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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Adobe Firefly GenAI won’t let users generate image of person giving the “middle finger” but it does allow the “center finger”
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I recently discovered Chronically Capable, a job board for people with disabilities or chronic illnesses: https://www.wearecapable.org
It’s mostly U.S. based for now, but there are ads for other countries, too. I want every one of us jobseekers to find the perfect position this year. 😊
Boosts are warmly welcomed to this post as are suggestions for other hashtags to include if I’m missing good ones.
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Cat pics? "Snoots?" "Toe beans?" "Mlems?" These are toxoplasmist propaganda.
No mere psyop, no mere "brain worm" but a bug that literally worms into your brain.
Always be vigilant, my friends.
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I wrote about an interesting prologue. So let's talk about prologues!
Not whether you love them or hate them--but what they are uniquely able to do. What's the difference between a prologue and a first chapter? What is the function of a prologue? And what's the fun of it too? How do you think about whether to include one?
#WritingConversations #WritingCommunity #prologue #ReadingLikeAWriter #WhatHappenedtoRuthyRamiriz #ClaireJimenez #Writing #FirstPage #BookOpenings
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This building was cursed by a witch who was only 9 years old at the time.
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@futurebird Over on Facebook there's a group devoted to "liminal spaces", and the group seems divided between people who are freaked out by them and people who find them comforting. I think some of the comfort of liminality, when it exists, comes from the lack of stress, that feeling that you're in a place where nothing is expected of you and nobody cares that you're there, so you don't have to perform.
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I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.
We should be looking at what tech works when you *don't* have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale *without* paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.
There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.
@RustyBertrand@mastodon.ie @fmuc
Do the last one, do the last one! :)
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Doomscrolling? That’s silly. Put that phone away, go outside and EXPERIENCE the doom!
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As tax day gets closer, reminder that Republicans cut taxes for corporations and the wealthiest Americans in 2017.
Since then, the wealth of the obscenely rich has nearly doubled.
But over half of the rest of us are living paycheck to paycheck.
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A rare off-topic post, but this one's important. To all of you that lived through this in the 80s and 90s, the end is finally in sight. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/hiv-cure-cell-test-dna-b2515169.html
@dangoodin I'm somewhat puzzled as to how exactly he "stole" all these services. I guess if you start a new account they let you use some amount of $ worth of compute on the theory that they'll bill you at the end of the month and you'll probably pay, but...
Just how much do they allow a new account to use without paying for, and just how many accounts did he have to create, to get it to $3.5 million?
I guess that's just not all that much money anymore... 😵💫
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Behold the pyramid scheme known as cryptocurrency mining. Man allegedly consumed $3.5 million of computing resources from Amazon and Microsoft to generate $1 million worth of digital coin.
The real crime here is all the energy consumed.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/nebraska-man-indicted-multi-million-dollar-cryptojacking-scheme
When the corn is as high
As an elephant's eye,
That's amore! 🎶
It's like every overpaid C-level executive on the planet feels like they have to pretend that #GenerativeAI is actually helping their company, because otherwise they'll get snubbed at the country club or something...
@fmuc @RustyBertrand@mastodon.ie
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@RustyBertrand@mastodon.ie Perfect :D
#YouTube videos being so often Sponsored is I'm sure good for the creators, but also it's kind of awful.
Yeah, I now realize that Factor and HelloFresh and earbuds and sex toys exist, thanks.
@trinsec Found it! Under like "Settings > accounts > sign-in options > lock screen personalization" there's a "Lock screen status" that lets you "Choose an app", and it was set to "Weather and more", which apparently includes NBA updates lol.
There doesn't seem to be a "None", but I set it to "Devhome" (what?) and now it isn't showing anything extra. Some day I'm sure it will start to show something annoying.
It's not quite an ad; it's like I guess the latest scores and things. Recently the weather forecast started to appear on the login screen, which was fine. Maybe I'm in some A/B test group or something.
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
