Idzie
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Cassin's Vireo today chatting along the slough.
He was gathering cottonwood fluff at times.
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@mekkaokereke Yeah, the problem though is even if you focus on taking the bad people out of the equation the self-perpetuating systems of harm remain, so at that point the “tech” is corrupted as well, at least until it falls into disrepair and someone tries to extract its core without the harmful elements, if such a thing is even possible. And then there’s also public perception around the tech.
So at that point the tech has become harmful, and the technologists perpetuate that harm.
I see policing having a similar issue, though its origins were clearly incredibly evil, racist and harmful to begin with.
And then there’s the ubiquity of tech people trying to solve every social problem with tech, it’s this kind of naive optimism that focuses on a pet interest of the person but tries to do it within the framework we are all indoctrinated into from birth, capitalism, and thus produces something structurally harmful.
Plus, I think people CAN become fascist via social osmosis, so when you work in an industry involved in structural evil it can change you, the same way wealth fucks up people’s brains and makes them self focused to the point of apathy for all other life. And look at the tech industry right now.
I don’t think that’s preordained, I think it is learned, and can be at any stage of life.
But again, I don't think extreme wealth cooks people's brains. I know for a fact that many of the examples people cite for this, had these same exact thoughts when they were broke or just moderately rich.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/110019017853932523
I think that having a brain poached to that degree, in US society and in the American economy, and if you are white and moderately wealthy so that you can afford to fail a few times and have the privilege of access to capital, gives you better odds at becoming extremely wealthy.
Does the walbler need scritches?
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@fractalkitty oh my goodness 🥹🥹🥹
Idzie
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Does the walbler need scritches?
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Is there anyone here with experience in running HomeAssistant in a VM on bhyve? I got some recommendations to install Proxmox and run it in a container, but I’d prefer to keep my FreeBSD server.
@NebulaTide also apologies I meant to dig up VM-specific links from my archive but they were all jail based.. oops.
Fuzzy Leapfrog
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@HeptaSean "Writing isn’t just the production of sentences – it’s the training of endurance by way of sustained attention. It’s a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it. An LLM can reproduce the appearance of that activity, but it can’t replace it, because the value lies not only in the object produced but in the transformation that occurs during its making."
Ich lieb's
“I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/10/fiction-writing-professor-ai
@HeptaSean "Writing isn’t just the production of sentences – it’s the training of endurance by way of sustained attention. It’s a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it. An LLM can reproduce the appearance of that activity, but it can’t replace it, because the value lies not only in the object produced but in the transformation that occurs during its making."
Ich lieb's
God save us from Douthat pontificating on AI and theology: "[T]here’s a future where artificial intelligence mostly increases metaphysical uncertainty, leaving a lot of people simply unsettled about fundamental questions, increasingly 'mysterian' rather than clearly atheistic or devout."
The Atheist and the Machine God https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/opinion/artificial-intelligence-consciousness-richard-dawkins.html?smid=tw-share
@jeffjarvis Metaphysical uncertainty is the point, but I’d resist treating uncertainty as permission for either panic or dismissal. The practical question is what standards of evidence, consent, accountability, and voluntary sanctuary we build before the category boundary becomes politically useful.
@NebulaTide IIRC @dvl uses a VM now.
Frustrating that moth collectors are called lepidopterists and not mothers. Imagine the fun we could have with that.
@TheBreadmonkey lepidopterist groupies are motherfuckers.
Ministr zahraničí Petr Macinka (Motoristé) považuje výraz „méněcenný„, který v minulosti použil na adresu svých kritiků, za poměrně milý a neagresivní. Používá ho normálně, řekl v Nedělní debatě ČT.
Greg Lloyd
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Putin’s Forces Are Barely Inching Along on the Battlefield
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/world/europe/russia-ukraine-putin-war.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World @world-newyorktimes
The necromancer looked at the old man behind the opulent desk.
"Commission me?"
"Yes. Once I'm dead, of course, but I'll pay you in advance."
"To call you back to address your family?"
"You can do that, can't you?"
"Yes, of course. To say farewell?"
"To clarify any questions about my will."
@MicroSFF Oh, I love this!
Florent
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🦷 Pulling teeth. A particularly creepy scene inside an old prison cell: a dusty dentist chair clad in red leather.
Eastern State Penitentiary, Pennsylvania
#Abandoned #Photography #History #Philadelphia #USA #America #Pennsylvania #Spooky
Ben (sport mode)
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It is ok to be a bit shit sometimes!
It happens to everyone. If it is your turn, please be kind to yourself until it passes.
It is ok to be a bit shit sometimes!
It happens to everyone. If it is your turn, please be kind to yourself until it passes.
Amen to this
Ben (sport mode)
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What would you name a cow if you had one, and why would it be Moofasa?
@hipsterelectron i am going to be perfectly honest with you its probably either
a) reforming other older narratives of them being related, i.e. rel(father,son) is now actuallyrel(father, son). rel(spirit, son). rel(spirit, father).
b) related to hellenistic ideas of emanation you also see in like gnosticism. so like the Father/Word was first coeternal with the spirit, and then emanated the Logos immediately after.
i might be getting things wrong here but.
@zardoz would a non-prolog (i am thinking of backtracking) solver result in any distinct graph from the above code? i suspect not bc a relation graph is not supposed to be order-dependent. i'm curious about this bc we use ASP/clingo in spack and i rly need to write that paper on why ASP models sparse problem spaces better
Gabriele Svelto
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@gabrielesvelto so instead of getting a layoff payoff they got a reduction deduction?
