Why do conspiracy theory iceberg charts never talk about the really interesting stuff, such as:
-Hidden Hand
-tonewood isn't real
-Chernobyl antennas
-starlings are extraterrestrial spaceships
-UFOs are weather phenomenon (ball lightning)
-giant hogweed health benefits
-gravitational pull of pepsi
-Stuttgart black hole
-Sovereign Military Order of Malta recognition
-Wolfgang Holbein silencing
-lottery honeypot to catch time travelers
-Gorillaz not real
-Affeln (do not research)
-nightjar true identity
@schratze emacs was created to get people to stop writing new lisp programs. lispers would modify their editor instead of writing independent programs. this caused lisp’s apparent dev mindshare to eventually plummet, as all lisp programmers were sucked into the cult of emacs.
@kravietz@srfirehorseart@agr Organic link results are 100% from Bing. Its own index is probably just for certain sites to power infoboxes, or for favicons.
I got some questions in private. Since answers may be appreciated by others too, I’ll summarize what I said/found.
Basically, ISO-8601 defines a format for every possible date/time-related information: week dates, day-month-year timestamps, durations, offsets, time zones, etc. It’s the bible of how to specify something date/time-related, if you’re willing to purchase the standard (WHY is it paywalled??). Other subsequent standards with narrower focus generally subset this standard and relax some of its more strict requirements.
RFC-3339 is about how computers should display dates. A much narrower focus makes it a subset, though it does make some parts of the ISO-8601 notation optional (most notably the separator between the date and time: you can say 2024-05-19 05:46:52+00:00 instead of 2024-05-19T05:46:52+00:00, or use a different separator like a lowercase “t”) to also become a slight superset. Both RFC-3339 and the HTML Living Standard avoid any significant contradictions with ISO-8601.
Weeks starting on Monday appear to be a thing in all three standards. We are still in 2024-W20 right now according to HTML and the ISO, and tomorrow (Monday) will be the beginning of 2024-W21.
Concept: two-dimensional plurality (any combination of two alters integrate at a time to form a new persona, giving you N^2 possible personas for N alters and forming a coordinate system to visualize who you are at a given moment.
We can extend this to N^N possible personas if more than two alters can integrate at a time.
Extending our personality to arbitrary topologies poses unique challenges I attempt to explore with a new NumPy library for personality matrices. In this essay, I will—
The position, velocity, and acceleration vectors of our personality can be modeled by personality functions. With exponential smoothing functions we can isolate seasonal trends and run a simple naive forecast, allowing us to accomodate likely future personas and predict personality drift. By forecasting a known personality position at a given time and updating our forecast with recent data, we can see how recent data biases our prediction to detect personality anomalies. We can log these anomalies to a time series database and trigger Grafana alerts when they cross a threshold.
And finally, we will be able to perceptively ask “what’s wrong?” or say “something’s up” just like neurotypicals do. EZ
At a given moment, some alters integrated into our current persona may have more inertia than others, and be less likely to leave the persona than others. We can represent this with mass.
As our personality changes in one direction across our personality space, it has momentum. Altering the trajectory requires force, either external (stimulis) or internal (willpower). We represent personality changes with through personality force, the rate of change of personality momentum.
When personality oscillates between two combinations of alters, we can represent this as a personality spring that obeys a simple law—
I unironically think that springs are a good metaphor for how much, how fast, and how long my personality oscillates across a one-dimensional plane in a lonely calm environment (a frictionless vacuum).
why do some people hate "The Bad Space", i have been trying to figure out what the deal with them is but i havent seen anything sketchy from their websites or anything, and their "about" page doesnt seem bad, i dont notice any 4channer vibes, it just seems to be like a fediblock supporter, does anyone have any context to add? maybe im missing something? why do people seem to hate them? im genuinely confused about the whole situation.
@puppygirlhornypost@paragon I don’t think it’s possible to organize many people together for a “democratic” blocklist without some combination of infighting, scandals, irreconcilable differences, retaliation, etc. making the group either fall apart, become horribly toxic and cult-like to shield certain higher-ups from criticism, or hide bad actions behind bureaucracy. It’s why FediNuke is a one-person project despite occasional favors, advice, etc. from others.
I’d rather see collaboration happen by making someone’s work a dependency of someone else’s. collaboration itself isn’t always a good thing.
“Creativity is in our DNA at Apple, and it’s incredibly important to us to design products that empower creatives all over the world,” said Tor Myhren, the company’s VP of marketing communications. “Our goal is to always celebrate the myriad of ways users express themselves and bring their ideas to life through iPad. We missed the mark with this video, and we’re sorry.”
Interestingly, Google used the same language to conclude its apology for its generative AI’s historical depictions of race. It explained its intention with flowery language and then said “But it’s missing the mark here”.
I wonder if we’ll be seeing more of this type of response to corporate tone-deafness (a generous term) going forward. Big “I’m sorry you feel that way (but this isn’t indicative of any problems with me)” vibes.
The problem isn’t that people didn’t like something you did. the problem you need to address is why they didn’t like it.
Corporate apologies like this prove that they observed people unhappy about something. It reads like an apology to investors for making people unhappy, not an apology to the people who got angry. It would be ten times better to say nothing at all.
Why do PR departments keep doing this? Do they think statements like these work better than actual apologies?
Apple TV ad features actor who climbs out of TV screen and punches every viewer in the face.
Apple spokesperson Captain Obvious releases statement saying that iPad is meant to celebrate the integrity of its users’ intact noses and front teeth, and that inflicting blunt-force facial trauma on eight million people “missed the mark”.
Onto the part of this cybersec crash-course that covers OSINT and it’s talking Shodan.
It’s funny because I’ve already been using Shodan regularly but for all the completely security-irrelevant reasons. Like finding domains with Gemini capsules or Gopher holes, or for searching for sites by favicon.