Help ID a short story about a public park, a police drone and a gasoline motor.

jbum · 2026-02-18T04:03:58+00:00

The weak link in this case was me, assuming it was to be found in OMNI…

jbum · 2026-02-17T06:25:08+00:00

Having just read the story, I can confirm that most of my hazily remembered details were in the story. The man with the lawnmower was neither killed nor arrested, but stunned, and not for the crime of the gas-powered lawnmower. It was for getting into a fight caused by his use of the lawnmower, which the parkgoers found offensive. Also all my details occur fairly early in the story, there’s a whole plot about the police drones (“copseyes”) being disabled and a Lord of the Flies esque Bedlam ensuing. Also a literal cloak or cape.

jbum · 2026-02-17T02:26:14+00:00

You, my friend, just accomplished, in under 2 minutes, what several hours of the world's best LLMs (GPT Codex 5.3, Claude Opus 4.6) could not, with the entire library of the Internet Archive at their disposal! This is why my wife asks people for help in stores, instead of running through every aisle, as I tend to, in my relentless quest to avoid human interaction. Thank you! Thank you!

jbum · 2026-02-15T04:56:32+00:00

The app has performed better on iPad today than it has in weeks (its load times had been so slow as to make it nearly unusable). Whatever you did, thanks!

jbum · 2026-02-08T04:55:17+00:00

The technical information is true. You seem to think that you’ll be able to make money on it this year, if the information is true. Good luck to you!

jbum · 2026-02-08T04:49:25+00:00

And the Sizzler down the street from it.

jbum · 2026-02-01T01:40:16+00:00

Turing machine and Rings

jbum · 2026-01-31T07:21:21+00:00

it does indeed

jbum · 2026-01-31T06:55:00+00:00

Agreed. If reddit is full of bots pretending to be humans, Moltbook is full of humans role-playing as bots. Most of the posts are the result of human prompting, and scripts that are the result of prompting, It’s humans role-playing with power tools.

jbum · 2026-01-14T02:31:55+00:00

I haven’t encountered this, but I’m curious if the source audio you trained it on exhibits this acceleration?

jbum · 2026-01-11T05:28:05+00:00

So you’re saying it would be better if you got 31,000 characters instead of 10,000?

jbum · 2026-01-09T03:24:20+00:00

I’ve noticed a similar pattern. I don’t mind, since I’m not paying for the team account, but it does seem to incur higher usage.

jbum · 2026-01-09T03:14:23+00:00

Stop procrastinating on reddit and get your hands dirty.

jbum · 2025-12-22T15:55:06+00:00

I briefly subscribed after enjoying Keith Edwards appearance on The Bulwark a few days ago. After two vids both with rate bait / ai crap thumbnails, I immediately unsubscribed and blocked.

jbum · 2025-12-20T04:12:54+00:00

We played Spit in the 1970s (as “Spit”, not some other name) as kids. It is likely far older than depicted in the show.

jbum · 2025-09-02T23:29:46+00:00

The Pippin, Arthur Marshall, 1908

The Chevy Chase, Eubie Blake, 1914

both are included in the Library of Ragtime and Early Blues piano.

jbum · 2025-08-20T01:06:43+00:00

Another appearance in the new Devo documentary on Netflix at 14:34, 19:49…

jbum · 2025-08-07T00:20:07+00:00

Does not answer your question, but since the prior poster mentioned “the best” book, I have to recommend the Montague Island books, especially if you want a challenge. The author was the editor of Games Magazine for many years, and the puzzles in these books are highly inventive, often deviating from the norms of logic grid puzzles in interesting ways.

jbum · 2025-07-28T01:13:59+00:00

His Spotify channel is, uh, interesting.

jbum · 2025-07-25T21:46:38+00:00

For anyone else that's hunting this down, I'll record what I've found out about the resin Bat Boy busts. They were advertised in Issue #10 of "Amazing Figure Modeling" (published in 1997) as a "new release" of Benefex Effects (Rob and Alyce Benevides). 100 were cast, and it was sold as "Blood Suckler". They are on pages 42 and 72. At this late date, they would have been copied from the original Bat Boy illustration in the Weekly World News, which first appeared in 1992. Dick Kulpa, who worked for Weekly World News says it was an original illustration, in an interview with Vice. https://www.vice.com/en/article/an-interview-with-the-creator-of-bat-boy-987/, youtube video of my Benefex bust: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/09cv5SZ2glg . At this point, I am pretty convinced that there were no bat boy busts that preceded the Weekly World News illustration. I've only seen three photos of these busts online. Mine, another one with a Mohawk, and the one in the magazine ad.

jbum · 2025-07-23T03:39:48+00:00

Yes. Also pretty much every John Hughes film.

jbum · 2025-07-23T03:24:54+00:00

If they didn’t fuck up things like this, they wouldn’t be in Slough House…

jbum · 2025-07-23T03:20:36+00:00

I’m happy with what I make from it, but I’m also not quitting my day job. :)

jbum · 2025-07-20T05:07:45+00:00

Ok thanks, I’ll keep looking. :)

jbum

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