timorl @timorl@qoto.org

BREAKING: Lockheed Martin suspends machine learning missile programme, telling investors that the missiles had "developed class consciousness"

#Literary dystopias are entertaining but destructive. They have crowded positive visions of the future out of the narrative and out of our minds. We might not manifest every future we imagine, but we can't create a #future without imagining it.

Mass visualizations like 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, Blade Runner, The Matrix, or even Avatar have hurt social progress. We need visualizations of what we want.

What #SpeculativeFiction have you read/seen that offers #hope for the future?

Academic theory: Polynomial long division of data by a generator polynomial over a finite field (most commonly Galois field).

Implementation: Just xor bits in a loop.

I'm not sure that we should be using “man baby”, “man child”, etc. Not only because it's one of the primary insults used against bronies, but also because, what, everycreature is supposed to Grow Up when they turn eighteen? What does that mean? Stop enjoying things? Become a miserable Adult in the sense of being a cog in the capitalist machine and nothing more? Just a husk of the former self? And with how it's inevitably gendered masculine, there's probably an element of toxic masculinity in there too. To say nothing of the littles and ageplayers, who are totally valid by the way.

There is this line of thought against CWs that: “This topic is an ISSUE, I care about it, therefor asking to put a content warning on it is unreasonable!”

I’ll deconstruct why this is mistaking anxiety with caring and action.

Recent years of eg twitter became full of this, showing things that no one denies are actually important.

But that’s the thing: important is not sufficient by itself! It has to be actionable, otherwise…

I will never understand why people are so averse to diversity.

I like seeing trans people speaking to each other with idioms I don't get, cute girls speaking a language I can't recognize, or gay dudes priming and posing in random pics.

Seeing shit that is not for me makes me feel like I'm part of a much bigger world that still has space for me to learn and grow.

That's a big place of comfort for me. The bottomless nature of the human experience means we all have space to be fully who we are.

That's pretty cool.

We're so at the beginning of trying to build social networks online.

The closest analogy that comes to my mind is medicine/biology.

For socials, we're in the victorian era of "unscrupulous proprietor puts radioactive material in it, because it glows neatly".

This thread by an ex-twitter designer reminds me of that: https://social.lot23.com/@jon/109372257422277945

It's worth a read to go through what they wrote - you need data to really mislead yourself after all.

Hello Mastodon from an A3000 running AMIX!

@prehensile I love the mix of this is a very very serious algebraic topology thing, also death to capitalism, by the way this is a realtime kernel driver for a teledildonic device, oh and I’m a cat meow meow.

We can all do with a reminder that we all contain multitudes, and the fedi certainly does that.

If X boosts their own post on Mastodon shouldn’t the timeline say “X boasted…”

Mathematicians turn every word starting with co into a shitpost. Go figure out what comathematicians do.