Dan Munro @dan@mstdn.io

The Conquest of Pretzel Bread™️

is mayonnaise an instrument

I base my ethics on the teachings of ancient philosopher Hippocarcas

omg I'm using a computer while standing, why haven't I tried this before. I was the type of kid that would get up and walk around between bites of dinner.

sign you use tab completion too much: you try to tab complete a password form

like audio tapes for learning foreign languages

half of AI is programs imitating people. the other half are the programs that people have been imitating because AI wasn’t around.

me, hearing a profoundly mundane natural sound: “is that a REAL bird?”

good explanation of animal rights: https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/gary-l-francione-anna-e-charlton/why-we-must-respect-rights-of-all-sentient-animals

if you wanna know if he loves you so, it’s in his knish

anyone else wish they could Yoda grunt in the workplace

so many people defend honey farming as a beautiful, environmentally vital thing. what it actually is: building an inviting home for an animal so that you can take the nutrients they stored to get through the winter. If someone were to actually set out to help the environment, does that sound like the strategy they would use? It’s almost like it’s purely for human benefit.

a good article: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/01/27/581007165/honeybees-help-farmers-but-they-dont-help-the-environment

when ur accidental plots are cooler than any of your real results https://mstdn.io/media/xh7oJ_u4XxuuxCENWOY

finally untangled the data tangle of over a decade and deleted my Google account.