Woozle Hypertwin

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2024-11-10 14:57:50

I've been thinking about revenue models, and how pay-for-access fails in a lot of ways (although it succeeds in some important ones) -- and I just now had this sort of realization that revenue from donations is kind of like a positive form of "stochastic" (as in "stochastic terrorism" -- which I sometimes call "inductive" -- in that people do it spontaneously, and that an entity which desires such activity can encourage it without commanding it or even asking for it directly.
Protests would be another kind of positive stochastic/inductive activity (which, of course, often gets inaccurately labeled as negative and specifically "terrorism").
So maybe "stochastic revenue" or "inductive revenue" would be good terms to use when we're talking about anticapitalist / anarchist business models.
Is contributing to beneficial organizations a kind of protest? Boycotting, the opposite, certainly is...

2024-10-19 23:45:08

From this:
In 1942, then-president Franklin Roosevelt proposed a 100 percent tax rate on income over $25,000, the equivalent of about $484,000 today.
I hereby propose a return to our Traditional American Values™ about extreme wealth...
(reposting from here just so replies don't go piling into someone else's thread)

2024-10-19 11:53:45

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@npub1fuh…3kut Captain Scarlet was more my jam. The humans on Thunderbirds looked too weird.

2024-10-01 00:40:07

#TellMeWithoutTellingMe that you're willing to lie to people you don't know in order to make a quick buck.
"Fisher" Investments, indeed.
https://pool.jortage.com/tootcat/media_attachments/files/113/229/365/360/583/844/original/1bfb43736de8b552.png

2024-09-24 00:08:44

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@npub1fuh…3kut I'd been wondering. Now I know. ✅

2024-09-24 00:02:17

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@npub1fuh…3kut Well, that's a bit more literal than I had expected, but... it fits.

2024-09-12 12:01:16

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@npub1fuh…3kut
Tired: Where's Waldo
Wired: Find Furball

2024-09-11 12:55:56

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@npub1fuh…3kut Those of us who would like the world to kindly make some fucking sense, pretty please, need to figure out better ways of organizing ourselves so that our "opinions" actually make a difference. [/hobby_horse]

2024-09-10 23:59:29

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@npub1fuh…3kut
🎵 You're old enough to kill -- but not for votin'🎵 -- Barry McGuire, "Eve of Destruction"

2024-09-09 13:56:09

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@npub1gnx…d5kh I think I'd better get a spare first, so I'm not preventing internet access for the whole household while I'm playing with the settings 😅

2024-09-09 13:10:59

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@npub1gnx…d5kh I don't even know how to make wifi go that fast. Props.

2024-09-09 13:09:25

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@npub1gnx…d5kh Make bedroom look like airplane cockpit. More blinky lights. Switches. Readouts. Dials. Gauges.Screens. MORE BLINKY LIGHTS.

2024-09-03 14:24:58

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@npub1fuh…3kut I really wonder what it is about that mindset which somehow attracts some very well-educated and otherwise intelligent people who ought to know better.

2024-09-03 13:25:10

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@npub1fuh…3kut I guess I'm glad I've never heard of that person.

2024-08-25 12:08:43

A, It's not made of people.
(I don't know if this is actually funny or not. The "made of people" tie-in is probably too obvious to make the punchline surprising.)

2024-08-05 16:22:20

Re this, I think I want a sign which says something like
I THINK POLITICAL LAWN SIGNSARE VERY SILLY
because people should vote
for whichever candidate has
the best policy, not who has
the most signs. (In this case,
though, that's obviouslyHARRIS
I mean, it's kind of a no-brainer.)

2024-07-28 20:00:32

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@npub1ha6…tt7s Oh, I've heard of that! It's that place where everything works out the way you expect!
Must be nice.

2024-07-27 12:27:25

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@npub1gnx…d5kh I'm glad for LCDs, though. And relatively-affordable laptops.
We used to joke about "the information supergoatpath", because we were still stuck on dial-up when that phrase came out. :D

2024-07-20 00:55:53

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Reshare of @npub1sxm…tk26's post to add image description
https://pool.jortage.com/tootcat/media_attachments/files/112/816/086/195/984/134/original/f5334f8bfa843839.png

2024-07-16 15:27:34

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@npub1gnx…d5kh What happens if you set the terminal app as a screensaver...?

2024-07-15 17:11:36

rebelling against the system by only clicking on one square per [thing] when the [thing] goes across multiple squares and the instructions are "click on all squares that contain [thing]s"
Technically, though, I shouldn't click on any squares that have only one [thing] -- because tt said [thing]s, plural -- not "one or more [thing]s" -- but they seem to think I'll just blithely assume they actually mean "any squares that contain part of at least one [thing]", which is garbage.
What do they think I am, some kind of mindless robot?

2024-07-13 22:40:48

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@npub1cm8…kypu An Alesis AR-16 (I think) drum machine! I've got one of those.

2024-07-13 13:29:03

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@npub1gnx…d5kh Need to make a law that only people with at least one uterus can vote on issues involving uteri.

2024-07-10 14:19:38

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@npub1h3h…9hxt
Resharing with image description.
https://pool.jortage.com/tootcat/media_attachments/files/112/762/617/875/215/112/original/e8c4d3a83fc5174b.png

2024-06-28 19:25:44

There should be a button, next to "fave" and "boost", that means "I have comments about this, but I don't want to butt in without invitation". A hand with a gently-raised finger, maybe?

2024-06-28 11:48:27

If you don't like democracy, definitely don't vote -- that only encourages it.

2024-06-27 23:12:47

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@npub1fuh…3kut aww, I was waiting until midnight to find out! [pouts]

2024-06-27 20:32:02

What happens if Federal Agencies just... start ignoring what the Supreme Court says?

2024-06-27 19:28:35

Am I civil disobediencing yet? I don't know if the #NCGOP #StupidLaw change has gone into effect yet... I want to make sure I look good for my first-ever proterrorest.
(photo CW: eye contact, behind glasses)
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2024-06-07 15:51:13

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@npub1jup…77gr ...making sure they have enough rope to properly hang their chances in the election...

2024-06-02 13:14:13

The only correct response to "Do The Kinks belong at Pride?" is "Was 'Lola' transphobic or appreciative?"
(I've always been inclined towards the latter.)

2024-05-24 18:11:16

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@npub12ze…hunm They'd obviously not been maintaining it for some time -- I remember trying to update my profile 5-10 years ago, and... fail.

2024-05-23 11:58:14

Those who are so inclined, please feel free to add your own comment to this (it's short, and I haven't actually watched it; the point is the headline) or thumbs-up my comment so it rises above the "that's insane" comment.
I don't know if it actually matters, but it's a thing to do.
(Link via the Durham County GOP; localfriend and I are also arguing with them on FB.)

2024-05-21 11:26:40

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@npub1q37…k2ta I could talk about the Tektronix 4051 graphics computer, as another example. It also ran on BASIC...

2024-05-19 22:50:33

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@npub1gnx…d5kh I'm pretty sure I've been in the wrong universe for quite some time now.

2024-05-17 14:08:02

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@npub1fuh…3kut Giving Budd Uglly a run for his money...

2024-05-16 00:48:28

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@npub1gnx…d5kh I suspect us neuroweirdos won't (or don't), generally speaking, age the same way that neurodifficults do.
I'll be 60 next year and I'm still figuring out how to deal with adult so-called "life".

2024-05-15 12:34:32

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@npub1fuh…3kut LLM self-parody ftw :D

2024-05-14 19:49:01

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@npub1ha6…tt7s Someone had to make that joke. We thank you for your service. 🏆

2024-05-14 17:07:08

The existence of pizza pie implies the existence of pizza cake -- and now I want some.
(I never have liked cake; too sweet.)

2024-05-12 18:05:39

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@npub1ha6…tt7s Is that like pigeon chess, except you actually break the board?

2024-05-12 12:22:31

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@npub1fuh…3kut Shorter: "Why should we let people just live their own lives as they see fit, when we could make them jump through hoops that make profit for us instead?"

2024-05-09 13:56:11

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@npub1fuh…3kut [cranky old voice] I'd like to see kids these days try that with Spotify...

2024-05-08 21:32:01

My account on #Gmail just blocked a message I sent myself.
...due to the "low reputation" of the IP address -- an address I've been using for some years.
Just... fuck you, Gmail. And fuck off.

2024-04-26 16:44:15

Seriously? Seventeen applicants isn't enough for an on-site entry-level temp job, so you have to repost it in hope of getting more?

2024-04-25 20:50:15

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@npub1gnx…d5kh Indeed. I've often thought that I'd be more likely to be wary of people who seem more conventional/"normal", because they're more likely to see me as a threat to their safety-zone.

2024-04-25 20:34:00

Now that Google is apparently wrecked, is there maybe renewed interest in crowdsourcing a human-maintained reference wiki?

2024-04-19 12:18:29

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@npub1fuh…3kut And each one of them was probably the world's first. 🏆

2024-04-15 01:10:59

YES THIS PLEASE
Not politically feasible? KEEP YAMMERING ABOUT IT until the overton window shifts. MAKE it politically feasible!
#BeDivisive
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2024-04-13 11:20:17

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@npub1fuh…3kut Sadly, real goats are actually quite expensive. (We've looked into it.)

2024-04-12 15:07:15

Money may not be capable of purchasing love, but lack of it sure does cost lots of extra time which could be going towards more useful and/or enjoyable things (such as, e.g., love) -.-

2024-04-12 12:05:30

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@npub1ha6…tt7s I usually blame :pip:, because everything is actually his fault.

2024-04-12 00:29:10

tfw you're debugging the debugging code that's supposed to help you figure out what's wrong with the debugging code

2024-04-09 00:59:06

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@npub1fuh…3kut His promises and solutions are beginning to sound more and more like TFG's.

2024-04-08 17:05:39

Oh nice -- @npub12qe…enlx has a fedi instance.

2024-04-04 23:44:20

Funny how rights and "the Right" are pretty much exact opposites... kinda like conservation and "conservative".
Almost as if one of them was trying to make words meaningless by using them backwards.

2024-04-04 23:29:13

Do asteroids dream of eccentric orbits?

2024-04-03 12:15:37

outdated: Mechanical Turk ✋
innovated: Mechanical Remote Workers in Places With Low Pay and Questionable Labor Practices 👍

2024-03-24 11:38:55

[clicks [OK] to accept @npub1c57…kx0m]
:tootcat:

2024-03-19 12:51:53

go outside into mathspace and touch fractal

2024-03-10 23:13:16

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@npub1r4h…u0jf I've boosted in the hope of actual expertise coming your way, but I think it's safe to say that once you go too far around the hub, we don't have a good enough view of what's there to be able to make maps. You'd have to at least be able to see as far as a collection stars that we can also see from Earth, and possibly do some pretty precise distance estimations in order to convert what you see into a 3d map which could be matched up with what we do know.
One more thought as I was typing that: all the same extragalactic objects should still be more or less visible -- so you could at least figure out your orientation. (I mean, yes, the plane of the Milky Way itself would be a pretty good clue, but which side is which?)

2024-03-10 22:59:18

I wonder if there's a type of karaoke where you can play an instrument too, instead of just singing.
(...or is it just me who would want to do that >.>)

2024-02-12 21:38:31

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@npub1v75…dh4k @npub1r4h…u0jf Would definitely like to document the memes and culture, as it evolves. A lot of it came from Twitter (where it will also remain largely undocumented) and queer culture, but a lot of it was fedi-original. Much will be lost... like tears in the rain, or sands through the hourglass, or toots in a storm...

2024-02-12 15:52:19

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@npub1r4h…u0jf Wiki is definitely my default! We can start by using the TootCat wiki, and then migrate from there if it gets large enough to be worth its own site.

2024-02-12 15:36:48

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@npub1r4h…u0jf I'm up for the documentation and technical/hosting side.

2024-02-12 15:36:48

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@npub1r4h…u0jf I'm up for the documentation and technical/hosting side.

2024-02-12 14:04:18

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@npub1r4h…u0jf @npub1vfj…r94p Yeah, it's not all bad!

2024-02-12 14:02:28

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@npub1r4h…u0jf I have a space for such things, but it hadn't really occurred to me to document these things except where they impact TC.
I think I'd need at least one other person to do this right -- I can do the page-editing and info-organizing, but I'd need someone else to prompt/cue me with "oh hey, this is happening!" and hopefully some links.

2024-02-10 15:22:43

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@npub1xtz…9nyq Pentcaticle!... owait, there's one more. Hexcatagon!

2024-02-05 15:12:06

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@npub1ha6…tt7s At least do a post with all the feed URLs in it? That might actually get me inspired to get a feed-reader going again...

2024-02-02 20:28:46

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@npub1ha6…tt7s Also, we may not even be affected -- we're running v4.3.0-alpha.0+glitch, and that article says the affected releases are "Every Mastodon version prior to 3.5.17 [...] as well as 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.13, 4.1.x version prior to 4.1.13, and 4.2.x versions prior to 4.2.5.".

2024-02-02 20:26:21

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@npub1ha6…tt7s Yep! We have an obstacle in that a Nix upgrade a week or two ago broke the Mastodon build process, but I think we've got a fix for it now. Hopefully something will happen this weekend.

2023-12-16 01:50:01

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@npub1ha6…tt7s In case you haven't already seen, there's now an open-source generative AI plugin available for Audacity: https://github.com/intel/openvino-plugins-ai-audacity/releases
At this point it's only available for Windows, but it sounds like they're putting effort into a Linux release.

2023-07-16 19:29:02

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@npub1xtz…9nyq You've got too many tabbies open, gonna crash (on) something...

2023-07-16 14:44:35

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@npub1psd…9sr7 We can't currently scan a brain for uploading, so that's not even a question yet.
If (in the future) a claim to be able to do this comes from a for-profit operation, then I agree.

2023-07-13 13:22:34

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@npub1xtz…9nyq "We're very disappointed in you, son."

2023-07-11 13:04:56

2023-07-10 In defense of Deliverism:
The radical idea that people vote for politicians who make their lives better. (by @npub1hyk…3p33)
In my view, anyone who says we can't expect our representatives to let us have nice things because we have to compromise is selling something.
#metaPol

2023-07-09 12:21:06

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@npub1r4h…u0jf I mean, think of SSD as basically slow RAM in a box...

2023-07-09 11:57:17

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@npub1r4h…u0jf In my experience, yes -- it really does.

2023-07-06 18:18:21

What if I...
set up an instance specifically for federating with Threads, for people who do want a window into that space
(maybe using one of the lower-maintenance ActivityPub packages)
...but also allow spambots to sign up
Are there people who want access to the Metaverse but also see the value in trying to make it unlivable? (Would it be likely that Threads would de-federate from a spammy instance, or is that "free speech" and therefore automatically good, or what?)

2023-07-04 23:51:29

Hi! To start with, feel free to sign up at my instance, https://toot.cat. I can give you links for more information or answer any questions you may have.
That said: what hardware resources does your current personal instance require? I'm interested in at least exploring the idea that you could just migrate it to one of my servers and continue to maintain it there. This may turn out to be impractical, but it seems at least worth looking into.
Cheers. :tootcat:

2023-07-04 12:43:53

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@npub1r4h…u0jf That seems like an example of what I (just curiously/uncritically) refer to as The Hetero* Mystery: how can you be attracted to something without also wanting to be it?
The fact that I find this a mystery probably says more about me than about the people I find mysterious.
* also applies to bi people, but it's the "opposite-sex" part that I find mysterious
cc: @npub1en2…nn7r @npub1f7e…ugfp

2023-06-19 19:16:59

In response to pejorative uses of the term amongst certain family members, I wrote up a thing about "woke". Will eventually do a proper wiki page with references and stuff; constructive feedback is welcome.

2023-06-08 13:58:23

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@npub1ha6…tt7s Exactly. 🥇

2023-06-08 11:46:08

Kind of surprised nobody pointed out that there is also no "I" in Mordor.

2023-05-17 13:37:54

I came across Junior Danjernoodle this morning whilst walking the morning's mouse back into the woods (looks kinda full-size in this photo, but it was only a little over a foot long).
It made head-motions at me that were like "I KNOW HOW TO AIM THIS THING AND YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT WANT", so I gently tiptoed around.
When I got back, it had moved off the path, but did the head-signals again when I stopped to look at it, so I decided not to take another photo -- the triangular shape was clearly visible before he swung the gun-turret back around to aim it at me again.
I'm guessing copperhead, but I don't actually know what I'm talking about. (I am not Anne Expert -- although it should still be noted that all sneks are in fact thin at one end, significantly bigger in the middle, and then thin again at the far end.)
#snake #MastoAndSerpent #DurhamNC
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