Will 🌹🏴 @datatitian@social.coop
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings
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It's official! @ImmersSpace is a flagship project of the Grant for the Web. The #ActivityPub powered, federated, social, Immersive Web #metaverse is coming.
https://www.grantfortheweb.org/blog/2020-flagship-grantees
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"We should delicately and subtly undermine the idea that truth and facts are possible in the first place. Once people have become doubtful about the truth of anything, all kinds of things are open to us."
I am so impressed with how Pullman has, with the 20 year gap since the Golden Compass / #HisDarkMaterials, seamlessly updated the themes of his work to deal with today's pressing issues in The Secret Commonwealth.
@books
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Oh wow it's a video of the origin of the quote in my bio. I had no idea this existed. Thanks, @ike. What a treasure she was and will always be.
https://youtu.be/Et9Nf-rsALk
"A visionary work of Eastern Bloc science fiction, IKARIE XB 1 (adapted from a novel by Solaris author Stanisław Lem) melds Cold War ideology and utopian futurism into a tour de force of space-age modernism."
https://filmforum.org/film/ikarie-xb-1-virtual-cinema
If the bakers would realize that all of value of the tent derives from their labor, they could band together and demand, "Actually, Paul, you're the one that's going home."
Tagging Nicolás Maduro into the family group chat to back me up on arguing for socialism
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When I'm feeling sad, I look at goats in trees. It always helps a little bit
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DID YOU KNOW:
US publisher Random House is named after its secret headquarters building, an interdimensional portal currently decorated in Young Adult Brutalist style, and which can only be entered by those who already know of its existence, or by prospective Editors. The House generates rooms - and best-selling novels - procedurally on demand, following an arcane algorithm first coded by Benjamin Franklin. You could become the next Editor - if you pick up the Editor's Typewriter and survive.
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Sometimes you're not the one who changed; it's the sprouts that are different
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo
We should federate git web interfaces. Then I could move my projects off of GitHub without losing the ability of others to file issues and pull requests
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Anyone reading/read Doctorow's Little Brother? @books
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"(...) algorithms do not see the world with mathematical detachment but instead tend to replicate or even amplify historical cultural biases. (...) Experiments by WIRED using the official photos of 10 men and 10 women from the California State Senate suggest the study’s findings still hold. (...) Google’s top suggested labels noted a smile for only one of the men, but for seven of the women. The company’s AI vision service labeled all 10 of the men as “businessperson,” often also with “official” or “white collar worker.” Only five of the women senators received one or more of those terms. Women also received appearance-related tags, such as “skin,” “hairstyle,” and “neck,” that were not applied to men."
Sure, let a bunch of Silicon Valley incels shape the world we live in, what could go wrong?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/when-ai-sees-a-man-it-thinks-official-a-woman-smile/
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So I managed to get GPT-3 to generate new Victorian handkerchief flirting codes.
I hope you find them useful for adding subtext to your next zoom call
https://aiweirdness.com/post/635599715510239232/post-human-flirting
@rstats new version of magrittr https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2020/11/magrittr-2-0-is-here/
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#ElonMusk is like the universe tried to will #TonyStark into existence, but then gave up and ordered a knockoff from #Wish send toot
Can we get some "Obama/Biden buddy adventure" genre fanfic but instead it's these two spreading communism across the globe?
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Reviews like this make the blood, sweat and tears working on this adventure game while being an underpaid social worker in the US ghetto worth it. And yeah, let's make cyberpunk PUNK again!
https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud
https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings
Follows welcome except Nazis/TERFs
He/him
Cooperate all the things!
Joined Jun 2017
