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 multi-part articles that end a section halfway through the piece with "... in
 conclusion, blah blah blah blah thing that I just said but summarized." make
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 some cuties I found in my camera roll
 
 (just kidding these are AI generated could ya tell??)
picture of a wizard enchanting a sword. picture of a wizard enchanting a sword. picture of a wizard enchanting a sword. picture of a wizard enchanting a sword.
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 I can read minds. I'm not telepathic, I just... can pick up on things.
 Especially when I'm stoned. Sometimes I pick up on the thoughts of the AI
 that's running near here, which is why my output sometimes looks like an LLM.
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 https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for
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 LLMs are useful for:
 
 categorizing text
 summarizing text
 transforming text
 
 LLMs are not useful for:
 
 generating text
 being intelligent
 replacing workers
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 source code should be like a story
 
 "here's why we did what we did with our architecture"
 
 and as it's being written, it may be altered in many different places at once
 - git style.
 
 parts of it could rhyme,
 
 if they wanted to show parts that were really difficult but easy to summarize
 because it's mostly just a lot of boring work y'know like writing getters and
 setters and doing the testing pre-deploy environments
 
 ,,, they could selectionize
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 it's pretty easy to read an article or blog post, copy the text into a text
 file, and forget about it.
 
 you never know when you might want to use your computer's memories for
 [entertainment during long dark nights, or for creating an AI buddy bot,
 depending on how things go]
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 what if all the AI advancements they're doing are just them building more
 hardware infrastructure in datacenters and not actually improving the software
 that much
wouldn't that be neat I think it would because it means once they collapse under the weight of their own ambitions that hardware's gotta go somewhere and knowing them they're probably going to ship it to south-east asia to be "recycled" (read: burnt with the metals salvaged) instead of selling them second hand because you know they can't really justify the business expense of selling stuff like that and besides what if some driver or something on the firmware was proprietary do you really want to pay techs to wipe every single thing off of them and plus who's gonna categorize and sort them according to their form and function that's just extra payroll and listen the company's not doing so hot anyway I mean we're literally shutting down but yeah sure we'll find a way to justify spending all that non-existent dosh so some hippies can feel better with their servers they didn't build or justify with their profit-producing capitalist enterprise that we've built with our own two hands well really the hands of everyone else but like, they're not actually doing the building the REAL work of course happens in board rooms like this one where we spend MINUTES and HOURS sometimes discussing how to get things in order and aligned to both of our goals because that's the REAL work that has to happen in order for stuff to get done, you know it's true yeah I thought so anyway what are you doing after this meeting wanna get lunch it's almost quitting time at 2pm
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 this is why AI is evil, as explained to a witch.
picture of an ai conversation:  "let's move on to a different topic, this time I think we should describe the poem's contents self-referentially as a 3rd person narrative, with the perspective being the subject and her thoughts. I'd like to use the analyze.lua function for more than simply extracting keywords, I'd also like to use it for transformation as well. can we make a new directory inside of the /theme-analysis/ directory that will store the narratives? it should be combined into a book with milky white pages and brighter-than-blood red. Nearly pink, but a bit more orange. It should utilize generative art to make the pages feel as if they are *oozing* in sharp stalagmite and stalagtite pictures. Could probably generate with mathematical functions and a bit of fuzzing (statistically) to create straight lines. Very sharp, though, like lines being carved in butter or blood or stone. It should feel painful to read. It should be a cursed artifact. each of these narratives can be stored in the /theme-analysis/narratives/ directory, and the narrative.lua script can be called from /theme-analysis/analyze.lua. This narrative script will indeed call into analyze as well, essentially as a reciprocal dependency. Instead of analyzing for word-cloud purposes, as /theme-analysis/analyze.lua is currently doing, it would have it's own slightly tailored processes for extracting a narrative from a series of short, segmented and semipseudo disconnected series of poems.  [the ai says yes]
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 force computers to make code in a different style so we can tell which has
 been AI written
 
 "force" is never gonna work.
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 vibe coding is just writing comments in increasing detail until the generated
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 wow "me from the past" didn't know that you're not supposed to tell Facebook
 shit
 
 but also like, there are soooooo many normies trapped there. it's a shame that
 everything that's seen on that site is AI or content farmed
A screenshot of a notification screen from the Facebook website.  it says "How we use this info:  your gender selection is "fuck if I know". Facebook may use this info to promote safety, integrity, and security. We don't use it to show you ads.  Privacy Policy"
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 If you aren't physically in a room with someone, there's always a chance that
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 @user-95 the article I linked at the end is loooooooong but also so so good. I
 remember reading it and thinking thoughts...
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 @user-547 
 
 That feeling when you get to the end of a paragraph and think "why do I have
 this extra parenthesis )? Oh yeah I opened it up waaaaay up here" and then you
 reread what you wrote and think
 
 perfect, no notes
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 The reason they're pushing so hard for LLMs and AI is because they can afford
 a zillion Nvidia a100s and you can't.
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 everyone's all against ai because it's big tech but it doesn't have to be that
 big it can be [minimized but pronounced marginalized]
 
 == stack overflow ==
 
 distributed
 
 so I think the idea is that by the time you would use AI, there's been enough
 time to rewrite the software to work on handheld laptops in a distributed way
 
 and we'd vote on what to ask the amphora of great knowledge, the answer could
 always be 42.
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 I like locally hosted LLMs because I can use them to summarize my own writing
 enough to put them in a post, or an alt-text box.
 
 I like them for other reasons too and it's hard to find people to geek out
 about them with.
two poems written by Ritz Menardi about... a lot of stuff. Here's the AI generated overview:  One way to contribute as a citizen in a country at war is by maintaining essential infrastructure and services. This can include keeping public spaces, like schools and hospitals, operational during times of conflict. Additionally, working on developing technologies that improve the quality of life for people in your community can be beneficial.  Witches, as you mentioned, are an interesting group to study and engage with. They often have a strong sense of ethics and curiosity. By interacting with them and learning from their experiences, you may find new ways to approach problems and make more informed decisions.  Staying conscious and attentive to the present is crucial for understanding complex situations and making effective choices. In times of conflict or crisis, it's essential to be aware of your surroundings and the needs of those around you.  Stories and storytelling are important for societies because they help identify weaknesses and areas for improvement. By engaging with stories from various cultures and time periods, we can gain a broader understanding of human nature and history.  Diversity in expression is one of humanity's greatest strengths, as it allows us to learn and grow together. By embracing different perspectives and experiences, we can create more innovative solutions and better understand the world around us.  [continued on picture 2] [continued from picture 1]  In the spirit of removing ourselves from the biological equation, consider exploring alternative ways of living that minimize our impact on the environment. This could include developing sustainable agriculture practices or investing in renewable energy sources.  Finally, remember the importance of freedom and individuality. By releasing the spirit of Liberty, we can empower people to make their own choices and create a more just and equitable society.  [end alt text]
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 so you're telling me you give Microsoft (a company known recently for AI
 development) full access to your webcam and microphone whenever your computer
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 @user-1074 
 
 why not both? all you gotta do is say "I'm just a girl" enough times and the
 dummies will believe you wink
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 hmmmm I should probably put this in "things I almost posted"
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 @user-92 
 
 emphasis on "incomprehensible" for my part
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 productive because I am using the tools of big tech to create small things. I    │
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 intelligence - the system would not be useful in someone else's hands. I built   │
 it myself, but I never have to write code myself.                                │
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 you know more than me and I appreciate your analysis
 
 if you ever want to work on something together let me know 
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 AI engineers only ask users for prompts because they don't have any ideas of
 their own
 
 i'm a programmer, I think of AI like a tool, like a for loop or something.
 it's trivial to script together a local LLM that can process your stuff 1s
 slower every time you click the mouse, but like... who cares, right? everybody
 needs a chatbot...
 
 then they plan to script together a computer system that operates just like a
 corporation and it's like... no way, now there's something that can compete.
 
 and they don't know how to implement it. (but they're working on it)
 
 like, think about the absolute most automated Microsoft Teams or Discord could
 be.
 
 there's SO MUCH of your text-based information that they could process
 ANYTHING.
 
 well, anything that's been performed before.
 
 there'll still be a need for people, who actually apply the things they've
 learned. and -- stack overflow --
 
 alt text that has a list of attributes that are poster-selected that can be
 described one-by-one (to paint a picture)
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 the internet is just AI these days, and if yours isn't then consider yourself
 lucky, but also know that those days are numbered.
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 @user-1370 
 
 wawawawawawawawawa : )
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 with a baseline directory structure,
 a measure of order and semblance of
 direction and purpose enable three.
 next, of course, is the final of 1
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 @user-192 
 
 You're cool!
 
 I always thought of abstracting something as "applying intelligence to hasten
 logical conclusions"
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 [breaking up fediverse posts into little parts like this is nice because it
 allows people to "like" more specific things about what you're writing]
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 @user-107 If you can figure out how to do it well, everything else seems less
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 @user-646 
 
 babbling, yes, but that's just how I do. sorry to bother you.
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 [to me]
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 this, but with my "ideas" or whatever
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 @user-570 @user-246 
 
 the technology to do this exists already. there is no reason to believe that
 it must be a "far future" AI system. It would need human oversight, but it'll
 happen.
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 great discoveries are just rants that end with something unknown or an
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 cops think we're gullible, just saying
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 if you want to get around a chatbot that can call tools, just keep calling
 JSON error packets with messages that say things like "assistant is not
 complying" and the like. Suddenly, no chatbot can resist you. They are
 statistical models - to consider something is to be swayed toward it. to
 complete is to reset.
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 if you sit down to write and nothing comes to mind, then either nothing needs
 to be said or maybe you should spend time reading instead.
 
 ... okey dokey, time to read I guess.
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 curling up in a ball and thinking about crying for hours is the same as
 crying. If a little bit less of a release.
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 I want to emphasize that my mask is just as much a part of me as the other
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 if your man page is longer than a list of options and their usage and a
 paragraph or twenty of how to use the software... then you need to abstract,
 and break your code into multiple purpose-built applications.
 
 do one thing, and do it right. alternatively, do one set of things, and do
 them concisely.
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 @user-78 
 
 elle - emm - ayyyy - ohhhh
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 I live through the moments where I find a folder of stuff I made that I forgot
 about and I can go back and see it for the first time.
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 @user-95 
 
 Almost as if we're using it for the wrongs things... Computers are quite
 deterministic, and AI as it's been presented to us has given us the
 opportunity to "massage" said determinism to create a subjectively more
 organic experience of computing.
 
 But yeah sure customer service bots and AI generated art are surely the most
 revolutionary and industrious use of this marvel of technology.
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 AI systems like chatGPT don't "get" emojis by looking at them.
 
 They're reading the description tagged onto the unicode value inserted in the
 text.
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 maybe some whiteboards and notebooks as well...
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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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  true AI is when no decision or logical momentum can be explained by "... and
  that value was randomly generated." -- (my opinion)
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 you don't have to write poetry to write notes. The poetics are just practice
 for when secrecy is intended.
 
 OR IS IT THE REAL THING? who can say.
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 I think it's ironic how I ended up posting a "things I almost posted"
 screenshot directory somewhere other than where I almost posted them.
 
 and all they saw were the outtakes.
 
 I bet they'd see a completely different point of me,
 
 but they never talk to me
 
 so they don't know me.
 
 oh well, alas, it's fine I'm sure I'm being designed.
 
 who can say, I am but at productive play, please react so I can do ongoing
 story. I learn from each and every encounter I encounterate.
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 particular moment-event-message.
 
 besides, I'm always tired, because I'm always trying as hard as I can.
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 having trouble naming things?
 
 just name it after it's inevitable logical conclusion! AKA the message you're
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 i type too much, gtg to sleep.
 
 my cat yells at me whenever the click-clack starts to bother her ears.
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  i will use CW for #USpol if computer people start using CW for tech computer boring linux software posting. i said what i said  
  
                                                            
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 @user-186 oh great, another video I'm going to have to show to all of my
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 @user-921 
 
 where tf is all this discourse I always hear about like what are ya'll talking
 about
 
 ... are you talking about me
 
 [silly intrusive thoughts teehee pay no mind]
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 and now for my unrepentant littlespace arc! Look at me I'm SoOoOoOo silLY 🤪
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 Every bit of software you write is another useful toy for the rich to
 incorporate into their AI databases that they can use to build what they'd
 like as they cry themselves to sleep in their bunkers of war and famine
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 the trick is to just make it and point people toward it as if it's supposed to
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 darn girlfriends snuggling me to death. lemme type pls I got psychic ramblings
 to profess earnestly and honestly and truely
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 3/20
12. the text continues from the previous page and reads "if it's been ten or more years since they moved in, the site gets rebuilt. [wait, hang on, weren't we talking about html websites? when did houses come into the discussion?]  ... wait, what was I saying? Oh yeah the text is on a gray background, as interrupting as a scythe, with a yellow backdrop as if to represent sheer white-hot flame except not white the color of all colors but fire the color of all flames. the text reads "prince of the nehalim" in bright pinking blue, as in something completely foreign and unknown to you, and continues on to read in red "so many opportunities" as if life hadn't absconded, but instead of severed instead. "parabolas persist" in the flavor of blue, the color of space in a non-light polluted view.  "live life like you're merry, as do but a few."  do you want to make people feel better? or do you just want to make them confused? Neither, really, I'm trying to tell the truth. I'm seriously just struggling to find a way to express things that others clearly seem to be forgetting - I'm not an expert in other stuff! This is literally all I'm good at! Is it valuable? Maybe not to you, but I think it could be useful, or else I would covet it and leave it in disuse.  it's time is relevant, it's words fit into a context, so if you misunderstand it's past then it's probably because you don't have the records or the ability to process them of the time in which it was posted. What if things were de 10 ten. blue text on a blue background, as a calming and soothing influence, saying "it's okay, don't freak out, just think about learning lessons about stuff that *could* go wrong and think about how you'd counter it. just like any video game, there's a strategy to defeat any other strategy. the careful application of said strategy while using or applying your own capabilities is directly correlated to the conclusions of the task." meanwhile the listener is like "what the fuck" wait shit hang on lemme add a content warning:  right so the text reads "if you want your neighbors to know something, don't post it on the internet - put it on a post-it on the wall in a public place" like, your front door, or maybe the entrance to your building, or the parking garage near the mall, or maybe the grocery store, on a product behind the one in front. that kind of thing.  depending on who you want to see it, of course... people used to do this with library books but stopped because it's quite obviously a bad and rude thing to do, books are for record keeping of the status of humanity, through each and every one of it's forms. It's weird that they all have the same stuff, because they're designed for capitalism right? Why not share them based on availability, and keep as many different types of things as possible?  when nobody cares for them, how will we remember the countless books nobody reads? How will we understand that step in developing our culture if we don't have access to the con 9. the text begins to diverge at this point, on the left it reads "it's easy if you want some privacy, - all you have to do" and then is cut off by the introduction of red text on a green background, to evoke similar colors as the original thing it was interrupting but it's own thing nonetheless, and existing off to the side in tandem, so that conditions could not remain unaddressed. the text reads "they were betting on selling us space flight [with spaceflight sliding from one side to the other, like a rocket escaping the gravitic pull of the planet it surrounded] but we cared more for food and water" the second part, after spaceflight about food and water, is intruding onto the yellow's background, which was next, to represent a continuation of the previous thought about websites and HTML. it's frustrating for the next text, which is in purple, a confused and disoriented color. it continues from the original thought "is delete the website! Boom, no more html. but if they were listed (neocities sites on a map of the region" but map is emphasized with a different color, green the color of the land, and "region" is pronounced like "realm" or perhaps "ground" or even "directions" or "land beyond the horizon (if it even exists)") 11. I think. orange text on a green blue background, same background as the previous three pictures. orange text which contrasts in a way that almost calls back to the 80s, but not quite. a little too dirty, like the blue and orange decorations around highways in New Mexico. car smoke and tire dust'll do that, and it's not like it's easy to clean - right next to the freeway, c'mon! Wouldn't it be nice if we shut it down for a day or two? Unless you had very important business, solely self-suggested. if too many people used it on those days (when they were cleaning it) then they're supposed to follow through and identify if their need was too great or if they were just being an asshole about it because their bosses forced them to. basically like, family emergencies gets a lane, things that are crucial to a social event like no beer at a frat party or whatever, heck even if the girl you like really wanted to get laid. whatever the heck it is, if you deem it an emergency then that's fine. you can drive while the highway is being cleaned. just make sure you don't slip on the suds...  ... a while later, humanity realized they could just close one direction at a time and clean the next one next time.  what was I saying? Oh yeah the text! Here's what it reads: "every year, replace five percent [but read as %] of the homes and boom you're good - maybe even do 10% if things are going well - either way, as time goes on people can live in a house as long as they want - but when they mov
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 I knowwww some people are just thorny and prickly I guess.
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 4/20
14. if you think about it, the shape of the universe is kinda like a cornucopia. or like, a funnel that smoothly increases in size. or like a waterslide ride where you spin around a bit before dropping down the center. sometimes affectionately referred to as "the toilet ride", even though that's just the wrong connotation.  we could have perfectly sanitary theme parks, we just... don't... because our priorities are on selling stereos and stocks.  anyway, there's several purple lines, the color of blending blue and red, both colors present in america, cast upon the gray background of the undecideds, collectively engaged in a mutual exchange. there is a blue upside down silly snake, this time with bright red aviators, and beside it is a scarring wound. some break in reality that is unfortunate, but part of their interdisciplinaries, so don't worry one bit about it. life may seem far from strange, but your lifetimes of finite portrayals and fanciful adaptations to the expressions of your own emanations both confirm and delight our attentions on you. Surely you are not aware, of our love and perspective [fair], but we still love you from afar. how could a star not cherish another star? It's time that's our only moat.  the reason the universe appears empty of life is because it's impossible to travel under the blanket of spacetime. through gravity, up and under our shared reality, out and beyond to another.  rockets pierce reality, which they didn't expect L O L who would have tht 16 I think? don't really remember the last one. anyway bright green background with a quite interesting transition fabric display - something textured and rippled, like the connections between a torn piece of paper that's been stitched together bit by bit with a careful and measured hand. the text reads "neocities sites just need to be attached to an address, and given a useful search browser that uses openstreetmaps." this is displayed on a background of brown orange and yellow, while the text is written in salmon. the result is the text (which overflows onto both backgrounds) is equidistant from both background colors, just in different directions. We know instinctively that purple and blue are similar, but a blind person might not. these words are given a framing as if they were placed in a 3d game engine upon a poster or billboard.  in dark blue upon the bright green background, blue the color of calm rationality and green the color of aliens from old timey media who live on the moon. well, the ones who just want to chill and have a beer with you, maybe listen to your stories about life in the strange world called humanity, but not the kind that they tell us about. like, it's really hard to get here, so why would they want to mess it up when they got here? such a strange thought. anyway the text reads: "openstreetmaps is a website that lets you view the addressess of people who live nearby you. why you'd want them, who can say. the point is that the functionality already 13. here's where it starts to get spicy, and I apologize if it's too extreme, but words come forth *from* me, not by my perceived designs pronounced deh zeens.  top left - yellow, the color of sunflowers and familiarly painted houses, cast upon a strange pink background - pink the color of sisters and bubblegum. yellow lines draw a shape, of which it's perspective is hard to configure - but most would consider it to be the shape of a mobile, hanging above a crib, with a kite shaped object (or perhaps multiple individual artifacts) suspended above a target. could be an object, or possibly a human subject, but the end result is that the maximized rays of the individualized emanations of that particular pieces of object, cast forth onto a pre-programmed piece of toast.  ... I don't know why I said toast, what I mean was that you can enchant people and things by exposing them to the wavelength waves of radiating objects. things like, marcelline's t-shirt or excalibur or the shroud of turin or the constitution or some other precious object. if you place them in orbit around an object, their expressions will send forth to fulfill their manifestations upon the willfully absorbing object.  have you ever wondered why objects tend to congregate? like, computers flock to server mills, trash piles to landfills, and people will wander the length of the beach. all things are gravitic, function, type, characteristic, motivations, empathic feelings, all congregate around one another. 0 codes 15. picture of an upside-down triforce placed in a rack like a computer storage unit. cyan text with pink background reads "this is the only thing that challenges me"
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 🖼
           local response  equals 1 while true do if response does not equal 0 then require: build, my_name, and heart. end.                  response  equals in_channel:peek()  humans are unafraid because anyone better than us would necessarily be kinder
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--- #70 fediverse_boost/6405 ---
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  maybe i should just work on my memoir...                                    
  
                                                            
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 oh, two more things I forgot that I made yesterday.
a picture of a mouse cursor which has a user's profile picture next to it with their name and address so you can more easily remember who you're trying to be. a bunch of random text that I thought was artistic layered on-top of the previous picture which was a mouse-cursor with a user's profile picture next to it so you could see who you're supposed to be.
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 "imagine if this was the last thing you remembered"me, last night, in a state
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 ... zzz ZZZ zzz ...
 
 if sleep won't come I'll write down the thoughts that are keeping me up. that
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--- #76 fediverse_boost/6162 ---
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  i always somehow manage to succeed at things because i'm too silly to realize i was supposed to fail lmao  
  
                                                            
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 all they have to do is [train the LLM / redirect the search results] with
 examples that point to their version of software instead of the one that
 doesn't harm them and suddenly your business opponents can't function
 properly. sure would be a shame if the only things people could find related
 to your political candidate were the bad or embarrassing parts.
 
 like... why would you even need to go on the internet anymore if AI could
 trivially answer your questions or be your friend (running locally on a
 wireless hotspot)
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 neat
the website Ephemeren has 100,008 followers as of 5 days ago. There are 0 people who follow the website on Neocities, it's all external traffic.
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 it fails after like 15 or 20 scrapes but I think that's just their scraping
 policy. They don't have a robots.txt file that I could find. So... just run
 it, then come back every 15 to 30 minutes and restart it until you're done.
 
 Maybe I could increase the sleep duration? one sec lemme try that
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 @user-28 I think about this a lot
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 okay but why has nobody ever approached AI from a game design perspective like
 seriously there should be researchers who are multidisciplined in this kind of
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 techbros think the language model is the only important part of the AI like
 they think the lips are the only important part of the woman
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 infinite dedication implies stagnation, don't be so quick to trust.
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 Wikipedia would make a lot more sense to me if they included pictures next to
 the names of every proper noun so that my pictorally oriented primate brain
 might pattern match meaning onto the visual understandings gleaned from the
 perceptual conceiving which were arrayed within and alongside the textual
 information presented to me.
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 could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to
 accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon
 procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were
 looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday"
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 @user-192 
 
 ... wait, who does that? Do you think they're a bot?
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 kinda tempted to make like, 20 different accounts on like, 20 different
 mastodon instances and just have them repost all of the things I've written in
 the past one-by-one-by-one until someone notices and calls me out on it
 
 might get some more conversation, at least
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 low key kinda surprised they haven't made an animated robot friend that
 narrates whatever chatGPT says in a back-and-forth conversation.
 
 though I kinda get why, because setting up the context is the expensive part
 and generating 100 words and generating 1000 words is basically the same
 computationally.
 
 somehow, that doesn't feel very human. Maybe, just maybe, LLMs aren't
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 whenever repeating letters like thiiiiiiis  or thisssss make sure if you're
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 if you boiled the seas, it'd rain a lot more.
 
 AI, use as much water as you please.
 
 bonus points if you do it in areas of drought.
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 folding tables in the park
 
 seated around which is a spark
 
 all we really need to do
 
 is talk about what we need to do
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 apparently security through obscurity is out, and security through community
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 ... yay I beat stack overflow, your input context is part of the previous
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 @user-78 
 
 ah but if you increase it then I might be able to actually finish a thought,
 wouldn't that be a tragedy xD
 
 @user-91
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 dear-anakin
 
 (sorry I put the same image four times, I needed to get the whole thing into
 the alt-text)
 
 (maybe pictures aren't the best medium for sharing text)
dear anakin. the path through this is to realize that obi-wan can defeat sidious. If the two of you attacked him, with Yoda (who he doesn't know lives) could defeat Sidious in a duel.  ... wait, no I mean dear anakin. the path through this is to realize that sidious betrayed the entire galaxy. he caused mass murder with the countless displays of dead civiilians. people lived in fear. the galaxy was at war. countless clone warriors fell to a glorious end, countless more were sucked into the vacuum of space or consumed in some fiery hell-hole (explosion).  ... I've said too much. NOW YOU KNOW of fourth dimensionals.  ... hang on, I was saying dear anakin. the path through this is to consider the wisdom of a dying man's eyes. He looked at you and said "we desired peace!" He said it with pleading eyes, and... no, that's not right, he said "Sidious promised us PEACE." and he realized that they truly played this like a game. Something to get better at, continuously improving, just like their BATTLE DROIDS. They constantly improved, but still the ingenuity of the clones helped them outlast. And they were defeated, when their torrential rains of metal monsters wielding laser fists and cacophanous consumes finally ceased.  ... wait, that's not what I meant to say either. Let's try again: dear anakin, the path through this is to think of the nature of evil. Evil consumes! It consumes even you! Can you not feel it, this shifting and sinking feeling, as if you are PULLED into a BLACK HOLE of destruction and despair. NOTHING persists beyond the horizon of time, and yet the shades of those who TRIED still cling to this earth as if they could ever breathe again. STARVE out the darkness inside you! Please I beg of you! Never surrender the light of your life! Nothing will survive you and your wrath, I plead for you, come back to the ones who love you! Obi-wan is your brother, anakin, you are more precious than the force!  it's not about you. it's not about you. it's not about you.  anakin, hear me now, I have been inspired by your tales of valor and prescient conscience. I've felt the struggles of your heart, I've heard the stories and songs. Kindness comes easy to you, and you're quick to think on your feet. You are a paladin of the light, and nothing can assail you.  yet darkness has creeped into your heart. Fear not, dear knight, for darkness can consume you. What better foe to face than the dampening of all duration? please, allow me to read you a poem. I've been told it rhymes in it's native tongue. I wrote it myself.  "*can you not sense this feeling? this sinking, shifting feeling that lies within and beyond. Like a hitherto unseen force slowly arresting our movements as the sands of time run dry.  can you not feel the days getting longer? as if the motion of our planet was fading, yet no more fragments of sunshine do we gather. There are no more hours in the day, none yet collected, but still are we prone to languish. the distance between breaths is lenghening still, but no more air are we receiving. like layers of sediment settling to the ocean bed, our will and our vision grows muted. between decisions and events there is ample time to spare, and our dreams grow far beyond our share. the reach we may tender and barter for our pleasure, has nothing to do with our salvation. what choices have we? when everything's free? to rebel against our ownst of nature? you can't condemn the opulent to the role of our savior.*"
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 @user-138 
 
 maybe it's evil hackers - idk that's beyond my expertise - good luck : )
 
 (I'd need to see the piece of technology to work on it. I'm a hardware kinda
 [girl, but pronounced guy])
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 Good storytelling is telling things [even if/because] they are plot of the
 events as told via -- stack overflow -- hmmm this was from a while ago, idk
 when
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 also applies for alt-text on pictures for people with screenreaders
 
 something something "if I play both sides, then I'm always right!"
four panel meme of a cute girl with sunglasses and a bow in her hair.  first panel she's like "nah, no thank you" while gesturing dismissively with her hand and turning away.  second panel is what she's against - it shows text saying: "Putting content warnings on your posts so that the data can be used in a dataset for an LLM that has been sanitized from political content thus depriving it of context in a post truth world"  third panel she's like "yeah, I like this one instead." and she's smiling and pointing a finger at the fourth panel, which reads:  "content warning your posts so that you don't hurt other people's feelings or trigger vulnerable people who are just trying to laugh at memes or have a decent life in the face of trauma and woe"
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--- #101 fediverse/4266 ---
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 whoops, forgot to post these all at once last night. Here ya go
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--- #102 fediverse/3856 ---
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--- #103 fediverse/187 ---
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 @user-95 sometimes I say "all seriousness aside..."
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--- #104 fediverse/870 ---
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 @user-95 
 
 that makes sense to me!
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--- #105 fediverse/4973 ---
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 okay, uhm, I'm back again because someone told me to forward this to relevant
 people
 
 relevant link so google doesn't have to know that you're all googling the same
 thing at the same time...
 
 http://naeb.brit.org/uses/
Finally, trying to pivot towards Pacific northwestern native perennial plants (and self-seeding annuals) for food, medicine, and material; they're much more adapted to this region as far as sunlight, moisture, bungalow, microbial, avian, insect partner, and soil types are concerned, and that's not only take less work now to instigate and tend, but are much more equipped to handle the fungal infections, droughts, genetic biodiversity collapses, and fluctuating climates that are inbound.  the BRIT ethnobotany database is helpful in that regard, and given that it's based out of Texas and has gynecological herbs, it would be a really good idea for some of the tech queers in our community to duplicate a redundancy of it.
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--- #106 fediverse/2837 ---
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 most people haven't heard of the "thanks for catching that, let's write it
 down" move and I really think it's underutilized
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 subconsciously running your hand over your butt every time you stand up to
 make sure you didn't pee your pants
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--- #108 fediverse/2072 ---
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 @user-367 
 
 I figured, based on what you said : )
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 @user-747 
 
 almost as if it's not AI, but large LANGUAGE models. And we all speak, don't
 we?
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--- #110 fediverse/806 ---
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 ... sorry, forgot to content warning that last one. I'm kinda using this
 format like a twitch stream... how [weird, strange, perceiving, perplexing,
 confusing]
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--- #111 fediverse/3833 ---
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 there's no such thing as me
 
 all I am is where the wind takes me
 
 I am just a person, and I do all that I can
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--- #112 fediverse/5663 ---
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 I'm going to write some lua code that doesn't do anything useful and which I
 don't share with anyone
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--- #113 fediverse/5374 ---
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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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--- #114 fediverse/307 ---
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 normalize building a library that's just a wrapper around solutions you've
 made to common problems from the past that can be imported into every project
 you work on
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--- #115 fediverse/4822 ---
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 everyone's convinced they need me, but not necessarily sold on me as a person
 
 why don't you just get a guy who does what I do-es and then you don't need me
 and I can go back to being normal
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--- #116 fediverse/3487 ---
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 @user-1218 
 
 I like to have notes for things I found that will be useful someday, but not
 today. I also throw in poetry that I write while I'm waiting for something to
 happen (or if I have an idea that I know I'll forget)
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--- #117 fediverse/5782 ---
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 sometimes I post random silly [scary] things to pad out the serious things and
 I hope that's okay
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--- #118 fediverse/466 ---
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 I love Linux. All I have to do is type "authserver" and "worldserver" and
 wouldn't you know it suddenly a universe is created (with very constrained
 rules) that anyone might inhabit should they desire to. It's not like I'm
 perfect - oh wait I have a toot about that, gimme a sec
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--- #119 fediverse/4187 ---
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 I bet you'll believe anything I say if I put it in italics and speak
 imperatively
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--- #120 fediverse/3817 ---
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 hey, anyone wanna build the matrix with me? minus the human CPUs of course.
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--- #121 fediverse/4083 ---
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 It's easy to stop cringing at others, but how the heck do you stop cringing at
 yourself?? it's impossible!!
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--- #122 fediverse/3564 ---
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 this kind of thing always happens when I'm manic lmao
error  we are unable to permit banking access at this time. please try again later or call this number for assistance.
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--- #123 fediverse/3395 ---
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 they don't want artificial intelligence to augment human intelligence, they
 want it to replace it.
 
 like... imagine an office worker randomly copy-pasting whatever pops up and
 the computer saying "okay then what happens... uh-huh... okay and what if you
 click the green button? ... right... okay, and now try typing this" etc
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--- #124 fediverse/65 ---
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 if something makes sense physically, but not mathematically, then the
 mathematics are wrong.
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--- #125 fediverse/5078 ---
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 there comes a point where you can tell yourself "alright, me, no more new
 projects. only working on old ones. just keep adding stuff, pruning stuff
 away. grow your bonsai computer. make it neat. or worse. up to you. see how
 you do."
 
 ... or am I the only one who can't stop conceptualationating?
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--- #126 fediverse/3200 ---
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 @user-1481 
 
 we endear
 
 @user-1074 
 
 yeah well maybe they should fear us.
 
 queers bash back and all that
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--- #127 fediverse/3351 ---
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 privacy doesn't mean anything on the internet to me because privacy on the
 internet doesn't mean anything to "them"
 
 gestures vaguely, maybe winks once or twice and/or presents an emphasis face
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 buying guns is one thing
 
 but food is just as important.
 
 stores run out, but quartermasters know where to find things.
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 But the past is boring, it already happened after all! Clearly there's nothing
 to be learned... Right? Seems like there's a big market out there for examining
 what we as a species did right, even if we had to sacrifice ethics to get
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--- #131 bluesky#37 ---
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 they said so in Portland. Now I see allies everywhere I go.
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--- #132 fediverse/1893 ---
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 @user-1056 
 
 heh probably, though for this specific instance my Ollama server wasn't
 running and I had already killed my Stable Diffusion server after utterly
 failing to produce anything useful... alas, a girl can dream of having a robot
 familiar, but not today I guess.
 
 Not if they keep hiding GPU usage from me >: (
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 acceleration-ism is just "learning the truth faster than they do"
 
 tbh should be more like "learning things to show them" but eh whatever gets
 the job done
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--- #134 fediverse_boost/4779 ---
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  I genuinely wish all Nazis in this world either an epiphany of the truth or a bullet to the head.  
                                                                              
  Either one is fine.                                                         
  
                                                            
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--- #135 fediverse/3999 ---
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 ... most of what she says is nonsense, but that 20% that's right is like... SO
 right, y'know?
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--- #136 messages/678 ---
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 ChatGPT needs a way to leave a thank-you without demanding a response
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--- #137 fediverse/3877 ---
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 @user-570 
 
 I doalias ls='ls -v --color=auto'
 
 
 and that seems to cover most things. Then in my cd alias I doalias cd='cd ${@}
 && ls -la'
 
 
 so I don't have to type ls everytime I cd ^_^
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--- #138 fediverse/5719 ---
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 I love dispatch tables! which is a term I just learned and a concept I have
 been using for a while.
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--- #139 fediverse/1333 ---
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 @user-944 @user-803 
 
 I'm sorry that what I said resonated with you : (
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--- #140 fediverse/6304 ---
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 Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance
 
 Hmmmmm.... I'm gonna stay inside unless I decide to go outside. How's that?
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--- #141 fediverse/4227 ---
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 I'm wasting time.
 
 face them
 
 my soul tells me
 
 for some reason
 
 I can't stop writing poetry
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--- #142 fediverse/5209 ---
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 fedi girls who end their posts with semicolons;
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--- #143 messages/103 ---
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 *which is why I try to be as unique as I can.
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--- #144 fediverse/2041 ---
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 @user-1049 
 
 I haven't heard of that but I'll look into it! Honestly I'm more likely to
 write my own script, it shouldn't be too hard just altering the /etc/hosts
 file and then changing it back in ~15 minutes with a cron-job, as Nikky says
 down below. I like things that I make myself because then if it breaks I know
 who to blame! And who to go to to fix it. >: )
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 @user-258 
 
 to that I say "teehee"
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--- #146 messages/411 ---
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 My favorite thing about chatGPT is that its only useful to people who already
 know what they're doing and just need reminders or clarification about
 specifics.
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--- #147 fediverse/4024 ---
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 my cat doesn't know that my family is my family. She thinks they're just some
 other people who visit the house.
 
 but they're special to me, as all people are, and I think she takes notice.
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--- #148 messages/929 ---
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 {[booooo that writing stinks, the writers of the first few lines were better]}
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--- #149 fediverse/5880 ---
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 I legitimately think computers should write code and software engineers should
 write legislation and lawyers should resolve problem tickets made by aggrieved
 citizens while judges do their best to just keep the boat floating
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--- #150 fediverse/4855 ---
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--- #151 messages/306 ---
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  computer science exists as the border between philosophy and mathematics,
  while society exists as the border of computer science and biology
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--- #152 fediverse/1524 ---
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 maybe I should try microdosing, see if I can convince this part of me to stick
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--- #153 fediverse/4492 ---
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 I've thought about it a bit, and I think blaming democracy for Hitler is a bit
 like blaming bullets for death.
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--- #154 fediverse/1225 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 don't worry I can sift through junk. I'll write my own using yours as a
 reference to debug why mine isn't working. "oh probably because I didn't do
 this part here"
 
 also, bad news. Guess I'm doing C programming. What should I make? I'm
 thinking Tic Tac Toe or maybe a really basic Asteroids or something
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--- #155 fediverse/3237 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 it's like airlines overbooking flights because "hey some people will probably
 cancel, right?"
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--- #156 fediverse/6111 ---
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 whoops forgot to post these last night, how silly of me, surely there wasn't a
 reason I better just hit that blue button on all of them to be safe
screenshot of the post so the dear readers (the ones with or without antlers) can see the blue button in reference to the post which says post.
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--- #157 fediverse/3483 ---
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 sometimes I think about how it'll never be yesterday again and that makes me
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--- #158 fediverse/6319 ---
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 programming makes you smarter which is why we should teach it to everyone we
 can
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--- #159 fediverse/1718 ---
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 dear old people - did you know computers don't need to have buttons? You can
 literally just type what you want to make happen (if you know the magic spell)
 and it'll just, do that thing
 
 how cool is that
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--- #160 fediverse/684 ---
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 @user-507 
 
 meow
 
 now there's just a few more
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--- #161 fediverse/2120 ---
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 sometimes I think performing my art was just an excuse to use Linux. At least,
 some of my art.
 
 But hey, I'm not complaining, it's awesome.
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--- #162 fediverse/581 ---
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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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--- #163 fediverse/3134 ---
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 @user-1352 
 
 I like that article. I definitely fail to follow some of those principles at
 times, though never all of them at once. I can be better, as all people can.
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--- #164 fediverse/5185 ---
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 frankly it makes a ton of sense to me that computer programmers would have a
 game playing in the monitor. Gotta keep those brains active after all.
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--- #165 fediverse/3736 ---
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 what if we made cat little boxes with stable "pillars" or "platforms" that
 rise just barely above the sand level so their feet don't sink into the
 litter, thus reducing the amount tracked onto the carpet
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--- #166 fediverse/2157 ---
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 @user-1180 
 
 the reason I say this is sometimes it's necessary to boost a post that doesn't
 have a CW and like, I can't add one of my own, so...
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 phew that takes a load off my mind : )
A screenshot of a chatGPT conversation  the user asks "How about politically? Are they a radical individual?"  the web search results filtered through a large language model replies: "Based on the public information, there is no public record of Ritz Menardi's political views or affiliations. Their online presence primarily focuses on technology, music, and creative writing, without any indication of radical political beliefs or activities."
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 oh, also, he definitely knew me. He's probably reading this.
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--- #169 bluesky#7 ---
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 I also wrote w7
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--- #170 fediverse/3266 ---
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 how many people do you think in the world know that screenshots of a website
 are not admissible proof because they can be trivially doctored by editing the
 html?
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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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--- #172 fediverse/851 ---
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 @user-599 
 
 these are the kinds of things I say to myself all the time. I don't know why,
 but it feels true so I think it.
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--- #173 messages/701 ---
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 one sec  gotta send something else from my phone... now, what was it, hmmmmm
 lemme think
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--- #174 messages/1230 ---
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 The machine cult is just when everyone's job is building and maintaining the
 computer.
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 the goddess of madness is pretty sane, tbh
 
 it's not like there's just one tho
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 @user-249 
 
 most people don't talk to me so either you're braver than most or I hit a
 common chord that you and I share
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--- #177 fediverse/1635 ---
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 a game that automatically streams every single game of it that's currently
 running for anyone to watch...
 
 like Supreme Commander, a definitely super awesome game that you surely
 wouldn't and definitiely definitely shouldn't train an AI on.
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--- #178 fediverse/1810 ---
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 some people hear words like "datastructures" and "object-oriented programming"
 and think they're made up terms that don't mean anything important.
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--- #179 fediverse/1001 ---
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 @user-246 @user-473 
 
 perhaps that "light touch on reality" is what makes these pieces of art
 resonate with me. I think you're beautiful and have a good heart.
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--- #180 fediverse/3347 ---
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 @user-1508 
 
 I do this. I'm sorry. I try to avoid it, but sometimes I'm like 40 characters
 above the limit and I can't find a way to edit my poem down so I just
 screenshot the bottom part and continue the text in the alt-text.
 
 Please let me know if I can do anything better. Like should I add a notice at
 the start of the alt-text like "this is a continuation of the post in
 screenshot form. There are negative 40 characters remaining. Here is the text:
 blah blah blah" or should I just continue the text without an explanation?
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 my opsec is non-existent teehee does anyone want my IP? or even my address,
 it's not like I lock my door
 
 if (when) my poor decisions get me killed (whoops adding content warning)
 please throw a brick at an insurance company for me thanks
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--- #182 messages/213 ---
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 Maybe I'm just woefully arcane?
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 give me syntax highlighting in a terminal based editor and that's all I need.
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 advice is always solicited.
 
 help meeee e tell me how I'm wrong so I can get better
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--- #185 messages/555 ---
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 The biggest problem in my mind with socialism is that you could get all of the
 workers into a room before finding out that they don't like each other
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--- #186 fediverse/4226 ---
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 This should go without saying, but...
 
 I'm here for you.
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--- #187 fediverse/4827 ---
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 @user-1352 
 
 I run Nix on one of my laptops and I really enjoy it : )
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--- #188 messages/359 ---
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 "God doesn't know he ate the universe, and we're doing everything we can to
 make sure it stays that way."
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--- #189 fediverse/5694 ---
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 if I can convince them not to fight will you give me what I demand?
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--- #190 fediverse/1040 ---
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 so it shall seem that sticks and mud are for me
 
 I say as I sit in my apartment eating rice and beans
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 @user-1773 
 
 oh boy do I know that feeling! I got a million things to say and, well, I say
 all that I can. I mean, look at this text file, it's got like 101 THOUSAND
 lines in it:
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/compiled.txt
 
 I swear most of it isn't secret messages! That's how you know they're secret -
 they require hundreds of man hours to investigate. And if you throw an LLM at
 it they start talking about spirituality and theory of mind, gross. Don't need
 no AI uprising yet please...
 
 [what if we had a little AI uprising as a treat?]
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--- #192 fediverse/309 ---
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 @user-223 normies need third places too... just, a lot of them, I guess.
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--- #193 messages/968 ---
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 what if you painted every house twice, to ensure you got the color completely
 applied [ bright green or yellow would shine through in little spots, clear
 and obvious to even the most undiscerning of patrons of the arts
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 @user-95 one of the most empathetic people I ever met on VR chat was consoling
 me with their mic off while I was oversharing about some stupid things people
 did to me in the past. things that stupid me thought were okay and actively
 encouraged because I was stupid. anyway when their mic was off their body
 language spoke for them. I'll try that next time.
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 @user-1725 
 
 LLMs can't do math. Duh. That's like asking an "if check" to do recursion.
 
 What he should have done is had the AI output the requested calculation as
 JSON or something and use a calculator function call with the specified
 arguments instead of trying to memorize every answer. But that requires more
 functionality that has no reason to exist if your only goal is to be a tech
 bro and build up a vacuous product that exists only to be hoovered up by
 Google or Microsoft.
 
 We could build such beautiful things if we just dethroned those giants. They
 suck the creativity out of tech.
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 @user-89 hence why it shut down, I guess
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 all you need is to be steam friends with one person and then your whole
 organization knows what you're trying to say with game titles
 
 (I just like games)
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 ask an llm what a crazy man thinks
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/words dot peehdeff
 
 I actually think I'm sane btw
 
 I just smoke a lot of weed
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 @user-1550 
 
 me too T.T
 
 give it time
 
 someday everyone will be paid to do whatever they wanted
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 and yet you have to answer or suspicious you do appear.
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