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The page is blocked by my school for being a “video streaming website”. These blocks are manual. Someone went out of their way to block this.

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Betcha there’s a great story behind that.

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You fuckin good me good, I snorted.

I’m very fond of that cantrip

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Oh shit. I was really expecting a Rick roll.

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Spot Draves, the dude who made Electric Sheep, once described cyberspace as “infinite dimensional”. When I asked what he meant, he meant that every connection was orthogonal to everything else, and that you could instantly connect to anything by uttering its name. It was like space where you could get anywhere by introducing a new dimension where the distance, along that dimension, from you to that place was zero.

He also told me, in that same conversation, that he thinks this universe might be a 3D simulation running in a 2D universe. It was a fun conversation.

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A 3D simulation running in a 2D universe?

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It’s a hypothesis that our perceived ability to see things as “3D” is just a holographic effect, exactly how a 2D hologram gives rise to the illusion of a 3D object.

Not that out there, especially if you consider VR, or anything in 3d on a computer, is borne from 2D instructions.

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Now I want a 5- or 6-dimensional VR game where head tracking rotates the camera in one set of dimensions while the right stick rotates it in another

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Yeah. So basically physics tends to work in N dimensions, or at least that’s how he explained it. So they derived the equations of physics then added a third dimension and started a simulation. Then moved themselves into it.

In the same way, one could take a physics engine for a game, and make all those functions operate in four spatial dimensions. Then you could simulate a 4-dimensional universe.

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Two items provide joy.

https://i.imgur.com/vyRR4.gif — a flaming kick to the neck

https://youtu.be/VdZNyqa5Lhw?si=qRjZVVvYbIraliN7 — blonde jihad

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

[https://piped.video/VdZNyqa5Lhw?si=qRjZVVvYbIraliN7]](https://piped.video/VdZNyqa5Lhw?si=qRjZVVvYbIraliN7])

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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Share your incantations! Here’s one of mine: https://www.summarize.tech/. Uses AI to generate summaries of youtube videos. Pretty handy when you see someone reporting on the latest news but they tend to rant and ramble a lot. Turns 20mins into one or two!

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This url will take you to a random oldie website: https://wiby.me/surprise/

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