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malcircuit

@malcircuit@thingy.social

Fledgling trans girl that likes to talk nerdy, perform tech wizardry, do mad science, post occasional anti-capitalist and climate-rage induced rants, and show off her latest Lego builds. There will be selfies.

Swears like a sailor, so you best be okay with that.

My views are my own and are likely wrong.

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Convicted Felon Donald J Trump

You can just call him that all the time now and there's fuck all he can do to stop you.

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I've listened to the Skeptic's Guide To The Universe podcast for many years now, and it's fundamentally shaped who I am as a person. But for the past several years I've been drifting away from it more and more. I still think critical thinking is incredibly important, but the events since 2016 have been a lesson in the limits of such things.

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The SGU prides itself on being as apolitical as possible, and I think there's a disconnect there. I've come around to the view that almost everything in life has a political aspect to it, whether or not it's viewed that way. All science, and especially technology, can be political.

And I don't mean that they can become politicized. Some areas of science and technology have implicit political implications. New discoveries and inventions do not have a uniform impact on society.

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This is something that I've noticed more in the podcast lately. Specifically, how the show has been talking about recent AI developments in large language models.

Like most topics, they are very objective about the topic and stick to the facts as much as possible and try not to wildly extrapolate or get caught up in the hype. They caveat and hedge based on their limited knowledge. All good.

But it's not enough.

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ChatGPT is not politically neutral. Midjourney is not politically neutral.

Because of the nature of what it is and how it works, generative AI technology benefits some people at the detriment of others. There are externalities from these systems that affect some groups of people more than others — very real, well documented, and ongoing externalities.

Focusing simply on the technology is a political statement, regardless of intent.

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@paezha I like what you have so far!

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@paezha I'm probably not the best person to find holes in your arguments (if only because I basically agree with you), but if I think of anything I'll let you know.

malcircuit, to LEGO
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Putting together some and finally getting around to watching Fallout

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SAPPHIC SPANIARDS UPDATE 67

Isidro stops by the shop to visit Fina and Marta and Carmen tell him she’s in bed - he knows something is up because it’s not like Fina to miss work.

Marta asks Carmen if she knows about the breakup - yes, Fina (which I’ve just learned is short for “Serafina” 🩵) has told her everything.

Poor Marta just wants to make sure Fina is not alone since she can’t comfort her - she is the source of Fina’s pain and bc of the circumstances that led them to this point.

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@shippychaos I have no idea what show this is but I love seeing the updates of the lesbian drama lol

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    malcircuit,
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    @rooster Wait... where can I get cornstarch injections? 👀

    malcircuit, to random
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    Women are so beautiful :blobcatmeltlove:

    malcircuit, to LEGO
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    Because I'm depressed and have little energy to do anything else, I've started building this bad boy

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    Sci-fi: What if humanity built generation ships? That'd be cool, right?

    Actual human history: You mean a designed, self-contained, indefinitely stable, culturally and ecologically sustainable society where everyone cooperates to work toward a far-off goal they will probably never see achieved?

    Sci-fi: ...

    Actual human history: dies laughing

    malcircuit, to random
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    Either I need a dose increase, or I need to take a vacation from stimulants (caffeine and my ADHD meds) for a day or two. I've been really out of it lately. It's like none of this stuff works anymore.

    Need to remind my brain of what no dopamine actually feels like until it stops complaining.

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    check this out

    thanks to VS Code, YoWASP Toolchain Extension, and WebUSB, you can now program FPGAs with nothing but your cellphone o:3

    https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yowasp.toolchain
    https://vscode.dev/github/YoWASP/toolchain-demo

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    @whitequark Holy shit :blobcateyes:

    malcircuit,
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    @whitequark I keep thinking about a project to build a WebAssembly port for the ESP32 so I can build an OS-free portable standalone FPGA dev environment. I have no idea if that's even feasible, but I daydream about it lol

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    @whitequark Ah, yeah, I suppose. Oh well.

    Have you tried your setup on a Chromebook?

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    @whitequark Fair enough lol

    I just think this project is really neat. FPGA toolchains are often a pain to work with, and so the idea of a web-based, self-contained FPGA dev environment with Amaranth is fascinating. Seems like it could make FPGAs much more accessible.

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    FINALLY figured out how to make a time lapse video from some of my images from Friday!

    Stuttery time lapse video of aurora

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    What's a good enby-friendly replacement to "mom", "mama", "dad", etc?

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    Holy crap!

    The sun kicked out a X8.79 flare at about noon CT today! THAT'S HUGE!!!

    If there was a CME associated with that one, we might be getting another major geomagnetic storm in a few days.

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    As I suspected, the flare came from AR3664, which has nearly rotated out of view of Earth. Probably aren't going to see any aurora from this flare. X8.8 is still impressive though. I wish the sun had been clear for me to see it (and take pics of it).

    https://www.space.com/sun-solar-flare-sunspot-ar3664-x88-class-may-14-2024

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    Yooooooooo hot damn. NOAA SWPC just pushed a new forecast and they are predicting another G5 storm tonight with Kp index up to 9!

    DEAR GOD IF YOU DIDN'T GO OUT LAST NIGHT GO OUT TONIGHT!!!! I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE I CAN STRESS HOW FUCKING COOL THE AURORA IS OTHER THAN TO TYPE IN ALL CAPS AND USE A BUNCH OF EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!!

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    IT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!!!

    I had to stop and get off the interstate near the WI border because I could see the through breaks in the clouds!!!

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    Managed to catch a just-shy-of-X1-class flare a few hours ago when I put my scope out on the deck.

    The complex chaos of magnetic fields — that is much, much larger than the size of Earth — designated as Region 3664 and Region 3668 (center right sunspot smudge) has been spawning a great number of flares recently, flinging an truly stupendous amount of energy and relativistic particles out into the solar system.

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    Also, much of Minnesota, including Minneapolis/St. Paul, will have prime viewing too! Anyone that lives up there should go out at around 12-2AM tonight.

    THIS IS SO EXCITING!!!

    I haven't been paying attention to solar activity until recently, but I get the impression that a G4 storm is kind of a big deal that doesn't happen that often. That one is happening on a Friday night is even less likely. This is probably your best chance at seeing aurora short of traveling above the Arctic Circle.

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