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I wanted to draw more action-y pose and my AU Dark Megaman(Kin) seems like a good subject for it... #Doodles #Sketchbook #DarkMegaman #AlternateUniverse
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It's officially fall time! Have a spooky Bulbasaur! #Bulbasaur #Pokemon #Halloween #Autumn #SpookySeason #Pumpkin #CrossStitch #JackOLantern
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the only new thing i want to know is who was the guy whose voice did the bop it "DDDAAAooooooo"
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the millennial DDDAaooooo https://youtu.be/ino5i-s2sW4?t=22
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It was great to see everybody again at #EuroBSDCon2026. Sorry if we missed you, but there is always #EuroBSDCon2027! :) And... #OpenBSD 8.0 is around the corner! 25 new VMs were added and 78 VMs were renewed. 🫰 We donated €1420 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €71840 since we started. Thank you, our users, and OpenBSD developers for an awesome OS! Stay safe, healthy & sane! #RUNBSD in 2026
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RE: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/116683797165686929 Unconscionable, comrade!
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RE: https://graphics.social/@metin/116732565201091211 Let's impersonate ourselves, comrades! That'll fix them!
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Never underestimate the capitalists, comrades! It's never about what they say.
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El Secretario del Estado de los EEUU, camaradas. Un pendejo verdadero. https://suno.com/s/0Z8zWaFtQJQUmJ4p
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Field testing KScope 1.8.2 for KDE Frameworks 6, with a detour through the FreeBSD kernel's descriptor passing code paths, i.e. the SCM_RIGHTS control message for UNIX domain sockets (allegedly, supporting this makes a UNIX-like OS a "real UNIX").
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last nite my apartment flooded, everything is fine now but it was crazy for a few hours - somehow i actually slept, but waking up later than usual to find that the wildfire smoke in nyc is worse today than it was yesterday- while i've also been dealing with a lung thing that's unpleasant regardless of air quality- is not great... & today i have to be super dialed-in to work.. (1/2)
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I’m taking a huge risk in starting an educational organization at a time when the conditions for risk-taking aren’t ideal. I wrote about what this has looked like recently, & why I’m doing it: https://elftheory.substack.com/p/why-im-starting-lenox If you don't like Substack, this essay is archived on my very non-Big Tech website: https://emmastamm.com/why-lenox/ We've already made a lot of magic happen through organic connections. If you're at all inclined to...
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I wrote about how cultural theorist Mark Fisher’s writing style contrasts with the style of corporate LLMs and why it matters, focusing on the rhetorical approach of Acid Communism and ideas from The Weird & The Eerie. It’s up as a monologue here, professionally mixed: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND/posts/patreon-writing-164755969 I don’t love paywalls but between the research + writing + recording + production, it’s a lot of work! The occasional paywall makes this labor possible 🖥️🎛️...
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AI as Anti-Politics! AKA a fresh new episode of LEPHT HAND. Our guest Daniel Stanley argues that AI isn't an external assault on democratic life, but the product of decades of shifts that already hollowed out collective political power. Also: why obsessing over misinformation isn't useful, technopopulism, the revival of interest in in-person organizing, and the challenge of funding new forms of collective power. No paywall: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND/posts/ai-as-anti-on...
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Donnie Darko, Justin Timberlake, & Camper van Beethoven mentioned -- a few thoughts on Richard Kelly's bizarre & extremely entertaining film Southland Tales. Plus, news about stuff I'm up to -- upcoming talks & events online & irl (in #nyc) -- and an audio monologue about Mark Fisher & corporate LLMs. This one's sort of all over the place but it was fun to write! (I'll put it somewhere that's not Substack when I&am...
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Why is astrology femme-coded? Why are boyfriends so mean about it? If belief in astrology is unscientific, can it still express a coherent epistemology, or anything that might justify it theoretically? In an age where right-wing thought seems to have a claim on myth & magic, can we integrate critical politics, interest in metaphysics, & scientific worldviews, w/o reinforcing any of these topics' pathological aspects? New LH episode! No paywall: https://www.patreon.com/LE...
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@Irisfreundin did you listen to the episode at all [edit]- of course i understand what you're saying, but this is just a short description of a very long conversation. we have to use conventions of speech such as "believe in" in order to summarize what it's about. in the episode we take a closer look at "belief." you might not dislike it
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@Irisfreundin you don't need to be on Patreon, there's no paywall, as I pointed out. "Femme-coded" refers to its cultural reception; "-coded" isn't about the intrinsic features of whatever it's applied to, but the stereotypes that surround it. I'm not sure where "here" is to you, but I don't assume a particular location. Your words are condescending to the point of being hurtful. The episode...
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Here I am making videos for Instagram, but I'm still inhibited about posting there 😭 ... so, sharing here first. It's info about an upcoming #philosophy talk I'm giving, online, open to all, Thurs Sep 3rd 8pm ET. As a heads-up, it's an expansion of a talk I gave IRL in June. The image is a shot from the video; the video is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iKxaoZ70k6gSdlJbM4f9psGd7G5uvqJ6/view?usp=sharing Link to more info + registration: https://weirdosp...
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RE: https://assemblag.es/@emma/117128230031127074 this is tonight!
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Dear #Mastodon what are the going rates for someone who can take a janky #Wordpress site, redesign it, and optimize for #SEO? The site is emmastamm.com (mine) & I'm realizing it's not doing me any favors professionally. Also, if you have recs for people who do this, lmk. I don't have a lot of money 🙂 but I'm easy to work with. #webdesign #webdev & I'll put the #NYC tag here too bc it would be great to work with someone locally, although th...
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"Does Expertise Matter?: Authority in the Age of Infinite Information" is an event I’m hosting Thurs Sept 24th, 7-9pm, IRL at Index Chinatown. I’ll use frameworks from epistemology and political theory to explore how standards of intellectual authority have been shaped by the evolution of tech. It’ll be very interactive - structured thought experiments, back-and-forth, etc.. and no deck, we do it live 🙂 Link: https://luma.com/index-49m5 hope to see you there! #nyc #philoso...
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the "just give it a short skirt" approach to creating costumes for women 😭 - not against sex appeal, but i don't like the homogeneity. can someone specialize in women's costumes that aren't insanely expensive but also don't end at the mid thigh 🙏 #halloween #autumn #fashion #women
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New archetypes just dropped! For your armchair-psychologizing pleasure. Also, Acid Horizon Research Commons is hiring faculty! Also also structuralism, literary theory, and the cosmic battle between good scientists and bad scientists… lot going on in this one, truly a Science Is Fucking Cool post https://elftheory.substack.com/p/science-fantasist-vs-social-scientist #philosophy #AI #highered #NYC #sciencefiction #scifi
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Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.