Lady of Misrule @Lady@cat.family

when i graduated college almost a decade ago i briefly considered trying to get into computational linguistics and i am very glad i never did

youtube video about why white people utterly fail every time they try to rearrange a piece of the pokémon soundtrack

would you fuck isabelle from animal crossing

our revised plan is to try starting the year on the sundown before 364 days before the first sunday in january

which is tomorrow night

my girlfriend at dinner was like “so i have some calendar opinions” and several hours of conversation later we have decided we need to make a kings cake TOMORROW

i told @aescling to make a town on her 3DS and her vibes were all “i am too busy playing sonic rush to fuck wolf link”

my girlfriend is off being productive but i WANT her to be being setting up a tent on my new Animal Crossing: New Leaf save

happy yule !

best starter pokémon?

this is not an anti conlang post it is an anti white bullshit post

i do not want to read about your Modern Standard MyLanguage spoken by 2 billion people on the planet MyWorld and yet startlingly having a vocabulary of only 1,200 words, thank you

clicking on random languages on CLCR and judging them intensely

« Based on TECHNICAL MERITS, the Unicode Technical Committee concluded that the proposed character, with that alternative name, is a valid candidate for encoding.

However, UTC also recognized that the character is associated with some geo-political controversies and so should be given careful consideration by SC2 member bodies. »

(here is a source for that last bit: <https://www.dailydot.com/debug/ephrata-washington-fastest-internet-us/>)

for a while Ephrata, WA (tiny town in the middle of nowhere) had the fastest internet in the country measured as average speed available to individual households, because Grant County P.U.D. simply gave everyone a publicly owned fiber hookup because what else are they going to spend the money on

another important piece that they don’t mention is that the profit from all of this electricity usage goes to the Public Utility Districts, nonprofit cooperative entities which were set up because rich people didn’t want to sell farmers power

those utility districts have been spending that money on public infrastructure like fiber, without which none of this would be possible

for the record people were flocking there for the cheap electricity prior to A·I, including:

• silicon manufacturing
• carbon fiber plants
• unmanned aerial vehicle testing and manufacturing
• and yes, bitcoin miners

wild to see new york times doing a piece on central washington https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/technology/ai-data-centers-electricians.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kE4.ZTQZ.eXmmXjcNivCI&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare