ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
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5-7 books to something something about me? Good Lord. Um...
Okay, "A Wrinkle in Time", that's like a free space.
Thaddeus Golas, "A Lazy Man's Guide To Enlightenment".
Robinson, "A Short, Sharp Shock".
Me, "All Reality" (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KH-ZR3A8va_QVaVVP5EWb3SIUUJF2o0g65hOV3pVspA/)
Ram Dass, "Be Here Now"
I don't know! Maybe Morick (ed) "Challenges to Empiricism".
Ooh how about Abbott's "Flatland"?
"Principia Discordia" of course.
Darn, that's eight already, and I haven't listed "The Wind in the Willows" yet, which should probably have been first.
And lots more!!
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An #introduction:
Bachelor's degree in #Philosophy from Princeton, 1981, which makes me ?good at ?discussion?.
#Zen #Buddhist #Pantheist #atheist
#Radical (for the US) #politics, in that I think power should be more fairly distributed than it is now,.
Master's in #compsci from Pace, 1985ish; professional #coder for like 40 years, mostly for #IBM and now for #google (all opinions strictly my own, of course, not theirs!), mostly on the #systems side. #cpp and anything else really, they're just languages. :)
Greatly enjoy #writing, and I've done a number of #nanowrimo novels (working on the dozenth in 2022). Have also greatly enjoyed playing with #gpt3.
I have no visual skills, but lately I've been producing thousands of images using #midjourney and a few with other text-to-image tools. The future is wild!
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News That Will Drive You To Drink https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/09/13/news-that-will-drive-you-to-drink-2165/
Posted! About not liking Eric Schmidt, mostly...
Touch grass, Eric https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/09/13/touch-grass-eric/
Finally finished Durrell's Justine, and have written words about it.
Justine, finally https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/09/02/justine-finally/
O Sybilli, si ergo,
Fortibus es in ero!
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How do you all think the next twenty years will unfold, realistically?
I'm curious?
I shan't share what my predictions are.
So, up until 2044?
Condense your replies, not that I expect many, to four sentences max, please.
Kindly Boost this should you not mind so as to get a wider range of inputs
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Looking to move my secondary / personal account from tech.lgbt to another server based on their mod decisions las year and their decision to defed from dair-community.social.
Where are the cool anti racist, anti kyriarchal science/tech/theater/religion queers hanging out these days?
(Trying to keep this account more academic and professional, with some space for politics)
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I say this as an atheist I’m constantly amazed at how quickly Christians forgot the whole “WWJD” thing. Y’all even had bracelets!!!!
Posted!
LLMs and the Stanley Parable https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/08/19/llms-and-the-stanley-parable/
(They're still making stuff up.)
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This is pretty neat
Propnomicon posted an expanded version of a "Semiotic Standard" based on Ron Cobb's original designs for Alien
https://propnomicon.blogspot.com/2022/05/traveller-semiotic-standard-v2.html
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we're seeing hair levels at about 77%
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Favorite phrase o' the day, from the profile of some phishing account:
"Gentleness is for reference only, please refer to the time of anger."
Excited to be playing
The Stanley Parable 7
Atomic Birthday Party
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Are your friends still trapped in a social media nightmare?
1. Point them to this article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2024/08/13/the-best-browser-for-the-social-media-nightmare-were-living-in/
2. Give them a little nudge to switch from The-Social-Network-That-Must-Not-Be-Named to Mastodon! 
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Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray says that the media outlets that have been sent hacked materials from the Trump campaign have refused to publish them because media don't "snap at" any hack that comes in. And he adds that the leaked materials about Vance aren't "fresh or new enough."
Really? They really expect us to forget the precise opposite way in which they have handled hacked materials when DEMOCRATS are the object of the hacks?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/08/13/iran-email-hack-republicans-media-response/
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I'm going to be honest, they had me in the first half.
A brief post on a brief bit of "Justine".
Blind unspecified doctrines https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/08/11/blind-unspecified-doctrines/
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
