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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Our schools routinely alienate the trans kids, the gay kids, the non-white kids, the non-Christian kids.
But we can't say slavery was bad, because that would alienate the racists, and that's where we draw the line for some reason.
US POL
https://www.thebulwark.com/how-the-no-labels-gambit-could-wreck-the-2024-election/
Gross. The "No Labels" third party is, I would say, almost certainly yet another GOP scheme to win the election without getting a majority vote.
My fingers were floury (Irish Soda Bread! ☘️ ) so I said to my phone "okay Google, set a timer for forty minutes!". I had to try this a few times, but ultimately there was a timer set for 40 minutes.
14 minutes later, there was a bizarre warbling sound from somewhere. Not my phone, and not any tone I'd heard before. I eventually traced it down to the Google Home Mini speaker in the living room.
Apparently it had overheard me talking to my phone in the kitchen, but heard it as "fourteen" rather than "forty".
Spoken interfaces to devices was a BAD IDEA!
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Another heavenly beginning to the day.
#photography #GX9 #panasonicGX9 #panasonic #processing #photoshop #bw #blackandwhite #sunrise
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We weren’t brought to our knees because China unleashed a bioweapon, purposefully or accidentally; it’s because we repeatedly pushed nature toward the next pandemic and then threw away the playbook for containing it. The desperate scramble to point fingers will only put us in worse shape for the next one. https://newrepublic.com/article/171012/lab-leak-covid-gain-of-function
#Covid19 #SARSCoV2 #ClimateChange #spillover
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DeSantis's "copy Trump" strategy is sort of turning him into a scapegoat, allowing other Republicans to say what they think about Trump but addressing it at DeSantis. https://presspass.thebulwark.com/p/republicans-take-out-their-long-held
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If you say "both sides have a point" about LGBTQ issues then presumably you think the same about antisemitism and racism.
You're wrong.
Attacking someone, refusing to accept them, denying them agency in their own lives, is unacceptable. Always.
So stop.
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How safe is #mifepristone?
This safe: It has been on the market for 22 years, and the anti-abortion plaintiffs could not find a single person who claims to have been harmed by using it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/03/15/texas-judge-abortion-pill-mifepristone-fda/
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me: trump bussy doesn't pop
maga himmler has added you to list 'soyboy cucks'. maga himmler has added you to list 'snowflake libs'. maga himmler has added you to list 'socialist npcs'. maga himmler has added you to list 'im so mad im going to pound off'. maga himmler has added
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"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world" - Peter Ustinov
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admins actually reach out to be as caked up as i am now communing with elder gods from times before time they were added in Wings
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Be ready to catch the thing.
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stop using discord as a wiki
stop using discord as a forum
stop using discord as a file host
stop using discord as a storefront
discord is an instant messenger
it is a centrally hosted cloud service
it will eventually shut down
it has no archival functionality
moving away from IRC was a mistake
anti-discord action
stop using discord as a forum
stop using discord as a file host
stop using discord as a storefront
discord is an instant messenger
it is a centrally hosted cloud service
it will eventually shut down
it has no archival functionality
moving away from IRC was a mistake
anti-discord action
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Love is hard goddamn work.
The alternative is far, far worse.
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Just now: 🎵Music fans were outside 🐦TheGarden, passing out flyers about the venue’s #FacialRecognition #Surveillance, & calling on artists like 🐦JohnMayer (performing tonight) to boycott venues that use this discriminatory and dangerous tech. http://banfacialrecognition.com/venues 🧵
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wait, hold on, we don't have to censor ourselves here.
let's try that again...
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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
