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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Most US folk don't know about COINTELPRO, the FBI program that targeted Black civil rights leaders for false arrest, and yes, assassination. US folks don't know this, because it's not taught in schools. But Black kids know about COINTELPRO.
Most US folk don't know what a "Black Identity Extremist" is. Again, not taught in schools. If you joined a George Floyd BLM protest, there's a good chance you were investigated as a Black Identity Extremist. Again by the FBI. Black kids know this.
On both #Twitter and #Tumblr, I get followed at least daily by accounts with generated-looking names, conventionally-attractive female profile pics, and (on tumblr) no posts or (on twitter) a few posts that are just pictures of women (sometimes completely different women).
What is up with these?? What is the scam? I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, but nothing so far...
(On Twitter I remove them as followers on my main account, and let them accumulate on a backup account. On Tumblr I ignore them. Nothing has ever happened.)
Good Lord.
I remember a handout on electricity that one of my kids got back in the day; it said that generators are "giant machines" and that batteries are a kind of generator.
The teacher was apparently just making it up based on their own general vague knowledge, rather than like looking at wikipedia or even a real curriculum.
I absolutely love good teachers. Unfortunately the system doesn't select for good ones terribly well.
#Midjourney pretends to prove the Pythagorean Theorem! Endearingly! #AIArt
Little Imaginary Diagrams https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2023/01/16/little-imaginary-diagrams/
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See these words from @chockenberry, lead developer of Twitterific?
It's exactly what I said would happen when Elon Musk screwed over 3rd Party developers.
Twitter didn't create broad adoption of Twitter. It was 3rd party developers.
Now devs are pissed—much more than they were before.
So what will they do next?
Drive broad adoption of the Fediverse.
This isn't the only former Twitter developer making these moves. @tapbots is also making an app for the Fediverse.
Bad move, Twitter!
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guy who hates GANs in a way that makes it clear that he would be burning disco records in the 70s versus guy who loves GANs in a way that makes it clear that he'd be defending Mo-Town Records' business practices in the 70s
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It's the latest episode of HACKERverse with Craig Ellrod and yours truly.
Today we spoke with Joyous Higgins. She's had a really impressive career as a hacker, from the SOC to Blizzard. She founded Defender Academy!
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Rude anatomy words calligraphied
Testing J Herbin Emerald of Chivor ink on different paper types, I'll border them up later.
The colours and sheen seem to come through more on the textured Fabriano mixed media 250g paper than the smoother Canson Illustration.
'Pissflaps' is with the 2.4m Pilot Parallel with the converter, it flows heavier/thicker; the others are 3.0mm parallel with a filled normal cartridge, flows lighter.
Video in next toot!
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#History #Mexicanculture #Mexican
The oldest public library in the Americas is the Palafoxiana Library (Biblioteca Palafoxiana) in #Puebla, #Mexico, founded in 1646 by the then Bishop of Puebla, Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (hence the name) to house his book collection. The beautiful hall of the Library was finished in 1773. The Library currently holds more than 41,000 items, including 9 incunnabula, among them a 1473 edition of the “Histories” of Herodotus.
Photo credit: Rolando White
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@Mastodon We want to build a network where people can discuss issues around their bodily anatomy , discussions some red states would criminalize
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Racists quoting Martin Luther King Jr. to make racist points is one of this era's most sickening features...
Silly action movie
A good "so terrible it was fun" I'd say, that one. Whereas The League one was more "kind of fun, but trying to be good, so the flaws were distracting".
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The #sea of #desert #dunes meet the #ocean in #Namibia #Africa in a moment of gorgeous light breaking through the #Fog. #Ripples in the #sand offer gorgeous texture.
#LandscapePhotography #Landscape #Nature #NaturePhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #Foto #Travel #TravelPhotography #Peaceful #Peace #Foggy
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"SCANNING FOR CONCEALED WEAPONS....
"NUMBER OF WEAPONS FOUND...
"MANY!"
Okay, so that was funny.
(Also I don't understand why her clothes keep changing color, and why the camera thinks it's important. Well, I know, because it's very bad.)
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Heading back to wintry Europe but with wonderful memories of #Freycinet in #Tasmania. Can’t speak highly enough - stunning landscapes, warm and friendly people.
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#котэ #Midjourney #FAIL #NeuralNetwork
Three cats standing on a robot vacuum cleaner, holding earth hemishpere on top of their backs, medieval engraving, ancient map
Оно меня не понимает 
Silly action movie
On the other hand, the NEXT movie I'm apparently watching is "Ultraviolet", which is a whole different category of inexpressibly bad.
I mean, the last scene had the bad guys in a LITERAL circular firing squad.
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
