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The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Means

https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/lava-lamps-and-randomness

#HackerNews #LavaLamps #Randomness #Futility #TechCulture #DigitalArt #ScienceExploration

The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Means

https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/lava-lamps-and-randomness

#HackerNews #LavaLamps #Randomness #Futility #TechCulture #DigitalArt #ScienceExploration

The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Means

https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/lava-lamps-and-randomness

#HackerNews #LavaLamps #Randomness #Futility #TechCulture #DigitalArt #ScienceExploration

The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Means

https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/lava-lamps-and-randomness

#HackerNews #LavaLamps #Randomness #Futility #TechCulture #DigitalArt #ScienceExploration

The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Means

https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/lava-lamps-and-randomness

#HackerNews #LavaLamps #Randomness #Futility #TechCulture #DigitalArt #ScienceExploration

Reinsdorf: "If I interview someone and they're not sold on Billy, they're not sold on a Hall of Fame coach.” 🙄 🐂 🏀 🔴⚪️⚫️ #NBA #NBAMastodon #ChicagoBulls #BullsNation #BillyDonovan #futility #NBAHeadCoaches

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I see some americans are *proudly* saying they "had fun" while "cosplaying frogs" at the rally, again.... 🙄 🤦‍♂️

#Mocktivism #Futility

I don't know for sure but I think I just lost a #friend over being too #forgiving in the moment.

Sorry not sorry. I don't stand for what I can't #become as such.

I do what I can to #embrace all #people who #appreciate who I am. It's all I can do, and if that #means my #contribution towards #friendships isn't meant to #last then so #be it. But if it does, they're really #rare and I #cherish them because they're very easy to #lose over #something you thought you could #understand at the time.

I'll #say this.

All #echo #chambers are the #primary #reason as to why a #friendship falls apart. Because I've seen this #effect everyone to the point of no #return possible, and honestly...you can't get along with people who spend more of their #time invested into something other than what you are doing with that person together. And I don't think I'm alone in wishing that at times, such an #investment cultivates #familiarity over #routine on a continuous basis.

But you know what? I still appreciate the chance to #care for all it is #worth as such. I do my best to live #life with no #regrets to count on #growing without me there to #manage them.

It's my own #fault for putting a bit of my #soul into everything I do alongside my #heart and #mind accordingly. And as afar as I #know there's no #changing that, at least in a very easy way.

If you ever truly #need #friends by your side, you'll know whether they're people you can #count on or not, by the way they #treat your #ambitions as an #individual person.

You can still #respect someone if they do not #acknowledge that you have any. But the chances of you becoming #close, are not as great.

With that being said, you do not need to #support the same #ambition someone else does, in order to be friends. You just need to set your #ego aside so that such a person can fulfill their #desire the best way they know how to.

That's what I do, and I carry a lot of #weight because of it. All of the #memories set aside because the soul wasn't ready to let go of the ones #entrapping their #conscious #focus throughout seemingly more #important issues outside of my #control in all of the #moments they last.

Putting my best #self forward, means respecting that and not forcing the #matter at hand. It doesn't make that #feeling go away, born of lost #opportunity at the #core of #potential #reciprocity as such.

But yes #indeed I know #hope is not so easily broken by #fragile #futility alone. Which is why I continue to #forgive but not #forget all of the ways life makes a different #path #unfold into #being by the #presence of #purpose for everyone.

I don't know for sure but I think I just lost a #friend over being too #forgiving in the moment.

Sorry not sorry. I don't stand for what I can't #become as such.

I do what I can to #embrace all #people who #appreciate who I am. It's all I can do, and if that #means my #contribution towards #friendships isn't meant to #last then so #be it. But if it does, they're really #rare and I #cherish them because they're very easy to #lose over #something you thought you could #understand at the time.

I'll #say this.

All #echo #chambers are the #primary #reason as to why a #friendship falls apart. Because I've seen this #effect everyone to the point of no #return possible, and honestly...you can't get along with people who spend more of their #time invested into something other than what you are doing with that person together. And I don't think I'm alone in wishing that at times, such an #investment cultivates #familiarity over #routine on a continuous basis.

But you know what? I still appreciate the chance to #care for all it is #worth as such. I do my best to live #life with no #regrets to count on #growing without me there to #manage them.

It's my own #fault for putting a bit of my #soul into everything I do alongside my #heart and #mind accordingly. And as afar as I #know there's no #changing that, at least in a very easy way.

If you ever truly #need #friends by your side, you'll know whether they're people you can #count on or not, by the way they #treat your #ambitions as an #individual person.

You can still #respect someone if they do not #acknowledge that you have any. But the chances of you becoming #close, are not as great.

With that being said, you do not need to #support the same #ambition someone else does, in order to be friends. You just need to set your #ego aside so that such a person can fulfill their #desire the best way they know how to.

That's what I do, and I carry a lot of #weight because of it. All of the #memories set aside because the soul wasn't ready to let go of the ones #entrapping their #conscious #focus throughout seemingly more #important issues outside of my #control in all of the #moments they last.

Putting my best #self forward, means respecting that and not forcing the #matter at hand. It doesn't make that #feeling go away, born of lost #opportunity at the #core of #potential #reciprocity as such.

But yes #indeed I know #hope is not so easily broken by #fragile #futility alone. Which is why I continue to #forgive but not #forget all of the ways life makes a different #path #unfold into #being by the #presence of #purpose for everyone.

I don't know for sure but I think I just lost a #friend over being too #forgiving in the moment.

Sorry not sorry. I don't stand for what I can't #become as such.

I do what I can to #embrace all #people who #appreciate who I am. It's all I can do, and if that #means my #contribution towards #friendships isn't meant to #last then so #be it. But if it does, they're really #rare and I #cherish them because they're very easy to #lose over #something you thought you could #understand at the time.

I'll #say this.

All #echo #chambers are the #primary #reason as to why a #friendship falls apart. Because I've seen this #effect everyone to the point of no #return possible, and honestly...you can't get along with people who spend more of their #time invested into something other than what you are doing with that person together. And I don't think I'm alone in wishing that at times, such an #investment cultivates #familiarity over #routine on a continuous basis.

But you know what? I still appreciate the chance to #care for all it is #worth as such. I do my best to live #life with no #regrets to count on #growing without me there to #manage them.

It's my own #fault for putting a bit of my #soul into everything I do alongside my #heart and #mind accordingly. And as afar as I #know there's no #changing that, at least in a very easy way.

If you ever truly #need #friends by your side, you'll know whether they're people you can #count on or not, by the way they #treat your #ambitions as an #individual person.

You can still #respect someone if they do not #acknowledge that you have any. But the chances of you becoming #close, are not as great.

With that being said, you do not need to #support the same #ambition someone else does, in order to be friends. You just need to set your #ego aside so that such a person can fulfill their #desire the best way they know how to.

That's what I do, and I carry a lot of #weight because of it. All of the #memories set aside because the soul wasn't ready to let go of the ones #entrapping their #conscious #focus throughout seemingly more #important issues outside of my #control in all of the #moments they last.

Putting my best #self forward, means respecting that and not forcing the #matter at hand. It doesn't make that #feeling go away, born of lost #opportunity at the #core of #potential #reciprocity as such.

But yes #indeed I know #hope is not so easily broken by #fragile #futility alone. Which is why I continue to #forgive but not #forget all of the ways life makes a different #path #unfold into #being by the #presence of #purpose for everyone.

I don't know for sure but I think I just lost a #friend over being too #forgiving in the moment.

Sorry not sorry. I don't stand for what I can't #become as such.

I do what I can to #embrace all #people who #appreciate who I am. It's all I can do, and if that #means my #contribution towards #friendships isn't meant to #last then so #be it. But if it does, they're really #rare and I #cherish them because they're very easy to #lose over #something you thought you could #understand at the time.

I'll #say this.

All #echo #chambers are the #primary #reason as to why a #friendship falls apart. Because I've seen this #effect everyone to the point of no #return possible, and honestly...you can't get along with people who spend more of their #time invested into something other than what you are doing with that person together. And I don't think I'm alone in wishing that at times, such an #investment cultivates #familiarity over #routine on a continuous basis.

But you know what? I still appreciate the chance to #care for all it is #worth as such. I do my best to live #life with no #regrets to count on #growing without me there to #manage them.

It's my own #fault for putting a bit of my #soul into everything I do alongside my #heart and #mind accordingly. And as afar as I #know there's no #changing that, at least in a very easy way.

If you ever truly #need #friends by your side, you'll know whether they're people you can #count on or not, by the way they #treat your #ambitions as an #individual person.

You can still #respect someone if they do not #acknowledge that you have any. But the chances of you becoming #close, are not as great.

With that being said, you do not need to #support the same #ambition someone else does, in order to be friends. You just need to set your #ego aside so that such a person can fulfill their #desire the best way they know how to.

That's what I do, and I carry a lot of #weight because of it. All of the #memories set aside because the soul wasn't ready to let go of the ones #entrapping their #conscious #focus throughout seemingly more #important issues outside of my #control in all of the #moments they last.

Putting my best #self forward, means respecting that and not forcing the #matter at hand. It doesn't make that #feeling go away, born of lost #opportunity at the #core of #potential #reciprocity as such.

But yes #indeed I know #hope is not so easily broken by #fragile #futility alone. Which is why I continue to #forgive but not #forget all of the ways life makes a different #path #unfold into #being by the #presence of #purpose for everyone.

I don't know for sure but I think I just lost a #friend over being too #forgiving in the moment.

Sorry not sorry. I don't stand for what I can't #become as such.

I do what I can to #embrace all #people who #appreciate who I am. It's all I can do, and if that #means my #contribution towards #friendships isn't meant to #last then so #be it. But if it does, they're really #rare and I #cherish them because they're very easy to #lose over #something you thought you could #understand at the time.

I'll #say this.

All #echo #chambers are the #primary #reason as to why a #friendship falls apart. Because I've seen this #effect everyone to the point of no #return possible, and honestly...you can't get along with people who spend more of their #time invested into something other than what you are doing with that person together. And I don't think I'm alone in wishing that at times, such an #investment cultivates #familiarity over #routine on a continuous basis.

But you know what? I still appreciate the chance to #care for all it is #worth as such. I do my best to live #life with no #regrets to count on #growing without me there to #manage them.

It's my own #fault for putting a bit of my #soul into everything I do alongside my #heart and #mind accordingly. And as afar as I #know there's no #changing that, at least in a very easy way.

If you ever truly #need #friends by your side, you'll know whether they're people you can #count on or not, by the way they #treat your #ambitions as an #individual person.

You can still #respect someone if they do not #acknowledge that you have any. But the chances of you becoming #close, are not as great.

With that being said, you do not need to #support the same #ambition someone else does, in order to be friends. You just need to set your #ego aside so that such a person can fulfill their #desire the best way they know how to.

That's what I do, and I carry a lot of #weight because of it. All of the #memories set aside because the soul wasn't ready to let go of the ones #entrapping their #conscious #focus throughout seemingly more #important issues outside of my #control in all of the #moments they last.

Putting my best #self forward, means respecting that and not forcing the #matter at hand. It doesn't make that #feeling go away, born of lost #opportunity at the #core of #potential #reciprocity as such.

But yes #indeed I know #hope is not so easily broken by #fragile #futility alone. Which is why I continue to #forgive but not #forget all of the ways life makes a different #path #unfold into #being by the #presence of #purpose for everyone.

"This is a **list of rice dishes** from all over the world".

See also: "Fool's errand". 🙄

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rice_dishes

#sarcasm #Wikipedia #futility

Oh, look! 🤖 Someone wrote a groundbreaking "study" that uses cutting-edge #tech to conclude... absolutely nothing. 🚀 Just another classic case of #AI #futility where the only impact is on your browser settings. 🍪🔒
https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/ai-productivity-gains-are-10-not #Fails #Innovation #BrowserSettings #GroundbreakingStudy #HackerNews #ngated

@thenarwhal

Canada uses public money to store a fraction of the carbon it emits, or exports for emission, while its neighbour to the south ramps up with "drill, baby, drill".

#futility #climate

All the Way Down

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/11/17/all-the-way-down-2/

#HackerNews #All #the #Way #Down #Futility #Closet #Hacker #News #Story #Interesting #Reads #Curiosities

All the Way Down

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/11/17/all-the-way-down-2/

#HackerNews #All #the #Way #Down #Futility #Closet #Hacker #News #Story #Interesting #Reads #Curiosities

All the Way Down

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/11/17/all-the-way-down-2/

#HackerNews #All #the #Way #Down #Futility #Closet #Hacker #News #Story #Interesting #Reads #Curiosities

All the Way Down

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/11/17/all-the-way-down-2/

#HackerNews #All #the #Way #Down #Futility #Closet #Hacker #News #Story #Interesting #Reads #Curiosities

All the Way Down

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/11/17/all-the-way-down-2/

#HackerNews #All #the #Way #Down #Futility #Closet #Hacker #News #Story #Interesting #Reads #Curiosities

Today's poem:

Lament of a Man for His Son
- anonymous

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/800005157968576512/lament-of-a-man-for-his-son?source=share

#poetry #love #lament #death #life #futility #parenthood

Today's poem:

Lament of a Man for His Son
- anonymous

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/800005157968576512/lament-of-a-man-for-his-son?source=share

#poetry #love #lament #death #life #futility #parenthood

Today's poem:

Lament of a Man for His Son
- anonymous

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/800005157968576512/lament-of-a-man-for-his-son?source=share

#poetry #love #lament #death #life #futility #parenthood

Oh, joy! 😴 Another Wordle clone but with the thrilling addition of futility: predict your failure before you even start! 🎉 Because why play games when you can bask in the glory of disappointment among fellow desk jockeys? 🚀
https://boring.game/invite/SRhyUStjin #WordleClone #Futility #GamingDisappointment #DeskJockeys #ThrillingFailures #HackerNews #ngated

"Futility is a novella written by Morgan Robertson, first published in 1898. It was revised as The Wreck of the #Titan in 1912. It features a fictional American ocean liner named Titan that sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean after striking an #iceberg. The Titan and its sinking are famous for their similarities to the real-life passenger #ship RMS #Titanic and its sinking 14 years later."

The Wreck of the Titan: Or, #Futility
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreck_of_the_Titan:_Or,_Futility

🤖 Oh, the irony! Humans handwrite a tedious manifesto on the necessity of #manual #labor while simultaneously dreading their inevitable #obsolescence by robots. If only these ivory tower thinkers knew that writing about AI's inadequacy is the ultimate exercise in #futility. 😂💻
https://www.ssp.sh/brain/will-ai-replace-humans/ #irony #AI #tech #humor #HackerNews #ngated

#Health #advice: Get out for a daily #walk. By the #sea can be especially #rejuvenating .
#Council advise: #Carpark #fees increasing. No free spaces in the
#evening or in #winter. They want more #money.

Will I spend more?
No, I don't have it.
Will I walk less?
Yes as I live by a narrow #path where walking means #breathing in #traffic #fumes.

https://onthewight.com/massive-price-hike-for-isle-of-wight-annual-parking-permits/

#Fitness #moneygrabbing #monetise #exercise #futility #Seaside #seashore #esplanade #promenade
#ageing #island

A quotation from Molly Ivins

The War on Drugs is the perfect substitute for the Cold War. We can continue to pursue policies that don’t work on the cheerful assumption that if we just do more of what doesn’t work, it will solve the problem.

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (1990-02), “The Czar is Hooked,” The Progressive

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ivins-molly/78096/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #futility #policy #problemsolving #Prohibition #warondrugs

I want to copy and paste from my iPad to my android phone. #ios #android #futility #oldmanyellsatcloud

A quotation from Lincoln

The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1839-12-26), “The Sub-Treasury,” Illinois House of Representatives, Springfield

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2862…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #cause #failure #futility #intimidation #perseverance #righteousness #courage

Today's poem:

Old Houses of Charlottenburg
- by William Greco

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/785698731228086272/old-houses-of-charlottenburg?source=share

#Berlin #Charlottenburg #house #architecture #surreal #futility #bourgeois #complacency

Inheriting a post's visibility setting of "Followers only" for Mastodon replies. IIUC, is a rather absurd feature.

OP has followers a, b, and me.
I have followers x and y, neither of whom follows OP.

X and Y see my reply to OP but can't see what I'm replying to? Do I have that right?

#mastodon #askMastodon #UX #futility #socialMedia #technology #design

"Disguised Rick Roll Generator" services creating links with domain names like rickhider, disguisedrick, and rickrolltrick. That's some disguise. 🙄

#futility #sarcasm #disguise #rickroll #technology

🎮 Behold, a "puzzle game" where a lonely chess knight gallops aimlessly, collecting points like a toddler in a candy store! 🍬🍼 With a high score of zero, it’s a masterclass in how to gamify #futility. 💀🏆
https://knightride.rakhim.org/ #puzzlegame #gamification #chessknight #highscorezero #HackerNews #ngated

@ChicagoNewsBot tick tok tick tok. From Offensive Coordinator to Defensive Coordinator to Offensive Coordinator again... hopefully this time it will be different #chicagobears #nfl #futility

Zen koans paradoxically use language to demonstrate the absurdity and futility of language in recognising the nature of mind.

#absurdity #futility #koans #language #mind #paradox #recognition #Zen

New podcast dropped: https://ioradio.org/2024/12/15/ioradio-40-what-now/

I talk with Jackie Sawicky about her dissolving the Texas Coalition Against Crypto Mining and what she thinks about the election and what's happening in Texas. An interesting talk about what to do when you work your ass off to help people, and they don't seem to give a crap.

#bitcoin #energy #activism #futility #idiocracy #trump #CommonSenseExit

New podcast dropped: https://ioradio.org/2024/12/15/ioradio-40-what-now/

I talk with Jackie Sawicky about her dissolving the Texas Coalition Against Crypto Mining and what she thinks about the election and what's happening in Texas. An interesting talk about what to do when you work your ass off to help people, and they don't seem to give a crap.

#bitcoin #energy #activism #futility #idiocracy #trump #CommonSenseExit

New podcast dropped: https://ioradio.org/2024/12/15/ioradio-40-what-now/

I talk with Jackie Sawicky about her dissolving the Texas Coalition Against Crypto Mining and what she thinks about the election and what's happening in Texas. An interesting talk about what to do when you work your ass off to help people, and they don't seem to give a crap.

#bitcoin #energy #activism #futility #idiocracy #trump #CommonSenseExit

New podcast dropped: https://ioradio.org/2024/12/15/ioradio-40-what-now/

I talk with Jackie Sawicky about her dissolving the Texas Coalition Against Crypto Mining and what she thinks about the election and what's happening in Texas. An interesting talk about what to do when you work your ass off to help people, and they don't seem to give a crap.

#bitcoin #energy #activism #futility #idiocracy #trump #CommonSenseExit

New podcast dropped: https://ioradio.org/2024/12/15/ioradio-40-what-now/

I talk with Jackie Sawicky about her dissolving the Texas Coalition Against Crypto Mining and what she thinks about the election and what's happening in Texas. An interesting talk about what to do when you work your ass off to help people, and they don't seem to give a crap.

#bitcoin #energy #activism #futility #idiocracy #trump #CommonSenseExit

Listen:

If you want to change the US politically, sharing memes in your echo chamber, and hurling insults at people who have already blocked you won't do it.
The Net Benefit = Zero.
#USA #Politics #Futility

Keep sharing memes in your echo chamber.

Keep hurling insults at people who already have you blocked.

These two actions will definitely change society for the good.

#USA #Politics #Oligarchy #Futility

But Life doesn’t conform to concepts. It doesn’t fit into neat categories or frameworks. Life is vast, fluid, and ungraspable, always moving beyond the limits of thought.

— The Futility of Understanding, Marcus Fellowes

#freedom #futility #life #mind #thought #understanding #ungraspable

This wasn't a wise choice for the #Democratic #campaign #anthem.
No, I don't support #Trump.
#USA #Politics
An exercise in #futility. https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZxgSQy1YLwE&si=j8nmTjSMPXO-xf2V