jonny (good kind)

Digital infrastructure 4 a cooperative internet. social/technological systems & systems neuro as a side gig. writin bout the surveillance state n makin some p2p. #UAW4811 rank and file agitator

information is political, science is labor.

science/work-oriented alt of jonny (npub1sze…gt9m)
This is a public account, quotes/boosts/links are always ok <3.

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2024-09-24 22:20:52

The language models are a protection racket. The business decision was to set the internet on fire and charge for water.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24253452/microsoft-correction-ai-safety-tool-fix-errors
Paying extra to correct dogshit model output is the same strategy as flooding the internet with spam and selling tailored chatbots as the cure. The long range consequences after all the social information systems have been hollowed out to be replaced by various shades of language models will be catastrophic. The critical part of this is not that it is "AI" correcting "AI," but that the trade is surrendering to total life surveillance to condition the model output. We are being forced to trade the (however problematic) collaborative web of human beings helping humans for the private surveillance oracle.
https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/#the-enclosure-of-information-access-as-a-private-exchange-with-a
#SurveillanceGraphs
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2024-09-23 01:49:32

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this was probably cooler back in 1960 when men showing off their hard work and ingenuity was like the peak of culture #monsterdon

2024-09-23 01:48:44

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oh PLEASE with the time elapsed narration for the love of god won't SOMETHING HAPPEN #monsterdon

2024-09-23 01:47:33

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we better get a cryptid of some kind and not just be giant normal animals the whole time, that would have been historically accurate anyway since that's what they thought was out there, "weird stuff" #monsterdon

2024-09-23 01:45:43

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my dudes i am yawning #monsterdon

2024-09-23 01:38:13

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why aren't the babes giant too #monsterdon

2024-09-23 01:37:20

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it's the literary style of ancient greek histories before they had invented the concept of "literary form." things happen and there is no need to comment upon them or make them form "a narrative" as long as the individual things happening are like super crazy and weird #monsterdon

2024-09-23 01:35:13

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the problem with all the jules verne movies is that they are just a series of things happening with extremely vague connection to one another and then they are rescued the end #monsterdon

2024-09-23 01:33:27

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i don't need no fucking characterization i need more giant animals #monsterdon

2024-09-23 01:29:32

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here we GO BABY GIANT ANIMAL TIME #Monsterdon

2024-09-23 01:27:09

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i can't tell if i prefer extremely loud nothing happening or interminable robinson crusoe nothing happening #monsterdon

2024-09-23 01:25:41

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i think the confederate soldier is australian ????? #monsterdon

2024-09-23 01:24:39

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this movie will redeem itself if they start anthropomorphizing the giant oysters and stuff right the hell now and ideally in a musical number where they clap their shells together like castanets #monsterdon

2024-09-23 01:19:50

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who gives a shit if the actions of the characters have literally no effect on what the balloon is going to do, let's keep screaming and pouring gasoline on the orchestra #monsterdon

2024-09-23 01:14:46

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stuff that is happening: (nothing)
the soundtrack: "BWWWOOOOOM, BWWOOOMMMM, CRASH CRASH BWWWWWOOOOM BLAAAAAAAAAAAH"
#monsterdon

2024-09-23 01:12:38

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what could the confederate guy possibly know about steering a hot air balloon. there isn't such a thing as steering a hot air balloon. #monsterdon

2024-09-23 01:11:39

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it seems like the odds of getting where you want to go in a hot air balloon are basically zero and you'd want to put it down as soon as you possibly could and proceed on foot #monsterdon

2024-09-23 01:07:17

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i don't have any experience with "jailing people" but i figure one of the main things you probably want to do is not send your main guys in there alone with nobody for backup #monsterdon

2024-09-23 01:03:25

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hahahahahaa i am sorry to anyone who is watching on @npub19k0…87v8 i didn't realize the portuguese subtitles were burned in lmao this is so bad #monsterdon

2024-09-23 01:02:15

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since my schtick for this movie is "not liking jules verne movies," the opening credits at least share the qualities of what this movie is likely to be: interminably long, loud, and without much happening in it #monsterdon

2024-09-23 00:55:54

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in #DoesTheDogDie news, it seems as if they actually rigged up a real crab with mechanical armatures to animate it #monsterdon

2024-09-23 00:51:20

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scrubbing through the video to check quality and it looks like Mysterious Island is the Island of Mysterious Matte Paintings #monsterdon

2024-09-23 00:50:08

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oh god the archive.org copy i put on @npub19k0…87v8 is so bad. like unwatchably bad. oops.
edit: nevermind it's actually mostly fine in the scenes that aren't just footage of water
#monsterdon

2024-09-23 00:49:15

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i have been remiss in my pre and post #monsterdon warnings lately, spoiled by the power of using the root post trick from another account to not flood the local TL, and i completely forgot about the rest of the fedi.
If you can see this and don't want to see like several thousand posts about a movie you aren't watching, you should mute the hashtag. Otherwise you can join us, the movie is ~ mysterious island ~ and it starts at 6PM pacific (in 12 minutes)
here's a copy: https://tube.me.jon-e.net/w/cMoh1oUCD8ueDeojpyZKQQ
and more info: https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Monsterdon

2024-09-23 00:45:36

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#monsterdon is always such a burden, i have to hold off on deploying myspace mode until it's over so i don't break the instance by accident and miss it https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon/pull/63

2024-09-23 00:44:09

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alright you freaking jokers i'll watch another jules vern #monsterdon if thats what you want so bad

2024-09-21 11:31:15

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(too late for me to have serious thoughts so i'm gonna duck out for the night so i'm not a distraction lol but i am on a parallel but separate track of thought that's about "[soft security](http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/SoftSecurity )" as the wiki world called it, lowering the consequences of ideological divide, allowing people to disagree and split apart and reform without it being such a huge problem. cross apply forking discourse and etc, but in the morning)

2024-09-21 11:19:31

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i'm over here about to bang on the table like a football dad changing 'purity! tests! purity! tests!'

2024-09-21 11:06:12

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oh god is it about to happen right now

2024-09-21 10:47:21

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p2p but for engaging with the world and its health instead of abandoning it yes please

2024-09-20 08:51:37

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a fucking rose grows in concrete, pirate cultures survive because they are built out of the relationships between people and their willingness to extend aid to one another. these are not mysterious patterns, but the basic patterns of mutual aid that drive biological and cultural evolution

2024-09-20 08:37:40

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this documentary is so god damned good everyone should watch The Art Of Warez
source: https://vimeo.com/341663153
mirror: https://tube.me.jon-e.net/w/cc1gk5ZaE7YMeHnxQTPtnx
#demoscene #warez #ansi #ansiart #piracy
https://media.neuromatch.social/media_attachments/files/113/168/938/515/793/011/original/c9bd92436d25b965.mp4

2024-09-20 07:41:38

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A very important part that i elided here for effect is that it's actually not true that pirate systems have no ego or reputational incentives. They are actually *vitally* and sometimes *suffocatingly* driven by social incentives because **archives are fundamentally a social process.**
See @npub1qk4…fwdn 's fantastic work [WAREZ](https://archive.org/details/punctum_warez-the-infrastructure-and-aesthetics-of-piracy ) that is the only academic work i know of that captures the social culture well,
or see Oliver Payne's "the Art of Warez" which is a very good historical depiction of the culture as told through .nfo art, demoscene music and keygens: https://vimeo.com/341663153 (mirror uploading now)
part of embracing p2p is embracing how it is **made of people** and that's a strength, not a weakness.

2024-09-20 07:19:09

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Two kinds of archives of comparable scale and complexity.
Kind A:
(a) has no resources,
(b) has no-one using their real names and thus no ego incentives or accountability,
(c) is actively being hunted by the entirety of global capital, intellectual property division
Kind B:
(a) has a ton of freely given resources
(b) is entirely driven by reputation and ostensibly has accountability mechanisms for failure to deliver
(c) is wholly legal and in fact one of the least opposed endeavors of information work
When Kind A is finally hunted down and forced to suddenly purge all their servers without warning or has them captured by law enforcement, the site goes down but the archive is able to reconstruct itself in a matter of days.
When Kind B has its funding lapse it is a complete, catastrophic loss.
COULD IT BE that the pirates prove something about the survivability and effectiveness of p2p archives???? COULD IT ALSO BE that they reveal the basic patterns of power and control that drive people to consistently choose Kind B systems?????

2024-09-20 07:07:34

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i was using historical examples here because it is not cool to tell on a currently active private bittorrent tracker but if you know anything about the bittorrent scene, such as it is, you know that what i'm saying here is true and if anything an understatement

2024-09-20 07:04:49

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An archive that runs on technology from 2001 and for literally $0/month, that's zero dollars and zero cents per month, serves as "the database" for an amount of data transferred that would have cost almost $1,000,000, or one million dollars, using S3. Sure torrents have come and gone from academictorrents, but it's tiny, niche, and bittorrent is 23 years old and very badly suited for research data. The ones that survive are the ones that people use and care about. If you want something to survive you can literally make that happen with a raspberry pi stashed in a storage closet with a flash drive attached to it.
it's such a preposterously good idea to develop p2p systems that actually meet our needs the ratio of benefit to cost is literally infinite.
https://jon-e.net/infrastructure/#from-this-very-simple-example-we-can-articulate-a-number-of-attr
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2024-09-20 01:24:30

Ik im preaching to the choir on here, but I do genuinely get the pushback from cloudbrained ppl that "we don't need #p2p data infra because Amazon is giving it to us for free rn, and if they stop the NIH would step in because they dont want to lose all the data"
Whelp, an enormous set of 12 databases of pathogen data just went *poof* when the funding dried up. The only way they are able to bring back a temporary static copy is because other foundations and universities stepped in, but aside from the death of the active databases, how long will that last?
P2P data infrastructure is not some radical pie in the sky Pipedream. It is ***the only means for making sustainable nonprofit repositories of scientific data.*** It's open data that's the pipedream without P2P.
Not only can it be done in a way thats compatible with existing cloud infrastructure, it would be *strictly additive* to its capacity, and in the case that funding dries up, can continue to exist as long as it is useful to the people affected, who can combine whatever storage and bandwidth resources they have.
The alternative of continuously needing to recreate databases, catastrophic loss, and eventually the NIH becoming totally beholden to paying increasing fractions of its tiny budget to AWS spells a grim, grim future for open data.
I've written about this before, and am working on it, but every time this happens my Cassandra complex grows greater: https://jon-e.net/infrastructure/#peer-to-peer-as-a-backbone
The db in question: https://veupathdb.org/
#VectorBase #VEUPathDB #OpenData #OpenScience
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2024-09-19 22:16:17

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I think academics have an obligation as being some of the few groups that have public funding not tied to profit to use those resources for the public good. By committing to the fediverse and open source communication mediums, we can not only make mediums that directly meet our needs while making our work accessible and available to people outside the ivory tower, but help improve those mediums for everyone.
Academics have a long history of being complicit in oppressive systems, and digital communication is no exception - the prevailing publishing regime not only extracts public resources that could be used for public benefit, but powers surveillance systems that are used for repression and control like algorithmic policing, border enforcement, and so on. Twitter should have been a lesson: if we dont control the means of communication, all we are doing is creating a valuable target to be acquired and allow our need to communicate to be turned into an instrument of extraction and control.
It's not just the features of the fedi (though it gives us the chance to directly improve those too in a way that even other ostensibly federated technologies like bsky/atproto don't), but the stark ethical and political reality of academic communication - it's more important than the posts.

2024-09-19 06:28:42

Steal $150 million from medicare in the USA? That's a fine and agree to not do it again.
"Steal" $2.90 in subway fare as a Black man in the USA? The state will fucking kill you.
No such thing as justice in this country.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/walgreens-agrees-pay-1068m-resolve-allegations-it-billed-government-prescriptions-never

2024-09-19 04:24:50

alright, after like a year of halfheartedly trying on and off, #FetchAllReplies is pretty much finished - the problem of not being able to see all replies to a post is one of the largest complaints that people have with mastodon in particular but also the fedi in general. It is an especially potent problem for smaller servers, making them feel lonely, and making the whole fedi seem quiet. It is also a large contributor to the 'reply guy' problem where a moderately popular post will get the same replies over and over again and people won't even know they're doing it.
This patch recursively fetches replies using activitypub collections. it does it respectfully, only when someone is explicitly looking at a post (rather than fetching all replies for everything all the time) with some debounce, and spaces out the recursive calls to the other servers in deep threads.
the only thing left is to make the posts get inserted into the web client as they are received, currently you need to refresh to see them.
trying it locally now and it is a game changer.
i'm not "good at ruby" so if you ever wanna see this upstream, kindly spare a code review?
https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon/pull/44
#FediDev #MastoDev #UnFuckTheFedi #PubSubIsCoolButPresentsPrettySeriousUsabilityProblems #JustSmallInstanceThings

2024-09-18 21:40:54

LASD finally made it against the rules for cops to be in gangs
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-18/sheriffs-department-announces-long-await-policy-banning-deputy-gangs?utm_source=press.coop
The rule is literally just "cops cant be in a gang," and while it mentions discipline and potential termination, neither the rule or the law that required the rule to be made actually require discipline:
https://pars.lasd.org/Viewer/Manuals/10008/Content/21149
Surely something being merely against the rules with no clear consequence will stop the #LASDGangs

2024-09-18 11:49:52

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someone is going to come by and tell me some fancy stuff about dns or cryptography but you know i'm right. it should be possible to ask other people for stuff. i know some of you go to the same websites i go to, and i wouldn't ask someone off the street for a favor unless i really needed it but i'd take a website from a friend even if it was a little moldy

2024-09-18 11:45:58

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if instead we just sorta held onto them for a minute and there was some notion of place where you could be 'near' to a page looking for it and ask around, or had some friends you could ask, that would be cool. someone tells you beforehand 'hey i'm gonna keep a copy of this book so if you ever need one just ask and here i'll prove i am keeping the right ones in advance'

2024-09-18 11:43:57

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hey i'm trying to get a copy of this book, but the library is closed for the day. i get this book like a hundred times a week and so do a bunch of my friends but there is literally no way they could give it to me unless they were a total book hoarder and manually made a scan of it to keep for themselves in this occasion. there is one guy who keeps a copy of all the books and they seem to be doing alright for now but nobody knows how long they can just keep holding all the books for everyone.

2024-09-18 11:40:36

the most obviously broken thing about the web is that when something goes down you can't just like ask someone else for that thing even though a computer can hold like one million things and sends and receives thousands of them them all day long

2024-09-17 09:12:14

i have been checking out bluesky to see what's been going on over there lately, and it's fine and the people are good, but they have concocted this like hyper exaggerated dunk-sona of the fedi so i feel like i am not being too mean by saying like....
https://media.neuromatch.social/media_attachments/files/113/152/115/016/428/511/original/39c18b6424ef7588.png

2024-09-13 21:47:51

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The useful version of this: w. Gets you plain text, ww. Gets you html+css, www gets you html+css+js
The good version of this: adding more wwwww's gets you more GeoCities gifs and marquees injected into the page

2024-09-13 21:45:27

how come you can add more -vvv to get more logging but you can't add more w's to www to get more website

2024-09-10 21:36:59

Google's AI tooling for deciding unemployment cases is a RAG that hooks into a knowledge base that includes personal history and Nevada law: https://gizmodo.com/googles-ai-will-help-decide-whether-unemployed-workers-get-benefits-2000496215
This is exactly the kind of hybrid LLM-KG model that I wrote #SurveillanceGraphs about. The threat was never just the LLMs alone, but their integration into the broader logic of surveillance capitalism. The fact that humans will review recommendations from the model is *not* a safeguard, but a means of generating opaque discretionary decisions under the guise of objectivity. The fact that the tools *don't work* is irrelevant - they respond to the needs of efficiency and plausible deniability of agency, the brokenness of the models is a *feature not a bug*
https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/#nsf-open-knowledge-network
https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/#play-this-pattern-out-across-algorithmic-governance-predictive-p
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2024-09-10 18:23:39

What's happening to @npub1h9q…fkmf is an absolutely disgusting case of targeted state repression of antifascism. Read the @npub1g2k…fyq9 's statement here: https://cldc.org/journalist-sentenced-to-14-days-in-jail-because-she-would-not-admit-to-being-a-participant-in-a-far-right-riot-she-intended-to-report-on
Her friends have posted a few ways to help with jail and post-jail support here: https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/113111888821643206

2024-09-09 22:25:11

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@npub1cea…y7s5 @npub1rz9…4htv
The way I am scrolling through this thread trying to find what is so cursed about it that it literally was purged from the earth

2024-09-09 06:14:44

Looking up what one of those barnacle windshield boots was, and apparently a few years ago someone figured out you could just use a defroster to pry them off, open them up, and then they have a sim card with unlimited data so they used it as a hotspot.
the original comment was deleted here: https://www.reddit.com/r/specializedtools/comments/e541r4/comment/f9ivr37/
But the story is recounted here: https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/students-defeat-new-barnacle-parking-boot-skip-fines-and-get-free-internet
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2024-09-04 21:32:22

Today is a great day to donate to your local pirate archive: https://annas-archive.org/

2024-09-02 02:25:10

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sound is extremely good the whole time, went and got my headphones and well worth it #monsterdon

2024-09-02 02:22:20

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to body double you the plant has to like overwhelm the area with foliage and produce a bunch of you-sized eggs, so i think it would be possible to set up like a motion detector in your room that's like "danger there's a humongous plant in here" #monsterdon

2024-09-02 02:20:48

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it's sort of handy that they have to body double because idk the plants aren't fast, they can only kill you in places where you go to sleep, so you just go and check on your homie's bed to see if they're a pod person or not and you're basically good #monsterdon

2024-09-02 02:18:23

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conventional weapons still not confirmed to work against pod people #monsterdon

2024-09-02 02:16:27

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basically hook me up with pod people, i am cool with pod people, there's no need to knock me out we're all friends here #monsterdon

2024-09-02 02:14:41

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man you could do that to me and i would not even care #monsterdon

2024-09-02 02:12:15

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!!!!?!???!??!?!??!?!? #monsterdon

2024-09-02 02:03:36

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wait GO BACK TO THE SPACE MEN MATING WITH THE MONKIES #monsterdon

2024-09-02 02:02:55

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i am still not sure what jeff goldblum is in this movie because every time he starts talking my brain just blanks it out because i find him so annoying #monsterdon

2024-09-02 01:53:48

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i fuckin knew it dog the whole source of the problem in this movie is that they didnt' swap out the mud pits. CLEAN YOUR MUD PITS PEOPLE #monsterdon

2024-09-02 01:50:18

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ok since apparently the tubi version is also got really bad encoding (?), and the archive.org ones both do too, here's a yify rip since there are still 400 hours left in the movie and it might be worth it to swap over
https://archive.org/details/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-1978-720p
still going through transcoding so streaming probably wont work but should be downloadable.
#monsterdon

2024-09-02 01:45:48

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or maybe it's not a separate morph, it's a different phase in its life cycle, so we'd expect the mind controlled people to eventually all go to spore like that #monsterdon

2024-09-02 01:45:04

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so does the space jelly have like a dimorphism where it infects some people as hosts that it mind controls to do its bidding and other people as fruiting bodies that produce spores to infect more people?
#monsterdon

2024-09-02 01:42:40

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having missed the first 20 minutes or so, was that a normal pod person conversion web or was that a special mudhouse pod person conversion web #monsterdon

2024-09-02 01:39:46

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wiping down the rims of the public baths for cleanliness but not emptying them out because it's TOTALLY FINE I GUESS to just share mud baths with people #monsterdon

2024-09-02 01:33:56

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nimoy as a natalist fascist, don't tell me he's a protagonist here #monsterdon

2024-09-02 01:32:53

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is this another "regular movie" for #monsterdon because i'm not seeing any low budget catastrophes or really anything B about this movie

2024-09-02 01:20:27

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wait are you guys seriously being horny for old mustache daddy benedict cumberbatch #monsterdon

2024-09-02 01:19:18

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stir frying with no oil in the pan and no heat, my suspension of disbelief is shattered #monsterdon

2024-09-02 01:14:24

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anyone got snatched yet or should i just guess #monsterdon

2024-09-02 01:13:27

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oh my god the encode i got from archive.org is so bad all the textures are quivering and glitching out. perfect for #monsterdon
https://tube.me.jon-e.net/w/8zwsfVRtYf5rNNQpmUcNJy

2024-09-02 01:11:04

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Late for #monsterdon but its fine because there are 200 hours left in the movie

2024-09-01 19:09:01

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Seriously you all have GOT to stop voting for 2 hour long movies, or else we all have to agree to watch them at 1.5x
#monsterdon

2024-09-01 19:06:41

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Promising
#monsterdon
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2024-08-31 09:11:19

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your code is literally editing itself to escape the guardrails you placed on it and you are saying there were some positive results of that. you are in a fucking cult

2024-08-31 09:10:03

bro literally what is the matter with you
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06292
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2024-08-31 07:00:18

i hereby declare the opening of the "what movie can be compressed the smallest and still be watchable" olympics. the rules include: video must federate in its entirety and not be re-transcoded by other instances. watchability is to be judged entirely on vibes and without a process for resolution or ranking.
here is fantastic planet at 27MB (8fps, 30kbps video, 16kbps mono audio).
the subtitles had to be absolutely humongous to still be legible
https://media.neuromatch.social/media_attachments/files/113/055/336/781/507/552/original/dacb6d994b55e02b.mp4

2024-08-30 19:43:21

If there ever was an argument for piracy, this is it: https://digipres.club/@dsalo/113052280530052836
Not only are the "AI" conglomerates scraping everything in sight that we had the passive expectation of ownership over like our posts to launder it back to us, but the intellectual property holders are are making a killing selling work under active copyright protection to them without giving the artists and authors a dime.
The mythological narrative of copyright protecting the ability of artists to make a living was dead decades ago, but it's fully inverted into intellectual property feudalism- when the real money is from merely owning the right to a work and selling it to make products that actively undermine the value of that work, buying from intellectual property holders *harms* artists.
Steal shit. Venmo the author. It's the right thing to do.

2024-08-30 05:29:11

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ok so sure part of it is the deceptive color scale, but i am pretty surprised at how it's ONLY in southern california that you reach those ranges of >250 days

2024-08-28 09:29:33

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ha ha ha 𝙮𝙚𝙨
#MyspaceMode
https://neuromatch.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/038/935/659/609/929/original/9d7e9dcba6a50b89.png
https://neuromatch.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/038/935/816/181/267/original/e7a4a0ab7c48b653.png

2024-08-28 05:41:24

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doing a research

2024-08-28 05:35:38

Ok security heads, whats the worst thing that could happen if we let people supply their own custom HAML templates for their profile pages so we can go full #MyspaceMode
Edit: wait hang on there's way less in the template than i thought, I figured it woulda at least been a skeleton but nope just embedding a big blob of react.
Ok different question is how do you allow someone to override a big blob of react
Edit2: I am being told this would be "very bad to do" and that indeed it is "one of the main things you should not do," but cmon you have to forget about fundamental stuff in order to think of new ways the world can be good and cool sometimes.

2024-08-28 02:22:03

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i don't mean to be hating, i just thought it was sorta funny how isort is yno a sorting package but the order of the config docs is effectively random to me ;)
Don't mind me, but if you're asking for specific suggestions, i would love to have a description of the default sorting behavior, ideally on the homepage of the docs, because I tried to read through the docs and spent maybe ~20 minutes reading the source and i couldn't really find a succinct explanation of the default sorting behavior so i just mimicked it from vibes and what i know it does from having seen it do it.
Re: the docs design, the ToC in the pic is sorta overwhelming to me, so what I would do is remove the "Example isort.cfg" and "Example pyproject.toml" from the ToC by choking up on the max toctree depth param (i think that should do it? but idk this theme), and group them into a more manageable/explorable set of categories. I don't know isort well at all, but just skimming eg. the "known {x}" options could all get combined under "sections." It also looks like some natural categories would be "formatting" (line length, wrap length), "sorting" (even though the whole thing is sorting..., length sort, order_by_type, ), "runtime" (virtual env, extensions) and so on.
https://neuromatch.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/037/230/403/780/340/original/2ba3c00bbf9ee0d4.png

2024-08-27 20:13:03

man for a package about sorting stuff, isort has incredibly badly sorted docs - https://pycqa.github.io/isort/docs/configuration/options.html
me: "how does isort sort things"
the docs: "you can sort it however! here are literally one million configuration parameters"
me: "ok but how does it do it by default"
the docs: "🤷"

2024-08-27 06:34:07

The crypto crash was fast and not very sad. The LLM crash will be long and slow and painful and a lot of beguiled suckers will have a decade of their life pulled out from underneath them when the free compute dries up and the platform logic switches from seize territory to exploit

2024-08-26 03:02:43

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look so OK the devil usually does the schtick of giving you some plainly stated offer or else he gets your soul, so the vampire telling peter cushing how to kill him is in-universe, but look at peter cushing's approach here. he gives a big overhand vertical axe chop and misses abysmally. that's not even close. peter cushing was begging to get axed.
#monsterdon #MonsterdonReplays #MonsterdonAnalysis
https://neuromatch.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/026/086/828/023/164/original/5fbeebe5322eda1f.mp4

2024-08-26 02:26:46

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peter cushing honestly deserved that for rushing ahead of the team and being a hero instead of passing the ball to the spear javelin guy to finish off the push #monsterdon

2024-08-26 02:25:51

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in order for vampirism to be a "trade" where you give your soul up to the devil you have to get something in return. they got no powers, it doesn't seem like they are doing any sort of freaky vampire stuff with each other, they just get the teeth and lose their reflection #monsterdon

2024-08-26 02:24:30

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at this point since we don't have any characterization or clear motivation for the count to be doing whatever the hell he's doing it's just basically like a "god versus the devil" climax and anton is totally superfluous except we need to have someone for the good twin to kiss at the end and it sure as hell aint gonna be peter cushing #monsterdon

2024-08-26 02:22:35

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so they *do* have a mystical twin connection but it's only strong enough to vaguely feel weird around your neck when your twin is decapitated, that is not a mystical twin connection you should try and build a movie around #monsterdon

2024-08-26 02:21:16

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BRO #monsterdon

2024-08-26 02:18:46

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any vampire that can't turn into a bat is a scrub ass vampire as far as i am concerned #monsterdon

2024-08-26 02:15:00

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WHAT THEY DIDNT MAKE HER A VAMPIRE WHY NOT THAT WAS THE BASIS OF THE PLAN OR ELSE YOUR PLAN WAS TO ASSUME THEY WOULDNT DO ANY CROSS STUFF AT A WITCH BURNING #monsterdon

2024-08-26 02:13:58

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the first victim still being alive truly begs the question like what kind of pleasures from beyond the grave was the count even going for in the first place #monsterdon

2024-08-26 02:12:34

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what kind of vampirization doesn't give you at least mildly buffed strength or any power of any kind, rip off #monsterdon

2024-08-26 02:10:55

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if the vampires just committed to a vampirization frenzy they could quickly outnumber and convert the incel council and just make a town of vampires. it would take like 15 minutes. #monsterdon

2024-08-26 02:08:11

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what a shitty plan, instead of just like "turning into bats and moving on to the next town all together" they are trying to pull a freaking switcheroo #monsterdon

2024-06-20 09:23:39

Anarchists are just people who survived to political maturity with their sense of play intact

2024-06-18 02:20:19

making propaganda for a thing that is legal to do in itself, but illegal to do in a concerted or organized way, is hard. like "here is this concept, we're not saying to do it, but this is what it is, weird huh!?"
anyway some draft images, since instagram remains the way to distribute this stuff i guess.
https://neuromatch.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/635/208/162/061/869/original/014fd7ebfc09d993.png
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2024-06-16 00:38:19

i have gained a new enemy today as i learn that biorender is $100 a month for the privilege of exporting to SVG, making color gradients, and using times new roman.
https://neuromatch.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/623/493/278/691/660/original/8da770bf2ebf198c.png
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2024-06-15 08:58:14

Heres a pretty good timeline of what my students and coworkers and I at #UCLA went through in the first Palestinian solidarity encampment. This ends the night before an army of cops turned the campus into a war zone, a night I will never forget, and doesnt include the month of organizing afterwards. Today many of them walked out of their graduation, disillusioned with their institution and political system, but having found solidarity with one another. The summer goes on, the days are grim and sunny
https://knockla.org/ucla-pro-palestine-encampment-attack/

2024-06-14 04:32:38

I just attended a graduation ceremony for all the students who weren't able to attend theirs because they were abandoned by their institution for the crime of fighting for justice, and there is nothing that gives me hope like this generation of revolutionaries

2024-06-11 12:58:36

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to be clear we are specifically not doing antisemitism here, which is why i am pointing it out as one to be mindful of

2024-06-11 12:55:26

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oh oh no sorry these were bystanders, "counter protesters" but they don't quite warrant even that. the pigs are indeed subhuman

2024-06-11 12:51:56

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i would watch it with that one in particular, bit of a dogwhistle

2024-06-11 08:43:39

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There was this mistaken belief that the cops would obey the law and give a dispersal order and allow people to leave. I was shocked they actually did it at the second site that got barricaded, and they definitely weren't doing it at the third which was literally a natural kettle. That could have been way worse than it was. Roving occupations: good idea. Kettling yourself: bad idea.

2024-06-11 08:38:02

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The cops were openly discussing revenge arrests, trying to snatch visible people that have been organizing on campus and have been out on the picket lines. They got a few, ripped the shirt off another who got away. Fuck the police.

2024-06-11 08:27:46

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Im home. My cat is so mad. Lessons learned: more portable barricades, fewer/no tents.

2024-06-11 08:00:43

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Last person released

2024-06-11 07:45:56

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Look idk what to call the people who were cheering as our ppl were getting shot w rubber bullets/pepper balls and arrested, but i dont like them and i think their entire system of values is fucked.

2024-06-11 07:42:55

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Omfg i left a pack of cheese and salami on my desk earlier just in case and forgot. Sweet sustenance. Hadnt eaten since noon. Ok back out

2024-06-11 07:41:30

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The citations were literally just for defying a dispersal order what a joke lmao

2024-06-11 07:32:09

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Phone died. They cited and released the ~25 or so people that were being detained in Dodd, but they snatched up one person from outside late in the night for the crime of being on the megaphone and transported them to UCPD. Despite valiant efforts to barricade their exit, the cops managed to make it, shooting their full hoppers of pepper balls at peoples feet to keep them back. Ppl rallied over to UCPD as a sort of riotous jail support. stopped off to grab my bike and charge my phone for like 5m.

2024-06-11 05:25:42

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Cited and released, thank god

2024-06-11 04:24:01

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Yet again chancellor gene block was inside dodd hall watching the violence against the students he is supposed to serve

2024-06-11 04:11:40

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20-40 arrested being held in Dodd. Maybe a hundred of us and 50 CHP.

2024-06-11 03:38:18

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Chp re-up
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2024-06-11 03:17:58

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Just helped transport someone shot in the chest point blank with a rubber bullet. They're fucking doing it again.

2024-06-11 02:54:37

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I went back and the cops are kettling between Dodd and the law school. Hats, bats, pepper balls, rubber bullets.

2024-06-11 02:02:21

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I am fucking shook hearing the endless list of names while the militarized police and private paramilitaries mass all around. These intergenerational actions, small groups and spontaneous order feel like the best hope for a free future I know. I fear how dark it will get in the next few years, and practicing and growing these bonds now feels vitally important

2024-06-11 01:56:37

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The camp got a 10m dispersal order from Royce quad, everyone packed everything up in 5, fucked off to kerchoff. They just got another and are headed to third location. Been waiting for this tactic.
I am headed out bc I have no id protection and the cops will certainly not issue another dispersal order.

2024-06-11 00:16:07

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People are relaxing on the lawn around the tongva steps and taking graduation photos in the Royce walkway as the names are read. The capacity for cognitive dissonance and maintenance of normalcy is truly something

2024-06-10 23:46:20

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They have said they are not leaving until they have read the names of the 46,000 martyrs in Palestine

2024-06-10 22:56:37

Third encampment is up at #UCLA. Cops already on the scene.

2024-06-06 03:51:33

Yall as someone who is striking and generally existing on a campus that is crawling with roughly one security guard per picketer from no fewer than 5 private security companies, if they even slightly change the laws so that private security get some form of qualified immunity or ability to use any amount of force we are totally fucked.

2024-05-20 19:36:38

Echo @npub1gqw…5sps 's thoughts about the importance of domestic labor as a metaphor for not just tech debt, but for just about every kind of invisible labor that keeps orgs, labs, projects running. We organize invisible labor because if we dont, it falls to the most marginalized in a group in sometimes unpredictable ways: fail to maintain lab infra? Thats your undergrads and grad students doubling their labor time working around broken systems.
https://mastodon.social/@yvonnezlam/112474946704366947
All orgs have dish politics, and dish politics are just politics.
"If we can't live without diswashers, how could we live without cops? And so youre asking me: who does the dishes after the revolution? I do my own dishes now, ill do my own dishes then. And its always the ones who dont that ask that fucking question"
https://youtu.be/qZA63ckKxXQ

2024-05-16 09:39:43

You wont believe the number of stormtroopers theyre deploying against unarmed students unless you see it. This is just one side: at least 7 police departments with at least two layers at every point of egress, with several layers in back for rear control and rotation. They've got the army out against your kids for having the audacity to do whatever they can to stop a genocide
#UCIrvine
https://neuromatch.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/450/101/781/889/035/original/730a95e10abedc15.mp4

2024-05-16 02:15:43

UAW 4811's strike authorization vote passed -
19,780 votes cast
ASEs (grad students): 80% yes
Postdocs: 74% yes
Academic Researchers: 73%
This authorizes the eboard to call a stand up strike similar to UAW's autoworkers strike last year. Our initial demands include amnesty for all students and workers who are facing any disciplinary action for protest, divestment from "weapons manufacturers, military contractors, and companies profiting from Israel's war on Gaza," disclosure of all investments, and the ability for researchers to opt out from funding from sources tied to the military or oppression of Palestinians (including a transitional fund for those people).
This strike is in response to our employer first allowing a vigilante mob to brutalize our students and workers, and then calling the police to further brutalize them the following night. Our union is responding to a pattern of employer violence that's as old as unions themselves, allying with police-aligned vigilantes to chill and crush organizing.
More information:
Strike vote FAQ: https://www.uaw4811.org/sav-faq
ULP landing page: https://www.uaw4811.org/2024-ulp-charges
ULP itself: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1obRNFpuF_8K5Xx1k4DKMB8RooT7aUsKK/
#UAW #UAW4811 #Strike #Divestment

2024-05-09 00:23:28

My labmate had never heard the truth that "furries run the internet/develop all critical infra/etc." And it got me wondering how that came to be. Has anyone written like a cultural history of how furries came to concentrate in sysadmin roles and whatnot? It could be that theres no story it just is that way, but I wonder if there were notable examples of like "a team at Bell Labs in the 1960s were all furries and..."

2024-05-07 20:40:13

hiring a hitman is a complicated game theory problem because the hitman always has the option of just taking the money and calling the cops. you have to convince them that you are capable of hiring another hitman to come after the first hitman, but the very act of trying to hire the first hitman indicates that you don't have a second, more reliable hitman ready to go. so i guess the moral of the story is don't be a landlord. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-07/landlord-sentenced-20-years-in-prison-in-murder-for-hire-plots

2024-05-02 15:55:01

This is a garbage headline that is fractally wrong and also why biden has lost 20% margin in youth vote in a year. The only violence at the #UCLA encampment was committed AGAINST them by the police and the fascist mobs the police gave carte blanche to. The encampment was NOT chaotic - it was highly orderly, well disciplined, and a place of education and solidarity. The encampment is a protest AGAINST violence sanctioned by the Biden administration.
https://neuromatch.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/372/305/180/148/501/original/c8233541b5a7662e.jpg

2024-04-29 20:55:48

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I am so unbelievably impressed by these student organizers. They have set up a vouch and wristband system to control access the camp, are on point with crowd control and de-escalation, making sure everyone is wearing a mask... fuck "just vote," this is how you scare the shit out of the political system. They just made it clear that they can take and hold a building whenever they want, and thats a good bargaining chip to have. Organizers say through faculty liason that university is offering a Palestinian study center and they said fuck that, divest.

2024-04-29 19:59:08

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Faculty are out today

2024-04-29 19:52:43

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Unclear if holding

2024-04-29 19:38:44

#UCLA encampment has taken Royce hall
Edit: nvm not holding, got excited when I saw ppl blocking cameras and etc

2024-04-27 04:13:52

A #p2p future for the web is the radical idea that its bad to put all data in a single place owned by 3 companies and rented by a few hundred. The internet wasnt a mistake, the cloud was a mistake. Platforms were a mistake. A mistake where its not only possible but routine for "everyone's health data" to get stolen. https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/112341111375581551
I need to share my health data with like 3 people that arent me. Why on earth is that data in the same pile as literally everyone else's.

2024-04-26 08:30:08

everyone i have figured it out, cats just have unchecked integer operations
https://neuromatch.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/336/576/816/395/862/original/fd8ce78276d93365.png

2024-04-22 22:18:18

Are there actually neuroscientists who dont believe that most invertebrates, fish, etc. have lowercase-c consciousness, an internal subjective experience of the world? Is the alternative that they are just reflex machines? Why wouldnt we make the opposite assumption - that animals that have a complex enough nervous system to run a whole body thats responsive to their ecosystem are "conscious" until proven otherwise. But what would the point be of proving otherwise? I guess im just deeply uninterested in semantic games that exclude most of the animal kingdom from the assumption of mere subjectivity.
Re: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01144-y

2024-04-21 10:43:45

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[@hacks4pancakes](https://infosec.exchange/@hacks4pancakes)
Whatever u do, I want to do it too

2024-04-21 10:43:45

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[@hacks4pancakes](https://infosec.exchange/@hacks4pancakes)
Whatever u do, I want to do it too

2024-04-21 10:39:16

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[@hacks4pancakes](https://infosec.exchange/@hacks4pancakes)
It is rare to see someone articulate a love of scams that I relate to so hard

2024-04-21 10:39:16

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[@hacks4pancakes](https://infosec.exchange/@hacks4pancakes)
It is rare to see someone articulate a love of scams that I relate to so hard

2024-04-21 07:16:33

Hello fedi. i am trying to solve the "fetch all replies" problem once and for all that makes the fedi feel a lot more desolate and with a lot more reply guys in it than it should be. this is take two, where before i had it triggered by a button, but now i think it should happen on the server-side whenever you expand a post. can anyone help me out figure out how to make this more efficient by only fetching posts that the server doesn't already have? i am not sure what the best strategy would be, and if anyone with experience doing efficient rails and SQL stuff could give me some pointers that would be gr8. the patch is actually extremely simple it just needs a few nice things to make it not DDoS everyone.
https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon/pull/44
Issue that describes approach: https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon/issues/43
Wiki page: https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Fetch_All_Replies
#MastoDev #FediDev #FetchAllReplies

2024-04-20 07:20:44

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HANG ON MAYBE FOCUS SHIFT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mythological_places

2024-04-20 07:17:29

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this world is just so so so so so so so so so beautiful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures_by_type

2024-04-20 06:57:10

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in this neighborhood of wikipedia you get the best names of pages.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Legendary_creatures_with_absent_body_parts
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2024-04-20 06:38:11

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"Listen up I am the snake Lady of fuck off and hold my baby"

2024-04-20 06:33:21

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I think this is maybe the best description of any creature
> A nure-onna's intentions are unknown. In some stories, she is a monstrous being who is powerful enough to crush trees with her tail and feeds on humans. She carries with her a small, childlike bundle, which she uses to attract potential victims. If a well-intentioned person offers to hold the baby for her, the nure-onna will let them. If they attempt to discard the bundle, however, it is revealed that it is not a child at all. Instead, the bundle becomes incredibly heavy and prevents the victim from fleeing. She then uses her long, snake-like tongue to suck all the blood from her victim's body. In other stories, a nure-onna is simply seeking solitude as she washes her hair and reacts violently to those who bother her. The rokurokubi is a close relative to the nure-onna.

2024-04-20 06:06:00

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also i take back what i said about yōkai not being my thing. Nure-onna "wet woman" snake ladies are punk af.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nure-onna
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2024-04-20 06:00:59

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I think [@Taweret](https://octodon.social/@Taweret) posted about r/ilovedph recently? but yeah this is another kind of mythical being i can get behind.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ilovedph/comments/ia8vm5/im_going_to_attempt_to_see_the_hat_man_and_fuck/
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2024-04-20 05:58:45

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i need to know if this is real or if this is like an extended fiction writing exercise https://thehatmanproject.com/

2024-04-20 05:57:40

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"benadryl-induced shadow hat man" is giving headless men a run for their money though
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_person#The_%22Hat_Man%22
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2024-04-20 05:46:39

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ok anyway time for some mythical humanoids.
behold the actual title of the first newspaper article about the mothman:
https://web.archive.org/web/20071011230219/http://www.westva.net/mothman/1966-11-16.htm
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2024-04-20 05:43:28

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i started reading about some Yōkai like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jor%C5%8Dgumo but i realized that they just made too much sense for me to be into. spider who looks like a hot lady is cool but is too much of like a cautionary tale to just be a weird lil guy out there just doing their thing.

2024-04-20 05:41:14

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there's specifically this kind of mythical guy that i love who is like mostly normal but unnecessarily has something weird or cool about them. mythical creatures usually have some origin story or reason for existing, but there is this other genre of 'kinda weird but otherwise normal guys' of whom the headless men are exemplary who i am obsessed with. like why did people make these guys up

2024-04-20 05:35:25

all jonny knows is charge they phone, mythic humanoids wiki category, eat hot chip & lie

2024-04-18 08:51:35

Every time I see any story about how fucked scholarly communication is my first reaction is a) yall know you can just make your own websites right, b) yall know you can just review each others work without a journal giving you permission right, and only then do I arrive at c) ok there are systemic problems but seriously have you considered (a) and (b) and how this is all entirely optional

2024-04-14 09:12:56

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My friends from LA talk about LA as if the whole world knows everything about LA, that things must be compared to a scale of the best of humankind, the need to consume expands to fill the scale of what is presented as possible and then nudges that border of possibility outwards. My friends from small towns talk about what exists with a refreshing humility that it is not the best of the planet nor does it aspire to be, it is simply what exists.
I have been frozen to inaction organizing in LA because the scale of the problem is incomprehensible. In Eugene we just put a fridge on our porch to feed our neighbors because they were hungry.

2024-04-14 09:07:15

About to enter my unhinged "the will to power is a disease of the city" era where I lose the plot and ascribe all social ills to how human being were not meant to live in cities the size of LA and ~ Silicon Valley ~ and the vision of global platforms to lord over all things is only possible given the backdrop of an endless city where all things must necessarily exist and you are thus exhorted to consume them as a Lacan via Žižek symptom of cultural capitalism.

2024-04-08 21:55:27

C ant figure out wjose side you are all on

2024-04-06 02:51:41

Free money betting against a mastodon fork with unpatched critical vulns valued at like 4 billion dollars lmao
https://neuromatch.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/222/004/907/345/874/original/2db96b9e4dbaee2e.jpg

2024-04-01 00:38:26

Pre-emptive heads up for instancemates and new fedis - #monsterdon is about to begin in 20 minutes or so, plz add a filter if u dont want ur timeline flooded, Or else join us! <3
https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Monsterdon

2024-03-29 05:39:58

Oh thats grim:
> By 2013, Netflix had begun entering into a series of “Facebook Extended API” agreements, including a so-called “Inbox API” agreement that allowed Netflix programmatic access to Facebook’s users' private message inboxes, in exchange for which Netflix would “provide to FB a written report every two weeks that shows daily counts of recommendation sends and recipient clicks by interface, initiation surface, and/or implementation variant (e.g., Facebook vs. non-Facebook recommendation recipients).
Netflix pays fb for ad space
Fb gives Netflix DMs to better target ads
Netflix gives fb back clickthrough and behavioral data, including data from rival advertisers (read: google)
So fb gets to say they dont use private messages for targeting ads, they just share them with whoever can give them more data on you, which is ofc fine.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/netflix-ad-spend-led-to-facebook-dm-access-end-of-facebook-streaming-biz-lawsuit/

2024-03-26 07:40:53

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that is so good. and i love how emoji with ZWJs fuck up my shell too. trying to do 👁️‍🗨️ and got this
https://neuromatch.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/160/852/942/506/310/original/5e465d94cf935f70.png

2024-03-26 07:35:55

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youve gotta be kidding me hang on

2024-03-26 07:33:37

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can zero width join be assigned to

2024-03-26 06:36:53

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[@catsalad](https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad)
Oh wait sorry you were saying variable vs. Function names, I thought u meant like "you cant use emoji but you can use these symbols"
Hell ya I am big in favor of zalgotext programming

2024-03-26 06:36:03

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[@catsalad](https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad)
Whoa what is special about those codepoints, they look like emoji to me. Is the conch shell symbol in a special block????

2024-03-26 05:55:25

Sometimes it takes a whole day to figure out how to do one tiny, simple thing that has no clear benefit to you and is only tangentially related to what you're supposed to do. When you have adhd and work mostly from home, that day is every day.

2024-03-22 09:59:58

human-centered design is a program walking up to you and goingKO
https://neuromatch.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/138/751/134/600/924/original/6353bb0d172f716b.png