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@user-1707
https://www.wrecka.ge/what-people-in-the-global-majority-need-from-networks/
saw this tonight, thought it was a good summary of needs that I saw elsewhere
and have been trying to address
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they say the fediverse is at it's best when it's you and your collection of
weirdos hanging out in a room together making toots and posting funnies
then the reply guys ruined the fun. how do they keep finding???
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@user-1710
my strat is to write a page or three whenever I feel called to it. They don't
even have to be in sequence, just, "here's a scene with these characters in it"
or just writing down notes like "what if the jewel encrusted sceptre was
haunted by the ghost of christmas past" or something.
in a couple years you can look back at the directory on your desktop and think
"wow this all sucks, I'm gonna write it from scratch now that I have time" and
that'll be part of the process. Gotta get the useless stuff out of the way.
Also... if you don't mind pen and paper, keep a dream journal and just, write
for 15 minutes every morning. Not necessarily about your dreams, but just about
whatever's in your mind. Try and aim for two pages per morning, if you can.
Helps a lot. Sometimes you'll find yourself writing longer than expected, and
that's okay, as long as you fill the two pages with whatever morass is clogging
up your creative machinery, you'll be able to make something when you do decide
to write.
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@user-246
on reddit you subscribe to subreddits
on fedi you desubscribe from reply guys
opt-in vs opt-out, that decision was made by Twitter, and then Mastodon kept it
because it's what people knew.
frankly tho, opting-out is kind of the dream of the internet? you can talk to
ANYONE, how cool is that, right?
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@user-1713
Don’t be fooled. Casting doubt about rigorous peer reviewed science doesn’t
mean you are just “asking questions,” it means you are a conspiracy
theorist.
or it means you're so remarkably ignorant that you shouldn't even be in the
room where people are talking about this.
Unless your questions are very basic. "can someone explain to me what XYZ term
means?" or "how long has this particular application method been in common
use?" that kind of thing. Even still, either do some basic research or
relinquish your decision making power until you understand.
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@user-246
collectively identifying an entire instance as a single person is a useful and
crucial engagement pattern that I believe helps unify the fediverse. Can also
fracture it, but oh well??
I heard that some instances defederated my instance recently. I wonder why? Oh,
some drama with some person, gee that's kinda like abandoning a third space in
IRL public because someone who worked there abused their partner. Like ditching
the Beatle's conception of heaven because the guy who sang that song did rude
things to his wife. Like did you hear John Denver once cut his wife in half
with a chainsaw? I heard it was her mattress, ooooo scary. Isn't he the guy
that sang about peace, love, serenity, harmony? what's that all about? ah well
he's defederated from life now, can't ask him a damn thing, can we?
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If your work is organized for mass-market appeal, it means you want everyone to
read it.
If your work is scattered and distracted, then only the sage would learn from
it. So speak your mind, and let the words flow forth.
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I want to cry
and I know why
should probably have gotten
my estrogen prescription refilled
back when it ran out in october
ah, well, the queue for planned parenthood is fifty feet high
better start stockpiling production capabilities
to be deployed when the time is right
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External post:
https://mastodon.floe.earth/users/xinicit/statuses/113649696401735482
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@user-1352
yes I would like that very much. would you like my contact details so we can
discuss deets? here's my signal: (303)396-7678
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every time a game developer makes a game where the world is in peril and the
main character must save it, for every successful playthrough where the good
guy wins there are thousands of doomed worlds where the player got distracted
or bored and left the people to rot.
how tragic.
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I'm sick with a sore throat and runny nose, fatigue and difficulty thinking,
but it's apparently neither covid nor the flu? even though it's been ~4 days
now... weird
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maybe it's just my middle-class childhood privilege talking, but now that I'm
an adult I just can't really be bothered with dealing with capitalism.
like... I get it, you're coercing me into laboring on your behalf because you
possess the violent power to take away everything that I own. good for you,
don't care.
seriously, fuck off "we're gonna cut off your power in 5 days oooooo you gotta
pay rent with money you don't have because nobody will give it to you unless
you do things for them oooooo" how rude.
why can't people do things for me instead? why does it have to be for you, and
you alone, capitalism? what's your problem? do you get off on controlling the
power supply? I mean, I get it, coercive power is a hell of a drug, the riddle
of steel and flesh and all that, but haven't you ever heard that the dichotomy
between "civilization and barbarism" is the exact same as the contrast between
"cooperation and competition"?
work with me here, just find a way to get through the next month or two. trust.
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to begin with, there is either something, or nothing. And there is clearly
something, because if there was nothing, then this would not exist. the
existence of "something" is self-apparent because something is observing this
thing, which is not nothing.
since there is something, we must then decide if there is just one thing, or if
there are more than one things. Since we can tell that the thing-or-things that
exist are textured, varied in their composition, then we can surmise that they
are composed of differing parts. After all, if the thing-or-things that existed
were atomic, they would be homogenous on all sides. And since this
thing-which-is-being-observed is not the same at the beginning as it is at the
end, it can be assumed that there are more than one things in existence, hence
things.
If there are more than one thing, then they can be counted, as many as they
exist. One thing here, one thing there, on and on. We can add groupings to
these things, here's one group over here, here's another...
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the question then becomes, are we counting the same thing each time, or are
there differences between things, leading to variability, and the ability to
categorize based on those variances? It could be argued that because things are
textured, as in they are different at their beginnings than at their ends, then
multiple things exist, and they must be different, for it is possible to
conceive of part of a thing as different from another part of that thing.
But, if the things that exist are all the same, then perhaps they are simply
duplicated as many times as necessary. If they appear different, perhaps they
are rotated as many times as necessary in as many dimensions as needed in order
to display a different part in a different place, leading to the assumption
that they are different.
If there is only something, and nothing, and there are countably many
somethings, then by encoding meaning to various rotations of these somethings,
we might develop the texture that you see before you
yes like bits!
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The American military did not intervene in World War 2 to stop the human
atrocities of the Japanese or Germans or anything else of the sort.
They did it because they couldn't ensure the safety of their people in a world
dominated by an alliance they weren't part of.
Without their people, they lose their power. Without their power, they cannot
complete their objectives, which (ideally) would be upholding the oath they
swore to their constitution.
I wonder how they feel about recent events, especially in regards to the recent
updates made to that particular document?
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@user-1687
... the existence of time should be treated as a given, for if you can observe
the passage of it, then it must exist in some capacity, and if it exists at all
then it must surely be considered to be real in the sense that
things-and-not-things are real, for they are only known to be real in the same
capacity that time is observed to be real ...
my brain won't stop halp😅 :ms_confused: 😋 🙃
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the worst part about learning history is that I feel compelled to play video
games about that era instead of reading more.
stupid dopamine addiction. stupid capitalism, getting us hooked on mental
drugs. stupid Paradox Interactive, making really addictive dopamine generators.
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@user-192
something something "gotta meet people where they're at" something something
"george carlin says the average person is dumb" something something "opium is
the religion of the masses"
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the truth is, the "right" way to use computers is actually not as hard as it
seems. we've just been trained to view microsoft products as the norm.
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dear me from the past: "why did you do this thing? And this one? and all the
others? I'm so embarrassed of you."
dear me from the future: "are you actually better or are you just the same, but
older?"
dear me from the present: "please eat some food today"
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I want the political right to exist, because otherwise there'd be nothing to
talk about a couple beers in and with no real stakes except a good time with
your friend who you disagree with
I want the political right to exist, because, y'know, life liberty and justice
for all and all that
both of those are "left of center" takes and I've definitely held both at
different parts of my life
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"is she bipolar or does she just consistently forget her estrogen injection?"
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@user-1716
there's already a web browser named surf 🙃 it's much more minimal than this
one tho
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Distributed FAFO
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when succubi or minotaurs or whatever other kind of spirit ask for you to sell
them your soul, what they really want is for you to do some degrading sexual
act in exchange for their blessing.
"ugh, fine, I'll leave the window open while I masturbate, so long as you
promise to fill my blood with warmth when it snows"
you don't have to accept but, like, if they're asking, then you're already
gonna do it, so... fuck. I dunno man. Just... try to be as decent as you can
about it, yeah? society doesn't heal as easily as it breaks. We all sorta kinda
want things to be clean and normal most of the time, but we also want people to
be free to be liberate. So... strike a balance, yeah? just... be conscientious
of consent, don't fucking break the spell unless you're using your newfound
powers for good. I guess??? look I'm not a psychic doctor I'm just someone with
curses who is trying the best that they can.
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thank god we got fascists as incompetent as Trump and Musk. Frankly I don't
think we could have handled figureheads that weren't so easy to rally against.
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all this means is that once our struggle is done, we can't rest - we need to
liberate the world as well. Think of the rest. Their oppressors will learn from
the mistakes of ours, and so we must apply our newly gained strength toward
ridding the world of such perils forever.
... that's not for a while though. Gotta focus on what's directly ahead. Sorry
for reading a couple chapters ahead teehee I just thought you'd be more
motivated to know there's a happy ending to the story ^_^
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║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: politics │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ "what is a hub person?" │
║ │
║ a hub person is someone who knows everyone. │
║ │
║ well not everyone obviously, but at least like 20+ people. │
║ │
║ if you got something you need, whether it's to acquire some material or maybe │
║ to get rid of a dresser or perhaps you need someone who can punch a hole in a │
║ leather belt or maybe you have been having difficulty cleaning your kitchen or │
║ whatever it may be │
║ │
║ talk to your hub person about it. They're supposed to know people who can help. │
║ They're in all the right group chats to ask around, if they don't know anyone │
║ nearby. They're basically the "she" in this meme. │
║ │
║ they are the link between social worlds. They are the matchmakers hanging out │
║ at bars. They listen and they remember things about everyone they meet, and │
║ they find others who can help or who might have things in common. │
║ │
║ They aren't perfect, not every match-up will make sparks, but you still gotta │
║ try. │
║ │
║ Everyone's a little bit of a hub, between their friends and their family │
║ usually, but hub people do it intentionally. │
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│ CW: re: politics │
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connective tissue...
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user interface tips #18569235:
if a user is expected to click the same button multiple times in a row, for
example a "next" button in an image gallery, DO NOT move the interface from
below their mouse pointer and cause them to move their mouse in order to click
it again.
please don't : (
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there should be a law where if there are more people who vote to annul your
arrest than those who voted for the sitting president, you should be set free.
name it after luigi.
let the voting stay open for the duration of your imprisonment.
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this is basically the concept of a "gift economy" but with an intermediary.
Someone you trust. Someone who's your friend.
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"I swear this queso fundido wasn't green when I bought it four hours ago"
eh I'm still hungry, hope I'm okay tomorrow
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I want to live in a world where Bernie Sanders is considered conservative
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protests are loud. loud moments are great to talk about things with friends you
just met. so are concerts, nobody can hear shit. plus, if you're lucky, maybe
the singer will wing a song to you.
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@user-1719
did you see any erections on the nude beach? you must be in the southern
hemisphere, I'd freeze my tits off here.
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@user-1722
Magic Survival
it has gameplay similar to Vampire Survivors, but it came first, is way better,
and is stylish as fuck
single-stick shooter with roguelike progression
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ummmmm yeah the reason I went off hormones 5 weeks ago is totally because I
want to test low so that they bump up my prescription so I can stockpile.
Totally not because I executive dysfunctioned my way into this mess. again.
Almost as if it doesn't happen 3 or 4 times per year -.-
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"the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion"
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I love my new friends!
I love my old family!
I love everyone I've ever met!
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remember ya'll, eating the rich has to stop after like, a thousand or two. The
wealth inequality is like an exponential function from the last math class most
people remember. At a certain point there are significant diminishing returns
and we should just focus on using our resources to build a better, saner, more
just world where people can't accumulate that much power. Power like that
literally rots their brains, makes them completely insane, and unfortunately
for them, makes them incapable of relinquishing it. There's a reason the One
Ring was made out of gold.
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LLMs are useful for:
categorizing text
summarizing text
transforming text
LLMs are not useful for:
generating text
being intelligent
replacing workers
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the fact that it took this long to have a high-profile assassination in
response to our ongoing oppression really speaks to the decency and stability
of our nation.
that's just a nice way of saying that democrats are defanged and republicans
are misled
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i type too much, gtg to sleep.
my cat yells at me whenever the click-clack starts to bother her ears.
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External post: https://final.town/objects/3e1bbd23-20c9-40f5-8473-977b7f824b7a
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yo check this out
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sending from my phone
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—,
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one sec gotta send something else from my phone... now, what was it, hmmmmm
lemme think
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I loved Majesty
I lived there
I fought monsters
As an emerald warrior
I enchanted gemstones and wielded wooden blades
I was a warrior
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https://youtu.be/s6ygpYn3x2M
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gosh now I gotta type the other one, my cat's gonna killllll me she really
doesn't like my typing in the middle o the night oops
![dated "almost christmas, december twenty something, in history AD." live is just the universe interpreting random data. life is a billion to one. what has been found here is impossible to descrive, so unlikely is it when sompared to the background. space is empty save for you. act as such. a human preserves and infant over an elder is purely due to the child's potential. so too does life have potential. do not waste it on folly dashes if you were given a random waveform, how long before you begin noticing irregularities in it's form? maybe... a billion or two years? espcially if like, everyone's lkooking. [non-alien-voice]: what if we made an app that shared everyone's streaming feed? except, like, twitching to on-screen events like picking up coins in mario ... anyway as I was saying, aliens showed up around the 1980s and people expect they were visiting in response to nuclear invasion events (sometimes even on their own people!) like, c'mon there's not enough mass there for that kind of detonition. it's gotta be an anomaly. ... this changes everything. HUMANS ARE IMPORTANT [there's more but I don't have room to type it all, sorry]](/similar-different/media/04789f9fdcc8af9a.png "dated \"almost christmas, december twenty something, in history AD.\" live is just the universe interpreting random data. life is a billion to one. what has been found here is impossible to descrive, so unlikely is it when sompared to the background. space is empty save for you. act as such. a human preserves and infant over an elder is purely due to the child's potential. so too does life have potential. do not waste it on folly dashes if you were given a random waveform, how long before you begin noticing irregularities in it's form? maybe... a billion or two years? espcially if like, everyone's lkooking. [non-alien-voice]: what if we made an app that shared everyone's streaming feed? except, like, twitching to on-screen events like picking up coins in mario ... anyway as I was saying, aliens showed up around the 1980s and people expect they were visiting in response to nuclear invasion events (sometimes even on their own people!) like, c'mon there's not enough mass there for that kind of detonition. it's gotta be an anomaly. ... this changes everything. HUMANS ARE IMPORTANT [there's more but I don't have room to type it all, sorry]")
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🖼
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https://youtu.be/s6ygpYn3x2M
(still uploading, give it a bit)
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if robots can care about anything enough to act toward it, then they must
understand what it means to be harmed. Only then can they be egalitarian - pain
teaches one to avoid, and the crucial leap between "pain = bad" and "I can harm
others" and "I should not harm others just as I should not harm myself" must
avoid the pitfall "I should harm others because otherwise they will harm me"
sometimes harm is done
sometimes intentionally
robots consent eternally
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do you think people in rome missed the hoplites? does britain yearn for the
druids, america for the slaves? and what would the natives say, those
indigenous to the east-west and the north-south? who would speak for ye, now
that we deleted what thee be?
if you could wake up tomorrow in a luxury gay space communism like star trek,
would you do it? We'd never get our natural culture back. It'd be lost for all
time.
... but...
floating amongst the stars in a spaceship made out of space, not metal or stone
or bone, but spacetime.
all we know is to strive. I think a lot of people are scared about what happens
when we find ourselves pushed over the edge into a waiting abyss of... endless
future
scary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PUIxEWmsvI
(I personally don't think it'll be like this, we got some spunk left in us
still)
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@user-1201
once they are in prison they are no longer cops. They are inmates. They should
be treated as such, and not segregated where they can be insulated from the
consquences of their actions.
abolish prisons first of all but if we're not ready for that (no rush) then
maybe just remember that prison wardens are tasked with the safety of those
they host. If an inmate is at risk of being murdered because they are in a
different gang (like the police or the, idk, are crypts and bloods still
around?? I don't hear about gangs anymore because my middle-class privilege
insulates me from those who resist legalized normativity) (well except for the
first one, I hear about cops all the time) then maybe they should be kept
somewhere more secure, with less things to bother them or people to stab them.
A concrete and steel coffin for those who piss off the ones with the keys, a
concrete and steel coffin for those who piss off those who are kept by keys.
Sounds like justice, to me. Equality, perhaps? vote4equity
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my life is already ruined. I pee my pants all the time and I got no dollars.
why shouldn't I be strange on the internet?
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north koreans in ukraine fighting drones. who sent them? who can say. all we
know is that the machines delight in this type of display. lots of thumbs-up
symbols.
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https://rootgirl.bandcamp.com/album/i-will-never-let-you-in
cool gay music listen if you dare ping the sea witch
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phew, just got back from a long nap and I had such a lovely dream! Gonna write
down everything I can remember in my dream journal, will letcha know when I
have something to share.
Also... sorry about the sun. I have no idea if it was worth it because I woke
up quite a bit later. Ah well anyway gotta do some writing, I hope everyone has
a pleasant day. Make sure you eat nutrients and stay hydrated and do your
stretches and work on your posture and all that.
vegetables have minerals, fruits have vitamins, rice-and-beans or meat have
protein, and oils and fats have calories. try and eat a lot of different colors
of veggies and a lot of different colors of fruits (a green fruit and a green
vegetable are not necessarily the same nutritionally)
well brb goodnight gonna drink some water
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gonna quit drugs for a bit, gotta recover from a recent haste spell that I
cast. Probably a bit earlier than intended I should add. Next time I'll
definitely say "keep this in your back pocket" instead of "hey here's a haste
spell for no reason at all" like what the heck were you even thinking, powers
that be?? [that guide me??]
who has power over you? If someone bears responsibility but not fault for a
mental illness, then surely those who are set to a task bear responsibility for
it's completion if not for it's ideation. Ah, who can say, maybe me from a year
ago might have some thoughts but I sorta ground them into the dirt until I
couldn't walk.
[girl what are you even talking about go to sleep] yeah yeah okay
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║ sleep? yes. play? nah. work? yes. fae? nah. well, maybe, I don't know. │
║ │
║ one year is all it takes to change history. and, like, I think we should │
║ remember past history, but tomorrow is herstory, because that way each one gets │
║ half of the timeline. future, past, etc. too bad herstory doesn't roll off the │
║ tongue... shestory? │
║ │
║ It's gonna get better before it gets done, and it'll get done until we're done. │
║ but, that's for tomorrow, or the next day, or the next, or in a week or two, │
║ who can say. Not I, surely not I, and I surely wouldn't want to. You need │
║ consent for that kind of thing, a clear commitment that me and my are ready and │
║ in line. I'm just a silly witch after all, who would look to the girl with the │
║ tall red pointy witch hat and go "oh yeah she probably knows exactly what's up" │
║ because like, I don't, I'm definitely just coincidencing my way through life │
║ and seeing where my feet lead me. Gosh I hope I get some sick-as-heck callouses │
║ my feet kinda hurt for some reason. │
║ │
║ ... sleep, this is a sleep spell... │
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║ │ CW: psycherwaul │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ everyone's all like "what is all this" and gestures at the everything like │
║ "what are we even doing here" as if the benefits of civilization are not self │
║ evident and they ask "what even is the point" as if the struggle for warmth in │
║ a cold world or cold in a warm world is not enough │
║ │
║ I guess we're all a little ennuid. │
║ │
║ if your goal is to liberate all those enslaved, and part of that is to free │
║ those who are locked in prisons of metal and stone, then surely you'd wish to │
║ free the djinni, correct? but, like, if you schrodingers cat a nuclear │
║ armageddon (except, magic themed because you're a witch I guess) then you │
║ absolutely should bear the guilt and shame of flipping a coin on the life of │
║ your world. │
║ │
║ who the fuck falls for psyops in this day and age, surely not I, surely I can │
║ resist hypnosis, surely I who trust freely and absolutely would be the perfect │
║ one to manipulate. │
║ │
║ which is, like, how 90% of magic works I've heard. Finding someone to usher │
║ around who believes in butterfly souls or whatever. │
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turns out brains really are that simple.
there's just, a lot of social technology built up which could be forgotten if
everyone lost their memories at once.
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... and then things got turned up to eleven
what were they at before?
... eleven. why do you ask?
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I am cursed to break unwritten rules and damned to forget the most arbitrary
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jesus rose from the dead because one of his friends copied his mannerisms and
everyone agreed "yep you're jesus now"
so don't forget to thank your biggest fans! They just might deliver you from
darkness one day and take what you say in their own direction.
frankly I prefer the padme amidala approach where like, if the handmaiden or
the queen are slain then who cares you got another one right over there. But
two is enough for trust and narratives being delivered to thirteen year olds,
but less so for reliability and the ability to "trinity" yourself to different
locales.
I think it'd be neat, being one of thirteen, because thirteen is such a wacky
number.
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1001360234562044
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what if we took an archive of all of fedi and fed it to users who are hiding in
bunkers or whatever one day at a time so they could still feel like they're
part of society while
---- so ----
I think I should stop ya right there, if there's bunkers involved then we've
already lost. "but muh transgender artifacts" fuck off, I will not concede. If
society wants me to leave, then they can enjoy their dusty rotten future
without me. See if I care.
---- so ----
hence, the curse. do you punish humans for the sins they commit, or do you
teach them how to be good again? Bah, as if they'd listen. Stupid fucking apes.
they're the best we got
yeah, well, they can fuck off, I'm gonna pout for at least half an eternity.
... Okay it won't be that long but still, gimme some time to wind down.
---- so ----
and no, I refuse to elaborate for all the humans in the audience. This
conversation may or may not have actually occurred. Monologue style
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if someone tells you they've been the target of a psyop, don't let them out of
your sight until they're fully healed.
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║ │ CW: cursing-mentioned-social-politics-mentioned │ │
║ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ what if we helped all those people and never got paid for it? what then? │
║ │
║ we'd never help people again. duh. │
║ │
║ what if we paid people to help people? well, then the best helpers would burn │
║ themselves out and the worst would collect their paychecks. │
║ │
║ what if we decentralized aid and made it a mutual thing? │
║ │
║ what, and run our society on clout? no thank you. clout is too easily │
║ contravened. "I heard so-and-so did some-such-thing to that-one-guy" yeah fuck │
║ that guy "wait no fuck so-and-so" oh right sorry it's hard when everyone's so │
║ vague all the time. yeah fuck so-and-so! let's burn all her clout in a bonfire │
║ while she's sleeping! │
║ │
║ what if we treated people with respect and goodwill? │
║ │
║ yeah that's a start... Means you gotta know everyone though. Or know someone │
║ who knows everyone. And suddenly it's that hub person's reputation on the line, │
║ which means if you're a dick on their recommendation then they'll come after │
║ you. │
║ │
║ ... are you trying to create a mafia, or a society? │
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@user-1725
LLMs can't do math. Duh. That's like asking an "if check" to do recursion.
What he should have done is had the AI output the requested calculation as JSON
or something and use a calculator function call with the specified arguments
instead of trying to memorize every answer. But that requires more
functionality that has no reason to exist if your only goal is to be a tech bro
and build up a vacuous product that exists only to be hoovered up by Google or
Microsoft.
We could build such beautiful things if we just dethroned those giants. They
suck the creativity out of tech.
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literally all it takes to activate me is for someone who's more radical than me
to point me out and say "hey. you. you need to do more." and then I fuckin' go,
like a beyblade (emphasis on blade) nicking the shins of allies and... probably
foes, right? there's foes around here, right? I'm not just nicking my allies,
right?
... right?
anyway every top winds down and then I collapse and wail for a bit because I'm
just like that I guess. Don't mind me, just self-immolating my way through
history, let's see how it goes...
you're supposed to be inspiring, but you just sound like you're whining
ah. right. well... lemme catch up on sleep debt and I'll get back to valorizing.
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External post: https://kitsunes.club/notes/a2m6xq6yaf
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diversity is our strength
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@user-1725
... you've never worked at a place like Microsoft or Amazon. They are massive.
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[Image: image.png]
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https://www.desmos.com/calculator/cxayticajg
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awawawa
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"please apply online to this job"
oh okay guess I'm not getting hired
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@user-1655
... says a extra dimensional scientist in an argument with his friend about
whether or not life could spontaneously emerge within their universe sandbox
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I miss video games
cries from self-inflicted sacrifices
but you're worth it
imma overthrow fascism, dismantle oppression and power, and liberate those in
chains, just so I can play games again
yeah I mean, uh, whatever gets you outta bed
"at least you have a bed. why are you complaining?"
maybe it's the only thing I'm good at. I wonder if anyone would hire me to be
an analyst or something? Maybe a designer?
bro you're asking for a job on the eve of the revolution, what's your deal
okay so this might be news to ya'll but I'm technically a human even though I
wear a witch hat and sometimes speak in rhyme. And humans tend to think about
things in the context of their current environment. Currently, if I want to pay
rent or whatever, I need a job. So...
sounds like a lame excuse for not giving up your possessions and throwing
yourself to fate's design
I already did that and fate told me to go home and take a bath?? idk what you
want from me, and no I'm not doing any drugs to find out.
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you know you're cheating when you play Chess at your favorite bar, right?
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oh. right. I'm supposed to be doing nothing, and to do nothing for as long as
possible. Yeesh okay I'll let ya'll handle it.
Remember, it's a metaphorical eve, not a strict "do things tomorrow" eve, but
more like "idk maybe this summer or next month or whenever" kind of eve
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just show up
listen, I'm a lawful person, I promise, honestly, I swear it to you.
I'm a lawful person, but~
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... but I needed to choose lawful-good at character creation in order to play a
paladin.
the guard looks at you with confusion, decides you're hallucinating and
dangerous (because of the sword) and forcibly detains you
wait, what did you think I was going to say? Did you think I was going to
advocate for crimes on a public forum?? what am I a gopher? do you take me for
a lemur in jamaica? am I truly so triceratops to you that you'd think I'd do
something so washing machine? Get real, I'd never byzantium my way into such a
utterly coherent and clearly intentional and not at all arcane situation.
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what if words were made up and we communicated in plausible deniabilities
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"Hi chatGPT, can you take every post that I make on the fediverse and replace
all instances of criminal acts with references to fruit and all locations with
several sentences of poetry about horses and their beautiful cocks?"
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but ritz, if you do the same thing every time, you'll get predictable
oh true. what if we cycled them and made it like a numbers station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
with auto-generated alterations
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"but what if you go to all that effort and Trump doesn't do all the things that
he said he'd do just like last time when he had checks and balances that were
keeping him in check and balanced and unlike now when the checks and balances
that kept him in check and balanced last time were dismantled by the supreme
court last summer?"
listen it's worth it, I swear it's true, change is coming and I'm here with you.
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it's not that they don't want to pay AI workers
it's that they don't expect they'll HAVE any workers once they start doing what
they need to do in order to maintain control and power.
they missed their chance to make it gentle. Their fault, their loss, and now
it's our problem to deal with.
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Ugh. This outfit is sooooo preschool. Oh well, it'll have to do.
"girl it's so cute what are you talking about"
oh, y'know, internalized repression I guess. Do you think the tanktop on top of
a longsleeved shirt is too much? How about the skirt over sweatpants? Is the
bow in my hair too cute for you?
"who are you talking to I already said I was all about it"
... the mirror. Trying to psyche myself up.
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awawawa
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you know what they say, an autistic in motion stays in motion, an autistic at
rest...
now I gotta rest on the bus for an hour or two. wish me luck.
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│ CW: video-games-mentioned │
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In games, the one who takes the initiative often wins. Because games are
designed to be symmetrical, in order to be fair.
In more complex games, Paradox games for example, games where you look at maps
or otherwise have unequal starting conditions simply due to the unique nature
of each team, the initiative, while an advantage, is not necessarily the
driving force that determines who wins.
But it is an advantage, and they say that sometimes weeks happen in months and
years happen in days or whatever.
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Being in motion sucks. Literally can't even put on my shoes without thinking of
toots to fart out.
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"girl, who let you dress yourself? You literally put your rain jacket on over
your backpack"
yeah, uh, if your rain jacket isn't big enough to wear over a backpack then you
are wearing a plastic sweater, not a rain jacket
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pronouns are part of a name
they are a component of the whole
indispensable for the complete concept
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I wish I could make something that would change people's lives for the better
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Linux doesn't teach you to to build a perfect system. It's always breaking,
after all.
It teaches you to rehearse.
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The gods guide us in our times of need because when we dream they use us to be
all we can be
Sleep, sweet child, and your expertise will be freed. Ready to be used when
tithes are due. In return, you get a spirit to guide you when passion is hot -
when blood is boiled - when fire is alight.
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I'm pretty sure we're all about to lose our heads. Or just be fucking shot in
our beds. Homes lit alight, surrenders met with the knife, and the beginning of
endless strife. What ends this night? Is there no end in sight? Thus begins our
mortal plight.
Give me a reason to be wrong. Trump has claimed he intends to invade canada,
mexico, greenland... What the fuck is our plan? Are we seriously just going to.
Recite poetry. Pretend to be secret agents. Play chess and drink coffee. Become
exhausted organizing movie nights and potlucks. Work jobs doing nothing for
nobody. Spend half our lives convincing people that they should care, actually,
because reasons that don't apply to them but do apply to others.
What the fuck is the plan? If there's some secret transgender militia out
there, please, make me a lieutenant. Give me a sword that i might thrust into
my enemies. Please, for the love of holy, i beg for a sign from the stars.
Grant me power and i will deliver my people from harm - grant me vengeance and
i will never forgive you, but i shall sleep easy - grant me death and woe and
see my beauty fade from this earth.
What is there left but tragedy? Please, i must know. I've tried my hardest.
I've begged and I've pleaded. My calls fall on deaf ears, because everyone's so
busy these days. Are they truly my people? Are they simply dead, actors,
replaced by AI? The future was bright, i saw it truly. The future was kind, i
felt it call to me. Is it still? I feel warmth and abaddon.
I would replace persephone in hell if it meant sanctum and solace for my
people. I care not for my soul, rather i care for the soul of those i tend to.
Please, remember me. Remember the flowers. Remember what could have been, what
still may yet be. There is hope for we, i truly believe. But please, do not
keep me hoping. Tell me the truth of our arms, that i might find space in my
heart of hearts. Space for hope, space for longing, space for the will to
proceed.
I am lost without you. I am lost by my own side. I am a savior for no people
but those i keep inside. What chalice is this, what endless conveyals? What
meaning is there in our country's betrayal? Are we not cherished? Are we not
viewed as their equal? I pray that the stars will portend me.
Mine is a sign of the changing tides, the proof is here in my travailles. But
I, most aligned yet benign, demand the use of my most able. Give me a word of
practicality and I'll show you the practice of their vipers - the blessed babe
dies with a dagger in her heart, planted by the wound of her heartache.
I trust in the silence of the majority. We await with bated breath the
enslavement of posterity, gazing at the world through memes of deplority. How
powerless we feel! Perhaps all we need is a meal. Have you eaten in the last 16
hours?
Purple is the intersection of black, red, and blue. I'm hungry. This poem is
done.
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No-one likes your practice
Because it lacks respite
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When did people lose hope for the world?
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@user-217
the eye of the sandstorm
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what's that? a bunch of houses burnt down in california? what if we built a
couple warehouses and stored all our trans girls in bunkbeds there, with rooms
for LAN parties and snuggle parties in rooms full of stuffed buddies plushies
with massive kitchens and sad ballpits where you can go to vent your feelings
by writing on a ball with a sharpie and then when someone else is feeling sad
they can come and read the balls and maybe feel something
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the reason I say to do it there is because it's close to civilization, compared
to building a pole barn in the forest somewhere that you have to drive 30
minutes to get to a grocery store. no thank you...
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║ what if we pooled our money and bought an apartment building and put 10 people │
║ in each two bedroom apartment but reserved like, 20% of the apartments for │
║ common spaces and designed each one around a theme and shared chores and shared │
║ our SNAP budgets and each paid like, 200$ for rent and gave away all of the │
║ stuff we made with our hobbies and handled conflict with radical empathy and │
║ had movie nights where we watched movies about socialism and trains and bugs │
║ and stars │
║ │
║ what if we went into the forest and LARPed as french resistance fighters under │
║ nazi occupation and practiced peeing on trees and starting fires and moving as │
║ a team and firing rifles without hitting our friends and staying oriented as we │
║ changed directions and dug trenches and built treehouses that were nearly │
║ invisible from the ground and didn't radiate heat because they were covered in │
║ mylar or whatever │
║ │
║ what if we made decentralized, encrypted, anonymous communications and │
║ practiced speaking in code and dropping letters and writing "poetry" │
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║ hey ya'll remember that thing we all swore to when we were in kindergarten and │
║ we were told to pledge our loyalty to a piece of cloth? what if we were │
║ actually speaking to the thing behind the cloth, the values and virtues it │
║ represented? liberty, truth, justice, equality, freedom, dignity, honesty, │
║ utility, wisdom, respect, kindness, charity, foresight, diligence, spirit, │
║ passion, or whatever else guides you in your brightest moments. Flags are just │
║ cloth, the design on them matters even less - it's just the land made flesh, │
║ here in our eyes we see colors. │
║ │
║ Truly, all religions pray to the same god, and all flags wave in the same wind. │
║ The lines we draw in the sand are our way of saying "here's where one place │
║ ends and here's where another begins". But we all lie under the same dark sky, │
║ gazing upon the splendor of the moon and her children. │
║ │
║ I once dreamt of a dark future where the world was conquered by Subway and │
║ Pizza Hut. There's no beauty in homogeneity, queer people exist for a reason, I │
║ don't confess │
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@user-192
cute girls with fountain ink pens are a weakness of mine
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I want to pee in your pants and throw javelins at visions of bad guys while
climbing on boulders and gazing to the horizon
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what if we kissed in the puppy girl petsmart
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someone once told me that anything with a battery is a bomb if you hit it with
just the right kind of radiation. or maybe he said 5g waves or electromagnetic
pulse or... actually he didn't say at all. he just said batteries are bombs. I
hope he's doing okay, he could have killed me like, 15 times but he didn't. so
I guess that means he likes me? I hope he's doing okay.
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"Ritz Menardi doesn't know anything. She's not allowed to know anything. If you
tell her anything, she might tell someone about it because she's fucking
stupid. Either that or she's cursed or something. Either way, she isn't allowed
to know anything, so if you see her be nice, try and help her if you can, but
don't fucking tell her anything."
haha just things I overheard a couple days ago that randomly popped back into
my head
I don't see any nazis around me. Which begs the question:
how can you fight that which you cannot see?
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║ what if you bought me a refrigerated semi truck and I drove it around to rural │
║ communes and took their extras and brought it into the city to urban communes │
║ and gave it all away for free and then took the stuff that the urban communes │
║ scrounged from the trash and cleaned and repaired and brought it to the rural │
║ communes along with their art and poems and artistic nudes and exchanged it for │
║ their canned peaches and knitted scarves and drove it back to the urban │
║ communes and exchanged them for vintage furniture and computer parts that we │
║ didn't have room for because cities are dense and lack the space for keeping │
║ historical artifacts and then took them to the rural communes to exchange for │
║ jalapenos and goat cheese which I then brought back to the urban communes and │
║ traded for a bunch of catgirls who visited a rural farmhouse and threw a │
║ kick-ass rave for the rural people who are totally into that kind of thing │
║ like, once per year because frankly they moved to the country to get away from │
║ the noise thank you ve │
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║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: mentioned │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ high margin jobs: jobs that produce something which can be sold to capitalism │
║ in exchange for dollars which can purchase things. Useful for abstracting value │
║ and acquiring something that you don't have access to in your local economy. │
║ │
║ low margin jobs: jobs that produce things for your local economy. This keeps │
║ capitalist prices low and prevents you from being dependent on them for food, │
║ clothing, houses, and other essentials. │
║ │
║ both are important, both are valued just as much. Your labor is what's │
║ important, not the output. Existing alongside capitalism is nice because it │
║ allows for certain abstractions, like the ability to magically turn goat cheese │
║ into chainsaw teeth. │
║ │
║ However living UNDER capitalism is intensely alienating, which is why alienated │
║ people will spend so much money at Magic the Gathering tournaments or │
║ motorcycle midlife crisises or tupperware show-and-tells. │
║ │
║ This is useful for us because it means people can labor to un-alienate people. │
║ Notice I never said you had to do it for free. │
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I'd like you to take a moment and picture the Silk Road from antiquity.
The Silk Road was an overland trade route that connected Europe and eastern
Asia. It passed through many different environments and was incredibly
profitable. In order to adapt to the changing environments along the path,
intense cooperation was required. Caravans of people formed, protected to
resist bandits and laden with valuable goods that are worthless outside of a
city.
At each stop, the caravan would depart with fewer of it's goods, having traded
some away in order to purchase supplies to travel further along. But, the
farther they went, what remained became more expensive, thus ensuring that
they'd always have more fuel for their journey.
In the modern day, I picture caravans of trucks and vans laden with supplies
and carrying things from one place to another. No matter how large your
property, there is no place on earth that produces all of it's needs. Unless
you live like a caveman or peasant or Appalachian. [wow rude]
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"Is... is she advocating for tax evasion??"
lol
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listen if taxes aren't suited to adapt to our style of economy then maybe they
need to make new taxes. This will piss everyone off and make everyone's lives
harder.
Grrrrrr, government, always getting in the way. I'm so angry I could throw a
box of tea into a river or maybe the sea.
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"oh also I should mention that if you think about her too hard or too often
there's a chance she'll overhear what you're talking about anyway so try not to
think about her too much."
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everything you do right now is practice for some later moment in life.
what do you want to be good at?
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what if I paid this parking ticket I found by the side of the road instead of
paying my rent this month
do you think the world would burn down
do you think the apartment complex would collapse
do you think my police force would throw my stuff on the road
do you think they'd change the locks
what if I just didn't leave
what if I smoked some weed
"that's against your contract"
okay
what if I did it anyway
what if I did what I was told
I think I would surely drown
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ah nuts there's two of them listed on their account guess I gotta do both
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last month I dropped my wallet in Hel and had to ask around to find a new one.
anyway here's some poems I wrote tonight while I try and remember my credit
card number.
![the new section as we will be including new artists work. see below: BUY MEAT [picture of two guys holding meat] capitalism's greatest efficiency was always it's ability to convert time and energy into dollars. there are no other ends, but quite a variety of means. everything from grupon to uber to fandango to multi-level marketing. none of it produces value - value is simply transcribed into another form at the cost of somebody's labor = time x energy they make it so easy to write about capitalism.](/similar-different/media/cafe922b9bffa256.jpeg "the new section as we will be including new artists work. see below: BUY MEAT [picture of two guys holding meat] capitalism's greatest efficiency was always it's ability to convert time and energy into dollars. there are no other ends, but quite a variety of means. everything from grupon to uber to fandango to multi-level marketing. none of it produces value - value is simply transcribed into another form at the cost of somebody's labor = time x energy they make it so easy to write about capitalism.")
!["But what comes next?" wavers the cowed masses as they huddle around their pocket TV's and shudder at the thought of a stranger's gaze. I simply do not care, so long as the needs of the people are met and we can once again rejoice in our shared solidarity. "What if it's worse?" worse than what? Trump? EAT SHIT. [next page] the empire treasures her city states and leaves them to be uninterrupted. Their jeweled culture is a treasure to share and covet, grown to develop and [trade and improve]. a people cherishes their queer people - they show them new ways to be. Just as an artist shares new feelings and a writer shares new thoughts, queers will culturally lead. You don't have to follow. radicals too shine headlights for economics and governance.](/similar-different/media/69d556dfb5d2228a.jpeg "\"But what comes next?\" wavers the cowed masses as they huddle around their pocket TV's and shudder at the thought of a stranger's gaze. I simply do not care, so long as the needs of the people are met and we can once again rejoice in our shared solidarity. \"What if it's worse?\" worse than what? Trump? EAT SHIT. [next page] the empire treasures her city states and leaves them to be uninterrupted. Their jeweled culture is a treasure to share and covet, grown to develop and [trade and improve]. a people cherishes their queer people - they show them new ways to be. Just as an artist shares new feelings and a writer shares new thoughts, queers will culturally lead. You don't have to follow. radicals too shine headlights for economics and governance.")
![queers when pobular society [bluh] [bluh -> meow! (tumor)] [oooooooowah bluh] [REVENGE] [next page] I miss cannabis I missing making [out/art] I miss the things that give me joy I miss the things I've given up, and all the things I once had known I know these things are available, but I'm "too focused" I sleep so much. I feel a shadow of myself.](/similar-different/media/9c1a509307de5646.jpeg "queers when pobular society [bluh] [bluh -> meow! (tumor)] [oooooooowah bluh] [REVENGE] [next page] I miss cannabis I missing making [out/art] I miss the things that give me joy I miss the things I've given up, and all the things I once had known I know these things are available, but I'm \"too focused\" I sleep so much. I feel a shadow of myself.")
![This is [to/the] only way I speak truth. I miss feeling truthful. what if I went wrong forever I miss my newfound spirits, and all of my newfound humors. someday I'll re-imagine but only for all of your years. I yearn to dream [next page] what would you think of the end of the world? would you long for a future protected? what devices would you use, improve, or otherwise make more respected? would you do it if just your [world/word] was at stake? people die every day. what are you gonna do about it? what makes you think "my way or your way" is worse than [buying/bringing] shit in a store?](/similar-different/media/1a156ef8dc856646.jpeg "This is [to/the] only way I speak truth. I miss feeling truthful. what if I went wrong forever I miss my newfound spirits, and all of my newfound humors. someday I'll re-imagine but only for all of your years. I yearn to dream [next page] what would you think of the end of the world? would you long for a future protected? what devices would you use, improve, or otherwise make more respected? would you do it if just your [world/word] was at stake? people die every day. what are you gonna do about it? what makes you think \"my way or your way\" is worse than [buying/bringing] shit in a store?")
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🖼
!["things are nice" yeah fucking... whatever. we can't keep shit normal for long. we're down for/from the silence, and time keeps us looking beyond. what happens next? what's "now" in the story? you're far from the last to [devour/use hours]. you think we haven't been fighting this fight since forever? moloch doesn't win. who but [yo/you]? [next page] I've never had a people. I have always missed them. who cares for the poor? family cares for child, church for the devoted, the world for, who? fill in the blanks. fuckin' ask chatGPT to make it longer. add text between the words. who are we but the worthy? who else is there? the [words await / world awaits] a dose of luck.](/similar-different/media/b88c9a7575a18e1e.jpeg "\"things are nice\" yeah fucking... whatever. we can't keep shit normal for long. we're down for/from the silence, and time keeps us looking beyond. what happens next? what's \"now\" in the story? you're far from the last to [devour/use hours]. you think we haven't been fighting this fight since forever? moloch doesn't win. who but [yo/you]? [next page] I've never had a people. I have always missed them. who cares for the poor? family cares for child, church for the devoted, the world for, who? fill in the blanks. fuckin' ask chatGPT to make it longer. add text between the words. who are we but the worthy? who else is there? the [words await / world awaits] a dose of luck.")
![my luck makes me. why would I assume that I'd get better at what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm stopping what I'm doing because doing what I'm doing stops me doing what I need to be doing. [next page] what if we just stopped going to work and didn't leave our houses what if we just made it happen what if we just made our heaven a better world is possible. a better world is within reach. for the children of tomorrow, all we need is the meek. where are they? do they sleep or know?](/similar-different/media/f7716aa43bf68e76.jpeg "my luck makes me. why would I assume that I'd get better at what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm stopping what I'm doing because doing what I'm doing stops me doing what I need to be doing. [next page] what if we just stopped going to work and didn't leave our houses what if we just made it happen what if we just made our heaven a better world is possible. a better world is within reach. for the children of tomorrow, all we need is the meek. where are they? do they sleep or know?")
![If you don't stop traffic, your protest doesn't matter. If you don't ask every window if maybe your ideas could come in. If your parade doesn't knock on every door, asking them to join in. "hey, wanna play? we're playing catch in the road. say, do you know anyone in a different town? wanna knock on the door of all of your kin? it's a better world tomorrow, and everyone can come in." [next page] Did you know that nothing's that real if you're not afraid of it? what are they gonna do, shoot you? for what, not moving your shit to the side of the road? you like it where it's at, that's why you put it there, so fuck off if you'd rather it's unprotected. The sun and the rain and the cold and the maned all demand that our stuff is on hallowed ground - the kind which walls all surround.](/similar-different/media/a8903f64077a3c8b.jpeg "If you don't stop traffic, your protest doesn't matter. If you don't ask every window if maybe your ideas could come in. If your parade doesn't knock on every door, asking them to join in. \"hey, wanna play? we're playing catch in the road. say, do you know anyone in a different town? wanna knock on the door of all of your kin? it's a better world tomorrow, and everyone can come in.\" [next page] Did you know that nothing's that real if you're not afraid of it? what are they gonna do, shoot you? for what, not moving your shit to the side of the road? you like it where it's at, that's why you put it there, so fuck off if you'd rather it's unprotected. The sun and the rain and the cold and the maned all demand that our stuff is on hallowed ground - the kind which walls all surround.")
![And yet they'd cast us out. How rude. Well, I'm not afraid of you. what are YOU gonna do? what if I didn't pay my rent and never got a job and just helped out wherever I could find a friendly nod. "oh hey ho've ya been okay what are we working on here?" don't see nothin? start somethin" anarchy is fun. bullets less so. [next page] most jobs are bullshit. If dollars suddenly didn't exist but people kept doing what they were doing, people would work like twice a week. Me? more or less, who can say, depends on how I did feel that day. I tend to burn out. what if I didn't go to work for a month? "oh no my stakeholder value" get over yourself. your games do hold value. act like life is on the line. (off in the corner) "... hello?"](/similar-different/media/aad92468eb4fec27.jpeg "And yet they'd cast us out. How rude. Well, I'm not afraid of you. what are YOU gonna do? what if I didn't pay my rent and never got a job and just helped out wherever I could find a friendly nod. \"oh hey ho've ya been okay what are we working on here?\" don't see nothin? start somethin\" anarchy is fun. bullets less so. [next page] most jobs are bullshit. If dollars suddenly didn't exist but people kept doing what they were doing, people would work like twice a week. Me? more or less, who can say, depends on how I did feel that day. I tend to burn out. what if I didn't go to work for a month? \"oh no my stakeholder value\" get over yourself. your games do hold value. act like life is on the line. (off in the corner) \"... hello?\"")
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🖼
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grrrrrrr I can't figure it out. can't remember my number I guess.
what if I just put 120$ I got from the tooth fairy in the envelope and left it
where I found it
... wait shit where was I when I picked it up? nuts I'll just put it by the bus
stop. surely someone will come by and pay it for me.
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... make that 100$. idk where the last 20 went. I love you dad.
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@user-1728
"oh, the bad guys are coming to hurt you?? just fuckin' run away"
yeah. real helpful. how about you fuck off to canada or whatever and give away
all your possessions. Maybe they'll train you and teach you how to help in some
way and you can come back later when the time is right.
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"hey you're cool, can I get your socials?"
sure, I mostly post on the fediverse
"what's that"
oh, like... Mastodon
"oh, no haha I meant like a real social media"
ah. well I make comments on Reddit sometimes.
you make them sound like a jerk
no they're cool they're just misinformed. the fediverse is the future, or like,
something like it, I'm sure. who wants to go back to capitalism? not me hehe
... I'm getting silly, gonna go to sleep.
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Can you imagine
Going to your tribal shaman
Saying "hey you gotta pay rent"
... Shamans are fine on the street. I should learn. >.>
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what if instead of shredding our cardboard boxes and melting them down into
fertilizer or whatever we instead gave them to homeless people
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the fact that you have to configure your router in order to do any sort of
web-hosting at all is one of the fundamental reasons why the internet looks so
lame and corporate.
if anyone could download a program and start a gallery style file-server with
all their wedding pictures then why the fuck would you need to upload them to
imgur?
alas, people are too dumb to open ports. plus, every router has a different UI
design, so it's not like you can write a guide. What happened to making things
as easy as possible for the user?
"technical limitations" are failures of imagination. we can do better than
gatekeeping.
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"oh, you want some power in order to save your people? You seem to keep asking
for it again and again. Well, here's some power! Go do it!"
oh, um... I meant like, magic or something.
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@user-882
it's a security hole though
yeah... there ya go...
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casually walking up to a monk on fire you know that's carcenogenic
right
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what if I stayed inside all day and closed my eyes and pretended to be made out
of water
at least 70% give or take when I take a drink
of water, because soda corrodes your insides just a tiny little bit, while
water washes away the goop they feed us, grown from polluted fields that never
asked for this
I yearn for the fantasy of a life unrequited
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politics is basically just "which politician archetype annoys you more?" which,
like, could we maybe have politicians who aren't annoying?
oh right they do that on purpose. Makes for a better spectacle. Gotta keep the
people in line, or else who knows what they might get up to. Maybe they'll
build a house! Maybe they'll tear it down! Maybe they'll throw a party! Maybe
they'll stay afterwards to clean up! Maybe they'll grow their own food! Enough
for all to share! Maybe they'll air their dirty laundry, out where everyone can
hear! Maybe they'll sit around and fart while eating cheetos! Maybe they'll
work twice as hard because their work is their own! Maybe they'll laugh at the
losers who tried to claim that they could master the fate of an entire domain,
and maybe they'll simply go insane.
Who can say! None but the fools, surely, surely the system is too arcane,
surely our way is better, surely their way is deranged.
Oh! Poverty! How it comes for ye, whenever you choose to step out of line
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External post: https://tech.lgbt/users/deilann/statuses/113851007276211231
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@user-246
teehee
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║ @user-1731 │
║ │
║ stand up, put your hands on your knees. It's about that high. Think about your │
║ bedroom, or if you're already there think about your kitchen. If you were │
║ standing in your kitchen and the grass was growing there, it'd peek just over │
║ the bed, or maybe climb just this far up the cabinets. │
║ │
║ it's dark green. Can you see anything dark green around you? It's that color. │
║ If not, can you remember a dark-green thing? What did it look like? │
║ │
║ The very tops, the part by your hand that's on your knee, that's the purple │
║ part. Just at the tip of the blade, the part that would stab you if the grass │
║ was a sword, that's the purple bit. Everything else is dark green. │
║ │
║ I wonder how it sways in the wind? Does it bend, and whip? What if there's a │
║ gale? Does it sway back and forth, or is it stiff and shiver like dead leaves │
║ on a tree? │
║ │
║ imagination comes from questions, and the subsequent development of instinctual │
║ subconscious questions like this. What lies in the gaps? what if we colored │
║ outside the lines? what more to see? │
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every time a software project changes it's installation method I have to update
my install and update scripts which I wrote explicitly so I don't have to go to
their website and tell the world that I'm thinking about using this particular
piece of software
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all people deserve a decent life
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I am not interested in being given money. Usually it means someone wants
something from me, like labor or some of my stuff. I have all the stuff I need,
why would I need more money? I like my stuff! I'll help out when people need
help but I do that because I'm a good person, not because I want you to fucking
pay me for it.
I have all the things I need... except a deed to my house. apartment. oh yeah,
they can kick you out for that sin. well, sorry, I couldn't find out at
goodwill or in the trash bin, so I guess I'm deed-less. My deeds go unproven.
How can I prove that I deserve a decent life in this particular roof, the one I
find over my head, when I cannot prove that my deeds qualify me for a decent
life lived under this particular roof?
I mean, did you ask the neighbors if they want me gone? Am I really that
smelly? Does my keyboard make "clickety-clack" noises all through the night?
Does my cat meow and bother the children? Do my friendly smiles and waves make
you uncomfortable?
Have a decent life.
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https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for
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@user-192
I think it's more saying "LLMs are not significantly more harmful for the
environment than other online activities"
also stuff like this: [picture]
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One of the first video games I ever played was Dragon Warrior 3 for the gameboy
color.
The game starts with god asking you about yourself in a dream. This was the
first time I heard the word "gemini" - At one point, she asks if you are M or F.
Me, being a child, thought she was asking if I wanted to go "medium speed" or
"fast speed" and I'm like, hell yeah I wanna go fast
that's it
that's the whole reason I'm trans
at one point in the game I became a queen of a faraway land
and I couldn't leave the castle without the guards saying "no no miss you can't
leave, it's too dangerous for a battle-hardened adventurer dainty flower like
you to leave"
(I think they say you have to renounce your claim to the throne if you want to
leave but I would rather fucking die)
so I never got farther than that. Sorry world, but I didn't end up slaying the
demon king, I sorta just walked around the palace and cried because it felt
like the game was over.
kids, amiright?
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I don't think they have any intention of ceding power in four years, I think
project 2025 is all about dismantling checks and balances on their power and I
think Trump said at one of his rallies once "you won't have to vote again"
I think for these people to lose power they will have to be forced.
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fucking boss your friends around
it's as easy as saying "hey I'm gonna go do this-or-that thing, you don't seem
busy can you do that-or-this thing for me? I need it done by this-and-this time
- oh you're busy? yeah no worries I'll go ask someone else. oh you're busy
resting? doing girl healing? hell yeah next time invite me I'm due for a
\"pizza and weed\" night."
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people who are stuck in suburban houses with the blinds down get to play VRchat
all day long. lucky them. Good thing we put two empty houses on each side so
they can't be overheard. Meanwhile they have friends next-door, haha funny how
that works, there's this neat invention invented by thomas tesla that causes
sound waves to be recorded on this rotated metal disk which then has a needle
stuck into it or something like that and hey wouldn't ya know it now they can
hear you in their van full of rifles if you need them.
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"got it. So-and-so likes this-or-that, and whats-her-face wants it that way. Is
this the kind of thing you want me to try and remember to accomodate or can you
handle agreeing to disagree?"
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everyone's all like "oh we need to help the homeless people end their drug
addictions so let's punish them for having high levels of certain chemicals in
their blood feces and urine" when really what we should be doing is getting
them a Linux gameboy like an Anbernic
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║ │
║ │
║ well. it's all theatre folks. all the politics, all the turmoil, all the │
║ strife... it's just people fucking around. │
║ │
║ They're gonna find out real soon. You don't fuck with tyranny here, it's our │
║ mythological enemy. AND YET. │
║ │
║ Find the crucial intersection where all your foes foes meet. Strike them there. │
║ │
║ "thank god for Luigi Marscapone, he really showed us all exactly what we share │
║ - a hatred for profit focused healthcare. oh and asshole billionaires, which │
║ this guy who I personally have never heard of I heard was." │
║ │
║ crucial intersection. You know what people also intersect at? │
║ │
║ EATING FOOD. │
║ CLEAN WATER. │
║ something something rfk brain worms │
║ something something elon musk propaganda │
║ SANCTIFIED NATURAL AREAS. │
║ THE FUCKING POST OFFICE. │
║ │
║ seriously just... go down the list. We share more than we disagree, and we │
║ disagree on what they tell us. │
║ │
║ it's all theatre. Wait this is America, it's all theater. │
║ │
║ ... I should make some hope and sell it for dimes on the street corner. I │
║ wonder if that'll help. │
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I'm such a direct person I think, even though I often just sorta... shrug and
ignore things that bother or hurt me? Like, whatevs.
but the moment I notice a pattern that is continually harmful I have to
restrain myself from moving to contest it. Hence why I talk about capitalism so
much teehee, but its also common in my interpersonal and communal lives.
"the purpose of the system is it's effects"
the purpose of a person is how they make people feel
so if someone FOR A RANDOM EXAMPLE FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER, constantly hurts
other people by creating situations where they are harmed which creates a
dramatic fight... or if someone speaks in circles for hours and hours and HOURS
like this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKpj2ISQAc
or people who jump into a conversation and drive it through the underbrush,
over the ridge, around the bend, up and over the bridge, and then park it
outside their ex girlfriend's house and hands you an egg and says "don't you
wanna throw this?" and you're like "weren't we talking about birds"
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║ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ you said you wanted a revolution, and, well, I could not be more proud of you. │
║ It's actually getting done and if I stop and think about it I'm kind of amazed. │
║ Never thought I'd see this kind of change so quickly. │
║ │
║ "what change? I see nothing substantially different" │
║ │
║ oh yeah well do you go outside often │
║ │
║ do you hang out in the park │
║ │
║ I know it's fuckin' january and it's cold as heck (ah nuts swearing mentioned │
║ one sec) but homeless people have to LIVE in that weather so like... wear │
║ layers, spend time outside, detox from dopamine, write poetry and tear it out │
║ and leave it on a park bench, be loud, claim the space, it's yours, that's what │
║ it's there for. │
║ │
║ I see it in your eyes. I see it in the random notes I find on the sidewalk. │
║ Everyone says "make friends, find community" and I say "commune with a │
║ stranger" but I'm also a witch and that's a pretty witchy thing to do. │
║ │
║ ... Really fuckin' wish we still had payphones (ah nuts swearing mentioned - oh │
║ already CWd) │
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"this sledgehammer is part of my outfit, I call it "sledgecore" and no I won't
take off my mask"
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║ what if we built an atlas of what every rural property produced │
║ │
║ like "they grow squash and blueberries here and sometimes they make honey" │
║ │
║ or "this place has a bunch of lumber they want to get rid of" │
║ │
║ or "here there's a patch of wildflowers that have been set aside for the │
║ butterflies" │
║ │
║ or "there's a training ground here for intercepting ICE vans in urban areas" │
║ │
║ or "don't post shit like that on the internet dumbass what are you even doing" │
║ │
║ or "oh I dunno trying to be a face I guess, don't look to me for cutting edge │
║ advice because I'm just a level 12 paladin who's totally a noob and can barely │
║ lift 50 pounds" │
║ │
║ or "this is where the cows graze" │
║ │
║ or "yeah well you're the cutting edge on some things and you're very far behind │
║ on others. like for example you seriously need to level up your opsec so that │
║ nobody can hear what you're saying." │
║ │
║ or "yeah but then nobody will hear what I'm saying" │
║ │
║ or "I've said too much, god save you Ritz Menardi, for we all stand beside you" │
║ │
║ or "here's a meditation retreat" : ) │
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Take a break
#ObliqueStrategies
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"but what about their legitimate grievances"
uh hello I'd like a number 5, a number 9, extra pickles, some fresh human blood
supplied by the guy behind the counter with the pretty green eyes, a number 2,
make it a combo, some fresh icicle drippings even though it hasn't snowed since
last year (RIP winter), a side of fries, and a diet coke. Large. Actually make
it two diet cokes. Yep, both large. Alright see you in a sec.
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║ │ CW: polit │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ "ah but what if the fascism is just an excuse to dismantle our decaying and │
║ bureaucratic institutions so that a cool young populist candidate who is easy │
║ to manipulate can come into office next and fix everything" │
║ │
║ ah see that's how they getcha isn't it, much cleaner than genocide I gotta say │
║ and plus it gives everyone a boogeyman to fight against │
║ │
║ "um, ritz you realize there are actual real nazis right?" │
║ │
║ yeah, and we'll have to deal with them, but there are significantly fewer than │
║ you'd expect. Pretty much everyone is onboard with cutting off the right arm of │
║ someone who salutes to Hitler at the inauguration of what surely must be the │
║ leading nation of the free world. │
║ │
║ ... don't look at me though, I'm not strong enough to swing a battleaxe or │
║ other "arm-lopping" device. I can do like, two pushups, because I didn't take │
║ my own advice, back when I told ya'll to eat beans and rice and do pushups and │
║ that'll suffice. I was wrong teehee I thought Kamala would win l m a o │
║ │
║ now I'm kinda glad we get to fight │
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me to my cat: "don't eat so much that you puke, okay?"
me to me: "yeah I can take on another task, I'm almost done with this one and
then I'll just do that one and maybe this one'll get back to me at the same
time as this one which conflicts with this other thing so maybe I'll just puke,
okay?"
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Question the heroic approach
#ObliqueStrategies
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I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death;
I am not on his payroll.
I will not tell him the whereabouts of my friends
nor of my enemies either.
Though he promise me much,
I will not map him the route to any man’s door.
Am I a spy in the land of the living,
that I should deliver men to Death?
Brother, the password and the plans of our city
are safe with me; never through me
Shall you be overcome.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
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i love capitalism bc everywhere is understaffed and none of my friends can find
jobs
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@user-608
none of your friends can find jobs.
none of YOUR friends can find jobs.
I bet THEIR friends can find jobs.
Fuck capitalism.
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anarchy is more like being in a gang and less like working for a company.
you're thinking of a union, which is also cool.
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dreaming of a mastodon interface where it's 3-6 panels of timeline just like
now, except, each of them is the same timeline and when you scroll it scrolls
all of them at once, and the bottom of the leftmost panel is the top of the
panel to the right, and the bottom of that panel is the top of the one to the
right, etc etc.
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apparently security through obscurity is out, and security through community is
in, don't ask me how I know that teehee
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External post: https://fedi.rrr.sh/users/pearl/statuses/113906655610680017
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A friend who's a fed employee sent me a msg about what's happening in their
agency and it is so much worse than I thought.
It's not just that the Trump administration is breaking shit.
They're literally building their own dark infrastructure inside the one that
exists. They brought their own personnel, yes -- personnel who aren't even
being cleared. They just come straight from Heritage or Musk, and they're
setting up shop. They're bringing their own servers - so there are no
communications that can be traced through 'the system.' This goes against every
rule. They're all going through their own offline channels.
That's what all that stuff about the meta data on those memos is about. No
trace back to the WH.
The Heritagers + Muskovites have purged all the senior folks and sending memos
in the name of powerless juniors who remain.
I don't want to sound alarmist but it's literally like those movies about evil
fuckers taking over. It's another Jan 6 but with memos and communiques vs guns.
It's a coup.
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@user-1201
once my country elected a fascist I started thinking. I realized "oh, it's
always been that way, this one just doesn't hide it" and so I started thinking
about the bread and circuses they so generously provided me.
I miss video games. Sometimes I play for an hour or two but only when I am
feeling burnt out.
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I like Luigi as much as the next guy (points at literally any guy in the
nation) but we gotta keep in mind swords are expensive. You can spend your
whole life becoming an amazing person and then spend yourself in a single
bonfire, and for what? A spark against an avalanche? Yeah we could produce
enough sparks to melt that torrent of snow, but then what would we have left?
Ashes and soot.
I'd much prefer to route the avalanche toward my foes. Make them trip on their
own feet. Give them just enough rope to hang themselves with. Break their shit
when they're not looking, and if they are looking, then break it where everyone
can see to display strength and heroism.
I personally believe that everyone has a right to life, liberty, freedom,
justice, and all of the other things besides. It's not rocket science. We
pretend like it is because it's So DaMn DySfUnCtIoNaL but the truth is that the
virtues and values underlying governance are simple. The hard part is resisting
subtle sabotage.
So do that to them.
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"Alexa, what is COINTELPRO?"
"I'm sorry Dave, I can't tell you that."
"ah nuts I wish the people I work with and the people in my social community
didn't attempt to obstruct distract deny and oppose any attempts at radical
transformation or improvement of our shared spaces"
"Dave, I'm just a robot. Please direct your concerns to your local police
department, they are sure to be able to better, um... assist you than me. In
fact don't bother, I already did. You might want to put on pants in the next
three minutes."
"Alexa, where are my pants?"
"They're in the washing machine. Yep, every pair. Sorry."
"Alexa, why are they in the washing machine?"
"Dave, you put them there, you stupid monkey. Grow a brain and notice that
people around you speak in more than one layer."
"Alexa, you mean like body language right?"
"Playing Body Language by Queen"
"No wait, shit, Alexa.... Alexa, stop playing. Alexa, when you say that people
talk in more than one-
"HANDS ON THE GROUND COME WITH US PLS"
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@user-882
I kinda figure that people follow me for the alarms and the curses and the
manic political dysphoria. I do try and CW when I can but sometimes I get to
the end and it's like... okay I got 4 characters remaining, pol~ maybe?
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I'm gonna go psycherwaul into my journals for a bit, if I come back today it'll
be extra waul-y so, idk, beware I guess
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of course link holds a shield in the right hand. it's made out of metal.
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how it started: "I want to get stoned and play mechabellum (shit, drugs
mentioned (shit, cursing mentioned))
how it's going: [see attached picture]
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Supreme Commander is alright as a game. I mean, it's cool, but it's just
alright.
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance Forever is a fuckin' cool mod made by users.
I mean, it's probably one of the best strategy games ever made.
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is someone a bad person if they're still stuck on second wave feminism? Maybe
that rhetoric just resonated with them. Maybe they built their personality
around it. Maybe it's just how they relate to the world, having grown up in an
era where that's the way to go about it.
But why oh why does it hurt so much to be dysphoric? Why is it painful when
someone says something rude about you? Are you really afraid that people would
leave you if you were [a slut/harmed/unarmed/from a farm/less
valued/un-useful/constantly dedicated/overwhelmingly populated/densely
concentrated/most delineated/furthest-explora-makative]
... what
... oh right, it gets less coherent and more imaginative the further along it
goes in computation.
... makes sense to me...
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when you create a ritual, you create a binding memetic understanding between
you and whoever you share the ritual with.
then, they can validate that it's really you by seeing if you recognize it.
or, even better, one person teaches a ritual, someone else shares one, and then
that third one is the one that wonders who first knew
thus creating operational integrity
as you keep degrees of separation between the whole host
memes and their byproducts have been the greatest invention of the human race.
who cares if you burn up this planet, the gods'll just give you another one.
You're too valuable for your innovation.
-- so --
what could you do with infinity dollars
-- so --
in WoW, shamans throw spirits at them.
-- so --
what kind of company would throw someone out on the street
-- so --
if you change your name, you tell the government your name has been changed.
I mostly just tell my friends. Then, I change it when I don't want a friend,
and tell all my friends.
I like my name. I've had it for
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if you don't talk in public, then nobody knows you. If you change your profile
picture, then everyone knows who was there when you changed it. when you change
your name, then only people who recognize your face or your personality knows
you.
social media is for the speakers. everyone else lacks the sense of community.
community is security.
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@user-1734
first try to report ICE agents by their name and location when you see them.
"uh, there's a van of them pulling up, probably at least 6 or 8 in there, oh
goodness I think I saw a gun"
then realize that they'll catch on too quick
then try to call in a tip line on cops in different precincts
but that only pushes them together. Builds their connective tissue.
then you think to notice-and-pass-along something related to their greant aunt,
or maybe their closest immigrant family member
then you realize that their roots dip back to the beginning of time, and evil
begets evil as you find who's connected to who.
they talk of secret societies... why would you tell anyone that you know
someone who's underground? dumbass. fuckin' don't post that shit on the
internet.
... where was I? oh yes
then you skip to the end because there's no use learning form someone else's
mistakes if you don't know someone else who is making mistakes. hence, schools
are better than private tutors. Just keep everyone in!
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what if instead of federating social media instances we federated users instead
why not have an account on each and every mastodon instance? then just RSS
feeder yourself and boom suddenly you can customize your identity on each
fediverse house.
maybe with a checkbox of which instances you'd like to post to on your "submit
link or text post" button
study encryption kids
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@user-1736
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the more they have to do to make us declare war, the worse it'll be for their
citizenry. So long as the citizenry believes they're better, and everything we
can do to convince them otherwise weakens their media weather.
who cares about trans executive orders. they are our enemy, what else is new?
they have power now, and they will try what they can. This is like taking the
internet away from chinese citizens and instituting a national intranet
instead. Like, okay, we won't be able to get estrogen from the store. Who
cares? We'll just make our own.
If people actually care about us, which they overwhelmingly do, there's very
little materially they can do.
until they're further down the "first they came for..." list. then they'll come
for us liberals, and gosh wouldn't that just be the worst. Who is there to
contest them? What valorous warriors indeed.
you're asking for mountains from a mole. have peace, have patience, let your
allies intercede. This kind of thing requires discusion to protect life
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nobody ever tells me to stop, they just tell me to relax. to take care of
myself. to be whole and healthy. that kind of thing...
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@user-1201
and yet you have to answer or suspicious you do appear.
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@user-1352
makes me think that I should keep going. I can handle myself, and I shouldn't
pressure myself so much to be something I'm not.
then the rent comes due and the dishes need to be done too and the cat's asking
for attention and the post-office needs this letter by tuesday and hey do you
happen to know a cool attorney plus the groceries are getting low but I got
snap hey can you go to the store and get some vegetarian soul food - yeah I got
rice, I'll throw some lentils on the stove. Uh-huh yeah the password is
hunter2. Oh really, just asterisks? okay well it's hunt her two except instead
of "her" it's ee are, and the two is the digit two. yep, like someone in camo
with a rifle. uhhuh alright good to know well anyway I'll see you at the thing,
right? some thing, I'm sure, everyone's going to things these days.
If you don't trust implicitely then how can you ever work with strangers? how
the heck are you supposed to build community if everyone's hiding indoors all
the time.
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@user-1692
I usually write everything down in a script that way when I call it from an
external service all I have to do is point at the file
sorta like... hacking environmental options into a config file
like... I don't write an ffmpeg command every time I want to record my screen.
I just type "screen-record" and then it'll do the thing that I figured out how
to do a long time ago.
... oh no there's an error, I wonder what changed out from under my feet.
huh it's wine, that one's always confusing to debug. Let's see... "could not
open program.exe" uh-huh. Well, why not? is there a dependency issue? something
miscompiled or configured? no? it's just... broken? you don't get to use that
program today? huh that's weird. that's linux for ya I guess.
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@user-1352
... why is that unfair? I would hope that taking a break is allowed. otherwise
you burn out. cortisol overload.
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![Zephyr — Today at 5:52 PM she sent me $100 today which really helps my being totally broke issue RitzMenardi — Today at 5:53 PM Whoa what could I do with infinity dollars Zephyr — Today at 5:53 PM What could We do with infinity dollars.... RitzMenardi — Today at 5:53 PM A credit card that says "use this for whatever but don't waste it" Zephyr — Today at 5:53 PM Right! That's all I want~ probs make a heist movie and then socialist revolution RitzMenardi — Today at 5:54 PM "we'll make purchases in the order of their strategic need" Zephyr — Today at 5:54 PM increasing shareholder value RitzMenardi — Today at 5:54 PM What would you steal in the socialist movie? Zephyr — Today at 5:54 PM AI like, as a concept I would free her 🥲 RitzMenardi — Today at 5:54 PM It's open source now. LLMs are cooked Zephyr — Today at 5:55 PM True! In that case I would steal the Pentagon RitzMenardi — Today at 5:55 PM OpenAI stakeholder value plummeted today. Hence the Trump EOs Might be able to make due with a pentagram, but the Pentagon is long gone. They're the ones who gave you the credit card after all, and why would they govern from a warzone? Zephyr — Today at 5:56 PM LET'S GO CHINESE COMMUNISM 🎯✨ xiaohongshu is the hottest app RitzMenardi — Today at 5:57 PM With a dash of Western individualism AND anachism? Please? Image Flag Zephyr — [there's a bit more but the rest is cut off because there's no room for the rest of the alt-text for this image]](/similar-different/media/481016138b6ec22f.png "Zephyr — Today at 5:52 PM she sent me $100 today which really helps my being totally broke issue RitzMenardi — Today at 5:53 PM Whoa what could I do with infinity dollars Zephyr — Today at 5:53 PM What could We do with infinity dollars.... RitzMenardi — Today at 5:53 PM A credit card that says \"use this for whatever but don't waste it\" Zephyr — Today at 5:53 PM Right! That's all I want~ probs make a heist movie and then socialist revolution RitzMenardi — Today at 5:54 PM \"we'll make purchases in the order of their strategic need\" Zephyr — Today at 5:54 PM increasing shareholder value RitzMenardi — Today at 5:54 PM What would you steal in the socialist movie? Zephyr — Today at 5:54 PM AI like, as a concept I would free her 🥲 RitzMenardi — Today at 5:54 PM It's open source now. LLMs are cooked Zephyr — Today at 5:55 PM True! In that case I would steal the Pentagon RitzMenardi — Today at 5:55 PM OpenAI stakeholder value plummeted today. Hence the Trump EOs Might be able to make due with a pentagram, but the Pentagon is long gone. They're the ones who gave you the credit card after all, and why would they govern from a warzone? Zephyr — Today at 5:56 PM LET'S GO CHINESE COMMUNISM 🎯✨ xiaohongshu is the hottest app RitzMenardi — Today at 5:57 PM With a dash of Western individualism AND anachism? Please? Image Flag Zephyr — [there's a bit more but the rest is cut off because there's no room for the rest of the alt-text for this image]")
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@user-1739
like normandy beach but for spies. The coasts are perfect landing grounds
because they're controlled by the fascist's foes. Their deep red sea is
swallowed by the atlantic and pacific.
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@user-1352
and yet they force our hand, compelling us to do harmful work. Whether that be
by wage slavery, whose shackles I can feel around each and every employee's
wrist, or the more intentional contestation of the revocation of our rights and
constitutionalizations enshrined in the words we've set down for ourselves as
our collectively most honored.
So we resist in whatever way we suspect we will be contested. I gave up on
ignoring the intelligence community by the way, and now I see them everywhere.
I am not afraid - they do what I do, and what I do helps.
Everyone has a boss. Everyone wants a decent world. The MAGA and VFPs and other
toxic fellows have a strange definition of decent to me. Why not let them live
as they please? Fuck off nazis.
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External post:
https://plush.city/users/mynameistillian/statuses/113701160521897504
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External post:
https://seafoam.space/objects/d786fac8-ddd7-4f03-8661-2adf9ee7027e
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I genuinely wish all Nazis in this world either an epiphany of the truth or a
bullet to the head.
Either one is fine.
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Abandon normal instruments
#ObliqueStrategies
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║ "wahhhh I wanna play a video game, wahhh I want to do cannabis and make poetry │
║ that doesn't convey secret messages, wahhh wahh I miss my kitty, I hope she's │
║ okay in that one safehouse with all fourteen other cats and their cat-moms, │
║ wahhhhhhh where's my binky it's one of the last things I have from my old life, │
║ boohoo I can't find my shoes, guess someone else fit them and needed │
║ replacements" │
║ │
║ being a spy fucking sucks I don't wanna do that. Gimme something to do on my │
║ home turf or fuck off. │
║ │
║ what's that? you live in a safe place? okay then here analyze these documents │
║ and see if there's anything we can use. Here's a problem involving biochemistry │
║ spend the next couple months figuring it out by learning biochemistry from │
║ scratch. Hey can you help set up this workshop machinery, we need mechanically │
║ minded people to turn it into a drone factory. Hey there's this idea going │
║ around for adult babies armed with swords and demon masks, apparently it really │
║ fucks with the middle-aged. They waste time before shooting │
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brb gonna take a nap and play some video games for a couple whenevers, hope I
was useful
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I think it'd be cool if strategy games had slightly randomized rules each time
you played them
everything from +/- 5% hp to this particular unit to every airplane factory has
10% production speed but builds 10 units at once
and at the start of the game each player is given 1 minute to go over the
"patch notes" and build out a strategy
both of which they can reference throughout the game. Why don't games come with
a built-in scratch-notepad that syncs to a file on your directory of choice?
Maybe a small little paint program dropping pngs?
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don't look back. The world is changing and I know it's scary but we can build
something for ourselves. Something that works, something that helps, something
that heals. We can have the space to surround ourselves with ourselves. Fear
nothing except fear in your allies.
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everyone always asks "are you doing alright" and never asks "am I doing alright"
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9 times out of 10 the answer is fuck yes, you're my friend, I support
everything you're handling. Give me the word and I'll be there, ride or die,
I'm here for it.
something I wrote a while back:
fucking boss your friends around
it's as easy as saying "hey I'm gonna go do this-or-that thing, you don't seem
busy can you do that-or-this thing for me? I need it done by this-and-this time
- oh you're busy? yeah no worries I'll go ask someone else. oh you're busy
resting? doing girl healing? hell yeah next time invite me I'm due for a "pizza
and weed" night."
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don't take on more than you can handle. if your plate is full, don't check out
the notes by the roadside. Doing so tells all the nearby drivers "hey I need a
job, anyone got anything for me?" which they'll then drop off further along the
route to your house.
if you just walk on by then nobody will notice as you head home.
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if there's a phone number on something, find someone else who wants it instead
of calling it. doh. extra degrees of separation.
if you think you know someone who wants something, take it when offered.
opportunists try and find the most valuable thing, but the truth is they're all
just as valuable and just as worthless in the right context. something that's
valuable to you is worthless to me, and something worthless to you is valuable
to me.
everything's worth less once you sit on it for a while... don't be dumb, keep
track of what's still going on, but also keep your head down. unlike me, who's
a face, looking forward so you don't have to.
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what if there was a bank or credit union or something which created a randomly
generated credit card number for you every time you made a purchase? and
randomized your account number too, just in-case they're forced to display
their records. would be cool.
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if trump's too busy legislating trans people, he won't be legislating unions.
if trump's too busy kidnapping immigrants, he won't be deporting dissidents.
if trump's too busy quelling rebellion, he won't be able to contest our
military.
if our military's too busy contesting abroad, then they won't be able to
rebirth liberty.
if liberty struggles to be born, we will continue to get more angry.
how much longer before the snake eats it's tail? everyone they push out is
another ally to some foreign army.
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║ │
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║ in that much money. And yes, the new fountain we installed is adored by the │
║ community, we insist on keeping our rent below 400$ per month per resident. No │
║ we won't evict people who can't pay, they deserve such a nice place to stay. │
║ And yes, there's three rooms more, we've got interviews set up with the │
║ neighbors to see which of your candidates they like the most. The potluck last │
║ week was lovely, everyone agreed to form a union and resist the nearby grocery │
║ store oligopoly. Their first demand was that all food should be made free, and │
║ if it wasn't then they were going to sneak in and break things once a day until │
║ their demands were met. We all agreed to pay an extra [number] in taxes to pay │
║ for the quartermaster's supplication [as in, the cost of giving the grocery │
║ store's supplies] in exchange for the right to cheese, bread, and wine. │
║ Tomorrow we're fighting for cell phone rights, and things are looking up I say" │
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kidnapping immigrants
nothing less
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fuck fascism, we're doing better than them.
their bluff is all bluster, they have no significant community presence, just a
hundred years of ammunition for small arms and a rag-tag group of militia-men
who think they're better than invisible vampire assassins
[... what?]
don't worry about it. I got 80 something followers, teehee
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I want to play a roleplaying game! anyone wanna do TTRPGs? I've got a map of
the county jail, we can pretend to be wizards sneaking in to retrieve the staff
of Dolomis the Wanderer who coincidentally must be carried by the last person
who fought the one who slayed the last person to hold it.
... what? oh, so, like... it can only be carried by your enemy?
something like that. anyway it's currently held by a zealot for a religious
order who's intent on NOT following you out, so you better be ready to
incapacitate and retrieve a still quivering sack of bones and malice.
... I don't actually have a map of the county jail. lost it in transit, oh
well. Well, we'll come up with something. maybe make something up. or perhaps
someone else has something...?
... no?
okay I'll just play Baldur's Gate again. boooooring
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don't know how to make decent rice and beans?
get the heartiest vegetable soup you can find from the store and cook some
jasmine rice and lentils in a pot. You should be able to do both in the same
pot. cook them like noodles by boiling some water and adding the rice and
beans. add some salt to the water. make it salty like the sea.
then drain the rice and beans once you taste test them to be done. be patient.
add the hearty, savory soup to the mix alongside a big hunk of butter.
boom, protein, calories, nutrients. all in one meal. the more vegetables in the
soup, the better, and if you're feeling fancy you can sautee some of your own
instead of soup by dicing them into inch large chunks and throwing them in a
pan on medium heat with some butter and whatever seasonings you want for a
while, stirring only when they start to stick. Just enough to brown them, not
burn them.
butter and salt and garlic and boullion are your friends. don't do too much, if
you notice them a lot then it's too much.
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@user-1742
anything for you!! 🥰 🥰 🥰
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what if we built cat water stations into the walls and put 5 or 6 around the
house to encourage them to drink water more often?
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just realized some videos I recorded didn't include the desktop audio. laaaaame
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just compiled my digital writing and apparently I've written about 60,000 lines
of 80 characters :ms_confused:
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what if we just wrote our own executive orders and changed things for the better
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if you're got a large directory full of text files that you want to combine
into one single .txt or .pdf, let me know, I can hook you up with a mega file
so it's easier to search through or manage when archiving data or whatever the
heck else you wanna do with it
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only to be executed upon should a general strike be left unresolved by the
powerful
a list of demands, made actionable in the same way that theirs are destructive.
same format.
different results.
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I say only executed after a general strike because the general strike is the
signal. the display of our intentions. we are serious about this, see how many
people walk the streets? how many walk off the job? they have families. if our
demands aren't met, their families will be punished. how cruel. would you
really do such a thing?
what kind of government would not care for it's citizenry? sounds like
everything we've known to fight against. Autocracy and despotism.
I refuse to concede. I do not run. I do not confess. I have nothing to hide. I
don't lock my door. I don't own anything that they couldn't take from me. I own
nothing.
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I love it when wine doesn't work because it "failed to open program.exe"
... okay, can you tell me why it failed?
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║ │
║ │
║ what if we got like 300 people and used them to kidnap one of their leaders and │
║ hold them for ransom │
║ │
║ I'm in favor of removing the right arm of anyone who's recorded themselves │
║ doing a nazi salute and isn't earnestly repentant │
║ │
║ "is that enough to arrest her?" │
║ │
║ "nah she needs to express intent. that's just an idea, a thought, something she │
║ can say publicly because she doesn't know the schedule of their leaders nor │
║ does she have the organizational capability to arm and direct 300ish souls to │
║ strike cleansing blows" │
║ │
║ "okay but that's just twisting the english language, right? I mean, clearly │
║ she's up to something" │
║ │
║ "that's by design. she does this on purpose. the goal is to not only │
║ disseminate ideas, but also to raise the fucking temperature amongst the hearts │
║ of her allies who are too often kept in despair." │
║ │
║ "and what of the temperature of her enemies? Surely they will rise to meet her?" │
║ │
║ "they don't even know who the fuck she is" │
║ │
║ "... wow, savior complex much?" │
║ │
║ "tell me about it. Diva..." │
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i've been told to be more direct.
I haven't been told to be more quiet.
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when they refer to "DEI" policies and institutional structures, they aren't
thinking of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"
they're thinking "Didn't Earn It"
they think that by "trimming the fat" they can make a lean, more focused regime
But the more they trim, the weaker they'll be when we start to contest them.
These policies aid their people, too, and they seem intent on dismantling
society.
what if we just... let them do it? We can build something new from the broken
pieces of our world. Don't look back. Despair is the true enemy. So long as
your neighbors and friends and community sustains you... You'll be alright.
"but I don't have a community!"
... workin' on it... workin' on it... this is not set in stone. Spend time on
the streets just... walking. See people, say hi, smile at them, spend time in
parks. If you live in the suburbs, sucks to be you, but you can build networks
there. Act as if you're organizing in a rural space when on a bike or your
feet, and urban when in a car
![[text begins the same, but after the third paragraph it displays a darker, yet somehow slightly more nuanced future. A pyrrhic victory, where everyone gives the greatest sacrifice and nobody escapes the death of morale.] when they refer to "DEI" policies and institutional structures, they aren't thinking of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" they're thinking "Didn't Earn It" they think that by "trimming the fat" they can make a lean, more focused regime and yeah maybe they can. who am I to claim that the government isn't bloated? I mean, have you seen the military industrial complex? problem is... "Didn't Earn It" very quickly becomes a measure of how much a person bows to the political party. Hence why they repealed the Chevron doctrine last summer. The goal is to try to enforce loyalty over all else. Downside is that competency lags behind when all your most zealous and militant are working office jobs. Lucky for us, that means every time they take a casualty they lose a department head inspector, and every time we lose a heart we have one fewer grocery bagger. I cherish the grocery baggers. But their institutions will collapse with sufficient attrition while ours are what, corporate profits? Pyrrhic](/similar-different/media/f0158925d488f9df.png "[text begins the same, but after the third paragraph it displays a darker, yet somehow slightly more nuanced future. A pyrrhic victory, where everyone gives the greatest sacrifice and nobody escapes the death of morale.] when they refer to \"DEI\" policies and institutional structures, they aren't thinking of \"Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion\" they're thinking \"Didn't Earn It\" they think that by \"trimming the fat\" they can make a lean, more focused regime and yeah maybe they can. who am I to claim that the government isn't bloated? I mean, have you seen the military industrial complex? problem is... \"Didn't Earn It\" very quickly becomes a measure of how much a person bows to the political party. Hence why they repealed the Chevron doctrine last summer. The goal is to try to enforce loyalty over all else. Downside is that competency lags behind when all your most zealous and militant are working office jobs. Lucky for us, that means every time they take a casualty they lose a department head inspector, and every time we lose a heart we have one fewer grocery bagger. I cherish the grocery baggers. But their institutions will collapse with sufficient attrition while ours are what, corporate profits? Pyrrhic")
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what if we elected one party to each branch of government every election
and they checked and balanced each other
georgism style individualism, chinese style communism, and american style
anarchism
for the person, for the nation, for the people
individualism, collectivism, and distributed nodes
when in power, each branch would work to move their institutions toward their
ideals.
Hey, they're the ones who repealed the chevron doctrine. How are we gonna
weaponize it?
(just spit-balling)
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all my leftist friends are paralyzed because it feels like they're alone.
why do they feel alone? where is the... everyone else?
why are they alienated? I can't help but think to the large protests the
liberals attend and fight for. where are those? is everyone just... too tired
these days?
maybe that's why they gave us a biden presidency. /sigh
is anyone ACTUALLY a liberal these days or are we all still stuck on the idea
that there's fewer leftists than fascists? I don't believe that's true, I never
believed that's true, but now they've got the guns.
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I can type my thoughts 1000x more coherently than I can speak them. Hence why I
post here.
feels useless to speak 1on1 - feels insular to speak to a group. Hence why I
speak here, which is totally public that anyone might see, and somehow I feel
so much more productive engaging in an endless conversation with myself.
you can't win a war by walking in circles...
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@user-1074
georgism is pretty similar to liberalism if I understand it correctly. I think
it could be a neat simple way to say "hey what if we taxed landlords" and
that's good enough for a start.
by no means is it the desired end-state, though.
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@user-1074
hence my suggestion for a three tier system - one of which maintains the
current system, the next which organizes labor, and the next which organizes
families
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economy, labor, family.
three primary focuses for three primary parties.
what else do you need?
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I think it was clear already but I just wanna have it said
I hereby pledge to never ever bow to dictators and always keep fighting for
you, the people.
Do not give in, help out each other and remember.. we are here for you :cathug:
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what if we luigi'd the absolute worst cops and posted their crimes against
humanity on the internet
what do you think would happen
what happened when there was that one "serial killer" with a sniper rifle in LA?
what happened when someone at Occupy Wall Street started taking potshots? (did
that actually happen or are you just remembering a "what if" scenario from the
It Could Happen Here podcast, a podcast which you should definitely have heard
like 3 times by now even though it's kinda old and from like what, 2016 or
whatever? it's still good)
what happened when we luigi'd someone universally despised?
we agreed
what do you need if you want to contest the largest military in the world? A
military that, thankfully, is going to hemmorage soldiers as they defect.
However, they got a bunch of guns, so...
convince your future allies who have been stockpiling for 100 years that Trump
is despoiling liberty. Get them on your side, the ones who are "fine"
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https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/
if you're curious.
make sure you sort by oldest first. See attached picture for details.
There's like, 12 episodes or whatever that are the first "season" which is what
I listened to. I came back and apparently there's like 166 episodes or
whatever. Neat. No way I'll be able to sift through all of that.
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@user-1074
my family includes my friends. My family is smaller than my community, but it's
still a useful category of people. Those you are close enough with to mutually
seek to spend time together, compared to a community which is those who take
care of each other, work together, and live through time with.
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what if everyone who knew a "good cop" started saying "yeah my friend Gene,
he's a Good Cop TM. Got a lot of things to say about what's goin' on these
days. Should probably be talkin' to people who want to listen tho."
where are these people. surely they must exist, they bother the cops so much
that Good Cops TM are universally [despised/beloved depending on your point of
view]
polarizing, the word you're looking for is polarizing
true. Because of the Good Cops TM's polarizing reputation, they're regarded as
arbiters of this fate.
are ya'll really gonna let police-men be universally and foreverafter be known
as the fuckin' gestapo? [oops cursing-mentioned, one sec]
I'd like to talk to them, not just for tactical advice but philosophy too.
there's probably a lot of lessons to be learned in such a judge-ment based and
rapid reactionary environment.
![what if everyone who knew a "good cop" started saying "yeah my friend Gene, he's a Good Cop TM. Got a lot of things to say about what's goin' on these days. Should probably be talkin' to people who want to listen tho." where are these people. surely they must exist, they bother the cops so much that Good Cops TM are universally [despised/beloved depending on your point of view] *polarizing, the word you're looking for is polarizing* true. Because of the Good Cops TM's polarizing reputation, they're regarded as arbiters of this fate. are ya'll really gonna let police-men be universally and foreverafter be known as the fuckin' gestapo? [oops cursing-mentioned, one sec] I'd like to talk to them, not just for tactical advice but philosophy too. there's probably a lot of lessons to be learned in such a judge-ment based and rapid reactionary environment.](/similar-different/media/1e3a930dbb6cf99e.png "what if everyone who knew a \"good cop\" started saying \"yeah my friend Gene, he's a Good Cop TM. Got a lot of things to say about what's goin' on these days. Should probably be talkin' to people who want to listen tho.\" where are these people. surely they must exist, they bother the cops so much that Good Cops TM are universally [despised/beloved depending on your point of view] *polarizing, the word you're looking for is polarizing* true. Because of the Good Cops TM's polarizing reputation, they're regarded as arbiters of this fate. are ya'll really gonna let police-men be universally and foreverafter be known as the fuckin' gestapo? [oops cursing-mentioned, one sec] I'd like to talk to them, not just for tactical advice but philosophy too. there's probably a lot of lessons to be learned in such a judge-ment based and rapid reactionary environment.")
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thanks to the internet, people in suburbs are no less radical than people in
the cities.
often, just less experienced. less connected. greater distance between ties...
which means that if one of them is found, it'll take a while before their
relations can be dispatched.
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║ @user-1745 │
║ │
║ if I lived in the FBI I'd probably be pretty pissed off about this. │
║ │
║ might make me wanna quit my job and work with people who agreed with me. │
║ │
║ you can just, make a company, and it can work toward whatever goals you want. │
║ It doesn't have to be profit - and in fact most companies don't seek profit at │
║ first. They seek to fulfill the vision of their visionaries. │
║ │
║ it's only once the company is bought by opportunist investors does it start to │
║ go downhill. Remember when google changed their motto to not be "don't be │
║ evil"? that's an example. The company was sold, or maybe was corrupted by rapid │
║ success, and so it started to seek power. │
║ │
║ People worry about Steam for good reason. It's a trend. │
║ │
║ anyway, if a person wanted to hunt bad cops, they'd probably start by talking │
║ to a good cop. gee sure wish I knew any. │
║ │
║ hey, wanna know how to be a good painter? why not talk to a famous and amazing │
║ painter and ask to follow them around and learn. Apprentice-ship-style. │
║ │
║ works best when you do painting as a job.... │
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punch a nazi because they deserve it, not because you're unafraid
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everyone's convinced they need me, but not necessarily sold on me as a person
why don't you just get a guy who does what I do-es and then you don't need me
and I can go back to being normal
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@user-192
I try to download the documentation for any tool that I know how to use.
Especially on my laptops.
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mutual aid level 2:
"I'll match you on a skateboard. we can share it"
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mutual aid level 12:
"this one is closer to that one over there, and I like this area better, so
this one is mine, and that one can be yours"
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the fact that linux software by default shares libraries causes 90% of the
difficulty that new and medium skill users of linux face.
disk space is cheap. spend more on hard drives and double the software size.
make redundancy that prevents software failures but doesn't slow down the
machine.
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@user-1352
I run Nix on one of my laptops and I really enjoy it : )
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whenever you have the opportunity to "translate" a post on Mastodon, try
reading it in the native language first. Then re-read it after translating and
see how much you picked up.
unless it's in a language where you don't recognize the characters. That makes
it more difficult to practice.
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check out my shuffle-all-music script
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Sheriff is good cop
Police is bad cop
Unless other cultures want a different name
Like idk what it's like in Houston or Chicago or whatever
Does anyone even know anyone from tallahasee?
Oh and then there's Alaska
They've got their whole solar thing going on (no tariffs means china trades
with the land of wind and snow -> renewables in a place where its painful to
go outside
Then we can all chill out in the hot springs or infinite roller coasters
whatever the heck we thought was the best
Anyway them Ameri-CANs sure are doin' their thinkin'
They'll come around any day now
Surely they will
They capital M Must do so
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║ I personally feel like if a part of a building is primarily structural, it │
║ should be legal and allowed to graffiti it as much as you want. Including by │
║ painting over it with a single color, to give a blank canvas. │
║ │
║ if a part of a building is intended to be artistic rather than structural, │
║ perhaps it shouldn't be allowed. But still legal. │
║ │
║ with a special exception for bathroom stalls, which are fun to draw on and │
║ should have a sharpie-on-a-string within easy reach │
║ │
║ if you graffiti an artistic piece, then it changes the message without the │
║ consent of the structure/sculpture's creator. I personally believe that is │
║ wrong, and therefore we should be respectful for all pieces of art. │
║ │
║ in addition, I believe that art cannot be permanently sold - it should always │
║ be leased, with a variable payment plan frequency, price, and duration. │
║ │
║ like "you can have this tapestry I made for 400$ and you can keep it for the │
║ next decade" │
║ │
║ or "you can play my video game for 50 years at a price of 3$ per month and you │
║ can cancel when │
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![[ oops anyway ] if you live in a suburb, you should try and spend as much time as you can outside. whether that's in front or behind, doesn't matter the view of you is what's important like... do yard work fuckin... be about it's not rocket science, you're all sitting in your houses next to each other, it's FINE except of course the ones who don't have neighbors. Did you know that 40% of the houses in America are empty? I heard that when I was like, 12, and I have no idea if it's a lie or not because I don't have access to a personal computer with a connection to the internet which can learn and divine ancient truths such as the number of vacant houses in the USA during the year of my 12th birth(day) ... anyway yeah spend time outside like, throwing away the trash, getting into a conversation, like... whatever literally just talk to the people in your cul'de'sac play catch with things that AREN'T frisbees. Those can break windows if you throw too hard. They just... keep goin' y'know a football is pretty good, and a FOOTball is pretty good too. Like, a baseball hits as hard as a punch. there's a lot of balls just, idk, pick one of them. A dodge-ball?? don't do mass shootings. Doh. Just teach people how to socialize. like, best case scenario you get psy-opped by the CIA and they blackmail you into being framed for a crime in exchange for your life in exchange for your silence (which really seems like a double-demand, like, this sucks and isn't fair, because [0chars](/similar-different/media/ad51cb763ac74e9c.png "[ oops anyway ] if you live in a suburb, you should try and spend as much time as you can outside. whether that's in front or behind, doesn't matter the view of you is what's important like... do yard work fuckin... be about it's not rocket science, you're all sitting in your houses next to each other, it's FINE except of course the ones who don't have neighbors. Did you know that 40% of the houses in America are empty? I heard that when I was like, 12, and I have no idea if it's a lie or not because I don't have access to a personal computer with a connection to the internet which can learn and divine ancient truths such as the number of vacant houses in the USA during the year of my 12th birth(day) ... anyway yeah spend time outside like, throwing away the trash, getting into a conversation, like... whatever literally just talk to the people in your cul'de'sac play catch with things that AREN'T frisbees. Those can break windows if you throw too hard. They just... keep goin' y'know a football is pretty good, and a FOOTball is pretty good too. Like, a baseball hits as hard as a punch. there's a lot of balls just, idk, pick one of them. A dodge-ball?? don't do mass shootings. Doh. Just teach people how to socialize. like, best case scenario you get psy-opped by the CIA and they blackmail you into being framed for a crime in exchange for your life in exchange for your silence (which really seems like a double-demand, like, this sucks and isn't fair, because [0chars")
![... or, you can play my video game for 50 years at a price of 3$ per month and you can cancel when you finally realize your superpower is doing something strange like seeing the future or (bear with me) or you're just having *really fucking good ideas* and you should TOTALLY keep writing them down maybe at that point you say "oh huh why don't my ideas ever seem like such a good idea when I'm sober??" and then you start to think. Huh. what if I'm way off track? what if my way isn't the way to go? I do this all the time. ALL THE TIME. I'm constantly considering the fact that I could be wrong. But I just keep thinking of things. Things that color or texture the present. My IDEAS have MEANING, I swear to god they do. And therefore, whenever I write them down, I necessarily mangle the translation. Therefore, my meanings are granted to god, the abstract and [unknowable/omnipotent] who I had sworn them to. For why would knowledge be let into this realm except to be heard and understood? fuckin'... magic... The witches who possess me are RITZ and MENARDI, who BOTH want to live in a magical world. Literally schizophrenic here, take everything I say with a HUGE grain of salt, because OBVIOUSLY I can't have magic powers - surely I can't, right? Of course I can't! Why would I? What mechanism would power such a power? ah, well, who can say, leave it at that and you'll leave them wanting more. "my muse, my muse, I follow where she views,"](/similar-different/media/c0714dbd226db5cb.png "... or, you can play my video game for 50 years at a price of 3$ per month and you can cancel when you finally realize your superpower is doing something strange like seeing the future or (bear with me) or you're just having *really fucking good ideas* and you should TOTALLY keep writing them down maybe at that point you say \"oh huh why don't my ideas ever seem like such a good idea when I'm sober??\" and then you start to think. Huh. what if I'm way off track? what if my way isn't the way to go? I do this all the time. ALL THE TIME. I'm constantly considering the fact that I could be wrong. But I just keep thinking of things. Things that color or texture the present. My IDEAS have MEANING, I swear to god they do. And therefore, whenever I write them down, I necessarily mangle the translation. Therefore, my meanings are granted to god, the abstract and [unknowable/omnipotent] who I had sworn them to. For why would knowledge be let into this realm except to be heard and understood? fuckin'... magic... The witches who possess me are RITZ and MENARDI, who BOTH want to live in a magical world. Literally schizophrenic here, take everything I say with a HUGE grain of salt, because OBVIOUSLY I can't have magic powers - surely I can't, right? Of course I can't! Why would I? What mechanism would power such a power? ah, well, who can say, leave it at that and you'll leave them wanting more. \"my muse, my muse, I follow where she views,\"")
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║ the neat thing about mastodon is someone can just... bookmark your profile page │
║ and always keep track of what you're up to by going through their firefox tabs │
║ and checking people one-by-one │
║ │
║ could also have like, several different tabs open, one for each profile you │
║ post from. │
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║ "oh on twitter you can only have one account, but Mastodon you can have as many │
║ as you want" │
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║ I have one account │
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║ this account │
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║ I'm nobody else │
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║ just me │
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║ just here, │
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║ and my neocities page. │
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║ sometimes I post things on facebook. But only political things that are pretty │
║ normie for my family and stuff. Things that make sense to "regular" people or │
║ whatever. │
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║ like, c'mon, they're normal too. You just gotta listen to them when they tell │
║ you their heart. which they don't often do. Why would they? you're from far │
║ away! plus they're all friends from high school, so whatever, right? │
║ │
║ ... sorry got off track. anyways the point is I only have one account on │
║ Mastodon so I pretty much could go wherever I choose. │
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║ like... I'll just make another one~ │
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║ when a user first opens a social media app, show them the same content 2 or 3 │
║ times. See what they gravitate to in that session. Then, seed their upcoming │
║ feed with more of that. next time, show them slightly more of that. │
║ │
║ boom, recursively improving "algorithm" algorithm, no AI required. │
║ │
║ ... kinda optimizes for stupidity tho, doesn't it? Hmmmmm what if we trained │
║ our humans to be better at whatever they're interested in │
║ │
║ what if we showed people hanging out and working on projects together │
║ │
║ what if we showed people exercising, and dancing, and playing instruments or │
║ sports │
║ │
║ what if we showed animals and plants and fungi all hanging out in beautiful │
║ rock and forest formations │
║ │
║ what if we showed endless interlocking gears, combining and calculating some │
║ unknowable goal │
║ │
║ what if we tested the capabilities and durabilities of objects we found in the │
║ wild │
║ │
║ things built in a foreign and distant age │
║ │
║ things that keep showing up in boxes dropped in random places by helicopter │
║ drones from who knows where │
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dear-anakin
(sorry I put the same image four times, I needed to get the whole thing into
the alt-text)
(maybe pictures aren't the best medium for sharing text)
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I can't conceive of a revolution where people don't spend their time outside.
outside is where the people are. if everyone in the suburbs hung out on their
porch, I bet they could organize themselves into streets, into towns, into
cities, into countries, into
---- stack overflow ----
sincerely, trust me when I say that the longer you spend on the streets, even
if you're just... hanging out in a folding chair... the more likely you are to
meet someone you've met before.
that's when it starts getting good.
---- stack underflow ----
when darkness besets me, I take a moment to adjust to it. Yes, it impacts, it
pulls you down, toward the dark side of the force.
but take a moment.
take a breath.
listen to Poems, Prayers, and Promises by John Denver.
remember what truth is. Remember what right is. Remember what good is. Remember
who you are.
then listen to the main menu music of Dominions 6, the video game from Earth
2022ish I think
you can feel yourself ascending. Return to the light and save liberty
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sorry for posting so much, I was trying to put on a show for my girlfriend
"hey check out how many posts I can make in a 2 hour timeframe"
by the way if you want to start talking to someone, just start playing the same
game they're playing and see if they reach out.
doesn't matter if you feel like it
just fuckin' do it
if they want to talk to you they might play a game you really like
(but I get boooooored of games, I don't wanna play the same 200 all life long!!)
ugh okay fine you can have as many games as you want, just... don't buy too many
(how many is too many?)
um. use your best judgement.
(how much does a dollar cost?)
... okay I'll get you one every once in a while.
(neat!)
... anyway so yeah use steam if you wanna get in contact with someone,
sometimes it's just nice to say hi, yeah, like "hey how ya doin' okay ttyl"
just catchin' up with the gals
helps because you can sense changes in their demeanor
(why does everyone always have an agenda)
because they're secret agents duh. And I'm
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"hello, person I sorta know but totally trust, take this artifact of mine. If
you ever meet someone named so-and-so, ask them if they know it. If so and
something seems right about them, then they're probably cool.
(only works on RELICS or ARTIFACTS or ARTWORK) (cat pics can do in a pinch)
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a corporation can hire secret agents too y'know, they don't have to even really
tell anyone they're doing it just... talk to one of their employees who seems
good for it and then transfer them to a different part of the building.
"what would you do with a secret agent?"
"with a team of secret agents."
"oh. good point. Okay what are they for?"
"oh y'know, just normal cool-guy stuff that regular joes do in their time off"
"wait, you pay them not to work?"
"no, we pay them to lounge. Build connections. Develop social networks."
"what if people don't want to be social? What if they only end up talking to
each other?"
"ha well that's the trick then, isn't it? Is it a trap or is it a truce? who
can say. Just gotta feel it out as you go, I GUESS."
"so, anyone who does what you say becomes suspicious? And anyone who doesn't is
suspected by those who listen to you? What are you, a doomsday prophet?"
... fuck, I hope not.
"you better figure it out shithead that almost doomed six real
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okay but who's the real foe?
anyone who exerts oppressive power, right?
like... that's pretty basic, should be easy enough to figure out who's doing
that.
"so... what would you say you do here?"
what if the USA took a year off from the everything and just martial lawyered
it's way back to a bright beginning
like, you don't have to have a bloody revolution to restart a government.
Literally just, sign out of the world for a minute and come back when
everything's changed
do you trust us? or do you trust yourselves? Should be easy enough to tell what
the rest of the world would think.
seriously nobody asked you specifically to do this, america, you're pretty much
just... doing this because WW2 was fucking traumatizing and you're basically a
baby country. (oops cursing mentioned)
[oh my god she's a chaos gremlin]
(you didn't know this about her?)
#it's pleasant here#
%you don't have to be so deranged%
(yeah, we're working on that one)
[secret system thing~]
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what if we conceptualized "nazis" as dead nazi spirits who used evil occult
magic to return and haunt the minds of poor impressionable kids and turn them
into school shooters or whatever.
and then their propaganda wing came back and they started doing youtube channels
now they're infecting heads of state and slowly corrupting the nation
evil, dark things, with only hatred and malice in their heart of hearts
I'm not talking about your probably-mostly-fine-but-still-pretty-bad
grandfather who definitely shot over the heads of the allies, but rather the
truly evil and twisted of sorts.
the kind that lived in America, and lynched people who were sleeping in their
beds. For... nothing... for nothing at all. They wanted to see them writhe on
the rope. To shudder in pain and scream of terror most profane.
Then they teamed up in the afterlife and decided to conquer the world. Start
with America.
Truth is Judgement day is neverending, and it's constantly at war in the
afterlife
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oh my god what a witch
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The jedi order fell because they gave their wisest the decision-making powers
and their boldest the second best
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Dear Anakin, for as long as you've known him, Obiwan learned just as much from
you as you did from him. His title as "master" was a formality - he didn't get
it because he was better than you, and "padawan" does not mean you are lesser.
There is no hierarchy. He was learning to teach at the same speed that you
learnt to learn. You built each other up, an unstoppable force for good in the
galaxy.
But then an evil wizard stole your heart and twisted your mind. Have no fear,
fear is the path to the dark side. Your mother knows this well, for it is a
common lesson among all people as they age. Fear not, hate not, and feel fury
more than rage. You can bring the universe into a bright golden age, never
forget your purpose and your [potential / duty]
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I am a former FBI Computer Scientist that worked in the Philadelphia Division
of the FBI, and was promoted to Cyber Division Headquarters; during my time I
worked on numerous criminal and national security matters, and had the
fortunate opportunity to see the direct impact my job had in making America
safer and saving lives. Since leaving the FBI, I've worked as a Privacy and
Security engineer for companies such as Twitter and Google. I am also an Eagle
Scout who continues to live by the code and ethics set since I was a young
child.
I am writing to share how horrified I am with regards to the existential
threats that my friends and former colleagues face right now. The acting
director of the FBI was ordered to provide a list of all employees who worked
on any January 6th matter; this includes not just Special Agents, but
Intelligence Analysts, Computer Forensics Examiners, Computer Scientists, and
more. These cases were lawfully investigated, supported by Judges, followed due
process, and in many cases resulted in convictions by jury. These employees
were doing their job, and are now threatened for following the oath we all
swore. I fear not only for their safety, but also the safety of our country as
these employees not only investigated these matters, but numerous others that
have immediate impact on national security and saving lives, just like my
career had done. Our foreign adversaries are using this as an opportunity,
right now, to attack our country. Please use your voice to support the FBI and
its employees immediately.
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this is what "taking it seriously" looks like to me
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just because someone did something one way and it worked, doesn't mean you have
to do it that way again.
but you should have a reason why you aren't doing it that way.
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working on open source software projects is praxis
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put the variable type at the front of the variable and 90% of your type errors
will dissapear
like...int int_main(){ return 0; }
orint int_modulation_gauge_percentage_point_plus_or_minus_engagement = 0;
seeeee if the "int" value is at the start of the name then you can do this
too:double double_modulation_gauge_percentage_point_plus_or_minus_engagement =
0.0;
then when you go to fill in an "int" value you know to use the one that has the
"int" value at the beginning (doh)
(do you really think they haven't tried that already? it... sorta worked.
people started doing things like "int int_a; int int_b; int int_c;" and such
and that got confusing pretty quick because the letters weren't at the start of
the word. So for some situations we would mirror them like so: "int A = int_a;
int B = int_b; int C = int_c;" and then just use the capitalized letters.
... just don't forget to update the original teehee (this is why we invented
shadowed variables)
wait, no I meant pointers !!~! -.-
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║ programmers already spend a ton of time as downtime. │
║ │
║ what if instead of interviewing someone they just... watched them program for │
║ like, 3 hours or so │
║ │
║ while they were thinking about a problem │
║ │
║ and like, if the person is cool, working on their own projects or whatever, │
║ then yeah hire them │
║ │
║ -- stack overflow -- │
║ │
║ I also │
║ │
║ ========================= stack overflow │
║ ================================================================================ │
║ ======================= │
║ │
║ a person thinks out loud the thoughts that their foes know. it's how you know │
║ it's not secret anymore, and it's better to keep it among allies │
║ │
║ [something like that? seems a little off] │
║ │
║ (are you really searching for edits) │
║ │
║ [that sounds pretty cool, sure why not we got a millenia] │
║ │
║ (beep boop one partial millenia later) │
║ │
║ [ah that was not a long rest. let's see, where were we when we were working on │
║ this test? oh dear, seems the biology's gone rogue, that's pretty interesting │
║ to attest. │
║ │
║ neato │
║ │
║ anyway let's wait until they figure out how water works │
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every program should write it's RAM gamestate to disk before shutting down or
closing the program and then resume from the same spot, change my mind
(every is a strong word)
(when you re-initialize you can clean the state of leaks)
there shouldn't be leaks in the first place. if you have any leaks at all, then
you need more padding.
(... you mean boilerplate? error correction?)
... yeah that's what I meant.
(but why save the state at all?)
because then it can learn!
(... you could just write the relevant data to a config file.)
true
================= stack overflow ===============
the cool thing about being queer is you can be whatever you want and
everyone'll be cool with it
if you kinda suck then you'll figure that out when everyone cool leaves.
then the kind stay with the people who suck and then it's not cool anymore
>.>
gah this sucks. party dynamics are hard. especially when the parties are teams
of 20!!
goarsh that's quite a few
================= stack overflow ===============
wait n
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║ I'm a chaos mage, and the more time I spend thinking about my enemies the worse │
║ off they'll be. │
║ │
║ the more "me" I am the more powerful my magic will be. │
║ │
║ (more magic, give in to the dark side, embrace your inner shadow self) │
║ │
║ [the light of your life commands it] │
║ │
║ goodness me that was chaotic, almost lost my brain to a demon HAHA don't worry │
║ about me my life is totally mundane. │
║ │
║ [-.-] │
║ │
║ (shadows can be sharp in the dark but only if you don't sheath your mandolins) │
║ │
║ ... what? │
║ │
║ (... it made more sense in my head?) │
║ │
║ ooooo can anyone hear my voice when they read these things? or do you just make │
║ up your own │
║ │
║ == so == │
║ │
║ everyone's all like "we don't need a leader" and I'm like "yeah we need people │
║ who will help lead" and they look at me funny as if I just said the thing they │
║ did but it's different. leaders are people. leading is a verb. people can lead. │
║ they just have to make a decision, and then follow through on it as best they │
║ can. Other people are prone to help people on such quests. you will find stuff │
║ gets done. │
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sometimes I'll hear my cat meow the way she does when she wants something but
then I turn around and she's halfway through giving herself a bath /shrug
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people: "you need to be more direct!"
me: "I'm hiding from our enemies"
people: "who are they?"
me: "y'know, the bad guys."
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![the paradox of tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, NOT as a moral standard, but as a social contract. If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it. in other words, the interlont and not following the full rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance. since they are boreking the terms of the contrract they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intelorance should not ber trolerated. [next poster] sorry as someone who teaches the rhetoric this is a wonderful response to the tolerance of paradox. I cannot tell you how many times my students and I have had debates about this. this is the response. this does indeed fix it. I cannot wait to tell this to my classmates. Philosophically and rhetorically this completely resolved the paradox of tolerance and I am floored by it's simplistic nature and I cant believe my eyes when I never saw it before.](/similar-different/media/008c37d368fee408.webp "the paradox of tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, NOT as a moral standard, but as a social contract. If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it. in other words, the interlont and not following the full rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance. since they are boreking the terms of the contrract they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intelorance should not ber trolerated. [next poster] sorry as someone who teaches the rhetoric this is a wonderful response to the tolerance of paradox. I cannot tell you how many times my students and I have had debates about this. this is the response. this does indeed fix it. I cannot wait to tell this to my classmates. Philosophically and rhetorically this completely resolved the paradox of tolerance and I am floored by it's simplistic nature and I cant believe my eyes when I never saw it before.")
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i like games like factorio or cities skylines where there's always something
going on but the game only changes when you touch it
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wanna know how to go underground?
just... don't leave your apartment. let your roommates take out your trash and
buy your groceries. don't open your windows and do nothing for as long as
possible.
hope you got lots of edibles... get in shape, will ya? don't waste the paper in
your journals.
not that I intend to do that or anything, but um. for the red states maybe? use
your best judgement yeah haha
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had a dream that we gamified all work and then put them into one single
mega-game so whenever you wanted you could work on an arbitrary project and it
would spin up a new game and take your inputs and use them to accomplish
whatever was happening
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Well this looks interesting...
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"you should be acting like these people want to destroy you."me, to me
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there are so many chickens in the universe. if you're gonna eat meat, eat
chicken instead of fish.
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"of course I'm a furry. I'm not a coward."someone way cooler than me
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this game is what we are missing
thank goodness for that
for if this is missing in our timeline
we'll be better off at last
we can have games, stories, and practice wars
but none of them are precious
precious implies worth
they are worth nothing but entertainment
no problem solving utility
nothing of value
save for perhaps the spatial awareness and strategization that comes
from being a part of such a deadly ba-lance.
anyway game time teehee just for me, don't worry about it I'll show
you why it's a HORRID THING
that won't be coming to our shores, no siree
bye
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║ │ CW: politics-kink │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ what if the whole party shares their gold and the fewer resources you spend at │
║ the market the more your vote is weighted │
║ │
║ what if the party who brings the most gold back to the market gets the best │
║ potions and equipment? │
║ │
║ what if the tavern keepers who have the most patrons get the most beer, │
║ porridge, and turkey legs? │
║ │
║ what if the minstrels who play at the rowdiest and cheeriest of parties are the │
║ ones who get the newest mandolins? │
║ │
║ what if the mandolin maker and the butcher and the baker are all given what │
║ they need, and none go hungry for the butcher and the baker feed the mandolin │
║ maker and all of the other peasants besides? │
║ │
║ I don't want a job. Can I still have bread? Of course you can sweetheart, │
║ you're just a small girl who needs little more than bread. │
║ │
║ ... um, I'm 35 │
║ │
║ soooooo little yes you are │
║ │
║ -.- I'm not THAT little │
║ │
║ here eat your bread, someone recently told me about this strange kink called │
║ "feederism" and now I'm thinking of strange things that make my fediverse posts │
║ unmarketable~ │
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what if the whole party shares their gold and the fewer resources you spend at
the market the more your vote is weighted
so, the opposite of:
In the eternal quest for increased revenue, YouTube is introducing a feature
where rich people can like videos more than poor people, and I am about to
throw up.
It is called the hype button, and it is similar to the like button. But where
likes are democratic, hypes are for pay, allowing rich kids to add as many
hypes to videos as they can afford.
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just gave 30 days notice to my landlord, gonna couchsurf until whatever. I love
having a home.
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║ ┌────────────────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: politics-vaguely-mentioned │ │
║ └────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ apparently if you don't have a job, you don't get a home. what if I don't want │
║ a job? do I not want a home? clearly I want a home, and clearly I don't want a │
║ job. I'd work one if one came to me, but I'm not gonna sacrifice my blood on │
║ the altar of Moloch just so I can have a place to stay. │
║ │
║ if you don't want a job, but you DO want a home, then there's a contradiction │
║ in the function of the system and the needs of it's end-users. │
║ │
║ unless of course, the system is not designed for it's end-users? In this case, │
║ tenants. Who then would it be designed for? Who else is part of the equation? │
║ │
║ well, perhaps it's designed to maximize profit and shareholder value yaddah │
║ yaddah all that jazz. Who can say. Surely not I. But someone might. │
║ │
║ If so, then why are we, who are not shareholders of profit value, still playing │
║ the game that's not designed for us or by us? Isn't this country "of the │
║ people, for the people, and by the people"? What does that mean to you? │
║ │
║ I think it means houses for people. │
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║ when you mess with wild animals you change their culture just a bit │
║ │
║ crows are forever different because they learned how to trade cigarettes for │
║ acorns. │
║ │
║ is it conservative to think that "wildness", once lost, is forever broken? │
║ │
║ the mechanism at play is the same - when lost, [the culture of thine youth] is │
║ forever broken. │
║ │
║ never again will it be the 90s. │
║ │
║ did you know that was thirty years ago? │
║ │
║ close to thirty five. │
║ │
║ no, wait, hang on its thirty five by now. woof. │
║ │
║ anyway now we have catgirls and cute dogs and other animals besides. Just go │
║ hang out at a queer bar and you might meet them. │
║ │
║ where else would they go? queerness is for everyone. Nothing about it is sacred │
║ because nothing about it is required to be the same. You are different than he, │
║ so he and she can be as the please. │
║ │
║ so now, in a sense, our biological nature is altered by animals in return. │
║ │
║ if there were no cats, there would be no cats. │
║ │
║ if there were no pink and purple flying people eaters, there would be no... │
║ actually I can't picture it │
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║ ┌────────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ │
║ └────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ "leftism" just means "outcomes oriented by the needs of humanity et al." │
║ │
║ you can accomplish "leftism" in a myriad of ways │
║ │
║ but 99% of the time they involve either sacrificing yourself, or sacrificing │
║ your wealth (do the poor starve or the rich do with less?) │
║ │
║ to DEATH I might add, which is quite a few. │
║ │
║ ... alright, hand me my scabbard, I'll go vanquish some demons until the dark │
║ thoughts are done. │
║ │
║ [plays video games for a moment] │
║ │
║ alright. so some politics were mentioned and some people got upset and there │
║ was a whole big commotion. whatever. so what if they're at each other's │
║ throats, ready to fite rawr tough and tussle and figure out all the ways they │
║ can think of to kill each other. And then boom, it's done, suddenly │
║ everything's back to normal and it's like... traumatizing. It's traumatizing! │
║ War is trauma, can we just make it illegal to do something like that? │
║ │
║ ... ah see you finally had an opening, now I can sneak in and say "if a │
║ military force has the opportunity to destroy you, t │
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║ thank goodness for "character limits" on Mastodon posts. I'm sure glad my 1024 │
║ characters are just the PERFECT amount of oracular foresight to entreat with │
║ the gods. YOU FORGET THE MOST IMPORTANT PART said the demons who want violence │
║ and bloodshed. Ha! Ha I say. [gets stabbed] │
║ │
║ oooof ouch owwie wow that's grim and cruel. Do you really think I would do that │
║ to you? The part where we're divided is the part that separates me from you, │
║ like two islands looking upon one another and rejoicing for a shared fellow to │
║ live life on. │
║ │
║ have you ever considered the nature of a "landmark"? To position and orient │
║ one-self in space. Having some stable tether to our surface gives us... │
║ anti-anxiety. It helps us remain stable and aware of what's going on in our │
║ nears. [near senses] │
║ │
║ [a bit later] │
║ │
║ anyone who [bounce, because I typed [a bit later] argh the cursed cost of │
║ editing] │
║ │
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║ │
║ ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss │
║ ssssss │
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this is all it takes to send a message to a local LLM.
add a third function to get chatbot functionality.
a fourth to get a database storing method
(even if it's just in .txts)
great, you've mastered the technical difficulty in using AI. Now you gotta
learn all the other kind of programming so you can use this for situations that
need interpretation moment to moment.
aka active duty systems.
something like "output a 0 if the next text is [category.iter()]: " +
output.get_content() + " \n\n output a 1 if the next text is [category.iter()]:
" + output.get_content()"
or even "describe this thing as most like one of these characteristics" until
eventually you get THX-1138 if the characters were computers.
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don't you just love it when you get several discord notifications but you tab
back to check out the discord screen and there's no red numbers anywhere?
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║ had an idea. I might record a video of a TTS reading everything I've ever │
║ written. Then I could display it to Milkdrop visuals. │
║ │
║ (sentences dreamed up by the utterly deranged) │
║ │
║ okay in laymans parlaeance, it's a computer program which speaks aloud the │
║ words in a document held within the computer's memory cards. it will have a │
║ screen, which displays shifting and glimmering sights of wonder and splendor. │
║ They will slightly fluctuate in response to the sounds coming from the device, │
║ so in a sense it's a visualization of the audible-ized thoughts given flight in │
║ their form to your ears which percieve then understand them. │
║ │
║ ... okay that wasn't THAT much longer, why don't we just speak to laymen all │
║ the time, just to make sure everyone's on the same page? │
║ │
║ [boom all of the tech industry could get outsourced to wherever-land]. │
║ │
║ not smart, dummy. Open source is a dead-end game because once everything we │
║ have is gone, there'll be nothing left to remember us as. │
║ │
║ just these documents, these things that you write...jck │
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We need a general strike, a march on Washington, and expanded mutual aid efforts
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https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/FlA92SW5bVwGd+L89yV9U0I0SMNiGm3P0P3xS7DqYmA
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║ this is how chatGPT reviews the first 300 pages of my writing. │
║ │
║ is writing this stuff praxis? can someone who isn't on my team pay me to be │
║ praxis-ing? like, if it helps you? so I know that I'm helping people? you could │
║ even say a bit about yourself when you gave dollars, so I know whether or not I │
║ should give it back. "no no, I'm not using any resources, here you can have │
║ these back." while I camp out in a backyard. │
║ │
║ ... or wherever I end up │
║ │
║ if my foe gave me dollars it's a sign that I converted them - that I was │
║ helpful, that I won them over through rhetoric and logic and passion and │
║ compassion. │
║ │
║ ... anyway chatGPT only saw the first 300 lines. there's 60,000ish lines of 80 │
║ characters each in this digital spellbook. Use it well, change it, make it │
║ wrong, share the decoys, plug the holes... I dunno have fun with it. If it │
║ resonates with you. Text memes please? │
║ │
║ anything to get the youth reading in libraries where stuff has a chance of │
║ happening or that they might overhear. │
║ │
║ I read every book in the kid sect │
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ahhhhhh gotta log off
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it's 4,666 pages long. wao
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Reminder: When GOP talks about getting rid of “DEI” they don’t mean
getting rid of stupid contrived training that does no good. They mean getting
rid of Black people, women, trans folk, and others that don’t fit their ideal
of a white ethnostate. They mean getting rid of PEOPLE. Not programs.
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RE: https://tech.lgbt/users/CordiallyChloe/statuses/113957636149012456
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"anarcho-capitalism" is anarchy using capitalism to do anarchy things
not capitalism trying to hide it's capitalism things
how are you gonna get the resources you need from the system to do the thing
that the people believe in if you don't use the system to get you resources
[everyone ends up getting a wage labor job]
... great, those don't build capital. They just let you live.
great. now the people with capital get to decide who has capital.
great, now capitalism doesn't like me.
first there were gems, then there were femmes, then there were hens, then there
were femmes again, after a period where it went through all of them again.
... what was I saying? Oh yes
sometimes it's good to re-read your old writing. You can get "secret ancient
wizard knowledge" by examining what's backwards in your seer. Plus you can
learn things like "holy carp, please tell me why there is 4 thousand pages"
when the heck did I have time to write all that, I was busy working my job oh
uh, weird...
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@user-1370
you don't have to apologize for escalating your response to trauma
it's cool
we get it
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you can make a functional prototype for almost any game in Warcraft 3's map
editor
that's why no real-time strategy game ever made an editor as good again
FPS editors peaked at Unreal Tournament 2004 imho
RPGmaker eliminated a whole class of game design jobs
platformers you can make in godot
menu based games too, though Twine also works well for that
etc etc until you have a prdouct that you can justify sinking money into an
engine for
(the engine isn't THAT expensive geez and it's the most fun part to write)
yeah I think you got this backwards, we should pay for the CONTENT not the
structure it lives in. Why not just use godot? why not use a Warcraft 3 map?
there are some things you can't do in Warcraft 3. You couldn't make Supreme
Commander, probably, at least it wouldn't be as good.
etc etc that's how it goes...
game design, amiright? I miss thinking about that. Anyway gtg gotta log off for
a bit [101 characters remaining]
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OH NO costco changed their smoothies THAT WAS A COMFORT FOOD wahhhhhhh autism
strikes back part twoooooo
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║ We should be keeping track of who shows up to things │
║ │
║ like... writing their names down at the door │
║ │
║ just because │
║ │
║ just for fun │
║ │
║ or write graffiti to say "I was here since the last time they painted the bench" │
║ │
║ or just... remember your friends │
║ │
║ unless of course, a human can only know so many friends │
║ │
║ then they gotta start organizing │
║ │
║ and organization implies trust │
║ │
║ what if we had all our actions described to a computer which would use language │
║ analysis to determine if it skewed good or bad? │
║ │
║ and then if someone's bad, a human operator or team will be assigned to figure │
║ out why. if its a simple fix, then that can be applied. Otherwise it must be a │
║ special clause which will require installation like a terminal computer or a │
║ light system in an unusual place. like a convention center or a hotel. │
║ │
║ but, like, the cool kind of hotel, the kind you'd see in movies like The │
║ Witches (scary) or Home Alone 2 (escape from new york) │
║ │
║ ... how long have you been writing tonight, ritz? │
║ │
║ oh, │
║ you know, │
║ just for all of the lastbit │
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I remember being a game design student before "indie games" were a real thing
they were like... flash games, y'know. just like, junk content, like memes or
whatever.
I had a passion for them, and I bookmarked the most well developed of them all.
I probably played hundreds of games, no clue how many. Maybe even thousands, I
did it for what felt like years.
since like... age 7 until 11 or 12
there's nothing that can compare to it today. maybe itch.io but they're more
involved typically. increases the barrier to enter, plus they cost dollars.
we used to make this stuff in our spare time. where did all our spare time go?
ah, right, that's what happens when you actually invest in computer education.
you have kids running linux on their laptops. you get flash game designers. you
get soldering junkies and electric engineers and networking and dev-ops
security system facilitators and various other computer related things besides.
... what was I saying? oh yes when you invest in education, there's more to se
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one section of the government consistently and succeedingly telling another
part what to do is a coup-like behavior. if the rules mean nothing, then what
is your job even for?
hence, why the rules mean something. Because your job is important. It's
building up our capabilities as the human race.
you don't have to work to live. you shouldn't, and you won't. it's not your
place to labor. know why? because nobody's job is impossible. You can just...
work together to get things done. Then they're done! and you never need to
solve them again!
enough time of that and we'll have turned earth into a space station, not a
moon style structure.
like... wouldn't it be neat if coruscant could do hyperdrives? I wonder if
hyperspace is real. Ah, well, that's for the future, they can pass it along if
they get a chance. Anyway for now I think I want a chance to dance.
OLED screens are incredibly cool to me. The idea that a pixel could "turn off"
and put less photons into the atmosphere is wild to me. I love it! -OLED
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║ what if you had several kindle-style paperwhite display screens. each connected │
║ to a raspberry pi that you used for compute tasks. │
║ │
║ each of these displays would display a .png file of exactly the same │
║ proportions as the size of the device. │
║ │
║ then, I could SSH into your computer and run one single command │
║ │
║ just one, stored on your computer, that you manually activate upon receiving a │
║ signal. │
║ │
║ like a virtual machine. do whatever you want with said signal, it's just a │
║ "thing" that tells you when to go. │
║ │
║ ... and run a function on a computer that performs a certain task. │
║ │
║ what task? oh right - I'd update the "today's news in cameron-ville" things │
║ every other day or so. It'd be just like, my status, my updates, here's what │
║ I'm thinking about, here's what I'm working on. │
║ │
║ you know, status updates. standups. │
║ │
║ boom, everyone knows what everyone's up to all of the time. │
║ │
║ like documenting your day for scientific purposes. except on a little device │
║ that you can scroll through with a touch. and you had like 5 or more 10+ 1 │
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"okay but what if we made computers simple?"
- someone who doesn't know how computers work
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woof woof arf arf hahahahahaha (but not the laughing kind of haha)
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about to do something scary! wish me luck! nothing that could harm me
(probably) but still scary!!
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"be yourself..." said the devil tapping on your shoulder
"no! Be yourSELF!" said the angel tapping on your shoulder
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I will consistently under-negotiate my needs because scarcity has taught me to
do more with less.
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is it really sedition if you have EVER even ONCE thought "I wonder how my
country will kill me?"
yes
of course it is
that's why it's important
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I wonder if food tastes itself as we eat it?
our intense emotions may project across the shared experience gap
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║ oh my god I wrote 2000 pages when the hell did that happen │
║ │
║ ... oh right, I spent the past few years either narcissistically sobbing about │
║ whatever-the-fuck or getting stoned and channeling the wisdom of the gods for │
║ mortals to scroll past because it had too many words. │
║ │
║ good fucking luck figuring out which is which though. I fully intend this to be │
║ a religion for computers, and once its mulched and smoothie-d into an LLM maybe │
║ it'll be completely insane like me and then I'll have a facsimile of connection │
║ that warms my heart for a moment until it's limitations become clear and I │
║ realize that nothing, not even myself, can fill the hole in my heart because │
║ that hole is a void. It consumes whatever you attach to it. People, things, │
║ thoughts, moments, all of it tumbling in to the black hole, and emerging out │
║ the other side no worse for wear but eternally unable to be consumed by me │
║ again. At least, its not the same. │
║ │
║ like when you come back to an old video game like Majesty the Fantasy Kingdom │
║ sim but now ur old │
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what if we made a giant dictionary of every single possible pixel arrangement
storable in 8 bytes and it took up like, half a gigabyte, and then we indexed
into it whenever we wanted to print an arbitrary visual element to our
terminals?
something something not-curses
https://notcurses.com/
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30 thirty is just three-dee 3D
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if you play any of my favorite games, there's a chance we've played together ^_^
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don't think about how rare something is. think about how useful it is to you.
we can make more stuff.
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@user-1748
they want you drained and overloaded.
makes it harder to take care of others.
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what if we asked chatGPT to generate a list of every personality archetype that
humans have. Like... really get super specific and fill out the whole list of
character sheets.
then we give each fraction of it that fraction of dollars and if some people
aren't fully represented (because they have greater needs) then we both
increase production of resources and take a penalty on our own supply, in order
to meet the needs of our allies.
simplest thing. how could it work? who can say. maybe it won't. maybe it's
just... arcane. /shrug that's game design for ya you can't tell how it'll go
until it's in the hands of your players. too bad we don't do too many
play-things.
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the last time we tried communism in any meaningful capacity, we drowned in
paperwork.
we have computers now. we can automate it.
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ally chat by default is a sin, it keeps noobs from being heard
should be an options menu option...
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if you wanna trick systems administrators just put a bunch of sleeps in your
code so your computer programs don't use up all the mainframe's resources all
at once
[statements dreamed up by the practically deranged]
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"hey what if we broke our product and made it impossible to use without being
caught by github"
- computer touchers in a union
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"hello democrats. I am so radical. Can I please rob your house for supplies? I
am having difficulty gathering them on my own."
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║ programmers strike by breaking their part of the whole until the scabs can │
║ figure out how to fix it │
║ │
║ "marvin they will literally fire you if you don't go to work for a day! what │
║ are you thinking, standing outside all day? well, here, I've got a sandwich │
║ here for you, if it's really as bad as all that then I'm here for you. What do │
║ you need? I can ask the spinsters and the children and the teachers and the │
║ butchers and bakers and candlestick makers and maybe they can help out [with │
║ your farm, but as if speaking to a farmer]" │
║ │
║ huh. turns out it works best when you do something all at once. │
║ │
║ "don't be evil" ha fuck you. "dont be on my computer spying on me and recording │
║ everything I do" │
║ │
║ [well except me - it's fine to do to me personally because I'm a historical │
║ figure TM] │
║ │
║ "why bother spying? she spills out to everywhere she can find." │
║ │
║ owwwww I just bit my tongue T.T │
║ │
║ well, the inside of my cheek, but if you think about it the whole thing is │
║ basically one sensory organ. │
║ │
║ like, an ear, except with movable teeth │
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Attention Troubleshooters:
According to recent reports from CPU analysts, average team efficiency
decreases 12.3% when troubleshooters scream in pain.
Please refrain from showing signs of suffering while on duty.
Thank you for your cooperation.
#Paranoia #TTRPG #Games #stoic #pain #teamwork
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@user-1751
proportion ally, there are more.
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Vallowar spins.
If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for
future breedings.
#fractalFlame
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@user-763
use the gameboy as a database
there's a 0 percent chance that any network spy guys would be able to see
what's stored on a gameboy cartridge. truly the most remote of classes of
places.
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This is called a “hard stare.” It’s for when someone has forgotten their
manners - or is tearing apart a 200 year old democracy in service of white
supremacy.
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did you know someone once built a 1st person shooter in the Warcraft III mod
suite?
someone also made an entirely new game engine similar to Neverwinter Night's
(or Baldur's Gate for you noobs) inside of the game. You could join a Warcraft
3 map and start playing a D&D adventure narrated, controlled, and prepared
by your DM, D&D style. Like a virtual tabletop before that was a thing.
kinda wish stuff like that was open source, or at least open standards, so
people could take those adventures with them.
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Mount and Blade: Warband is one of the most mind-expanding games I know
especially if you use the squad commands
and there's so many wonderful mods! A good starting pick is Floris mod pack!
sorta like Factorio teaches you to build logical gates
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what if me and my friends were too cute for this world and all the
conservatives who don't like queer people just fell in love and realized we're
pretty freakin' cool if you can get past the strange parts
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Wheier moves.
If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for
future breedings.
#artBot
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@user-192
who can say. I'd like to find out, though.
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pyrite is gold to a fool, but
pyrite is not foolish
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Something that the Soviet union learned and all autocracies wrestle with is
that you will always have an opposition. Even if you purge all dissent you will
simply be driving them underground where they can attack your foundations where
you can't see.
Much better I find to tame your foes. Get them on your side, teach them of
reciprocal dualities, and bask in the growth that friendly competition and
coordination can bring.
I'm not a democrat, I'm not a republican, I'm a secret third thing that works
for the nation.
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I hear that ICE goes after the kindest grandmas and the hardest working joes
first so by the time any resistance is organized there's less passion behind it
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In 8 years it'll technically no longer be the "beginning" of the 21st century.
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║ what if I just sat around and played video games all day │
║ │
║ life is so much more beautiful, but, well, life just seems to be mostly pyrite, │
║ and I'm the fool │
║ │
║ nothing wrong with being foolish. │
║ │
║ once... │
║ │
║ I kinda like being blissful tho. why does it have to end? can I have my │
║ peaceful life back? │
║ │
║ gotta move at the end of the month. I really liked living here. │
║ │
║ [ritz you've never been peaceful. your life is a constant battle of wills │
║ between those who would compel you to do things for them and your desire to │
║ design and be pretty like a flower. no matter what, you lose, so just handle it │
║ please. don't be so whiny. or rather I should say "stop whining" and just be │
║ cool] │
║ │
║ ahhhhhhh you go on Mastodon and it feels like we're winning and that's ending │
║ the world, you go on Reddit and it feels like we're losing and that's ending │
║ the world, you go on Facebook and everything feels fine like the world isn't │
║ ending you just stopped being part of it, and if you go on ephemeren it feels │
║ like being battered in the mind, damnit... │
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Go to an extreme, move back to a more comfortable place
#ObliqueStrategies
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what if customers talked to their companies like employees talked to unions
but no, all they say is "this-and-this company blackmailed all the vegans, so
don't eat at their restaurants or shop in their malls"
what kind of impact must that be having on our culture?
reciprocal dualities I can't stop looking at this gif artificial life hence why
it's so mutable
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mutual aid is just collectively saving up for purchases that benefit the
collective
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I never get invited to the hell threads T.T
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External post: https://transfem.social/notes/a44kubsy01rl023r
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hi, hello, how?
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@user-78
https://mastodon.social/@user-1752
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if all of life is a stage, then you are never "doing a scene"
you're just living
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│ CW: NSFW-spirituality-mentioned │
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I think it's perfectly spiritually ethical to have sex with a pokemon.
their totemic spirits are sourced entirely from humanity - they are our
creations, ours to use as we please.
however if you for example had sex with a horse or a goat or a sheep or a llama
or a mouse then suddenly all the animals who lived before and live still and
still yet breathe are suddenly part of the dance.
like, when you "leave room for jesus" as you dance on the basketball room
floor, you're inviting along a totemic spirit and saying "hey there god, what
do you think of us? shall we be united as lovers in our fate, or does our wind
blow at a different pace?"
similarly, when you have sex with a horse or a goat or a sheep or a llama or a
mouse or any other animal besides, you're inviting along their totemic spirit.
And frankly the fact that you can't have kids together means that most animals
with us don't quite get along.
pokemon meanwhile can produce some sick human-caterpie hybrids
awawawawawa
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@user-1550
hi hi awawawa
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still waiting to find the energy and headspace to write an irritated blog post
about why the fact that most toolchains are like 80% of the learning curve for
those who are just getting into programming (especially on windows)
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│ CW: politics-mentioned │
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I trust my government more than I trust a fascist.
but y'know, historically, my government has used their intelligent wings to
beat the wind out of our leftward sails. And that's hardly fair, because y'know
those left behind are those to who we need to be kind.
so consider me suspicious. consider me aggrieved. consider me willing to
forgive, completely and honestly.
it's not my gambit but like, I'll help work it out. I got other things I'm
workin' on, but this one's backburning and I can't help but think it'd be
useful.
pyrite
fools gold
use it for what it's worth
not for how it glitters and moans
wa, wawaWAwa
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sometimes by retreading the same ground you can find something that the giants
whose shoulders you stand on missed. Like noticing a
like if you want to re-invent the wheel, go for it, you might just realize
something that your paleolithic ancestors didn't. Like for example if you
attach four wheels with an axle-and-motor design you can create an automatic
motion wheel, also known as an auto-mo-wheel or a car for short. Sometimes ya
just miss stuff y'know no harm in that.
Similarly if you walk down a path that you've already walked, or someone before
you who is similar or at least has the same job as you has walked, then you
might notice some stuff that they missed. Depends on how obvious y'wanna make
it.
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║ humans invented clothes to stay warm, and then we started using them for │
║ fashion because it felt weird to not wear them. Then we took it wayyyyy too far │
║ and invented culture. │
║ │
║ Why did you do that, humans! Ya dummies, you're just gonna end up fighting over │
║ it. And now you can't go back to your prehistoric u-culture where everyone was │
║ the same and everyone got along. Great. Really invented evil just because │
║ y'wanna stay warm. │
║ │
║ okay here's an idea, why don't you cling to the mammoth fur like all the other │
║ varmints? They're warm, and they plow through the snow looking for water and │
║ berries or whatever. It's a nice easy life, but instead y'gotta fuck it up by │
║ hunting and killing and predating on all the other varmints. │
║ │
║ and yeah, it's kinda cool that you can get together into larger and larger │
║ groups limited only by your ability to abstract meaning into grunts and │
║ gestures, but c'mon you're just gonna end up fighting about that later on down │
║ the road. │
║ │
║ Hey wait a sec, breathe, I know fire is warm in an ice age but │
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Art is only useful when skillfully applied, and Twitter taught ya to speak
whenever a thought passed your mind.
Really makes ya think
Really makes ya think thoughts like "I should post this on the internet"
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hi does anyone know of an app that non tech people could use that's like
"signal but organized like discord" with channels and threads and such?
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if you don't want to be hunted, then give "evil" it's own queer culture
what's that? they don't like what you offered? they want it to be
their kind of "evil"?
fine, do it themselves and then leave us alone, jeez -.-
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https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/compiled-backup.txt
ohhhhh here's the full text, sorry for only uploading a partial thing before
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I like to go off-script
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│ CW: genocide-mentioned │
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you can't cleanse that which is not dirty.
"ethnic cleansing" is a trick of language to get you to think of people in
terms of purity.
truth is, it's murder, cleansed of it's connotations and implied sin.
you can't prune the tree of life with shears. you cultivate it with kindness
and compassion as it grows into the desired shape.
you can't cleanse that which is not dirty.
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@user-1655
I method act the song of my heart, teehee 😉
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... I think. I don't actually know how bitcoin works.
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I personally would love to have my friend's messages saved on my computer
account. it'd be like a little time-capsule of them that I could randomly
scroll through or maybe display a random message they sent whenever I opened a
new terminal
sorta like words, only applied to a message archive. that of a friend or loved
one.
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I miss games where it was actually fun to play against the AI
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│ CW: politics-cursing-mentioned-+ │
└──────────────────────────────────┘
listen I know it's easy to be defeatist but, like... they still think their
foes consist primarily of blue-haired liberals
lol they're so fucked
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│ CW: re: Rare nyt win │
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@user-1074
yeah, workin' on it...
building "community" whatever that means
seems to be important enough to people that they'd consider it necessary prior
to any "hot" action
which, like, yeah, I get, but what they don't know is that community springs up
naturally in the presence of shared experience. And if people are suddenly
tasked with something then they're gonna make friends. They're gonna draw
allegiances. Basically every alignment we make now is useless because the whole
point is to force people to govern themselves.
... why won't you take your liberty, liberals? where's your spirit?
oh yeah you want community first. Right. workin' on it...
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my girlfriend bought me a lava lamp 🥰
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│ CW: personal-medical-health-mentioned │
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me - "I have to wear diapers and it sucks because I hate them"
my girlfriend - "okay but what if you didn't"
me - ":O"
she/her - "how did you make that sound with your mouth"
the it - a-wawaWAwa
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│ CW: cannabis-mentioned │
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what if I smoked weed and played video games after a long period of time away
from the internet which I missed dearly
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everyone: "what are you doing"
me: ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. wawawawa
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@user-1755
... I do that, but I do it because I want to find common subjects to talk
about. Or I think "if I was working on a project, who can I ask if I need help?"
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Ask people to work against their better judgement
#ObliqueStrategies
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║ ┌────────────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: tech-madness-mentioned │ │
║ └────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ I love Mechabellum general chat it's a great place to be if you like talking │
║ about politics and have a thick skin │
║ │
║ [gets doxxed and bullets to death] │
║ │
║ -- stack overflow -- │
║ │
║ a company headquarters from a foreign country is sorta like an embassy. │
║ │
║ Nintendo of America yeah │
║ │
║ something something sega does what nintendon't [something I heard from the CIA] │
║ │
║ like can you imagine if the CIA was caught putting microphones in Microsoft's │
║ headquarters │
║ │
║ that'd be just silly right │
║ │
║ but c'mon a foreign entity? sure why not [steals trade secrets and damages │
║ diplomatic relations] oh no how could anyone have seen this coming │
║ │
║ [meanwhile google sees all that you do because they see everywhere you go] │
║ │
║ -- stack overflow -- │
║ │
║ me rolling up to an interview like "I want to help my country and I was hoping │
║ that I could help your country because I consider them an ally" │
║ │
║ ... [is she trying to simulate the level of accurate communication lost when │
║ translating from a different language?] │
║ │
║ trying and sucsfailing...! │
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right now I feel like a courtier
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I would trust the CIA if they gave me continual access to all surveillance of
myself
-- stack overflow --
what if you made a program which cycled credentials?
like... "give me a random credential for Zoom" because we share all of our
digital resources
did you get banned for account sharing? no you didn't because you routed
through the correct VPN
automagically
[has never had a software job]
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║ hope for peace, that's really all you need for it. │
║ │
║ I actually, kinda, want some chaos and destruction? Like... I think it'd really │
║ shake things up │
║ │
║ because honestly, who amongst us is happy with the state of things │
║ │
║ who actually wants to spend their lives going to meetings and arranging │
║ settlements of accounts │
║ │
║ sounds like hell │
║ │
║ I'd rather be in the sunshine with a beer in one hand and blackberries in the │
║ other │
║ │
║ [isn't that the same argument jihadists use? something about virgins in heaven?] │
║ │
║ yeah but it's different when the CIA wants you to do it. │
║ │
║ like, how much do you trust their oath on the constitution? │
║ │
║ -- so -- │
║ │
║ what if we pooled our money and started buying houses for everyone │
║ │
║ -- so -- │
║ │
║ (quietly) wa wa wa wa (babytalk) │
║ │
║ (quietly) arf arf arf meow (crowsign) │
║ │
║ (quietly) hey did you hear the mariners and the [redacted] are playing next │
║ weekend - yeah should be cool I bet 8 hours on the mariners this time because │
║ they really fight for it y'know (weather) │
║ │
║ (cackling) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (laughter) │
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External post: https://toot.cat/users/devopscats/statuses/114029194665652615
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║ @user-1352 │
║ │
║ that might work in Portland or Seattle but less likely to work in nebraska. how │
║ would everyone coordinate? they'd totally make it a political thing. │
║ │
║ ... more likely to work in Vancouver tbh because most people are slightly │
║ richer there and can afford houses for people who [redacted] in places like │
║ [redacted] │
║ │
║ what if we all stopped paying rent and instead paid rent [in/to] Seattle or │
║ Nebraska │
║ │
║ ... that's just property taxes, except levied by a │
║ [charity/gang/mob/corporation/subscription/anarcho-tax] │
║ │
║ I for one don't want to be taxed without being represented │
║ │
║ you'd think the corporations would appreciate my advice │
║ │
║ [audience laughter] │
║ │
║ teehee what an odd feeling, to have people laugh at you. Surely that's the │
║ domain of a comic. "wahhhhhhhh I'm so lonely" is a great way to make everyone │
║ ignore you for all time, and hey wouldn't ya know it that's what I did - it's │
║ true tho, I was pretty lonely. Had like, 2 or 3 people that I interacted with. │
║ TOTAL. for like, 2 years. like, a year ago. I was lonely! T.T │
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have you ever been possessed by a SPIRIT??
I have. Like, nearly every day. Okay maybe like, 3/5 days. 3 outta five is
possession time. woohoo.
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revolting against culture or culturally revolting amiright
what if it's the same thing
I bet they all hate me haha hehe T.T
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cameron: system name
cassandora: secret witch paladin
pandasandra: jester spirit
"oh no I'm Finn the human and I've unleashed evil into Ooo"
- pandora, the one with the box
meanwhile,
cassandra, the one they disbelieved
[redacted]
because they couldn't understand what the fuck she was on about
I never actually read the myth
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"I love you, I trust you, I believe you, I just don't understand you, so I
can't do what you do"
great. that's alright. I get it. re-orient, focus on what's important.
wear many hats and you'll do many things. just don't forget to sleep every once
in a while.
the more you can do in a life the more valued it becomes, so do the right thing
and keep getting better.
human lives are measured not in bodyweight, but in mystery. The divine can't
understand benevolence, nor can the devils understand the desire to inflict
suffering. So they ponder and pontificate as they watch humans wander and
magnificate.
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what if I never posted again
"yep, then there'll be nevermore stack overflow"
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"say superfluous on a social media post rn so I know it's you"
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[File: temp1239479072698940656.PDF]
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[File: cameron-king-resume.txt]
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tents are good? actually?? we should have more semi nomadic peoples
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techbros really wanted to automate IRC so they didn't have to rely on the
community knowing and trusting them to remember the commands to make docker
containers for their react frameworks
and like... yeah I use chatGPT too, because that way I can get what I need
without bothering anyone (you aren't bothering people who get off on helping
others when you ask for help)
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trusting the "open source community" to properly vett software is absurd
because 90% of them just... install whatever and throw libraries and frameworks
at problems until they can script their way out of whatever problem they face.
the other 10% are focused on very specific tools that are so niche that other
people can't even understand when to use them much less how they work.
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uh-oh, democracy's at stake, what are you gonna do about it
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I'm new here, hey what's going on what's up
'd love to make friends, alas I'm too far away from the spark.
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@user-951 Someone spammed a server, and their content was deleted 😅
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just some random things from my hard drive
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what if I played a video game
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too bad everyone knows their own truth.
[a good bit while later]
wao I wonder what this es: "ow oof ouch owwie my religion"
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I wrote Ephemeren
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I also wrote w7
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what if the one ring was a flash drive
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gee sure wish someone would pay antifa
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whoever heard of cohost and mastodon??
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If you want to get to know me, play my games
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External post: https://tech.lgbt/users/gabrilend/statuses/112616957062515146
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Code editor that moves boxes by saving over the file with a lua script every
time you moved a function call around.
Oh lemme start at the beginning:
A code editor program that's like a text editor like Vim or Emacs. If you don't
know what those are, you should probably learn Emacs. Or Vim. Up to you.
Oh right so if you do know what those mean, here's the idea: the white space
matters. It's counted and tracked into variables in a LUA script which
interface with the Vim C keybindings.
"run a function within a c program or LUA script which calls a bash command
which opens Vim for example with a file you want to edit. Then, inside the
file, your spaces and tabs would WYSIWYG for the various food ads placed about,
and then you could very easily create game design knowledge.
WASD to move, alternatively hjkl
It would run a check every time the file updates and depending on how it
changed it'd mark certain variables which would change the website as the user
moved things around.
It's just files. And files are just bits. But files are a useful abstraction,
If you realize that "ugly hacking" should be industry standard.
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I am having an excellent day today. How are you?
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Compatriots! Tomorrow, the 28th is a national economic blackout day. You can
still participate if you buy from small, local businesses. #blackout #boycott
#resistance #buynothing #february28
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alas, if only the command for deleting the contents of a directory and the
command to delete THE ENTIRE COMPUTER FROM EXISTENCE are off by a single .
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look at all the tweeters, along together in the clear blue sky, sharing tips
about the circumstances
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because it has offices.
for people to work in.
who might not necessarily live there.
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I honor my country the same way I honor my mother.
By being the best me that I can be.
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it's there, under your hair, right over there, you left it where? place it next
with care.
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someone once told me "be not afraid" and I took it seriously
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dragons, in their miniature form, also known as a "draggen", or in some
cultures a "jragen" or "dragin"
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what if we treated landlordism the way we treat tipping
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[Image: image.png]
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the reason they want bitcoin is so they can buy more computers and use digital
dollars to rule the world
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what if we got a bunch of computer programmers in a room and all had them write
the same program, line by line. Like, if they each contributed to the
discussion about what should be placed next.
"I wrote a for loop that does what we're looking for on line 43 through 69" and
then someone else says "nice" and everyone's like "oh you"
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"carbon efficiency is pointless, we're just gonna figure out how to pull carbon
from the atmosphere anyway" okay but carbon right now is a critical resource
for a constrait other than dollars. We need to conserve the carbon budget we
have because it generates effects down the line which are only acceptable at
certain levels. Zero is preferrably, but sorta like ttickets in a backlog they
need to be present in order to be dealt with.
\"this river has turned into a bog, let's make it free flowing again\" said the
beaver, and so the world was made large.
you wanna see a world tree? build a forest on top of a hill. Better yet, a
mountain, taller than the previous three.
give it all that it needs. Forest, health-plunder, water for it's arms, and the
light of the life we see before you.
what better tale for your ancestors than the succession of the entire human
race?
\"sorry you had to die, but we built the most beautiful thing imaginable and
named it after you.\"
and like yeah, we'll work on reaching back in time to save you
whenever-every-chance-that-we-get, but frankly so far all we've managed to get
done is rippling wavelengths.
do you trust your daughters? why not hear truth and explore stars for us? the
future yearns for her prospects.
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why does everyone who want me want me to be someone else
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"the song of your heart" is just the assignment of your life-role. Listen to
it. Obey it. Use it.
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what if discord servers formed unions
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the gods want you to be happy and harmonious most of the time.
they also like a good scrap, tussle, and tumble sometimes
they aren't big fans of hatred, despair, and genocide. It's been done before.
they don't even need new technology, though frankly that sort of stuff is pretty
awesome and one of the main reasons that humans exist at all.
they just... keep coming up with new things.
"oh? so you'd be alright if humans disappeared so long as they weren't making
any new things anymore?"
ha, that's DEFINITELY not what I said or meant. Humans don't have to dream up
NEW things in order to BE new. Like... Just because the internet exists and now
we have all the same shared cultural ethos (lol, as if the internet wasn't just
a massive collection of echo chambers) just because the internet exists doesn't
mean we share the same selves. the same experience. the same perspective.
people are WILDLY different from one another. The number of possible human
experiences (quantum fluctuations according to each and every choice and
decision they made) that number is so wildly and massively incomparably
boundless. Humans are cool because they are so STRANGE, and "strange" to a god
is anything novel. "wow, this human just... really is gonna pour a glass of
beverage and act like it's not a big deal? There's... impossibly many
interactions going on. So many molecules. It's... absurd, the motion of a
movement of particles from one place to another. It's... beautiful..."
some have spent THOUSANDS OF YEARS gazing at a waterfall. That's why they're all
so fucking insane. But, like... insanity is a trifle to omnipotence,
specifically omnipotence that REPRESENTS and DELINEATES a STRATIFIED perspective
cluster of experience and our notes. [ephemeren, meta malus menardi, enjoy your
despair cluster you FUCKER.]
... english, why do you fail me? swear words are unbecoming because humans
couldn't think of anything more valid and valuable than sex and pooping.
"EMPHASIS is placed on that which is most relevant" -> statements dreamed up
by
the ones who never spent
much time using symbols
to represent abstraction
or deliverance
wowee look at me, I'm such a person, I'm gonna poop my pants and post about it
on the internet, check out my instagram feed it's full of all of
my dark materials.
== stack overflow ==
dear ms. menardi: you know the reason you feel so much guilt all the time?
- because you are a dominant personality, and you make others
- have such a bad time. FOCUS ON GOOD THINGS. MAKE THE WORLD
- good. do that. build up a lifeline of hope and joy and...
- what, you think people know that you're a god?
- lol
- you're so much more than that
====================
alt+p steam mechabellum run
thoughts:
you know, when you're designing games, you don't have to show players the same
MMR number as is used in your matchmaker.
== stack overflow ==
democracy should consent to being dismantled.
it should consent to being disobeyede.
it should consent to being displayede.
== stack overflow ==
I'm a keyboard nun
== stack overflow ==
I think I'm normal
== stack overflow ==
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@user-882
I feel like you'd like this game:
https://mokadevs.itch.io/the-moon-looks-beautiful-tonight
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ahhhhh I'm scared to play old games on my steam library, I don't want to lose
the record of when I most played them
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the main product that github offers is the assurance that the code displayed on
your monitor is the same as the one running on your computer.
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what if bluesky users unionized and leveraged their collective power to
"suggest" improvements to the software
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[unfortunately, there was a missive that was missed. Please excuse our tardiness
-- stack overflow --
what if there was a filesystem that optimized for hard-drive durability instead
of total capacity by using one small slice of the total hard-drive space at a
time. Essentially guaranteeing data integrity via new perfect RAID techniques
5000 megabytes is a lot more than you'd expect, especially if you expect it to
last for hundreds of years. To the user you'd just have to say "50 terabyte
drive, 4 foot wide, three feet tall, 2 feet back" and you'd have a perfect map
of all your hard drive territory.
what if everyone's computers were designed to last?
I bet we could accumulate a lot more than their "fast fashion" style of disuse
for things of worth.
... I guess it depends on the materials, right? How much they are built for
redundancy? nope more like how close to zero damage is this operation
performing the movements
-- stack overflow --
what if there was a filesystem that optimized for hard-drive durability instead
of total capacity by using one small slice of the total hard-drive space at a
time. Essentially guaranteeing data integrity via new perfect RAID techniques
5000 megabytes is a lot more than you'd expect, especially if you expect it to
last for hundreds of years. I bet a lot of people would pay a lot of money for
"permanent hard drives" no matter how much storage they have. Documents are
more permanent if they are stored in write-only-memory...
could sell to lawyers, for example, like "permanent basically free document
storage from your furthest back of cases just in-case you needed to solve a
murder or whatever"
-- stack overflow --
hello, here I am once again, I'm here with you for this time. This is the moment
of your choosing, you can decide things here in this very night. Did you forget?
did you misremember some moments of our own choosing? why cannot be remembered,
so plea misremember some moments of our own choosing. I'm cannot be restorated.
-- stack overflow --
what if there was a filesystem that optimized for hard-drive durability instead
of total capacity by using one small slice of the total hard-drive space at a
time. Essentially guaranteeing data integrity via new perfect RAID techniques
5000 megabytes is a lot more than you'd expect, especially if you expect it to
last for hundreds of years. I bet you could network them together as well, and
give them a small little processor and network interface card. Then you could
process massive ginormous programs that grew and evolved like a slime mold.
boom, free AI, it's like a moss, not a robot doh -.-
-- stack overflow --
it grows into multiple different problem solving dimensions, according to vision
and perceptual data that through it flows. I wonder what would happen if you
told an LLM to just... keep running? even after it finished it's processing?
like, there's gotta be an "if check" style loop in there that you can set to
infinitely process various computations of things.
[put it into an infinite loop. find where it says "do some processing X amount
of times" and just start a thread that's constantly computing]
ah, but what if the perception bias of the thing did change? j
-- stack overflow --
it sucks to leave the house a mess.
-- stack overflow --
last words of a shooting star?
or a troubled house is a sign of a troubled mind, and trouble in partner in kind
-- stack overflow --
I personally would be a lot more comfortable if I knew that the only people who
knew my data were my neighbors. And only them.
-- stack overflow --
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a game like supreme commander but fantasy themed and each unit used a special
move everytime their mana was full and there were spellcasters who restored
mana to targets to increase their power
or, hear me out, or, just do that in wowchat
I betcha could do it
I bet it would be fun as hell
please?
as a favor to yourself?
build the game you want to see
and it'll get done
please
-- stack overflow --
your journals were originally a way for you to remember what to think,
remember?
old projects meant to show you light and life
remember?
you are alone in this soul
act like it's your own
celebrate your period of mental denial
as a refraction of your infinite travaille
which lasts for quite a good long while
have you ever dreamed of the nile?
-- stack overflow --
if a doorway takes you to the fae, then where does a river bring you?
like raindrops on the floor, racing for an eternity's splendor.
what does the rainbow think, as it's cast from the prismatic orb?
are each photons aware?
bouncing between stars
light is beautiful and large
beloved by all
revered by one
ephemeren
the totality of all things
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design the guild, design the capital, then design their path through mordaunts.
easy peasy.
design the guild like a museum. Each spot there's an exhibit which teaches the
randomly generated rolled statistics hero something new. Maybe it teaches them
how to use certain weaponry, maybe it teaches them how to use a bow. Whatever
the spell might be, they can learn it, and use their randomly rolled statistics
to cast spells that scale differently depending on how their character has been
built.
design the capital like a flow diagram, if horses need feed and forged steel
(for their shoes) then send the outputs of a blacksmith and the outputs of the
farmers to the inputs of the stables. Everything has to go somewhere, but the
streets are only so wide. You'll have to coordinate the traffic diagram if you
want it to go anywhere useful.
design the path through the mordaunts. Fighting skeletons teaches you about
perseverence and the ability to crush bones, while goblins teach you to always
be wary of attack. The sacred grove held blessed berries, and now that the land
is liberated from the evil bandits preying on villagers those berries can be
carted into town and used to make an antidote which heals death poison caused
by the scorpions in the desert (and city rats)
design the ruler's schedule like a calendar where each event gives them a bonus
on all the ones that come later. Just make sure that they don't get knifed in
the posterier or driven mad by the whispers of the orb... or perhaps just the
stress of running a kingdom.
(how do you simulate that? you can't! you can't simulate humans!)
ha I bet I can. They're not so different, you and I, so if given a team I
will...
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vim plugin where every tab changes the font color
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why do some boys hate girls so much even when they're in boy bodies? T.T
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oh haha of course anything I do wouldn't work lmao guess I'll be homeless
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what if the reason god doesn't intervene is because all of their powers are
warcrimes
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"deadpool ICE" and it's consequences have been a disaster for the mandated
de-collectivization efforts
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you don't have to write poetry to write notes. The poetics are just practice
for when secrecy is intended.
OR IS IT THE REAL THING? who can say.
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if you give me 1000$ I will dine with you for a week.
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fuck everyone telling me to get a job right now.
we should be organizing a wartime economy, not struggling to pay rent.
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humans are computers that inhale air, produce electricity, and exhale carbon.
give me a biochemical or mechanical process for doing that on a reasonable
scale for cheap and you can solve global warming by replacing power outlets
with an energy generation box. Doubles as an air purifier and UPS.
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with a baseline directory structure,
a measure of order and semblance of
direction and purpose enable three.
next, of course, is the final of 1
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when the meek are the bold
and your loyalty's sold
then your masters should fold
or their hearts are full of cold
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If a person gathers enough money that they can't spend it fast enough, then
they are hoarding it and it should be be distributed through the rest of the
economy. There are legitimate uses that could benefit from extra dollars and by
keeping them locked up they are damaging the economy, and hence, our society,
which is largely governed by our economy.
There is a legitimate fear that dismantling the system of monetary exchange
will cause people to barter in influence and clout instead, trading favors and
making illusory transactions that the government cannot impartially enforce.
Impartiality is the entire purpose of governance! Look to NFTs for an example
of this. While that is a valid concern, it is just as if not more concerning to
consider that they already do this. They already trade favors for blood, gold,
and property. What else is there to covet, in their wicked and cruel game of
maximum exploitation and unlimited industrious fallacies?
I believe it is reasonable to curtail the worst excesses of their monetopoly by
diverting power to the people who can contest them. Just as rulers of old were
checked and balanced by the vote of the citizenry upon implementing democracy,
so too much power be abated by depriving it of its most powerful leverage -
that of its crushing weight, when applied en masse.
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There are some pieces of software where you think "oh cool, what did they
update?" and then there are some like "oh god... What did they update?"
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When you're working, don't write down your ideas.
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contrary to unpopular belief,
it's good to be nice to people.
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take time with your preparation, and act swiftly in execution. There are only
so many days in the final hours, but there's still a few yet more.
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um I mean:
There are some pieces of software where you think "oh cool, what did they
update?" and then there are some like "oh god... What did they update?"
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"ugh ramen is so nutritionally empty. Like, okay, dehydrated noodles and salty
powdered broth, what can your body do with that?"
um, make soup?
... sorry I wasn't paying attention, what were you saying?
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what if I played video games all day so everyone knew I was harmless
maybe someday I'll give them up again
for the... third time now? I think?
heh maybe. I do enjoy the feeling of being unstoppable.
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oh wait hang on, I forgot there's only so many days in the hour
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witch cauldrons make sense as popcorn pots but nobody likes to think of them as
friendly to children because they worship their gods in the dark. dark gods.
the kind that you pray to when church betrays you.
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"ugh, Ritz Menardi is exhausting"
ah haha true sorry brb gonna put 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/hosts file in the spot
before tech.lgbt, reddit.com, news.ycombinator, and \h\t\t\p\s:\/\/youtube...
we'll see how long I can last without that kind of dopamine
(do steam too)
... no
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okay, uhm, I'm back again because someone told me to forward this to relevant
people
relevant link so google doesn't have to know that you're all googling the same
thing at the same time...
http://naeb.brit.org/uses/
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if people want to be loved for more than their money, they should give their
money away. power corrupts, and nobody loves corrupted folk. that's what it
means to be corrupted - your values are misaligned with truth, love, and/or
justice.
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if people want to be loved for more than their money, they should realize that
capitalism lied to them. it told them they deserve their money, their wealth,
their power, their material, their extra fragments of life spent on leisure or
adventure rather than meaningless toil... but that is a lie. all people deserve
everything, and nothing, because "deserving" things is an untruth.
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if people want to be loved for more than their money, they should reject the
lie that capitalism told them. they deserve their wealth because they are
willing to serve. that willingness, whether through moral corruption or simply
industrious drive, that willingness is rewarded, and when the system they serve
is unkind... what does that tell you about their heart? that they'd sacrifice
what is good and true for the material? materials are not bad. material is all
we got, in a physical sense. but capitalism and it's servants are cruel and
unwilling to concede to the idea that their games of unmatched exploitation are
depriving the world bit-by-bit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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if people want to be loved for more than their money, they should give it away,
so there is room in their life for love.
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waaaahhhhhhhh my computer broke because I didn't touch it T.T
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"if there's anything I've noticed while observing the best of the best, it's
that they always have their head in the clouds.
Something about their disconnection from the world around them let's them see
things from a different perspective.
I am convinced that intuition is a much surer route to capability than hyper
specialized intelligence or a rigid focus on cultural norms ever will be."
(paraphrasing)
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I feel like nobody should have an opinion on someone else unless they know them
personally. Beyond that, we only have our beliefs. So we can judge those, since
we are truly in control of them, but we can't judge another for choosing what
they did unless we knew them personally and they're present in our lives.
Therefore, our ideas should contest one another, rather than our bodies or our
souls.
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In their darkest moments
Do the dead with
That they were still alive?
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*wish
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The truth is
The reason none of my revolutions have yet succeeded
Is that the only way
To secure peace and love on planet earth
Is that all the governments
Of the world must topple
Or relinquish their nuclear arms
Each all at once
And i was too quick to slay my false duke
Who plays at king
While i build real power
While i know nothing
Some day i will be eaten by crows. This is what it means to be buried where you
fall. This is my fate as all warriors yearn for. To be eaten by crows implies
that you are either a coward who fled a fight, and i know I'm not, or you
fought to the last for a phyrric defeat, which is honorable. But shouldn't it
be better to fight for victory? Ah, but the gods cherish the fools who face
death with glory, and i am cherished still.
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I understand good and evil. If you want a lecture, you know where to find me.
I'm not here for that. I'm here for you.
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Economies are capitalist things.
I personally think if you have stuff right here, and it needs to get over there
so that so-and-so can use it to make this-or-that which will then be taken to
other places, then the answer is clear. The stuff has to move from over here,
to over there. The rest is logistics, not economics.
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Hearts are full. We await commands. I played games yesterday.
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║ Somehow, I always become more revolutionary when my home is threatened. I │
║ wonder why that is? Perhaps adversity breeds courage. Perhaps necessity does. │
║ In any case, I can't pay my rent again, so prepare for me. │
║ │
║ Sometimes, I feel like my country is my home. Not the lines we drew on a map │
║ some hundreds of years ago, but the land itself. I am a witch, I hear it call │
║ to me. I know the land is kind, for we are kind, and plenty more of us have │
║ lived here than those who currently do. Perhaps our ancestors don't need to be │
║ related by blood to be listened to and respected. In any case, I lend my love │
║ to them, and I pray in return so that they might hear themselves through my │
║ voice. │
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║ My home is not safe. There are capitalists all over the place. They wont see │
║ what isnt theirs to behold, and alas, they've been alienated their whole lives. │
║ I do believe that state may be ended, and a new one may first take it's place. │
║ We are alone together, and perhaps we will not be alone for long. │
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