@paninid microtransporter activate!
Couldn’t we arrange for the large language models to murder one another so we humans could go on to do other things?
the world seems such a horror show. you do not want to wake up, but you cannot sleep. i dreamt of atrocity beyond belief, of which i was complicit or worse. when i woke my child asleep rolled into me and snuggled close. my wires are badly crossed.
there are no good guys, just people refraining from doing horrible things right here, right now, and helping others to do the same.
“I just hope it doesn’t take a disaster such as the two world wars before people wake up to the folly of nationalism.” #ScottSumner https://www.themoneyillusion.com/dont-pigeonhole-me/
the thing about decline is that wherever you are on the slope, it’s somewhere worse than you have been, but better than you will ever be. a strange kind of cup half full.
@ivanski Indeed.
Thank you for the warm wishes, and I wish you a wonderful Christmas and better years through.
in 2020 i was like if we get through this, things will be better. so far, that has not been my experience.
happy christmas all. here's hoping for 2024.
@vascorsd the middle of nowhere is so the best place to be.
@BenRossTransit right. so i want an activity pub full-text-appropriate platform. mastodoners can follow if they want, but only if they like that kind of thing in their feeds.
@BenRossTransit (i do think i'd probably put the title at the top of the text, since lots of activity pub apps don't support a title field.)
@jcrabapple @misc (thanks!)
if you want to make full-text articles available via ActivityPub, what is a good server to self-host and post them to?
I am a fan of big dork energy!
But I think mastodon.anything isn't best for this application, because it's really intended for microbloggish posts rather than full-text articles.
Methodological individualism is a heavy drug. It yields such straightforward and compelling research approaches, that are nevertheless invalid.
Perhaps people in poor communities commit more crimes, there are lots of plausible channels why that might be, channels that would be largely unrelated to an individual relationship between wealth and propensity.
@inkican give me a couple of weeks! in the meantime, try https://drafts.interfluidity.com/ by RSS
we should refer to the monkey's paw as murphy’s claw.
becoming one of the ancients involves more hemorrhoids than gravitas.
why auto insurance rates are high in florida.
a pickup truck with a goat in the drivers seat.
people wonder, if democracy itself is unpopular, how can it be democratic to preserve it?
but democracy itself isn’t a choice, or as proponents imagine, a kind of privilege.
democracy is an obligation we owe one another, whether or not we feel like it or are fond of it. democratic institutions (bad as ours are) are not privileges of individuals but means of enabling informed, accountable governance. shirking costs us all a good life. u can’t morally, ought not be able legally, to just opt out.
I accused Audible last night of preemptively buying a book on my behalf it had been recommending. I was wrong.
My wife logged into my account looking for an audiobook to fall asleep to, and was seduced by the recommendation. (I had thought this unlikely, because my wife was decidedly unimpressed by another book by the same author.)
My very bad! https://zirk.us/@interfluidity/111611610413313144