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If we want to get *really* scifi, maybe these hypothetical carbon capture machines could construct *themselves* out of captured carbon, possibly using some kind of tiny pod containing most of the materials needed to get started as well as the information to construct the entire machine... Maybe these pods could, themselves, be made through carbon capture using the same machines, making them self-replicating without any technical skills needed

But this is all some kind of absurd pipe dream, of course. It's not like self-replicating material-producing carbon capture machines grow on trees

heat pumps, or “Honeywell’s demon”

I think a lot about how Armistice Day, a day about the end of WW1 that was supposed to make us think about how shitty and pointless war is, became troops rule and war is good day

i have been forcibly reminded the voyager plates basically constitute a mixtape, unsolicited nudes, and directions to where we live

RT @Greg_Lindsay@twitter.com
Tired: Dystopia.

Wired: Dystopia.

#OH #IRC

"sometimes it's big DEC energy"

"i'm trying to convert them to big EBCDIC energy"

phone manufacturers refuse to include infrared ports on their devices because they're too cowardly to admit that there can be a low-tech solution for a task like turning on a television that is superior in every way to using an app for it.

Fun fact: each book scanned for the Internet Archive has a unique identifier, usually the title of the item, or its first 16 characters; the volume number, or 00 if there isn't one; and the first 4 characters of the author. So:

deafening silence as in, an extremely powerful sound system amplifying dead silence at maximum gain. it's a very particular feeling.