Elon Tusk @srs@schelling.pt
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@spritelyproject Probably needs a whole blogpost explaining the gravity of this current moment, and what this means is now open to us.
But in short: secure, distributed object programming in mutually suspicious peer to peer networks? Open for business!
Everyone, is it normal that I don't see any posts on @doctorow's profile page? (Even though the page claims there are ~84k posts) - is this a bug?
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If you think "It's not censorship unless the government does it," I want to change your mind.
It's absolutely true that the First Amendment only prohibits government action to suppress speech based on its content, but the First Amendment is not the last word on censorship.
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Can’t get this song about Putin’s secret aqua disco out of my head
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RT @flancian
@TwitterDev
I've been trying to get access to the Twitter API for @an_agora for four days now -- I only get this boilerplate back from you, with no details on exactly how our use case is in violation even though I've offered more details and options. Could you please help?
RT @alicemazzy
libgen/scihub are of such monumental social/moral worth that their illegality delegitimizes the law as a whole
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when a society finds itself sunk-cost-fallacying about why bright youngsters must be denied access to the sum of human knowledge is when it may be time to take a deep breath and pull the bandaid off (change funding incentives)
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RT @alicemazzy
libgen/scihub are of such monumental social/moral worth that their illegality delegitimizes the law as a whole
https://twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/1220062740825415689
Hot take: You: the world is in a grain of sand!
Existentialists: therefore, the world isn't all that impressive actually.
Hindus: therefore, sand is pretty impressive actually.
Zen Buddhists: (hit you with a stick)
Christians: and GOD MADE THAT SAND!!!
6/ addendum: the act of being aware might be heroic, but the resulting self-actualization is not. Any pathos we habitually associate with it is misguided. It is an attempt to escape the very thing itself. The meaning of life is as sacred as going to the bathroom. This is absurd.
5/ By choosing awareness, Sysiphos moves fate and meaning from a divine to a completely human sphere. The price for this is the infinite struggle with his rock. - it's *not* like awareness solves any problems! This is what makes him the absurd hero.
4/ Sysiphos' pointless struggle is thus a direct result of his awareness and his acceptance of the meaninglessness of the world. (Note the parallels to the expulsion from paradise, for instance)
3/ this shows us that we need to change our understanding of "punishment after death":
it is something that is implied *automatically*, necessarily, by his contempt for death and the gods.
"after death" is not temporal, but means "spiritually", "concerning the soul."
2/ sure, the gods might punish him for that (by terrible pain, say), but that would mean his punishment is actually different: choose between rock OR pain. But that's not what it was.
Just reread Camus' Myth of Sysiphos.
I'd always been confused by Sysiphos' punishment: why couldn't he just refuse to push that rock up that hill? 1/
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Shitlibs be like:
No! The mute function is not enough! Just because I can't see you doesn't mean I don't know you're there! You need to agree with me or be purged from society!
The AI revolution is here, episode #264:
Attempting to gesture-type "front-facing", Google came up with the word "Front-Fasching".
Translated literally as "front carnival", this seems to refer to the much lesser known mardi-gras truce of 1942, where Nazi Sturmtruppen and Soviet soldiers forgot the turmoils of war for a moment, dressed up in funny costumes, danced, and ate candy. 🧐
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Wow, that's a neat effect. (It's an output from the neural style code I'm working on.)
