Finally finished Durrell's Justine, and have written words about it.
Justine, finally https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/09/02/justine-finally/
Looking to move my secondary / personal account from tech.lgbt to another server based on their mod decisions las year and their decision to defed from dair-community.social.
Where are the cool anti racist, anti kyriarchal science/tech/theater/religion queers hanging out these days?
(Trying to keep this account more academic and professional, with some space for politics)
I say this as an atheist I’m constantly amazed at how quickly Christians forgot the whole “WWJD” thing. Y’all even had bracelets!!!!
Posted!
LLMs and the Stanley Parable https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/08/19/llms-and-the-stanley-parable/
(They're still making stuff up.)
This is pretty neat
Propnomicon posted an expanded version of a "Semiotic Standard" based on Ron Cobb's original designs for Alien
https://propnomicon.blogspot.com/2022/05/traveller-semiotic-standard-v2.html
Favorite phrase o' the day, from the profile of some phishing account:
"Gentleness is for reference only, please refer to the time of anger."
Corporations are scumbags.
https://wdwnt.com/2024/08/disney-dismissal-wrongful-death-lawsuit/
Are your friends still trapped in a social media nightmare?
1. Point them to this article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2024/08/13/the-best-browser-for-the-social-media-nightmare-were-living-in/
2. Give them a little nudge to switch from The-Social-Network-That-Must-Not-Be-Named to Mastodon!
Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray says that the media outlets that have been sent hacked materials from the Trump campaign have refused to publish them because media don't "snap at" any hack that comes in. And he adds that the leaked materials about Vance aren't "fresh or new enough."
Really? They really expect us to forget the precise opposite way in which they have handled hacked materials when DEMOCRATS are the object of the hacks?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/08/13/iran-email-hack-republicans-media-response/
A brief post on a brief bit of "Justine".
Blind unspecified doctrines https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/08/11/blind-unspecified-doctrines/
So according to Magnolia, Azeroth wants us to go to the place called Aaaa-ahhh-augh. We should get on that!
Sounds sort of Orcish.
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.
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