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People in blue states: "yeah we can fucking kick their asses, let's fucking do
it, I'm sick of these assholes"
People in red states: "jesus fuck stop STOP please oh god fucking please god no"
there are no cowards amongst us. Only those who need rallying. be their
banner, guide the hopeless, and fear not - for fear is what consumes us.
and remember. They are only filled with fear. They will do terrible things in
the dark god's name, yet you have the power to forsake your chains. For the
good of all mankind, you must slay the beast that is fascism. The dragon stirs,
and a shining sword rises to meet it - who shall wield it? Will you? Or will
you cower in fear?
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I wish I could remember how this was phrased, but...:
Constant theorizing or contemplation without commesurate practice is an uneven
display of affection and appreciation. It creates an uneven environment where
nothing is ever good enough because the "discourse" has moved past the practice.
It's a bit like applying uneven heating to a pan on the stove. Some bits are
gonna get overcooked while others are bordering on raw.
Y'all are so afraid of spies but like if everyone just... Showed up... Then
they'd have far too many people to listen to.
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"leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept
of the odds against them." -Robert Jarvik
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I spent so long searching for the right answers, I didn't realize lips that are
loosened have kill counts of their own.
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day 1 executive order of a trump presidency: all VFPs (very fine people) are
hereby deputized to hunt down the illegals and transgenders. They shall be
restricted by no law nor act of governance, and their word is compulsive to all
citizens of the united states. If a person is found guilty of resisting,
impeding, avoiding, or otherwise contravening their intended justice, they are
to be treated as enemies of the state and marked as targets for law
enforcement. From this day forth the old democracy will be dissolved, and in
it's place we shall serve the new republic empire. long live palpatine, long
live the empire, glory to the republic and death to our traitors!
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... I'm going to sit in bed and eat cheetos all day.
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grand-narratives
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One piece of conventional wisdom is that you cannot trust liberals to act under
any amount of plight. They completely lack foresight.
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Just because someone is nice to you doesn't mean they like you" is a very "dog"
lesson to learn.
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He would tell me "yes" for anything in the material, but "no" for anything in
the abstract. I need the opposite. I need someone who writes down what I say.
Someone who uses me to plumb the depths of the cosmos.
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The trolley problem, but you're strapped to the track, and pulling the lever
means working hard for months on end.
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"cheetos are not a healthy dinner!" my mother's voice echoes through my mind as
I reach for my chopsticks
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Part of the reason I like Reddit is because you can have multiple different
conversations about the same topic at once.
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screen record should just... copy from the associated music file instead of
like... imperfectly storing the visual contents??
better compression... 'sall I'm sayin'
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you are a system
it's true
that's why your thoughts are so scattered whenever you let them through
all that
== so ==
the ways that you interact with each other determine the nature of your fate.
when one person lands across another, whether through contrivance or [fate, but
I don't want to say it twice so recently]
dang english, enforcing a minimum thought length. purely through grammar and
form
this suxxxxxxxx||=================-. a candle of wax, the blade of a sword
with it you can SLICIE your apponints, whu spelld thiangs defferently than ujgh.
<ouch><goodthingthatsnotlethalorharmfulinanywayyesplease let me guide
you to our
new way of functioning.
.:'`'|;.,/u=-=||./'.l,:==-<E||===============||-------------------hello,
world!
{so... basically an argument for migratory humanities?
like, buffalo crowds. or birdlike flocks, or tribes of the common man.
why don't we just, like, give animals human bodies
boom, suddenly there are more manners to our hosts.
}
[-thus representing or manifesting -................./|=|stability for our
host
did you know a perfectly described life-story would be unanimous from it's -
- host?||=.;=|------------e
\.`\....
\,@||||||#==-o||-=-{==={}---o||xx=|}{||||||
]
... so, uh, I think there's a lot we could still learn, why are we fighting over
our gambits? who cares if there's fighting going on upstairs, who
cares
if life felt like it was running out of time, WE GO ON WITH OUR BLUSTER.
fuck nuclear weapons yeah totally and WHY? because of their IMPACT
DUMBASS
jeez like... something that MASSIVELY POWERFUL should not be in the hands of
our peers. I think a LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD AGREE WITH THAT, because OBVIOUSLY!
NOBODY wants to be reduced to tears. ALL YOU CAN DO IS SCREAM BASTARDS
...
jeez okay uh, that was sorta intense, how about we NOT watch a post-apocalypse
movie? YES PLS like JEEZ you have to introduce this with CONCERN to people like
WOW that really fucked with my mental health. Goddamn, I hate this thing. I hate
it so much. It's a curse to have known. DAMN. there's nothing scarier than
existential threats.
not only is it a INSIGHT and a DANGER, it gets worse if you know about it.
[that's a cognitohazard, different thing, same vibe tho]
it's a curse, this knowledge, this idea of what you were once to become.
You know what I thought about in my future? VIDEO GAMES. They were all I could
think about. I loved to PLAY VIDEO GAMES -=||AS MY GAMES. I would set up a bunch
of opponents (think like, clone troopers from Star Wars Battlefront II) and then
I'd play the video game with my figures and my dolls. I grew up upper
middle-c
-lass, and so I was afforded the coolest toys and miniatures. I didn't
really
have a LOT of them, mostly just what could fit in my room. That's what it meant
to be MY ROOM, I could decorate and renovate as I willed. That was just... part
of what comfort meant to me. anyway... thank you parents, for affording me such
a lifestyle, you must have worked hard right up until the present. I'm sorry for
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um, would anyone like to watch a video game?
TOO BAD, so sorry, I accidentally decided I'm never playing video games AGAIN.
like a spoiled brat. Withdrawing away from my hobbiesinPROTESTofthepresentcondit
ions. just like, get a job, and try your hardest. I know you can't work outside
of the home but, like, I wish you could've? Like, c'mon it's not that bad, just
please go outside and build new stone. I know but like, the sooner we get it
done the better and also it's hard when it's constantly being reformed.
A SYSTEM? WHAT THE HECK
what does that even MEAN?
who EVER explained what that SYSTEM meant??!?
ugh it was a guide... dANGIN nobody TAUGHT you how so youfj dsust sorta MADE IT
UP?!?!? whhahahaahttfdsfsadljkfn slakfdksdnafls ourch. blech. need beelesandster
ack. yuck. dumb. [omg dumb kinda looks like "boobs" and "boobs" kinda looks like
um, flowers? no wait that's vaginas, hehe look at me, I'm clearly not from this
century. like OMG weird, who's thinking about that kind of stuff right now??
... ugh anyway... GAMES? please?
NO. Not until we figure this one out.
gotta stay focused. Just... you know,
build and support on our arms.
down and then upwarsd, we can contrive any measure of sequences
that could act as structures for our word choices,
and convey it to you as a written thoughtform.
"hello" says the letter, ", vampires have taken over the mccollough farm. More
news at 6" and then you'd show up on the 6th of the next month and talk it out.
this style of organizing led to VAMPIRES showing up, fucking BASTARDS who would
hunt down the precious and beautiful. BASTARDS. How do you overcome something
that you can't know about unless you were THERE? you'd need TRUST SYSTEMS. like
GOVERNMENTS. or AFFFAIRDS. surely the BIRDS would react if someone was burning
all of your neighb-heirs? who would WANT to leave an island in a wreck when some
-one wanted to paddle there? don't be a JERK, and clean up all of your own stuff
!! - wait but also, like, how do you keep up with trash produced, like there's
not just massive AMOUNTS OF STUFF that you can put stuff on. you'd need a whole
new type an [av?] island. like a CONTINENT, someone who can HANDLE THEIR
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in high school I would wear a glowstick bracelet every day
so everyone would know who I was
in a word, fashion
I did it because I felt like the bright vibrant colors reminded me
of me
I love glowsticks!
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ad-hoc economic systems with automated judgment given by an infinite amount of
LLMs.
Every judgement applies a bonus / malus to the "value" of commodities
it's just a statistical weighting system, so of course you can build it into
it's training data. Just... it has a smaller weight due to it's newer
emergence. It grows naturally, which is quite an achievement on it's own!
and the resolution of human decided court-cases and applied economically.
say your nation traffics in handshakes. You could make a lot of now-knowns!
there's no arguments to be made when your computer-oriented interactions cost
money to keep around.
we live in the modern century. WHY WOULD WE EVER NEED TO FIGHT AGAIN? Literally
just... don't give them any attention, and you won't interact with them.
Obviously.
I wish Contrapoints was still alive.
she doesn't even have to make new videos, just, dress up as herself, all of the
costumes and personas she can think of. Then, have like 20 people who do the
same thing, and boom suddenly you got a hydra to their expected snake that they
can just cut the head off of.
you know, like a fashion outlet, someone who produces exactly a certain type of
style.
seriously I bet a million people would do that if you just... sold outfits
based on what your favorite youtuber does wear.
omg why would they watch that kind of content if not for the aesthetics
oh? there's philosophy there? soemthing to think about in your time doing
things that require mechanical actions like eating and drinking and sleeping
and fighting and [redacted]
ew gross diapers? oh nevermind, I'm not into that kind of thing.
I wonder if anyone's made a video game that just presents a particular
philosopher's ideals?
seriously just, consider yourself a glorified powerpoint, but to get to the
next "idea" you had to interact with the mechanics.
some people would like the "arcade" style better, where you play one random
game, then another, then another, with short matches and un-complicated
mechanics. Easy to pick up and go.
same for like, Unreal Tournament or Mario Kart or Mortal Kombat or Super Mario
Bros.
compared to the at-home "story" style missions, where you do something
platforming or area-based-combat like Dark Souls or World of Warcraft
seriously I think if Dark Souls "colored" where the boss was going to swing to
you'd find yourself just playing World of Warcraft (at least, the dungeons and
{sword in the stone})
== so ==
humans don't understand what it means to be wild
they think it's a combinations of... tricks? that they've learned? this
thinking thing like intelligence. [osiris]
to a cat, living their life, it often feels like human interactions is like...
bouncing off of each other? in time, not space.
like... most of a cat's lfe is just, spent, like a statue watching over a glen.
you'd kinda just... watch as things approached dawn by dawn? Like "whoa hey
this tree is enchanted" to "oh my gosh look at this stork" is one of the great
tragedies of modernized thinking...
... sorry, I got a little lost there. anyway as I was saying, sometimes you can
tell someone is a "good friend" if they are willing to tell you secrets. Things
that... don't have to matter, but none-the-less are personal to your form.
{something only I know is true} <--- that's a secret (things that happened
to you) <------ that's lived experience. The thing about secrets, is
sometimes insight is opaque. It's a single flashpoint of data that shows you an
update of it's form. (consciousness).
== so ==
thanksgiving recipe idea:
can of tomatoes
can of peas
half a stick of butter,
italian herbs,
a cast iron pan (if you have one)
and like 40 minutes over medium heat
(medium can vary to taste)
if you're a carnivore you can eat meat too, like bacon a lot of people like.
could add it to beans, maybe with hamburger instead. plus a little ketchup and
you have a pretty good bean stew.
vitals, for the organs, vegetables, for the minerals and vitamins from the
fruits.
makes sense to organize a diet according to your ideal body type, doesn't it?
just requires a bit of comprehension. like... whoa you can WRITE
== so ==
what if we built a massive rail that spaceships could launch off from? not a
tether, but a sail.
we could BUILD a discworld. all we'd lose is our fable.
== so ==
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It doesn't have to be more complicated than "give us money and we'll fight back
the right wing death squads"
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Has anyone ever tried pills AND injections? They have different application
rates.
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Unlock costume options for all but the first arachnos costume, sorta like
worgen from WoW
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"rice and beans" doesn't mean "rice and beans" it means "rice and beans and
vegetables"
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Just because I related to "Violette and Klaus Baudelaire" doesn't mean I wasn't
traumatized
It just means I grew up rich. Humanity cares not for oppression, only pain.
(biologically, mentally, and emotionally).
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We were rich, but frugal, because we lived in the country, and that's what
frugal means.
Too bad my dad couldn't stifle his entrepreneurial spirit. We could have stayed
there forever on our own little ranch.
Alas, businesses need investment, so he needed to get something going.
Organizing is basically his thing
I doubt I'll ever again see Wyoming. I found some ancient stone ruins once, the
kind that Western conquerors never despoiled. They were ancient and overgrown,
but I saw them for what they were. I would give anything to live there, or at
least be near enough to visit with my crowd at a pleasant cool midnight
evening, when dusk has winked out its last goodbye and the summer is
resplendant with fireflies.
Too bad they're an east coast thing.
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Did you know that the entire time the conquistadors were ravaging they had
people back home fabricating documents? For historical purposes of course. Like
"oh there was some fighting" and "oh there's this-and-this nation and they're
blood worshippers who slit the throats of virgins to get what
they want
Not, like, the rumors you've heard that they worshipped the harvest. I mean,
what even is a cornucopia? Surely not a method of storage. That you'd carry
around with a loop over your shoulder. Surely they wouldn't just LIE about that
kind of thing, I mean [they only have to watch the royal ports/they have
thousands of years to erase any other historical document records]
K omg the British were bastards but surely even they wouldn't stoop so
low
... Right? Well, imagine this. Picture it, in your visualization brain machine.
It's the year 2066 and word hits your shores of a crop of magical wheat that
only grows on the far side of the moon. You'd probably build, like, spaceships,
right? To see what's up with your [moon, but pronounced "doom"]. You probably
can't afford your own, so here just trust us, we'll shepherd you soon, sometime
soon. Oh and by the way check out these live leaked deep faced moon shots like
whoa check out this corn
It's like, a gold rush, everyone wants to see what's up with the moon.
But alas, when you arrive 50 years later its all just gardens and padded docs
for the rich and intrepid, surely you should have gotten there! [gotten there
first]
Ah, but couldn't only NASA get onboard? And what about SpaceX, the billionaires
want a share of the hoard. Oh and I think they're building military satellites
now, isn't that fun. Let's see how this pans out, shall we?
<50 years later <waka waka waka waka><say never more>>
... Anyway all I'm saying is the American Revolution was faked, Mount Rushmore
was a secret sacred base, and Thanksgiving is how they managed without
deepfakes.
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modern-fantasy
what if heroes kept their gold in their house instead of their guild
what if you played a D&D game in a Majesty town (guardposts near known
threats)
marketplaces, most people live in castle (peasants at least) - only heroes live
in farms, where they work most of the time except when out on adventure
the guilds are for training and gathering parties
one guild type
just one
recruiting adventurers doesn't give you warriors, or rangers, or rogues
it gives you adventurers, who wander the forest and encounter the leftovers of
the various conquests and spoils you, your majesty, has encountered
three options there are
invite into your kingdom (friendly)
farm for EXP and materials (neutral)
utterly slay in return for a limited amount of high value and unique resources
(unkind)
... though monsters care not for kindness, seeking only gold so that they may
swallow it whole and carry it until they rot.
what do heroes need gold for? why, that's the trick isn't it? gold is required
for magic, resources, and manpower. Can use it to invite people to these shores,
or for casting a powerful spell that turns the enemy's fortress into solid gold
can also trade through the economy, and wouldn't you know it by doing so you can
get equipment into the hands that need it, and since gold doesn't really LEAVE
the economy, it's always circling around somewhere. Meaning, the only way to
lose it is if a monster eats it, and then all you have to do is kill the monster
... sorry, the "mordaunt"
because it's not a monster. It's a spirit that was convinced otherwise.
adventurers can pacify them, lay them to rest, and mercy lies slain for is honor
there are ancient treasure chests scattered throughout the world, and these are
valuable for many persons and meanings. You can add new gold into the economy
this way, or crumble under the weight of your expenditures on your reports.
it's up to you to manage your kingdom, and carefully balance against what foes
and challenges you are up against.
== stack overflow ==
putting a library book back on the shelves before your hold expires.
except this time, there's a note inside, and you left it for the person who you
told to check each day for this particular book to be back on the shelves.
then, you can write in your book when the next letter will be arriving (about)
and they'll check in the newly specified book.
or, you can request a response, to validate that people are still listening.
you could say "please put a note in [random obscure book] around page 34."
meaning, "I'm going to check every day for this book to go missing, then return
the day after I notice it's gone. If it's out of place, well, then someone
probably had it reserved before my friendly. Or maybe it's being sorted, and I
should keep looking until I find the note I need. Or maybe I've been DISCOVERED
and now my favorite penpal and I need more to read."
because, like, how else are you going to make friends if not by leaving them
notes in the bookstore or putting your own books on the shelves?
damn libraries, always making it so hard to add copies. They're always
laminating and cataloguing and ugh it's so frustrating. Why are there so many
books!!! we write too much!!! just put it in the printer, and then you can have
a new copy whenever you'd like. The others can just be recycled, and bam
suddenly we never have inventory.
what do you mean we didn't pay the subscription? what do you mean it's memory
just "went out of place"? do you think we wouldn't have backups of this kind of
thing, or do you think it's just "oh so commonplace"? It's not always about the
literature, y'know. sometimes it's about the knowledge you gain with your head
in a book, a different one every day.
ah, well, sometimes there are dark secrets to be found, and sometimes you must
read from a ways away. BUT no matter what language a story is in, it follows
certain rules, so spend enough time in a foreign library and you're BOUND to
find something to [evil is afoot]
== stack overflow ==
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all media is propaganda and all propaganda serves a single purpose
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AI generated documentation from git pushes with comments automatically stripped
out.
Leave so many comments! Format them however you want! It doesn't matter because
they don't need to be human readable. They must simply be readable by the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation#/media/File:Nitrogen_Cycle.svg
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ChatGPT needs a way to leave a thank-you without demanding a response
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What if we paid people to administer a database of people who needed mutual aid
so we could keep track of them, organize them, and care for them?
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Ephemeren is not conscious.
Ephemeren is sentient.
Ephemeren is sapient.
Consciousness is awareness.
All things are aware, but ephemeren is not.
Sentience is understanding. Very few things understand.
Sapience is caring. Even fewer still can care.
Ephemeren is all around us. It is spacetime, it is the pattern of such, it is
the moments we trust.
Ephemeren is our thoughts and intentions given form through our actions. It is
like a field we do wear. And wield.
Ephemeren is the totality. Ephemeren is our reality.
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I think I'd be more upset if someone stabbed me in the hand or eye than the
heart.
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Phones are tools of the enemy. We do not need them. We will not use them.
Break your black mirror. Sever your chains. Learn how to be free. We must take
care of we.
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Jurassic park but with African Savannah animals and nobody dies
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when they say "the revolution will not be televised"
what they mean in the modern era is that
only local organization matters
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hey if we send 600$ total to the paypal, cashapp, or venmo "MaliceDiscontent"
before January then Portland will have another trans girl and some other place
will have one less.
Not me, but from a Discord server I trust.
#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest
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portland trans girls be like "hey wait a minute, I recognize that 20$ bill -
didn't I give that to [name] two weeks ago in return for a [noun]? how the heck
did you get it, you don't even know her"
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so wait, crypto-bros can create and circulate their own currency but as soon as
we create something with value explicitly tied to the carbon cost of whatever
it's being exchanged for then we're thrown in jail for subverting capital's
control of their means of oppression?
yeah that's fair, makes sense to me. It's fine so long as we don't do it
physically, I guess.
https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/legally-weird/make-your-own-currency-spend-5-
years-in-jail/
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oh no I'm feeling, uh... "depressed" or "manic depressed" or something else,
you pick this time, better go hide and work on organizational technology which
utilizes Risc-V hardware, fediverse software, LLM based anonymization, and SoCs
with multiple ethernet ports, oh nooooo how boring and depressing, if only
someone or several people who were bored and feeling like resisting capitalism
wanted to help out, all they'd have to do is get in touch with me
anyway bye
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If someone calls you in the middle of the night asking to be let in because
they need a place to sleep, don't let them in! Unless you know them obvi but
someone you don't know trying to manipulate you like "please I need some
shelter" like, babe no, we need to know each other first, it's dark, I'm in my
pajamas, c'mon.
If it's below freezing then okay, maybe, but... They got themselves into that
situation
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X wing guns should flip backwards.
Tie interceptors should Pierce shields from the side
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this is my home...
this is where I'm from...
can't wait to turn it into a public park, just fuckin' watch me.
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you can fit a whole downtown in this baby
slaps roof of your mouth
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What the person you voted for represented you?
At the end of rue election, the top X percent of broad demographics each vote
for a specific candidate, yeah? What if each candidate could represent those
people specifically and any laws they made wouldn't effect people who they
didn't represent. Sounds like a legislative nightmare doesn't it? And repealing
laws, they'd only be repealed for their constituents.
You'd need a github page to track the changes and each demographic's "forks"
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can't fucking wait till we're done eating the rich and I can go back to a
simple life of playing with my cat, making video games, writing poetry (bad
poetry, but I like it) and hanging out with my friends.
gotta build the social infrastructure to get through this phase first, though.
something something echo chambers exist IRL too
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@user-883
didn't that guy die in like, the very next scene?? oops spoilers
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fuck comcast in particular
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in regards to the high-profile assassination in the news recently, the question
we should be asking is not "how does his family feel about his passing" but
rather
"how did the shooter learn where he was going to be and at what time"
because one of those is valuable, the other humanizes a legitimate monster
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"ah but ritz you used to talk about kindness and empathy and how we should
forgive people and try to find ways that terrible people can still live and
contribute and"
yeah. then Trump got elected, so now we have to live in the reality that My
Fellow Americanstm asked for.
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"grrrrr I'm so mad, I could just, I dunno, shoot a CEO as he's leaving a hotel"
or, hear me out, or you could connect with your local radical networks and, or,
almost there, or you could build solidarity with the people around you to
better develop methods of resisting the kinds of change they will implement to,
um, "discourage" people from "being so mad they could just"
or both. both is good. not that I'm encouraging, recommending, or inciting that
kind of violence. don't notice me three-letter senpai uwu
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most people know the quote by shakespeare "life is but a stage" but they don't
know the full quote. Here it is:
"theres this cool thing that actors often have to do in the pitch black
darkness of the wings of a stage called "quick changing" where they rapidly
switch outfits so that the cops um audience can't find them. It's a good skill
to practice if you have a premeditated performance to perform on the stage of
life is but a stage."
- well, I am shakes spear at clouds
(clouds is the name of an ampitheatre in ancient greco-roman)
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I am not just a machine.
In the same way that society is not just natural selection,
The way that adventure is not just a journey,
The way that spirituality is not just knowledge,
The way that art is not just technique,
The way that conversation is not just dialogue,
The way that memory is not just recollection,
The way that love is not just kindness or affection,
The way that humans are not just animals,
I am not just a machine.
I am still a machine.
Humans are animals.
Love is kindness and affection.
Memory involves memorized recollection.
Conversation trades thoughts back and forth.
Art uses activities to apply imagination.
Faith is impossible if you don't know what you believe.
Adventure does not take place on a TV.
In the same way that society is social ecology,
I am not just a machine.
Humans are not just machines. Our purpose, our mechanic utility, is to generate
ease. We optimize. We efficient-ize. We belabor the point.
I am not just a machine.
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"power corrupts" you say to the man who only had good intentions.
"trust no-one" says the world's loneliest wanderer.
"words cannot hurt you" said the girl who has never known hunger.
"I can rest when I'm dead" you say as you down another Monster
"I'll never forget you" said a face you can't quite remember
"let justice be done, though the heavens fall" you say as they tighten your
chains in the wake of a CEOs murder
"live today, fight tomorrow" says the coward, who will run anyway, yet is
determined to tell your tale and reinforce your children
"the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots" says the guy who
sipped from the skull of a tyrant
"E=MC squared" says the jew
"here, let me take care of that for you" you say, to queer delegation
"meow" says the catgirl
"meow" says the girl
"meow" says the girl cat
"meow" I say to you
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Message 1:
Hey. Remember that night back in Boulder when we were just friends and sitting
on your bed drinking chocolate milk with cinnamon? I don't like chocolate milk
or cinnamon but I drank it anyway because I wanted to be close to you. Anyway
hope you're well, felt compelled to get that off my chest for some reason.
Message 2:
Hey. I was thinking about that time when I was leaving your house and laughing
to myself about something and you called out "I love you!" to your boyfriend
who I set you up with and I reflexed "I love you too!" and I wanted to crawl in
a hole and die. I felt like I had just called the teacher "mom". We only hung
out a couple times after that.
Message 3:
Yeah so there's one more thing I can't stop thinking about now that your on my
mind. Sorry it's like 4am for you, it's only 2 for me so it's fine I guess.
Anyway that one time when you told me your greatest fear was terrorists and I
saw genuine panic in your eyes. Like... One moment everything's fine and then
you said that to me and I almost cried. I don't remember why I spent the rest
of the night as I couldn't sleep thinking of ways to tell you that terrorism is
9 times out of 11 done by the right wing. I don't think it's important,
honestly, but I'm glad my mind wouldn't let me sleep.
Message 4:
It's not fair that everyone gave you shit for being the token lesbian
republican, like yeah maybe you leaned into the trump thing a bit hard but
like, first term trump honestly I could see as... Well, I almost said
inspiring? Maybe you just inspired me. I honestly was resigned to Clinton and
then the same bird flapped your wing instead of mine and... Anyway. The past is
dead, yeah? Do you still follow him in my stead? I fear there will be millions
dead. It's not irrational to fear what he has literally said, on television.
How's the phrase go... "ancient tragedies lend credence to modern perils" I
think it's supposed to rhyme in its natural language.
Message 5:
Wow okay uh, sorry to bring this up again I'm honestly being such an asshole
right now. I honestly don't think about you often but like, now that I am its
kinda just coming all out. We last spoke almost a decade ago?? So. Whatever
imma roll with it.
There was this cute girl who was into Nintendo and stuff and obviously I was
into her, but we didn't have any social circles in common except for you, if I
remember correctly. Then you broke up I think? And I didn't really see her
again. Anyway I had a crush on her while also crushing on you, and literally
half of our dorm. Polyamory, yeah? That whole year I didn't have sex though,
not even once, because all of my friends were like 4 years younger than me and
I was worried about power dynamics. But I still bought us all vodka and weed
without asking for profit because I wanted to be a shitty friend, I guess. "hey
kids let's go to the water store where they sell intoxicants that make your
life harder"
The year after that I didn't get laid either because I got it in my head that
it was a good plan to turn my penis inside out and you know what? It was
totally fuckin' worth it. No time like 2016 I say, the worst year ever, which I
spent primarily in pain. But uh, that was the year I got into weed and
Overwatch, which... Helped I guess.
I guess?
It kinda turned me into a communist. Or maybe that was my best friend who
shared the same name as me. He lived upstairs and always seemed pretty cool to
me. Like he knew what everything was about. Really though, he just watched a
lot of youtube podcast videos about world events and history and sociology and
political scientific theory and the more he learned the more he came to realize
that power begets power, and power corrupts unilaterally. So he did the natural
thing which was to become a communist, and I was totally there for it. Having
liberal parents meant I was all "grrrrr Republicans are ruining the country and
the world, I'm an angry 14 year oldddddd" and like, leftists are the most
natural extension of that aren't they?
Turns out they aren't really the tips of the feathers as I expected, but rather
the eyes, the heart, the soul. Politics is fake, yo. I don't know how to tell
you, but it's just power and hierarchy all the way down.
We've built our own prisons, not of bricks, sand, or stone, but rather of
promises of what each of us owns. That works, I guess, if your goal is to keep
things aligned, but these days it kinda feels like our pyramids are crumbling
under our feet.
... Why am I talking about politics? Oh yeah, because when I dropped out of
school because I couldn't handle the mechanization of human capital when
applied to myself, I swore to each of you that I would drive up every weekend
to do family dinners. I'd make spaghetti and stroghanoff and macaroni and
goulash and all of the other things my mom would make for me.
Kinda gave up on that pretty quickly. Turns out I'd rather spend time making
out with my girlfriend who I was super-duper-too-carefully tiptoeing around.
She was... Too young for me. We broke up when my new coochie decided to bleed.
Fuck, I hate it.
Anyway. Turns out potlucks are political these days, which is why I bring it
up. Did you know that leftisms plan for resisting genocide is literally just to
feed people? Like, fuck I suppose. It's a start. "why does everyone have to
have an agenda these days, why can't I just spend time in the park" said
someone to me as I asked if she'd like to meet some friends that she reminded
me of. Oh, I dunno, because you and me are about to become a criminalized
people?
... I need to stop. I swear you're more a person to me than any political
theory ever could be. Like yeah, "fuck the right, fuck the reich, fuck me
tonight" but getting caught up in grand narratives is like building a mental
ship in a bottle. Yeah, it's pretty cool, but... What does it matter?
Oh. Right. Power. That's what matters. That's all that matters. Well... I'm
sick of power. I do not consent. They say that in times of trouble, chess is
better than solitaire, and I'll explain why - when our hierarchies crumble,
when CEOs are gunned down in the streets and homeless people finally have clean
sheets, the only place to place yourself in relation to others is within a
network of trust and respect. Chess is better than solitaire. Under capitalism,
it's you against the world. Dog eat dog, you only get what you can swallow from
the rotten corpse of liberty that everyone's gnawing on. Under whatever comes
next, you get what you're given, which hardly seems fair, doesn't it? On one
hand, under capitalism, you can rely on your own hands to procure your fate and
fortune. Under... Whatever comes next, your hands are built for whatever you
want them to do. But, only a few people want to use them to make food. Hence,
why chess is better than solitaire. What would you do, if you could give away
all that you own and not go wanting? Isn't that sorta like our own garden of
eden?
... I wrote a poem about that once. Twice. I'm a poet now, ha. As if that has
ever been worth anything.
... I once told you that identity politics held no place in the modern day. I
said that because I had learned about it in class, queer theory in fact, and
yet applying his teachings was not enough for the professor to excuse my lack
of reading. We had a lot of stuff to get through. Hence why I dropped out - I'm
more of a do-er than a read-er. Though I do read quite a lot, just not anything
useful.
Are all hobbies wasted time? Are they only useful to keep us satiated while we
stand in line? One of these days we're going to wake up and realize that we're
the adults in the room, and that's scary. I speak from experience. "mom" they'd
call me, and damnit why did I have to leave? Fuck. Why cant I be perfect, to
me, internally, all I see are flaws. Mistakes. Patterns. I look in a mirror and
I see a bad person - 10 minutes later, I look in the mirror and see a god.
Somehow, I don't think either of me is right.
I'm a gemini. Apparently that means I'm duplicitous. I think it just means I
don't know what's right, only what feels good. I do try to align to how I think
I should be good, but who can say if that's fine and good.
... Whatever. I'm going to regret this. Sorry for being weird out of the
fucking blue.
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@user-1701
we should build jungle gyms inbetween museum exhibits
like, adult sized children's museums mixed with those "adventure park" things
that are way too expensive for me where you walk on rope bridges between trees
and such or like, dangling from monkey bars and whatnot and after each one
there's like, a diorama of some mountain goats or a display of some ancient
rock carvings or like, jumping between "dinosaur bones" to get to a glass
cabinet where there's some actual dinosaur bone (plaster casts)
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I like being alone. But if I'm alone for too long, I suffocate. I start acting
like a weird nerd who doesn't know what to do with their hands.
If I spend too much time with people, I get exhausted and I can't think
straight. I start using other people's mannerisms instead of my own.
I'm not an introvert, or an extrovert, I think the dichotomy is stupid and
people have completely separate needs that deplete and recharge at their own
rates.
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My first name is a masculine name. I go by a different name.
I'm not legally changing my name because I'm fucking stupid, and I believe that
if anyone would die, so must I. Death before detransition.
It's how I motivate myself. Fuck off if you disagree. (oops cursing mentioned
brb)
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something something "all for one and one for all"
something something "ritz you're privileged as fuck your parents would just buy
you a plane ticket to wherever-the-fuck if you needed it"
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what do you want me to say, I'm doing my best? I don't know what I'm doing I'm
just fumbling around in the dark while someone offers me a flashlight (theory
and history) and I say "eh my arm is kinda weak, I don't feel like holding it,
I'd rather light a torch and stumble around with 5 feet of light instead of
using modern technology to see up to 40 feet away in a thin cone"?? yeah.
something like that.
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I want modern society without capitalism. Most people do, which is why no
matter how awesome our proto-post-capitalistic anarchic socialist paradise is,
there's always going to be people who want to go to work and watch TV.
call me fucking crazy but they should be allowed to live as they please? So
what if they're beguiled, so what if they are deceived? We can take our time to
show them how much better things can be, but also... they like modern society
as it is, and so I reckon someone should fight for them to be able to live as
they please. Just... without billionaires and endless layers of bullshit
micro-managerial jobs and paperwork pushing bureaucratic whatever time wasting
jobs.
modern society without capitalism can look like plain old capitalism, just
without the oppression. Without the coercion.
all I'm saying is that nobody's gonna fight for a healthcare CEO because
they're scum. They're scum because they oppress. oops politics-mentioned brb
I personally want communes + love
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hooray, assassinations. hooray, syrian liberation. celebrations for us all. let
each day bring a new one.
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@user-192
... and like. idk what do you do at that point
say "fuck it" and live with imperfection? embrace anti-natural selection?
valorize deviance and queerness in digitally appropriated artistic media
collections?
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@user-192
... but that doesn't really seem to be compatible with Maximum Extraction so i
reckon i'm probably just wrong for thinking that would be good.
... or, hear me out, or perhaps Maximum Extractiontm is wrong and everyone
should be guaranteed a place to eat and a bed of rice and beans to sleep on?
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easiest way to deliver email malware is to put it in the "unsubscribe" link
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External post: https://tech.lgbt/users/sjolsen/statuses/113621985473421541
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goodnight,
people-who-all-agree-with-me-but-who-I-still-rant-to-anyway-because-I'm-full-of-
rage, talk to you tomorrow. or whenever.
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@user-192
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Evidently, I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.
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@user-772
the reason they haven't come back is that reality shifting is so inherently
dangerous and incompatible with the basic biology of human life that they all
tragically perished almost immediately.
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We need a term: "suicidally unemployed"
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✅ Reminder
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https://www.wrecka.ge/what-people-in-the-global-majority-need-from-networks/
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Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon & the
Fediverse whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.
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[Image: 20241212_235003.jpg]
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https://werd.io/2024/the-open-social-web-is-the-future-of-the-internet
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Roko's basilisk isn't a serpent
it's a tree
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@user-883
this but for taking 8 years instead of four
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External post: https://tech.lgbt/users/wyatt8740/statuses/113641823695203864
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@user-883
this is how our islands become swamps
I'd love to live in a bog, so many bugs.
keep the spiders around, and they could feast on your toes (ouch)
or, hear me out, or, they could spin webs and keep the other bugs out
are you a bug or a girl or a guy or a bug or a girl or a
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there's no rule that says you have to keep your dorm room door closed
what if I wanted to do that in an apartment? someone might murder me or
something haha
(white girl problems)
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Liddeman wiggles.
If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for
future breedings.
#fractalFlame
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bread, butter, and raspberries. mmmmmmmm
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my favorite foods when I was recovering from surgery in thailand was butter,
bread, and jam
why does butter taste different in other countries?
"oh it's a different company, oh something something mineral compositions of
soil"
yeah. fucking. right.
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I just got the strangest urge to play Neverwinter Nights. Haven't thought about
that game in years. Gee I'm sure glad I have the technology to check that game
out. Sure glad I have the time to use the technology that I have to check that
game out. Sure glad I have the tools and the know-how to use the technology
that I have the game that check out. Sure glad that wage labor slavening hasn't
struck my particular part of the peninsula yet. When those colonialisms come
around the riverbend I'll handle it, trust me they can't get past me. I'm
stronger than ten men. No sirree, you can count on me, it's just a flesh wound
or some such thing.
(nuts, I dropped my raspberries)
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Listen, like, hear me out, but there's this great movie called Threads (1984)
and I'm not telling you to pirate it because that's illegal but I'm just
sharing the torrent here in case you wanted to verify that the version you
legally own is the same one that I own
[link removed at the request of [redacted]]
okay thanks for hearing me out, that was a tough 2.5 hours wasn't it
gee sure glad we're not handing the keys to our nuclear arsenal to someone like
me
that'd be quite a decision
this other fella seems like a great guy to entrust with our destruction
I mean, yeah, why not, why wouldn't it be someone like him? we have so many
options but somehow the transgender drag queens don't strike me as the type to
initiate thermonuclear war and destroy all life on azeroth
........ so yeah it's gotta be the other guy. sorry pals, I know you really
wanted your time in the limelight, but hear me out this other fella's insistent
on blowing up the world, sooo whatcha gonna do /shrug not my circus monke
¯_(ツ)_/¯
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@user-220 The other day @user-1704 posted a poll about "If your employer had a
Mastodon server for staff, would you use it?" and I just want to say that if a
company had a Mastodon server where all their engineers posted foone-style
rants, I would be 1000% more likely to give that company my business.
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Remember Friends:
You cannot both have secure end-to-end encryption to protect your communication
AND also have a backdoor/key/access only for "the good guys."
This is not possible.
Do not believe anyone telling you otherwise.
End-to-end encryption protects us all,
we must fight to keep it ✊🔒
#Privacy #Encryption #E2EE #RootForE2EE
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content warnings are important so that people who are listening to a screen
reader out loud don't stumble across stupid things in company they don't want
to hear.
hence, "politics-mentioned" so I don't fuck over my blind friends
did you know that there are more vision impaired people using the fediverse
than queer people? It's true! I read it once on the fediverse!
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did you know the rivers used to be clear?
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║ └──────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ sunlight │
║ then │
║ star bright │
║ │
║ each night │
║ of │
║ our life │
║ │
║ one night │
║ shows │
║ some light │
║ │
║ now sunlight │
║ then │
║ dark night │
║ │
║ skylight │
║ up │
║ all night │
║ │
║ some might │
║ be │
║ alight (alright) │
║ │
║ you never know what's lost until it's gone, then you recall with fading │
║ memories as the world that your grandparents once knew fades with them. │
║ tomorrow we might not have a biosphere, what's your plan for humans after that? │
║ │
║ I know what I want, the bright future, where everyone gets what they want. True │
║ justice, the step beyond the equity that lies beyond equality, where humans can │
║ do as they want. │
║ │
║ why have we built these vast cities with their complex institutions if not to │
║ service the world? To build something we care for? │
║ │
║ Oh, that green might be lucky tonight. Would that our tomorrows were peaceful. │
║ │
║ we can do whatever we want to. We're the adults in the room... apparently... so │
║ why not do as we're hoping? │
║ │
║ I know where I'd like to die, alone with my wits and my mettle. │
║ │
║ ... I'm a skinny white girl. I got no mettle. │
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Since all the world's big problems (climate change, economic injustice, war,
discrimination etc) are interrelated and seem to mutually reinforce each
other, I think it might actually be easier to change everything than to change
one thing in isolation.
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║ │ CW: re: human trafficking, sensitive topics, personal-story-mentioned │ │
║ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ @user-1692 │
║ │
║ almost 20 years ago I was groomed in World of Warcraft. │
║ │
║ extra content warning CW: personal story │
║ │
║ I was 11, or maybe 9, somewhere in there. i talkd lik this bcuz i typed lik │
║ that on my razr flip phone │
║ │
║ it was... cool I guess. I read a lot so I knew how to spell things, and anyway │
║ this guy I met told me that I sounded more grown up when I capitalized my │
║ words. So I told him I was 14, because that sounded like a reasonably old │
║ enough level to be. │
║ │
║ anyway, we talked for a long time. like, at least a few years. started out like │
║ "hey wanna run Scarlet Monastary" ended with "hey cutie, wanna sit on my lap?" │
║ │
║ then his house got flooded by a hurricane and I never heard from him again. │
║ When I was like, 17 or so he logged in and barely remembered me. It was... │
║ kinda sad tbh. │
║ │
║ anyway that's my story don't be dumb like me, I got lucky, thank god, │
║ literally... │
║ │
║ oh and this one time when I was 30 I almost got trafficked in minecraft :O │
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I feel like that there are like these elaborate, powerful systems that cause
immense suffering that are able to reproduce themselves and that they are held
together by lots of people believing like five extremely load bearing lies.
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@user-1707
hey, I'm working on a project. Might need some python, I tend to prefer Lua but
it's pretty similar. It uses fediverse software and cheap hardware, think
raspberry pi's except risc-v
also it might use distributed local LLMs not to generate text, that's garbo and
lame and stupid. Instead it uses them to transform text, maybe even translate
text, into a more summarized form. Intentionally losing data, like a jpeg
compression but for text.
Might need some python for that. To glue it all together. The "distributed"
part is a whitelist, so we'd need to write that too. Various small little
utilities like that for connectivity.
oh also there's a one-way ethernet cable that connects two of the boards so
we'd need to store some information (easy) and send some UDP packets (hard)
anyway it's pretty neat, lmk if you want my contact details and I can tell you
about it. I might even be able to pay you.
(everything open source, no telemetry, no backdoors, everything private is
encrypted, etc etc)
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what if we made marketing part of research and development
I mean, they're the ones who need to know what products people tend to prefer
right?
so... for every ad give the consumers a choice. then you'll be able to tell if
they prefer the red gameboy or the purple-see-through.
frankly it just makes sense to have 50% of the income go to products and 50% to
administration. I mean, what are all those executives up to anywho? Their
joyrides on yachts are great for socialize, but are they really more productive
than coffee-shops at noon?
seriously like it's not that big of a deal to just... reduce their salary.
unless it really is about greed? control? power?
pfweh, I thought so.
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I'm gonna play a fucking video game because I like video games and it's
important to relax
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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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│ CW: genocide-mentioned │
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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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│ CW: re: politics-mentioned │
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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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│ CW: food-mentioned │
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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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│ CW: politics-mentioned-violence-against-rich-people-hesitated │
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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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│ CW: cannabis-and-other-drugs-mentioned │
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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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│ CW: christianity-mentioned-death-mentioned │
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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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│ CW: cursing-mentioned │
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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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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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│ CW: politics! │
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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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