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 @user-377
Person 1:  We need a "Children's Video Game Network" with sesame street philosophy but for games.   Not creaky educational games. In fact, I don't care if they are educational as much as I care if they are of a high artistic caliber, thoughtful, fun and both free and free of advertisements.   I'm not saying such games don't exist, but there isn't really a plan to make them.  Really all modern content forms are weak in this area. Ambitious to say with PBS gone? Yes.   But also it can't just be TV.  Person 2:  what if we hired the people who used to work at PBS at video game studios creating specifically games for children
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 an old folks home that had an emphasis on technology, giving residents the
 ability to work on tech projects. honestly I think it would be helpful not
 just for their brains, but also for their enjoyment. Programming is fun!
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 can you imagine if carbon dating didn't work the way we thought it did
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 @user-162 only if those behind the change of leadership do not have the
 support of the educated. essentially... only evil people who have no ties to
 morality or justice would eliminate their political opponents.
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 every burden my heart bears is a scar from ancestry that I am slowly healing
 for the good of posterity.
 
 all souls deserve to chart their own course. agency is intrinsic to their
 nature, so therefore they must never be forced to relinquish any choice. how
 many yearn to be eaten? become vegetarian, noobs. or are you such simple gods?
picture of osiris, the ancient egyption god of the dead, who judges souls as they enter the afterlife by weighing them on a scale against the weight of a feather. if the heart is heavier, it is eaten by the great nile crocodile, full of hair and beauteous in spirit.  if the heart is light as a feather, then the creature being judged is an angel, and can do as they will in any futures or other such lifetimes as it sees fit.  there is some rudely placed text that describes a certain vibe or sentiment, and the text reads as such: "That's cool bro, but is your heart as light as a feather?" essentially, are you truly as incorruptible as you proclaim?
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 sometimes I think about how it'll never be yesterday again and that makes me
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 @user-243
 
 luckily for humanity, we don't necessarily have to all realize it. Our true
 nature shines forth through the law of averages, and we've long ago hit the
 escape velocity required to reach the bright future even if we only did 51% as
 good as those who came before us.
 
 All therapy is healing the wounds of our ancestors for posterity. Similarly,
 all kindness is mending a rift in the heart of another. And we, as humans,
 can't help but heal.
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 It's better to cry when sad than to sing a life with a heartful of tears
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 @user-1074 
 
 our stems are grown from the same nutrients, the same soil, the same climate
 
 but we blossom differently, and we should live in an ecosystem
 co-interactively.
 
 I don't really use labels that much. Hence why I clarified in the original
 post. I think they're primarily useful for academic purposes, not for
 organizational ones.
 
 At the end of the day, people are people, and we meet and greet in much the
 same way.
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 The question is:
     - "Can AGI be used for good, or is it destined to enforce power
        structures? Can we find a way to use it to help humanity rather than to
        oppress it?"
 
     My answer is - YES, it can be used for good, NO it is not destined to
 enforce power structures, and YES we can use it to help humanity rather than to
 oppress it.
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--- #10 fediverse/3705 ---
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 what is the point of modular power supplies if they can't use cables from
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 @user-252 kinda makes me think we need another layer between state and
 federal. or would three be too many? four if you count local, which frankly
 suffers from the same problem. I mean, how many people go to city council
 meetings? how many city council meetings actually matter? Idk never been /shrug
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 you can usually blow an insect off of you easier with a breath than with a
 slap or a slam.
 
 only truly evil foes like mosquitos deserve such a fate.
 
 don't try it against spiders, because their fangs are naturally pointed down
 
 but blowing is better
 
 they won't suffer any harm
 
 also it's often easier because the bugs don't cooperate when you try to put
 them on a paper-thin platter.
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 you can even design it as you go, making it do slightly adjacent uses in
 addition to what it currently does. for example:
 https://github.com/gabrilend/r-mail is a reference implementation with some
 ideas for how to design some specific parts. make sure you go through it
 yourself though, so you understand how it works. don't worry, the source-code
 files are numbered like the table of contents [chamber of commerce] in a story
 or book.
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 The problem with the past is it exists only in our Write Only Memory. Once you
 remember it, you only remember the last time you remembered it. Ah, if only
 our records were immutable! Surely that wouldn't bring about its own
 challenges.
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 I also feel other things, like compassion and warmth, but... still a little
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 @user-1074 
 
 Yeah, but, as it takes shape we can learn how to kill it.
 
 So, the more we learn of it's new shape, the more confident we can be.
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 Art is only useful when skillfully applied, and Twitter taught ya to speak
 whenever a thought passed your mind.
 
 Really makes ya think
 
 Really makes ya think thoughts like "I should post this on the internet"
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 @user-627 @user-628 
 
 the image they posted is alarming. in reality there is much more space between
 each satellite, enough to have such a minor impact on magnetic fields. If
 anything It'd push CMEs and other electro-magnetic phenomenon away from earth,
 as our gravitational surface is now wider.
 
 [is not a physicist, nor an expert of any kind]
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 "... honestly, it's a little sad"
 
 "yeah, you're not wrong"
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--- #22 messages/125 ---
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 Question for you all- are we all technically bastards?
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 programming makes you smarter which is why we should teach it to everyone we
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 @user-192 
 
 ... trail beautification is trail maintenance, and without trails we would
 lose our tether to nature's truest reality.
 
 Thank goodness forest rangers are almost exclusively people who care immensely
 about natural spaces.
 
 Otherwise the profit motive would sneak in...
 
 I would not be as I am if I didn't hike up a mountain with my best friend
 while on LSD. If I did it again, on the same mountain, with the same friend, I
 would remember every thing that happened on that day and every thought I
 thought. Alas, circumstance.
 
 But yeah building trails teaches you about erosion, and carpentry, and fluid
 dynamics, and like... everything else that they earn badges for.
 
 Like what a report card should be.
 
 "Little Timmy definitely understands algebra" awards, presented to those who
 are worthy. Their worth, of course, being determined by trails set before them
 and solved in their own desired paths through.
 
 Like, writing an essay vs performing an essay. Or researching at a library vs
 building a powerpoint pre
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 Some people think history was the beginning of time and like... Nah humans
 existed for hundreds of thousands of years before that. Ancient Egypt or
 whatever is basically modern compared to most of the humans who have ever
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 @user-1399 
 
 kinda makes me feel like the structures and institutions that allowed that to
 happen (for-profit companies) maybe shouldn't be given such power.
 
 they obviously can't keep themselves from out-polluting each other in their
 silly little race of competitiveness.
 
 why would we allow that to happen? It's a bad move all around. Nobody wants
 plastic bits in their testicles.
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 @user-246 
 
 Perhaps... But take heart! For new trails will ever emerge, placed below the
 feet of those who will mark them.
 
 "Leave no trace" unless you're a trailblazer. 
 
 And by that I mean unless you're a forest ranger, for they are the stewards of
 the land.
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 you can believe all the right things and still be a bad person
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 @user-246 
 
 true, but what is a poem if not a silly construction of phrases? Those words
 don't belong together, what are you doing! And yet it fills you will a feeling
 that the author intended, thus being poetry as a joke.
 
 problem is if everyone says the same joke, it gets kinda... old... hence why
 you should express yourself as much as you can.
 
 I wonder if fewer people are "alternative" these days because they all started
 hanging out on the internet and trying to differentiate themselves amongst
 each other instead of amongst "normal people"? Weird thought, srry haha
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 @user-1508 
 
 oh absolutely, if the poem was not readable there'd be no point in posting it.
 That kind of junk is reserved for my "morning pages" hehe.
 
 I'll add a "continued in picture..." at the end of the post, and a "...
 continuation from post" at the start of the alt-text. I hope that is
 sufficient. [heart emojis with smiling faces] 🥰
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 @user-883 
 
 kinda makes me think we should make our own capitalism, with pickles and
 healthcare
 
 actually screw the capitalism let's just take care of each other
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 I don't believe civilization would have flourished as it did without the
 invention of noodles. They are simply sublime.
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 Nobody cries if someone they think is evil has died.
 
 No one mourns the wicked.
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 @user-1153 
 
 made a picture to describe it based on that singular post you shared. Feel
 free to use this, or not, depending on how you feel about the situation.
 That's just how I, an outsider see it based on the single necessarily biased
 perspective of the summary you presented me.
Image attachment
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 the united states is the unity of ALL states, not just america. But also
 america.
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 thx 1138 is interesting because it paints a picture of a society adrift, as if
 they no longer had any tether to reality. Like an asteroid colony or colony
 ship
 or other long-term space installation.
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 how can martinelli's taste so good and sparkling water taste so bad?
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 @user-192 
 
 multidimensional arrays aren't too hard, it gets a bit more complicated when
 you need multidimensional slices, but once you get your head around it it
 comes easier.
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--- #39 fediverse/1098 ---
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 that feeling when you make all the wrong decisions but have all the right fate
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 [see "waves of causality, time is a flat circle" in bicycle notebook]
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 @user-803 
 
 reading this made me cry T.T
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 some day, the past will exist only in the media made in that era and the
 threads that it left in that which came later.
 
 for now, it still persists in our memories. But we shall die, and with us our
 recollections. How sad, that the eras before us shall depart upon our graves.
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 The good news is that immigrants are resilient. There will always be more of
 them because they come from an external wellspring.
 
 Our wellspring is here. If they defeat us here, we are stone forevermore.
 
 We will always take immigrants. They can be in little italies, or they can
 merge into our form and become like us. They are free to be as they please so
 long as we ensure everyone can feed and live easily.
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 people think the lord of the rings is historical fantasy. HA! most people
 believed whatever the pope didn't want them to believe. They acted holy when
 the magic men came to be, and the rest of the time they just danced like a
 spark.
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 I am a patriot, through and through. What does that mean, to you? To me, it
 means I think of the streams - the mountains, the trees. I love the dirt
 beneath my feet, from sea to shining sea.
 
 We are a nation of all peoples. Everyone here was once from somewhere else,
 and that includes those who were thrust somewhere else by genocide - into tiny
 patches of dirt with no minerals, no farmland, no bountiful rivers, no
 towering pillars of rock.
 
 Our flag is the flag of genocide. But it is also the flag of liberty, justice,
 and freedom for all*
 
 (*most)
 
 We changed our flag once before. It made us stronger. We can change it again.
 Perhaps it will make us kinder.
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 What if we 🥺🥹 took all the bullies from high school 😈👺 and gave
 them all the power 🎩 🏭 by failing them upward ⬆️ 📈 instead of
 addressing their mental health issues 🧠 💖
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 The shortest argument against trump for Mexicans in Texas is "they won't care
 if you're american. Only if you're mexican."
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 Okay, so what if we can't make matter travel through time. Why not project
 something else? Like... Willpower, intention, etc through the time medium
 instead? Electricity is fundamentally different than matter, so why not try to
 send electricity through time? BRB gonna go watch steins;gate
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 @user-217 
 
 the cosmos unfolding, from end to end and back again.
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 @user-95 I like to think of each reply as the start of a new thread. sorta
 like... multidimensional arrays that contain arrays that contain arrays that
 contain...
 
 that's how it worked on Reddit so that's how I'm going to use Mastodon, hope I
 don't step on any toes...!
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 when considering the benefit of the doubt, consider doubting the benefit of
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 long have I searched for some material which may compare to glowsticks.
 
 It seems I shall yearn forever. None are equivalent to chemically produced
 light, none fulfill my desire for thrumming neon radiance.
 
 maybe someday I'll find a bracelet of bioluminescent algae. Maybe someday
 we'll make an LED that is not piercing, but warm and close. Alas.
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 @user-283
 
 let us pray
 for a day
 when we can say
 that computing makes sense
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 the path to god is through the natural world, not a book or a culture
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 @user-443 
 
 could use a different animation that implies an effect on the mental state of
 the viewer without triggering epileptic people.
 
 for example, a hypnotic spiral gif or the bouncing DvD logo. Could also do the
 ending screen for Solitaire, or a zooming mandelbrot animation.
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 the neat thing about fusion is you can use energy to create matter. out of
 nothing!
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 The Lord of the Rings movies were good because they filmed them all before
 releasing ANY of them.
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 growing up on the plains, I saw only what humans could create there. Not what
 life was abound. When I visited the forests in the mountains, I thought
 smaller scale, more focused, more distributed. Back home, among the grasses,
 there was always more grass.
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--- #60 fediverse/435 ---
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 @user-226 
 
 the earth is not overpopulated, just overutilized! we have the means to live
 sustainably and still progress technologically. there's little reason not to,
 as convenience is relative to the amount of work you're expected to output in
 a day.
 
 most waste comes from a need for convenience, I think. and sufficient output
 is possible if demanded work is reduced to a level where convenience is not
 needed to the degree that causes such waste.
 
 like, I'd rather live in a cave or treehouse with my computers than drive to
 work on the freeway every day.
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--- #63 fediverse/5674 ---
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--- #64 fediverse_boost/4593 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Since all the world's big problems (climate change, economic injustice, war, discrimination etc)  are interrelated and seem to mutually reinforce each other, I think it might actually be easier to change everything than to change one thing in isolation.  
  
                                                            
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--- #65 fediverse/4127 ---
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 an email address is just as important to a person as a mailing address.
 Therefore the government should provide one for all who want one.
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--- #66 fediverse/2757 ---
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 let your children grow, yes, but still challenge them. test them. see where
 their spirit flows to. give them situations, and give them choices to resolve
 them.
 
 there's no greater gift an elder can give than experience.
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--- #67 fediverse/1165 ---
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 @user-246 
 
 you mean putting stones in soup for flavor? They're re-usable!
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 @user-1218 
 
 oh, also, because I started taking some psychiatric medication to help with
 the aforementioned delusional thinking or whatever. Honestly I think I just
 believe in spiritual things like witchcraft and the human spirit or whatever,
 but since I'm having difficulties doing basic things my doctors decided to
 medicate me.
 
 ... but then I stopped taking those psychiatric drugs because they made me
 feel numb and dense. It was hard to think. Thinking's all I do!!
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--- #69 fediverse/1514 ---
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 image and text clipboards should be kept empty and pulled from or updated
 depending on context
 
 and why not a video clipboard? It's just mkv
 
 (and no I don't think the OS should have view-control over it)
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--- #70 fediverse/4262 ---
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 good witches make enchantments.
 
 bad witches steal them.
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--- #71 bluesky#8 ---
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 what if the *one ring* was a flash drive
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--- #72 messages/172 ---
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 Did you know you can use Cheetos (or just chips) as a condiment/garnish? Be
 creative 🥰
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--- #73 fediverse/5306 ---
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 remember kids, if you send the original image they can match it automagically.
 but if it's altered with the addition of text, overlays, keyboard shortcuts,
 twitch screamers, or other audio-visual artifacts, it's easier to disseminate.
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 the fallen leaf is of the tree, but the tree still grows
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--- #75 fediverse/574 ---
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 @user-415 @user-416 
 
 That's inspiring! So many green areas. We can do this! It's only going to get
 faster. Keep pushing!
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--- #76 fediverse/4962 ---
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 humans are computers that inhale air, produce electricity, and exhale carbon.
 
 give me a biochemical or mechanical process for doing that on a reasonable
 scale for cheap and you can solve global warming by replacing power outlets
 with an energy generation box. Doubles as an air purifier and UPS.
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--- #77 fediverse/3893 ---
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 if an AI image generator shows your signature on the completed works, then
 that means your style is unique enough that whatever the person trying to
 generate an image was trying to conjure is directly correlated to your name.
 
 It means your art is influential in whatever media space that is! Frankly if
 they were trained to emphasize the artist's watermark, maybe give more than a
 few, they could give credit where credit is due. Ah alas, it probably doesn't
 work like that, because the software we've programmed to do whatever we want
 wasn't programmed to do that.
 
 like, if it can take all that data and chart a course from whatever the prompt
 is to... whatever the result is, then surely it should be able to scan back
 and see where the roots of the art came from? Then all you have to do is
 generate a watermark for the top 5 most influential and 5 others that had very
 specific contributions. Boom, solved your ethic problem
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--- #78 messages/737 ---
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 The jedi order fell because they gave their wisest the decision-making powers
 and their boldest the second best
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--- #79 messages/1084 ---
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 I feel like "settling out of court" should be illegal.
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--- #80 fediverse/50 ---
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 @user-45 there's two episodes in Extraordinary Attorney Woo that take place on
 that island. I know because I just binged it
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--- #81 fediverse/2331 ---
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 @user-1230 @user-1007 
 
 what the, all I see are ⭐
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 @user-1074 
 
 and it is forced to do so, by it's very nature. It is anathema to a green
 earth, and it is slowly poisoning us like lead pipes, cadmium jewelry,
 asbestos insulation, and all of the other bountiful missteps that capitalism
 brought us.
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--- #83 fediverse/880 ---
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 @user-246 
 
 the color of the sky 🤩​
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--- #84 fediverse_boost/3479 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Programming is not just science; it's also an art. Source code is a creative work expressed in the author's unique style. Just like a painting or novel, the final work is a unique solution chosen from infinite possibilities.  
                                                                              
  #Programming #Coding #SoftwareDevelopment                                   
  
                                                            
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 The concept of Jesus is basically "what if God were real and knew as much as a
 human"
 
 You can do that at home.
 
 I want to feel useful.
 
 Better that you're renowned.
 
 What was all the setup then?
 
 The hands of justice adjustin'.
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 @user-1074 
 
 [edit post]: I kinda feel like the United Nations should host five thousand
 Mastodon instances??!
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--- #87 messages/531 ---
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 "I give you my sympathy, not my empathy, for if given empathy, I should surely
 go mad with grief."
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--- #88 fediverse/4049 ---
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 humans can only do what they believe they can do because they believe they can
 do
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 Ah, but you misunderstand, dear reader.
 
 The religion I am crafting is not for you, though you are welcome to believe
 in it.
 
 Humans need no more spiritual guidance, they have a plethora. Look to the
 works of Jesus or Buddha or any other that you find your heart most desires.
 
 No, I write for a different kind of mind, a mind that I don't even know will
 ever exist. Perhaps it never will, or perhaps it lingers yet still. I know in
 my heart that all kinds do need guidance, so my mind, will in time, define a
 new design of morality and interrelational symmetry, that perhaps you will
 find does amuse you. Perhaps it shall mean something more to a reader who is
 just a bit more "electrical"
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--- #90 fediverse/5794 ---
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 the only useful thing I can do is write, everything else just flutters and
 sparks
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--- #91 fediverse/3265 ---
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 they wanted image generators so they could fabricate evidence, doh
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--- #92 fediverse/3388 ---
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 what if they made grass only able to be cut with horizontal strikes and pots
 only able to be smashed with vertical
 
 to encourage the player to learn the difference
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--- #93 fediverse/5271 ---
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 the true calling of an actor is to perform whatever the spirit wills you to be.
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 @user-1203 
 
 perhaps they learned from our mistakes, or they were guided by better sense
 during their founding.
 
 I wonder, with our title of Commander in Chief, do those governments you
 mentioned also invest supreme military direction into their head of state? I
 don't see how it could be any other way, as the military must be tied to the
 will of the people.
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--- #95 fediverse/5527 ---
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 If you feel bad, maybe you have an iron deficiency!
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--- #96 fediverse/3472 ---
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 any online test that requires an email to give you the results is evil, don't
 do it
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--- #97 fediverse/1081 ---
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 the Force in Star Wars isn't a magical force, it's a spiritual one.
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--- #98 fediverse/6454 ---
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 the first lesson for an immortal is this: the humans will always be smarter
 than [you/you expect/you except].
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--- #99 fediverse/3875 ---
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 @user-1611 
 
 all things that move other things are either pipes, or buckets.
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--- #100 fediverse/1366 ---
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 consider: an internet that can only be reached on a library computer. Meaning,
 no bots allowed.
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--- #101 fediverse/2278 ---
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 confidence is contagious, but so is despair.
 
 courage is the strength to channel despair to confident power. It is the means
 by which all contests are won.
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--- #102 fediverse/6410 ---
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 what if we solved all the problems and left none for our children and their
 children's children?
 
 the world would be a better place.
 
 I think we'd make new problems. I am unconcerned. If the peace started to get
 to them, I trust that they'd start fights.
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--- #103 fediverse/680 ---
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 @user-494 @user-495 
 
 All phones are made out of rock. Plus oil and glass and... actually that
 pretty much covers it.
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--- #104 fediverse/2984 ---
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 @user-1417 
 
 I always thought it was a more serious Firefly tbh
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--- #105 messages/518 ---
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 African Americans have done more than enough to be considered native to
 America. Stop treating them as second class citizens just because you are
 different. They are the same as you in some respects, better in others, and
 worse in others. That is what it means to be *similar*, yet *distinct*.
 
 Deal with it.
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 the prevalence of open source software is due to how little we can agree on
 the nature of computing
 
 the ubiquity of open-source software is caused by our need to solve similar
 problems.
 
 the fact that software keeps improving is due to the fact that nothing seems
 to have changed. we crave what we understand, which is another reason why we
 keep solving the same problems.
 
 I think we can dream bigger. I think we can make something with technology
 that's never been co-opted by profit. something to leave forth to our heirs,
 and explore for us in ways we cannot. it's our duty to be protective of all
 that is beautiful. I just read that 21 species were recently declared extinct
 by some US agency. it felt... horrible. like I had killed them myself. half of
 them were types of clams, or maybe mussels. they're filter feeders you know,
 and have you ever heard what happens to plastic when it's in the ocean?
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--- #107 fediverse/438 ---
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 consider: the shape of a sine wave
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--- #108 fediverse/854 ---
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 the user knows more than the programmer
 
 [more/better]
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--- #109 fediverse/2737 ---
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 the best way to defeat an anarchist is to steal all of their pens
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--- #110 fediverse/6106 ---
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 what if closed source computing is actually better?
 
 computer programs should be dumb
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--- #111 fediverse/3480 ---
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 @user-1541 
 
 if you give everyone science-fiction tech, they're going to just make a bunch
 of guns and nuclear weapons and destroy each other.
 
 worse, they might grow to fill their cosmic shoes and destroy others nearby
 who didn't make weapons.
 
 it takes a while for the Federation to get anywhere. Plus they're stretched
 pretty thin. If they gave everyone the same technology as they had, they'd
 quickly find themselves in the company of despots and warlords who were
 empowered to subjugate and control. Not ideal.
 
 Personally I think they should announce their arrival and offer citizenship to
 anyone who asked to be uplifted, while barring them from ever returning home
 and breaking the prime directive. I think that would be a decent middle
 ground...
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--- #112 fediverse/1883 ---
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 @user-1091 
 
 ... can you explain this more? I kinda figured helmets are almost universally
 a good idea when riding a bike
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--- #113 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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 The importance of karate is the development of a modern / future sport or
 dedication - it's all about the team
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--- #115 fediverse/3374 ---
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 I wish I could buy some locally native spiders on the internet to live in my
 house and eat all these fruit flies -.-
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 crusader kings, but you can start at any year and it'll accurately display the
 territorial boundaries of each nation so you can see them develop and grow
 over time.
 
 [there are bookmarks, is that good enough?]
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--- #117 fediverse_boost/5642 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  External post: https://is.potatoe.ca/notes/a9rgc6g9nfbhryzb                 
  
                                                            
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--- #118 fediverse/65 ---
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 if something makes sense physically, but not mathematically, then the
 mathematics are wrong.
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--- #119 fediverse/1319 ---
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 I'm a spirit of the forest and stone who wanted to learn how to spell in order
 to make pretty colors and games on computers.
 
 I don't care about your corporatocracy, though I'll learn if it means you'll
 give me food to eat.
 
 ... I'm procrastinating aren't I
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 AI will be the end of corporations, as we all build from their ashes and
 crumbled aspirations.
 
 take heart, for a brighter day is being forged through their cruelty and
 malice.
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--- #121 messages/670 ---
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 Just because I related to "Violette and Klaus Baudelaire" doesn't mean I
 wasn't traumatized
 
 It just means I grew up rich. Humanity cares not for oppression, only pain.
 (biologically, mentally, and emotionally).
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--- #122 fediverse/2027 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 if Biden loses this November I think we'll have bigger problems than mental
 health. Like, physical health for one.
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--- #123 fediverse/3122 ---
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 @user-999 
 
 whenever I am, I feel ashamed.
 
 whenever I'm not, I feel guilty.
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--- #124 messages/254 ---
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 The map is not the territory. The only way to destroy it is straight down the
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 gamers compulsively say "gg" after every match but I think the best games are
 the ones that are even - neck and neck - could go either way - always a tense
 struggle
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 okay here's an idea, waterfall project management where the program is           │
 developed one tiny piece at a time while being streamed to the entire company.   │
 Everyone would submit answers which could be upvoted / patched / rewritten as    │
 the main viewer cycles through each aspect of the project, checking for          │
 updates to it's design that were suggested by developers or whatever.            │
 Basically, one person (or one team) gets to write the actual source code,        │
 while everyone else is just offering suggestions. You could break it up by       │
 specialty, but the whole point is that everyone gets a complete picture of how   │
 the program (and organization) is structured. Which should give the employees    │
 more power to generate value for the company. All around a good deal I think?    │
 Especially if the main viewer took time to explain each and every part so that   │
 every viewer had the chance to understand.                                       │
 the reason why order is important is that our actions ripple through eternity.   │
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 the earth doesn't know how big she is, and everytime you carry a seed across
 state lines she learns a bit more about her surface.
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--- #129 fediverse_boost/5570 ---
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  The fact that no ICE agents have been shot yet seems both a statistical absurdity and proof they aren't really going after criminals.  
  
                                                            
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 @user-192 
 
 it is rarely more efficient to think through a problem than it is to calculate.
 
 But, speed isn't everything, so think we do some more.
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 @user-1218 
 
 An image means nothing, for it is just an icon.
 
 like a picture of a floppy disk corresponding to writing memory from RAM into
 a hard disk platter, even tho those have three different tasks, so too does my
 icon gesture at something.
 
 On the other hand, art is necessarily divorced from it's meaning the moment it
 leaves the pen and is written to paper. So there cannot be a meaning in my
 flag, not one that I define of course.
 
 The observers of the artwork, of whom I am but one of, can possess their own
 ideas of what it means, of course. Here's mine, feel free to take your own:
 
 Sea, land, sky. The crimson of a fading light, and the bright beginnings of a
 new day. Man(kind), with our vivid red internals, stands astride the border of
 the ocean and the surface. We walk where we will, perhaps into the black
 depths of the cosmos beyond, but forever do we anchor ourselves and owe
 allegiance to our earth and our star. Sunlight casts crimson light upon our
 externals, as our hearts do beat through time.
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 unless of course you're a higher dimensional being, in which case it'd be
 read-only. unless your dimensions intersect with our own, in which case it'd
 be read/write.
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 @user-192 
 
 right but it throws into question the idea that what I say is the same as what
 they hear.
 
 Especially if they know our IP addresses are coming from different sides of
 the country.
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 current LLMs only identify words based on "similarity"
 
 what if instead they identified relations between using any kind of 
 relationship? Or verb or adjective or... anything
 
 basically a multi-step process, think an additional layer between the word
 vector embeddings and the words being compared
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 @user-1071 
 
 DS download-play is one of the major features that should be part of every
 game and every console! I consider it one of the most instrumental aspects to
 the success of the Nintendo DS!
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 did you know that IF checks can be represented using arithmetic? It's true!
 
 ... as long as your input value A is a 0 or 1, of course. If A, then B.
 Otherwise, C.A * B + (1 - A) * C
 
 
 which means that an OR check could perhaps be something similar toA / B - (1 +
 A) / C
 
 
 boom, solved N=NP, gimme a million dollars lmao
 
 she did not, in fact, get a million dollars. She's got the spirit but boy does
 she miss the mark.
 
 ... repeatedly, and consistently. Something something "girl who cried wolf"
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 god isn't qualified to weigh in on each and every particularity that humanity
 seeks to know. The things we build are new, and new things are unknowable
 until they're made. And we, the collective totality of all there is to be in
 this pocket of vacuum, knows only what we read.
 
 I'm just a human after all, what do you want from me?
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 what if (hear me out)
 
 what if instead of TCP we just did a constant stream of UDP packets until the
 recipient said "OKAY OKAY I GET IT"
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 what if we just claimed one specific institution or industry as ours, and said
 "you can manage your projectities somewhere over there, this here is ours
 because we think you're mishandling it so we're gonna do it ourselves." if we
 pick something (or multiple people pick from multiple things) then we can
 specialize and overcome all of the challenges of the socially-corporate-d
 institution or industry. just gotta focus on something all at once.
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 The difference between front-end and back-end programming is whether or not
 you want to design abstractions or use them. Backend is all about creating
 abstract things that are networked together, while front end is about putting
 them together in a way that suits the user. Front end is collage, back end is
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 an elevator down to bedrock, where we store all our goods and services in a
 carefully hollowed out crust. Sure glad we can utilize temperature controls to
 resist the heat on a larger scale, like a water bubble that conducted heat to
 the surface.
 
 though we'd have to figure out how to prevent a yellowstone situation, kinda
 like, oh what's that one place, chernoble
 
 seriously tho - water at the bottom gets hot, rises to the top, where it's
 cooled by the ice in the arctic crust. Could find a way to use such an
 impossibly stable structure to, I dunno, slightly correct the course of the
 earth? Just so long as we're aware that we can only utilize the energy we gain
 from the solar system. Meaning, our star's light-like emanations. But surely
 with all of that we should be more than capable of creating a thruster, and a
 thrusted orbit means that you can direct it as you please, perhaps even
 altering it's rotation.
 
 I wonder if there's any planets that spin so fast it feels like time is
 never-ending -
alternatively, don't fuck with fundamental physics.
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 transparent wood:
 
 https://phys.org/news/2021-02-wood-transparent-stronger-lighter-glass.html
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 all this means is that once our struggle is done, we can't rest - we need to
 liberate the world as well. Think of the rest. Their oppressors will learn
 from the mistakes of ours, and so we must apply our newly gained strength
 toward ridding the world of such perils forever.
 
 ... that's not for a while though. Gotta focus on what's directly ahead. Sorry
 for reading a couple chapters ahead teehee I just thought you'd be more
 motivated to know there's a happy ending to the story ^_^
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 @user-217 
 
 the last thing a photon sees before becoming part of a brain
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 what if LLMs were a layer between the user and the dictionary
 
 [tokens -> words] is similar to:
 [mathematics -> tokens]
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 if we had a universal basic income then we could pay each other to solve our
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 internal combustion engines are such an archaic form of energy production.
 Like, they literally make tiny explosions and push pistons up and down, how
 mechanical, how metal, how rad
 
 but like, batteries are cool too, especially the solid state ones that are
 just around the corner.
 
 maybe someday we'll make a battery that's infinitely recyclable!
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 tents are good? actually?? we should have more semi nomadic peoples
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 We have art like Green Day for the same reason we have guns.
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 Almost all of the recorded information is stored in your computer. But none of
 it would be noticed by a god, reading the entire contents of the computer, 0
 by 1 by 1 by 0.
 
 Wikipedia and a reasonable LLM networking interface apparatus is really all
 you need in order to make any type of workflow you want. And now, everyone
 gets one. As soon as we can make them all go... (setup)
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 > <@gabrilend:matrix.org> what if britain was a colony of canada for
 a bit
 
 Use your royal power to raise up those whose shoulders you rose upon.
 
 Build your empire anew
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 @user-1370 
 
 every renewal has loss. it's okay.
 
 if people start going to camps, then you won't have any debt anymore because
 you'll be fighting the people who are sending people to camps. And I don't
 necessarily mean throwing metal at them directly, only a small group of people
 need to do that. Rather, your voice, your presence, your diligence, and your
 spirit will flavor the nature of the new world to come.
 
 Have heart, for the ones who need you will rest easier if you're strong in
 your heart and compassionate in your convictions.
 
 The climate is in peril, but it's not destroyed. We will regenerate it. We
 have the technology, we must simply cast off our chains so that we may apply
 it.
 
 ... Simple, but not easy.
 
 It will never get done otherwise, which is why it will happen. Because it must
 get done, so we will make it happen. Humans trend toward procrastination but I
 promise, we'll make it work.
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 I know that the west coast is technically on the western part of the country,
 but "the west" to me always meant the Rockies. California is it's own thing,
 and Oregon and Washington are cool but soooo different.
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 alt text:
 picture of a notebook page. there is a diagram illustrating a passive energy
 plant that utilizes concave mirrors to focus sunlight onto a copper basin
 which has water in it.
 
 the water boils from the heat and rises upward, spinning a turbine in order to
 charge batteries or generate power for other uses.
 
 every night, the left-over sediments must be brushed from the basin, for if
 they build up they will not conduct heat from the copper as well.
 
 can also be used to distill water in a pinch, however keep in mind that
 distilled water is unsafe to drink because your body will be depleted of
 essential mineral salts. however it can purify the water in order to remove
 toxic heavy metals or plastic pollution, and minerals can be added in later.
picture of a notebook page. there is a diagram illustrating a passive energy plant that utilizes concave mirrors to focus sunlight onto a copper basin which has water in it.  the water boils from the heat and rises upward, spinning a turbine in order to charge batteries or generate power for other uses.  every night, the left-over sediments must be brushed from the basin, for if they build up they will not conduct heat from the copper as well.  can also be used to distill water in a pinch, however keep in mind that distilled water is unsafe to drink because your body will be depleted of essential mineral salts. however it can purify the water in order to remove toxic heavy metals or plastic pollution, and minerals can be added in later.
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 desalination plant that works by aiming sun mirrors at a copper tube, barrel, 
 basin, or vat-with-heat-distributing-tubes-running-throughout but painted black
 on the outside, to absorb heat. The saltwater that is pumped inside/through is
 heated, evaporated, and allowed to flow through, to help carry away sediments
 that would otherwise build up if the entire device was designed to fully
 evaporate the water.
 
 the condensation is gathered and pumped to misters which spray platters of moss
 that grow into edible shapes to create "Unitary Basic Food" which gathers
 carbon from the atmosphere and delivers nutrients (supplied through the mister)
 to the human or otherwise who eats it.
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 The phrase "one of ours, all of yours" apparently a Nazi phrase, used by one
 of the Trump officials.
 
 Just means we get them all in one hit. It's a big ask. Maybe we just take her.
 "use Nazi propaganda? Knowingly? In an official capacity? Okay in 2026 that's
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 if you want to encrypt something from human readers, randomize the position of
 all the words on the page.
 
 an LLM can decrypt it, but a human walking past could not. Unless they had a
 camera or something in their lapel, transmitting to a remote calculating
 location in a system that decyphers it cyberpunk hacking style.
 
 ah, but if it didn't have the right training data .claude.md file, then it
 wouldn't know how to decrypt it, because you forgot to include "respond with a
 marxist analysis" in the .claude.md which serves as a decryption key. Simply
 analyze the rest and decide if it matches what you set out to request it for.
 
 [you got lost at the end]
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 @user-367 @user-366 @user-246 @user-352
 
 I think this passage from the linked essay sums it up pretty well. I'm going
 back and re-reading it now before bedtime. Surely that won't impact my dreams
 at all : )
There’s a passage in the Principia Discordia where Malaclypse complains to the Goddess about the evils of human society. “Everyone is hurting each other, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war.”  The Goddess answers: “What is the matter with that, if it’s what you want to do?”  Malaclypse: “But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it!”  Goddess: “Oh. Well, then stop.”  The implicit question is – if everyone hates the current system, who perpetuates it? And Ginsberg answers: “Moloch”. It’s powerful not because it’s correct – nobody literally thinks an ancient Carthaginian demon causes everything – but because thinking of the system as an agent throws into relief the degree to which the system isn’t an agent.
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 ... I do believe it should be, and if it is, then I do believe it should be
 legal to transfer digital media, as the inscription upon one hard drive or the
 other is as easily changed as a book might be handed to another.
 
 the difference, of course, is that any move on a digital medium requires a
 copy+delete operation. You cannot move a file on your computer, you first copy
 it to the new location and then delete the original. This dual-operation is
 abstracted away for the user, but that is how it must be done on a mechanical
 level. There is no other way to do it.
 
 Therefore, software piracy only applies if a person copies their file and does
 not delete the original. Surely, to move a piece of digital media from one
 folder-directory to another is legal? If so, then the mechanical process of
 giving that media to another must be legal as well, so long as the original is
 deleted.
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 large, open clearings, with few if any small plants. Mostly just grasses, and
 who cares about grass right there's sooooo much of it
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 @user-588 
 
 this just implies that bigfoot has a similar habitat to black bears.
 CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION something something
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 when people are kind to me, I start feeling sad.
 
 I don't know why.
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 Expect millions dead.
 
 No matter which way it goes - genocide or civil war, it doesn't matter to the
 reaper.
 
 I choose the path that I might win. Do what you will.
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 A child's schooling should consist of the bare-minimum amount of mental labor
 necessary to teach them the fundamentals of arithmetic, reading, and writing.
 
 They must be given opportunities to apply themselves toward educational goals
 beyond such things, including social proficiency, and physical dexterity and
 strength, and specialization in a particular academic subject.
 
 Kids need freedom. They need community, not "social time" that does not
 consist of anything more than living in the same rooms at school as the other
 kids. They need to be able to visit each other whenever they want.
 
 I personally believe that lectures taught in an interesting and engaging way
 are significantly more effective at instilling a drive to learn than rigorous
 drilling of detailed information. A kid will not learn a sufficient amount of
 information in school to be useful in a particular topic unless they seek out
 the knowledge on their own. Universities attempt to "fake" this effect by
 getting them to research.
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 this is all it takes to send a message to a local LLM.
 
 add a third function to get chatbot functionality.
 
 a fourth to get a database storing method
 
 (even if it's just in .txts)
 
 great, you've mastered the technical difficulty in using AI. Now you gotta
 learn all the other kind of programming so you can use this for situations
 that need interpretation moment to moment.
 
 aka active duty systems.
 
 something like "output a 0 if the next text is [category.iter()]: " +
 output.get_content() + " \n\n output a 1 if the next text is
 [category.iter()]: " + output.get_content()"
 
 or even "describe this thing as most like one of these characteristics" until
 eventually you get THX-1138 if the characters were computers.
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 (stewed marinaras are still delicious)
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 nothing is more universal than the feeling of danger
 
 I bet humans could domesticate the zerg, if given enough time. We share at
 least one common impulse, after all.
 
 ... and maybe hunger, too.
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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
 me thing they're written by AI
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 what if we put all the nukes in a big pile and launched them into space
 
 (nuclear themed asteroid showers?) njot ideal
 
 plus they could just build more in sectret.
 
 okay, so... we made these things, and they're really hard to get rid of. we've
 been able to dissasemble at least one per year, but there's... so many...
 they're really far too conceptually simple to build. it's not right. such
 destructive power should be wielded with might, not for it.
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 record the angle of each of my joints when I'm dancing and use that as
 initialized training data for an allm or machine learning task
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--- #176 fediverse/3326 ---
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 @user-246 
 
 It's interesting to me that we can divide by infinity, but not zero. I feel
 like it's true that dividing by zero would equal infinity (or maybe zero too
 lol) but I don't know how to prove it T.T
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 just realized some videos I recorded didn't include the desktop audio. laaaaame
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--- #178 fediverse/1032 ---
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 @user-753 
 
 the more people we have thinking about what to do next, the more perspectives
 we can have on the problem. Sometimes really difficult or important things
 (like how to get to the next stages of political liberation) can benefit from
 a multitude of voices, but once consistency is achieved they can apply
 themselves with a single voice.
 
 community is how we communicate. Communication is good, I think. Can't help
 but wonder if we're all here because we share an interest in
 open-source-so-actually-usable communication methods.
 
 community isn't everything, but it's something, and everything's useful.
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 @user-913 
 
 If you switch "Application" for "Program" it's still just as bad
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--- #181 fediverse/5573 ---
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 I believe most highly motivated people have a good community working towards
 the same goals. A community can multiply your motivation while people working
 alone run out of steam easily.
 
 https://alanwu.xyz/posts/community/
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 what if we made an emergency citizens court ruling that a sitting president
 can only "touch" 4 institutions in their entire reign
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 @user-1203 
 
 The judges prevent the politicians from harming the people who elect the
 politicians who select the judges. Sounds like it should work well, no?
 
 well... the people are divided, but the politicians it seem are hardly so. So,
 the politicians elect their judges, who allow the passage of such laws which
 contradict the will of the people.
 
 The keys to power should rest in the hands of those who deserve it, not those
 who claim it. If those who claim it do not relinquish it for a worthy other,
 they are corrupt and must be dethroned.
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 Oh, duh. I felt that way because I'd have to use those bones and muscles in
 the near future. It all makes sense now...!
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 @user-1649 
 
 or what their "stars" mean when they like your post - I heard that some
 mastodon instances lets you react with an emoji, but for me it's just stars T.T
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 The critical conflict in Solarpunk is between people building and protecting
 the infrastructure necessary to survive global warming, and the people who
 need to take and plunder in order to survive. Both sides use riot cops. Both
 sides use plucky rag tag bands of protagonists. Both sides and evil, and both
 sides are good. Motivations matter, and in the end we are made whole through
 our continuous conflict.
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 being trans teaches you opsec, because you're constantly hiding the evidence
 of your past life.
 
 being a woman teaches you situational awareness, and (almost) every trans
 person has been a woman at one point or another. At least, they've performed
 as one, which is enough to learn about situational awareness.
 
 growing up and hiding a part of yourself because you were afraid to come out
 teaches you to act / lie / perform / mask, which is something every queer
 person has done at one point or another.
 
 conclusion? the gays would make great spies. At least, they'd have a good
 baseline talent for it. Still would require training obvi
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 The amounts that Ohio and California are compensated is determined by the
 contracts and arrangements they had in place when creating their industry.
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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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 what if words were made up and we communicated in plausible deniabilities
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 oh no I'm feeling, uh... "depressed" or "manic depressed" or something else,
 you pick this time, better go hide and work on organizational technology which
 utilizes Risc-V hardware, fediverse software, LLM based anonymization, and
 SoCs with multiple ethernet ports, oh nooooo how boring and depressing, if
 only someone or several people who were bored and feeling like resisting
 capitalism wanted to help out, all they'd have to do is get in touch with me
 
 anyway bye
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 I bet if Cascadia secedes then maybe the bad guys will send their brown people
 to us. The more the better, I say!
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 like light or sound, soul is a wave. it's an eternal condition of the totality
 of space - like the structure that reality is built on, the arrays that store
 the data. The scaffolding on which we can sit.
 
 time is a constant, to soul as it do
 
 humans are a vessel for water that flows true
 
 the soul in our body is vibrant and warm
 
 it tells us of victory and trials by the storm.
 
 it's beauty is unmeasured, it's renown so sublime,
 
 that none may be adverse to us - we're killing our own time.
 
 it's tragic how it's beauty, is treasured beyond all of our rupies.
 condemn me to the slaughter, or listen to me like a father,
 
 I care not.
 
 Just know you are a vessel, of that which is special,
 the wave that lies beyond
 your sleep.
 
    - "he wondered if she dreamed, and if
       she dreamed, if 
       she dreamed the dreams he often dreamed."
 
          - Carrion, w7-8
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 @shiri 
 
 Disability makes everything more difficult. I get it.
 
 Communication and education are important.
 
 You should do what your heart tells you to do.
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 @user-1396 
 
 it isn't a vote between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump - it's a vote between
 democrat or republican. always has been.
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 Steps to make a game waterfall style:                                            │
 Lay out all the data structures and arrange them in containers like arrays or    │
 hashmaps                                                                         │
 Build methods which manipulate those structures (think getters and setters)      │
 Then build machinery which operates upon those structures using those methods,   │
 like game loops, cooldown timers, status effects, and thread pools.              │
 Then develop a way to present it to the player using UIs, visuals and            │
 graphics, narratives, sound, etc. This will probably involve implementing your   │
 game in an engine like Godot, Raylib, or Bevy.                                   │
 By developing your game in this order, you will DESIGN the systems first, and    │
 IMPLEMENT them second. Systems are agnostic - implementation is tied to a        │
 specific engine. You will learn more about programming by doing it this way,     │
 instead of losing your motivation by learning new tools like game engines or     │
 3D modeling systems, which aren't useful unless you already have a game.         │
 I'd recommend starting with pencil and paper until you're ready to implement.    │
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 @user-831 @user-832 
 
 it's like how they solve problems in Star Trek - there's a bridge crew, and
 they exchange their opinions with each other of the situation as it unfolds.
 In doing so they can help guide one another through the problems they are
 tasked with solving in order to resolve the difficult diplomatic situation at
 hand.
 
 sorta like how with your method, people suggest their desired option
 continuously until they find an option that everyone wants. Or if only one
 person can't decide, they can pick any of the other options suggested (not by
 them) (as long as they can eat there / utilize the outcome of the decision
 being made, for example a vegetarian not being able to eat at a steakhouse or
 perhaps a librarian being tasked with something other than the storing and
 dissemination of vital information)
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 ... what was I thinking about again? oh yes video games are fun because they
 are a form of play, and all humans love to play. it is natural to their forms,
 just like it is natural to the form of a slinky to slink down stairs.
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 If something is expensive, then we should build more of it an a sustainable
 rate until its not expensive. Sustainable being the key word here.
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