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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A shy white #moth peeps around a stem.
#mothstodon #mothtodon #MothsAndButterflies #insects #nature
#photography
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A grapeleaf skeletonizer moth sitting on a cluster of mistflower, wearing his elegant orange scarf.
#moth #moths #mothstodon #lepidoptera #insects #nature #plants #photography
Slightly unusual food
Lunch:
Two boxes Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, prepared basically per instructions on the boxes.
One can Spam, cut into pieces.
About 1/2 of one large banana, cut into pieces.
Mmmmmmm. :) #food #macAndCheese #spam #banana
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One thing I have to explain to students learning Lean is that equality on the real numbers is not "decidable", as opposed to equality on the rationals, which is. Students are typically not taught this concept in maths classes, and if you do a real analysis class and see a gazillion proofs talking about equalities of real numbers working just fine, it's a bit of a shock when Lean starts announcing that various functions like \( x\mapsto|x| \) are not "computable". What's going on? A 🧵 . 1/6
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Road with Men Walking, Carriage, Cypress, Star, and Crescent Moon, 1890 #vincentvangogh #vangogh https://www.wikiart.org/en/vincent-van-gogh/road-with-men-walking-carriage-cypress-star-and-crescent-moon-1890
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Do you fancy a little nursery rhyme lore featuring pies, for pie week? There are several theories about the origins of this rhyme but the most popular is that it was about George, Prince Regent who loved his food, was known to press his unwelcome attentions on young women & made his wife and mistress extremely unhappy. An alternative is that it’s about George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham but that takes some stretching so I’ll let you look it up yourself. #Folklore #Food #Pie
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I wish I could mute an entire domain. I can mute and block single users and prefer muting, but I can only block an entire domain which isn't ideal in those dark grey cases where the instance has a mostly crappy community and muting it would be a quality of life upgrade, but it's not so bad I want to block it.
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'Two Rabbits in the Moonlight' - Imao Keinen, ca. 1930s.
#FullMoon #moon #ukiyoe #rabbit #JapaneseArt
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Morning moon. Birches. Lake. Pink sky.
#moon #fullMoon #lakesuperior
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Wow this is quite new! The imagination of fraudulent scientists is limitless! #academicmastodon @academicchatter
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Ouch, my heart is breaking. We just had about a dozen Security Program Managers have their positions eliminated from our group as part of the MS layoffs. Skills range from security product development to fundamentals and compliance to threat modeling and secure software design. If you're hiring for any positions like this, please respond below and I'll make sure they see these opportunities.
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Leaving Philip Inlet...looking very different than when we'd arrived the previous day. Here's my latest blog post with the story & more #Photos
https://eyeonenvironment.com/2023/02/20/water-water-everywhere/
#GreatBearSea #GreatBearRainforest #boating #BCcoast #InsidePassage
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last one was a bandit
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146 years ago today on March 6, 1857, SCOTUS ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that Black people were not not citizens, were subhuman, & could not sue in U.S. courts. Experts and historians point to this decision as the final straw that ignited the Civil War.
Sadly, throughout American history—from Dred Scott to Plessy to Korematsu to Nestle—SCOTUS has consistently prevented racial, gender, and economic progress.
And I'm afraid most people aren't aware of this because it isn't taught in schools.
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Discord, or the Death of Lore
Link: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5509
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35050858
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"‘Slavery was wrong’ and 5 other things some educators won’t teach anymore
To mollify parents and obey new state laws, teachers are cutting all sorts of lessons"
"Excerpts from Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.” Passages from Christopher Columbus’s journal describing his brutal treatment of Indigenous peoples. A data set on the New York Police Department’s use of force, analyzed by race.
These are among the items teachers have nixed from their lesson plans this school year and last, as they face pressure from parents worried about political indoctrination and administrators wary of controversy, as well as a spate of new state laws restricting education on race, gender and LGBTQ issues."
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
