The most ephemeral thing possible.
Musing for a few sentences and then thinking "hmm, I could put some line breaks in here and then publish it."
Musing about the nature of identity, with line breaks.
Topic Slingers.
Topics: throw them around a lil bit. They love it. A lot of people don't know that.

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