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paninid

@paninid@mastodon.world

Superversive humanist. Prolific graphomaniac. Newsjunkie. Reading, thinking, writing things🖖🏼

🇺🇸 Reply Guy still doing the work

Indio Gringo™ de Tennessee, ruthlessly pursuing #Joy

Use simple words to share weird, interesting ideas.

If you read this far…⤵️

Polydork on 🔥#history, #language, #comedy, #systems, #institutions, #knowledge, #learning, #psychology, #metaphysics, #entertainment, #governance, #sensemaking, and being #American.

Veteran of Eternal September since ‘99

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paninid, to random
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the Bubble

http://www.superversive.co/blog/sensemaking-in-the-bubble

paninid, to internet
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“ has turned so many into public relations professionals who pursue likeability instead of . That’s why people speak along pre-vetted party lines and silence their edgy ideas. First to others, later to themselves. When anything you say online can be instantly accessed with a Google search, the costs of independent thinking aren’t worth the benefits to most people.”

  • David Perell

https://perell.com/essay/how-philosophers-think/



@philosophy

paninid, to random
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How do fit into the model of ?

Asking for a frenemy.

paninid, to random
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Imagine having a country to escape to when things get too uncomfortable for you.

Must be nice, I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️

seachanger, to random
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if I don’t make my art who else will ?? 😱

paninid,
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@seachanger

paninid, to history
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To be clear, was right.

He was radical.

He was an abolitionist.

He was also a murderer and wannabe insurrectionist against the Republic.

He precipitated a Civil War.

John Brown saw clearly and correctly.

paninid, to random
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The human-curated source that is my Mastodon feed.

It replaced Twitter and I range from being between 2 days and several months ahead of the Discourse.
https://mas.to/@BlackAzizAnansi/112469240424390071

paninid, to books
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People who ban books so so from a place of intense fear, deep insecurity, and sense of self-seriousness.

@bookstodon

paninid, to random
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If your profession or identity has an “appreciation week” or “history month”, then you’re being fucked over and your people were probably fucked over.

QasimRashid, (edited ) to random
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I’m so glad public libraries already exist. Could you I magine trying to sell the idea of libraries to politicians in 2024?

“You want to build a large public complex on prime real estate that gives away free books & education & community events—paid for by our tax dollars? Are you crazy??”

paninid,
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@cohomologyisFUN @QasimRashid

paninid, to ai
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It took 18 months for lawyers to agree on language for public distribution.

cstross, to random
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I'm going to stick my neck out and suggest that the extremist settler movement in Israel is rooted in the USA and culturally has a lot in common with US white supremacist/settler ideology—there's a reason Netanyahu is so comfortable with Republicans who dine at the Christian Nationalist table.
https://mastodon.social/@cmonagle/112462865808610948

paninid,
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@MisuseCase @WizardBear @cstross

paninid, to technology
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The miracle of “” is that the words generated actually form sequences which humans process as plausible formulations of sentences in language we know.

inthehands, to random
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So…the “Slack will now train AI using your data” thing is not as much of a five alarm fire as I’d first assumed:

“We do not develop LLMs or other generative models using customer data.” ← GOOD.

“Data will not leak across workspaces.” ← Or so they say. They •are• training across workspaces, but sounds like recommender systems and not generative models, so…we’ll see. Seems fraught. Still, that public commitment does mean something — legal exposure, at least.

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

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paninid,
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@inthehands

The bad news: platform owners don’t have a vision and are out of ideas for how to innovate their #ecosystems, all in the name of #efficiency.

To paraphrase Jeff Goldblum’s character from Jurassic Park: The most brilliant minds of #engineering are optimized to execute and have not bothered to consider whether they should.

The good news: “real” #innovation will happen from the experienced middle, not the top.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hard-times-accurate-knowledge-wisdom-sam-panini-geyof?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via

paninid, to history
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Roger Taney, ahem, Samuel Alito…

CindyWeinstein, to random
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You are not a dumpster fire. You're a majestic dumpster garden.

paninid,
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@CindyWeinstein

Jack Nicholson Yes GIF by The Taboo Group

marick, to emacs
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I am being a good little programmer and adding docstrings to some Elixir code. I hate looking at it. It so gets in the way of the code; see below.

I want an #emacs keypress that hides all lines between two regexps (One for @…doc…”””; one for the ending “””.) Weirdly, I can’t find anything. I used to be good at Elisp/Emacs programming, but I pretty much stopped doing that around 30 years ago. So looking for something similar I can hack on (or package that obviates the need to).

Any pointers?

paninid,
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@marick @JeffGrigg
What a great example of - and a blindspot - being revealed.

paninid,
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@JeffGrigg @qurlyjoe @marick

Just gonna leave this here for anyone who hasn’t already been -pilled: https://innig.net/teaching/liberal-arts-manifesto

paninid, to random
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“It’s always great when the CIA helps you out” 🔥

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/ai-weapons-palantir-war-technology

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lolgop, to random
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Johnson serves at Democrats' pleasure. Johnson's statements at Trump's trial were despicable. More than anything, this was a statement from the Speaker that he’s willing to steal the election for Trump, and Democrats should say, “Then you’re out.”
https://www.signorile.com/p/mike-johnson-should-be-threatened

paninid,
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@qurlyjoe @lolgop

This Up Here GIF by Chord Overstreet

paninid, to random
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All the details of this story lead me to say:
https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/40162983/scottie-scheffler-detained-police-prior-start-pga-championship

mike, to random
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I honestly don't understand the anti vax movement. My cynical mind is thinking some group must have something to gain from convincing people to harm themselves and others, but I can't find any logical upside for anyone.

Is it simply to watch the world burn? Is it to discredit medical expertise in general? Or is it some stubborn misplaced sense of independence? Surely it can't simply be to thumb their noses at the "Woke"?

paninid,
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@mike
Pathological contrarianism like this is a personality defect, conditioned behavior, or the result of unprocessed issues related to a childhood fear of syringes.

StillIRise1963, to random
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No wonder the birth rate is plummeting.

paninid,
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@StillIRise1963 kids who identify grown-ups as the threat are .

paninid, to cyberpunk
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inspired by @silverspookgames

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