Ok, done complaining. After a ~6 hour drive today, it's time to say Kia Ora, New Plymouth! Really looking forward to dinner with the local amateur astronomy society president tonight, a dairy farm visit tomorrow midday, and then giving yet another talk in the evening.
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RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116041990893754616
If you’re still using Substack, what the fuck is wrong with you?
Really.
What. The. Fuck. Is. Wrong. With. You?
der.hans
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@rjohnsonmn
My friend got seven people out and they told him about the conditions inside Trump's concentration camps. Dirty underwear, toilets covered in blood and feces, disease, the lights are on 24/7. These are torture camps.
Our taxes pay for thousands of human beings to be tortured, starved, not given clothing. We have to fight. We have to get every person back. No one gets left behind. They need to know we're fighting for them. They need to know they are loved.
@nolan there's quite a bit of experimental research around that idea these days (I'm biased, it crosses my creativity research); even Anthropic released an early paper that shows skill formation and mastery degrades with use https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245 —though methodologically it could use some work.
@justin Yeah this seems unsurprising, similar to how I got worse at bar trivia after I had Google in my pocket. 😆 What's interesting is it seems there's the potential for many more kinds of skills to be degraded, since you can use it as a prosthesis for so many more things.
I'm learning, by hard abuse of my mentions. That here on the fediverse, really contentious topics include:
- UBI
- Bike helmets
- Cars.
Toot about those, and you will attract all sorts of absolute bellends. It's a great way of swelling your block list.
At the same time, these topics can also attract the most amazing and wonderful people who write eruditely and beautifully on the topic, even when not completely agreeing.
Shame we have to put up with the former to experience the later.
Hi @quixoticgeek. I toot and boost about those topics (probably without the hashtags) a lot. I can't remember the last time I attracted unwanted attention with that. I have half the followers you do, mind you.
And I've been on two Canadians-only instances, with active moderation - maybe that helps?
The experience sure seems to differ from one instance to another.
/cc @crispius
@punishmenthurts One cannot simply fight the Ma… etc etc
@farah
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No-one is above the Ma 😀
c105. Good progress.
The power grid is dropping down towards the base, and we've taken over the first pair of hamster wheels w/coal power. Gonna keep going, and soon, start automagically delivering coal.
The drecko ranch is just about framed in. Now we gotta do the nasty tedious liquid stacking it needs. Since I need the part around the mealwoods first, I'll do it in two phases.
c110. Okay, we got the power grid dropped all the way down to the printer level, and we got the drecko ranch in (it's an incremental build, and is operational even manually, as now. So, maybe 25 cycles until my first plastic.
Next a couple of small projects: 1) distribute that crazy mad o2 supply. 2) Get rad research up and running. 3) Locate and build the central supply depot.
After those, we should be ready to fill out the rest of the main base.
@strypey perhaps you might read the article. It is not so much an attack on Chomsky's morals -- apart from the gaping hole of gender consciousness which isn't there with NC. It's an anthropological analysis of the complete paradox of a guy who could have lunch with the designer of the daisycutters dropped on Vietnam by B52s while going to campaign against the Vietnam invasion and the draft in the evening. That is one very extreme example of how capitalism and imperialism splits people into parts.
Knight has very little time for Chomsky's supposed 'science'. But NC had a woeful effect across the entirety of cognitive science for the whole of the second half of the 20th.C. it suited the US military-industrial machine to a) keep tabs on him by keeping him at work, and let him become this voice and b) fuck up materialist thinking.
@RadicalAnthro
> perhaps you might read the article
Unlike many, I read in full before I comment.
> It is not so much an attack on Chomsky's morals
Where did I say it was? To be clear, I wasn't attacking you or your article, just riffing on its topic.
> It's an anthropological analysis of the complete paradox
This is what I was commenting on, which is why I quoted words to that effect as the jumping off point. I don't think there's a paradox to be explained. For reasons given in my posts.
Joel Michael
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Mattermost looks really nice 👀
@dansup Mattermost seems like a good option if you decide to set up your own server, but there are other options, such as Matrix, if you need decentralization, but whichever is more convenient for you. Matrix is similar to Discord, while Mattermost is more like a classic forum organized by topics.
Why are all the firemen in books named ‘Ray’?
@farah Honouring Rat Bradbury
another one with the AC venting inside the warehouse - fucking dumb motherfuckers
@decryption fridges work the same way. Although cooling a smaller area.
Im depressed as fuck. Nothing was working. Couldnt even find my usual joy in reading. So i painted. And you know what i did? Painted the worst fucking cactus of my life. And now im MUCH worse
@scream Look at the bright side, the cactus isn’t real, so it cannot poke or hurt you
Jokes aside - I see you 
Also, wow, it will wreck you. 😵💫
@cassidy my body is ready
What if envy, but also fine?
@whatifbot that’s just a cop
Dane 🇮🇪🇺🇦🇻🇪🖖⚛️☮️☸️🕉️
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Found a trail cam.
Posed seductively. Slowly exposed my glutes.
You’re welcome, science. #bigfoot
Of course all of this is also the exact opposite of "flow," and very likely to degrade the very skills that you're exercising when you point out stupid mistakes to these robots all day long. Although you could also argue that this is what a senior manager or director does – trade in their hard-earned skills for guidance to more junior devs, while the muscle they built up in the trenches starts to slowly atrophy. Maybe the difference is just that more people are "cashing in their chips" now.
@nolan there's quite a bit of experimental research around that idea these days (I'm biased, it crosses my creativity research); even Anthropic released an early paper that shows skill formation and mastery degrades with use https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245 —though methodologically it could use some work.
