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Unsanitary Napkin:
🎵 TERF War
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https://jalang.bandcamp.com/track/terf-war-unsanitary-napkin-cover

We're about 50/50 hosted/self-hosted on CI. Been doing a bit of napkin calculations, and it seems like our total GitHub CI bill will go down by a bit after this #github change. Of course, it reduces incentives to continue migrating workloads to self hosted actions.

"Software is no longer seen as an asset, as something to care for, to maybe even take pride in. It’s a throw-away product. Like a napkin. Just get one quick, wipe your mouth and throw it away. Like a novelty t-shirt."
(Original title: Software as Fast Fashion)
https://tante.cc/2026/01/15/software-a…

Software as Fast Fashion
Clothes have never been cheaper. These days a t-shirt is often cheaper that a decent cup of tea in a cafe. The wonders of capitalism. At least that is how it is often described. And when you point at the underpaid, gruesome labor that people in poorer regions of the planet have to do to […]

In the end, the Guide concluded that Sol-3 was another datapoint in resolving the Fermi Paradox, revising the Drake Equation L down further.
Ford's notes read "mostly harmless" but Arthur found a Dick's Burgers napkin in a glovebox, with a scribbled note saying "the self-fulfilling DFPC is a particularly nasty bug."
"What's DFPC?", Arthur asked.
"Dark Forest Pareidolaic Collapse", said Zaphod.
"We see faces in t…

@… this is on mobile safari on iOS 18.7.2, if that matters. (I am/was trying to do some back-of-the-napkin math while away from a larger computer.)

Daniels was looking at just 10 easily quantifiable body measurements. How many important dimensions of variations are there in a human mind? How hard are they to measure? How likely is it that even one single “average” mind exists on Earth?? The odds are vanishingly small.
[Napkin sketch: assume there are a paltry 20 dimensions of brain variation. (Surely that’s low.) Assume there’s a 1 in 5 change of being completely “normal” in each. (Surely that’s high.) Even that absurd hypothetical gives a 1 in 11,490 chance that a •single• completely average mind exists in a population of 8.3 billion.]
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