Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@qoto.org

Big mushroom day in the San Francisco Bay Area!

#mushrooms #fungi #bayarea #outdoors

@BenHigbie you have to picture a kangaroo or a frog or something to remember his name.

@BenHigbie I watched a documentary about him just last week. This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE9GCRQtkiU

A natural mind is an emerging system that shares the following properties with a cyclone:
- has a lifetime
- has a center that's defined in space with good accuracy with respect to the center of any other cyclone i.e. they are easy to distinguish from one another
- their spatial boundaries are fuzzy
- their start date is fuzzy
- their end date is also fuzzy but perhaps less so than their start date

Much of this model goes out the window when considering artificial minds implemented and clonable with modern computers.

#mind #analogy #philosophy #artificialintelligence

@BenHigbie oh, I should have checked the replies...

@BenHigbie it's a painting by Edward Hopper - South Carolina Morning! https://whitney.org/collection/works/789

@benjamingeer merci pour le partage

@benjamingeer j'ai du mal à croire que cette discrimination soit uniforme. J'aimerais voir s'il y a moyen de prédire quels employeurs en sont coupables plus que les autres.
Ça me rappelle mon job de postdoc aux Etats-Unis où le chef était polonais et un tiers des gens qui étaient embauchés étaient également polonais. Racisme ou non, protection légale ou non, je recommande de fuire ce genre d'environnement, c'est plein de copinages et de magouilles.

Stomilactilus, November 2023
61 cm × 91 cm
https://martinj.art
#art #abstractart #artistsonmastodon

@lowqualityfacts it's common sense.

@dpiponi @GrantMeStrength I didn't find the details I was looking for about the camera failure but this article is still pretty enjoyable: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/13/735314929/the-camera-that-went-to-the-moon-and-changed-how-we-see-it

@ministerofimpediments @lowqualityfacts this is cheating because it's a common carp (Cyprinus carpio), not a goldfish (Carassius auratus).

@arthunter these are most likely Galerina marginata, funeral bells (should have brown spores). https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/154735-Galerina-marginata

@Vinz then there are weirdoes (certain families in the bourgeoisie) who would eat a banana with knife and fork. There may also be folks who are eating a burger for the first and last time in their life and possibly never eat a sandwich because that's how they were raised or something.

@Vinz pizza sure, but burgers? There's a possibility that the presence of a fork and knife indicates that the place is a proper restaurant, in which case certain expectations exist that do not exist in fast-food places - which are not considered "restaurants". For example, drinking from a bottle in a restaurant is bad manners but Americans do it all the time. I find that eating a burger with knife and fork is a matter of convenience. I tend to do this in restaurants that provide silverware because their burgers are usually too large. I suppose Americans try harder to eat them with their bare hands, but it seems like more effort for them. I'm not sure about real restaurants that serve burgers in France because I haven't had much experience with those (I'm French but live in California). Also note that traditional French table manners forbid eating anything with hands except for bread, meat with bones, and certain raw or dry things that are more like appetizers or desserts. Burgers are widely understood to be a foreign thing that is super weird to serve on a plate like all sandwiches, so French people would generally not know what to do with it and improvise. Fast-food chain burgers are always eaten with hands with no hesitation.

@SPF learning about the horrors of the past is important therefore it's fun, what's the problem?

@danluu I wish they offered options to hide (1) all paywalled content and (2) all content with ads. Or at least prominently display warnings for these things.