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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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[Audio: graveside.mp3]
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[Audio: frozen-wind.mp3]
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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
machine.
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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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[Image: image.png]
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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-1698
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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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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https://www.wrecka.ge/what-people-in-the-global-majority-need-from-networks/
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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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@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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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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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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║ │
║ @user-1689 │
║ │
║ 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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@user-1701
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-1701
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-1704
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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