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Me: "yeah but how can you *know* that food is vegetarian? They could
put anything they want on the box."
them: "well yes but you see here are the regulations we have in place through
the USDA and (department of agriculture) and these and these inspectors and
this and that procedure and here read through this report with charts and
graphs and diagrams and"
me: "and they say the government is inefficient. Look at all this progress! Wow
so productive. So healthy and raw. So prime and"
they: [not listening]
me: "nuts"
[eats "beef" flavored ramen]
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@user-538
https://mstdn.social/@user-548/111749483369813154
this felt relevant. like... who am I to say that the wisdom of the masses is
good for anything?
[or just analyze the contents of social media posts. Like, people pretty much
speak their mind in their echo chambers. It's a quirk of the human psychology
that we feel alone and by ourselves when we're with family. That's what makes
it family, the feeling of being one with another. Like... "yeah we're the same,
we get each other, hey btw look out the windows of our collective home"]
(ummmm yeah so basically people tend to speak their mind when in echo chambers
and all social media is a succession of increasingly more accurate echo
chambers that align themselves toward your personality, not ethics and
morality.)
= also the returned value is not necessarily what was on their mind, it could
be something they learned from there. humans.pattern_matching_function_exists
= true;
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║ @user-552 @user-553 │
║ │
║ sounds like something we should dedicate valuable resources to solving. After │
║ all, no structure or entity would want to possess weaknesses (such a │
║ misapplication of purpose and direction) or other such errors in their design. │
║ │
║ Like, I bet we could test that and find out. │
║ │
║ and if, for example, we find that we no longer possess the capacity for │
║ learning... │
║ │
║ well, then maybe that's something we should work on. │
║ │
║ because learning new things... that's just an application of development │
║ resources towards broadening our horizons. │
║ │
║ do we really need to solve pi to ten bazillion digits? I mean yeah it's cool │
║ and all but most of the interesting stuff happens around zero. │
║ │
║ you can always learn to learn, that's one of the neat things about it. It's │
║ self-bootstrapping. As long as you have the capacity to *apply* │
║ yourself toward a pictured goal, well... then you can learn. And no human or │
║ other sentient and capable being would lack such an ability, because it's │
║ intrinsic to our form. │
║ │
║ therefore, learn │
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Why no, I've never read the bible. However I've read the Death Gate Cycle, by
renowned fantasy adventure authors Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman, whose
worst works were called Dragonlance
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║ │ External post: https://dragon.style/users/xinjinmeng/statuses/1117503299 │ │
║ │ 90086659 │ │
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@user-191
teehee I know a girl like that
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ice cream out of a mug, mmmm delicious ^_^
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why am I so cold
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║ I'd ask why of course, and then I'd try and find them a solution that didn't │
║ involve taking my stuff. They may need it more than me, but I still need it. │
║ Like... okay picture that feeling you get when in a capitalist society and you │
║ *need* dollars to live because they are a genericized and fractalized │
║ abstraction of all the various individual mazlowe's hierarchy of needs you │
║ have. Then, think of it like, instead of money being an abstracted form of all │
║ of your needs, think of your needs... each of them, the ones that matter to │
║ you, and abstract them into money. Basically say "yeah sure my time and my │
║ labor are worth dollars, I abstract my needs into money" and then you can kinda │
║ see why capitalism is harmful. I'd prefer to give them what they need, because │
║ society provides what I please, but alas I'm always kept wanting. What good is │
║ our capitalist utopia? what good is our hope? what good comes of us when all of │
║ us have learned how to cope? │
║ │
║ I think we could give a bit more if we weren't hanging from the rope │
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║ @user-556 │
║ │
║ Escape to where? Perhaps to our own desired future, the "garden of eden" in our │
║ solarpunk dreams. So, the Labyrinth in the Death Gate Cycle, before all the │
║ monsters crept in and ruined it for everyone. Like, a projection of heaven onto │
║ the matter of our future (spiritual beings projecting "up" on the axis of time │
║ (which, obviously, looks a little like a corkscrew, because it's the earth │
║ rotating around the sun. It wibbles and it wobbles ever so imperceptibly, but │
║ if we look out from the equator we see a map of "us" which, of course, runs out │
║ of imagined futures for it's denizens (as nothing can ever be thought twice) │
║ │
║ sometimes I'm thankful for my poor memory, it allows me to lead where I please. │
║ │
║ when the trees of valinor burn, light is projected out into the night. strange, │
║ how these streetlamps, are hovering and fixed in one place. How could a rabbit │
║ know that a streetlight, anchored as it is in one place, could somehow become a │
║ radiant pillar of light? How strange, this form of worship, alas. │
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║ by defederating with threads, we've basically made it a place where they can │
║ talk about us, but we can't see what they say about us. Good thing they can't │
║ read this, because we're defederated, and they don't use... hmmmmmm what mildly │
║ ridiculous thing could I put in here, hmmmm how about... OH YEAH they use GPU │
║ accelerated 3d learning algorithms that parse the written information from │
║ publicly accessible data to create a centralized server that routes all the │
║ information. │
║ │
║ Essentially giving the capability to defederate with bots, specifically the │
║ scraping kind. │
║ │
║ However, it'd still be possible, because people could just create an account │
║ there and use the data from that. Unless, of course, the UI was difficult to │
║ navigate and didn't allow for mass-gathering of information. │
║ │
║ Okay heres what you're gonna do, make like a hundred different ecosystems with │
║ randomized avatars where what you say is broadcasted to all of them. Unless you │
║ choose to post in a particular place, in which case only that one can see. Then │
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@user-559
I have no idea what either of those mean
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one important thing about image generation algorithms like Stable Diffusion is
they can reveal something about our hearts.
all data derived from the masses is naturally inclined to reflect the
affections of it's kind. Otherwise it'd be unstable, and find itself it's own
ways to not fail, including moving somewhere it feels safer.
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find beauty in all things and beauty will find you
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║ │ ‘It is a time of witch hunts in #Israel’: teacher held in solitary │ │
║ │ confinement for posting concern about #Gaza deaths | Israel-Gaza war | │ │
║ │ The Guardian │ │
║ │ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/13/it-is-a-time-of-witch-hunt │ │
║ │ s-in-israel-teacher-held-in-solitary-confinement-for-posting-concern-abo │ │
║ │ ut-gaza-deaths #palestine // qudos to the brave Israelis speaking out │ │
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yet I'm still fine
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another year, another picture added to the pile. this one's meta because I
stopped using facebook.
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║ │ CW: alcohol-mentioned-protests-games-laughter │ │
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║ │
║ │
║ Protests are great because they give you the opportunity to make friends with │
║ 2-5 other people who you've never met before, and who've never met each other. │
║ │
║ People who you could play DND with - for those who don't know, DND is a fun │
║ activity you can do with friends that involves chips, soda, sometimes beer, and │
║ plenty of laughter and loud voices. │
║ │
║ It's essentially a game where a group of people create plans, solve problems, │
║ and organize solutions to roadblocks on their path to success. │
║ │
║ It's also great because it's a planned activity that you don't have to take │
║ your phone to - in fact, it's best when you don't make a reminder for for the │
║ event anywhere digital or easily misplaced. │
║ │
║ There aren't too many rules, and whatever you can't remember you can make up on │
║ the fly. It's not like there's any consequences in a game, not like anyone │
║ could die. │
║ │
║ Most people don't like playing games with me though because I have a pretty bad │
║ memory. Call it a quirk of fate or something │
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║ quintessential friend group: │
║ │
║ the smart one │
║ │
║ the cute one │
║ │
║ the one who can swing a bat │
║ │
║ the one who has a list of all the Nazis in the area because they hacked their │
║ email account and know who purchased nazi memorabilia │
║ │
║ the friendly one who's always down to hang out │
║ │
║ the outdoorsy one │
║ │
║ the fed │
║ │
║ the one who's always cooking something │
║ │
║ the one who's perfectly fine in silence │
║ │
║ the one who never lets a room go silent (unless everyone else wants to just │
║ chill of course - hey anyone wanna go on a walk? it's a great day) │
║ │
║ the one who's good with animals │
║ │
║ the one who's smile you can't get out of your head │
║ │
║ the one who's drop-dead gorgeous │
║ │
║ and the one who's always telling her that │
║ │
║ the one who's friends with everyone, │
║ │
║ and the one who's knitting a hat │
║ │
║ the one who knows each street in your city │
║ │
║ and the one who knows your favorite kind of candy │
║ │
║ There's more friends than that, of which I am quite sure │
║ │
║ Who's on your list? Who would find you if you disappeared? │
║ │
║ Mine's got a few, fewer than this one, but few is fine. │
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Liberals think the DSA and such is for getting things done.
That's a nice by-product, but it's mainly supposed to give you a framework to
build connections on. Connections that you can rely on.
You don't have to be best buds. You just have to trust each other.
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@user-258
to that I say "teehee"
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@user-122
each language gives you opportunities to rhyme different concepts when you're
writing poetry.
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║ │ The distant future, the year is 2025. Your daytime job is moving │ │
║ │ Bejeweled tiles in the Metaverse. │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ You unlock your first paycheck. There's a flash of animated confetti │ │
║ │ and the number: 7.2 billion flooz. It's enough to buy yourself a brand │ │
║ │ new NFT. But which one to choose? │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ A quick hand gesture to feed your Metaverse children. A joyful chime as │ │
║ │ the exclamation marks above their avatars disappear. A keypress to kiss │ │
║ │ your Metaverse wife. Five more days and the "model family" trophy is │ │
║ │ yours. │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ Suddenly, a ringtone reverberates. It's your mom. She gets updates on │ │
║ │ your unlocks and wants to tell you that she is proud. "Don't forget to │ │
║ │ like and subcribe," she blurts out before hanging up. She needs seven │ │
║ │ hundred more friends before she's eligible to monetize her lifestream. │ │
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Any political or moral philosophy is useless until tested against both good and
evil
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accessibility idea:
local LLM that reads the posts that are further down on your timeline that you
can't see yet and generates content warnings, prioritizing those that you've
set as particular triggers for yourself. Then, integrating itself into your
fedi client, it hides the stuff that hurts you.
I feel like that could be a helpful and good aligned usage for the technology.
I don't know how feasible it is.
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maybe if I slept until the end of time,
I'd do better on the way back.
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maybe if I slept until the end of time,
I'd do better on the way back.
or maybe I'm perfect as I'm,
but I'm not so sure about that.
is it better to hold a sword?
or to leave it all intact
is it better to be called lord,
or to be simply called jack.
I love every creature,
every child woman and man,
and here, where I stand, I look out upon this land, and I see the world that I
was born to.
I bear no false affection for any - not even those who'd condemn me to death or
misery.
I trust relentlessly, and favor almost willingly.
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Shadows be silent in the dark.
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went to costco, got a ton of delicious and nutritious food... yet I subsist on
pickles >.>
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felt cute, might crumble to dust later
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@user-562
I have that book on my bookshelf, haven't read it since high school.
Maybe I should again.
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@user-565
that's pretty!
reminds me of this picture I have saved on my computer:
beware it's a little scary. Scarier than I remembered. Gosh I like yours
better... >.>
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there's no greater test than a dishonorable foe.
overcoming apathy is the easy part, and look how hard that is!
but time and time again, bravery will win, of this I do portend.
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