FeralRobots

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2026-07-24 17:18:12 UTC

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we knew Vought wouldn't care whether it's legal or moral but I think most folks fail to appreciate how literally he means it when he says he doesn't care whether it's DOABLE. it's not an accident that Trumpists build so many potemkin projects & promote scientific regimes that resemble Lysenkoism.

2026-06-09 10:38:44 UTC

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I get what you're saying but I've never personally been able to make a watch last more than a couple of years.

2026-04-06 11:35:59 UTC

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I spend a lot of time on BlueSky & I see 2 typical reactions:
POC often say "Nope too much crypto-racism". I was here in 2022 & saw how a lot of them were aggressively driven away after migrating from Twitter, so I get that.
White middle class intellectual people OTOH respond with derision. Basically, fedi is uncool. If there are reasons they're varied, but the one constant is that it's uncool, for very white middle class American jr high school values of 'uncool.'

2025-10-15 17:55:06 UTC

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yeh it's like 'IMA teach you to findom' but one would expect a real findom not to fall for it.
i guess i'm just responding to how weird the pitch seems to me.

2025-10-15 17:27:58 UTC

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is this some kind of multi-faceted FinDom grift?

2025-07-14 19:12:22 UTC

The main thing #Murderbot gets from the PresAux team is the understanding that it is a person, not equipment. And a person can make its own choices. From the last chapter of All Systems Red, every bot Murderbot meets is sentient and displays some degree of agency - it wasn't able to really understand its world that way before being treated as a person by the team.
https://mastodon.social/@FeralRobots/114853077422088344

2025-07-10 13:06:59 UTC

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I don't know how much traction it got. I think at least a lot of Texans know you can't first respond your way out of a flash flood. Also Abbot's 'teamwork' bullshit is meant to cover his ass, but it does provide at least some cover down the food chain.

2025-07-10 13:03:30 UTC

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I did see, but didn't read, a story being shared about blaming a 'DEI hire' fire chief for those summer camp deaths.

2025-05-05 10:01:24 UTC

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Almodóvar certainly needed no additional justification for those remarks but Trump's given him some anyway.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr7e2z1rxyo.amp

2025-04-08 14:29:46 UTC

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Your ToC disclaimer reminds me of my logical calculus prof, who told us "I need you to nest '({[' or you'll get your assignments back ungraded." (He was good about not framing these things as moral issues, it was just a question of how many brain cells did he have to parse out parens.)
(I did not do particularly well in that class, no fault to him.)

2025-03-18 15:04:11 UTC

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"Rewrite 10,000+ plug-ins & scripts" is disingenuous, to start with.
Nobody anywhere is asking you to make those changes right away - & indeed, probably most people wouldn't even perceive the most difficult changes.
Admit it: You just don't want to change it.

2025-03-10 13:38:38 UTC

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I like when colloquialisms get a subtle change in meaning as the spelling changes. E.g. how 'toe the line' (be obedient) became 'tow the line' (meaning to offer help or participate in a solution). The meanings are related, so you could have *an* understanding of what's being said - but it might be subtly off from what's intended.

2025-02-04 21:55:54 UTC

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don't bother, I was thinking back to when I tried it on your server - I'm thinking of a feature I heard about but never really tried (& can't remember the name of - Beacons, maybe?), so I'm sure I didn't properly understand what it did.

2025-02-04 21:51:31 UTC

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doesn't *key have something like this?

2025-01-28 18:22:40 UTC

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I don't think bubbles burst the same way anymore. I am convinced by the story people like Ed Zitron et al are telling that AI is a bubble & it will burst IN SOME SENSE - but I don't think that event will be as catastrophic as Ed et al believe, because VCs have learned to move the capital around in ways Marx never dreamed of. It takes things like trade wars or hardcore USian isolationism to really break economies these days.
😬

2025-01-27 14:20:34 UTC

Today is "#LargeBoulderTheSizeOfASmallBoulder" day, for those who celebrate.
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2025-01-14 21:05:54 UTC

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bsky stans stan HARD. & they also tend not to understand what it MEANS that 'the Fediverse isn't just Mastodon.'
That said, I suspect it ends up something like your [2].

2025-01-06 11:48:31 UTC

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If we think of it this way, art can be successful as an activity (i.e., at a personal level), without being successful as an externally-facing activity (see Chris' examples).
Similarly we can reduce the confusion over the differences between art-as-cultural-artifact & art-as-artists'-work.

2025-01-06 11:45:29 UTC

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Primary way we define 'art' is by marking it as an elite expression, yes.
I've often proposed a way of defining art which I think avoids that: As what we do in attempt to reconcile how we think the world should be, with what we find it to be.
If we define it that way, a lot of everyday human activities become art. (Note that the only person we need to perceive it, in my view, is the person creating it.)
We can still use labels like 'elite art' or the like.

2024-11-14 17:18:14 UTC

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Why not both? For people like Trump or Gaetz the real crime is always that someone else is prosecuting them - that's the sense in which they're victims. They don't deny the crimes, except as an expedient; in the slightest of confidence, they'll happily tell you that they did it, & just don't think the law should apply to them.

2024-10-11 12:45:15 UTC

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to be defended by Burke & Hare, Soliciters.

2024-10-10 13:27:51 UTC

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"Why are you in this Slack, then?"
...holy crap the attitude on that dude.

2024-10-08 17:58:28 UTC

Honestly chuckling at the fact that victim-boy Brett Kavanaugh's big objection to regulating ghost gun receivers was a fear that some poor gun vendor might ACCIDENTALLY sell a ghost gun receiver & get PERSECUTED for it.
https://www.vox.com/scotus/376658/supreme-court-ghost-guns-vanderstok-garland
[h/t [@knittingknots2](https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2 ) | https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/113272812452080140]
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2024-10-01 18:30:43 UTC

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I'm in luck, I get to skip a lot of it because I'm giving a talk on 'NaNoWriMo Without NaNoWriMo' between 7-9.

2024-09-26 18:13:24 UTC

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but it's not a true CMS unless [list of idiosyncratic requirements].

2024-09-26 16:49:46 UTC

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with these types either Turkey or Hungary always comes up.

2024-09-24 13:10:58 UTC

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also one has to be very careful when parsing how AI bros use the term "value." If he means 'valuation', sure, yeah, it might be trivial. (Especially if one assumes Line Go Up.) Or if he takes a Longermist perspective & presumes that it leads to creation of a trillion-trillion virtual humans - it's Longtermist dogma that 'future virtual lives' are 1:1 in value relative to current actual lives.

2024-09-17 11:23:22 UTC

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from where I was sitting it looked like de Blasio's term was basically proof that it's functionally impossible to govern NYC w/o approval of NYPD. They're basically the Praetorians at this point. (I'm pretty confident the Praetorians were mobbed up out the ass, & there's just no surviving documentation for it.)

2024-09-13 19:15:23 UTC

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Debussey in the street, John Cage in the sheets.

2024-09-06 20:26:31 UTC

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can't kill the undead.

2024-08-18 16:24:22 UTC

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'cuz we all know having your die-hards carry around containers of fake semen with your face on them is a sure winner at the polls.

2024-08-02 15:43:46 UTC

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I wish you the best of luck, & hope you'll take whatever time & effort you need to recover!

2024-07-08 00:42:10 UTC

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either SOMEBODY is a @npub1yf4…esj3 fan or the briefcase full of stereotypically Italian food is a broader cultural stereotype gag than I thought.

2024-07-02 14:03:40 UTC

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Bullseye. Wilhoit's Law is their TormentNexus-touchstone: any attempt by a non-Conservative president to leverage any of their rulings will be struck down for some new arbitrary reason. The resulting chaos of precedent creates a situation where they constantly need to make oracular interpretations.
Scenario I think we'll hear more about: Trump packing the court with conservatives, because Roberts demands more bodies to handle bigger case loads resulting from the chaos.

2024-06-28 19:11:00 UTC

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was this presaged by a drop in sales? or did it flow directly from a crash in pricing on Nike "collectibles"?

2024-06-13 17:33:01 UTC

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Can't tell you how many times I've pointed out continual decreases in crime & had people double, triple, nthple down on different reasons why it's not true - progressing from 'show me the stats' to 'those stats are bogus' to 'well my buddy's friend is a sherrif's deputy who said the FBI fakes its stats.' At the end of it all 'skyrocketing crime' is a key tenet in the religion of anti-modernism & folks will always find a way to pretend it's true.

2024-05-01 13:51:41 UTC

Random observation: Photos I'm seeing today of American riot cops show them carrying straight-handle batons instead of the side-handle batons that have been more common.
Side-handle batons were adopted because they afforded ways of subduing suspects with reduced force. Also, side handles don't provide as much striking leverage, so are less likely to seriously injure people by striking.
Cops shifting back to straight batons could signal acknowledgement that their main goal is to hurt people.