ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

I’m realizing that growing up as a wired magazine-reading cyberpunk believer— a kid who thought adbusters and the internet could save the world— and then watching as every technological miracle was turned not towards revolution or saving humanity but instead more pernicious and intractable methods of exploitation has made me uncomfortable with technological optimism. “assume all new technology will be used against you” —

The history of Earth as the length of a human’s outstretched arm - representing 4.5 billion years of time.

At this scale, humans emerged so recently that we could be filed off from a microscopic slice at the very tip of a fingernail nail.

Infographic by Katie Scott from original article in Nautilus. Details at https://ncse.ngo/deep-time-really-really-deep-man #space #time #science

I have to remember that, because #Mastodon doesn't have #algorithm curated feeds, I have to #boost / reblog interesting people more often. Liking their posts doesn't make them more visible.

Also, if you want to find new people, I use the #Welcome hashtag whenever I say hi to a new person who posted an #Introduction. I try to greet interesting people pretty frequently.

Love y'all! Keep being kind! 💜

Experts: Indictment May Signify Donald Trump Has Been Accused Of Crime

It is kinda crazy just how frequently Devin Nunes sues people for defamation. And yet, he never wins. It kinda makes you wonder who's paying for all this...

It's too bad @DevinCow went back to Twitter...

https://reason.com/volokh/2023/04/04/devin-nunes-sues-for-libel-over-investigators-examined-trump-media-for-possible-money-laundering-article/

I just wanna point out that Luddites didn't want to stop technological advancements they just wanted to make sure the advancements weren't used to generally screw over people then got branded as idiots for being rightfully cautious.

In the "hat tiling" we can change the parameter 𝑥 to get Tile(𝑥), which is also an aperiodic monotile ( https://mathstodon.xyz/@csk/110058810967206467 ). But what if we try Tile(𝑧) where 𝑧 is a complex number?

That has a natural interpretation when the plane is considered to be the complex plane. However, while for 𝑥∈ℝ the tiling consists of Tile(𝑥) and mirrored copies of Tile(𝑥), for 𝑧∈ℂ, it consists of Tile(𝑧) and mirrored copies of Tile(conj(𝑧)). So no longer a monotile, but still cool and likely still aperiodic.

The animation includes cases where 𝑧 is too far from "the hat value" -- the tiles may overlap then.

Schedule of today's events:

1:00 pm: Trump surrenders at Manhattan DA office.

2:15 pm: Trump brought to Judge Merchan's courtroom for arraignment, unsealing of charges.

2:27pm: Trump enters "not guilty" pleas to each count.

2:31pm: Distraction from smoke bomb in back of courtroom

2:32pm: Trump leaps from courtroom window into mattress truck waiting on side street in dramatic escape.

2:35pm: Mayor Adams calls Batman.

On April 3, Twitter suspended WordPress.com’s access to the Twitter API without warning.

https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/04/04/why-twitter-isnt-working-with-your-blog-right-now/

No guns are allowed in the Utah GOP convention because Ron DeSantis is the keynote

Tennessee Republicans are expelling Democrats who are pleading for gun control

Republicans aren’t just the party of fascists. They’re the party of cowards.

Clearview AI Scraped 30 Billion Images From Facebook and gave them to cops.

US police have used the database nearly a million times: Clearview took photos without users' knowledge, its CEO Hoan Ton-That acknowledged in an interview last month. Doing...
https://jwz.org/b/yj_E

haven't posted a moon photo in a while - please enjoy

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#moontography #photography #sunset #moon

Man this place feels so much calmer than twitter. Hope to meet some interesting people on here! #twittermigration #twitter

Today on This Is Not the Beginning of a Horror Novel It’s Just Tuesday In Maine News…

I found this thing buried in the woods behind my house! I THINK it might be a clothing iron without a handle? It’s VERY heavy though hollow.

I think the bottom says POTTSTOWN, PA USA. The top says IRON CO. But the name of the company is corroded.

That or it summons the Old Ones from soil and sea.

Any clues? Historians? Lovecraftian cultists? Any ideas on how to clean it up further?

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