Poems in true chronological order by post date
-> file: fediverse/429 ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursing │ └──────────────────────┘ wow, 2024 comes out swinging. if you don't know what I'm talking about... you will soon enough. Just listen. can't fucking wait to see how it happens. Today is the birth place of humanity, just as yesterday was, and the day before, and the day before... our light shall shine upon the most distant stars - our minds will plumb the deepest depths of imagination. Our hearts will share our kindest loves, and our will shall drive us onward. Let us rejoice, for tomorrow yet dawns! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/126 ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── If a kid wanted to drink alcohol all they'd have to do is walk into a liquor store and grab the first bottle they saw. Then book it. Their feet would carry them away faster than your call to 911 to report a shoplift, away to a future of sorrow. Should we seek to restrain them? Or should we make a world they do not desire to escape? Trick question, the structure of society cannot prevent non-compliance. It should not, for if it shall then it becomes ossified, and thus it cracks and it crumbles. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/430 ╔═════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ I exist at the behest of others. If you care about what I say, then surely you │ ║ should be aware of my conditions? │ ║ │ ║ You exist at the behest of others. If you care about your capability to speak, │ ║ then surely you should be aware of your conditions? │ ║ │ ║ Your conditions are unique, and unknown by me. Yet I know your condition as a │ ║ human, generally considered to exist on the planet Earth in the year 2024. So │ ║ surely we should agree to relate on the basis of connections that we share? │ ║ │ ║ I am luminous. I am you, and you are me. We share the most precious parts of │ ║ ourselves, and yet time and again we find ourselves at odds. Surely we should │ ║ align our intentions (that which we control) to cooperate most efficiently? │ ║ Surely. Surely we should. And yet, time and time again, we find ourselves at │ ║ odds. │ ║ │ ║ I love you. I love all of you. I love those who exist outside of my │ ║ perceptions, and yet though they are unknown to me I love them. Because while I │ ║ practice radical self acceptance, I also align myself to be comprised of all of │ ║ yo │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/431 ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── Here's an idea: mobile games / software should not be able to offer real-world-money-transactions that exceed 500% of the cost of the least expensive transaction available in the application. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/432 ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── @user-311 @user-312 @user-313 @user-314 it's not malignant if people change their mind once presented with evidence that counters and eclipses their pre-conceived notions. If people don't change their mind after receiving arguments that logically should change their mind and rationally seem sound but emotionally contrast with their pre-aligned designs... then yeah that's essentially malignance. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/433 ╔═════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ @user-317 │ ║ │ ║ broke: if you deactivate your account on a website like Twitter or Facebook or │ ║ whatever it gives that company that owns said website the opportunity to │ ║ replace your persona with an LLM that spouts whatever agenda they want advance. │ ║ │ ║ woke: you should post on whatever website people will hear you. Specifically │ ║ whichever website that has an audience that consists of the people that you │ ║ want to hear. │ ║ │ ║ bespoke: let's all federate so that we can all decide who we want to trust - │ ║ which singular entity we want to trust. Which single point of failure (the │ ║ instance moderators) we want to trust to publish the thoughts of our minds │ ║ which align to the design of our intentions. Surely there's no way that could │ ║ go wrong. │ ║ │ ║ thing-beyond-bespoke: the only words you can trust are those that are spoken by │ ║ the people you care about using physical manifestations that correspond to │ ║ auditory expressions that project into your ears using primarily lungs, │ ║ tongues, and mouths. │ ║ │ ║ thing-beyond-the-thing-beyond-bespoke: fuck me. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/434 ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── @user-324 @user-325 @user-326 thus enters the promise of technology: that we might solve the problems of bureaucracy once and for all by ever more effiency-aligning mechanical processes that produce effects which we desire - such as efficient allocation of medical resources such that all of humanity is protected from the ravages of pain and the incongruencies of our nature. Alas, that we should only conceive of success through the lens of profit. Perhaps another design is in order? (oh yeah also people who are in control are worried that we, like all other examples of natural entities, might immediately proceed to breed beyond the capability to cater to the needs of said entity (such as "to feed" and medical resources) and therefore might overburden (and therefore destroy) said system which allows for their sustenance and initial creation. To this I say... Yeah probs, what should we do about it?) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ |