• Hallie
• Peter
  • https://www.paschaefer.com/

Topics:

• Do you know where all your things are?
• How education doesn't melt
• Bebop Bytes Back
• Augustus Gloop by Roald Dahl
  • https://allpoetry.com/-Augustus-Gloop...-

Microtopics:

• The Directrix of Cybernetic Security.
• Unity licensing from Unity as Unity.
• Fantasy Book of the Month. (FBOM)
• Part zombie, part ghost.
• Accidentally GenMoing your WriMo.
• A house with a bunch of your things in it, and they're everywhere.
• Knowing someone who knows how to find things and knowing someone who knows where things are.
• Knowing where to put something because it's where you first thought to look for it.
• A person who itches when they see somebody not using a switch statement.
• Having been gradually removing yourself from social media since back when Twitter was Twitter.
• Back when you could get out of a chair without grunting.
• Getting the whooping cough and coughing your disc out. (And you're in your twenties.)
• Whether your dad named you after the murderous robot in 2001.
• Seeing your students cheating poorly and teaching them how to do it well.
• Scaffolding it pedagogically.
• Big boat: hard turn.
• How do we get education to exhibit swarm behavior?
• A brand new exciting way to be bummed.
• Education by Panopticon.
• LLMs exposing how much of people's jobs and education are bullshit busywork.
• When does the salt jump?
• Putting together the 50s and then putting together the tens and then putting together the fours.
• The simplest shallowest version of active listening that exists.
• Doritos hacking the learning loop.
• Continually finding new opiates of the masses.
• Typing hex opcodes into the Beboputer.
• An effective educational tool that has never been less appealing to the youth it's targeted at.
• Steve Jobs coming out of his grave and slitting your throat if you install a programming tool on your iPhone.
• Making the sun wink and realizing that this is the rest of your life.
• Deescalating your LLM partner when it has an anxiety attack.
• Your Socratic Oxford Don persona.
• The Life Cycle of Software Objects.
• There is a mistake, and it is being overcome.
• Steps you can take to avoid Godzilla coming back and nature reclaiming the earth.
• A poem written by a beloved children's author who absolutely loathes fat people.
• Whether the terrible children in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are all based on people that Roald Dahl knew.
• SwitchBitch, Roald Dahl's famous Typescript library.
• Making sure your weirdness is a kindness.
• Roald Dahl: boy did he do the stuff.
• Penning The Twits in an effort to "do something against beards."
• Why Stephen King?
• The Dollar Babies.
• Whether Stephen King is still on MySpace.
• Walking down the road and hearing Stephen King yelling at cloud.
• The Dave Barry game jam.
• Going into the sewer and solving puzzle platformer problems.
• Group hug vs. forming a blob.
• Tube Hippo is back!
• The game engine sorting hat.
• Coming out of character to talk about Inform 7.
• The year that you fucked around with interactive fiction but never shipped anything.
• Presuming that interactive fiction has continued to be great even after you stopped playing.
• Choosing Twine over Inform 7 because of your absolutely enormous forelimbs.
• LLMs as an extremely fancy Tarot deck.

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