ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

None of the Lent

fun fact about me: when i was 13 i tried to deliberately misspell "supersede" in a spelling bee and accidentally spelled it correctly

see ya, feedly. shameful stuff.

If I didn't have a highschool degree, had zero track record in "AI," wrote a random harry potter fanfic, started a cult that worships me talking about my "high IQ," & talked about bombing data centers would I

A) Be called a "famous AI theorist"

B) What am I even talking about I'd be in prison before half of those things or

C) The FBI is right at my door right now with machine guns drawn?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3dkj/ai-theorist-says-nuclear-war-preferable-to-developing-advanced-ai

Hiking in Tucson, Az. Beautiful weather and few people on the trails. Phainopepla, black-throated sparrow, and Harris’ Hawk.

I know I'm from America? But why didn't anyone ever impress upon me just how fruit loops, bouncy castle crazy this country is?

So, there have been ... several Christian-adjacent proto-fascist new-age anti-communist cults in our history. You'd think two would be enough.

Q is basically a tale as old as time.

If you want rabbit hole find out about this guy... and the people who thought they were getting "messages" from him.

Office wellbeing officer doing a particularly good job this morning #DogsOfMastodon

Code generated from LLMs is going to need more testing than code written by developers. This seems self-evident to me, but I suspect a lot of people are going to learn it (or ignore it) the hard way.

Given that most existing codebases are not well tested, and most developers don't test, this does not bode well.

Hello, everyone!

I am new to SoNoMu, but I'm not new to the fediverse -- I've been on fedi since 2017.

I am also new to sharing my music, though I'm not new to making it. I'm a multi-instrumentalist who makes music mixing #electronic, #triphpop, #rock

I've started on Bandcamp if you wish to follow me:

https://constancemaneuver.bandcamp.com

Feedback on my music and advice on how to share it is welcome to me.

#introduction

“Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them.”

John Burroughs, born OTD in 1837 https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/14/the-faith-of-a-naturalist-john-burroughs/

The Aleppos Catmen are true heroes doing amazing work under the direst circumstances. These photos are from Winson's Farms, which is providing care and help to other four-legged beings.
Photos by Lorraine Winson
#AleppoCatmen #AnimalRescue

It works all the same. Not by "tricking" anyone, but via a kind of boiling frog technique where support for that hierarchy and the horrible acts it allows, are perpetually mainstreamed and normalized. It's happening already; we're already having casual debates about who has rights, we're already openly talking about fascist conspiracy nonsense, and the rights of literal nazis, in a very serious and real way that would make zero sense to anyone who was alive in the 40's. This is HOW it functions.

Nasa names first woman and black man on Moon mission.

NASA on Monday announced the crew of Artemis II, four astronauts who will head to the moon within the next two years. The crew will travel around the moon and back on a 10-day mission.

The crew of three Americans and one Canadian will be the first humans to fly toward the moon in more than 50 years. They are: Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Reid Wiseman of NASA, and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency. Glover, the first Black man assigned as a crew member on the International Space Station, will serve as the mission's pilot. Koch, who holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, will serve as a mission specialist. Wiseman, who served as NASA's chief astronaut, will be the commander. Hansen, one of four active Canadian astronauts, will also serve as a mission specialist

#nasa #moon #women #blackhistory #womenshistory #moreyouknow

Everyone banging on about this thing of "working like a monk". I tried it myself and spent all day just to write one letter.

It was an illuminating experience...

I signed up for Mastodon in November of 2022 at a time when my cat was dying and I honestly just needed a little bit of an escape.

I thought I’d write some dumb jokes in order to keep the mood light, but what I ended up finding were some great people whom I never would have known existed if it weren’t for Mastodon.

I just wanted to take a moment to thank all of the friends I’ve made on here in such a short time, and I look forward to meeting even more wonderful people on here in the future!

Tree Love

I get very, very bored of celebs and opinion writers talking about how they dislike #london.

So when London In Bits asked me to write about why I love my city, how could I say no?

https://londoninbits.substack.com/p/bradleys-lager-and-shots-in-no-mans