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justafrog

@justafrog@mstdn.social

Full-time amphibian.

Strongly committed to treating all individuals of the most common primate species fully as valid persons as much as possible.

Concerned about covid19, climate destabilization and economic equality.

Likes complete information abstract board games which have been played for centuries, straight into this modern time.

Middling at chess, kind of okay at baduk. Into the second year of taking shogi seriously.

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justafrog, to random
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@LikeItOrLumpIt How do you manage to stay under 1000 books?

I just don't see how.

Munchbud_Ink, to Funny

Dunko Jaw

Hope you like it! (^v^)

justafrog,
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@futurebird @Munchbud_Ink Hey now!

At least it's not a Wednesday Addams smile.

davidho, to random
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Only women should be allowed to attend UN climate talks.

justafrog,
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@thisismissem @davidho @adrianco The problem is the abusers could be lead negotiators, ministers or heads of state.

It's a very real problem that some countries aren't entirely on board with treating women as persons.

justafrog,
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@thisismissem @davidho @adrianco What if it's a country which can simply block progress merely by staying away?

They're really not all optional participants!

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Do you think "mind uploading" will ever be possible?

This is some scenario where a human mind is copied and modeled digitally.

This isn't a ship of Theseus situation where a brain is slowly replaced over time.

justafrog,
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@futurebird There's probably a large pile of weird tiny physics effects we need to discover, describe and understand before a full brain can be copied like that.

Evolved systems use all sorts of overly complicated mechanisms, sometimes even when it's worse than not doing so.

And the brain is definitely a very complicated thing.

I expect a seemingly perfect simulation of a human brain will curiously fail to work many, many times before success.

mentallyalex, to random
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You know one thing I really wish the world would translate better from online to off?

Nicknames.

What do you care if someone's name is KT or Coles or Alex or KingYolo. Sure, some of them can be silly - but trust me. I have known people with legal names far stranger than Giga or Ghost or ButterGod62.

We have serial numbers - why can't they just be linked to whatever we want to be called?

justafrog,
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@mentallyalex I wish we could have it the way Japanese nobility did it in ye olde thymes.

They had names for specific relations. So to your BFF you were A, to your wife you were B, to your childhood friends you were C, at court during formal shit you were D and you'd paint popular lewds as E.

justafrog,
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@mentallyalex Yeah, I bet the people I'm talking about would consider a fimfiction name as part of their normal tradition of keeping things neatly split out so they can continue to seem like a honourable lord where necessary.

augieray, to random
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Pay attention to the hate and disinformation spewing from the right. Recently, FOX News claimed the White House had flown a “controversial new transgender flag that promotes grooming and pedophilia.” This is THE SAME flag FOX itself used to wrap its logo in its 2022 Social Responsibility report (See page 25: https://media.foxcorporation.com/wp-content/uploads/prod/2022/08/24150057/FOX-2022-Corporate-Social-Responsibiliy-Report-August-24-2022.pdf). All this BS about grooming and pedophilia is just a way to create more hatred of the LGBTQIA community and to encourage more division. (1/2)

FOX logo wrapped in the Progress Pride flag in its corporate social responsibility report.

justafrog,
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@augieray There should really be hate speech laws in the USA.

Inciting hatred should not be perfectly legal. There's no societal benefit to it, and plenty of damage.

augieray, to random
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I am beginning to hate the exaggerators as much as minimizers on Twitter. Some just want to create a false sense of alarm (or safety) to gain engagement.

Today, someone claimed that data from Prague shows “a significant increase in test positivity recently hitting a 40% positivity rate.”

Here is the chart. Do you see a trend in increasing test positivity towards a 40% rate? Because, what I see a one-day, out-of-pattern bounce amid a relatively stable, low positive rate.

justafrog,
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@augieray We really don't need panic as much as sustained caution.

Not that we're having any of that, but we should.

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justafrog,
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@doggle @actuallyautistic What works for me is to ignore any sign to relax other than them physically moving out of range for interaction.

Everything else is just lies.

justafrog,
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@doggle @actuallyautistic If never is the best frequency for you, it's wonderful to be able to have that control.

futurebird, to random
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Can I ask a possibly very stupid question?

This whole time I've been wondering... why didn't Trump just uh... scan all the documents and then give them back?

Obviously, that's still illegal and bad and wrong...

I guess because he wasn't going to do all that paperwork himself and asking someone else to do it creates a trail of evidence?

But I mean if he just wanted to keep the information so badly?

Or maybe he did do this too and we don't even know?

justafrog,
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@futurebird He probably doesn't believe he has the documents unless he can grab sheafs of paper.

You know those manager types who have to write on a printed email?

He's like that.

Alice, (edited ) to random
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Countdown until all of the kids who grew up watching cartoons on their iPads at the dinner table become adults who sit in the middle of Applebee’s blasting Hentai while waiting for their chicken tenders.

justafrog,
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@Alice Well, if you know everyone watches some sort of kinky stuff, it does become a lot less embarrassing.

Like how I wouldn't even blink if some preppy office gal was listening to gangsta rap or death metal.

Or like how you see video evidence of gasp unchristian dancing in the 1960s and you just kinda shrug at how tame it is.

skykiss, (edited ) to random
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Hey,

So, my kids can read this but not Nancy Drew or Rosa Parks at the school library?

Religion is the biggest propaganda lie ever told. It is simply power & control over the masses. There is no hate quite like "religious hate" taking away your healthcare, wars, abuse, rapes, demanding your money. The biggest scam in history. Call out the utter insanity and total bullshit.

What Is The Seven Mountains Mandate? A movement among many right-wing aka christo-fascist, that embraces the notion that religion, specifically Christianity, should have dominion over all aspects of society, particularly our government.

As insurrectionist Lauren Boebert put it bluntly:

“The church is supposed to direct the govt. The government is not supposed to direct the church.”

To believe this, of course, Christian nationalists like Johnson and Boebert reject the entire notion of the separation of church and state that is clearly stated in our Constitution.

Dear Mike, Fuck off and fuck your crazy bible.

justafrog,
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@skykiss Just imagine your dad makes a fucked up promise and the guy follows through, and you're now wedded to the absolute madman who gathered 200 human foreskins.

Don't think most girls would find this a very edifying tale.

TheMemeticist, to random

In 🇺🇸 2022 , you were at least 6.2x more likely to die from than a car accident, but we don't say those wearing a seatbelt are "living in fear" or "anxiety"!

justafrog,
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@TheMemeticist A lot of people only wear their seatbelt to avoid fines.

Which gives me a GREAT idea.

futurebird, to random
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My carpenter ants want to take up … antkeeping? So I found them this tiny outworld. IDK why they have put up that scaffolding . . .

justafrog,
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@futurebird If I heard ants were doing X, for any value of X, I wouldn't be THAT surprised, even if it's the first ants doing it.

I could totally see them come together with tiny ants who eat mites off the big ones.

futurebird, to random
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Why do people take on moderation work for free at all?

There are good and bad reasons: A maniacal desire for power, caring about a community and wanting it to work, feeling important and useful, a desire to hurt or help people capriciously.

That all makes sense, but I think there is something more going on. Something fundamental to the way people form communities. It's like helping a neighbor, keeping an eye on local kids playing, cleaning trash from the park near your apartment.

justafrog,
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@futurebird A little while back, I needed a fence replaced.

Someone was helping me, but so was their 3yo. The sight of the little one running to and fro, holding a small piece of wood aloft as a trophy, that was adorable.

Saved about 3 trips to the car for a grown body, with a full day's running.

I think humans want to help so strongly, it's uncomfortable not to.

It's like being ostracized or punished when you can't help anyone.

futurebird, to random
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"I'm going to sell the stock after posting this article about how the company is doing better. Of course, I have inside information they are doomed."

"I'll just leave out this money I made from my tax return. Then I won't have to pay taxes on all of it."

"I'm driving over right now. Yeah, at a red light. slurp this vodka is amazing!"

"I'm robbing this bank! Give me all the money, or I'll shoot you!"

"Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this."

justafrog,
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@futurebird The thing which surprises me isn't that he's sincerely that pathetically awful.

What surprises me is how leniently he gets treated.

People have been banned from government work for life for tiny slip-ups.

People have been given multi-year prison sentences for moderate oopses.

This guy, dragging around boxes of classified info, hasn't even been put in pre-trial detention, years later.

I won't believe he goes to prison until he's actually in there.

futurebird, to random
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Online communities are real communities. People have met future spouses, weathered difficult life events, organized politically, raised money to help each other all through the panoply of social websites.

Often community rules and culture are guided by moderators, who almost always work for free.

Despite all of this we generally accept that these are not the people who own the website or the ones who control its fate.

Over and over this creates heartache and disappointment.

justafrog,
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@futurebird You're more or less describing the rationale for open source software, open standards and open data.

Corporate always yoinks things when it doesn't make enough profit. Even if it does, in fact, make profit.

As open stuff matures, hopefully people will start to abandon all the walled gardens.

futurebird, to random
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Reading “Jonathan Strange” again and thinking about how good it is at grounding fantasy in ways that make it all the more compelling. Wondering if it might make sense to start “The Planet of the Ants” … on earth. Post-doc with academic ambitions is denied their first choice for an exchange assignment (what could the first choice be?) and assigned instead to go into cold freeze and be sent halfway across the galaxy to Myrmecos: The Ant World. And she wonders if this is a dead end for her career!

justafrog,
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@futurebird That's quite some antology there.

Deglassco, to music

Blues, once a popular and influential musical genre, has become scarce in many Black communities, with seeming abandonment by young Black-Americans. At just 24 years years old, Kingfish (Christone Ingram), represents a resurgence of the blues due to his remarkable talent, life story, youthful energy, & dedication to the blues.

The Blues is in safe hands.

https://youtu.be/AXUI6d8hZwA

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@blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

justafrog,
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@Deglassco This is how I end up spending two hours of my time.

Good stuff, though.

uastronomer, to random
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I see UFO coverups are back in the news. Vanity Fair did a piece about somebody claiming that alien spacecraft are being found all the time, with dead pilots, and the big newspapers didn't want to print it, and they're not saying there's any sort of conspiracy here, they just weren't able to get fact-checking done in time.

And other people involved sighing and pinching the bridges of their noses and saying "We get tips about this stuff all the time. It's been going on for decades. But it's never 'I saw it' or 'I was one of the team who found it'. It's always 'I know a guy who says he swears blind that his friend was involved in editing a report that said...' or something."

First guy seems to be convinced by the sheer number of reports and tips he gets, and he can't believe so many people could be involved in a conspiracy to create a fake story, and I have some thoughts.

Like, first of all you don't need a conspiracy. You just need to want to believe. It's the most human thing imaginable to lower our skeptical defenses for the stuff we want to be true. And it's not just those idiots who believe things we know to be stupid, it's all of us, about whatever is most important to us.

And second, UFO stories have been circulating since the 1950s. Of course there are thousands of people with their own story. I'm an astronomer, I spend a lot more time watching the sky than normal people, I have seen plenty things I couldn't explain. It's pretty common to see something that you can't immediately explain. And since UFOs have been such massive pop-culture phenomenon for so long, it's not at all surprising that that's the first answer most people leap to when they see strange lights or shapes or whatever.

And if you're in a secretive military base, and have a head full of X-files and the 4th Indiana Jones and Men In Black and a thousand other stories about Area 51, then it's just as natural to find sexy explanations for that big crate you're not allowed to look inside.

justafrog,
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@uastronomer Another thing I wish people understood more, is that if a sighting is not explained, that doesn't prove anything or advance any specific theory.

We're stuck at ignorance. Maybe we'll never find out what caused it.

The only thing that should get your heart racing is if there is a clearly non-human craft on display, which clearly doesn't operate the same kind of propulsion systems we all know.

Not one rumoured or reported. One visible in public, that neutral observers can inspect.

misc, to random
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What are some ways people have suggested to moderate out bot generated content from community websites?

justafrog,
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@misc Basically, people notice it sounds like chatgpt and report it as spam.

If the moderation team cares, they delete it and ban the account.

It's hard to pick it out with an automated search, since it doesn't have pat phrases.

Similar for AI-generated images.

I expect it will get harder and harder as the fakes become less obvious.

stux, to random
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Yoo countries!

Stop treating refugees like bricks or wood! These are PEOPLE like you and me

We all live on the same planet (for now..) so accept and help each other!

It's not YOUR country but rather OUR planet..

Hoomans and their "need" to own stuff is such a weak and dirty human apsect, yikes..

justafrog,
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@stux Irregular migration is an act of desperation for good reason.

First, you get robbed by traffickers, after which they dump you in a dangerous situation. Maybe you get saved?

Then the country you reached hates you, and tries very hard to kick you out.

After a while, you either get lucky or you become part of an undocumented class with nowhere to legally be.

The chances to end up badly, or dead are quite high.

adamjcook, to random

Oh memories.

Taking a break from 's Hate Train on the Hellsite to recall this series of Tweets from a few years ago.

While under-appreciated then and now, the Tweet thread by Musk posted below contains an extremely damning admission and it displays the considerable blind spot associated with remotely updating systems without oversight.

Musk has no clue what he admitted to here, but systems safety experts do.

justafrog,
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@adamjcook My faith in regulatory oversight kinda died when a consumer rights TV show managed to get a clementine net certified as a surgical implant.

Obviously, I do want it to be better, but it seems to always need some awful incident to get much-needed regulation updates to happen.

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