Lmao, on my work laptop control center uses 50% CPU while a clock.app timer is running to update the menu bar icon once a second. On my own machine it’s just 10%.
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CW: harms of AI rant
There's an essay I've had rattling in my head that addresses the binary thinking that people get hung up on when talking about AI, like you're in one of two camps: it's alive, or it's not. There's an interesting discussion on if AI even qualifies for "tool" status, which is closer to the problem…
…and I feel as time goes on we're going to grow more accustomed to the idea that AI is a third thing that isn't even on the spectrum of alive or inanimate, it's its own thing. This isn't a mystical property; we exist in a world with viruses and prions, which are not alive, but are more than "things"
The debate of consciousness in today's AI is a category error; it has no embodiment, its nodes and weights are not for moving muscles (which is why brains really evolved: to coordinate muscle movement to increase survival odds), but statistically selecting text or pixels.
Questions of capacity to suffer are forever unanswerable because there's zero overlap with biology despite what the AI bros say. It just doesn't. At all. Developers can add layers of expert systems communicating with each other in some vague simulacrum of "thinking" but it will not and cannot cross.
But I don't know who that essay would be for. Part of me feels the dilemma is useless or even detrimental to the task at hand: to stop the theft of labour and land. You don't pull kids and teachers aside to debate whether the AR platform is really an "assault rifle" while a shooter prowls the halls.
It remains in my mind, and is a major reason why I refuse to interact with AI. There is the "I'm better than that" aspect, but also it scares me precisely for the same reason that working at a biolab handling viruses scares me. I know I have no immunity. Despite it not being alive, AI can fuck me up
And you see that with otherwise very intelligent people using AI for a brief amount of time, and becoming hooked and genuinely believing these things carry a spark of life. That is horrifying to me. I could tell myself all day that I'm too smart, "I can use AI responsibly," but it won't matter.
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Jade Thirlwall vows to 'milk' success of Angel Of My Dreams resurgence after Kylie Jenner sent it viral
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there is zero reason for me to upgrade my iPad mini. i use it as an ereader/music player, with a few other odds and ends, none of which require the latest and greatest display. oled that’s not significantly brighter for sun reading is not a meaningful upgrade for me. oh well
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#GifsArtidote: another new #art 🎨 piece i finished this morning in my beloved local #library. aren't libraries awesome? we best fight for them before t'internet goes down with the rest of what our hands have build, stolen by the #BillionaireClass ..
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💔 These empty pots tell the story of my children, Jouri and Hamza, who go hungry while I stand helpless, unable to provide them with bread. 😭
🆘 Please, help me feed my children. Every donation and every share could bring us hope. 🇵🇸💔
https://chuffed.org/project/help-hadeel-look-after-family-in-gaza
#Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #GazaFundraiser #Donate #HelpGaza #MutualAid #HumanitarianAid #PleaseDonate #GazaChildren #fediforgaza -
Bike Mechanic Husband @[email protected] put my new Xmas lights on my bike. My neighbour stops in her car to say nice lights - I reply, Thanks - they’re my “Please Don’t Kill Me” lights!
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It’s an expression
and a suggestion
I learned my lesson
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I'm exasperated with Team Talarico on Bluesky ignoring all my requests & never including alt. text on their images or vids. It's exhausting making this request repeatedly. It'd help if a lot more folks asked, too, to compel their social media managers to NOTICE that we (voters) notice the omission.
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CW: Only 18+ Nudes》Sexual Photos
#𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕗𝕤ℙ𝕚𝕔𝕜𝕤
#𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕗𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕒
#𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕗
𝔽𝕠𝕣
#𝕄𝕦𝕥𝕦𝕒𝕝
#𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨
@luilustig#𝕃𝕚𝕟𝕜 #𝕃𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤
𝔽𝕠𝕣 𝕞𝕪
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#ℙ𝕙𝕠𝕥𝕠𝕤
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𝟚𝟜𝟠
#ℙ𝕣𝕚𝕠𝕣
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https://mastodon.social/@StefsPicks/114190279970258436#ℕ𝕖𝕨𝕖𝕣
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#ℕ𝕖𝕨
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𝕚𝕟 #ℙ𝕠𝕤𝕥
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𝕠𝕟
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𝟚+ℍ𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕤
#𝕊𝕖𝕝𝕗 #𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕤𝕥
𝔽𝕠𝕣
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ℙ𝕚𝕔𝕤.#𝔼𝕟𝕛𝕠𝕪
#ℍ𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕦𝕡ℍ𝕠𝕥𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕥
#𝕋𝕙𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕊𝕖𝕥 𝟛𝟘
#ℙ𝕠𝕣𝕟 #𝔾𝕚𝕣𝕝
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#ℙ𝕙𝕠𝕥𝕠 𝟚𝟝_𝟚𝟞_𝟚𝟟_𝟚𝟠 𝕠𝕗 𝟜𝟘 -
One of the design decisions I made early on in my Forth machine is: compiling a new system must target a second computer, controlled through some kind of tether. A software emulator counts, and that's what I've been using on the Picocalc.
But recompiling the system from scratch takes about 1m25s on the emulator, which is too long. So, I granted it a secondary core, which cut the time to 22s. Longer than I'd like, but, acceptable. (Recall that the CPU is currently only 20 MHz.)
I'm not sure how useful a second core is for other applications yet. But it's nice that the CPU is small enough that I can just toss another one in.
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Stepped away from today’s mayhem to share my undies and enjoy a few minutes of peace 😌
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‘Netanyahu, my eyes are on you’: Israeli PM denies allegations of initiating attack on Iran
Israelis entered the final 24 hours of an intense election season on Monday, as reports circulated that Prime…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #BenjaminNetanyahu #breakingnews #Elections #Iran #Israel #Military #War
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Viewpoint: Patient’s pain level foremost
I call the day my oldest son was born the best worst day of my life. The best part…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #america #business #unitedstatesofamerica
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The Maryland State Board of Elections has received my ballot. 🥳
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I had photographed a quote from one of my books. I forgot which book.
CoPilot attributed it to Thomas C. Schelling. But it did not know which book and I don’t have work from Schelling. Copilot withdrew its answer. 🤨
So, since Google has already digested a lot of books, I asked their AI. Yup, it found it, including the chapter.
Okay, AI has some benefits… 🤓
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One thing that has gotten better in the last 10 years
my home wifi almost never ever has a problem - 99.99% uptime
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One of the most important things I've learnt in my career is the ability to say, "I don't know."
It's not a weakness. it's a strength. Leadership and/or management were reaching out for your expert understanding, and right now, you don't have a viewpoint. That is OK.
It can help prevent decisions being made in haste or out of FOMO.
Stop, slow down a bit, gain some insight, and then proceed with real insight.
(this applies pre and post AI coding)
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I'm probably just old and stuck in my ways but I really don't understand the point of containers*.
Give me the files and let me set up the web server and dirs. I want to see and understand how everything is working.
* Yes I run containers, yes I understand _how_ containers work, no I'm not looking for someone to explain to me how containers work and how they're so much better, and yes I understand the _point_, I just really would rather not deal with containers
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Protect us, My Lord, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, as we stay awake;
watch over us as we sleep, that awake, we may keep watch with You, and asleep, rest in Your peace."4. Help me accept rest as something made for people, without postponing it or feeling guilty for taking it (The Loose Canon, The Book of Piraticus, Chapter 9, Verse #5; “Plus the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.”)"
🍝 The Flying Spaghetti Monster be with you.
😋 And with your noodle.
🍝 Let us pray.
May the all-powerful Lord, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, grant us a restful night and a peaceful death.2026-10-26T22:23:11+09:00
#FlyingSpaghettiMonster #FSM #HolyNoodle #TheMeatball #TheSauce #Spaghetti #Ramen #Pastafarian #NoodlyAppendage #FSMism #FSMist #Pirate #DivineOffice #DailyOffice #Breviary
#날아다니는스파게티괴물님 #성면 #면발 #스파게티 #라멘 #파스타파리안 #해적 #성무일도 #성무일과 #매일전례 #시간전례 -
Now go, my son. Leave me.
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There is a spent improvised smoke device on the street outside my apartment in Vieux-Marché that i would love to keep as a very unique memento. But that's probably one of the dumbest things I could put in my bag and travel with.
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...so hopefully over this week I'll build up my vocal and muscular reserves to give this wonderful song the treatment it deserves. This work is also allied with a performance at NEC in the second week of November, in which a snippet of this song will be part of a larger composition built around rainy-season themes. Fun.
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urgently need $200 to buy flour and food for my little ones. Please, don’t let us face this hunger alone. Every donation matters, and every share could bring help to our door. 🙏🇵🇸
May God bless everyone who stands with us. ❤️
https://chuffed.org/project/help-hadeel-look-after-family-in-gaza
#Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #GazaVerified #FediForGaza@[email protected] @Agx04gtetra -
Hello everyone! My poem "Beyond The Room's Reflections" has been included in the Samhain Harvest: Anthology of Poetry. I was lucky enough to listen to some of the poets recite their work at the launch in Longford town yesterday! There are some beautiful, thoughtful pieces on what is, I believe, a deeply spiritual and reflective time of the year. I hope you enjoy!
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Asocial
I came home from work some time ago to find my wife settling down to watch the latest episode of Coronation Street.
Onscreen, a new family had recently moved on to the street, and the Dad was shown talking to a couple of the regular characters, making arrangements to do something, and it struck me – in just 3 minutes of screen time, a brand new character had exchanged more words with his neighbours than I had in the 10 1/2 years I had lived here.
Which got me thinking – of all the things I know, how to make friends isn’t one.
Out of all my friends (at least, out in the so-called “real world”), all of them decided I was a person they wanted to be friends with, they did all the running, and all I did was decide to go along with them.
This was rarely something I did lightly – there were plenty of people who decided we were going to be friends, but I decided to have nothing to do with them – but with all the people I count as friends, they did all the running, and I just went along with it.
It’s the same with relationships – off hand, I can only think of 6 times I asked girls out – 2 of them turned me down flat, 2 were the same girl on 2 different occasions (and I eventually asked her to marry me – which later happened!), and the other 2 times ended pretty disastrously. Every other time I got into a relationship, they did all the running after me, and I just went along with it.
On a related note, I have no idea how small talk works – this is an essential skill for developing all manner of relationships, and yet I have not a single clue as to the purpose of small talk, nor how it works – I can do it, but only by copying conversational gambits I’ve seen other people use, which means that conversations with me can often be stilted, and are liable to turn rather strange at unexpected moments.
By extension, flirting (and “chatting someone up”) is also something where I utterly fail to grasp any mechanism by which it works. As I said about small talk, I can do it, I just have no idea what I’m doing.
Actually, I would like to modify those statements – I can do small talk and flirting, but only if I don’t think about it – as soon as I start to think about what I am doing, or what I should say next, I turn in to Cat in the infamous dance/dream sequence from Red Dwarf ( https://youtu.be/yn8wWQweNbU ) – I get tongue-tied, and completely unable to communicate.
Which, let’s face it, isn’t good, whether you’re discussing the weather with the random person sitting next to you on the bus home from work, or chatting up some random stranger in a bar.
I’ve no idea if it is connected to all this, but I have always had a preference for my own company – not having to fill any silences or think of topics of conversation is always pleasant.
I remember back in school, I had a friend I spent a lot of time with – many were the times we finished school, went to the local library to collect some books, then went back to his, where we would occupy chairs at opposite sides of his living room, then read books in silence, until the time I had to leave to go home – about the only thing his mother ever heard me say was “Right, I’d better get off. See ya!”
One of the things I love about my marriage, and my wife – we often spend time just being in the same room – not necessarily talking, not necessarily doing the same thing, but doing whatever it is we are doing, together.
One of us might be watching telly while the other reads, or she might be doing something on her computer, usually doing some family history research, and I’ll walk in with my laptop and slouch down in a chair and do some writing for one project or another – but we are doing it, together, just enjoying being with someone.
Louise’s office is by the front window of the dining room, and I will often be found in the kitchen, through the rear of the dining room, cooking up a storm, while we listen to some music, which usually involves one of us dancing our way over to the other and busting some moves for a few seconds before going back to what we were doing.
We might also be talking – but no-one is being forced to talk, only when we are ready, which I find makes conversations flow more easily.
And this is the thing – I’m not, as some people think, anti-social, I don’t hate people, I don’t want to avoid having friends – I just want friends who are on my wavelength, friendships on my terms – friends who are willing to accept that I don’t always want to be drawn into conversation, but when I feel the need to talk will accept that as well.
I’m asocial, quite possibly because of my autism, and proud of it.
Social interactions leave me physically and mentally exhausted – which means that, if I put any time or effort into interacting with you, then you should feel honoured.
(Or I’m at work, and have to put the minimum effort in!)
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I spent some quality time this week sorting my large collection of throw pillows. A 'Garagarchive' is a must, when downsizing to a smaller home. #organization #organizing #organizingthehome #archive #archiving #archives #archivist #curator #curating #storage #organizedstorage #garage #garagestorage #garagarchive #garagarchives #library #garagelibrary #libraries #antique #antiques #pillows #decor #homedecor #storinghomedecor #storoinghomedecorations
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George Reith's "The Art of Successful Bidding" is well over my head. I can't even jump for it.
#DorothyParker #Parker
