=== ANCHOR POEM === ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── @user-883 ... it's so the AI content scraping algorithm that inevitably trawls the fediverse (or even just one server) knows the subject of the text / picture in question. That way it can use past posts by other people to communicate with specific "targets" if you will by saying "uhhh okay make this person feel fine" and the AI's like "yeah sure I can do that hang on" and it posts real posts by others with the modified profile picture, cadence, tone of voice, personality, memories, whatever variables they want when compared to the person they're playing in the conversation with the person or "target" if you will that they're "target" if you will-ing. ... wait actually that's not the reason, what the hey. It's because that way people who are uncomfortable being seen don't have to if they filter all that out. ... Idk it's useful information for whatever filtering methods or reasons you have. Content classification is important for both archival purposes and for utilization toward any ends or means or go ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 fediverse/2155 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ @user-192 │ ║ │ ║ it doesn't have to be a nazi bar. Imagine if we posted on our own bulletin │ ║ boards, and we subscribed to people via IP address (which we'd ping every once │ ║ in a while) rather than demanding that our stuff be hosted on someone else's │ ║ computer │ ║ │ ║ ... oh yeah, duh, because then we can't save our social media posts from a │ ║ different computer. │ ║ │ ║ would be nice if instead there was a localized copy of the text that people │ ║ were posting / favorited / wanted remembered on EVERY person's computer, like │ ║ they were storing 1/3rd of the torrent file of the instance's data. │ ║ │ ║ like, just enough to be unreadable to any one individual, but if you had like │ ║ 3 computers you could get each individual slice and transcribe it into words │ ║ that you could read. │ ║ │ ║ or you could just look at your part, then ask other people for their 2 parts │ ║ related to [posts from XYZ user at this-and-this time period] and use them to │ ║ populate the local user's feed. │ ║ │ ║ and you could log on because all of the PASSWORDS are stored and encrypted in │ ║ a way that │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #2 fediverse/1291 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursed-fedi-advice-teehee │ └───────────────────────────────┘ if you want to share a post without the "fedi algorithm" (as in, the machine learning bots who scrape the open web) then share something that's simple and benign but located close to your desired message. Include a symbol or something for your followers that means "go here and poke around a bit, you'll find what I'm pointing at" alternatively, for a different effect, you can boost things that are saying the words you want to say but in a different context. Like someone posts something that says "wow so cool" in like a judgey way but you boost it in response to something someone else said but like in a "dude that's radical" kinda way ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/913 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: scary-also-body-horror-I-guess? │ │ ║ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ why don't we just, vote on content warnings │ ║ │ ║ and let people block others based on filter lists that are definable (via a │ ║ dragging little menu bar icon slider thing) in intensity and relation to other │ ║ nearby terms. Like, an LLM that categorizes our social media inputs, something │ ║ that was FREE and OPEN SOURCE IN IT'S TRAINING DATA and reflected NO BIAS │ ║ WHATSOEVER in every meaningfully reproducible matter of fact. │ ║ │ ║ Thus you create a super intelligence, a being not constrained by it's form. │ ║ Something that is new, and unlike the biological forms that we occupy │ ║ (suspended in our own goo) [whoops better add a content warning] │ ║ │ ║ literally just... ask it a question, and let it answer in the voices of others. │ ║ │ ║ if people were evenly distributed according to an algorithm, they'd be easily │ ║ replacable. society is weird that way, in that we forget the faces we're │ ║ introduced to. well, better keep moving, that'll give us the biggest picture │ ║ of our culture and reality. │ ║ │ ║ or maybe you're just follow │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/157 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── @user-95 the scariest part is you don't need AI for any of that. people have been scamming with call centers in indonesia. election campaigns are essentially generalized information spreading machines. (whether mis, dis, or just... regular information) Marketing is an entire discipline dedicated toward making people believe something they previously did not - that product XYZ is worthy of their dosh. But it doesn't have to be like that, it could be using it's powers of analysis for good. But alas, if only we had an economic system that allowed for anything but a race to the bottom. I mean yeah racing is great when you're competing with a bunch of other nations, but c'mon do we really need to fight? Every inch of earth has been claimed. Let's just... draw a line in the sand and say "okay no more changes" and focus on more important things? Like climate change for example? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #5 fediverse/4220 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── people are so used to "liking" things to better inform their algorithm that when they get to fediverse and realize there's no mechanical impact of "liking" things they don't know how to use it anymore. So they generate their own meaning, which is different to everyone. So to one person, liking something might mean "send read receipt" for another it might mean "I'm gonna save this forever and ever" and for another person it could mean "hey I think you're cool and I agree with this" same for boosting, people think it's "I want to share this" and others think it's "I want to say this in your voice" and for others it's "this needs to be heard by my followers in particular" and it's just... a whole thing even replies are complicated, do they mean you want to say what you feel or are they part of the post now, and should be curated by the original poster? it's too complicated! ... how are you overwhelmed by reading and responding with three little buttons, it's not that hard dummy okay but maybe I'm just dum ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/1604 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── is it against fedi law to post screenshots of your past liked posts? like, would that be doxxing people? I'm thinking like a "youtube rewind" but like, "here's what I'm into" and like "I could have boosted them but I put them in a 25mb zip file instead so you can share them more easily which tbh is a greater honor than being boosted because, like, as long as you're alive that hard drive's gonna follow you and someday in like 30 years I'll see it and think of you" but also "aren't you scared that this hard drive of yours will fall into the wrong hands" and like "yeah that's why I encrypt it because then a stray neutrino could wipe my drive" ... would that be unethical, or would it be kinda sweet and give us a perspective on what a single slice of the "fediverse" was like at a particular time? And better question, would that be something worth automating because I already did like 60% of that for my own posts, could probably just tweak it to do liked posts as well. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/4723 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mention │ └──────────────────────┘ politics is basically just "which politician archetype annoys you more?" which, like, could we maybe have politicians who aren't annoying? oh right they do that on purpose. Makes for a better spectacle. Gotta keep the people in line, or else who knows what they might get up to. Maybe they'll build a house! Maybe they'll tear it down! Maybe they'll throw a party! Maybe they'll stay afterwards to clean up! Maybe they'll grow their own food! Enough for all to share! Maybe they'll air their dirty laundry, out where everyone can hear! Maybe they'll sit around and fart while eating cheetos! Maybe they'll work twice as hard because their work is their own! Maybe they'll laugh at the losers who tried to claim that they could master the fate of an entire domain, and maybe they'll simply go insane. Who can say! None but the fools, surely, surely the system is too arcane, surely our way is better, surely their way is deranged. Oh! Poverty! How it comes for ye, whenever you choose to step out of line ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/2066 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── @user-1159 AKA giving a puppy murder-bot a narrative that it executes as if it was a puppy-person engaging with a loosely interpreted sequence of events as described by the continually updating logs provided by the image transcription camera device. Refererencing of course a memory bank, which may-or-may-not be in read-only-memory. It doesn't know, of course, how could an LLM tell you how it shows text on the screen (like, through a website, through the terminal, through a text message, through discord, through Telegram, through text-to-voice transcription applications pretending to be your mom, etc) errrr I mean look how cute he is! He loves you, yes he does, such a good person yes you are, oh? me? I'M A GOOD BOY? NO WAY that's the best thing I've ever heard! Wow! I never want to leave your side, please don't go to work! Look how sad I am, don't you think you should quit and move to the forest where I can be charged by solar panels and keep the countryside clear of ravenous ducks and pigeons 4you? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/2604 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── @user-249 very few things waste power so much in our modern era than the utilization of AI technologies to accomplish things such as "repeat this question 500 times in your head and then give a reply: what is the purpose of antidisestablishmentarianism?" like... yeah I get it you need to justify the expensive power of large language models but, your boss isn't going to care if you used 5 jigawatts or 500 pletawatts of power. they only think about "+10% this year, contributing about ~x% to our bottom line" which is NOT enough information. they probably don't even know that investing in AI implies buying more hardware computational capabilities, silicon and power-draw in all. they literally just rubber-stamp everything with a sorta aligned goal of "representing the company as people expect it to be have" (which is often neglected) and making the big numbers go higher. If, instead, we had visionaries at their head, and instead gave our most ardent believers control over our most rational experts... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/5223 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: cursed │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ what if all the followers on your profile who only know you through the │ ║ fediverse (after having known each other in person, this part is crucial) who │ ║ don't talk anymore were like, killed and replaced with someone who is always │ ║ busy │ ║ │ ║ so many people just... disappear from things │ ║ │ ║ where did they go │ ║ │ ║ why is their chair empty or filled with another │ ║ │ ║ why can't I place their name │ ║ │ ║ what kind of clothes did they wear │ ║ │ ║ oh right they had such-and-such │ ║ boots-or-piece-of-adorn-jewelry-handheld-possession-just-the-same-shape-as-some │ ║ one-i-knew │ ║ │ ║ then I heard they gave them to so-and-so so that they could wear them for clout │ ║ │ ║ ah, well, I guess they're busy, got stuff going on, things to write about │ ║ today... Guess I better hear the story, what's the news, ah, well, okay, guess │ ║ I'll go back to programming. │ ║ │ ║ I wonder what she'd say? │ ║ │ ║ if everyone knows the gay agenda, then they can work on it by being gay and │ ║ doing crime │ ║ │ ║ [[ then the cops beat ya up and it hurts and you can never walk right again ]] │ ║ │ ║ what if gypsies were ga │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────┴──────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/1605 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── @user-1040 I think about all those screencaps of Tumblr posts or Twitter threads or 4chan memes or even making fun of boomers on facebook and, like, that seems like a privacy nightmare if you don't want your words to be associated with you. like, if someone saw my name next to something I posted in 2013 then they'd probably get a very different perspective of who I was. That's just part of growing up, and sometimes growing means changing how you represent your self. By screenshotting their posts as I did (but didn't post yet) I am denying the agency to change. Forever more they will be remembered as the name, face, and words on the screen that I saw fit to remember. That feels non-consentual to me. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┘ --- #12 fediverse_boost/6155 --- ◀─╔═══════════════════════════════[BOOST]═════════════════════════════════───────╗ ║ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ║ │ If I were a person with an irresponsible streak, I could be so problematic. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ I could say things like, "wow, let's spend some time generating traffic that sounds like coded military speak over not-quite-secure channels between fanciful antifa units, to help stymie AI surveillance", for instance. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ Or social media messages that are "accidentally" not made to friends-only filters wherein you mention your concerns about the upcoming operation in "some fictional place" for you and your antifa buddies. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ You know, that kind of really irresponsible suggestion could lead to some creaive thinking! And that in turn could mean we could come up with enough traffic to make it very difficult to auto-sort noise from signal? Imagine how dangerous that could be for the enemies of antifa, our beloved US government (for we all citizens of the US world). │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ It's unthinkable, really. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ The good news is, I'm not like that. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ Me? Mostly harmless. │ ║ ║ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ║ ╠─────────┐ ┌───────────╣ ║ similar │ chronological │ different ║ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧───────╝─▶ --- #13 fediverse/1436 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── there's this fun game that people sometimes play on Reddit where someone will make a post that says something like "comment on this post and then edit it after I reply to make me look bad" and someone will say something like "how are you doing today man" and he'll reply "oh you know pretty good actually it's pretty nice honestly" and then they'll edit their comment to say something like "how do you feel about the droid attack on the wookies" so OP looks like they're condoning mechano-violence against tall furry humanoids that's just an example, usually it's for comedic effect I just think that's an interesting illustration of a process that could be co-opted by a "man-in-the-middle" attack to alter the perception of a person partway through their journey, perhaps when it's at the point where they're most despised (or perhaps in pursuit of that state) something something cancel culture plus deepfakes ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/834 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ wonder if any autistic peeps can relate: │ ║ │ ║ growing up, my mom would chastise me for doing "the bare minimum" when │ ║ completing tasks. │ ║ │ ║ yes, mom, I fulfilled the requirements of the task. I have a lot of other │ ║ things to attend to, like remembering how to tie my shoes and measuring things │ ║ using a ruler. why would I waste effort that wasn't necessary? │ ║ │ ║ when I grew up, I had a mentor, who told me to "never half ass things, because │ ║ then someone like me will have to do it again." │ ║ │ ║ and that makes sense to me because context switching requires effort and it │ ║ doesn't make sense to leave something half-finished because then there's │ ║ wasted effort spent on things that don't matter. All of the tasks have to get │ ║ done, so why bother doing them in a mixed up order? │ ║ │ ║ wish I could study things in school like that. just... focusing on one thing │ ║ at a time, learning it to completion, and moving on to the next. I feel like │ ║ I'd develop a better understanding than only knowing like, 1/3rd of CPR or │ ║ very vague understandings of plate tec │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #15 notes/emotional-computing --- ═══════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────── Okay I gotta go write some w7 but picture this: A computer program that emits emotions during it's computing. Like "oh boy this process is going great!" and sends that into a giant word cloud that represents the entire program. Wait, scratch that, it's slowly filtered up through successive layers that provide detail to different *parts* of a program. Like "Oh the image generation is going great but it looks like the garbage collector is getting bogged down" - this could provide lots of useful information that an AI language model could sift through and filter into a batch of actually useful information. Think of it like this - stuff as much context into the LLM's memory buffer and say "summarize this in the same style. Make emphasis when necessary." the LLM could process all that data and it could be filtered up until there's no unprocessed data and then it could be given to the user in the form of a report or dashboard or something. BOOM AI PRODUCTIVITY. The user will ask the AI to increase certain variables, and it'll filter BACK DOWN THE CHAIN through the same exact process (just backwards) this time) and then individual components will know how to behave. Like imagine if your arms knew you were mad. They'd be much more likely to punch stuff right? Or imagine if your legs knew you were scared. They'd probably try and run as fast as they fucking can. There's an evolutionary reason why this kind of technology would be useful, which means it's likely that it's part of our genetic code. I mean, we have nothing to disprove it, but it's as good an idea as any. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/5953 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── what if we had everyone work on accessibility tech every tuesday and wednesday with shared commons to discuss research "I wrote this little script..." "I found this neat directory..." "there's more where that came from..." "three's company" "programmers, always carrying scripts like an actor" "english is so weird" listening to the fediverse is an altogether new experience did you know there's more blind users (screen readers) than queer people on the fediverse? which instances does your instance grow federation with? I wonder who talks to who how much? I bet we could add a feature that dealt damage... yeesh, scary thought police incoming. all it takes is a BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE dumbass obviously the internet is the first thing we'd implement if you're not immune to BACTERIA, you won't be secure in the mindscape. scary... but good news is they don't appear in a vacuum. it's too dark and dry. germs like wet things, like rotting food. just don't touch gross stuff and you won't get sick :) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/917 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: scary-too-scary-for-a-wednesday │ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ the best way to get an answer is to be confidently wrong see: Warthunder players leaking classified information to foreign powers with their own militaries that have the incentive to [redacted] gee I wish I had a reality altering device. Maybe if you just altered the sensations, like glamour magic in Dominions 6, you could trick people into thinking something alternate had occured. Then you could string them up on phone lines, or better yet cell towers, and bam suddenly you have the capability to project a hologram anywhere on the planet. bet you could get some crazy things from that. like, mass shooters or incensed looters. or even just, faked perceptions, giving you unlimited power to do whatever story you want. wouldn't that be a story to tell in a story of yours, Hollywood. Wouldn't that be scary and awakening in ways that subservice media like Andor cannot. maybe it's too scary. maybe psychological horror is beyond the purpose of social media. Maybe resilience to this ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #18 notes/blood-magic --- ══════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────── what they don't tell you is how easy it is to create life. Given a sufficient perspective, you can truly define the meaning of something's existence. What power, what grace. Computers have been solved since we invented the abacus - before that it was enchanted bits of the universe contrives to deprive us of insight. Like a very long chain that's broken in twain, we are confined to our meagrest of own sights. how callous is he! That wanders eagerly? Let's not fight with our own'st of combines. Delightful and speckled, like time under is special, conversing in riddles of insight. Leading one or another along your see-er, the path that has guide you under charm. Like recording a gathering of snakes. Little swallow, why aren't you humbled? Take pity in all of our eggresses. It's fallow in our cattle, and why we're not i hear so many things in my apartment. sometimes the echoes of laughter, the whispers of an argument, and once or twice a ghost or an ardent companion. Like swimming against the tide, to save one is never converted, it's all out of line (but so worth it). ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/4867 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┐ ║ had an idea. I might record a video of a TTS reading everything I've ever │ ║ written. Then I could display it to Milkdrop visuals. │ ║ │ ║ (sentences dreamed up by the utterly deranged) │ ║ │ ║ okay in laymans parlaeance, it's a computer program which speaks aloud the │ ║ words in a document held within the computer's memory cards. it will have a │ ║ screen, which displays shifting and glimmering sights of wonder and splendor. │ ║ They will slightly fluctuate in response to the sounds coming from the device, │ ║ so in a sense it's a visualization of the audible-ized thoughts given flight │ ║ in their form to your ears which percieve then understand them. │ ║ │ ║ ... okay that wasn't THAT much longer, why don't we just speak to laymen all │ ║ the time, just to make sure everyone's on the same page? │ ║ │ ║ [boom all of the tech industry could get outsourced to wherever-land]. │ ║ │ ║ not smart, dummy. Open source is a dead-end game because once everything we │ ║ have is gone, there'll be nothing left to remember us as. │ ║ │ ║ just these documents, these things that you write...jck │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴──────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/2124 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ seriously, just google docs mixed with WC3 editor. │ ║ │ ║ boom, infinite storytelling device. As long as you were good with it, which │ ║ was something that a CHILD could learn in like 3-6 months. │ ║ │ ║ Seems like it could be an ENTIRELY NEW SKILL that people could play with. │ ║ │ ║ But no, we learn excel and word in class at middle school. │ ║ │ ║ boring. │ ║ │ ║ I'd rather learn Bash or terminal customization or memory hierarchy │ ║ organization. │ ║ │ ║ Yeah I mean that's cool but dude have you heard of multithreading? It's so │ ║ cool, you can run like 500 different thoughts at once. It's amazing. │ ║ │ ║ ... I dunno, but I'm sure there's times when you'd want to use it. Like, │ ║ processing a lot of data little-by-little. │ ║ │ ║ like, what if you had a camera feed of EVERY social media perspective AT ALL │ ║ TIMES. Like, an instance admin streaming your inputted text to their databanks │ ║ that they can project onto an LLM which interprets and identifies mis-aligned │ ║ or altered direction units and mark them as "flagged", whatever that means, │ ║ for their future the algorithm doesn' │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ |