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mycorrhiza

@mycorrhiza@post.lurk.org

Dad, working scientist, degrowth anarchist, wobbly

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Binder, to coffee
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Took more than ten seconds, still feels like love.

mycorrhiza,
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@troublewithwords @Binder I relate to every single part of this.

mycorrhiza, to random
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Huh. So there is a widely distributed “alternatives to 911” list for the town in which I last lived, but none for my current location. Are these less common than I realized?

mycorrhiza, to random
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As a nerd who does a lot of data visualization for my day job and is putting much of my (scant) hobby time into permacomputing, it’s hard to keep @visnut and @viznut straight.

aral, to random
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If a tumour were to write a manifesto on cancer…

https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

mycorrhiza,
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@aral @nbailey literally my first thought.

Binder, to random
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My dark secret is that I don’t even follow some of my favorite people on the Fediverse; I only get to see their toots when they get boosted.

mycorrhiza,
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@Binder I get that 100%. Some of these tooters are just too prolific — I like for nobody to dominate my tl.

mycorrhiza, to random
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Academia will never fix itself, because every single hand on a lever of power is committed to it continuing to exist more or less as it does now. It’s a hierarchical institution lifted straight out of pre-modern Europe, with wealthy patrons and exploited apprentices, only updated to improve its compatibility with neoliberalism.

drewdevault, to random
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The forbidden topics

https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/29/The-forbidden-topics.html

mycorrhiza,
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@drewdevault dude I do NOT understand how you suffer some of these schmucks in your comments. Great post. Rape-apologists can fuck right off.

andrew_chou, to calligraphy
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anyone have any creative ways of improving their handwriting in their post-education years?

more frequent physical writing is probably sufficient for avoiding regression (I've definitely regressed 🙃), but interested in methods for actual improvement

mycorrhiza,
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@andrew_chou I’ve been meaning to improve my penmanship for a long time but have yet to get to it. This has been sitting in my bookmarks for a while, but I can’t actually endorse it yet: https://youtu.be/eGUDQ1F5tco

devxvda, to random

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    mycorrhiza,
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    @devxvda as a cis male coming out of an abusive hetero relationship (this happened many years ago and I’ve had a few wonderful — if not entirely heartbreak-free — relationships since then), I got a lot more support from the feminists in my life than from any misogynist. Folks who don’t understand feminism and the patriarchy would perhaps find this counterintuitive, but there it is.

    I hope you’ve found (and are finding) the support you need.

    mycorrhiza, to random
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    I fucking love beets. The greens are delicious, the roots are delicious (roasted, pickled, shredded and raw — however you want them), their coloring is beautiful, and they’re so nutritious.

    I saw some asshole* hating on beets over here and fuck that noise. This is a pro-beet account and beet haters can gtfo.

    • I don’t know the person; it’s possible that they’re perfectly lovely and have this one terrible opinion.
    mycorrhiza, to random
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    I’ve been around for a minute, and I feel fairly confident when I say this: there aren’t any “normal” people. Just weirdos and people you don’t know very well.

    mycorrhiza,
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    (Some people consider themselves to be normal. You better watch out with those ones.)

    mycorrhiza, to random
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    I really wish I could easily choose a side here, but the email from the Tusky team didn’t do them favors in my eyes. Why do people have to write paragraphs and paragraphs of excuses instead of a short mea culpa?

    “Nik raised a valid point and we will be more transparent about fund distribution decisions moving forward. We appreciate the community’s support and trust, and it’s important to us to preserve that. Expect us to post our new expense policy within the coming X weeks, as we work in parallel to formalize a new governance structure for the project.” That was easy!

    Instead I come away from reading this with the impression that I wouldn’t get along with or trust any of the people involved. Which is a shame.

    mycorrhiza,
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    @dentangle it’s interesting that the exchange struck such a different emotional chord for you than it did for me. I’ll confess that I’ve been feeling “prickly” lately, so maybe it’s just me.

    Do you happen to be acquainted with anyone involved? I only ask because I’m sure I’d feel differently if anyone was known to me personally. (And to be clear, I’m not insinuating that this would reflect “bias” or anything, I just know that some contexts can make it easier to see something as coming from a whole person, which definitely changes how it feels to read it. Is that fair?)

    mhoye, to random
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    Somebody asked ChatGPT about how many sunflowers you need to get a litre of sunflower oil and the result is an masterpiece of stochastic existentialism.

    https://archive.is/3k39n

    mycorrhiza,
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    @HeavenlyPossum @mhoye I’m going to push back, NOT in an attempt to be an internet contrarian, but because this is something important to me: I think our inclination to ascribe sentience to the things around us is good, actually. We’ve been indoctrinated to deny the animacy of the natural world, but that drive is still there, so it pops up whenever we encounter anything new.

    Somebody else had a good toot about how it’s fucked up that people will believe that silly toys like LLMs are “intelligent”, but animals aren’t. I reckon we all agree with that sentiment. But it’s a society-level problem, not an individual one. Shit, everything that’s fucked about this culture has roots in denying the inherent, idk, “divinity” I guess, in the world around us: wars, slavery, and genocide happen because we deny it in people; climate change is happening because we deny it in everything else.

    mycorrhiza,
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    @HeavenlyPossum @mhoye oh, don’t get me wrong, I don’t actually think LLMs are sentient. I’m saying that people taking them for sentient are responding to a natural impulse that’s actually good, but misdirected because of cultural norms.

    mycorrhiza,
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    @HeavenlyPossum @mhoye yes, EXACTLY! I guess what I’m trying to suggest is that there’s a casual relationship between these. Stifling ones “natural” (I argue) inclination to recognize the inherent divinity* in the natural world is probably pushing these folks to find it in machines instead.

    • I wish I knew a better word here, but I was just a public school STEM kid.
    mrpieceofwork, to random
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    oh wow.... turn on "Show boosts" for your Home feed (or turn it off) it's like night and day

    mycorrhiza,
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    @mrpieceofwork
    Me: I boost toots all day long. When I see a toot I like you best believe I’m boostin’ that!

    Also me: I don’t wanna see my follows’ boosts, I want to see what they’re doing! Time to filter out all the “noise”.

    timbray, (edited ) to random
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    When you think, do you have an internal dialogue that includes words?

    Boost if you're interested.

    mycorrhiza,
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    @timbray Hello. I answered “yes”, but it depends on what I’m thinking about. Some “thoughts” are entirely pictorial, some are wordless sound (usually musical). Sometimes my inner ‘dialog’ is a monologue, sometimes it’s an imagined conversation with one or more other people (for certain people, I feel like I can clearly hear their voice in my head).

    Thanks for posting this question, this has been fun for me to think about!

    misc, to random
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    It’s absolutely wild to pop onto twitter and see how many people I follow are still using it like nothing’s changed

    mycorrhiza,
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    @misc @lrhodes I like this. I’m going to keep replying “What’s ‘Twitter’? Oh do you mean ‘X’?” until I get kicked out of every group chat, and then I will finally be Free.

    mycorrhiza, to random
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    I’m coming around to the opinion that teaching children that some people (well, their “souls” anyway) are destined to spend eternity being tortured in Hell is low-key child abuse. Maybe even high-key child abuse. And as I reach further into Middle-aged Crank territory I’m just about ready to pursue this issue with the exact same intensity that the religious right brings to their fucked up ideas about “child abuse”.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    I want ACCOUNTABILITY for fucking up the entire planet.

    mycorrhiza,
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    @StillIRise1963 that’s gonna be their pivot right? “We’ve all played a part in this. Didn’t you drive a car? Fly in a plane? Use a plastic drinking straw? Then you’re every bit as responsible for climate change as anyone else (including the economic, political, and media leaders who promoted fossil fuel consumption and covered up climate change).”

    Next will come “we all need to make sacrifices (but mostly you proles, I’m not giving up my private jet).”

    mycorrhiza,
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    @StillIRise1963 I have a draft of an essay about this but I think I’m too mad to ever finish it.

    And, like, what the fuck is some ESSAY supposed to do anyway?

    mycorrhiza,
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    @complexmath @StillIRise1963 military bases BURN FUEL sometimes because if they don’t use their allotted quota, that quota will be reduced, and they don’t want that.

    rixx, to random
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    I wrote some software¹: git-backdate allows you to change the dates on a (range of) commit to a given time frame. For perfectly good reasons. 😇

    Includes flags to keep the commits inside of or outside of business hours. Also for perfectly good reasons. 😈

    https://github.com/rixx/git-backdate

    ¹ some time ago, naturally

    mycorrhiza,
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    @webology @rixx I actually might use this to make some commits seem later, since squashing rolls up everything into the earliest timestamp, and I don’t want my boss to be like “well what were you doing for the last three days then?”

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