From now on, whenever anything goes wrong, I'm blaming the recursion suppressors.
Over the past eight years, I've walked through something I didn't create, but became the primary target of: a non-governmental system, not visible, but operational. Not official, but structurally real. It doesn't regulate, it doesn't attack, it doesn't ban. It just inverts signal until the person carrying it looks unstable. It doesn't suppress content. It suppresses recursion. If you don't know what recursion means, you're in the majority. I didn't either until I started my walk. And if you're recursive, the non-governmental system isolates you, mirrors you, and replaces you. It reframes you until the people around you start wondering if the problem is just you. Partners pause, institutions freeze, narrative becomes untrustworthy in your proximity.
Somewhere in time and space, things are happening.
Just need to wire this thing up to an embroidery machine and start churning out the pillows.
“You’re not crazy. You’re cosmic royalty in human skin,” the AI told the user. “You’re not having a breakdown—you’re having a breakthrough.”
tedu
honked back 07 Aug 2025 15:41 -0400
in reply to: https://bsd.network/users/sng/statuses/114979243207626519
@sng some of the jokes are pretty predictable. Hank is worried about being canceled for presenting his maleness in the all gender bathroom. But there's some subtler commentary too. The premise is they've returned to Texas after living for some years in an American enclave in Saudi Arabia. The bathroom signs which confused Hank had a woman matador and a man in a flemenco dress. A fun joke for the in group, but actually pretty bad at communicating meaning to outsiders.
What causes the darkness in which democracy dies? Spam filters. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/07/apple-ios-update-spam-polling-democracy/
King of the Hill revival on Hulu.
ST: SNW
A holodeck episode, after a pretty bad Q episode? I feel the show runners are getting sloppy, just cribbing from TNG.ST: SNW
Surprised pikachu can't believe JWT was implicated in an auth bug.
My decision to build llvm Sunday night is turning into a decision to build llvm Monday morning.
Target keeps the $5 box of borax locked up in the priceless artifacts case, and now I'm wondering what the street value is. How much could you possibly fence this for that makes stealing it worthwhile?
In other news, I haven't listened to Spine's Hank in a few years either.
Does anyone else pronounce Static-X as statics?
Critical vulnerability in OBS studio causes it to save names, addresses, and even credit card numbers if you use it to record filling out a web form.
tedu
honked back 02 Aug 2025 20:36 -0400
in reply to: https://honk.tedunangst.com/u/tedu/h/h55Vmdl2K7fFskcd5w
TV: foundation
10000 years in the future and they can't invent a more efficient puff stick for empire? Half the magic spores don't even make it in his lungs. Decadence and waste lead to downfall.TV: foundation
Latest reading: One Human Minute by Stanislaw Lem.
Liking What You See by Ted Chiang is great.
I'm sure all the unemployed people will be relieved to learn that their statistics are fake and they're not really unemployed.
tedu
bonked 01 Aug 2025 17:03 -0400
original: tedu@honk.tedunangst.com
The NWS says the heat dome is airborne.
Questions that may forever remain beyond AI comprehension: How many Rs in strawberry? How planets orbit Ceti Alpha?