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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So. Here we go. In no order, just listing off what I loved. With so much more to discover.
Ericka's Favorite #Music of 2023.
We will start with #RockMusic first.
ROCK (all formats):
ALL THINGS BOYGENIUS: THE RECORD AND THE REST
Paramore: This Is Why
Yo La Tengo: This Stupid World
Dolly Parton: Rock Star
PJ Harvey: I Inside the Old Year Dying
Julia Zivic: Live At Guava EP
Meet Me @ The Altar: Past Present Future
Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS
Arlo Parks: My Soft Machine (& anything else she wants to do)
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I will be frank. The amount of insecure, delusional, racist white men who have blocked ME for calling out their racism in the last 5 days is disgusting and delusional. Block lists will not help with racist reply guys. You holding them accountable might, however.
This is how I felt in 2016 when first introduced to this place and it’s proving itself to be true. Intentionally being violent towards Black people while touting fake diversity. No one will ever like mastodon except tech dudebros.
More about books! This was an excellent one.
"Practice" by Rosalind Brown https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/07/27/practice-by-rosalind-brown/
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Shout-out to the Zoom SRE and DevOps teams, who had no idea that they were about to become critical voting infrastructure. 🤷🏿♂️
44,000 Black women on a Zoom call for future President Kamala Harris
45,000 Black men on a Zoom call for future President Kamala Harris
136,00 White women in a Zoom call for future President Kamala Harris
And yes, the White women call is the largest call in Zoom history.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/justice-department-endorse-kamala-harris-fear-trump-rcna163069 Fearing a Trump takeover, Justice Department alumni endorse Kamala Harris
Former DOJ officials warned in a new letter that the “fabric of the nation, the rule of law and the future of the Democracy are at stake in this election.”
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New instance, new reminder that
Testosterone implies the existence of stagingtosterone and productiontosterone
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.
Apparently there were quite a few of those!
Seriously! Although I gather this Falcon thing is just as intrusive and kernel-resident in its *ix version.
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
That's seriously what it's called, isn't it? 😄
aka " ostensorium ".
I'm sure the Almighty is very impressed!!
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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/
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
