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mycotropic

@mycotropic@beige.party

Now with less personal identification due to babka.social doxxing and less science due to the February 2024 triumph of #Enshitification embodied by #CDCSays

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futurebird, to random
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The overhead for the AI on a minecraft ant is so great that the mod creators limit the colonies to just 20 ants to prevent lag. Fine for gameplay 20 feels like a lot.

Interesting the kind of things they do: remember the location of their nest, find a path back, collect leaves etc. are so taxing.

In the real world a colony of 1000+ is typical. Some colonies have millions of ants. And real ants have much more to "process" Kind of gives you a sense of the scale of the intelligence of a colony.

mycotropic,
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@futurebird

I'd guess that the ants each have their own GPU running a copy of the AntOS right? I wonder whether we could learn something about biological computing/cooperation by taking one of those stupid Bitcoin mining machines, installing AntOS on each of the GPUs and pointing the collective at a problem to solve?

Jennifer, to scifi
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I need some new science fiction to read, who has some suggestions? I don't like military sci-fi. For reference, my favorite series is the Expanse, I also enjoyed Scalzi's Collapsing Empire, I love Robert Charles Wilson's books. I mostly enjoy space operas and unique stories about technology, for example I really liked the recent book Mountain in the Sea about AI and intelligent octopus. Suggestions from the awesome Bookstodon community? @bookstodon

mycotropic,
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@todwest @Jennifer @bookstodon

Hey now, that's great news, I love that series!

mycotropic, to animals
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Kiton has this area covered, go about your business citizens.

mycotropic, to Bloomscrolling
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My backyard is busy using a macro lens!

Tiny blue flowers with a sea of out of focus flowers in the background
Tiny purple flowers up close

mycotropic, to random
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My daughter brought home her stuff from college, yes, that's her being eaten by seagulls and the texture is sewn on beads. It's 5 feet tall, where can I possibly hang it

A poem written by my daughter is shown, it's kind of long to type out

mycotropic,
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@anathema_device

Do you like her socks?

SJBradley, to Cats
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I tried to get him to participate in but he says he's "too tired"

mycotropic,
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@SJBradley

I have no idea what you're talking about!

falcennial, to random
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a like button is some straight 1984 shit. it can mean "I like this thing," or "I like that you told me about this thing I dislike." when something can mean either yes or no, why have it? people either have their own personal rules, or adhere to a convention they know, or don't. why have it? what outcome is it for? what outcome does it achieve? why have it?

mycotropic,
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@falcennial

I use it as a visual placeholder and acknowledgement of @GottaLaff long and incredibly interesting threads. I tick them off as I read them and I can come back to a thread, scroll through it quickly and find where I left off in a straightforward way. Same with other long threads that take a while to read or change over time.
So it's a multiply-functional tool for me!

mycotropic, to random
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She's already had enough and it's only 7:19am.

alexwild, to random
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Biology faculty at UT are meeting today to talk about a hiring plan. I really don't envy their job of trying to make a department located in Texas attractive.

We're in the middle of an ongoing purge of black staff, the adminstration just called in the state police to beat and jail students, and no one in their right mind would want to risk pregnancy to have a family here. It's bleak.

mycotropic,
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@alexwild

I'm a biologist/anthropologist, MPH, PhD in epidemiology and there is literally no number of dollars you could offer me that would attract me to Texas. I wouldn't accept Dean, Chancellor or President either. I'm not even tenure tracked faculty where I am and, no, no way.

mycotropic, to random
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Talked with leadership about the protests in Colorado today, nobody said; "the arrests on Friday were a mistake" but they did say; "they immediately returned and are still there"..

The problems that will generate a response is the disruption of learning or teaching and the obvious stuff like violence or hate speach, not officially but those are the rules that were quoted. They also card locked the buildings so that students could access and use the toilet but non students can't, that's to keep the protest a student protest apparently and perhaps reduce the encampment impact.

My campus is across town and I mentioned that the armored response did nothing to keep things calm and head nods all around. We read my email to the chief and his response into the record as well. All in all I think that leadership learned quickly from Friday and is acting fairly and appropriately at this point.


mycotropic, to random
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So this is what being stuck in an elevator is like!


mycotropic,
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Okay, I was freed from my metal box AND I didn't have to pee in my salad bowl!

mycotropic,
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@anathema_device

I can always count on your support when it truly matters!

mycotropic,
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@anathema_device

I continue to depend on you! Tell me how I can support you going forward!

mycotropic,
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@treleanor @anathema_device

Oh no! Are you still there? Should we send someone?

DrALJONES, (edited ) to random
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    mycotropic,
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    @DrALJONES

    I'm trying to head this off in Colorado today! Hope I still have a job this afternoon!

    mycotropic, to random
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    That's.........specific..........

    gsuberland, to random
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    I've designed 8 different PCBs in a row in the space of just a few days. starting number 9 now. so exhausted.

    mycotropic,
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    @gsuberland

    Noooo!!!

    "Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are highly carcinogenic chemical compounds, formerly used in industrial and consumer products, whose production was banned in the United States by the Toxic Substances Control Act in 1976 and internationally by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001. "

    Binder, (edited ) to random
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    Finally bought myself a quilted comforter.

    It took forever to come up w/ the down payment.

    mycotropic,
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    @Binder

    Batting a thousand again I see!

    RustyBertrand, to random
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    Where'd he go? The actual Wiley responded to a post.

    I used to post by @Wileymiller on the office door, at Mercy Hospital in New Orleans, BEFORE THE INTERNET!

    The hospital was destroyed by hurricane in 2005. My favourite memory was how my one taped up comic turned the whole door into a kind of meme wall. Everybody started putting up what they found funny.

    People would gather with their coffees in the morning.

    *Internet existed, but just for nerds and the military.

    mycotropic,
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    @RustyBertrand @Wileymiller

    This was a hell of a sweet exchange!

    Myerman, to random
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    Also and I can’t stress this enough - the “violence” you’re seeing on campuses over the last few weeks? It’s because the cops are rolling in with their bullshit to break up peaceful demonstrations guaranteed by our fucking first amendment

    mycotropic,
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    @Myerman

    No question about it, this happened at in today, 40 people arrested and hopefully the judge chucks the whole stupid shit out because PROTEST IS LEGAL.

    GottaLaff, to legal
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    NEW THREAD 🧵 STARTS HERE. 1/...

    Klasfeld:

    Trump is back at the defense table, and we're waiting for the judge to return to the bench.

    mycotropic,
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    @GottaLaff

    You are the bomb!

    golgaloth, to writing
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    Have you ever had to update one of your stories due to technological advancements?

    mycotropic,
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    @golgaloth

    block chain, replace block chain with AI.

    dorgaldir, to Autism Dutch
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    I feel this so hard. Why can't people just be clear about what they want?
    @actuallyautistic

    mycotropic,
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    @dorgaldir @actuallyautistic

    This picture is very weird to me, the is an instrument for assessing possible decline in clinical practice. Part of the MiniCog is asking the person to fill in a round clock face with appropriate numbers and arms indicating "10 minutes past 11". Cognitive impairment can show up as in appropriately arranged numbers, bad spacing, arms pointed at the incorrect numbers, stuff like that. All of it gets scored along with a three word memory recall as an assessment.
    Not kids. That's not where the 10 minutes past 11 language is used as far as I know.
    It's just a weird meme.

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