2026-09-10 20:31 UTC
Good God. Sometimes I wonder how small the population that understands all these references is. How few people really understand the true nature of this bunch of people and how their ideas have ruined so much. When I go to conferences I get to have 4 hour conversations over beer with astrobiologists explaining how ideas from a blog in 2009 started showing up uncited in their literature 8 years later and have since completely fucked whole subfields. They are flabbergasted at first, but then they see it, and see the damage done. So few people actually see this.
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@blakestacey@awful.systems 2026-09-10 22:14
In the TESCREAL lore iceberg, “Aella Sankey chart” is above the waterline.
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@schnoopy@awful.systems 2026-09-11 00:01
It was kinda wild studying physics while this was starting. People were getting all these starry-eyed ideas while anyone actually doing well was realising that the future is going to look a lot like the present because god hates us and we’re not allowed nice things.
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@fullsquare@awful.systems 2026-09-11 03:13
right? and even then you have to go slow with explanation, otherwise you just sound like a crank