I also have an OM System camera (OM-5) and never get corruption this bad but occasionally got one row of green pixels at the bottom of a photo during import to Photos. I thought I was crazy, but this motivates me to change up my routine and check if it was Photos all along.
Readit Newsasolove commented on Apple Photos app corrupts images tenderlovemaking.com/2025... · Posted by u/pattyj
asolove commented on James Baldwin's Apotheosis hudsonreview.com/2025/08/... · Posted by u/apollinaire
You can know almost all you need to know about this article from this sentence:
> This is even more true today, when the intersectional grid draws rigid lines between “oppressor” and “oppressed” that Baldwin, despite the animus against white America that ballooned as he aged, was far too subtle a thinker to accept.
If you think that the inline definition of "intersectional" is an accurate one, the rest of the essay follows. You may or may not learn anything, though if this prompts you to read "Go Tell It on the Mountain", that would be a great outcome.
If you actually know anything about theory, then you'll see the rest of the essay as rhetorical shadow-boxing with something no one is actually saying.
asolove commented on Tell HN: Stripe Dashboard no longer supports Firefox · Posted by u/davidpolberger
$5 says this is one support rep (or AI tool) just getting it wrong.
I assume this hasn't been "released" yet, but still thought I'd ask if the source code for the operating system (or "computing environment", in Dynamicland-speak) is available anywhere and also if there yet exists any DIY hardware guides for building your own to play with at my own location (far from the Oakland/Berkeley Dynamicland facility).
I believe the FAQ confirms that this is not possible at the moment:
> Where can I get Realtalk?
>> At present, Realtalk exists in Dynamicland spaces and in the spaces of our collaborators, where we can carefully grow and tend in-person communities of practice. In the short term, additional spaces will be started by people who have contributed significantly to an existing space and have internalized the culture and its values. Long term, we intend to distribute the ideas in the form of kits+games which will guide communities through building their own computing environments that they fully understand and control. Long long term, computing may be built into all infrastructure as electric light is today. This would also require an extensive network of educational support.
There are some similar-ish systems with alpha-level install instructions: https://folk.computer/pilot
asolove commented on The secret inside One Million Checkboxes eieio.games/essays/the-se... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
This part is so important:
> The adults in my life were largely not mad at me. They asked me to knock it off, but also made me a t-shirt. I don’t think I’d be doing what I do now without the encouragement that I received then.
Teena need a place to be moderately mischievous, with semi-real social outcomes, but also some boundaries and help to not take it too far.
And adults who aren’t authorities over them except insofar that they have cool talents the kids want to learn.
asolove commented on Big Tech says AI is booming. Wall Street is starting to see a bubble washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/jameslk
Can you expand on that? I can’t see how productivity will not replace (at least some) them in the long run and shift the workload on the remaining ones, basically making fewer people handle a larger workload for a bit more pay or same pay? And that has more or less been the case with tech so far, though at a slower pace it seems.
Or are you saying that AI will create a lot of demand for workforce? And how so?
The amount of work to be done isn’t constant. If you make it cheaper to do a unit of work (less labor per unit) then the market will demand more of it.
Look up the unintentional impact of the cotton gin for an example.
asolove commented on How the square root of 2 became a number quantamagazine.org/how-th... · Posted by u/headalgorithm
For some reason that feels so weird that it would be that late "discovery"... Once you define a square(sides same length) the length of diagonal is one of the first questions. And this being very weird number is something I believe someone must have thought about long before that point of time.
These are more or less the first people to think about geometry rigorously as an abstract system. Anyone previous would have just pointed to the hypotenuse and said “it’s that length right there” and not asked a further question.
asolove commented on How the square root of 2 became a number quantamagazine.org/how-th... · Posted by u/headalgorithm
That would seem to imply that for A =/= 0, C/A is irrational. This seems counterintuitive.
What is counter-intuitive? In a triangle with sides A=1, B=1, then C=root(2), so C/A is irrational. That's what was so impactful about the discovery.
Imagine not knowing about irrational numbers. You assume all numbers are just integers and fractional ratios between integers. It would be weird (terrifying?) that something as simple as a right triangle would require a whole category of numbers you can't express.
Today on X, people are having fun baiting Grok into saying that Elon Musk is the world’s best drinker of human piss.
If you hired a paid PR sycophant human, even of moderate intelligence, it would know not to generalize from “say nice things about Elon” to “say he’s the best at drinking piss”.