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jonny

@jonny@neuromatch.social

Digital infrastructure 4 a cooperative internet. social/technological systems & systems neuro with some light dynamical systems & crush on topology on the side.

writin bout the surveillance state n makin some p2p

science/work-oriented alt of @jonny

information is political, science is labor

This is a public account, quotes/boosts/links are always ok <3.

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hiring a hitman is a complicated game theory problem because the hitman always has the option of just taking the money and calling the cops. you have to convince them that you are capable of hiring another hitman to come after the first hitman, but the very act of trying to hire the first hitman indicates that you don't have a second, more reliable hitman ready to go. so i guess the moral of the story is don't be a landlord. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-07/landlord-sentenced-20-years-in-prison-in-murder-for-hire-plots

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1234, 1***, same number, and birth year blocks are obvious, but you can also see in the repeating patterns of blocks of 0-5 for the starting and ending digits that people just don't use numbers >5 in PINs (except for 6969) https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/112400215689617040

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you did what
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b288

Perhaps after 34 years it’s time for us to confess that we invented cello scrotum.

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The emerging field of Beethoven's Hair Studies is the only field where I try to keep up with the literature: https://doi.org/10.1093/clinchem/hvae054

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More than 40 arrests at P2 parking structure, a sit in at Moore Hall, and continued unclear action at this morning. I havent made it to campus yet but apparently cops are checking IDs all through campus.

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This is a garbage headline that is fractally wrong and also why biden has lost 20% margin in youth vote in a year. The only violence at the encampment was committed AGAINST them by the police and the fascist mobs the police gave carte blanche to. The encampment was NOT chaotic - it was highly orderly, well disciplined, and a place of education and solidarity. The encampment is a protest AGAINST violence sanctioned by the Biden administration.

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Circulating word is that plans to disperse Palestinian solidarity encampment at 6. A number of groups including faculty and campus unions are planning on rallying in defense. Meanwhile an administrator has entered the camp to negotiate

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Palestinian solidarity encampment under attack with firecrackers, mace, pipes, spears for more than 2 hours now:
https://www.instagram.com/sjpatucla/live/18004088738282800

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's Palestine solidarity encampment just posted an update on their telegram - UCLA has declared it unlawful, and administration has reached out to start negotiations. Organizers have been holding occupy-style general meetings and plan to continue that to guide negotiations

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bro you can't draw a whole ass ornamental dropcap and sit there and write an entire page about how you don't have time to proofread

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encampment has taken Royce hall

Edit: nvm not holding, got excited when I saw ppl blocking cameras and etc

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Light misting of gas coming from the zionist counterprotesters at

Edit: clarification on the use of the term Zionist below - https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/112351269554772233

Edit2: the gas was mace, as revealed by the smell once it wafted a bit more and also the person who sprayed it saying so.

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The SJP at the encampment has called for all hands on deck tomorrow at 10am at luskin hotel and requested ppl to follow their telegram channel for updates: https://t.me/+La9h17mlP7E1NTIx

Zionist counterprotesters have announced a gathering from 11am-1pm

Edit: the camp went into lockdown at 8am, meeting at luskin at 10am

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in 2009, on totally homebrew software, The Pirate Bay served 20 million simultaneous peers on 10 servers (20 for the website) for $3,000 a month.

i wonder how much serving 20 million simultaneous users costs netflix. there are ~260 million total subscribers of netflix (of which a fraction are active at a time) and its total operating expenses (which is obviously A Lot More Different Things Than TPB) are ~$7 Billion a year.

the comparison isn't all that ridiculous. netflix is about 10% of all bandwidth, and bittorrent used to be >30% of all bandwidth - of which TPB tracked roughly half.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210801122834/https://gigaom.com/2009/07/19/the-pirate-bay-distributing-the-worlds-entertainment-for-3000-a-month/

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A future for the web is the radical idea that its bad to put all data in a single place owned by 3 companies and rented by a few hundred. The internet wasnt a mistake, the cloud was a mistake. Platforms were a mistake. A mistake where its not only possible but routine for "everyone's health data" to get stolen. https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/112341111375581551

I need to share my health data with like 3 people that arent me. Why on earth is that data in the same pile as literally everyone else's.

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everyone i have figured it out, cats just have unchecked integer operations

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Im as anti-"AI" as the next person, but I think its important to keep in mind the larger strategic picture of "AI" w.r.t. when it comes to - both have the problem of inaccurate information, mining the commons, etc. But Google's use of LLMs in search is specifically a bid to cut the rest of the internet out of information retrieval and treat it merely as a source of training data - replacing traditional search with search. That includes a whole ecosystem of surveillance and enclosure of information systems including assistants, chrome, android, google drive/docs/et al, and other vectors.

DuckDuckGo simply doesnt have the same market position to do that, and their system is set up as just an allegedly privacy preserving proxy. So while I think more new search engines are good and healthy, and LLM search is bad and doesnt work, I think we should keep the bigger picture in mind to avoid being reactionary, and I dont think the mere presence of LLM search is a good reason to stop using it.

More here: https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/#the-near-future-of-surveillance-capitalism-knowledge-graphs-get-chatbots

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is occupying a floor of a neighboring building to surveil encampment - which explains choppers only in the morning and few drones: https://twitter.com/paularcurtis/status/1783659629249257549

update: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/112340807050597038

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The encampment at Royce plaza at aint going anywhere. Packed with tents and people speaking, learning, singing, screaming.

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A few hundred people exceptionally peacefully encamped in Royce quad at . one chopper overhead, cops keeping their distance for now. Organizers keeping it tight

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If any of the many healthy internet hackers on here had one of these billion dollars, hell even if all of us split one, the internet would be a dramatically better place. Instead meta spent 45 billion on... nothing.
https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/112329234110892234

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@Taweret I have completely replaced "I thought" or "in my opinion" with "in my timeline it has always been"

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Nothing but frustration all day long but tomorrow it is my neighbors 100th birthday so I am excited to bring her flowers and have her tell me about her entire life again

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trying to develop a zotero plugin is the most dogbrained developer experience in the universe, but i am not allowed to help with the docs because i haven't been doing it for several years. so i wonder why it's so hard.

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Are there actually neuroscientists who dont believe that most invertebrates, fish, etc. have lowercase-c consciousness, an internal subjective experience of the world? Is the alternative that they are just reflex machines? Why wouldnt we make the opposite assumption - that animals that have a complex enough nervous system to run a whole body thats responsive to their ecosystem are "conscious" until proven otherwise. But what would the point be of proving otherwise? I guess im just deeply uninterested in semantic games that exclude most of the animal kingdom from the assumption of mere subjectivity.

Re: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01144-y

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