mushambo @mushambo@qoto.org
I'm just a nobody...
Joined Sep 2021
I asked a Finnish fellow what phrase they use along the lines of 'when your Spidey-sense tingles'...
He came back with 'there's a dog buried here.' About the most sisu / motti (non translation) I would never have thought of.
So I plugged seven TV reality/gameshows into some creative algorithms and asked for 2052 concepts.
Survivor, To Tell the Truth, American Gladiator, Catchphrase, Jokers Wild, Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego?
First proposal: "Two contestants...taken out of their own homes...answer basic trivia questions...cameras disguised like spaceships"
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Honestly, I never expected to live long enough to find myself in a conversation like this..as DeVito!
@freemo i have zero clue what I'm doing on public vs. direct ๐ Truly do prefer tells on a MUD
Looking to put together a @users group of forecasters (otherwise total strangers) for Metaculus' new competition.
I've been doing decision/prediction markets since HSX first launched, so approx 20 years? But truly, there is NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY L(
Trust me, "the scientists" are vastly more interested in watching how remotely organized teams of random nerds work together than whether a particular commodity target was met.
Can I at least count on you @freemo ? :)
https://www.metaculus.com/tournament/forecasting-Our-World-in-Data/
Apparently the #pepefappers (is this coined already? if not, "first!") are grouchy at Amazon's casting for LOTR..."elves are supoosed to be fair-skinned" is tragically wrong on many levels, including the fact everyone knows elves are green.
More importantly, in the process of researching further details of why #pepfappers (second!) are wrong, I learned of "Cheddar Man" (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/first-modern-britons-dark-black-skin-cheddar-man-dna-analysis-reveals) .
I'm thinking of adapting Hopper's speech to Walken in True Romance, in case I ever chance into one of them at a party.
So "only" 5M Americans said they would personally be Very or Completely Willing to kill someone to advance their political objectives in the next few years.
15M said political violence would be justified to restore Chump Bear to the presidency THIS YEAR!!
This why MY friends plan to be abroad by Fall '24. Hope you've got plenty of space @freemo ;)
Full crosstabs begin on slide 26: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.15.22277693v1.full.pdf
I seriously need to emigrate before Fall 2024 ... Any 'hot tips' on American-friendly visa countries?
Texas GOP platform only refers to Biden once by name, otherwise he's referred to as "current occupant of the White House" . smh.
Planted trays of these species so far this year...One regret from my first stint growing for bonsai was not taking more photos over the years. I'll be glad to have these looking back.. @freemo
I've got thousands of tree/shrub/vine seeds in my DIY seed bank, any germination-related substrate, tool, or chemical compound you can imagine, and the knowledge to match.
What I do NOT have on hand however is masking tape. #storyofmylife #qoto
never mucked about with Arduino, but plan to work towards an NFT collection using various species as my RNG. Planting time starts in 3 weeks! https://github.com/robbiebarrat/plant-art @freemo #qoto
Interesting bit of research, systems modeling WAY above my paygrade though. I still grow my bonsai without any simulation tools (like a chump).
https://pure.tue.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/168158736/20210308_Kuijpers.pdf @freemo
In other news, NFT fanboys said I'm "ngmi" because I'm skeptical about metaverse land (esp. time horizon). I'm sorry but citing "Apple, Google, and Amazon all started before the dotcom bubble" is not a credible push-back to me pointing out Webvan.com existed ~20 years before Instacart took off.
Pro (moi) tip for commUNITY: www.JLHudsonseeds.net
J.L. is hands down the best seedsman on the planet, runs it as a public-access seed bank.
This is literally my favorite piece of mail each year. It's 100% typeset without a computer and funnier than hell to read. He makes the ordering process challenging on purpose, so as to self-select people who are motivated enough to grow things properly.
Ships WW, sells GA-3 as well for fun horticultural experiments (reminds me, I've got three kinds of lunar soil from UCF in my closet that I've never done anything with lol).
I lost 300+ (pre-)bonsai last year and cannot wait to start growing again this year. Will post photos along the way.. #qoto @freemo
What about DAO's? A MUD buddy who's big in DeFi, pointed out "So it's a new way for nerds to organize online. SO WHAT?" lol I did not have a ready reply.
I wonder if part of that skepticism is the notion that open-source software development has functioned "well enough" all these years, with much looser governance and lack of profit-motive.
I'm trying to understand WHY many old-school computer types seem to be "anti-crypto" (especially NFTs). Many friends gladly accept it for payment (don't ask, don't tell :) but beyond that don't trade, HODL, etc.
Debating if it's a form of jealousy for not having monetized their (often superior) coding skills, disdain for press attention surrounding the space or...?
@freemo Whenever I finally make it back to NL, this is where I typically hold court ๐
I honestly can't remember the last time it mattered whether I put on matching socks...#qoto
Foolproof method to read online faster (patent pending):
1. Open articles in new (private) tabs.
2. Lose count after 100+
3. Wait for CPU to crash, lose all tabs
4. Tell yourself the information wasn't that important anyway.
I'm just a nobody...
Joined Sep 2021
