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trochee

@trochee@dair-community.social

NLP (the nerdy kind). Wrong-half Jew. Privilege-traitor.
Linguist. Empiricist. Rager against machines. formerly #indymedia
Also, #comics, #SFF #scifi, languages, big data, algorithms, software design, and more, including #EthicalAI

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Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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And Finn. Should. Have. Been. A . Jedi.

trochee,
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@Adam_Cadmon1 he even has the "orphan hero" jam going just like Anakin and Luke.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Just...something that Ive always found interesting about Star Wars tech; the mix of digital and analog. You have sentient AI but you're still sending radio transmissions? Wired radio transmissions.

trochee,
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@Adam_Cadmon1

I love that bit. There's a whole "we don't know how this tech works any more" vibe that's super great

trochee,
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@Adam_Cadmon1

At several points Han and Chewbacca fix incredibly powerful tech (warp drives, etc) by thumping on a bulkhead in just the right place.

That is not the sign of somebody who genuinely knows how things work, just how to make it work.

At Galaxy's Edge in Disneyland there was a barbecue joint that was juked up to be a decommissioned starship drive with a few slave droids turning a carcass on a spit below the exhaust plume

jwz, to random
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I weep for the future.

Last night, a friend I thought would know better was telling me how excited they were about "AI". My gesticulating ten minute response hit points such as: fraud at scale, fruit of the poisonous tree, VCs with sunk costs in...
https://jwz.org/b/ykP4

trochee,
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@jwz

Co-sign allathis!

mcc, to random
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Irene Pepperberg's theory is that parrots do not learn words by hearing the word in proximity to an event, rather they learn words by hearing flock members use a word during an interaction with another flock member https://mastodon.social/@JoeKozinski/112394735459907294

trochee,
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@mcc

Seems reasonable to suggest that humans learn words in a similar way (literacy makes that a little muddier, of course)

trochee, (edited ) to random
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NO RELATION. I don't know him.

New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he won’t do it | Press Watch
https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/new-york-times-editor-joe-kahn-says-defending-democracy-is-a-partisan-act-and-he-wont-do-it/

(But let me tell you about the Joe Kahn I am related to: 1/3)

trochee, (edited )
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Joe Kahn shares a name with my grandfather, a Manhattanite who put himself through night school to get his CPA and literally helped defeat Hitler by doing accounting for the Army.

He (my grandpa Joe) was radicalized at Fort Bragg basic training, where the Jewish New Yorkers stuck together for protection against the hillbillies.

So a bunch of working class brainiacs (who had, as you might guess, thought a LOT about how money is used by power) introduced my granddad to Das Kapital.

(2/3)

trochee, (edited )
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Grandpa Joe died in the 1980s, having been a member of the New York Communist Party since the end of the war.

I still remember his memorial service in the CPUSA headquarters, where I (a fourth grader) thought that the balding, goateed man in the painting was my grandpa. (It was Lenin.)

(3/3)

trochee,
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@xgranade

I know , and they've been right up in front with the people "ethics washing" the murder and starvation of children

LRRRonEarth, to random
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HUMAN GHOSTWRITER IS MUTTERING SONG LYRICS AGAIN. IT'S EITHER SOME WEIRD MILLENNIAL NOSTALGIA OR HE'S DEPRESSED. BETTER TURN HIM OFF AND THEN BACK ON AGAIN.

trochee,
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@LRRRonEarth

And still he holds down the shift key for you. What a mensch!

carnage4life, to random
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This is like Homer Simpson calling someone fat.

trochee,
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@carnage4life

It's like Baron Harkonnen calling someone 'fat'

blogdiva, to random
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IN OTHER NEWS... am done with 🥳 🎉 🎈 now it's physical and immunotherapy until next Spring, so let's say it with the chest...

🗣️ FUCK CANCER!!!

trochee,
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@blogdiva

YES!

paninid, to random
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’s admired by everywhere is remaining pot-committed to papering over all of the he is trying to manifest into the world.

trochee,
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@paninid

apropos of that,

https://dair-community.social/@trochee/112389687280615091

ErikUden, to random
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Oh, you're experiencing or critiquing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying to change your personal behavior instead?

trochee,
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@ErikUden

How nearly all HR departments work on mental health in the workforce

trochee, to random
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Been watching The Good Place with my eleven year old.

We just watched the last episode of the first season, the one where [redacted for spoilers].

He did not see it coming AT ALL and his bafflement and delight are so pure that I want another go, the way Mindy St Claire wants another rail of coke

trochee, to random
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Kernighan's Law II: Revenge of the Debugged

(I agree, @shac !)
https://ioc.exchange/@shac/112391029055067523

xgranade, to random
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Weird thought that I might have to explore at some point: why is the word "violence" used to refer both to actions taken in opposition to and in support of systems of oppression?

We have different words for "up" and "down" or "left" and "right" as well as "vertical" and "horizontal," but the word "violence" never seems to imply a direction.

trochee,
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@xgranade

Somehow this makes me think of Samuel Delany's suggestion that the possessive is a structural problem in most widespread/imperial languages

(Why do we use the same "my" for "my hand", "my hammer", "my house", "my dog", "my child", "my spouse"?)

mekkaokereke, to random
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No one watches women's sports! (Because we don't televise the games 🤡).

So the WNBA premiere of Caitlin Clark was televised. But the WNBA premiere of Angel Reese (2023 champ who beat Caitlin Clark) and Kamila Cardoso (2024 champ who beat Caitlin Clark), wasn't televised or available to stream in the app. So... A fan set up a bootleg stream. 430K viewers tuned in to watch.🤯

https://www.nola.com/sports/lsu/angel-reese-lsu-fan-livestream-wnba-debut-drew-430000-viewers/article_ad17806f-56e1-5be1-ab0c-785e0a26dbaf.html

This is free money! Customers are trying to throw it at you!

trochee,
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@mekkaokereke

Given that description alone, I've got pretty good odds on what colors Angel, Kamila, and Caitlin are

trochee, to random
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Every once in a while I am amazed that one of the contenders for social media dominance right now is literally named "blue sky"

It's a term from project planning, and I'm pretty sure it's intended to mean "what you do if there were no constraints"

1/2

trochee,
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figuratively, "blue sky" is about halfway between "pie in the sky" (unrealistically optimistic) and "fair-weather friend/soldier" (someone who cannot be relied upon in hard times)

That they entirely overlook these rhetorical ankle-breaking potholes (as bad as "Uber", I mean, really) is the best evidence yet that the software engineering industry needs humanities people

2/2

trochee,
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@xgranade yeah,

"blue sky" absolutely feels like a Torment Nexus name

but swapping genre from SFF to whatever genre contains Office Space, Severance, The Office, Microserfs, etc

"fin-du-20⁰-siècle bureaucratic decadent"
"Dunder-Mifflinique"

ElleGray, to random
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don't get me wrong, the rap battle is fun, but a fight between men named Kendrick Lamar Duckworth and Aubrey Drake Graham should really involve dueling with swords at dawn

trochee,
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@justin @ElleGray

I was gonna say — muzzle load pistols, please.

trochee, to random
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My personal motto:
Slow Down And Fix Your Shit

For literal years.

apparently I'm not the only one: @exchgr said this last year

https://mastodon.world/@exchgr/110742133708829089

trochee,
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@exchgr very fine people

mekkaokereke, to random
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This paper is trash. We do this every few years.

The conclusion is correct (graduate degree holding white men believe the most 'taboo' conspiracy theories), but the reasons it suggests why, are sociology-babble garbage. The real reason is:

  • Racism is a lie. To believe in racism, you must believe a set of easily debunkable lies.
  • Richer, whiter, maler, more educated populations are not less racist, despite attempts to twist stats to say this. They're more racist.

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/05/believes-the-most-taboo-conspiracy-theories-it-might-not-be-you-think/

1/N

trochee,
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@skry @mekkaokereke

I think that *chan users are the tip of the iceberg here, & only the most obvious of a much more widespread phenomenon

A lot of supremacist beliefs are right below the surface in your average white suburbanite, especially in the "business owner" / "regional franchise manager" upper middle class "petty tyrant" professional cadre.

Just look at, eg, who steps up to oppose public transportation or bike lanes, or to grumble on local talk radio about "those people"

trochee,
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@jrconlin @skry @mekkaokereke

The Just World Fallacy, by a more profane name

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