Gabriel Bodeen @gabe@qoto.org

@edbott
Some instances do have quote toots! Use one of those.

Thematic game sessions with re-skinned real-world holidays are an excellent option. They offer enough familiarity that players can easily RP, plus the novelty fun of uncanny "alternate-history" celebrations. And of course for us players thematic games are a way to live the holiday spirit together! 🌠

It seems the laws were set up with big centralized for-profit systems in mind. Compliance might be too costly (both time & money) for volunteers running big Mastodon instances.

I'm not sure what the solution is. Maybe keeping instances small? Donations like Patreon? A non-profit foundation to help operators get in compliance? Big instances reorganizing as consumer cooperatives?

Exquisite!

My understanding is he currently is a major donor to developing an alternative called Nostr: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

It has some technical differences that he thinks are justified, such as not requiring as much replication of content compared to Mastodon servers. We'll see. Maybe if we're lucky the different FOSS options can all link up in the end.

Orthogonal, but for a silly semantic reason: people will keep redefining "AI" as more than current tech has achieved, pushing the goalposts as long as they can get away with it.

"Naturalist" can be a good term when you have to have one, for the reasons you describe -- if it applies to you!

Of course sometimes you don't even want to make the label about your beliefs, because that plays into the religious notion that you have to have the right beliefs. Then "Secular" can perhaps suffice. 🤷‍♂️

In my circles a bunch of folk support either a pure-wave interpretation of quantum physics, a broader Tegmark-style mathematical universe, etc up to full modal realism.

Given an ontology like that, it's easy to show that certain kinds of theories are true in a superset of the worlds where more specific versions of those theories are true. Example: a child psychology theory with five stages of development versus a theory with those same five stages plus one.

It's a short poem but god I love its lines and I wish I could find a way to use them in conversation! e.g.:

> I love the way you wear your
> face, how you ride this life.
...
> Forgive my word-churn, my
> drift, the ways this text message
> has gotten all frothy.

Text: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/56098/sea-foam-palace

Audio: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/play/76714

Thrash no more 'gainst the storm in your skull
though drops splash, pool and spill unheedful
they culture a crop of facts and lies.
Farm your mind. Grow where you memorize.
Cut neat, plumb canals new 'cross the plain.
Place outlets for fateful floods to drain.
Dig cisterns to outlast the dry spells.
Level the obstinate sundry hills.
Bury old quagmires in barren earth.
Dredge or dam old beds by plan and worth.
Thus make swift the thought-stream's coursing tao,
effortless to flow from "How?" to how.

Be most mistrustful of a man unjust till
by tears or time or toil
he proves robustly that truly he must be
loving and lasting and loyal.