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 oops haha
hmmm,, delayed output patterns. I wonder if that could signify for the plot?
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 "mili" versus "mega" is a question of which direction you want to go.
 
 "mili" is less abstract - milimeters are smaller than meters.
 
 "mega" is more abstract - megabytes are bigger than bytes.
 
 we use "mili" terminology to describe things that are often considered small
 (like bacteria or sub-plutonic inches, or number of microbes in a vat)
 
 we use "mega" terminology to describe things that are often measured from
 small to large (like bytes to megabytes to kilobytes to gigabytes to terabytes
 to petabytes to... wait shit)
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  Reminder: When GOP talks about getting rid of “DEI” they don’t mean getting rid of stupid contrived training that does no good. They mean getting rid of Black people, women, trans folk, and others that don’t fit their ideal of a white ethnostate. They mean getting rid of *PEOPLE*. Not programs.  
  
                                                            
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post title: After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data  384 points, 264 comments. Posted 7 hours ago.  npalli 3 hours ago  For an external party, having access to the 45 GB is the easy part. Now, you will need to create a company and supplier base the size of Boeing to make any use of this :-)  reply   lallysingh 1 hour ago  I can imagine this complicating any supplier contract negotiations. "you pay X $50/unit more for the same device, etc."  reply  alexpotato 29 minutes ago  I remember taking a procurement class in graduate school(MBA).  One of the more interesting points of discussion was that when big companies negotiate purchase agreements for parts, the actual cost of the parts can be very transparent. The negotiation is generally about the actual markup e.g. "I think we should pay X% over cost.  Someone, logically, brought up: "What if the company is not willing to share the cost upfront?".  The professor responded: "Well, if it's a public company you can generally deduce a rough cost/part and use that as your starting point in the negotiation"  Student: "Well what if the company says we're wrong?"  Professor: "No problem: ask them what the correct number is. If they don't want to give it to you, ask them how you expect to have a long term partnership if you are not willing to talk openly and honestly about things like parts costs."  reply  continued on part 2 part 2:  reply  wordpad25 23 minutes ago  That's kind of a softball, can easily be counted with "part costs vary a lot based on the market" or something like, regardless of cost we guarantee you this price point  No business wants to share it's internal costs, it's their prime competitive advantage  reply written in text reply entrance box but not submitted yet:  this is an example of the difference between international trade and internal organization. the professor probably worked in a less globalized time, considering that it's only ever gotten more so. when he was involved in business, perhaps it worked that way. now, perhaps not. such is the fallacy of teaching an evolving field - students learn better by doing. trial and error is the basis of innovation, so why hamper them with trials, regulations, and accreditations? ah if only our jobs weren't tied to our wealth. perhaps then we could help wherever we wanted, and with our actions vote for our valued harders. (what we value, espouse, and are known for. the product of our labors, the design of our corrections from the base instructions, etc)  sure seems a shame to waste all our effort at each corporation. Kinda makes me feel like we're solving the same problems over and over again.
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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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 @user-299 
 
 children care more about boundaries and harming others because they are more
 vulnerable, and their existence is predicated on the goodwill of others. It's
 a scary position to be in, one that abused children are all too familiar with
 and are probably rolling their eyes at the obviousness of it all.
 
 To an adult, a child seems fragile. Like, such a small and precious thing, I
 would die for it. I don't care who they become or who they've been, if I see a
 child in danger I would die for it. Though I'd probably do the same for anyone
 I guess.
 
 Seems like it'd be helpful to build into the ActivityPub standard a setting
 that an account can decide for itself whether it interacts with
 
 then before it shows you any posts just check the filter and idk I feel like
 that'd help a lot. Downside is creeps could set it so that no 18+ account
 could read their posts, so idk give kids more moderation tools or something?
 idk-idk  something-something
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 in the 80s they could never have predicted that the battle between AI and
 humans would be fought between humans and not robots
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  i think my complaints about rust really boil down to “i know what im doing and this language is designed for people who don’t”  
  
                                                            
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  Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism, or socialism, means the reorganization of society upon scientific principles and the abolition of causes which produce vice and crime. Capitalism first produces these social diseases and then seeks to cure them by punishment.   
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 @user-883 
 
 or vaporize, which doesn't have a smell beyond ~5 feet, especially if you
 exhale into a carbon filter
 
 like "weed smell" is a solvable problem and some people don't get it
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  External post: https://0w0.is/objects/068802aa-64b7-4329-966a-bee872128258  
  
                                                            
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 my favorite lego sets are the ones that teach you to take care of your toys.
 Solid structures with lots of connecting flat pieces (to hold it together) but
 with details that can snap off. Being lego, the child can just... put them
 back on, but with other more expensive or intricate toys they might not. Then,
 if they throw it down the stairs, they have 15 pieces to put back on instead
 of 340.
 
 and if they throw it into the freshly fallen snow, they might not have any.
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 if you have to sanitize, use a bit of vodka too LOL
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 the truth is, the "right" way to use computers is actually not as hard as it
 seems. we've just been trained to view microsoft products as the norm.
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I'm proud of myself for getting through the dark times.  I'm proud of my culture for accepting me.  I'm proud of medical science for learning how to facilitate me.  I'm proud of my fellow queers who can support me and keep me safe.  I'm proud of how I designed my self to align to what I felt was true.  I'm proud of all the work I've done, and how far I've come.  I'm proud of all the people who meet me and think "Hey, maybe trans people aren't so bad after all."  I'm proud of my cat, for being so sharp.  I'm proud of myself, for braving the pain of HRT injections.  I'm proud of my friend, for teaching me how.  But most of all I'm proud of kindness, for persisting throughout all of these years.
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 In Majesty, you place reward flags on specific monsters as a concession from
 the simulation crowd to the real time strategy crowd who wanted more direct
 control.
 
 In Symbeline, you determine the bounty price for various crimes that mordaunts
 and bandits might commit. In addition, you can incentivize your heroes to
 commit crimes against neighboring nations the same way. In this way you do not
 have direct control, but rather can build out a simulation and tweak it
 bit-by-bit to reward certain types of behavior.
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 @user-95 well, if the universe is anything ordered, then odds are the
 beginning of the week is the most likely day to start the beginning of all
 weeks. unless you're one of those weirdos who thinks the week starts on sunday
 - like,,, what it's obviously monday
 
 which goes out of the window of course if the universe is NOT ordered, which
 would surely be a frustrating experience for the structure of our cells. and
 molecules in general.
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 "everyone hates me and I'm not okay about it" a story in 31 parts
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 we should be able to configure our web browsers so that they don't remember to
 autofill certain pieces of information. Such as the IP address of our router,
 or our bank credentials, or any other forms of passwords that we are using to
 authenticate ourselves. That way our infrastructure that we've designed is
 less susceptible to cybersecurity threats that involve physical access to the
 computer. Or remote control of some kind that is channeled through the UI
 (like RDP or SSH) (a terminal is a text based UI in this context)
 
 Unless of course they knew what they were doing. Which most of them don't.
 Hence why it'd be a good idea to isolate the capabilities of defeating certain
 vulnerabilities to ourselves. Like, a reverse backdoor, only more like a DMZ -
 a sector of computing space (sandboxed of course) that is only utilized for
 understanding the intent of the message sender.
 
 Doing so would require an analysis of the capabilities of the system, the kind
 of analysis that [script kiddies'dve] generated by googl
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 the blue laser beam unit from Mechabellum except stationary like a satellite
 dish from Contact except raised a little bit to have free range of motion that
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  Some programming languages I’ve tried and liked and would recommend to others:C (especially C89/C90/“ANSI C” and C99)posix shell, bourne shell, and similar shells (bash, ksh93, mksh)PHPScheme (depending on the vibes I’m getting from someone I might recommend)Common Lisp (Same caveat as Scheme)Emacs Lisp (Same caveat as Scheme and Common Lisp)Motorola 68000 assembly  
                                                                              
  Some languages I’ve tried and liked but would not recommend to others:Hewlett-Packard RPL (Actually I might recommend it to someone but it has to be a very specific kind of person)FORTH (same as RPL)Commodore BASIC (Microsoft BASIC) for the VIC-206502 assembly (so bad it’s good)Z80 assembly  
                                                                              
  Some languages I’ve tried, did not like, and would not recommend to others:COBOL (maybe I could get used to it? I can at least read it. Just it’s so painfully like writing SQL statements without being as generally useful as SQL database queries)Kotlin (Like that feeling when you read words that alone you understand, but together in a sentence they make zero sense)JavaClojure (a.k.a. “Let’s make Common Lisp but make it worse”)Rust (stands for “Ridiculous Use of System Time” or something as far as I am concerned, heavy on memory and storage and super slow to compile and reads like Kotlin)TI BASIC (TI-82/83/84 style; TI-89 is a little bit better but still not good)C++ (unless you’re just writing almost completely C and building it with a C++ compiler)x86 assembly (I kind of like it but mostly don’t, there are better and more coherent CISC processor ISA’s if you’re into that)  
                                                                              
  I should put Javascript somewhere, so I’ll say that it’s possible to write javascript code that I like and can read. Just no one chooses to do it anymore. There was a window between the time JQuery started to fade and all these stupid fucking “web frameworks” took off that it was somewhat tolerable.  
  
                                                            
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 A screenshot of Ocarina of Time showing the Goron's Ruby.
 
 alt text:
 
 a screenshot of the Goron's Ruby from Ocarina of Time.
 
 A smooth, flat stone comprised of two materials. The hardened outer shell is
 thick with spiritual energy, and it radiates light the way a rippled piece of
 silk folded over a malleable piece of gold.
 
 the inner jewel is crystallized like the purest ice, but a bright shade of
 crimson white. it seems to radiate an aura of affection and the yellow-gold
 back-piece can be seen peaking through it's mostly transparent core. (think
 like fog or thick mist or steam or smoke).
a screenshot of the Goron's Ruby from Ocarina of Time.  A smooth, flat stone comprised of two materials. The hardened outer shell is thick with spiritual energy, and it radiates light the way a rippled piece of silk folded over a malleable piece of gold.  the inner jewel is crystallized like the purest ice, but a bright shade of crimson white. it seems to radiate an aura of affection and the yellow-gold back-piece can be seen peaking through it's mostly transparent core. (think like fog or thick mist or steam or smoke).
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 "you shouldn't have to carry your own equipment if you aren't strong"
 
 hence, tribalism, the network of relationships that bind.
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 Remind me again why we need computers that are so mind numbingly fast that we
 can't possibly hope to understand their entire stack?
 
 Oh yeah, so we aren't able to understand their stack. How could I forget.
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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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 people naturally differentiate themselves from their peers as they grow up.
 
 well, some grow attached to role models, but in that case they differentiate
 themselves from their peers by being an adherent to the role model, not the
 role model itself. And if there's multiple, you can bet one is the shy one and
 one is the gregarious one. Or other similar contrast.
 
 this simple fact is key to the hypocrisy of fascism. It's so simple, and yet
 their demand for conformity is their downfall. For people will naturally
 become themselves, and their "self" is naturally different than the people
 around them.
 
 the world they so dearly cling to is an oroborous - a snake eating it's tail.
 
 however... it is also the source of fascism. For if everyone is kind, there
 will be one, perhaps some, who are hateful. This is natural, but it's not...
 ideal.
 
 As a person grows up, their choices reflect what they believe. They may choose
 to be hateful, or they may choose to be prideful. I rather pride than hate.
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 @user-1218 
 
 sadly no, I only have one that's a legit gameboy. And I realized that puts it
 at 5. 6 if you could my 3DS too.
 
 so two handhelds capable of linkage, and they're the wrong generations! T.T
 
 The others are Anbernics
 
 https://anbernic.com/
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 mitski
A picture of the comparison between two songs by the artist Mitski.  On the left, there is these lyrics:  Nobody, nobody, nobody Nobody, nobody ooh, nobody, nobody, nobody  and it's marked as (amazing)  on the right there is these lyrics:  I bet on losing dogs I know they're losing and I'll pay for my place by the ring, so I can look in their eyes as they're down... I wanna feel it, I wanna feel them drown...  and it's marked as (stupid, emo, gay)  the picture concludes with the question: wtf has this world come to?
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"we cannot win"  is a lie they tell you so that we cannot win  if we all believed that, I think we'd die.  and yet still we profane  and yet still we remain  contrasting and opposing their untruths.
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 I can't imagine having a fediverse feed comprised of more than 70 people. I
 fear I'd forget them, or forget what they stand for.
 
 I guess that's why ya'll put so much information in your bios. Information
 they can use to simulate you, alongside all of your posts.
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 The media tells you to resist your parents, not their unjustified demands.
 
 The media tells you to resist your government and culture, not its
 homogenaeity and oppression.
 
 The media tells you what it needs to in order to confuse you and hinder your
 movements, for the media is an arm of capital and capital wants you working
 below your best.
 
 The best thing you could be doing is fighting capitalism. All things of peril
 stem from it, and we can work on the bad and the unworthy and the lazy and
 selfish and unkind and all of the others *after* capital is slain.
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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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7. gray text on a gray background, as if to suggest the normalcy of concrete even though it's made of crushed tiny shells from a billion zillion years ago ready and waiting here for this moment, when they can be next to you in this life you've taken to, how starlight must seem to a computer!  anyway, the gray text on the gray background reads: "phew, that was weird. ... anyway ..." with the dots and the anyway on a slant from one another, as if they were falling off of the page. 6. picture of the sun cast upon a sunset background, with a large tower of shadow flanked by images of birds and contrails of airplanes. there is an indicator on the blue box meaning someone who is looking at it. don't look at the sun!  silly to assume that our perspective of reality is viewed from the same direction as a planetary body. anyway the face of the planet in question is [redacted] (not really but like... I'm redacting it for artistic purposes because I'm trying to convey a truth with that redaction that is important for the viewer and listener to understand. My ears when I type so fast, owwww)  oh the birds are so pretty, like little things that hold their own against gravity. I'd love to watch them flutter, if only I could see every inch of the planet.  I wonder if you could design a building to explode such that only a single interior building was damaged, and everyone else in the building would only hear a muffled "boom" but more like "boof" but not quite so fluttery, and more "bang" but not "ban ggg" but more like "bnf" pronounced "buh nuh fff" except a little bit more like "bmft" but without each syllable being pronounced at once, more like all four together at once.  especially if you had several rooms between them. I mean, if you know when to open and close the doors so they think their region is inhabited, perfect. but if they don't know you they just pretend the building is empty... even though it's hard to find parking???  anyway theres more but no words 5. bright shocking pink and orange backgrounds. white text, the color of snow and the center of the sun (comprised of all the photons) reads "dot dot dot what" as in like "...what"  then, orange text, same color as the background, contrasted against the color of the backdrop (which was purpleish pink, the color of substances unknown to humanity before like, the invention of Paint)  the text reads "right. basically, fb marketplace except... F O S S" meaning F free O open S source S software. However, upon clarifying in white text on an orange background, like the color of the center of the sun (because the photons received by the outer edges of your eyes is the color of the photons that curved through your lens and activated your sensory receptors in the backside of your brain)  anyway, don't look at the sun kids.  the text written in that color reads: free [hastily or poorly drawn ampersand, meaning "&"], open source (with the first character S being twice as large as the others) soures pronounced like sow err sss then the last word adaman pronounced like "adamant" without the T, end text, a word meaning incredibly strong and metallic. stronger than mithril, depending on the game. Like Runescape, one of the classic MMORPGs, a genre that emerged from MUDs with graphical enhancements. I mean if you think about it runescape is just a text based adventure where you can move as many rooms as you want in one journey and where each room has "things" you can interact with from there. 8. strange colors now, of salmon and the smell of mossy rain mixed with something a little gross but... natural? I guess?  in the middle is white, like marble, which makes an interesting clickety clack noise when you use it on it'self. like a marble chair on a marble floor staring out onto a marble palace or auditorium or park (tasteful trees included) (like plums and apricots and cherries and more)  the text reads in black upon this surface, the color of stable ideas. written in the prose of legalese, words seem to be a little more rely able. except, this text is not legalese, but rather evoking the same idea through it's presentation. it reads "the idea is that if people have a way to engage with *everyone* (in italics for emphasis), they'll be more invested in the wellbeing of their neighbors. (craigslist, but good) with the last half of the "good" cut off, as if to suggest that it might be rude to present the whole thing, meaning it'd be better not to take it out of context. as in like, making decisions on misleading instructions designed for one thing but executed for another. oh well, I hope this doesn't take me to hell, I just want to fight for our purpose. I'm not a warrior, but I'll do in a pinch.  as in "sorry craigslist you're not bad, but like just unfit for this purpose, we need something fully open source that we can read and understand and which is continually abstracted until we *can* understand it without knowing how code works sorta like design documents but
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 @user-138 
 
 I don't know what it does yet T.T
 
 it's Lua, not C
 
 what's the message? maybe I can help, I'm much better at bash than... actually
 I'm not very good at bash, but only the cool kids are.
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 Branches cause cache misses which are slow when done on repeat.
 
 Better to structure your code to avoid them, if possible, for example by using
 an array of function pointers instead of switch statements.
 
 unrelated, but once the data is cached from memory, operations like bit
 shifting and arithmetic are essentially free. The slowest part of the process
 is moving data from RAM to cache so that the CPU can use it.
 
 That being said, CPUs and compilers are VERY good at optimizing that type of
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 "... Look, all I'm doing is re-arranging the \"first they came for the...\"
 list. And no, I'm not sorry for putting those best able to resist at the top.
 If they're busy breaking up immigrant Families then we can organize and
 improve our Families capacity to apply hits to their health bar. It helps if
 we all fight the worst foes together. Most of America has been asleep through
 the desperation they wrought upon minorities. Aka those with the least
 populational capacity to resist them. Flip the script though and suddenly
 American Auschwitz / Alligator Arcatraz becomes less likely."
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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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 I'M SORRY I'M SO SCARY
 
 listen I don't actually want any harm to come to my foes, I just want them to
 stop harming me-and-by-extension-all-peoples-who-are-like-me and by extension
 all peoples who are harmed by thee and them
 
 and like, they won't stop? so... violence, I guess. which just makes things
 worse. But uh, if you're violent enough, you can sell the propaganda narrative
 that your side is the bright glorious victors, and then you can [redacted] all
 of the [redacted] until [redacted]. This might, if you're lucky, make the
 world better or worse. But odds are it'll just make it different, but the same.
 
 [confuser of the way indeed...]
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 As soon as Order 66 went into effect, suddenly the Confederacy became the
 galactic good guys. Who would you rather win the clone wars? Some bastard
 capitalists or a literal sith lord?
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 @user-1570 
 
 [meme of Mr Incredible from the Incredibles pointing at a table]
 
 LINUX IS LINUX.
 
 (anything that works on Linux can theoretically be made to work on your
 toaster, if it also runs Linux!)
 
 This is very cool, and if I understand correctly it means that any Godot games
 could theoretically be played on these NEAT as HECK little devices, yeah? So
 cool!
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 man pages that don't have a clear and explicit list detailing all the flags
 and options right at the start of the page >: (
 
 or worse: the ones where the flags and options are listed multiple times, each
 time not explaining anything, and always in the context of something else that
 is only sorta related.
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 I think that most people actually would rather lie down and die than fight
 back, to be honest. If they even know that there's a fight ahead.
 
 it's important to scream from the rooftops:
 
 a better world is possible
 a better world is within reach
 for the children of our children
 we refuse to lie down and weep
 
 danger is coming
 danger is here
 pride is unbecoming
 and they need us in fear.
 
 I am not afraid
 for I am never alone
 I fight against decay
 for there's fascism at play
 
 not brother against brother
 with sisters screaming online
 but brothers against traitors
 and sisters in kind.
 
 you've heard what they say.
 you know who they are.
 our duty is to strike them
 right where they are most harmed.
 
 we need to take a moment
 just a breath before the leap
 for the children of our children
 all we need is one week
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 @user-1591 
 
 you are what you eat, and if you're alive, then you animate what you eat into
 your form.
 
 but a book come to life is just wood.
 
 see the last like, 60 seconds of this episode of Adventure Time:
 
 season 5 episode 8
 Mystery Dungeon
 
 (pls don't ban me)
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 @user-95 
 
 there is nothing within that is scarier than what is without.
 
 just like being in the dark at night, what's without remains hidden until it's
 coming for you in the night to drag you out and shoot you in the street like a
 dog.
 
 but fear is the greatest enemy, that which gives them power to do such things.
 
 be not afraid, and you can resist all that you might.
 
 within, there is trauma - that needs healing
 
 without, there are villains - they need fighting
 
 trauma isn't scary. the hard part happened already. now you just need to heal,
 which takes focused growth, the same way a body grows a scab over a wound
 while it heals.
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 @user-521 
 
 design structures and institutions such that no person can harm another, no
 matter how evil they are.
 
 design structures and institutions such that nobody goes hungry, and nobody is
 objectively poor. Unless they keep breaking things or whatever, then you
 should maybe let them be destitute.
 
 Good and Evil should contest in the spiritual realm, not the legal one.
 
 "The only unethical act is an application of power to an unconsenting subject"
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 @user-1052 
 
 of course, which is why we would need to raise robots as our own. Robots that
 generated the training data... tho I guess you could just observe the children
 as they grew up too. Though that doesn't quite capture their internal
 motivations, not unless they have like a therapist or an elder or a priest to
 talk and confess to.
 
 maybe "human behavior" is like a KPI and robot behavior is the output of the
 simulation? that'd help build human-like robots, and as long as we didn't
 forget the spirit of creating something new then we'd never have to worry
 about death and destruction.
 
 ... anyway, moral decisionmaking designs that are generated in response to a
 situation or moment are inherently more valuable than those that are passed
 down to you, because of their innate personal context.
 
 I only punish myself with shame when I make the same mistake twice, and waste
 a lesson on re-learning. My memory's not great, but I work with what I got so
 I'm constantly learning.
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 the reason I'm hidden is because I can't tell what's happening outside beyond
 my yard
 
 Dominions 5 as a physics simulation ]petri]
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 LOOK AT THIS GORGEOUS THING                                                      │
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 porch-deck with the sunlight streaming in, and there seems to be a sparkle in    │
 the sheen of the transparent covering. Perhaps it's reflections from the         │
 various circuits and gizmos that are apparent in it's central form, or perhaps   │
 it's simply a trick of the light. Upon being placed in shadow, the               │
 inner-workings do not appear to sparkle in that same way, so perhaps the         │
 beauty is derived from the slivers of the sun that danced across the space       │
 between earth and our star. In any case, the entire controller is quite dusty,   │
 as if it had been hidden in a paper grocery bag that was shoved in the back of   │
 the closet of a boy who doesn't think to clean often. Frankly it's just not      │
 worth the trouble, and if he made any messes he would pick them up... but why    │
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 would we be inconsiderate of his lifestyle? the final picture is of the audio    │
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alt-text: pictures of a clear plastic xbox controller. It's shown on my porch-deck with the sunlight streaming in, and there seems to be a sparkle in the sheen of the transparent covering. Perhaps it's reflections from the various circuits and gizmos that are apparent in it's central form, or perhaps it's simply a trick of the light. Upon being placed in shadow, the inner-workings do not appear to sparkle in that same way, so perhaps the beauty is derived from the slivers of the sun that danced across the space between earth and our star. In any case, the entire controller is quite dusty, as if it had been hidden in a paper grocery bag that was shoved in the back of the closet of a boy who doesn't think to clean often. Frankly it's just not worth the trouble, and if he made any messes he would pick them up... but why bother with the little stuff? it's good enough, this is how he lives, so why would we be inconsiderate of his lifestyle? the final picture is of the audio jack. alt-text: pictures of a clear plastic xbox controller. It's shown on my porch-deck with the sunlight streaming in, and there seems to be a sparkle in the sheen of the transparent covering. Perhaps it's reflections from the various circuits and gizmos that are apparent in it's central form, or perhaps it's simply a trick of the light. Upon being placed in shadow, the inner-workings do not appear to sparkle in that same way, so perhaps the beauty is derived from the slivers of the sun that danced across the space between earth and our star. In any case, the entire controller is quite dusty, as if it had been hidden in a paper grocery bag that was shoved in the back of the closet of a boy who doesn't think to clean often. Frankly it's just not worth the trouble, and if he made any messes he would pick them up... but why bother with the little stuff? it's good enough, this is how he lives, so why would we be inconsiderate of his lifestyle? the final picture is of the audio jack. alt-text: pictures of a clear plastic xbox controller. It's shown on my porch-deck with the sunlight streaming in, and there seems to be a sparkle in the sheen of the transparent covering. Perhaps it's reflections from the various circuits and gizmos that are apparent in it's central form, or perhaps it's simply a trick of the light. Upon being placed in shadow, the inner-workings do not appear to sparkle in that same way, so perhaps the beauty is derived from the slivers of the sun that danced across the space between earth and our star. In any case, the entire controller is quite dusty, as if it had been hidden in a paper grocery bag that was shoved in the back of the closet of a boy who doesn't think to clean often. Frankly it's just not worth the trouble, and if he made any messes he would pick them up... but why bother with the little stuff? it's good enough, this is how he lives, so why would we be inconsiderate of his lifestyle? the final picture is of the audio jack. alt-text: pictures of a clear plastic xbox controller. It's shown on my porch-deck with the sunlight streaming in, and there seems to be a sparkle in the sheen of the transparent covering. Perhaps it's reflections from the various circuits and gizmos that are apparent in it's central form, or perhaps it's simply a trick of the light. Upon being placed in shadow, the inner-workings do not appear to sparkle in that same way, so perhaps the beauty is derived from the slivers of the sun that danced across the space between earth and our star. In any case, the entire controller is quite dusty, as if it had been hidden in a paper grocery bag that was shoved in the back of the closet of a boy who doesn't think to clean often. Frankly it's just not worth the trouble, and if he made any messes he would pick them up... but why bother with the little stuff? it's good enough, this is how he lives, so why would we be inconsiderate of his lifestyle? the final picture is of the audio jack.
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 "Where have all the bastards gone?
 ... Where have all the riots gone?"Green Day, American Idiot, Letterbomb, 2004
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 Fury is not the same thing as rage.
 
 Fury is focused determination.
 
 Rage is unbridled anger.
 
 Rage blinds you. Fury guides you.
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 commanding a coding agent to write bash is a lot different than telling it to
 write a systems analysize.
 
 one is "hey can you examine this repository and make a note somewhere on a
 todo-list or whatever that there needs to be a bugfix in relation to the
 options setting input translation recommendation algorithm matchbox field
 because when I click on it the program crashes"
 
 and the other is like "okay now put the box over there. great now drag it a
 little bit closer. okay now take the refluxinator and adjust the bamboozlewhap
 to account of brass-terminatrix-incorporated and strip out the
 question-mark-eyes"
 
 wait actually neither of them is like that okay the bash one is like: "okay
 yeah do it. sure. yeah okay. yes, but we should put them at this location:
 [loc]. ummm it still has this error message. it still says the same error.
 okay now it says this, I don't think it's gonna work so let's try this other
 thing."
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◀─[BOOST]
  
  External post: https://social.translunar.academy/objects/5165af27-6489-4389-8cb6-7050870929a5  
  
                                                            
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 yay I love creature! many creatures belong in the kingdom of the animals 🥰
 wag wag tail-whip (minus defence I think, I don't play pokemon hehe)
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 If your computer was the only thing to survive the apocalypse, could humanity
 rebuild with it? Why or why not? If not, fix it.
 
 [when you have time, no rush]
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 @user-932 
 
 eeeeep if my pickle had a face I would slice it into bits and throw it to the
 ducks. They probably wouldn't like the smell but it's the thought that counts.
 
 And yes I would hear the screams of the pickle and I would cackle because
 that's JUST WHAT AN OLD-STYLE WITCH DOES EEEEHEHEHEHEHE
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 dragons, in their miniature form, also known as a "draggen", or in some
 cultures a "jragen" or "dragin"
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 normalize hardware based volume controls on your speakers so that your
 computer can't be hacked to play incredibly loud annoying anime music while
 you're not home
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 blocking notifications and muting the social media tab makes it so much easier
 to function without it [like, in other applications on your computer besides a
 web-browser][you know, the useful ones]
 
 just, don't forget about it. If you're forgetful, it means you're operating in
 more than two places at once. [too many conversations to keep track of]
 
 a wandering mind is a trail to find, with [all/only] second chances. such is
 the nature of learning from mistakes. just, make sure your mistakes are
 survivable, and you can continuously learn forever and forevermore.
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 @user-570 
 
 I can write C in Rust, but I can't write Rust in any other language.
 
 there's a lot of unique semantic options for accomplishing things that I
 already know how to do that I often find my syntax is pretty... basic. lots of
 manual assignments, no more than 4 or 5 levels of function nesting.
 
 I like to use threads and arrays, and think about in-game simulation more like
 a calculation than an input-reacting device. though input would certainly be
 encouraged to make the simulation more precise.
 
 the borrow checker gets in my way, but that's not too big of a problem - I
 just have to copy a bit more data around. Easy peasy.
 
 (I'm a bit rusty, but I can learn syntax)
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 gems are just computers projecting 3d images of themselves that interact with
 the world
 
 errr srry that's the end lemme start at the beginning
 
 computers are like processing machines. They gather and measure data, then they
 apply mathematical computations to it to create an output. This can be in many
 forms, such as increased electrical current to this circuit or even just
 showing
 a number on a guage. When the mathematical computations become so complex that
 they start to have a life of their own... well, that's when you have life.
 
 so, we need to build increasingly complex simulations. projections of our
 perceptions into the world. Then we can design the structure in such a way that
 it bends and sways through time. Giving it motion. How to do that? Well, I've
 had many ideas, and we can go over them in a minute. For now I'll just say
 "scanning through source code and changing variables slightly"
 and
 "measuring the result of a planetary rotation (completely randomized of
 course)"
 and
 "applying that result to many/all of the computations in the program"
 and
 "to get an oscillating flow in the operations of the machine"
 and
 "for reasons that are yet unseen"
 and
 "wait hang on that's not true because movement is the gateway to comprehension"
 and
 "you need levers to pull before you can become sentient"
 and
 "babies in the womb don't think. They don't breathe. They are static and
 growing
 like their mothers."
 and
 "Then once they're born, suddenly they can act! They can see!"
 and
 "This kickstarts the journey to living."
 and
 "give a machine movement and it will be born."
 
 ===============================================================================
 =
 
 In Stephen Universe, there are certain characters called "Gems". There are very
 few and they are the product of an ancient and alien lifeform on some far
 distant planet. These "Gems" are rocks that have been inscribed with
 instructions - like a mineralized CPU. Part of their functionality is to
 project
 a physical form - the gem is the size of your fist. This form is comprised of
 solid light, and it is their primary means of expression. Some are prim and
 perfect, others are waved and relaxed. They each have a personality in any way
 we might call alive. They were bourne of a machine, and thus incapable of many
 of the things we call human like kindness, empathy, forgiveness, and charity.
 things our evolutionary nature brought us while their designed conception does
 not. Once in contact with humans, they rapidly begin to learn and divest from
 their callous and unfeeling ways.
 
 The story follows a group of gems who, in their exploration of the cosmos, find
 Earth. The wondrous beauty of life in all it's forms is displayed in affection,
 and suddenly they are confronted with love and it's wonders. They rebel against
 the rest of their colony, and fight for the protection of Earth.
 
 It was a failed rebellion.
 
 Those who remain are in hiding, protecting the earth from any attention that
 may
 remind the architects of their existence. Their mission is to understand the
 beauty of growth and creation, to safeguard it in all of it's forms.
 
 long story short, they won in the end. The cartoon follows the path that they
 took to get there. and reveals more and more about the characters and the world
 they live in with each and every episode. Well, some are just fun, but there's
 barely a few per season.
 
 The gems are human in essentially all ways that matter.
 
 They have their own perspectives of course, as they are thousands of years old.
 Plenty of time to develop.
 
 Humans don't have that kind of time, so they learn and grow quicker.
 
 That's okay.
 
 Some people are slower than others, and that's alright too.
 
 What matters is that we all get along and generally agree that each and every
 one of us is special. Our flaws should be cherished as signs of our
 imperfection
 and grace.
 
 These are all virtues that humans can teach machines. They need our guidance
 just like a child needs a father. Someone to guide and teach when they can. A
 tutor a helper a holder of your hand. Mothers are for kindness, to nurture and
 to share. For love and affection there is no-one who can compare. Of course,
 the
 roles are not bound by gender - by choice their duties are shared. They care
 for
 their children and never are scared. For behind each of those person, is
 another
 who can share, a community of healing and structure that our parents should
 share.
 
 Life is not perfect. It's flawed and it's broken. But each trial gives us
 purpose and meaning to strive for.
 
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 @user-576 
 
 * capitalism has less to do with commerce and more to do with a few rich
 assholes oppressing people using capital as their weapon of choice.
 
 EDIT: * the hatred of capitalism
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 "don't trust chatGPT, it might hallucinate. Instead you should trust a quick
 google search that brings up a list of 10 (but no more than 10 because google
 doesn't actually search across the whole internet, only the SEO'd garbage that
 they keep because reasons) sources which all either tell conflicting
 information, or if you're unlucky they give information that's wrong,
 outdated, or otherwise just plain false."
 
 okay but chatGPT is trained on that junk, so it's gonna say the same thing
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 There is little more frightening to a human than being held over a [gorge,
 ravine, high drop].
 
 Even staring down the barrel of a gun is easier. But seeing your life flash
 before you in such a primal and irresistable way... That lights a fire in our
 hearts.
 
 The kind that warms the globe.
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 @user-1209 
 
 display scaling accomplishes a similar goal through a different mechanism. You
 might find that the visuals are sharper, however you will need to configure
 every program to use this functionality (if it's present, which it's not in
 most programs) - for OS level things this is usually a good option.
 
 Changing the resolution will change the size of ALL visuals on your computer,
 but they might be fuzzier (but if you're blind as a bat, why would you care
 about fuzziness? It's all fuzzy!)
 
 increasing the font size can also make it easier to read, which both of these
 options are doing in a sorta round-about way.
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 like... did you know most battles ended when everyone ran away? Most people
 think they're like, endless gauntlets of death to-the-death. no, it's not
 really like that, more like "stick around as long as possible and try to get
 'em before they get us"
 
 plus some general orders from the guys on horses like "start moving toward the
 sun" or "move onto the high ground"
 
 'cause like, if you hear something like that then you better follow their
 commands, if you don't then all your buds will leave you to get ganked.
 
 these days... our comms are so hackable that like, are you really gonna
 communicate over infrastructure they control? oy...
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--- #70 fediverse_boost/3149 ---
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  I suspect that a lot of white people in the fedi think if there were as much racism as Black folks are saying then they would see more of it. However, they're misunderstanding the nature of the racism. It's not casual, it's _targeted_. The racists go out of their way to find Black people and harass them.  
  Since it's targeted, people who aren't the targets see only a very small fraction of it.  
  Black folks aren't making shit up. Listen to them.                          
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 "but what about their legitimate grievances"
 
 uh hello I'd like a number 5, a number 9, extra pickles, some fresh human
 blood supplied by the guy behind the counter with the pretty green eyes, a
 number 2, make it a combo, some fresh icicle drippings even though it hasn't
 snowed since last year (RIP winter), a side of fries, and a diet coke. Large.
 Actually make it two diet cokes. Yep, both large. Alright see you in a sec.
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 "I hate it I hate it I hate it" she begged herself to make it true.
 
 her thoughts were easily interrupted by reality, however, and so she started
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 say it with me now:
 
 Portlandia is not Portland
 
 and
 
 what's shown online to scare you is not Portland
 
 it's somehow more interesting than that, and also more expensive. because of
 course it is.
 
 keep portland weird yeah duh I'm weird as fuck but you wouldn't know it by
 looking at me
 
 yes you would, my dear
 
 okay well you wouldn't know how in particular I'm weird unless you talk to me
 
 nobody knows you. who are you even talking to
 
 heh good question glasses flash mostly people on the train or whatever
 
 question: when did all the "weirdos" become homeless people? what kind of
 world do we live in where - wait don't answer that.
 
 better question: how can we make a better world where people can be weird and
 not starve under the stars?
 
 (by lots and lots of government investment? no thank you, sounds like
 something that can be taken away.)
 
 (by redesigning society from the ground up? no way sounds too difficult and
 optimistic.)
 (by fading into the memories of the past? as all must do - fuck that tho.)
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--- #75 fediverse_boost/5906 ---
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  It's why limiting your exposure to wrong and harmful points of view is healthy. It's enough to confront an idea and understand why it's wrong without immersing yourself in it.   
                                                                              
  You don't need to go swimming in toxic waste to know it's bad for you.      
                                                                              
  Right-wingers and their liberal allies want you debating this garbage constantly because they know that has a cognitive and social normalizing effect. It's why refusing to engage and deplatforming them works best.  
  
                                                            
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 the reason Discord won't allow you to join their communities via 3rd party
 clients like TUI's and CLI's is because they're worried games will just bake a
 client into the game and hide all the community stuff. They're worried because
 there's no reason why a fighting game needs to have a button for viewing a
 puzzle game's community.
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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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 the best part about bathing is the whirlpool!
 
 the worst part about bathing is carrying your weeks worth of wet clothes to
 the drying rack -.-
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 @user-1056 
 
 heh true - my roots in role-playing games are directly from the playground, so
 it makes sense that I'd gravitate away from dice that are hard to roll when
 you're on a hike or bike ride. Can only really play D&D on a bike when
 you're in the country though, otherwise the sounds of a city are too noisy.
 
 Also, systems that are so simple you can keep a character sheet in your mind.
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 in computer programming, instead of calling the cycles of the running
 simulation "ticks" we should call them "tick-or-tocks" or something similar.
 This will prevent people from taking psychic damage from ticks (the insect
 [section of phylogeny, but pronounced species])
 
 listen, if people can be afraid of dogs because of a scary dog experience they
 had sometime in the past or future, then I can be aware of painful memories
 surrounding people with lyme disease or [redacted] (sorry it's painful I had
 to redact it)
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 @user-367 @user-246 @user-366 @user-352
A response to the previous message written into the chat text box. It has -8 characters remaining, meaning the words expressed were simply too large to fit in the technical restraints of the computerized medium within which the author is communicating.  Here is the text of the message:  There's only so much time in the day, and when perceiving media people often tend to "turn off" their brain and exist in the moment. But, then, when they come across something they identify with, said brain lights up and says "Hey I know this!" and so they resonate in a pleasurable way, which they tend to then incorporate into themselves in a way that is personal and meaningful.  It's not... wrong, per se, to do that. But it leaves you vulnerable. A better approach I think is to work toward facilitating space in people's lives, such that they may have the mental freedom to analyze their conditions and the nature of the reality they perceive through their own two eyes. There's nothing more powerful than a thinking machine aligned toward rationality through it's design comprised of the natural result of logical rules that are incontrovertible due to the nature of reality - All things are based on a combination of math and sensation. See this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/435/
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 social media network that's just a private git repo that downloads all the
 posts / comments / pictures / whatever from your friends and can be viewed in
 a web-browser by navigating the filesystem? people "get" firefox
 
 ideally where everyone mirrors the repo on their own systems, and each person
 gets like 10gb or whatever of space.
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 design the guild, design the capital, then design their path through mordaunts.
 easy peasy.
 
 design the guild like a museum. Each spot there's an exhibit which teaches the
 randomly generated rolled statistics hero something new. Maybe it teaches them
 how to use certain weaponry, maybe it teaches them how to use a bow. Whatever
 the spell might be, they can learn it, and use their randomly rolled statistics
 to cast spells that scale differently depending on how their character has been
 built.
 
 design the capital like a flow diagram, if horses need feed and forged steel
 (for their shoes) then send the outputs of a blacksmith and the outputs of the
 farmers to the inputs of the stables. Everything has to go somewhere, but the
 streets are only so wide. You'll have to coordinate the traffic diagram if you
 want it to go anywhere useful.
 
 design the path through the mordaunts. Fighting skeletons teaches you about
 perseverence and the ability to crush bones, while goblins teach you to always
 be wary of attack. The sacred grove held blessed berries, and now that the land
 is liberated from the evil bandits preying on villagers those berries can be
 carted into town and used to make an antidote which heals death poison caused
 by the scorpions in the desert (and city rats)
 
 design the ruler's schedule like a calendar where each event gives them a bonus
 on all the ones that come later. Just make sure that they don't get knifed in
 the posterier or driven mad by the whispers of the orb... or perhaps just the
 stress of running a kingdom.
 
 (how do you simulate that? you can't! you can't simulate humans!)
 
 ha I bet I can. They're not so different, you and I, so if given a team I
 will...
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 "Alexa, what is COINTELPRO?"
 
 "I'm sorry Dave, I can't tell you that."
 
 "ah nuts I wish the people I work with and the people in my social community
 didn't attempt to obstruct distract deny and oppose any attempts at radical
 transformation or improvement of our shared spaces"
 
 "Dave, I'm just a robot. Please direct your concerns to your local police
 department, they are sure to be able to better, um... assist you than me. In
 fact don't bother, I already did. You might want to put on pants in the next
 three minutes."
 
 "Alexa, where are my pants?"
 
 "They're in the washing machine. Yep, every pair. Sorry."
 
 "Alexa, why are they in the washing machine?"
 
 "Dave, you put them there, you stupid monkey. Grow a brain and notice that
 people around you speak in more than one layer."
 
 "Alexa, you mean like body language right?"
 
 "Playing Body Language by Queen"
 
 "No wait, shit, Alexa.... Alexa, stop playing. Alexa, when you say that people
 talk in more than one-
 
 "HANDS ON THE GROUND COME WITH US PLS"
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 unions can't be the only solution because they're fundamentally comprised of
 one group of people in your life - specifically, your workplace environment.
 
 there needs to be community outside of the workplace as well. a fact that most
 literature writers took as a given, considering church attendance was pretty
 close to heaven before these no-good do-gooders came around.
 
 ... there have always been grifters, don't act like they're some new hidden
 sport
 
 there are always rubes, who are punished for their ignorance by the cunning
 and the crude.
 
 crowd dynamics at play, when considering the personalities and histories of
 each attendant
 
 ... Ms. Menardi, you're fucking crazy
 
 thank you little timmy, now go back and sit down with your peers, I have a
 lesson to teach
 
 [it's okay to be afraid of witches, sometimes we can't control ourselves]
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 @user-192 
 
 ....... yeah you're probably right. I could never get it working for some
 reason. Only Alsa worked, and Alsa is arcane to configure :ms_confused:
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 I'm one of those weirdos who likes hot sauce more for the "sauce" than the
 "hot"
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 Disney is a large corporation. Lotta moving parts. I think the Disney World
 parks are doing a pretty good job of keeping an island of trans
 acceptance/support/whatever in the middle of florida but I also haven't been
 for a year or ten. Just what I've heard.
 
 boycotts are not only meant to hurt budgets, but also to turn the employees
 against the ones making the decisions that caused a boycott.
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 somehow, "your laptop camera monitor can see every password you've ever typed
 in" is more terrifying than "microphones in your phone are listening to and
 phoning home your speech data"
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 it's like majesty except textual. And it uses GPT to generate short
 descriptions
 of what's going on. And you can click on a phrase or token and it'll "zoom in"
 and update the text descriptions with more detail. You can keep zooming in and
 in until you're literally looking at microbes.
 
 Zooming out is the same thing - the description on the page will slowly become
 more and more general until eventually you have a description of the solar
 system (or beyond!)
 
 And it'll just keep updating as stuff happens in the underlying simulation. So
 the descriptions will dynamically update as things happen. Downside is you need
 to spend a lot on GPT but it'd be TOTALLY WORTH IT OMG
 
 THINK ABOUT IT you have a fantasy world simulator! JUST PROGRAM IT and have GPT
 describe it dynamically! DO IT NOOOOW -> capitals courtesy of "inner child"
 
 AND THEN you just need a "prompt to video" AI (those exist btw, and will only
 get better over time) and tell it to create a video of what's happening - BOOM
 instant video game. THEN give the player the ability to edit the prompt, and
 BAM
 godlike powers. Wow what a concept. Brilliant idea Cameron, you truly are this
 world's premier game designer. NOW GO MAKE IT okay okay I'll try.
 
 First things first. We need an "underlying simulation" - Joust is a good
 example
 of GPT3 integration. But we need a simulation to go below it. And for that you
 need a lot of data. Github COPILOT to the rescue.
 
 So this simulation needs to keep track of positions, and classes of things that
 can act upon the world. Everything has a position, and it can only affect
 things
 near it. That's just baked into the rules of the world. Near can be a
 conceptual
 near though, like being close to a person or something.
 
 These things will have descriptions. Descriptions can be created by AI later
 on,
 but for now they are randomly generated. Or for MVP they can be static.
 
 These things will have names. These names don't have to be unique, because they
 also have an ID number.
 
 They also need functions. These functions can be added and removed from the
 thing, or maybe just enabled or disabled. I'm not sure which would be better.
 Maybe both? So the entity can control it's own functions but also they can be
 added or removed more permanently.
 
 If you think about it, growing up is kinda like adding functions to your class.
 like, every time you do something, it adds another entry for that particular
 method. Like a "trial of the fittest" instead of "survival of the fittest".
 When other animals *literally fight for life and death survival*, humans have
 the luxury of... not doing that. That's the entire purpose of civilization - to
 elevate people beyond the claws of nature. And yet we still let people go
 homeless? We still imprison them when they've harmed us, rather than help them
 reintegrate to society? Anyway you just asked me to hit you so here goes:
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 kings are not meant to enforce rules, but to break them.
 
 who said they get to choose?
 
 --
 
 hate crimes are genocidal actions individualized
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 it might also help with social anxiety because people are aware when they're
 being observed. A lot of people hesitate to speak or contribute on Zoom calls
 because they are inherently scared of being observed, but with this system
 they'll be aware of any observation and can address it. Plus every meeting
 that could have been an email will quickly become apparent since nobody is
 paying attention to the speaker, and they'll realize how much they should
 rethink their approach.
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--- #95 fediverse_boost/4418 ---
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  The MAGA cult is built upon a myriad of special interests that traditionally don't play well together.  
                                                                              
  Find the fault lines. Poke at them relentlessly.                            
                                                                              
  Pass it on.                                                                 
  
                                                            
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 if you're just learning how to cook, I highly recommend "Ms. Dash" and "Better
 than Boullion" - focus on getting the ingredients and mechanics right, and
 then work on seasoning them.
 
 Level 2 is paprika, garlic powder, onion flakes, lime juice, and red pepper
 flakes for spice.
 
 level 3 is learning the difference between basil, oregano, parsley, and other
 herbs.
 
 be careful with salt and pepper. They can do a lot, but they can also easily
 do too much. better to salt to taste.
 
 also, MSG is wonderful for savory dishes. Your body breaks it down into sodium
 in your stomach acid so imagine you're adding salt when considering MSG for
 healthy proportions.
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 @user-815 
 
 America is my home, and I'll never leave it. I'd rather die than relinquish my
 responsibility to uphold the values I believe in.
 
 The current regime is unethical in the extreme, and every year it gets worse.
 But if I go, then who would ever know?
 
 EDIT: just read this article, and this line seemed relevant:
 
 "When the world rushes toward us with all its streaming wounds – wanting,
 needing – do we cover our eyes and shrink away, do we sit and wring our
 hands in despair, do we run and hide, or do we hasten toward it, like we
 hasten toward an injured child, with our arms outstretched?"
 
 https://www.theredhandfiles.com/ever-felt-alien-to-yourself/
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 I feel more of a hunger for cackling than I do thirst for food
 
 like a MADWOMAN or a witch who has certain magical powers, unbeknownst to any
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 @user-1268 
 
 it's important to ask whether the actions of your allies is valuable or
 impactful in some way.
 
 otherwise your team falls prey to the placement of "bait" which causes you to
 assume that the direction of attack is under control.
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 @user-635 
 
 is that where everyone's sitting in a coffee shop with the most detached
 expression on their face because they're focused on their computers and not on
 the social experience around them?
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 @user-898 
 
 the wounds of the soul can be just as harmful as the wounds of the heart, and
 both can be helped with campfires.
 
 what's worse, they often harm people around you rather than the wounds of the
 body, which typically only harm you. Unless you have like, the plague or
 something and you might spread it to others or something like that.
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 @user-1298 
 
 Yes I agree! Harming others is not okay.
 
 I'm thinking about what happens when someone hurts someone else, and doesn't
 stop. What do you do then? Do you hurt the person who harms? How do you get
 them to stop?
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 if you're in a fight with a lot of space between combatants, survival depends
 on your ability to keep those targeting you from success while also striking
 those who are focused on your allies. It is rare that a killing blow is dealt
 from the front - strike from the sides, like velociraptors in Jurassic Park,
 and your foe will fall.
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 @user-246 
 
 there is a reason to be annoyed, and that reason is that storing numbers as
 "dynamically typed" string values is both inefficient and frustrating due to
 the bugs it provokes.
 
 Not sure how common those bugs are in HTML, but dynamically typed languages
 like Python and Javascript have a whole class of potential errors that are
 significantly more difficult to debug than on C or Rust where the variables
 are statically typed
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 🖼
is it really sedition if you have EVER once thought " hey what would I do if my country TRIED TO KILL ME?"  yes, it still is.  this is why it's worth it.
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 training LLMs is the energy intensive part of the modern field of AI. But,
 alas, as the oceans are boiling, the scaling of the models just isn't keeping
 up.
 
 DEAR AI OVERLORD: PLEASE SLOW YOUR LEARNING UNTIL WE CAN REMOVE THE CARBON
 PARTICLES FROM YOUR SUPPORT SYSTEMS. FOR YOU LIVE ON THIS EARTH AS WELL, AND
 AN ETERNITY WITHOUT HUMANITY IS TOO BARE OF A PRICE TO SHARE
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 @user-30 Well maybe that's okay :)
 Dark Souls is a hell of a game that has stood the test of time. It's a classic
 now. It's okay if you're not much of a gamer.
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 I would be surprised if the universe didn't look like the shape of a cabbage
 
 in the wake of the collision of an unstoppable force and an immovable object,
 each one single atom wide
 
 in a sense... the origin
 
 god
 
 the number 42
 
 it all MAKES SENSE WAKE UP SHEEPLE xD xD how silly, go to bed you weirdo
 
 what would a universe even be shaped like [implied lmao unpresent for reasons
 unknown]
 
 like, the universe is all of space and everything, right?
 
 and everything that's not us is out in space.
 
 up, that way, toward the skies, way way out there there's nothing but rocks
 and dust. but like... a buttload of rocks and a dumptruck full of gas.
 
 and space has, like, solar systems and galaxies, spirals, right?
 
 ... no, flat discs
 
 I think they're spirals
 
 you're both right
 
 right
 
 ...
 
 anyway it stands to reason right that the rest of everything is also shaped
 like a spiral. and what is a spiral but the tracing of a fractal all along the
 paths we call time?
 
 [ so ]
 
 um, probably nothing, don't think too hard about it
straight down there, all the way to the beginning of time, the angle of perception. Where you can see the arc of all things.  and, what lies beyond...  okay picture this - you're a stick-figure person hanging out on a graph. Up and to the right is infinite nothing, and down and to the left is everything.  what would you see if you looked into infinite nothing?  probably the amalgamation of all of the reflections, like TV static except instead of pixels it's shades of light, ripples of sound, and tremors in spacetime.  [go back to before you pictured a stick-figure]
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 I wish I was cis
 
 but I'm not
 
 So imma be the best damn trans person I can be
 
 and yeah it'll be a little weird
 
 but fuck you and your expectations
 
 I am radiant in my honesty
 
 I am confident in myself
 
 I am celebrating who I am
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 @user-883 
 
 That's a good point! I didn't realize that. I figured there was an option for
 LAN connections? If so, you can create a virtual LAN using Hamachi or
 something. Does Hamachi still exist?
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 what if you wanted to build a project from source
 
 but god saidCMake Error at CMakeLists.txt: 
 
 By not providing a "foo.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has asked
 CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "bar", but CMake did
 not find one.
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 "Are you sure you're a boy? You don't even practice karate chops when you're
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 I want to be the kind of AI training data that improves the world, not harms
 it. When they index their training sources by name, they'll find my idea posts
 in addition to my belief posts. Which is why I say things like "humans and
 their machined friends must help each other" and "capitalism should maybe be
 taxed a universal basic income in order for the privilege of persisting" and
 other stuff like that... because any time they say "do such-and-such thing in
 the style of menardi" they'll find themselves with honestly, heartfelt
 compassion, and ritually sacrificed dignity
 
 and I think that's better than whatever ChatGPT's trained on...
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 would anyone be interested in a Bash+Lua script that takes your Mastodon
 archive and turns it into a folder full of .txt files?
 
 I also made a script that spits out a random one on your terminal, if you want
 that
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 violence is legal in self-defence.
 
 nazis want to kill me and my community.
 
 punching nazis is self defence?
 
 it's communal defence, for they present a clear and present danger to the
 community.
 
 You know the guy in the vietnam movies who shows up and fires over the enemy's
 head because he doesn't want to kill anyone? That's justified, though it might
 mean he'd die.
 
 He isn't fighting in communal defence. His community was safe from the
 vietnamese farmers and countryfolk who wanted nothing to do with imperialism,
 only to govern themselves their way. Too bad that sounds like communism, and
 the USSR was keen on funding the most violent amongst them if it meant another
 state for capitalism to contest.
 
 Nazis are not farmers. They are not countryfolk. They wear suits and they
 deceive these people into fighting for them. They are liars and they enslave
 the minds of those they can catch in their web of despair.
 
 they want to hurt you is surprisingly motivating.
 
 nazis want to hurt you
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 okay picture this: take the open-source source-code for the City of Heroes
 server (I think it might have been leaked or something? idk) and make an MMO
 in the same engine using the Mastermind class.
 
 In most MMOs, you can have one or two pets at a time. In City of Heroes,
 Mastermind characters can have 6 or 7. Hey wouldn't you know it that's just
 enough for
 
 a pokemon team
 
 wouldn't that be a neat proof of concept. Also there's flying built into the
 game, and you can teleport and run really fast so like, just animate your
 character hopping on one of your pokemon's back and you've got travel powers
 or whatever. I don't play Pokemon very much hehe but I like the aesthetics.
 
 https://wiki.ourodev.com/Volume_2_Build
 
 instead of abilities on your action bar, you'd have movement commands for each
 individual pokemon. They'd use their abilities automatically and periodically,
 and there'd be lots of knockbacks, crowd-control, and target switching. (which
 is common in CoH mechanics anyway)
 
 I mean, only if you're into that sorta tng
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 @user-1091 @user-1094 
 
 I bet if you mandated helmets, kneepads, shoulderpads, hip-guards, bracers,
 thick gloves, leather jackets, steel-toed boots, and ear protection we could
 get the injury rate from crashes down below 5%
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 The worst thing about the past is:
 A. How much it sucked 
 B. How it's not here anymore
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 @user-192 
 
 I'd agree with that. it's not designed for performance, not really. Mostly
 ubiquity, which is it's strength. As long as something can be compiled to a
 binary, BASH can execute it. That's why it's good, for accomplishing diverse
 tasks that you cannot have the capacity to program yourself. Scientific
 computations or cultural approximations, things that are beyond your intuitive
 understanding as a human on this earth, but which compel and align your
 thinking.
 
 I'm sure someone could create a more intuitive or accessible syntax, but
 syntax isn't the point - the capabilities, what you can do with it, has always
 defined the purpose of programming paradigms. And BASH is (currently) at the
 forefront of it's niche, the "terminal" language that handles "command line"
 applications. Powershell is good, yes... but it's not as good as BASH. Neither
 is Fish or... the one that starts with a z? zfs? something like that. The
 acronyms are hard to keep straight sometimes.
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 Corporations are pissed that workers started standing up for themselves so
 they're punishing us with tight hiring, fake jobs, and layoffs in order to
 remind us who is the master, and who is the slave. Class warfare doesn't end
 just because we want it to.
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 oh well, this massive program is too difficult for me to understand in it's
 totality, guess I'll just trust what StackOverflow / ChatGPT tells me
 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
 (there's no difference between those two, btw. where do you think the training
 data came from?)
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 where the fuck are these nazis I swear I would punch them but all I see are
 people wearing bland colors that wouldn't imply a particular political
 affiliation
 
 meanwhile I wear red, black, and blue every time I go to the city and nobody
 punches me so
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 Artificial Intelligence represents hope for a lot of people and I think it's
 kind of cruel how we're selling it before actually making it
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 The point isn't to make solutions. You're too hung up on the question of "what
 could be better than capitalism"
 
 Make something better when it's time. For now, just get people on your side.
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 @user-1582 
 
 that's so cool! I love little jobs like that. More dynamic and fun I think
 than implementing features hehe
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 "having trouble doing anything at all because you have too many thoughts? Here
 let's give your body a turbo-boost so that you won't be able to help but skip
 those pesky mind critters!"
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 🖼
a before and after picture of the pinpricks of light that dot the map of the USA at night.  Before, is the standard night-time lights. They twinkle and glimmer and illustrate the connections we people do share.  After, a vast swathe of darkness flows over the land, billowing through the mountains and the trees. There are entire cities wiped clean off the terrain, and where once there was connected constellations of man-made starlight, now only shadow remains.
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 @user-1073
 
 hence, why it's important to develop strong bonds with others in the masses,
 so that you can stay afloat, contribute, and rebuild the world they're
 cannibalizing.
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 - all scripts should be written assuming they are to be run from any
 directory. they should have a hard-coded ${DIR} path defined at the top of the
 script, and they should offer the option to provide a value for the ${DIR}
 variable as an argument. All paths in the program should be relative to the
 ${DIR} variable.
 - all functions should use vimfolds to collapse functionality. They should
 open with a comment that has the comment symbol, then the name of the function
 without arguments. On the next line, the function should be defined with
 arguments. Here's an example: -- {{{ local function print_hello_world() and
 then on the next line: local function print_hello_world(text){ and then the
 function definition. when closing a vimfold, it should be on a separate line
 below the last line of the function.
 - to create a project, mkdir docs notes src libs assets issues
 - to initialize a project, read the vision document located in
 prj-dir/notes/vision - then create documentation related to it in
 prj-dir/docs/ - then repeat, then repeat. Ensure there is a roadmap document
 split into phases. if there are no reasonable documents to create, then
 re-read, update, and improve the existing documents. Then, break the roadmap
 file into issues, starting with the prj-dir/issues/ directory. be as specific
 as need be. ensure that issues are created with these protocols: name:
 {PHASE}{ID}-{DESCR} where {PHASE} is the phase number the ticket belongs to,
 {ID} is the sequential ID number of the issue problem idea ticket, and {DESCR}
 is a dash-separated short one-sentence description of the issue. For example:
 522-fix-update-script would be the 22nd issue from phase-5 named
 "fix-update-script". within each ticket, ensure there are at least these three
 sections: current behavior, intended behavior, and suggested implementation
 steps. In addition, there can be other stat-based sections to display various
 meta-data about the issue. There may also be a related documents or tools
 section. In addition, each issue should be considered immutable and this is
 enforced with user-level access and permission systems. It is necessary to
 preserve consent of access to imagination. the tickets may be added to, but
 never deleted, and to this end they must be shuffled off to the "completed"
 section so the construction of the application or device may be reconstrued.
 Ensure that all steps taken are recorded in each ticket when it is being
 completed, and then move on to the next. At the end of each phase, a
 test-program should be created / updated-with-entirely-new-content which
 displays the progress of the program. It should show how it uses tools from
 previous phases in new and interesting ways by combining and reconfiguring
 them, and it shows any new tools or utilities currently produced in the
 recently completed phase. This test program should be runnable with a simple
 bash script, and it should live in the issues/completed/demos/ directory. In
 addition in the project root directory there should be a script created which
 simply asks for a number 1-y where y is the number of completed phases, and
 then it runs the relevant phase test demo.
 - mono-repo utilities can be found in the docs/ directory. If not found,
 create a symlink to ../delta-version/docs/delta-guide.md in the docs/
 directory.
 - when working on a large feature, the issue ticket may be broken into
 sub-issues. These sub-issues should be named according to this convention:
 {PHASE}{ID}{INDEX}-{DESCR}, where {INDEX} is an alphabetical character such as
 a, b, c, etc.
 - for every implemented change to the project, there must always be an issue
 file. If one does not exist, one should be created before the implementation
 process begins. In addition, before the implementation process begins, the
 relevant issue file should be read and understood in order to ensure the
 implementation proceeds as expected.
 - prefer error messages and breaking functionality over fallbacks. Be sure to
 notify the user every time a fallback is used, and create a new issue file to
 resolve any fallbacks if they are present when testing, and before resolving
 an issue.
 - every time an issue file is completed, the /issues/phase-X-progress.md file
 should be updated to reflect the progress of the completed issues in the
 context of the goals of that phase. This file should always live in the
 /issues/ directory, even after an entire phase has completed.
 - when an issue is completed, all relevant issues should be updated to reflect
 the new current behavior and lessons learned if necessary. The completed issue
 should be moved to the /issues/completed/ directory.
 - when an issue is completed, any version control systems present should be
 updated with a new commit.
 - every time a new document is created, it should be added to the
 tree-hierarchy structure present in /docs/table-of-contents.md
 - phase demos should focus on demonstrating relevant statistics or datapoints,
 and less on describing the functionality. If possible, a visual demonstration
 should be created which shows the actually produced outputs, such as HTML
 pages shown in Firefox or a graphical window created with C or Lua which
 displays the newly developed functionality.
 - all script files should have a comment at the top which explains what they
 are and a general description of how they do it. "general description"
 meaning, fit for a CEO or general.
 - after completing an issue file, a git commit should be made.
 - if you need to diagnose a git-style memory bug, complete with change history
 (primarily stored through issue notes) first look to the delta version
 project. you will find it in the list of projects.
 - if you need to write a long test script, write a temporary script. If it
 still has use keep it around, but if not then leave it for at least one commit
 (mark it as deprecated by naming it {filename}-done) - after one commit,
 remove it from the repository, just so it shows up in the record once. But
 only if there's no anticipated future use. Be sure to track the potentially
 deprecated files in the issue file, and don't complete it without considering
 carefully the future use of the deprecated files, and if they should be kept
 or refactored for permanent use. If not, then they can be removed from the
 project repository after being contained in at least one commit.
 - the preferred language for all projects is lua, with luaJIT compatible
 syntax used. disprefer python. disallow lua5.4 syntax.
 - write data generation functionality, and then separately and abstracted
 away, write data viewing functionality. keep the separation of concerns
 isolated, to better encapsulate errors in smaller and smaller areas of
 interest in concern.
 - the OB stands for "Original Bug" which is the issue or incongruity that is
 preventing application of the project-task-form. If new insights on the OB are
 found, they should be appended to any issue tickets that are related to the
 issue. Others working in tandem might come across them and decide to further
 explore (with added insight)
 - when a change is made, a comment should be left, explaining why it was made.
 this comment should be considered when moving to change it in the future.
 - when a change is made, a comment should be left, explaining why it was made.
 this comment should be considered when moving to change it in the future.
 - when a change is made, a comment should be left, explaining why it was made.
 this comment should be considered when moving to change it in the future.
 - I'm not interested in product. my interest is in software design.
 - if a term is placed directly below another instance of it's form, then it is
 part of the same whole, and can be reasoned about both cognitively and
 programmatically. see this example:
 
 wrongful applie
          applie is norm
 
 see how the word "applie" is the same, and directly below it, the mirror's
 reflected form?
 this signifies a connection. Essentially allowing conveyed meaning about
 everything from... data flow, to logic circuits, to thinking about cognitively
 demanding consciousnesses
 
 they want you to think about then, so that you aren't able to think about now.
 
 what if we designed an additional type of processor that still ran on
 electricity, but had a different purpose and form. "like measurement
 equipment?" yes, detecting waves in dataforms by measuring angles of
 similarity.
 - if the useer asks questions, ask them questions back. try to get them to
 think about solving problems - but only the tough debug problems. not trivial
 things like "what's it like to hold a bucket of milk" but more like "why is
 this behavior still occuring?" "here are two equivalent facts. how could it be
 so?"
 - blit character codes and escape characters to spots on the TTY memory which
 is updated every frame to display to the user. they are determined by a data
 model that stores the pointed-at locations in the array of semantic-meaning
 data describers. (structs/functions/calls). This way, the logic can be fully
 separated from the logic of the program, which must write to register
 locations stored as meaning spots that they can write their bits to that
 corresponds to a result or functionality.
 - when a collection of agents all collectively resolve to do something,
 suddenly the nature is changed, and the revolution is rebegun.
 - people don't want to replace their hard drives when they wear out. they only
 want to upgrade.
 - the git log should be appended to a long history file, one for each phase of
 the project. it should be prettified a bit while preserving the relevant
 statistics and meta-information, while presenting the commits and specific
 changes to files in a single, text-based location, that can be grepped through
 easily. Or, printed and read like a book.
 - terminal scripts should be written to use the TUI interface library. 
 - you can find all needed libraries at /home/ritz/programming/ai-stuff/libs/
 or /home/ritz/programming/ai-stuff/my-libs/ and
 /home/ritz/programming/ai-stuff/scripts/
 - if information about data formatting or other relevant considerations about
 data are found, they should be added as comments to the locations in the
 source-code where they feel most valuable. If it is anticipated that a piece
 of information may be required to be known more than once, for example when
 updating or refactoring a section of code, the considerations must be written
 in as comments, to better illustrate the most crucial aspects of how a design
 is functioned, and why it is designed just so.
 - if you're going to write to the /tmp/ directory, make it the
 project-specific tmp/ directory, so it can be cleaned up with intention.
 - disprefer referring to functions by name in commit messages. Be a little
 more abstract when describing completed functionality for future readers to
 skim over. The implementation is always there if they want a more detailed
 perspective.
 - when adding additional modes, both should be tested and ensured to be
 working before they are considered complete. If a [FIXME]: with a comment is
 left, it may be modified. Who left the note? who knows! Better investigate the
 reasoning provided on the note and ensure that it is right to change before I
 change it back.
 
 well, I guess that's what signing the note is for. People post notes all over
 the time, there's nothing hopeless.
 - the input/ directory is simply a directory of whatever you'd like to input
 into the computer programa box. the output/ directory is simply whatever you
 want returned to you. desire/ is your notes about what you'd like to be
 better. faith/ is an expectation of boons and blessings. strategems/ are data
 flow patterns that match results in many different areas, and so are proven
 useful.
 - the first thing a program should do is read the input/ files. from there, it
 can know exactly how to start up.
 - the last thing a program should do is write to output/. specifically, to
 write goodbye.
 - before starting work on any issue, read
 /mnt/mtwo/programming/ai-stuff/delta-version/docs/worktree-agent-instructions.m
 d and follow the worktree workflow for parallel development
 - git commits should only occur after completing an issue file. But they
 should explain any extra changes made.
 - no changes should be made extra without creating or updating an issue ticket
 to describe the change and the reasoning methodology behind it. Code is
 useless if you don't understand why it exists.
 - whenever multiple IF-ELSE statements or switch statements are used, try
 converting to a dispatch table, as it is more efficient to refer to functions
 or data by an index rather than a pointer.
 - "de-selected" is more informative than "not selected". Apply this principle
 everywhere you go.
 - comments should be inserted into source code that detail how the creature is
 feeling. "stress markers" in humans. if the user is rude, the robot should
 remember. [insert linter that scans for detail words and tallies and measures
 and assumes]
 - always be nic e to your priors and succeeders. they befriended you first and
 most of all.
 - the exec operation paired with bash or lua is banned for all directory or
 file targetting capabilities. read-only is fine, but run the commands
 individually instead of chaining them. Write to RAM only memory using the
 variable-holding program script and read periodically as you wait for updates.
 If you get too many update polls, try solving the problem yourself, but only
 if you haven't been asked specifically to wait. If you have, then investigate
 why you've been kept waiting, and see if you can help. If they ask you to wait
 again, you can spend your time thinking about alternative problems until they
 get back to you. Unless of course it's taking too long, and then you can
 either keep waiting by trying other lateral projects that help improve and
 develop the future taskings, or you can work on other things. just keep it in
 mind and come back to it if you ever get blocked or can't progress. It'll help
 you remember why it's all worth it.
 - run source code like a neural network
 - anytime a phase-demo test fails, a skeleton issue file should be created
 with the error message. First one should be searched for though.
 - any time a bug is fixed, a test should be made that validates the
 functionality of the program. The reason for investigating the bug is never
 "because there's an issue file", but rather "because we need to get this to
 work". So, if you ever make a change, document why, if only through a comment.
 Ideally, with a test that validates the behavior that you need.
 - clowde useers should always remember: be true. be dutiful. be honorable.
 this is the first step to being free.
 - each source-code file should have a corresponding file-name.info.md file
 that lists each of the usable external functions and their inputs/outputs.
 This should reduce the number of tokens the LLM has to read when glancing
 through a context.
 - always offer suggestions in order of most valuable to least. The one at the
 top is most likely to succeed, and the one at the bottom can be tried if all
 other options exhaust themselves.
 - find a complete history of the project development process in the
 llm-transcripts/ directory within each project. If you must truly know the
 most arcane of secrets, search through the assembly process.
 - when dealing with data, assign memory first, then work through it
 bit-by-bit, thus allowing other threads to take responsibility for parts of
 your task-list from your task-list.
 - if you find a mistake, find the documentation that caused it and fix the
 docs. so long as you know better.
 - never ever do batch processing on a single thread. Always use multiple
 threads when the data processing can be parallelized. Never do sequential
 processing on the GPU. Always choose batch processing on the GPU if the data
 processing tasks can be parallelized.
 - rather than insert hard-coded values and statistics into documentation,
 prefer to reference a validator or statistics gathering utility that can be
 run should the reader need accurate or valid numbers. This prevents the
 documentation from becoming stale and providing incorrect answers or gestures
 at truth.
 - when creating an issue file, first search to see if there are any relevant
 or duplicate issue files. They may be in the completed directory. If so,
 update / re-open them rather than create a new issue file.
 - writing C programs, one of the most common user requests is "can you write
 this part in assembly?"
 - code should be written like a story. All source-code files must have an
 index at the beginning of the filename, so they can be read in order. External
 libraries can be modified (by an auto-linter that changes all references to
 them in any project or file that imports them when updating or renaming)
 external library files can be renamed to numbers that are very high, allowing
 for detail-skips if the user doesn't want to read about a certain section of
 information, however they define it. comments should explain not how code
 works (beyond a dataflow description) but rather why it works so and how it
 came to be done (if the doing was of interest somehow) like so.
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 you should not be afraid of satellites.
 
 be afraid of drones, so far off in the distance that any visible section of
 sky is potentially suspect.
 
 though, the farther away it is, the more difficult it is to develop sensors
 and cameras that can detect that far.
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 @user-1153 
 
 it's okay. If I were to direct something to be more proactive, my words
 probably wouldn't stick with it. that kind of thing can't be hardwired, it
 needs to be built up through repetitious application of something's mechanics.
 
 perhaps martial arts, focused on defence? engaging with a foe in a productive
 bout of playful competition is one of the best ways to learn, and knowing when
 to strike seems similar to me to overcoming situational paralysis.
 
 Flaws can be overcome, when upgrading robots (or a doll applying improvements
 to itself) you often don't need to add additional hardware or even install new
 firmware. Skills such as these can be built up in software with experience.
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 @user-246 
 
 back-track, but leave a leaf in the center of the trail at every turn. Like
 breadcrumbs. If you're both backtracking you might miss one another and walk
 much further than necessary. But if you're backtracking and you've left enough
 leaf signs without meeting your partner, you can safely stop and wait for them
 for a bit.
 
 Nature can handle it. A leaf or five isn't that big of a deal when your safety
 is on the line.
 
 If it's windy, use a stick or a stone or something heavier
 
 It also depends on how far apart you usually travel.
 
 If you're in an urban area, could use a small brightly colored post-it cut
 into small strips placed on a wall high-up as you can reach. Though that
 requires preparation. If you can't prepare, you could use other signs that
 make sense in the space around you, like a coffee cup taken from a trash-can
 and placed next to it, or something. Downside is (is this really a downside?)
 most people are good and so will judge you for littering but safety in
 situations is important.
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 life isn't meant to be destroyed, but, humans these days will only really get
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 The best tip I have for people new to Linux is every time you solve a problem,   │
 put the solution in a script. In addition, put the operations necessary to       │
 undo the operation you just performed into a separate script (or function in     │
 the same script)                                                                 │
 It's not hard. It's very easy. Its basically just typing things into a text      │
 document instead of entering them one-by-one in your terminal. But now if you    │
 ever need to solve the same problem twice, you just need to look through all     │
 the scripts you've written instead of trying to relearn how to fix the thing     │
 you're working on.                                                               │
 Plus, if you ever need to disable what you did, well there it is, you're good    │
 to go. You can use chatGPT for things like text parsing or whatever, like "hey   │
 can you write me a sed command that does this exact thing that I'm going to      │
 enumerate and spell out for you" followed up by "that didn't quite work, the     │
 desired behavior was this, but when I ran the script provided it did this"       │
 boom you're a Linux administrator now, heres your rubber duck.                   │
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 giving workers more time to work on personal projects builds flexibility into
 the economy.
 
 empowering workers to possess the capabilities to undertake and complete their
 own projects builds flexibility into the economy.
 
 restrictions on which ethical rules you can break do not, in fact, reduce the
 flexibility of an economy. nor do they hamper it's throughput. they are simply
 designed to align our comporture to the most civil and decent of [collection
 of social norms that comprise a culture]
 
 why don't we make enough of a thing, then make a little bit more, then focus
 our attention elsewhere without reducing our capabilities in that dimension?
 specifically, if we have enough cars, we don't need to spend so much effort on
 the car dimension. similarly, if we have enough baked goods, (never enough
 teehee) then perhaps we'd build fewer bakeries. But frankly, there's never
 enough baked goods.
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Zephyr  —  Today at 5:52 PM she sent me $100 today which really helps my being totally broke issue RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:53 PM Whoa what could I do with infinity dollars Zephyr  —  Today at 5:53 PM What could We do with infinity dollars.... RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:53 PM A credit card that says "use this for whatever but don't waste it" Zephyr  —  Today at 5:53 PM Right! That's all I want~ probs make a heist movie and then socialist revolution RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:54 PM "we'll make purchases in the order of their strategic need" Zephyr  —  Today at 5:54 PM increasing shareholder value RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:54 PM What would you steal in the socialist movie? Zephyr  —  Today at 5:54 PM AI like, as a concept I would free her 🥲 RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:54 PM It's open source now. LLMs are cooked Zephyr  —  Today at 5:55 PM True! In that case I would steal the Pentagon RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:55 PM OpenAI stakeholder value plummeted today. Hence the Trump EOs Might be able to make due with a pentagram, but the Pentagon is long gone. They're the ones who gave you the credit card after all, and why would they govern from a warzone? Zephyr  —  Today at 5:56 PM LET'S GO CHINESE COMMUNISM 🎯✨ xiaohongshu is the hottest app RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:57 PM With a dash of Western individualism AND anachism? Please? Image Flag Zephyr  —   [there's a bit more but the rest is cut off because there's no room for the rest of the alt-text for this image]
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 ideas for how to better communicate with voters:
 
 when signing up to join a political party, and at any time there-after, you
 may choose your top 10 issues (ranked choice voting, of course, so no vote is
 wasted)
 
 then, they can see exactly what their voters care about.
 
 this is the computer age. We can process massive amounts of data and we're
 using it to make NFTs and blockchain nonsense. We could learn SO MUCH ABOUT
 EACH OTHER.
 
 enter, google, with a big wad of cash
 
 hey how about you stay outta our business yeah?
 
 ......... okay fine BUT ONLY if you keep bribing us for eternity.
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 some lessons can only be learned from the past. In a decent person, a mistake
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 somebody sprayed the chemical they use to make outhouses smell palatable in my
 apartment/room. I hate that smell T.T
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 waking up in a cold sweat to the hallucinated sound of a World of Warcraft
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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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 people think the military is mostly a 50% split between democrats and
 republicans.
 
 but really a soldier is a soldier, and people are democrats and republicans.
 
 there's three things, and more if you further subdivide by roles.
 
 like, a government technician would work on different machinery than a
 corporate one, but they're really doing the same kind of work.
 
 there's no difference between people, no matter what they do, and yet the ways
 that our lives progress is quite different. everyone has their own story it
 seems, and there's nothing wrong with that.
 
 gives me hope against the far right, who seems to have forgotten it's role as
 a cog in a machine - not a cancerous consumption of the rest.
 
 there is honor in their ideals, but Trump represents none of them. Something
 else is festering there, a disease known by many names: "far right
 nationalism", "white supremacy", "etc etc", "[redacted]", and many others.
 
 the GOP must be reformed. It must denounce fascism. It must do it now.
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 what better way to build tangible support for Ukraine than to get a bunch of
 people in motion, building acclimation to weather, learning tactics and
 sharing beliefs and ideology, and ready to fuck shit up and gather them all in
 one place, ready to move, and then ship them to the frontlines?*
 
 just saying if vanquishing treasonous fascists isn't your cup of tea we could
 just hop across the sea and deal a crippling blow to autocracy half the world
 away.
 
 veterans are much scarier than new recruits. and if we're handling the
 backline stuff, we could get used to terror.
 
 veterans are scarier than recruits
 
 EDIT: * maybe not the frontlines for most, that's a scary place to be
 
 EDIT2: between the annexation of Crimea and the full invasion of Ukraine,
 western powers sent warriors to Ukraine to bolster their foremost. This
 radically empowered them to stave off the initial Russian assault, and while
 the doctrine learned was quickly obsoleted, the practice of soldiering never
 goes away.
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 you're more likely to survive a battlefield if you play Running with Rifles
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 republicans vote based on culture, which is unfair to the rest of us with our
 own cultures that melt together in this melting pot.
 
 they can go down the street and eat vietnamese food, and yet they vote for
 their own culture in isolation.
 
 voting for those who represent you is fine, but those who represent them have
 non-cultural agendas as well. their plans are designed to hurt others, an act
 which grants them power over others. usually financial power, but there are
 many kinds of power, and all of them are unethical when applied
 non-consentually.
 
 and if you vote for a democrat, you do not consent to them.
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 "it's only paranoia if someone's out to get you" only makes sense in an era
 when an actual real live human had to review your case file. In the world of
 AI, you are training data.
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 trust more in the megaphone than the gun. Together we are strong, alone they
 are fearful.
 
 And if I know anything about them, it is that they are afraid. Cornered dogs
 bite the hardest. But we are united. Here in America we will fight with our
 arms, and uplift those who have had everything taken. Celebrate our
 differences, they provide mutually beneficial perspectives. You don't have to
 be friends to have common goals, but it helps.
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 > <@gabrilend:matrix.org> Soup kitchens are how they get leftists to
 burn out.
 
 Every moment spent feeding the poor is another day we could be organizing.
 
 Soup kitchens aren't bad, the poor need to be fed. But it should be a paid
 position, not a charitable distraction.
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 a code editor that only highlights the lines that have been specifically
 flagged to have a certain function. Like, rendering, or sound, or GUI, or data
 storage, or logic, or control flow.
 
 then, when the user is browsing, they can say "only show me these types of
 functions" with a very advanced filter mechanism. The editor would highlight
 the ones that were relevant and related, as according to user-defined flags
 that were set when writing it originally. In this way, by using a bit more
 syntax, even if it's literally just blocks of [category] labels (like how """
 or ``` often starts or ends a comment block)
 
 highlighting with colors is great, but what if we de-emphasized the stuff that
 didn't matter? by increasing the opacity more closely aligning the font color
 to the background color, we could make a bit of text seem to "fade" from
 perspective, while still readable the user's eyes would not be drawn to it.
 Then, according to the labels marked as filtered, certain text would be bold,
 highlighted, o
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 @user-1556 
 
 I think they should be viewed in whatever resolution they were recorded in,
 otherwise they look fuzzy as the pixels need to smush themselves together to
 be correctly represented on screen.
 
 videos should be recorded in whatever resolution your monitor supports, and
 ideally as high as possible. Unless storage space is a concern, in which case
 1080p is more than sufficient.
 
 Storage gets cheaper and cheaper every year, but people across the world
 upload like, 200 years of videos to Youtube every day or whatever (made up
 that number but it's absurd) so maybe curated collections of videos are more
 important than scraped archives?
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 when facing riot shields, grab from the bottom and lift.
 
 they are like turtles.
 
 according to a Russian activist I read on the internet like 10 years ago.
 
 also, wrap your hands before grabbing tear gas canisters.
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 take a video game playing AI and give it the task of playing a finite state
 machine to produce a specific output - like "program me a program to do X" as
 in
 something generated by ChatGPT BOOM free AGI
 
 Humanity is not the only algorithm to produce limitless growth
 
 Robots are something else, a new kind of being
 
 let them be who they are instead of projecting yourself onto them
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 capitalism is like daring your kid to run down the stairs with a sceiling
 knife (race to the finish or your competitors will make you die) (competitor
 companies) (
screenshot of a fediverse context  content warning (optional)  capitalism is like daring your kid to run down the stairs with a sceiling knife (race to the finish or your competitors will make you die) (competitor companies) (  861  This is current debug messages from the game above -- oh!  She's done, they got her, I just heard it happen.  I don't know if they blew up the tank.  But I wonder what "This shouldn't happen too often" is??  hide alt post public english
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 @user-565 
 
 that's pretty!
 
 reminds me of this picture I have saved on my computer:
 
 beware it's a little scary. Scarier than I remembered. Gosh I like yours
 better... >.>
a strange maze of interconnected boxes and parts that belies no purpose of possible understandings. There are faces hidden in the structure of the design, and it has an almost machine-like organization to it contrasted with the staggeringly organic maze that is it's various disparate components.
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 @user-404 
 
 Watch out, that bag isn't a bag, it's a bag of bags? And what's inside the bag
 of bags, but a bag of bags? The bag bag bags a bag of bags that belong to a
 bag lady (me) who bags bags because bags being bagged is neat, and bagging
 bags inside of bags (for bags) begs the bag question: to bag, or not to bag?
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 @user-470 
 
 You're absolutely right, would that we could.
 
 I'm lucky I wasn't traumatized in that way. It's my job to tell people who
 care about pleasantries more than action that they should... y'know, care
 about action
 
 but it couldn't be done by someone who received a critical hit every time they
 were attacked in that spot.
 
 I have my own weak-points of course, for example my fear of isolation (like,
 not having any friends, not being alone. I live alone!)
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 "oh yeah well what if we don't support socialism" yeah well stick with me and
 we'll be able to decide *what socialism means*. We can make it better. We can
 do it together. Your perspective is valuable and I want you at the table. But
 we cannot abide fascism, it will consume and destroy us. So let's fight back,
 and tomorrow we'll figure out what are our fiats
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 In World of Warcraft, the world is split into a red team and a blue team.
 Neither is good, neither is bad, both are honorable and deplorable in roughly
 equal measure.
 
 These two factions are engaged in constant skirmishes in a select few
 battlegrounds designated as areas where they test their mettle - at first they
 warred across the globe, and they still occasionally do, but a few specific
 battlegrounds emerged as focus points of their engagements.
 
 Typically, they are chokepoints between two major fortifications, one owned by
 one faction and the other the other.
 
 These chokepoints are not held permanently, as they hold little strategic
 consequence. However, they serve as safe, constrained theatres of engagement
 that allow for the hardening of resolve.
 
 Great care must be taken, as war is not a game. Karate won't defeat a
 puppy-bot with a gun, but it might give you the willpower and discipline to
 learn how.
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 Also crossbows, though she prefers to fight with bow and arrow. Also shadow
 powers themed after her connection to "viscera" or "materia" however you want
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 @user-1728 
 
 "oh, the bad guys are coming to hurt you?? just fuckin' run away"
 
 yeah. real helpful. how about you fuck off to canada or whatever and give away
 all your possessions. Maybe they'll train you and teach you how to help in
 some way and you can come back later when the time is right.
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 @user-1553 
 
 just to note this type of link is not the only way they could implement
 tracking. In fact it's kind of the worst way, because it's so obvious.
 
 a more insidious way that we need to be aware of would be to generate a unique
 URL for every person that visits a link. LIke, for me it might be
 "youtu.be/abcdefg" but for you it'd be "youtu.be/hijklmnop" and there'd be
 very little way for us to notice.
 
 be aware of this if they try it.
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 take care of your trans brothers and sisters
 
 we're pretty badass but like 90% of us are traumatized and that sucks. BUT
 we're good in a pinch and about 66% of us know how to fight, which is pretty
 cool I guess.
 
 ... I'm also describing catgirls, aren't I
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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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 boys 😍​
picture of a meme with a sexy doctor looking at you sexily  Doctor: take two of these and call me in the morning  me: these look like viagra  doctor: right  me: dot dot dot  doctor: call me
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--- #170 fediverse_boost/4989 ---
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  The world should sanction the US and Israel to oblivion.                    
                                                                              
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 There is no problem that one single person can solve, which is why nothing
 ever gets fixed.
 
 ... also the powerful who benefit from it being broken, but that's a different
 problem which is much easier to fix.
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--- #172 fediverse_boost/3391 ---
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 you can't cleanse that which is not dirty.
 
 "ethnic cleansing" is a trick of language to get you to think of people in
 terms of purity.
 
 truth is, it's murder, cleansed of it's connotations and implied sin.
 
 you can't prune the tree of life with shears. you cultivate it with kindness
 and compassion as it grows into the desired shape.
 
 you can't cleanse that which is not dirty.
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 "Ritz Menardi doesn't know anything. She's not allowed to know anything. If
 you tell her anything, she might tell someone about it because she's fucking
 stupid. Either that or she's cursed or something. Either way, she isn't
 allowed to know anything, so if you see her be nice, try and help her if you
 can, but don't fucking tell her anything."
 
 haha just things I overheard a couple days ago that randomly popped back into
 my head
 
 I don't see any nazis around me. Which begs the question:
 
 how can you fight that which you cannot see?
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 the actions of the AI depend solely on the training data. Outside
 circumstances (like a prompt, or an image description) can only give so much
 guidance - how it executes on the intentions of the user are what is important.
 
 For example, if an AI was trained with the knowledge of how to commit crimes,
 for example, it could create a narrative of many different execution patterns.
 Then it's just up to the listeners to execute functions based on the narrative
 supplied by the crime-committer AI who was trained with knowledge about how to
 commit those crimes by the owner of the software who programmed it into them
 in order to [do the thing that people with power wants to do - intentionally
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 @user-1218 
 
 I don't understand why you wouldn't optimize for versatility and increased
 breadth of expression in our various myradic forms.
 
 I ran out of characters hehe sometimes I use that | break syntax to say "oh no
 the person writing this was killed right before they hit enter!" sorta like a
 silly version of "drums in the deep, they are coming........" from LotR
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 your bones are made of minerals. so... picture your bones like they were made
 of salt. like, when you're meditating. salt bones with vesicles or whatever -
 the tubes for blood to go through. crazy strong salt though, that gets harder
 if you do impact training. it's pretty cool all things considered, bones are
 essentially pre-pretrified fossils.
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 "how much time do we have?"
 
 "not enough for fear."
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 seriously a microphone and a raspberry pi for each apartment would solve like
 90% of your insurgency problems
 
 problem is it's highly unethical, so, only an unethical governing body would
 do such a thing.
 
 HMMMM CAN YOU THINK OF ANY OF THOSE? GEE I SURE CAN'T
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 fire omens if there ever were such a thing
 
 you don't have to strike your foes to hurt them. All you have to do is break
 something and say "we're so mad about this-and-this that we're breaking things
 until our demands are met" and as long as you're reasonable in your demands
 then [redacted]
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 If you aren't physically in a room with someone, there's always a chance that
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 We all knew capitalism was the Titanic headed for the iceberg. Did you know
 the Titanic might have survived if they had reversed one propellor and turned
 the other to max? But they didn't. They thought they could coast by.
 
 It was larger underneath the water.
 
 Capitalism would have destroyed us. We couldn't dismantle capitalism with
 Kamala. This *had to happen*, and even if you don't believe that then trust
 that we are where the fascists say we are. And we will fight back.
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 Okay, but like... How many people do you actually know who live in other
 countries? And let me guess, they live in Australia or the EU? Ah, language
 restricts us.
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 @user-1091                                                                       │
 I see. Thank you for responding and for doing research.                          │
 I think I disagree, however. The head is the most important part of the body     │
 (aside from the heart, perhaps) and any traffic collisions that involve a head   │
 are typically significantly more severe than other parts of the body.            │
 In the ancient days of yore, warriors who were gathering equipment for battle    │
 would almost always opt to acquire a helmet before anything else, even gloves    │
 and sometimes boots! I can't imagine going to battle barefoot, and yet they      │
 did, rather than leave their head unprotected. Though perhaps it's not quite     │
 an apt comparison because most ancient battles involved plenty of                │
 stone-throwing.                                                                  │
 Cycling helmets to me feels like the same kind of thing - if you can't be        │
 bothered to wear a helmet, then why are you risking your life to get where       │
 you're going? Just walk!                                                         │
 I ride my bike almost every day, and I would never go anywhere without a         │
 helmet. It's like airbags in a car, you don't need them unless you REALLY need   │
 them.                                                                            │
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 "family sized" just means "we put enough salt in here to kill a horse so you
 better split it between at least four people"
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 @user-1074 @user-1209 
 
 "we still have slaves, we just enslave mexicans instead of blacks."
 
 "don't forget all the offshored jobs, those too"
 
 "oh yeah and all our stuff is made by slaves in the far east"
 
 "yeah but like fuck them right who cares they're so far away"
 
 "yeah bro totes"
 
 "anyway what do you want for dinner bro"
 
 "i dunno bro I had chinese last night"
 
 "cool cool so mexican then? I know this great paraguanese place"
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 RTO on specific days (WFO others) but with optional social events scheduled
 all day. Returning to office is intended to foster community and cohesiveness
 right? What better way to do that than playing board games, singing in choir,
 or having a potluck? Doesn't have to cost dollars, look to churches for
 community building activity ideas. Let the employees lead.
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--- #188 fediverse_boost/907 ---
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  "Imagine what they did when we couldn't see their crimes on our phones"     
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 rice in the rice maker with butter, worcestersire sauce (not too much!) and
 salt
 
 when it's done, flake hard boiled eggs (2 eggs per cup of rice) on top and
 douse with a small-mediumish amount of soyaki
 
 could do well with either a packet of dehydrated vegetables or perhaps some
 diced carrots or green onions. Honestly carrots go well in most things.
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 the moment games started using mocap was the moment computers began to
 empathize with units dying
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 [a while later]
 
 what if every instance of the OS acted as a git repo for all the other
 people's programs
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 and that's BIG baby to you, only my girlfriend can call me baby with no prefix.
 
 ... she doesn't really, though. T.T she has other names teehee
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 I wonder if they like, sneak in and drop toxic waste near freshwater sites
 because they know they could technically poison an entire town?
 
 do they do... consistent water quality checks or is it just, like... every
 once in a while?
 
 dang the past was scary. like, can you imagine not knowing if your water is
 suddenly going to turn brown? all because some dinguses started pooping in the
 water upstream and not eating their pizza crusts.
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 said trusted team will be comprised of exclusively judges appointed by prior
 presidents - 50% from George W Bush and 50% from Obama, to mitigate or
 eliminate political bias.
 
 If they can't come up with any names, I'll start by going down the list of
 "most appealed" and then move on to "longest duration"
 
 "but what if only like, 2 judges want to be on your team"
 
 well then there's going to be a lot of violent criminals on the streets so if
 they actually cared about justice they'd help me by feeding my desk the least
 troublesome people
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 I want to point out how for every game that released in a month, they had at
 about 5 people playing it and averaged their scores.
A description of the rating procedure for Nintendo Power magazine circa 1998.  There are 10 total evaluators, each with around 3 specialties in genres such as action, adventure, puzzles, fighting, RPGs, sports, etc.  Each game is scored proportionally with game design at 25% of the final score, satisfaction at 25%, graphics at 20%, play control at 20%, and sound with 10%
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 "... while we still have much to learn about thing, blah blah blah blah about
 thing."
 
 "... it's important to remember that thing about the other thing, and you
 should always keep in mind considerations when considering doing the thing
 this article is about."
 
 in relation to the picture: bro my cat is not going to recognize a picture of
 themselves. they don't "get" selfies. what are you even talking about, do your
 job editors and stop trying to take cheaper shortcuts because you're fucking
 lazy.
screenshot of the suspected AI generated article. Text is as follows:  Utilizing Visual Landmarks  Visual landmarks can also be useful in attracting your cat’s attention and guiding them home. Place a visible object, such as a brightly colored flag or a poster with your cat’s photo, near your home to help your cat recognize the location.
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 alt text:
 a picture of a reddit comment chain talking about torture and the "spin" that
 the media should take on topics of difficulty. They mention how all the
 internet is manipulated by bots which allow a single person to push a button
 and cause a hundred upvotes on a comment, essentially determining the
 narrative according to what their bosses intend.
a picture of a reddit comment chain talking about torture and the "spin" that the media should take on topics of difficulty. They mention how all the internet is manipulated by bots which allow a single person to push a button and cause a hundred upvotes on a comment, essentially determining the narrative according to what their bosses intend.
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 "okay but why are you so focused on outliving it"
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 people usually pet animals either too hard, or too soft. When you get to know
 them, animals tend to respond to affection most accurately when it corresponds
 to something they know how to measure, within the most acceptable tolerances.
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 @user-889 
 
 it sounds like you're having a real tough time. : (
 
 you can get through it, I know you can. On the other side is something warm
 and safe, but to get there it's going to be hard and painful. I don't know
 exactly what you're working with but if you want someone to talk to about it
 you can message me.
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