Tom Lowenthal

It's pretty neat that Hari Seldon started his career speaking truth to power by investigating the Chernobyl accident and providing testimony to the USSR, before scaling up to provide bad news to the galactic empire.

I wish that @Steam's wishlist let me pick what I want to get notified about. For some games (ahem, @baldursgate3), I only want to hear when they're out of Early Access. For others, just let me know if the game is released on my platform — I don't care about sales until then.

Can Apple silicon Macs use Rosetta to run older 32-bit applications?

A person who sticks narrowly to their One True Mission struggles and is less adept at facing it than someone who takes life slowly and with curiosity, trying to experience more of the many weird and bizarre adventures around them.

Though a diversity of experience, you unlock new abilities within yourself — abilities which enable you to take on larger and more important challenges and have a broader impact on the world and the people around you.

The RPG concept of XP is an inspiring life philosophy. Try everything on offer; help everyone who needs it; travel with different people; fight the small fights as well as the large ones. All these give you the wealth of experience you need to improve & develop as a person.

There are some repairs happening the house will all the drilling and hammering happening that entails. I went to work in the yard and now some jaybird is yelling at me and I have no idea what they’re mad about.

Our houses have cables which bring in magical power and also all of human knowledge. The mystical energy which powers our homes is sometimes made from inscrutable rocks which just radiate invisible energy, and is sometimes made via a terrible pact with dead ancient beasts.

We live in a society where magic is so normal that it’s boring. We have magic glass which thinks using secret carvings in poisoned sand, but it mostly makes us sad because other people are mean. We can fly through the air, but have somehow made that experience *the worst*.

We live in a society whose synecdoche for “boring” is a rare and delicious bean which grows on one weird island half way around the world from us.

Coffee which I made with cayenne, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, & vanilla. Not out of eccentric luxury, just an easy addition to my morning. You know, those same spices which European monarchs spent their treasuries hoping to acquire.

You know the phrase “living like a king”? This morning, I got out of my heated bed and commanded a full orchestra to instantly entertain me while I had a shower under hot running water. Then I read messages sent from across the world over a cup of coffee.

Hugops to folks fixing the surveillance site today. And wow if I were working on that, the last thing I would want is the US military speculating that a mistake like this was an "attack". Who does it possibly help when that sort of explanation is bandied about?

Online personality tests can be such fun. Here’s one of my favorites. If you have a four cup (~32 fl oz) French press, what’s the correct amount of coffee to put in it?

Team Rocket are villains because they attempt the dirty tactics of unconstrained capitalism in a society where abundance and prosocial behavior are the norms.

What the heck happened at the end of the second Foundation episode? What was that all about? Certainly a “twist”, and one that I really *really* hope is fully justified in the ensuing text rather than just being there for the shock value.

My notifications look different and it’s stressing me out.