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trochee

@trochee@dair-community.social

NLP (the nerdy kind). Wrong-half Jew. Privilege-traitor.
Linguist. Empiricist. Rager against machines. formerly #indymedia
Also, #comics, #SFF #scifi, languages, big data, algorithms, software design, and more, including #EthicalAI

#WestSeattle #Duwamish unceded land

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charliejane, to random
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SUPERMAN: I only date people with the initials L.L. Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Lori Lemaris....

LEX LUTHOR (adjusts his corsage and waits for the phone to ring)

trochee,
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@charliejane

I mean sometimes the subtext is so clear that it becomes the text

I figure Lex is conflictedly jealous of Kal-el's hair

dangillmor, to random
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Wow, the Times' Tom Friedman had to reach a long, long way to find the required "balance" -- in this case totally false equivalence -- re Supreme Court extremist judges.

Thomas and Alito are corrupt in their acts and words, but Ginsburg said something true but (arguably) mean about candidate Trump.

Identical, right?

trochee,
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@dangillmor

She could have gone a lot harder than "faker" and still stayed well clear of even a smidgen of falsehood

trochee, to random
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Come on, ya jerks. Targeting the public library is a surefire route to the Bad Place.

These are people who hate good things. I hope that left-anarchist hackers can rise up and smack some sense into whatever script kiddie, privateer, or nation-state actor did this

Hackers target Seattle Public Library system
https://mynorthwest.com/3961228/seattle-public-library-goes-offline-amid-ransomware-event/

trochee, to random
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> to call [LLM writing] thought is the same as to attribute foresight to horoscopes

– @dingemansemark, from "Human creativity in the age of text generators"

https://ideophone.org/human-creativity-in-the-age-of-text-generators/

sayswho, to random
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Today! Rudy goes to the bathroom, Rishi Sunak gets wet, Joe Biden eats ice cream, and Donald Trump goes to court. Join @maureenjohnson and @dansinker for a new Says Who! https://sayswhopodcast.com/episodes/bug-the-pants

trochee,
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@sayswho

Hey do y'all have a current podcast RSS feed linked from your website?

My podcatcher (pocket casts) seems not to find your recent episodes and I'd love to have them show up there

trochee,
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@sayswho worked on the second time through. Thanks for encouraging persistence. My podcatching maintenance flow is obviously weak

nora, to random
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i think it would be bad if so many rich people died going to the titanic that the combined mass of their submarines started displacing water, causing the oceans to rise

trochee,
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@nora thus far, and no farther

trochee, (edited ) to random
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Today my dad sent me a brief memoir* in which — as an aside — he mentioned that he was in fifth grade in (educated, liberalish, moderately well-off) Hollywood, Florida when school desegregation was made mandatory at a federal level. He remembers how many of his white classmates — including the Jewish white kids — were angry and opposed to the prospect of sharing their classrooms with black kids.
1/2

  • through Storyworth, which is a neat idea if you can get your elders to play ball
trochee,
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My own son is in fifth grade now, and we're on the opposite side of the country, and in a similarly liberal enclave (Seattle) yet I wonder how much of (eg) the resistance to trans and non-binary kids' public existence, or the reflexive defense of atrocity, is the same bad impulses that were around in Florida seventy years ago.

How much have we grown as a people?
2/2

maia, to random
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crime pro tip: if u get caught running a massive fraud scheme in a particular way u probably shouldnt pull the exact same scheme on an even bigger scale again with zero changes to the plan besides who you're targeting

trochee,
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@maia

Asking for a friend, uh, Nadam Eumann

Alice, to random
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My account was hacked by a seven-year-old so I apologize for any offensive jokes that were posted during that 24-hour period of time.

trochee,
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@Alice sounds like something a seven year old who's still in control of the account would say

AlSweigart, to random
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Man, every since my visit to Pittsburgh I've been low key into funiculars, these twin cable cars on hill sides where one is the counterweight for the other.

I never thought of myself as a "guy on the spectrum who is into trains" but I guess I never found the right kind of train.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funicular

trochee,
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@bengerman @AlSweigart

I must also be amboambi because

https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_tunnel.htm

trochee,
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@theofrancis @Eraserbones @bengerman @AlSweigart

> spoof? Satire? Parody? (Not sure which it is.)

I think it's Borgesian science fiction, carefully disguised as a piece of nerd ambiambo-bait

ryanrandall, to random
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I guess a reminder that, if you're in the so-called United States of America, you might hear some loud jets flying overhead?

I think they're celebrating petro-masculinity or something?

trochee,
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@ryanrandall

Manorial day celebrates the long established tradition of manorialism

Or the manosphere

Or something like that

trochee, to random
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> the immune response to the “AI” grift [is] beginning to mount now. …A lot more […damage] will be done as the grift continues to wreak ecological destruction and bad actors take advantage of its googly eyes and the human urge to empathy.

Lili Saintcrow | Hijacking Empathy
https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2024/05/hijacking-empathy/

-- @lilithsaintcrow

acdha, to random
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I wonder how often someone being turned down as a poor “culture fit” meant that the recruiter remembered to remove that part of the instructions
https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2024/05/after-whites-only-job-posting-va-tech-company-hit-with-fine-from-the-justice-department/

trochee,
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@acdha

I'm going to spitball that proportion at 70% explicit and 20% unconscious and implicit, leaving 10% of the time to be quiet ageism

ElleGray, to random
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Much like rats leaving a sinking ship, old ghosts abandon a collapsing country 😔

trochee,
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@ElleGray

"Old ghosts vanish as soon as everyone started carrying a high quality video camera in their pocket at all times"

Rhymes with what happened to UFOs

thomasfuchs, to random
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Wonder how long it will take for “to google something” to disappear from the language…

…or maybe it will take up a meaning of “utterly destroying a useful thing for sheer greed”.

trochee,
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@thomasfuchs

We already had "the Google Reader treatment" for the same sort of golden-egg laying goose short term profit murder

trochee, to random
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A shockingly large proportion of SV technosolutions are band-aids for the "problems" of a techbro who

  • drives to work alone
  • in an expensive car
  • with a good mobile connection
  • through silicon valley traffic

For example:

  • autonomous driving (or gig drivers)
  • food delivery; task rabbit
  • agents to read and respond to your email
  • voice assistants providing emotional validation

https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/112502816917988936

trochee,
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@kataclyst an app for laundry!

bruces, to random
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"Humor is a human phenomenon"

*Is this actually true? It must be true of verbal humor -- but maybe there are animals funnier than people, when seen by animal standards

trochee,
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@FeralRobots @bruces

Yes that's definitely corvid behavior

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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I really want a modern RPG like GTA but I don't want to be locked into being a criminal.

trochee,
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@Adam_Cadmon1

Many days later, kid has discovered HITMAN 3.

Lots of murder, but I'm actually impressed by how the game is really about "only murder the target" and on the DL is really simultaneously a stealth/reconnaissance game (with disguises!), an open-world social clockwork game (how do you get in a room alone with the target? What motivates their bodyguard?) and a puzzle game that reminds me of the old-school King's Quest games (where can I find a shovel to pretend to be a gardener?)

trochee,
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@Adam_Cadmon1

I'm really struck by
(1) how the mission designs strongly punish the Kill Everyone murder mode but
(2) the play mechanics simultaneously offer the opportunity to kill or maim Just About Everyone, all the time.

trochee,
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@Adam_Cadmon1

I'm a huge fan of @marthawells 's MurderBot books, and this video game mechanics, oddly, match theirs —

It has the same moral dissonance dynamic of "what you want as a character trying to be a decent person is not aligned with what the tactical HUD display offers, except once in a while when you get to cut loose and turn on the ultraviolence"

trochee,
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@danhon @Adam_Cadmon1 @marthawells

Have not!

trochee,
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@mdekstrand

I played Beyond Good and Evil back in the aughts ( on a PS2! ) but never had the time to really dig into it, and like the vibe a lot

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