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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Hi! I write sci-fi and fantasy. Currently writing book three, The Ruined, of my future ice age #FindingHumanitySeries. If you like climate fiction, a diverse cast, sci-fi with a twist of mysticism, and enemies forced to work together, this may be the series for you.
Other interests:
#cats #animals #nature #arctic #astronomy #science #trees #neurodiversity #yoga #meditation #consciousness #aliens #history #mythology #folklore #fae #scifi #reading #fantasy #paranormal #shifters #homesteading
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Hi everybody. I’d love to find out if you have any favorite worlds in the solar system that are not planets. Moons, asteroids, comets, distant objects — which one (or more) grabs your imagination, and why?
#space #SolarSystem #moons
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LOLitics
Everybody knows this is true and it's most important as a reminder to not accept or repeat any statistic or assertion about Twitter use from Elon Musk.
RT @nytimes@twitter.com
Breaking News: Hate speech on Twitter has jumped since Elon Musk took over, researchers found.
Musk “sent up the Bat Signal to every kind of racist, misogynist and homophobe that Twitter was open for business,” the head of one of the research groups said.
https://nyti.ms/3H5BCJC
Tech / Physics shower thoughts
It's weird that we call them SSDs; it's not like HDDs are made out of oxygen and whiskey.
It's like Condensed Matter #Physics ; I thought it meant, like, #neutronium , until I found out oh, that's like, you know, solids and liquids.
Okayyyy!
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33832358 - the top comment has some links to impressive tricking of content filters.
These are amazing. We really are getting to the point of having to cajole our AI interfaces into doing the thing we want, rather than strictly “hacking” them.
We are social engineering them!
I'm reminded of negotiating with the sentient bomb in the #movie "Dark Star"
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#BlackMastodon #BlackFriday #BlackJoy
The Nicholas Brothers doing the greatest dance sequence ever!
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What will enter the #publicdomain in 2023? At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpose. Each day through December we’ll open a new window in our advent-style calendar to reveal our highlights! By public domain day on January 1st they will all be unveiled. https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2023/
(And for the impatient/curious we've also links to lists of the new entrants!)
Today, a Virginia Woolf classic...
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If you use FeedLand you can follow my Mastodon posts via this feed.
Just click the Subscribe button and you're in.
Mastodon, unlike Twitter, provides an RSS feed for each user. A huge advance in the state of the art.
I hope Twitter takes note and adds this very important feature.
http://feedland.org/?feedurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.social%2F%40davew.rss
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For Day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar , I present Bertha, my first completed painting of this year. Finished in January. 8x10 acrylic on canvas. #art #MastoArt #chicken
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For your daily December dose of surreal:
an AI-generated advent calendar, with door descriptions by GPT-3 and illustrations by a couple of text-to-image algorithms.
https://www.aiweirdness.com/ai-advent-calendar-2022
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The #goat seemed to be well received so that's good because there's more!
This African Pygmy Goat has a thing or two to say about gingerbread men..
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#ink and #watercolour on paper
#art #MastoArt #illustration #ArtAdventCalendar
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People criticize Twitter's feed algorithm for promoting virality and outrage. To the extent that's true, those aren't the primary goal. The goal presumably would be keeping people engaged to serve ads to them.
Mastodon is a FOSS project. It isn't optimizing for profit. Reverse-chron is cheap and easy to implement, which is probably how it ended up as the Mastodon algorithm.
But just like outrage may be a side effect of a profit-optimized algo, there can be side effects of a cheap one too.
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@sanjaysrivastava definitely :):). working on it, and starting an instance that'll support hacking on it like this as first class right of membership. fixing posting frequency mismatches and time zone issues are the first thing to try imo.
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@sanjaysrivastava completely agree — profit-driven algos are hopefully going by the wayside.
I think if some sort of algorithm does happen here, it'll be on the user to design it themselves, or copy and paste it from someone smarter than them (cc: @MattHodges).
I can't see a world where every corner of the fediverse agrees on a single algorithm, or even every user within one Mastodon server. but I guess that's what keeps this new and exciting!
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An oldie but a goodie! This is "Anticipation", which I use for my logo. Acrylics on wood panel, 2018. A colorful pet portrait of an orange and white tabby cat in bright rainbow colors! I started a series of dog and cat paintings in 2018 to create a portfolio for my new pet portrait business.
Prints: https://rebeccawangart.com/featured/anticipation-psychedelic-rainbow-tabby-cat-rebecca-wang.html
RB: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/36245309
#Art #MastoArt #FediGiftShop #BuyIntoArt #cat #TraditionalArt #AnimalArt #AcrylicPainting #FantasyArt #ArtAdventCalendar
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Crossposted from Twitter
I was thrilled to have the opportunity to review two of @b_hasbrouck@twitter.com's articles for @IReadJotwell@twitter.com. Check it out!
RT @IReadJotwell@twitter.com
Leah Litman, https://conlaw.jotwell.com/movement-on-judges/ reviewing Brandon Hasbrouck, Movement Judges, 97 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 631 (2022).
Brandon Hasbrouck, Saving Justice: Why Sentencing Errors Fall Within the Savings Clause, 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e), 108 Geo. L.J. 287 (2019).
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/IReadJotwell/status/1598640781211979777
Wow that is weird! It's not clear to me even in retrospect that it should do that!!!
There are absolutely servers on that list that deserve a personal block! I like the idea, in general, of there being a variety (a small variety, probably, to avoid needing second-level lists of lists) of shared Blocklists of various kinds. There just needs to be a certain amount of pressure to be open and transparent (and accurate) about list criteria, and I'm happy to be a small part of that pressure now and then.
In the short run it would be excellent if the list could be updated (if it hasn't already been) to say something correct in the qoto entry. Even for the sake of the list itself: since a brief glance at qoto will show that "no moderation, free speech" is inaccurate, it undermines the credibility of the whole thing.
@LouisIngenthron @freemo @toxomat @PaulaToThePeople @SecondJon @shelenn
That seems like a pretty good criterion to me! Reading the thread that the table currently points to (or did last time I looked) it was half inside-baseball and I couldn't tell what much of it was even referring to. Something more transparent / defined would be better, I think. And for that matter easier for Paula.
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
