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 okay how about this:
 
 Zoom except it uses image recognition from your laptop's camera to tell which
 face you're looking at, and it hides all the others - either by dimming them,
 reducing opacity, or even just blocking out their face so you can still see
 any body motions but your eyes aren't drawn to them.
 
 If someone looks at you then it lights up their face or notifies you in some
 way. I think this would enhance the "togetherness" feel of a Zoom call to be
 more like a conversation where you can explicitly tell when someone's looking
 at you.
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 it might also help with social anxiety because people are aware when they're
 being observed. A lot of people hesitate to speak or contribute on Zoom calls
 because they are inherently scared of being observed, but with this system
 they'll be aware of any observation and can address it. Plus every meeting
 that could have been an email will quickly become apparent since nobody is
 paying attention to the speaker, and they'll realize how much they should
 rethink their approach.
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 @user-1259 
 
 That happens a lot with online people. You can only see one side of them, the
 side they present to the camera, and so it's difficult to find new ways of
 looking at them. Hopefully you can find the brighter sides of this person! I'm
 sure they exist, unless the person is spiralling. Then they'll often be
 pushing themselves first one way, then the next, but both directions point
 down... And that produces the ":(" feeling. Good luck!
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 wow-chat but there's a UI element addon that let's you zoom in/out and
 displays a diablo style minimap
 
 -- stack overflow
 
 what if there was a new building town built north west of denver and south of
 estes park
 
 then, they built a railway out to it
 
 then, they added a circle just 1/4th of the way out of the ring
 
 then 3/4ths
 
 suddenly, impossible urban renewal, as the world feels opened up without a car
 
 leading the charge into the future
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 do you ever think about how calling the BLM events "protests" versus "riots"
 is a subtle dogwhistle for your politics? I usually say "riots" so that I
 blend in. also because I've been conditioned by the people who I talk to about
 them.
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 @user-428 
 
 sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor
 that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I
 could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes
 drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or...
 
 something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an
 image that could be edited.
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 accessibility software which puts subtitles on everyone's zoom faces who are
 talking to each other one-on-one with selective muting and an adaptive dimming
 feature where if you click or tap on someone it makes them brighter and makes
 your audio louder for them (if they unmute you) and whenever you click
 somewhere else it slightly dims all the others. this brightness is shared by
 the way so if a lot of people want to talk to you then a lot of people can
 hear. oh also subtitles with voice-to-text functionality. and a built-in paint
 program for sharing notes or designs. the opinionated version has no chat
 program either, you have to type it into the paint program part which they get
 really defensive of if you suggest making it more forum-post style with an
 included keyboard typing delivery mailbox as well.
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 literally just... if you want to connect to me, come hang out on my wavelength.
 
 or like, invite me to join yours, and I'll do my best to show how I feel about
 the things you share.
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 sometimes I like chatting online more than in person because online you can
 have like, 3 different conversations going at once
 
 meanwhile in person you get body language, and the benefit of activities and
 shared experiences. They're both useful for different things.
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 @user-192 
 
 it suddenly became relevant in your life for a different reason and you wanted
 to share it again to see if anyone wanted to talk about it so you could
 explain your feelings and see perspective from someone who's maybe approaching
 the same or similar thing from a slightly different angle?
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 I don't have a picture of my face as my profile pic because it's better for
 me, in this moment, to remain a bit vague.
 
 if you know me you'll know me, though.
 
 if you don't, well I'll tell you my name if you ask.
 
 It won't be the one you see up above me,
 
 but it's a conlang of computer-assisted vision. like, what a computer uses to
 see, that sounds phonetically like my name. conlang isn't hte right word but
 tha'ts okay.
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║ if you ever need to keep track of the location of your friends in the dark,      │
║ try giving them glowstick bracelets. if you color coordinate them you can tell   │
║ which is which, and as long as you aren't concerned about others noticing you    │
║ then it should be easy to find them all night. works best in places with mixed   │
║ zones of lighting / darkness, like suburbs.                                      │
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║ it's impossible to be a blind strategist because of concerns like this. I say    │
║ blind in the general sense, and not just referring to visual impairment -        │
║ every sense provides another tactical angle. more perspectives, more data.       │
║ sorta like taking pictures of a 3d object. when one's sight is lost, you might   │
║ miss a backside or a hidden approach vector that would come easily to others.    │
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║ at the same time though, a sense of focus can clarify certain truths by paring   │
║ down the amount of irrelevant facets. like optical illusions, sometimes xtra     │
║ info is hidden in the same data...                                               │
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 what if your roomba brought you the cable from behind the computer and/plugged
 you in to the right port
 
 "hey can I get an access panel over here"
 
 [plugs in headphone jack]
 
 boom suddenly TV is muted for everyone else
 
 need to connect to something remotely? here's a line to your aunt jane. it
 goes directly to her. right over the cable that's connected to whoeverplace
 she'd find herself [from here far afield]
 
 I personally think rooms should be bigger?
 
 why are there small bedrooms? build more, not better, space

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 when you type the letters they slowly fade in on the other person's screen
 
 like miniature explosions from layers of gunpowder
 
 forming letters in the sky
 
 anyway the text would "burn" into existence slowly and you had time after
 typing
 your words to go back and edit them but also whatever you said was semi
 permanent. Thus forcing a smooth and ideal progression toward thinking about
 the things you say.
 
 Also separate idea but it'd be neat if there was like... a show or something
 that just recorded a person's desktop as they fucked around on the internet.
 Call it... ambient desktopping. It'd look a little like those coding twitch
 streams that just slowly update over time. Idk it's kinda cool
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 if you're meeting a friend from out of town the first time, it's best if they
 arrive early and you have the day off to show them around.
 
 or if they arrive late, you can meet them in a public place the next day and
 then spend time at your favorite spots.
 
 ideally, with people who would recognize you if the person from out of town
 decided to be hurtful and/or replace you.
 
 plus, that way you can gauge their character
 
 and decide whether or not you want them in your own home.
 
 they might be different than they are online, after all.
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 I would trust the CIA if they gave me continual access to all surveillance of
 myself
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 what if you made a program which cycled credentials?
 
 like... "give me a random credential for Zoom" because we share all of our
 digital resources
 
 did you get banned for account sharing? no you didn't because you routed
 through the correct VPN
 
 automagically
 
 [has never had a software job]
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 @user-138 
 
 me neither... guess it's in-person for me.
 
 [a mysterious "they" then proceeds to set up microphones everywhere I might go]
 
 ah nuts why are all these people carrying phones around
 
 [they already know who I am, and I don't really want to be someone else, so]
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 to improve your "cat-petting" abilities, try to imagine that the wall in front
 of you is the most interesting thing in the world - stare at anything else
 besides the cat, and look at them in your periphary. Occasionally you can look
 back, but the idea is that this way they will be able to look at your face
 without painful eye contact.
 
 cats are autistic - they don't look at you unless you're looking somewhere
 else.
 
 most people stare at cats when they are engaging with them, and totally ignore
 them otherwise.
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║ honest question: if they cut off internet to a medium sized town like            │
║ Nashville or Spokane and man-in-the-middled every attempted communication out    │
║ and sabatoged any plans to visit... they could kill everyone in that city and    │
║ replace them with an LLM that sorta posted the mostly correct things, and if     │
║ users comment things like "hey are you okay you don't sound like yourself"       │
║ then just have a human operator study their data for a bit and pretend to be     │
║ them using deepfakes over zoom or whatever. Then, any time they say "I miss      │
║ you, I want to visit you" just say "darn I'm actually visiting my grandma in     │
║ afghanistan" or "sorry my cousin is visiting from peru" and suddenly they're     │
║ completely isolated and alone. Oh and their teams at work? Cut off from the      │
║ rest of the corporation who doesn't even know they exist. how, uh, how would     │
║ you even notice if all these people who live around you were suddenly replaced   │
║ by those you don't know? What if they cycle through, like a slaughterhouse...    │
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 the [mood/vibe/aura/whatever-you-want-to-call-it] in my suburb is frankly
 kinda confident. I saw people talking in front of Safeway, and there was many
 more people than usual about on a Tuesday at noon.
 
 When I visited the city yesterday, as I might do today or tomorrow, it was
 quite a different feeling. The poor dears are traumatized, I think! Well, have
 no fear, you won't have to bear the brunt of our burdens for long.
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 @user-570 @user-246 
 
 you know you two could have spared yourselves all this trouble if you just
 ScReEnShOtTeD the code! Then it'd be easy to see with your very
 not-visually-impaired eyeballs on your graphical user interface, considering
 of course that everyone has perfectly functional eyeballs and perfectly visual
 graphical user interfaces
 
 /s of course
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