• I never have the wherewithal for the Advent of Code but this year I've really been enjoying practicing my R skills on The Hanukkah of Data

• New Nazca geoglyphs just dropped

• Villem Flusser and social media

• The Prime Minster of Latvia has an Irish accent

• The Topologist's Map of the …

Since I set up Funkwhale I'd been thinking of using it to host my music collection so that I could listen to it from anywhere, but I did the sums and the cost of the extra storage would be about the same as if I got a static IP for …

Like every other nerd, I spent way too much time earlier last week playing with and worrying about Chat-GPT, but you can relax, I've stumped it:

I never thought that my addiction to lipograms would lead to any useful conclusions, but these exchanges seem to capture exactly what Chat-GPT is …

One of the nice things about the influx of Twitter users to Mastodon has been peoples' reaction when they find out that most of my bots are on the Fediverse, too. Even though they are still posting on Twitter, I've updated bots.mikelynch.org so that the front-page links go …

I didn't have as much time as I usually do for National Novel Generating Month, but I think the less time I spend on it, the better the results. I started out with a plan to do a complex, procedurally-generated parody of Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili but only got as far …

When I was very young, perhaps four or five, I can remember imagining that the world was a flat slab of rock, and that the sky was a hemispherical dome suspended over it, and which somehow always managed to be centered on our car as it drove over the flat …

It's been good to see people from Twitter coming onto the Fediverse, or reviving the accounts which they started in 2018, but I'm also getting worn out. Though not nearly as worn out as the admins and moderators, who have been doing an amazing job.

Hugh's essay captures a lot …

It's been quite a week on Mastodon eh.

• The death of God and the decline of the humanities

• Ethan Hein on the Ghostbusters theme with a collection of links to Ray Parker, Jr's other stuff

• Fuck Your Magical Antisemitism an entertaining zine on problematic aspects of the Western occult tradition …

Since there's been a big influx from Twitter, here's an updated and shorter version of a Mastodon primer I wrote back in 2018.

For more detail on how federation works, see Elilla's Futuristic Mastodon introduction for 2021.

Get off mastodon.social

There's mastodon.social, which is run by the lead …

Everyone's coming (back) to Mastodon this weekend thanks to a certain social media acquisition. Here's an old blog post of mine which I wrote after a similar influx in 2018 but which I should update at some stage.

I haven't been posting as many daily links thanks to being at …