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trans dyke hacking on @QueeriousLabs@twitter.com and DDoSecrets she/her (xey/xem or ey/em if you're bored with binaries); no child zone, 18+ only 

current twitter handle: @defnotbeka@twitter.com 

former twitter handles: @beka_valentine @illegally_beka

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2025-06-20 18:59:34

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i think we have these massively powerful computers around us all the time and we're squandering them, for a variety of terrible reasons, and i think that's sad

2025-06-20 18:57:06

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the first is a videogame from 2025, the second from 2000, the last from 1975
but thats actually cheating because the 1975 one is an arcade game and those were way more powerful than personal computers you could get in 1975
here's a 1975 personal computer game
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/717/211/552/334/558/original/99e7962807404afb.jpg

2025-06-20 18:51:51

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and this is true, i'm not saying that things like game graphics haven't changed significantly, they obviously have
but even there, is the difference between the first two images below REALLY about the same as the last two images?
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/717/185/708/843/786/original/229f67e6475b2c69.jpg
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/717/189/041/461/600/original/88ef07d28d8b55b7.jpg
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/717/193/274/594/419/original/862e2c6ed7ac212e.jpg

2025-06-18 20:54:15

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ill given you an example. in Chomsky's massively important 1957 book Syntactic Structures, which basically invents modern linguistic theory, in the chapter Limitations of Phrase Structure Descriptions, he observes that conjunction in English is described really nicely with..

2025-06-17 01:01:41

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@nprofile…cpun correct

2025-05-22 00:43:09

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i don't think i've ever seen serious video content like that. certainly there's been tie-in content, like in-universe websites for TV shows (EFC and Andromeda had multiple), or in-universe news papers for video games (Deus Ex had a Midnight Sun issue in the box)

2025-05-22 00:41:25

i've thought for like.. almost 25 years now lmfao.. that there should be more scifi shows that play like non-fiction content
like, a scifi show that's an in-universe tv show instead. in-universe news, or an in-universe documentary, or whatever

2025-05-20 03:16:03

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@nprofile…um0w even is nothing like this

2025-05-20 02:24:26

periodically i will watch old TechTV shows and get kinda sad at the things we lost as a culture and fundamentally we lost them because of tech monopolies and i cannot wait for google and facebook and microsoft and apple to be smashed to pieces

2025-05-14 00:08:12

andor finale tonight ;_;

2025-05-03 01:05:43

very weird sudden burst of wind in SoMa just now

2025-04-27 07:56:17

@nprofile…fyar i found the perfect door
https://phpc.social/@davidbisset/114404272730259571

2025-04-21 00:17:09

has Trump staged a Reichstag Fire, invoked the Insurrection Act, and declared martial law yet, or were the liberal parnoiacs wrong yet again?

2025-04-18 05:47:02

david brooks is a former anti-revisionist marxist leninist, republicans calling for a nation-wide strike against trump lolol
incredible times

2025-04-14 20:33:13

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@nprofile…kvgh its a macguffin that motivates a series of ridiculously implausible story moves that make no sense and which aren't interesting

2025-04-14 20:32:18

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i mean come on, this is cheesy 50s scifi but without the benefit of being cheesy nor from the 50s
this is Independence Day but without the benefit of Will Smith
this is just utterly absurd on the face of it

2025-04-14 20:28:41

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...they have the ability to fold up higher dimensions to build sub-proton-sized super computers and rocketships, they have compute capable of manipulating human brains at an extremely deep level
this is NOT a species that is desperate to solve the 3 body problem

2025-04-14 20:27:17

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but additionally, this is a species that can travel for 400 years through interstellar space at 1% the speed of light, they can accelerate small microscopic computers to at minimum 25% the speed of light and then slow them down, they have FTL communication...

2025-04-14 20:25:43

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you don't need to solve the 3 body problem for a spacecraft because you're constantly adjusting its orbit. long term stability is completely irrelevant when you're not in free orbit!

2025-04-14 20:24:52

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but also, they're a full fledged space faring civilization. they have precisely zero need to inhabit one planet alone, they can build a vast fleet of spaceships, so why not just build a vast array of space stations?

2025-04-14 20:23:19

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they could absolutely run incredibly intensive computations on a regular basis constantly updating their mid term projections. so yes its not perfect but it doesn't need to be. it needs to be good enough, and what they can do is absolutely good enough

2025-04-14 20:22:08

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i mean, for one, the Santi/Trisolarans are a very high tech species far beyond humans, so while their computers cannot solve the 3 body problem, numerical approximations are generally quite good for short term predictions, and the more compute you have the better they get

2025-04-14 20:20:23

the show/story 3 Body Problem is premised on some very flawed ideas tbh.
for one, yes, it's true that the 3 Body Problem cannot be solved generally and that a planetary system in Alpha Centauri would be highly chaotic but that doesn't matter one bit

2025-04-09 17:34:29

the market is up 6%-8%, what happened in the last 2 hours

2025-04-07 18:11:38

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@nprofile…nhxf that bounce happened way earlier, these are current numbers

2025-04-06 22:35:14

OH | How do you pronounce Proud Hon?

2025-04-04 20:31:25

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apparently its an SF Giants thing?
https://x.com/SFJET147/status/1908251406848713015

2025-04-04 20:30:41

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plane had no callsign and then disappeared off ADS-B exchange
it was previously circling over north bay, and had come out of Fresno???

2025-03-27 17:04:12

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i mean, look, I'm a functional programmer and type theory enthusiast, intuitionistic logic is my jam, and I think these things can certainly make you a better programmer
but its super weird to me to imagine that Aristotelian logic is some mental shackle

2025-03-27 17:01:36

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basically, "non-Aristotelian logic" means just "non-classical logic"
its such a quaint way of thinking to suppose that mastering any of these forms of logic is some kind of magical cognitive advantage

2025-03-26 17:03:14

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@nprofile…3qtz @nprofile…q6j2
After a long day on the beat, Moose Cop returns to HQ.
"Boy, are my dogs barkin'," he says as he comes through the door.
"Woof! Woof! Arf! Awoooooo!" says his partner, Dog Cop

2025-03-04 05:22:58

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oh also apparently Peter Lorre caricatures persist to this day. the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie has a bulgey eyed Kamek that talks like Lorre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0_tb0peJ3I&t=1m20s

2025-01-11 05:58:47

from @nprofile…qz4x comes this link to a great article about how the DNC completely rigs the candidate selection process and was even taken to court for it
"Later in the hearing, attorneys representing the DNC claim that the Democratic National Committee would be well within their rights to “go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way.” "
https://observer.com/2017/05/dnc-lawsuit-presidential-primaries-bernie-sanders-supporters/

2024-11-17 00:08:02

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@nprofile…qtgd @nprofile…kz0w this makes sense. wifi networks are widely used to give more precise locations when GPS doesn't suffice

2024-11-14 09:03:40

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@nprofile…u9x0 big hbomb deus ex vibes

2024-11-08 19:42:28

just because something CAN be done with clever type shenanigans rather than a core design component doesn't mean it SHOULD

2024-11-03 21:27:53

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so I figure this is a good opportunity to share a corner of formal logic with you that few people know about:
Plural Logic, created by George Boolos (not Boole!)

2024-11-03 21:26:18

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but this raises an interesting thing: what are the options? i mean, explicit structures like sets work fine
but in formal logic, there are other options beyond that, which I've never seen brought into programming

2024-11-03 21:25:20

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partially this is of course because English quantifiers work in a particular way, but its not just that. the semantics of quantification is hotly debated anyway so it doesn't actually address the issue to simply defer to one particular formal semantics of english

2024-11-01 19:49:58

as is so common these days due to Future of Coding, I was thinking about the ways in which we program things and the difficulties of that, and one of the things that I decided I wanted to do was try to analyze a particular task that I often want to do but find tedious

2024-10-30 21:46:47

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another similar thing here is Xanadu, Ted Nelson's original ideas for hypertext. if you go and you read Ted's work on it, especially Literary Machines, you realize that he wasn't just envisioning a simple little protocol

2024-10-30 21:45:50

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and Smalltalk _must_ be like this, in a sense. it can't simply be a small little thing, because then it wouldn't be Smalltalk. it cant be JUST a language, like Objective C (ie C cosplaying as Smalltalk), because the language isn't really the point. to reduce it to a language is to not get Smalltalk

2024-10-30 21:44:32

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Smalltalk is not a tiny little library for working on graphics, say, it's not even a programming language tho it also is one of those, it's not a "system" if you go for the system-not-language thing
Smalltalk is a broad way of approaching the problem of computing, which starts from some core ideas, and which has a deeply penetrating answer to everything that might come up

2024-10-30 21:42:42

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in the computing space, I think there are a lot of interesting examples of Philosophically Modernist projects, especially ones that @npub1sdn…mxwa and @npub1th5…5jaq have talked about a bunch before, one canonical one being Smalltalk

2024-10-30 21:38:53

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the quintessential example of this that is often given is Marx's theory of capitalism, which gives a very big picture of the system of capitalism by broadly applicable principles
another great example is the theoretical physicists' search for a unifying theory that explains all of the laws of physics from a single small kernel or equation

2024-10-30 21:36:54

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in a broadly philosophical context, Modernism is often described as a focus on Grand Totalizing Metanarratives, which really just means an all-encompassing perspective on a big high-level issue, rather than a focus on a particular phenomenon with its own particular details in isolation of other things

2024-10-30 21:35:34

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I can't say what Lu's intents were, her description of modernism sounded a lot like literary modernism to me, but the vibe I get from Dynamic Land feels a lot like _philosophical_ modernism. I get very very similar vibes from Dynamic Land that I get from projects like Xanadu, or the fictional computers of Star Trek

2024-10-30 21:34:13

listening to the Future of Coding extra ep on Dynamic Land and @npub1yas…andl brings up the idea that Bret Victor's doing a bit of modernism, and this felt really extremely true to me but I think in a way she didn't entirely intend

2024-10-24 04:00:13

used zippers to implement a very very basic text editor with sheds/holes, and it worked perfectly the first time. took about an hour at most.
for comparison, i tried the same thing without zippers yesterday and it was super buggy and hard to get right a took a lot longer

2024-10-22 05:42:23

just got hit by a car who drove off (black SUV, plate was like 52M something i think), then the fucking Muni bus drove off before i could get my bike to the rack
fortunately i'm not injured but my back wheel is all fucked

2024-10-03 18:31:03

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@npub12fp…dxzc it's all dummett's fault!

2024-09-10 03:20:49

@npub1hyk…3p33 coffium incoming x.x
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/111/100/639/499/212/original/e50ef959b8987214.jpeg

2024-09-07 17:57:37

@npub1hyk…3p33 got some HP Sauce and hoo boy was Pranksterella right about the brown love

2024-09-04 21:24:59

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@npub1hyk…3p33 just finished Let There Be Light and it's resolution feels like such a Doctorovian move, shades of Print Crime
one of my personal favorite ways of dealing with these things

2024-09-04 20:02:22

@npub1hyk…3p33 its fascinating seeing the relationship between heinlein's style and yours. there's so much similarity, but the moral of the story is inverse. its like the mirror universe in star trek, there's these fascinating parallels and then spock walks in with a goatee and is an ass

2024-09-04 19:55:10

listening to Heinlein's Let There Be Light, the first story in the collect The Man Who Sold the Moon. what a fascinating story. I can see the stylistic influences from folx like Gernsback, and the through line to @npub1hyk…3p33. very cute story so far, and very heinlein

2024-09-04 18:06:25

Jerry Pournelle's libertarianism is annoying but his 1971 story Ecology Now! is a pretty spot on characterization of the irrationalism of the eco-anti-nuclear nonsense

2024-08-19 23:14:38

so i ordered some coffee via ssh
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/991/224/047/087/473/original/dd81d8442c2a5a8b.jpeg

2024-08-17 20:49:36

@npub1hyk…3p33 after hearing about burning man in your podcast and on lorenzo's psychedelic salon for almost 20 years, i'm finally going to be going. i plan on catching your talk at palenque norte :D

2024-08-05 20:39:48

does anyone know of programming languages that have a peculiar or atypical approach to comments?
we have the usual line comments and block comments, but what else is there?

2024-08-02 23:36:20

hypercard was a really fascinating idea, if you think about it. it was simultaneously a hypermedia player, that lets you use hypercard stacks, and also an easy to use editor that lets you do wysiwyg authoring

2024-07-30 21:08:28

@npub1hyk…3p33 do you use a tool to cross post threads to mastodon and twitter?

2024-07-30 02:33:51

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@npub1rhr…gh5p scrolling through their instance timeline, there's periodic blatant nazi shit, too

2024-07-30 02:32:11

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@npub1rhr…gh5p any yuga stuff is a nazi cult tie in, almost certainly. yuga labs and the kali yuga nazis

2024-07-26 08:06:05

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@npub1jq9…jqnl some people distinguish democracy from consensus in treating democracy as majoritarian voting

2024-07-24 21:34:00

the left's reaction to longtermism has produced a kind of thought-terminating kneejerk response whenever long term thinking of any sort comes up, and it's really frustrating
the future matters, actually, and we should be thinking about how our choices impact future people

2024-07-21 05:27:41

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@npub1jq9…jqnl tomasello's interesting as an author. kinda flakey knowledge of language at some level, but also lots of fascinating stuff at another

2024-07-21 02:43:35

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@npub1jq9…jqnl fwiw, research at UMD from a decade and change ago shows that theory of mind is present as early as we can test, provided that the tests are done properly to account for non-linguistic abilities

2024-07-19 16:35:44

to understand this crowdstrike kerfuffle, read @npub1hyk…3p33's work on monopolies

2024-07-18 20:07:30

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@npub18vp…76p9 lmfao Sol from Star Wars: The Acolyte :p

2024-07-18 19:56:11

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@npub18vp…76p9 hes just completely convinced that trying to kidnap some children and then murdering their mother was just a fine thing for him to do

2024-07-18 19:54:44

man, sol is really a fucking terrible person huh

2024-07-16 04:22:54

tell you what man, voting isn't going to fix things. even if biden wins, you get 4 years until we gotta do it all over again.
by all means, vote. better later than sooner
but voting is the BEGINNING, not the END, of dealing with fascism

2024-07-13 22:29:33

someone tried to assassinate trump and almost succeeded, missed his head by an inch, grazed his ear. this will probably cause right wing backlash. stay safe out there

2024-07-13 21:02:05

gonna learn how to make dynamic websites with javascript
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/781/198/068/202/130/original/a837f179a26aba83.jpeg

2024-07-01 02:28:32

there's something really interesting about a lot of old-timey scifi, in that, because it was from an era before the world was saturated with computers, it had all sorts of fancy futuristic gadgetry that were very much not computers

2024-06-25 19:41:55

one thing i fuckin hate about Mastodon is that I can't search my own goddamn posts
like, great, i'm using FeDeRaTiOn
but what good has it done me? i don't own my data, i can't SEARCH my data

2024-06-24 16:55:46

is there a scifi database that lets you search for stories/etc with lots of keywords or ontologies or whatever?

2024-06-19 19:29:36

I think that one of the major problems with a lot of modern computer-related "engineering", even things like electrical engineering, but especially software engineering, at least for newbies, is that there is often no real methodology for solving problems

2024-06-19 04:34:22

there's an interesting thing that's happened in the torrent world where Doctor Who has been """rebooted""" in the labelling so that instead of being in season 14, torrents list it as season 1 of Doctor Who 2024, similar to how they did season 1 of Doctor Who 2005, despite continuity

2024-06-15 03:04:08

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@npub1jma…0as2 i dont know what that is

2024-06-15 02:51:17

what genre of music is early 1970s space scifi Dr Who music

2024-06-12 22:27:13

what kids these days dont understand is that in the y2k era, companies would just imply that their products were drugs in a good way
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/605/997/487/156/818/original/f81f094a6fe5d9d0.jpg

2024-06-04 19:18:06

there's some nuance and analysis to what skeumorphism is that I think is often unstated or not done when talking about UIs, so I figure I'll do that here in the hopes that its useful to some people

2024-06-02 19:18:38

we must destroy monopolies, they are completely and utterly destroying everything
https://mastodon.social/@adamconover/112548610773514271

2024-05-28 17:43:02

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and if that means the project has bugs or is broken or unmaintained then thats fine and people should live with the consequences of choosing to rely on it instead of fretting over funding

2024-05-28 17:42:13

hot take: people should only work on open source/free software in the ways they want to work on it and should make no promises or claims about it that they don't want to back up

2024-05-28 01:01:22

i wish more leftists understood that Section 230 is absolutely vital for keeping the internet safe from monopolies and rich people's lawyers
if you want to understand why, check out @npub1hyk…3p33's latest podcast:
https://craphound.com/news/2024/05/26/wanna-make-big-tech-monopolies-even-worse-kill-section-230/

2024-04-24 00:12:19

if you enjoy this post, you must must must read or listen to @npub1hyk…3p33's writing on enshittification
https://goblin.band/notes/9sgki9pdru7i8p9y

2024-04-23 17:06:26

SFPD is out clearing even the smallest encampments today

2024-04-23 00:04:18

hahahahaha great :)
'Uncharted territory': El Niño to flip to La Niña in what could be the hottest year on record
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/weather/uncharted-territory-el-nino-to-flip-to-la-nina-in-what-could-be-the-hottest-year-on-record

2024-04-11 03:14:08

back in the 2000s, """sideloading""" was the norm on MacOS
you would just go to a website, maybe pay a few dollars directly to the creators, and then download a .app or .dmg, drag the app into the Applications directory, and done
but then Apple saw the chance to skim some of that transaction and started holding both sides hostage
https://woem.men/notes/9rrqdfjsauby1bi2

2024-04-11 03:04:35

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@npub1aka…zzz2 how do i read the cuneiform and the hieratic? :p

2024-04-11 03:03:09

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@npub1aka…zzz2 whats the top left sticker?

2024-04-05 17:21:23

rust is like "we heard of haskell, and watched the Monads and Gonads talk, let's copy only the latter and make it like a million times worse"

2024-04-01 22:39:53

today's @npub1hyk…3p33 episode -- Subprime Gadgets -- is REALLY good and you should go listen to it immediately
https://craphound.com/news/2024/03/31/subprime-gadgets/

2024-03-27 05:23:13

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@npub1xp9…amfw @npub1d9m…afya omg these are so good

2024-03-18 18:53:43

you should check out @npub1hyk…3p33 's novel The Bezzle. it's really good

2024-02-29 05:11:26

i've had this vision for about a year now of making a fake BART poster that looks like:
top half: photo of bart driver from behind with a bart logo print hankie in the left pocket
bottom half: photo of bart rider from behind with a bart logo print hankie in the right back pocket
text on the top part says: "Whether you drive the train..."
text on bottom part says: "Or love getting railed..."
text on poster bottom: "BART's got you covered"

2024-02-28 19:03:03

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but that doesn't explain why this shit is EVERYWHERE, it only explains why it exists at all
lots of things exist that aren't everywhere. how did it spread?