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(the words expressed in the photo are just slightly over the word count allowed by the federated mastodon instance "tech.lgbt" that the author has chosen to post their expressions upon - in fact, only 5 characters beyond. However the word count for the description of images (such as that which you currently are perceiving) has an extra 500 characters, so here goes:)  We've already found alien life. It's called LITERALLY EVERY OTHER NON-HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF THE WORLD IN THIS ENTIRE GOD-FORSAKEN PLANET  but the good news is that god has decided "oh hey maybe I should un-forsake this planet where things grow instead of the rest of the planets where everything is infinite yet dead" and lo and behold there becomes you and me. Fuck, I love you. Let's be friends? Or, alternatively, if you don't care for my expressions, you could block me. Which is within your capabilities, because the foundation of all natural and graceful societies is the consent of those governed, and should you decide to care what I think then you should also necessarily consent to hear and undertake the words that I say. I believe in you, just as you believe in me (simply by perceiving the words "me" has to say) so therefore we must necessarily be aligned to the line of perception toward our ultimate destination (that is, the timely expression of our own undeterminate expression) upon this which we call our world.
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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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 If a person gathers enough money that they can't spend it fast enough, then
 they are hoarding it and it should be be distributed through the rest of the
 economy. There are legitimate uses that could benefit from extra dollars and
 by keeping them locked up they are damaging the economy, and hence, our
 society, which is largely governed by our economy.
 
 There is a legitimate fear that dismantling the system of monetary exchange
 will cause people to barter in influence and clout instead, trading favors and
 making illusory transactions that the government cannot impartially enforce.
 Impartiality is the entire purpose of governance! Look to NFTs for an example
 of this. While that is a valid concern, it is just as if not more concerning
 to consider that they already do this. They already trade favors for blood,
 gold, and property. What else is there to covet, in their wicked and cruel
 game of maximum exploitation and unlimited industrious fallacies?
 
 I believe it is reasonable to curtail the worst excesses of their monetopoly
 by diverting power to the people who can contest them. Just as rulers of old
 were checked and balanced by the vote of the citizenry upon implementing
 democracy, so too much power be abated by depriving it of its most powerful
 leverage - that of its crushing weight, when applied en masse.
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 wish I could buy ramen noodle seasoning without the sodium. Like, the same
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"things are nice" yeah fucking... whatever.  we can't keep shit normal for long. we're down for/from the silence, and time keeps us looking beyond. what happens next? what's "now" in the story? you're far from the last to [devour/use hours]. you think we haven't been fighting this fight since forever?  moloch doesn't win.  who but [yo/you]?  [next page]  I've never had a people. I have always missed them. who cares for the poor?  family cares for child, church for the devoted, the world for, who? fill in the blanks. fuckin' ask chatGPT to make it longer. add text between the words. who are we but the worthy? who else is there? the [words await / world awaits] a dose of luck. my luck makes me. why would I assume that I'd get better at what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm stopping what I'm doing because doing what I'm doing stops me doing what I need to be doing.  [next page]  what if we just stopped going to work and didn't leave our houses  what if we just made it happen what if we just made our heaven  a better world is possible. a better world is within reach. for the children of tomorrow, all we need is the meek. where are they? do they sleep or know? If you don't stop traffic, your protest doesn't matter. If you don't ask every window if maybe your ideas could come in. If your parade doesn't knock on every door, asking them to join in. "hey, wanna play? we're playing catch in the road. say, do you know anyone in a different town? wanna knock on the door of all of your kin? it's a better world tomorrow, and everyone can come in."  [next page]  Did you know that nothing's that real if you're not afraid of it? what are they gonna do, shoot you? for what, not moving your shit to the side of the road? you like it where it's at, that's why you put it there, so fuck off if you'd rather it's unprotected. The sun and the rain and the cold and the maned all demand that our stuff is on hallowed ground - the kind which walls all surround. And yet they'd cast us out. How rude. Well, I'm not afraid of you. what are YOU gonna do? what if I didn't pay my rent and never got a job and just helped out wherever I could find a friendly nod.  "oh hey ho've ya been okay what are we working on here?"  don't see nothin? start somethin"  anarchy is fun. bullets less so.  [next page]  most jobs are bullshit. If dollars suddenly didn't exist but people kept doing what they were doing, people would work like twice a week. Me? more or less, who can say, depends on how I did feel that day.  I tend to burn out. what if I didn't go to work for a month? "oh no my stakeholder value" get over yourself. your games do hold value.  act like life is on the line.  (off in the corner)  "... hello?"
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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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 *win an argument, or present a thesis for an idea and how it would work, or
 just to help "I heard about something like that at a bookfaire" or for
 whatever reason you might need. So long as you keep the pages and give them
 away if someone else needs them.
 
 don't throw them away.
 
 ever.
 
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I feel like education, by default, should not be hard.  "you get out of it what you put into it" is something I always heard of school  but when I got there, I found I was compelled to become what the state wanted me to be.  they need competent workers, to work the farms and tend to their industries, so of course I should be able to do 3+3  then somewhere along the line it became... something else.  "most people don't need trigonometry." that's also something I heard. I disagree that trigonometry is not necessary to be.  I just... don't think it should be forced into a childs head with a sledgehammer and inspiring dread.  I think math is beautiful, it teaches one to see  but really, vision's not necessary.  not for what they want you to be.  take it from me, a most misbegotten and vile witch-to-be, that nothing's as simple as they'll tell you.  I had good teachers, it's true, they taught me to work and to follow through, but nothing about me is better or worse off from their influence.  Maybe I'm a bit smarter. Maybe I act a bit like them. Maybe they helped me through difficult times, or perhaps they showed me a splash of my future.  but I am who I am because of the soul inside me.  [sorry, ran out of characters]
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 Dear my future self: I'm sorry for all the things that I do. I hope you
 appreciate the gifts I leave you. Thank you for never giving up, and I trust
 you to take care of me and the things I care about. I'm proud of what you've
 done with me, and I'm hopeful that one day I'll be just a bit like you.
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 What if you were required to own stock for a minimum of 10 years after buying
 it and the government would buy it from you when it crossed 50% of what you
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 can't wait for them to do truffles next!!
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 @user-1040 @user-1077 
 
 ... I am disabled people
 
 also, all media is propaganda
 
 also, AI as it's currently presented is not AI
 
 also, AI as it's currently presented is only bad because of the stolen content
 and energy usage. Both of those are trivially solvable.
 
 also, capitalism is why AI as it's currently presented can harm you
 
 also, I'm sorry I disagree
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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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 @user-246 @user-366 @user-367 @user-353 
 
 iconic for a Nirvana song
picture is a mouse cursor positioned over the "closed captions" UI element on a Youtube video.  The captions appear to be disabled. A message appears that says "Subtitles/closed captions unavailable" which confirms our suspicions.  Often these captions are automatically generated using AI or some computer science black magic, but apparently songs by the band "Nirvana" are too difficult to understand and so they go un-captioned.
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 gonna stop selling anything that I write. Any previous contracts are null and
 void, please only do with my work what I want you to do with my work. Which
 frankly is to show it to as many people as you think would be interested in it
 to see.
 
 I never sold a single copy, I just... put it up for sale. Nobody saw it! The
 webpage has never even been opened. Alas. just means I gotta relinquish the
 potential for capital gains from the labor I use to generate that which I
 produce. Ho hum fiddle-de-dee or whatever.
 
 - bouksauwli - brooke for short
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Here's an idea, you can email it to me! My email address that I've used as my  primary since I was 16 years old is gabrilend@gmai.com. Sure hope I don't  regret this decision. I sure hope my life isn't irrevocably changed because I  got frustrated trying to post a picture on the internet. Nevermind the fact  that all emails are clear text and totally unencrypted so pretty much everyone  can see everything you buy on Amazon. Surely this is the most robust and least  insane system we could use to organize our truly technological and thoroughly  advanced future society.   -> file: fediverse/0072.txt --------------------------------------------------------------------------------   The worst part is the technology to fix these problems exists. It's used all  the time in enterprise systems, it's just nobody understands how it works  because it's abstracted so far away from the hardware. I just love how I have  no idea what kind of software I'm running every time I use a common language  library. Sure I can trust a community, but like... I don't care about your  community? I don't know you. I don't hang out with you. I have no idea what  kind of person you are or what you believe. But sure you know more than me, I'm  sure you do, so therefore I should trust you? Surely this is the most ethical  and least vulnerable arrangement we could come up with for distributing digital  software in the future society of 2023.  And the corporations print money...   -> file: fediverse/0073.txt :)
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the world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.  And our governments are very much the same.
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CW:  sorta-works-for-colorblind-people-sorta-not-definitely-doesn't-work-for-regular- blind-people    if you ever need to keep track of the location of your friends in the dark, try  giving them glowstick bracelets. if you color coordinate them you can tell  which is which, and as long as you aren't concerned about others noticing you  then it should be easy to find them all night. works best in places with mixed  zones of lighting / darkness, like suburbs.  it's impossible to be a blind strategist because of concerns like this. I say  blind in the general sense, and not just referring to visual impairment - every  sense provides another tactical angle. more perspectives, more data. sorta like  taking pictures of a 3d object. when one's sight is lost, you might miss a  backside or a hidden approach vector that would come easily to others.  at the same time though, a sense of focus can clarify certain truths by paring  down the amount of irrelevant facets. like optical illusions, sometimes xtra  info is hidden in the same data...   -> file: fediverse/0288.txt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CW: religion    religion is a set of shared cultural parables and morals that are deemed  important by the people who follow them. like, a premade config file filled  with "sensible defaults" passed down from parent to child to friends to parent.  different people have different use-cases, so it follows they'd configure their  [cut off here]
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perspective of the earth of the sun, when viewed without photons.  at the top left of the page, there are the words "the sky is black" written in green, the color of plants and renewal.  in the middle there is an orange line arcing from one edge to another, the color of sunlight and warmth.  criss-crossing the sun's line there is a series of steps, moments that correspond to a larger structure. The line for this is majenta, a strange color not found in nature.  on the bottom there are the words "amid the stars", written in red, the color of life and passion.  this entire scene has been framed in cyan, the light of cold and un-friendliness.  the portrait is arranged on a canvas like a rolled up carpet, or perhaps the perspective of the earth on the stars  it's designed with few colors, perfect for an AMOLED screen. Or just OLED in general - they have this neat functionality where if you don't send color data to a particular pixel, it doesn't turn on at all. Leaving a blank surface that feels "matte" to the glossy perspective of the colored pixels.  matte like the surface of a pool table, glossy like a mirror.  because of this fact, an AMOLED surface can feel "textured" to the eyes in a way that the glass surface of the phone might never bely  artwork such as this, when viewed on such a phone, is beautiful to me.
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 picture this: ramen noodles, but there's more of them, and they aren't bad for
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 @user-1074 
 
 "ugh the workers are demanding more rights again. Don't they know that we're
 just going to ship their jobs overseas to someplace where they don't get to
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 I wish games started with everything unlocked and if you wanted you could
 "start a journey" or whatever and lock everything but a few options... then
 slowly as you play the game you unlock new things to do until eventually
 you're back where you started.
 
 Essentially... starting at level 100 and having the option to prestige right
 away. If you want the experience. While playing a game. That you have every
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 @user-112
 
 You'll get that feeling again.
 
 Probably not tomorrow, I've got plans so I won't have time to get everything
 ready. But soon... so, take heart! Once we're on the other side of capitalism,
 we'll be able to build a better world together.
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 "hello, I'd like to make games using your tools and art assets. I will sell
 anything I make to you and only you, and if you don't want it that's fine too,
 I'll just play it with my friends sometimes."
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 I would much rather have the government in control of the drug trade than
 private citizens. See: fentanyl, versus marijuana
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 no adhd meds, but yes different antipsychotic
 
 he made a very convincing argument that consisted primarily of "why don't we
 try a different type of the same thing" yeah that makes sense
 
 also he seemed quite happy that I quit cannabis for a while. I guess he's
 working for THEM lol
 
 (who's them?)
 
 of course, the ones who want to keep me from my DIVINE DESTINY or whatever.
 Airquotes. ugh I need to get over myself, it's just fucking weed, right?
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 @user-45 there's two episodes in Extraordinary Attorney Woo that take place on
 that island. I know because I just binged it
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 "you should sell your artwork!"
 
 ... why would I want fewer people seeing it?
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a picture of an anime girl looking at the number 2024 with an empty progress bar underneath it.  she blinks, there is darkness.  she re-opens her eyes, and she looks at the number 2024 with an 80% full progress bar underneath it.  she gazes on impassively.
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 part 2/20
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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 oops haha
hmmm,, delayed output patterns. I wonder if that could signify for the plot?
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 "buying something" under capitalism just means that you get less of everything
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 🖼
Actual causes of burnout, an infographic.  There are several examples of various causes of burnout. Here they are one by one, for a total of fifteen:  1. False Urgency: There are constant fire drills, with unrealistic and unexplained deadlines.  2. Unfair Treatment: There is unequal treatment or favoritism that leads to resentment.  3. Relentless Change: Changes in leadership, policies, and the ways of doing things are frequent.  4. Excessive Workload: Work keeps piling up, with no sign of relief or support incoming.  5. Limited Growth: Employees feel stuck in their roles with few opportunities to move up  6. Low pay: Compensation doesn't keep up with hard work and strong performance  7. No balance: Days off, time for family, and time to recharge are hard to come by  8. Micromanagement: employees feel like someone's always watching them.  9. Pressure to perform: Leaders set unreasonable expectations and overreact to mistakes  10. Toxicity: negativity and hostility, including bullying and gossip, go unchecked  11. Lack of support: leaders give little support, leaving employees isolated and stressed  12. Bad communication: communication from leadership is limited, leading to confusion  13. No recognition: leaders rarely say thank you, celebrate wins, or recognize hard work  14. Monotonous work: tasks are repetitive and unchallenging, with no signs of changing.  15. Fuzzy Expectations: the company lacks clarity around goals, roles, and responsibilities.
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 hobbies are for getting better at something, not consistently accumulating
 more stuff related to it.
 
 you engage with a collection hobby by learning more about it, like
 paleontologists who study fossils.
 
 if every (dinosaur) nerd was a collector, there'd be no such thing as a
 museum. much better, I find, to centralize the storage of precious
 irreplaceable pieces and study them from afar.
 
 hence, tool libraries as the more ethical form of "means of production"
 dispersal.
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 growing up I frequently bought this magazine called "101 PC games" - it had      │
 101 video game demos on a disc taped to the front. It was the coolest thing I    │
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 each edition had a different set of demos - there were over 14 published! That   │
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 can't help but feel it was defining.                                             │
 I was given a taste of many experiences, but very few of them really resonated   │
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 my favorites were always my home.                                                │
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 it and it was special to me.                                                     │
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 The truth is 
 
 The reason none of my revolutions have yet succeeded 
 
 Is that the only way 
 
 To secure peace and love on planet earth 
 
 Is that all the governments 
 
 Of the world must topple 
 
 Or relinquish their nuclear arms 
 
 Each all at once 
 
 And i was too quick to slay my false duke 
 
 Who plays at king 
 
 While i build real power 
 
 While i know nothing
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 Nobody tells me they like my artwork. No one! So why do I keep making it?
 What's wrong with me?
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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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 the second reason is that the supreme court recently repealed the Chevron
 doctrine, meaning experts and specialists in government positions are now
 unable to perform their jobs unless they are loyal to the party in charge.
 
 this is an extreme form of authoritarianism unheard of outside of
 dictatorships. It is tyranny, to demand allegiance in order for the government
 to function.
 
 if the experts are purged, the decisions made by the systems they once upheld
 will no longer necessarily be tied to reality. this is one of the primary
 reasons why the Soviet Union fell into decay, and I will not tolerate that
 flaw to be introduced into our domain.
 
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 large, open clearings, with few if any small plants. Mostly just grasses, and
 who cares about grass right there's sooooo much of it
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 how about this: for every stock bought back, an equal share goes to the
 government who pays in dollars for it.
 
 the more you issue stock buybacks, the more your corporation is owned by the
 people and for the people.
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a picture of two young chibi looking characters, Xenia and Tux, both Linux mascots, building a computer from scratch a picture of Xenia with a bunch of reference poses doing cute things like tying her hair back or smiling out of the corner of her mouth
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a reddit post titled "would a truly enlightened person spend any time on reddit?"  a user responds and says "enlightenment is not for you, it is for the people you talk to"
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 many people have not seen the kind of opulence I have.
 
 my early childhood was during an economic boom - the dotcom bubble brought
 wealth to us all.
 
 I saw how life could be. how clean, how measured, how thoughtful, how robust
 and stable our lives could be. I saw it because that's what the eyes of a
 child saw, but that's what I saw.
 
 I think of what would be required to reach that kind of society for all and
 the only conclusion I come to is that the accretion of power in singular hands
 causes corruption in those who wield it. In doing so they twist the people
 they compel or effect, making them learn the wrong lessons.
 
 essentially, evil trained into us by the demands of the society we're present
 in.
 
 I see no other cause, no reason for suffering. We have the technology to build
 vast cities of solid stone, glimmering crystal sculptures and walls of moss
 and ceremonially ornamental bones, but instead...
 
 I think we just like what carbon can bring.
 
 but have no fear, fusion is just a decade away, then we can |
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 Every bit of software you write is another useful toy for the rich to
 incorporate into their AI databases that they can use to build what they'd
 like as they cry themselves to sleep in their bunkers of war and famine
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 from bangladesh
picture of graffiti that reads: who do you call when police murder.
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 less mutual aid posts, those should be handled by a person's community who       │
 knows them and can decide how to best help them                                  │
 more "hey the guys and I are making a fund just in-case any of us need it -      │
 it's at 30,000 now but we could use some more dosh if you wanna join you could   │
 use it if you needed it but it's totally up to you no pressure - yeah yeah no    │
 I get it. Okay, well, yeah sure I'll get my coat."                               │
 oh huh did you know corporations exist to fill that very niche?                  │
 turns out you can just... hire your friends and pay them a wage                  │
 just don't get in trouble with the IRS, that's how they got capone               │
 (I bet you could hire a lawyer or accountant type to keep everything upright)    │
 Building out the legal structure is just like building software, trust me.       │
 There's all kinds of forms and figures that match up to various pipeline nodes   │
 and if you tick all the boxes (supply the right arguments) then the business     │
 needs will be fulfilled.                                                         │
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 Nintendo is a treasure to our culture 🥰
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 good companies turn bad when all the good people leave, and all the work they
 done can be used by the bad.
 
 good people leave when they are told, by the higher-ups who can't afford to
 justify their existence any longer.
 
 Kinda wish I owed my ability to live to my government, rather than a
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 "Hi, would you like to eat something that you probably won't like, but that
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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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 I FINALLY HAVE SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING OMGGG
 
 ... I'm gonna take a break and play a game or something jeez
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 okay how about this - whenever you buy something instead of spending money on
 it you actually put down a deposit. Then, when you're done with it, you get
 your deposit back, minus a percentage based on the (lazily calculated)
 condition of the thing you're using.
 
 Would work best for things with replaceable parts, because otherwise if you
 like turn in your phone because some irreplaceable part is missing then you
 wouldn't get anything back (except for what the pieces that are replaceable
 are worth)
 
 you still own the thing, it's just that you can trade it in for a down payment
 on the next one you buy. Or for whatever the heck you wanted. Basically the
 system that car's work under, except applied to everything (and maybe run
 through the government so there's no need for a profit tax like the kind
 predatory car dealerships levy)
 
 I think a system like this would encourage the average person to desire and
 seek out consumption options that had replaceable parts and/or were more
 durable, which is something
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  Programming is not just science; it's also an art. Source code is a creative work expressed in the author's unique style. Just like a painting or novel, the final work is a unique solution chosen from infinite possibilities.  
                                                                              
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 If you want to get to know me, play my games
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 @user-1283 
 
 i gotchu
picture of a text editor with some LLM produced ASCII art pasted in, to get around the fact that Mastodon doesn't quite handle monospaced text very well.  the text reads "COUE CAT" with a picture of a triangular... mountain peak? maybe? or perhaps a small body, beak-mouth, loooong legged cat of some kind? who can say. it's indecipherable as a visual, however the LLM seems to be quite proud of it.
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 @user-883 
 
 whoa cool 🤩​
 
 Dragon Warrior was the first game I ever played. When I was ~5 years old or
 so, my mother bought a gameboy color for me with two games before we went on a
 plane ride. I don't even remember where we were going, but the fact that she
 knew that a portable video game console with two games (Dragon Warrior
 1&2, and Super Mario Bros Deluxe) would shut my autistic ADHD ass up
 enough to be respectable on an airplane makes me realize how much she saw me.
 Thank you, mom, I love you
 
 Anyway I was the eldest "brother" (I'm trans lmao jokes on you, family in the
 past) so if anyone deleted my save I would kick their ass :D
 
 It still happened once or twice and I did not, in fact, kick their asses,
 though I wanted to. Shame. Missed opportunities I guess
 
 Though to be fair it's not like anyone in my family ever expressed the
 slightest interest in anything I was into. Not like they'd want to play games
 because it was something they wanted, oh no - they would only do it to be
 close to me. Whatever >.>
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 We have art like Green Day for the same reason we have guns.
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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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 "make the people hooked on AI tech, then make it dumber and dumber and nobody
 will notice as you take power again" - some tech oligarchs somewhere probably
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9EKV2nSU8w
 
 don't let your your children use YouTube
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 hey who wants to see me post like 15 things at once
 
 (otherwise I'll take a massive screenshot and "share the mall at once")
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 🖼
infographic displaying what it means for a meal to have "flavor depth"  when cooking, the layers of food closest to the heat source (usually a stove-top) will be warmer than the parts near the top of the pan, which are not only cooled by the air but also are farther from the heat source.  the warmer parts will cook slightly faster than the colder parts, meaning they will taste slightly different because the more you cook food, the more the flavor "develops".  when stirred together, the "more cooked" and "less cooked" particles will combine and the result is a flavor that has "texture" because there is a greater differential between each particle of each ingredient.  You should still stir your food though, because otherwise it will evaporate too much moisture from the bottom and begin to burn.
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 I broke something today that someone gave me and that I was going to give away
 as a gift. But the more I think about it, the less I think the gift's
 recipient would have wanted it. I do however regret hurting my girlfriend
 while I broke it, that was an accident. Sometimes you trip, sometimes you
 slip, and sometimes you stub your toe. Accidents happen. It's okay, just
 apologize, and realize that power is what you make of it, and we all have the
 power of our own actions as we touch and prod the environment around us where
 plants breathe.
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 @user-898 
 
 the problem as I see it is that whether building houses gets automated or not,
 they're going to keep building fewer and fewer of them and making them cost
 more and more with cheaper and cheaper materials and labor until something
 breaks.
 
 I personally would prefer if that something were their necks, but we'll see
 what happens.
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 candy should be medicine to soothe the soul, not snacks
 
 ...zzzZZZzzz...
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 In games, the one who takes the initiative often wins. Because games are
 designed to be symmetrical, in order to be fair.
 
 In more complex games, Paradox games for example, games where you look at maps
 or otherwise have unequal starting conditions simply due to the unique nature
 of each team, the initiative, while an advantage, is not necessarily the
 driving force that determines who wins.
 
 But it is an advantage, and they say that sometimes weeks happen in months and
 years happen in days or whatever.
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 picture this: gig work for free, because you are paid a salary
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 "no need to thank me. It's hardly a gift if *someone* has to do it."
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 @user-570 
 
 hehe sorry 
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 @user-1056 
 
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 we should treat computer production more like vehicles such as cars rather
 than fast fashion disposable vapes and shiny and pretty concrete-and-glass
 solarpunk houses.
 
 also I believe cars should be entirely and completely mechanical. Even the
 radio should be entirely analog. No capability for remote code execution if
 there's no code being run...
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 @user-883 
 
 Or we get serious about nationalizing it
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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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 🥕 That's just called statistics. And if y'ain't systematizin' your
 statistics properly and rigorously then it's even worse than divinin' entrails
 cause numbers are easier to believe.
 
 I don't love nature because I want to be in it. I love nature because nature
 is important.
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 🖼
picture of a robot saying "Of course I'm obsessed! They made me this way! You think I don't know how crazy I sound? Of course I do! THEY PROGRAMMED ME TO KNOW THAT TOO!"
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 in 10 years, everything that's killing the planet from energy usage alone will
 be accomplishable trivially with the massive amount of recyclable solar panels
 we could build.
 
 oh, unless we blow them all up in a civil war tho. then the world is just...
 worse, for no reason.
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 War is easy. Just start working and never stop until you break. Hopefully
 there's still something left of you when it's over, but hey that's why you
 write about the things you care about.
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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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 pronouns are part of a name
 
 they are a component of the whole
 
 indispensable for the complete concept
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 @user-42 I had complications with my surgery. I wouldn't recommend it if you
 are likely to have a complicated surgery. I'm sorry :(
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 @user-938 
 
 boop
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 Growing up, I started with 3 video games - Super Mario Deluxe, Dragon Warrior
 1&2, and Asteroids. For the gameboy color. Then, a year or two later (what
 felt like forever), Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time.
 
 Classics. I was so lucky. Not because it was more expensive than my peers, but
 because I had the right games.
 
 Others joined later, Tetris, Mario Kart, Star Fox, etc... But having so few
 that were so good for so long made me adore them. I would play for about an
 hour a day, any more would cut into my imaginative play-time.
 
 I did not dream of games. But I craved their moments.
 
 These days, I play games for so long that I dream of them. In my most
 vulnerable moments I treat them like my baseline state, rather than a
 prescribed appointment of delight.
 
 I miss wandering around without thinking of my objective. The games seemed to
 change, rather than progress. They felt alive to me. I never beat them,
 because I didn't need to.
 
 I'll raise my kids the same way, if I ever having any...
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 this is what the crypto news looks like rn, if you know anyone who's into that
 kinda thing... wait, why not? me either, huh
 Latest Cryptocurrency News Malicious Crypto Wallet App Submitted to Apple Store Leads to Fraud Charges 26 minutes | news.bitcoin.com Steam’s Clicker Game Sensation Opens Debate About NFTs And Crypto Gaming 46 minutes | newsbtc.com Court allows most SEC claims to proceed in Binance suit 54 minutes | cointelegraph.com Dozens Killed in Riots as Kenya Revolts Against Tax Hikes, Calls for Presidential Resignation 1 hour | news.bitcoin.com Market Tremors: $10 Billion in Bitcoin Dumped in May Alone, What Does This Signal? 2 hours | newsbtc.com North Carolina Passes Bill to Block State Participation in Federal CBDC Testing 2 hours | news.bitcoin.com Is The Bitcoin Bottom In? Crypto Expert Predicts Bullish Price Reversal 3 hours | newsbtc.com Study: Crypto Assets Worth $572.7 Million Lost to Hacks and Fraud in Q2 2024 3 hours | news.bitcoin.com Bitcoin’s price won’t ‘dramatically’ increase from here, says billionaire 4 hours | cointelegraph.com Yield App Suspends Operations Ahead of Liquidation 4 hours | news.bitcoin.com Ethereum’s Breakout Moment: Is a $7,500 Target Achievable? Experts Weigh In 4 hours | newsbtc.com
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 all games that you can lose are capitalist games. All of their mechanics are
 abstractions upon the competition between the player and the computer (and
 possibly other players), which creates a disparity of outcomes - some must
 win, others must lose.
 
 I think that's okay, though. There's something inherently satisfying about
 power. I believe such interactions should exist in our diversions, not our
 institutions.
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 @user-1352 
 
 yessssss gimme that dope I'm in withdrawal
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 Okay how about this, for starters? Jobs can no longer ask for degrees, instead
 they must rely on certifications. In addition, everyone who has completed a
 degree receives money every month in exchange for their increased value they
 bring to whichever job hires them. This money is sourced from a tax taken on
 businesses in rough proportion to the amount of money they save by paying
 their employees the same amount, no matter their education.
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 video games are boring now 😭
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 and to fund cuties, of course
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