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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Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
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Queer is a word that promotes solidarity between disparate communities under the lgbtq banner and regardless of how anyone personally feels about that word when mainstream media runs "don't say queer" stories they're doing it to drive a wedge between those groups.
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Last night I was on a big roll -- test roll, re-roll, ultra-roll, mega-roll, nuclear-roll -- to see if I could get my AI Bot to actually produce text, and identifiable features, and fingers, for "Boles" and/or "Boles.tv" and these are the some of the best results!
(AI Art Bots are notoriously unforgiving when it comes to "typing" text in an image.)
So, yes, it sort of, finally, worked! If you have any AI Bot experience, you know these image results are nothing short of MIRACULOUS!
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For #BlackFriday #blackmastodon, here's Kizzmekia Corbett, immunologist and assistant professor at Harvard. An expert on coronaviruses, she led a team at NIH that did much of the early work developing mRNA COVID19 vaccines.
Read more: https://harvardpublichealth.org/covid-19/kizzmekia-corbett-is-just-getting-started/
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From a workshop on Shape dynamics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU0sDEeWsfE
A written tutorial:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0105
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Navigator's Position On A Tu-104 Ok-Ldc In Petrovice, Czech Republic
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Prisoner artwork on a cell wall at the abandoned Holmesburg Prison
Gallery:history: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/holmesburg-prison
There is no way to "keep politics out of it" when one party has made it into a political issue. Any attempt to appeal to the common good is met instantly with hyper-political attacks.
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An image and caption from a 1912 article in *Popular Mechanics* that lays out the basics of climate change. They were a bit off on the timing, but we've known about this for a long time.
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This makes me very angry.
These are anti-homeless benches designed to look pleasing. It’s called hostile architecture. They’re meant to be uncomfortable to discourage sleeping on.
The people who designed these are assholes. They’re decorators, not designers.
A designer makes things to improve the world for everyone. A decorator takes otherwise unpalatable injustices and disguises them with aesthetics in an attempt to make them inoffensive or even desirable.
Be a designer, not a decorator.
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Discovery: People also migrated FROM North America TO Siberia thousands of years ago. https://www.iflscience.com/previously-unknown-group-of-people-in-prehistoric-siberia-found-by-dna-67060
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Too many moderates, centrists, and liberals have bought into the idea that conservatives are just – and at least somewhat justifiably – pushing back against certain “excesses” of “woke” leftism, and that they will stop once those excesses are kept in check. That’s nonsense. 11/
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Conservatives are pursuing a deeply anti-democratic, anti-liberal, anti-pluralistic vision for American society, and the Right has a clear strategy for how to impose it on the country against majority will. They are fully committed to this reactionary political project. 6/
Many pieces of valuable information on the Web aren't served by a "webhost" that gives out certs for free. Many interesting interactions on the web take place where one or both ends are pieces of software that don't use (and have no reason whatever to use) anything more complex than text strings over an ordinary socket. Many interesting pieces of information on the web don't have anyone maintaining them who can be bothered to convert to https (and would gain nothing whatever from that conversion). All of which and more were pretty well covered in the article!
@JGibbard @ScaleOvenStove @davew @Deus @jeffjarvis @EvilKiru
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My comments re the announcement from @jeffjarvis of the CUNY scholarship to do Masto-Journalism..
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
