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2am shower thought:

The "observer effect" in physics, plays an equally important role in psychology. There probably isn't many correlations though. By this I'm thinking longitudinal correlations. Can you think of any?

Good morning / afternoon / evening from Sassy the Ayrshire. "hhhhaaayyyy"

Shameful confession:
When I hear "Mastadon", my brain conjures the Power Rangers. I don't want it to. But I can't stop it.

@skanman it's easy to imagine "if they did this then that would overcome it" scenarios. They are significantly harder to implement from a practical perspective. Take a look at the version numbers for fedi servers. Even if a new protocol was agreed upon (no easy feat), implemented, and everyone upgraded to the newest version, implementations would still be open source and trivial to "detect".

going through the protocol definitions it looks like you'd need two firewall rules to effectively disable the activitypub protocol. Denying anything with content matching either "/\/@\w+\/inbox/" or "/\/@\w+\/outbox/" regex. That'd disable inbound and outbound messaging across whatever network boundaries you controlled :blobshrug:

Proxocracy - Voting on people who vote on decisions.

Politicians live in a democracy, citizens live in a proxocracy. Politicians have more freedom than citizens. So much for checks and balances.

I thought a motorcycle ride in a sunshower would be a cinematic surreal experience. It was, but was it worth a flu? Tbd

So if you are interested in #geopolitics , everything related to foreign affairs, war, peace, international affairs, international politics etc, send your news, update to @geopolitics , a boost would be nice.

@insidequantum I'm just a noob but I absolutely love Quantum physics and energy. I made DIY optical tweezers last year and I'm still amazed that I'm able to learn the mechanics, read journals, and use that information to fine time, and experiment on my own, and contribute new data. I look forward greatly to your posts:)

I'm so sorry, I couldn't resist.

Trinsec @Qoto  
@voutlook Just a heads up that a Quote isn't quite the same as a response. If you intended to reply to them, the Reply feature would be better suited.

"what the hell is wrong with you?" - stranger sitting next to me on a flight, watching me watch Final Destination on my laptop.
"You want to listen on one of my earbuds?" - me
"Yes" - the stranger stranger

RT @nixcraft
Jurassic Park is a cautionary tale about how you compensate IT staff :P

Best retirement plan. Comment if you got a great unlisted one. Vote on users unlisted one by favoriting.

Restating your position is not compelling argumentation for your position.

It's truly dismaying how many possibilities I've noticed there have been to say this to people since I started watching for it. Try it. See how many people in conversation do that.

Example:
Someone recently told me that they wanted to see a particular movie. I asked them why. They said it looked interesting.

"Yes, I gathered that it interested you when you said you wanted to see it. That's what that means. My question was about why it interests you."

I can't tell if this is a recent development or I've just been noticing it recently (like the last few years).

Wondering if there are any thoughts on the matter out there.

Here is my :

My name is Daniel Martens, I am a computer scientist developing and maintaining AI-enabled software systems that solve real world problems.

I do not treat AI as a panacea to all our problems, rather - due to my strong requirements and software engineering background - I am aware of the challenges, e.g., maintaining, such software systems brings.

Therefore, I am especially interested and like to exchange on the topic of .

@skanman

I had no such brain fog before I actually caught Covid-19 which therefore suggests to me that it is a product of Covid infection rather than of being vaccinated with the assortment of vaccines that I had had long before being infected.

What do you prefer?

I'm gonna write a children's song..

"the TypeScript is psuedo for..
JavaScript,
the JavaScript instructs the..
Java Runtime Environment,
the Java Runtime Environment was written in..
C,
the C compiles out to..
Assembly,
This is why all our Apps go up in smoke.
It's also why new devs are always broke.
And video game sizes are a joke."

I'm convinced this is the main reason I have no children. 😕

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