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.
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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!
Reading "Practice" by Rosalind Brown.
It's a short novel, and I catch myself putting it down just to make it last longer, because I want to stay in that world, which means not getting to the end. The paradox of certain good books.
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"Can the democrats keep up this momentum for an election cycle!?"
Yeah actually. Easily. That's one of the great things about the timing, the GOP has to scramble to find a message because they can't repeat a lie for a year until it sticks.
In the meantime:
August: DNC Boost
September: Second Debate Boost (if Trump chickens out this could be a town hall)
October: October Surprise
November: Election
Somewhere in here is the VP pick boost as well.
I'm confused by the widespread description of the #CrowdStrike thing as, say, a problem with #Windows PCs as such.
Surely it's only a problem with Windows PCs running CrowdStrike Falcon or whatever?
Is that software SO widespread that most of the PCs in the world are crashing?
I'm pretty sure my Windows laptop is fine; aren't most people's?
Is it just that the news is incapable of nuance? Or is the stuff pre-installed on 80% of Windows boxen and I'm just lucky? Or what?
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Her first time up there; she's just lookin' around ... #CatsOfMastodon #mastocats #cats #fedicats #catsodon #kittycat #cute
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Finally made another large-scale #SecondLife terrain model! 🗺️ To go along with my #SL21B exhibit, where I have a model on display of Heterocera, I've now mapped and made a video showing Sansara as well, SL's oldest continent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCdQO179uqM
More links as well as a brief overview of my process are available in the video's description text. And a shout-out to @Blender for being such an awesome piece of software! This project would never have gotten off the ground if not for #b3d and bpy.
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Blogged:
Balanced on a Cloud Edge in #SecondLife - https://wp.me/pxezy-AK7 - #SL #ExploringSecondLife
It's been awhile since I posted to THIS weblog!
How to make a real Second Life mirror
https://daleinnis.wordpress.com/2024/07/13/how-to-make-a-real-second-life-mirror/
#SecondLife #Mirror #mirrors #reflection
(Sorry to distract from Trump's-Ear news!)
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We should name our heat waves after oil companies, in alphabetical order like hurricanes or tornadoes. So you’d say the western US is currently suffering from heat waves Shell Oil this week.
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"MetaFilter turns 25 this month, a shining beacon of the Good Web. Reluctant owner Jessamyn West tells us how rusty tech and vibrant community keeps it vital."
MeFi's b'day is Sunday. I haven't been there all that time but I have been lately. Here's a podcast talking about some of the challenges of moderating a very different web than the one we had in '99
Of particular note is the auto-generated transcript which misses words like Gopher, NNTP and Usenet 
https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/104-good-web-metafilter/
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Was listening to a news segment in the car the other day about how more narcotics are being cut w/ fentanyl. Seemed like the message of the story was "test your drugs." All of sudden I felt extremely old, b/c I was struck by how far we've come in 40 years, when the prevailing public message was, "Just say no."
1984: Just Say No.
2024: Test Your Drugs.
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Want to talk about this article on MetaFilter? You sure can.
https://www.metafilter.com/204616/MetaFilter-a-time-capsule-from-another-internet
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current gemstone levels are 46%
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@the_etrain I ❤️ Huckabees makes me laugh every time. Not sure what that says about my mental state, but I would totally hire the existential detectives (Lily Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman) to investigate me and find out.
Scotland, PA is also hilarious. It's Macbeth but as a dark comedy set in a fast food restaurant in the 1970s. It's got Christopher Walken. Enough said.
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ANNOUNCEMENT:
We are still looking for new hosts for our US show, What The Trans USA.
If you are from the US and interested in hosting, please get in touch!
Contact at:
Alyx@whatthetrans.com
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Sex and Gender Map onto Different Brain Networks in Children
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Someone who I love told me that they’re feeling a lot of anxiety about climate change. I didn’t know what to say.
I am devastated about the incalculable suffering that is to come, but I’ve kind of compartmentalized it. I didn’t start it and I can’t fix it. (Yes, I can help a little.)
Has anyone been on a journey with climate anxiety? What has helped you?
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Back when Marco Rubio slammed 'con artist' Donald Trump
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A developer somehow got an entire OS running on Google Drive
No local storage needed
https://www.techspot.com/news/103652-developer-somehow-got-entire-os-running-google-drive.html
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
