intricate like a fractal, but resembling itself nowhere at all, information so compressed that your eyes start dropping frames near it
What It’s Like When Elon Musk’s Twitter Mob Comes After You https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-its-like-when-elon-musks-twitter-mob-comes-after-you
We spend an enormous amount of time and effort teaching children about animals – even ones that only exist far away (like tigers and elephants and giraffes) or that have been extinct for tens to hundreds of millions of years.
branches of christianity whose holy symbol has so many crossbars that it looks more like a yagi antenna, the more crossbars the better they say but in their imagery they’re revering centipede jesus or something
Tourist Trap is apparently on Shudder now. Even though it’s not Giallo, I recommend Giallo fans give it a watch: much like Profundo Russo & other pre-Suspiria Argento, it combines messy storytelling with some beautiful, surreal, and terrifying shot composition.
Whenever you’re near the sample, the geiger counter’s ticking turns regular, modulated, like some kind of radio hail
embots: like sexbots, but instead a superstimulus for empathy; often used on the streets as beggars or political activists (which is why sometimes, the cute animal rights girl in front of you explodes in a shower of sparks and broken parts as yet another victim of anthropol)
Bad idea of the day: a dual-layer LCD (like the 3d TVs from a few years ago) that uses the top layer exclusively for hover behavior
QOTD: “Like any extension of the human psyche, machines are scary things[…] When you take the scary human psyche and magnify it hundreds or thousands of times with technology, it’s really nightmarish”
pro tip: when you tie a part of reality to a social construct (like tying life to money, or violence to law, or technical decisions to industry hype) you risk huge ramifications unless the ‘real’ portion is the primary driver. social constructs are too floaty.
A temple that does the same thing with sound that cathedrals do with light: Different notes wherever you go, entire spaces audible if you’re in the right place, a whirligig in the form of a boiling rose sounding like wind in the leaves of a brass tree
Jordan Peterson is like a pack of tarot cards: stare at him hard enough for long enough and eventually you’ll see a message that is both true and profound. But, as with tarot cards, if you attribute that message to any intent on Peterson’s part, it brands you as foolish.
What It’s Like to Be a Bot â Real Life http://reallifemag.com/what-its-like-to-be-a-bot/
Bad idea of the day: a system for sharing playlists of things that aren’t audio or online video, like themed triple-features or reading lists, so you can curate or browse that kind of human recommendation
and when two wizards love each other, their aspects intermingle, a giant spider grows scales of gold while the clockwork starts looking more organic and web-like
if you know what to look for you may find touch-chameleons here, they feel like stone or clay when still on the ground but if lifted up, feel like another hand
Band name of the day: Machine-Like Men Are Still Toddlers
Bad idea of the day: creepypasta in the form of a walkthrough for a nonexistent game from an alternate universe where a game like that described is normal
I would like to wish all of you a very happy international socialist solidarity day
Checking out Tilix. Looks good so far but I have not yet found keybindings for split terminals vertically or horizontally like in Terminator. 🙄
I then passed an empty bus. Even its display said empty. I was too tired but I feel like if I had boarded it, it would’ve taken me to those quarters where they don’t render the matrix and it would’ve been just me, gray nothingness, and the sound of my footsteps on default texture
@leo@server.gkbrk.com where are all these accounts on server.gkbrk.com coming from? Is there an Webinterface or something like that?
Not news to anybody paying attention, but I still feel like it’s worth a visibility boost: https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/04/text-embedding-models-contain-bias.html
GitHub - geophile/osh: Osh (Object SHell) is a command-line and API toolkit combining cluster access, database access, and data slicing and dicing. Sort of like awk and cssh morsels wrapped up in a Python crust. https://github.com/geophile/osh
I Lived Exclusively Off Doomsday Prepper Food for a Week - MUNCHIES https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/vbx399/what-does-prepper-food-taste-like-v25n1
just updated twtxt from 1.2.1 to 1.2.3 - looks like there were some config file changes
Post-textual ideologies disseminated as games that build subtle intuitions not expressible in language, rearrange your worldview in a few hours of immersion, leave you with “Did you like being this person? Join us for more”
If Youâve Met Aliens While on DMT, These Scientists Would Like to Hear From You - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjpjxm/dmt-aliens-study-johns-hopkins
Bad idea of the day: An RPG whose stats are traits like alienation, shadow integration, neurosis
Is every anime containing WcDonalds as a trademark-free McDonalds expy now retroactively progressive? Like, even SAO? (Hint: no)
a sudden smell of gasoline, the birdsong starts clipping, the sun becomes blocky, blurry, smears across the sky like a video glitch
rain falls from the fourth dimension and its drops wink in and out of existence, make reality ripple like a pond
Optimizing for anything other than human happiness seems like a recipe for misery. Of course, no existing political system really seriously attempts to optimize for human happiness.
I feel like Netflix’s adaptation did a pretty good job of keeping that social & political focus, and even frontloading it a little bit by injecting backstory from the second and third books.
GitHub - automerge/automerge: A JSON-like data structure that can be modified concurrently by diff… https://github.com/automerge/automerge
Why We’re Drawn To Time Loop Stories Like ‘Groundhog Day’ - Digg http://digg.com/2018/time-loop-movies-shows-books-groundhog-day
The young ones, not brought up in the physical world, find our notions of object permanence quaint. Their scapes are not rooms and buildings, but gardens of colored light that look like mental noise to us
The Deep Roots of an … https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/deep-roots-italian-song-sounds-like-english-american-medieval-comedy-nonsense
An effective way of torturing a civilization is repeatedly smacking it into a Great Filter with great speed, so a basilisk dungeon will look like a universe full of civs failing the Fermi Paradox
📚 Finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide) by Sarah Knight
I liked NoSQL better when it was still named COBOL.
📚 Finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide) by Sarah Knight
Writing parsers like it is 2017 | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/08/15/writing-parsers-like-it-is-2017/
on street lamps and buildings and in the corners of underpasses, the cameras grow like mushrooms, and I wonder when they’re going to burst open and what kind of spores they’ll spread
How to Think Like a Medieval Monk | Lapham’s Quarterly https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/how-think-medieval-monk
The old nightmares have become old companions, the dread is gone and they’re like that willow that was once really spooky but is now a place of welcome quiet and shadow
“A Sloppy Machine, Like Me”… https://wearethemutants.com/2018/01/09/a-sloppy-machine-like-me-the-history-of-video-synthesizers/
Web application design is like a generation of people looked at that text adventure written in postscript and said LETS WRITE ALL FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS IN POSTSCRIPT EMBEDDED IN SELF-MODIFYING LATEX DOCUMENTS FOREVER
Mastodon makes the internet feel like home again | The … https://theoutline.com/post/2689/mastodon-makes-the-internet-feel-like-home-again
If you leave books alone to build their own library hives, they end up hexagonal like those of bees. To protect the printing press that serves as queen, intruders are often trapped in endless mazes, for example Borges stumbled into one of those
Curled around your bed, your pet ouroboros falls asleep. The outside world vanishes, you find yourself floating on a moonlit quicksilver ocean, metallic polyhedra rising around you like bubbles
What Shonen Jump Was Like 30 Years Ago - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIh85_bCudk
An umbrella that looks like a soap bubble and changes in color and texture accordingly
1: animated masks, covered in breathing feathers, clockwork, small animals↵2: screens in place of faces, some still look like faces, others play reaction gifs or random streams↵3: the above, but they’re touchscreens and touching another’s face is just… normal, why don’t you?
a contest for the most layers of simulation, with entries like “tetris in minecraft in a vm in a vm in a vm submitted by some dude wearing a mask who’s a sleeper agent in real life which btw isn’t real anyway but that’s the free level everyone gets anyway
maintain a steady infohazard diet like those animals that eat poisonous plants, so that your mind will poison those that try to eat it
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I’d really like to know how you managed to use twtxt via XMPP. 🙂
What a new U.S. civil war might look like – Foreign Policy http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/10/what-a-new-u-s-civil-war-might-look-like/
like twitter, but instead of infinite posts with finite length, you get finitely many posts with infinite length
like twitter, but you can be followed by 280 people at most
⏼: Wow you fuck like a machine↵⏻: Th-↵⏼: Not a compliment. Agent Sears, Anthropol. When have you last renewed your Turing license
An exasperated sigh. “No, this is like the twentieth dream in a row I’ve woken up from. Whenever I do” she opens her eyes a second time “thi
@leveck@leveck.us Why not just use a menu and link your posts, friends and comments? I like the idea to use fts for comments!
@leveck@leveck.us Why not just use a menu and link your posts, friends and comments? I like the idea to use fts for comments!
Like a pond someone threw a stone into, the sky ripples, clouds bob. It’d be serene and peaceful if the stone hadn’t also brought Armageddon
Most of us don’t remember their last life because it was that of a bacterium - nothing bad, just the most likely place for a soul to be
The council of gods schisms every time it tries to decide what the universe should look like, which is the only reason we get physics
Re: support for other protocols, it seems like twtxt would be pretty easily adapted to work over the p2p file network DAT, though it’d need client support for DAT or some way to follow people via files and sync in the background, which might be simpler for clients to support but would still require changes to most clients.
much of this tech needs active maintenance or breaks down, some sit on tech stockpiles, others go through bodies like vampire lords
@benaiah@benaiah.me sounds a lot like why many years ago, I went with Drupal for a simple Blogging site vs Wordpress. WP was easier but Drupal allowed me as an admin to not have any filters. Which allowed me to put raw HTML in the posts to control certian that I was doing at the time
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org I could probably put something together, but I went this route originally because existing generators felt like they took too much control from me over the exact output. I want very small, static pages I can throw behind nginx, and I want to know exactly what the contents are. My current mess of spaghetti Racket is getting hairy since I’m halfway through an unfinished rewrite I started a while ago and forgot about, but at least I know exactly what it’s doing.
@kas@enotty.dk I like the personal touch that we are greeting new users! Hi, @leveck@leveck.us
@kas@enotty.dk I like the personal touch that we are greeting new users! Hi, @leveck@leveck.us
@pete@petedeas.co.uk that’s a clever solution; I’ll have to set up something like that.
I hate rewritting code just because someone else does not like the way it is!
tfurrows it is likely to be really barebones. I am just screwing around
like it.
If anybody is looking for a new hosting provider, I really like https://uberspace.de.
If anybody is looking for a new hosting provider, I really like https://uberspace.de.
When you cut open an ouroboros, it has rings like a tree, one for every time it’s eaten itself
Since a bunch of catgirls escaped in a lab accident 15 years ago, catpeople have bred like crazy, helped along by many a lonely citizen
This is how Netflix‘s top-secret recommendation system works | WIRED UK https://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-do-netflixs-algorithms-work-machine-learning-helps-to-predict-what-viewers-will-like?imm_mid=0f5ddc&cmp=em-data-na-na-newsltr_20170906
World’s gone crazy? News don’t make sense? Looks like the dream’s lost its lucidity again. Hey! Solipsist! Hey, you, fix this shit, ｗａｋｅ
molting tip: don’t leave your past self lie around just like that, its reproachful stare is bad vibes
a truly eye-opening experience, yes, but we can open even more body parts if you like, belly-opening experiences are all the rage right now
elevator pitch: it’s like the internet, but not a warzone
so basically, software forks are like blockchain forks but you get to doublespend 0days instead
When not out to devour you, shoggoths can be really pretty, like sentient dust clouds or miniature murmurations that leave behind trinkets
Blind from birth, when asked to imagine colors, she makes it sound like she’s found something better than us and we don’t dare fix her eyes
Not only are AI memes nearly impenetrable to humans, humans who do pick them up are often chastised by other AIs for talking like spambots
Indistinct at first but everywhere, TV static grows over the windows of the world like mold, softly hissing, blocking out the outside
Sacrifice just one meal, ride our whalebus like Jonah: Through its transparent belly, witness orca hunts, spy on Atlanteans, see the Kraken
stars drop out of the sky not like shooting stars but like raindrops from a branch, quietly falling and then bursting into many small sparks
a universe with lots of small minds just intelligent enough to question existence is anthropically more likely than one with a few big minds
Facebotlish: Understanding an AI‘s Non-Human Language - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/06/what-an-ais-non-human-language-actually-looks-like/530934/?utm_source=atltw
The ATU Fable Index: Like the Dewey Decimal System, But With More Ogres - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/aarne-thompson-uther-tale-type-index-fables-fairy-tales?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e507bdeb3f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-e507bdeb3f-63252673&ct=t(Newsletter_6_16_2017)&mc_cid=e507bdeb3f&mc_eid=fb147c2f0d
something like “lmaoooo” then sounds like the voice subroutine crashed and is looping through the ring buffer
I like to imagine that when people repeat letters in txtspk, their voice is being sampled to say the same word over and over again
‘Computer bots are like humans, having fights lasting years’ | University of Oxford http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-02-24-computer-bots-are-humans-having-fights-lasting-years
I’d like to report a defect, this storm is broken. It’s leaking water and the light is flickering all the time