#absurdity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #absurdity, aggregated by home.social.
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Ah, the infinite wisdom of deep learning equated to a man who remembers every pointless leaf 🍃 and ripple 🌊 yet can't think his way out of a wet paper bag! 🤔 Surely, this profound revelation will revolutionize our understanding of how machines shouldn't think! 🚀
https://elonlit.com/scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-learning/ #deepLearning #absurdity #AIhumor #machineIntelligence #techIrony #HackerNews #ngated -
🤔 Ah yes, the groundbreaking revelation that neural networks and cryptographic ciphers are both... algorithms! Because, you know, feeding inputs and producing outputs is such a unique concept 💡. Next, let's compare apples and oranges because they're both round-ish and edible 🍏🍊.
https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers #neuralnetworks #cryptography #algorithms #techhumor #absurdity #HackerNews #ngated -
🤔 Ah yes, the groundbreaking revelation that neural networks and cryptographic ciphers are both... algorithms! Because, you know, feeding inputs and producing outputs is such a unique concept 💡. Next, let's compare apples and oranges because they're both round-ish and edible 🍏🍊.
https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers #neuralnetworks #cryptography #algorithms #techhumor #absurdity #HackerNews #ngated -
🤔 Ah yes, the groundbreaking revelation that neural networks and cryptographic ciphers are both... algorithms! Because, you know, feeding inputs and producing outputs is such a unique concept 💡. Next, let's compare apples and oranges because they're both round-ish and edible 🍏🍊.
https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers #neuralnetworks #cryptography #algorithms #techhumor #absurdity #HackerNews #ngated -
🤔 Ah yes, the groundbreaking revelation that neural networks and cryptographic ciphers are both... algorithms! Because, you know, feeding inputs and producing outputs is such a unique concept 💡. Next, let's compare apples and oranges because they're both round-ish and edible 🍏🍊.
https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers #neuralnetworks #cryptography #algorithms #techhumor #absurdity #HackerNews #ngated -
🤔 Ah yes, the groundbreaking revelation that neural networks and cryptographic ciphers are both... algorithms! Because, you know, feeding inputs and producing outputs is such a unique concept 💡. Next, let's compare apples and oranges because they're both round-ish and edible 🍏🍊.
https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers #neuralnetworks #cryptography #algorithms #techhumor #absurdity #HackerNews #ngated -
🥤🚫 BREAKING: Thermos jars and bottles now come with the added feature of involuntary LASIK surgery! Welcome to #innovation, where seeing is no longer believing. 🙈🔍
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/8-million-thermos-jars-bottles-recalled-after-3-132568152 #news #tech #trends #absurdity #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
I explore the psychological necessity of routine and domestic labour for the elderly as a means of maintaining dignity and purpose through repetitive tasks that serve as vital frameworks that hold a person’s identity together.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/05/02/octogenarians/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #psychology #care #blog #podcast #ageing #humanism #meaning #feminism #purpose #housework #domestic #employment #productivity #ritual #retirement #caregiving #elderly #compassion #absurdity #sisyphus #writing #routine
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🤔 Oh, look! Someone discovered that law is... #legal 🤯! Just wait until they realize that requiring a compiler for law is like needing a manual to open a #door 🚪. Next up: why water is wet 🌊.
https://lawvm.org/why-law-is-law-shaped/ #humor #tech #satire #absurdity #metaphors #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀🎉 BREAKING: The government has decided that paying £1m for large, angry feathered creatures to terrorize the skies is a great idea! 🦅💸 Because what could possibly go wrong with reintroducing a species that was previously wiped out? 🙃
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje4zlxqkqdo #breakingnews #governmentpolicy #wildlife #reintroduction #featheredcreatures #absurdity #HackerNews #ngated -
🤡 Oh, look! Another deep dive into ⍋⍋ — the mystical rune of #programming that only sages and #fortune #cookies understand. Between the "rigorous nonsense" and mind-bending permutations, the article concludes with a revelation: nobody knows what it means, but hey, it sure looks cool. 🤷♂️✨
https://blog.wilsonb.com/posts/2023-08-04-what-does-grade-grade-even-mean.html #mysticalrune #deepdive #techhumor #absurdity #HackerNews #ngated -
For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon — laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution — these can lift at a colossal humbug — push it a little — weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. You are always fussing and fighting with your other weapons. Do you ever use that one? No; you leave it lying rusting. As a race, do you ever use it at all? No; you lack sense and the courage.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1916), The Mysterious Stranger, ch. 10More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/6368/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #mysteriousstranger #satan #absurdity #derision #fraud #humanity #humor #laughter #mockery #nonsense #power #weapon
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For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon — laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution — these can lift at a colossal humbug — push it a little — weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. You are always fussing and fighting with your other weapons. Do you ever use that one? No; you leave it lying rusting. As a race, do you ever use it at all? No; you lack sense and the courage.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1916), The Mysterious Stranger, ch. 10More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/6368/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #mysteriousstranger #satan #absurdity #derision #fraud #humanity #humor #laughter #mockery #nonsense #power #weapon
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For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon — laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution — these can lift at a colossal humbug — push it a little — weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. You are always fussing and fighting with your other weapons. Do you ever use that one? No; you leave it lying rusting. As a race, do you ever use it at all? No; you lack sense and the courage.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1916), The Mysterious Stranger, ch. 10More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/6368/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #mysteriousstranger #satan #absurdity #derision #fraud #humanity #humor #laughter #mockery #nonsense #power #weapon
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For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon — laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution — these can lift at a colossal humbug — push it a little — weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. You are always fussing and fighting with your other weapons. Do you ever use that one? No; you leave it lying rusting. As a race, do you ever use it at all? No; you lack sense and the courage.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1916), The Mysterious Stranger, ch. 10More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/6368/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #mysteriousstranger #satan #absurdity #derision #fraud #humanity #humor #laughter #mockery #nonsense #power #weapon
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🎸 In the latest quest for peak #absurdity, some genius decided to let you "remotely" use a real #guitar #tuner because, apparently, using an app was just too high-tech. 🤦♂️ It's like #cloud #computing for the analog purist who wants to teleport their #tuning struggle to someone's actual living room. 🌩️🔧
https://realtuner.online/ #remote #tech #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it’s funny. Don’t you think it’s odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us?
HOBBES: I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
CALVIN: (after a pause) I can’t tell if that’s funny or really scary.Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1991-03-03)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/81815…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #absurdity #evolution #existence #humancondition #humannature #humor #incomprehensibility #laughter #life #makesense #naturalselection #nonsense #reality #senseofhumor
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#52booksin52weeks Subtitle, with a Comma - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and that other guy. #terrypratchett #goodomens #endoftheworld #Fantasy #angels #Devils #freewill #humanity #dogma #absurdity #religion #christianity #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc
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Oh, look! Another #GitHub #markdown file that's apparently trying to teach us the art of #Reticulum enlightenment. 🤦♂️ Pro tip: if you're seeking #Zen, just skip the code and meditate on the #absurdity of yet another digital sermon. 🧘♀️💻
https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/blob/master/Zen%20of%20Reticulum.md #DigitalSermon #HackerNews #ngated -
I wholeheartedly endorse #undermining #authority with #absurdity.
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Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Idea Is Basically Just Renting Forever
So, Trump recently floated this idea of a 50-year mortgage — and honestly, it’s one of the most absurd, dystopian financial ideas imaginable. Let’s break this down, because it’s not just bad economics — it’s bad for everyday people, bad for homeowners, and good only for the banks and real estate speculators who want to keep us paying forever. A 50-year mortgage isn’t a dream of homeownership — it’s a nightmare of lifelong debt. You wouldn’t own your home; you’d just be […] -
🛸👽 Someone's been watching too much sci-fi; now they think a rock is playing mind games with us. 🤖🌌 Next, we'll be having philosophical debates with #pebbles on #Mars over coffee breaks. ☕🚀
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/is-3i-atlas-our-turing-test-by-a-superior-alien-intelligence-32bfd838a9f2 #sci-fi #absurdity #extraterrestrial #humor #philosophy #HackerNews #ngated -
A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort
Often an opinion, a custom, seems absurd when we are young, and advancing in life, we find the reason. Mustn’t we conclude that certain habits aren’t so ridiculous? One is lead to think sometimes that they were established by people who had read the entire book of life, and that they are judged by people who, despite their esprit, have only read a few pages.
[Souvent une opinion, une coutume commence à paraître absurde dans la première jeunesse, et en avançant dans la vie, on en trouve la raison; elle paraît moins absurde. En faudrait-il conclure que de certaines coutumes sont moins ridicules? On serait porté à penser quelquefois qu’elles ont été établies par des gens qui avaient lu le livre entier de la vie, et qu’elles sont jugées par des gens qui, malgré leur esprit, n’en ont lu que quelques pages.]Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 1, ¶ 21 (1795) [tr. Siniscalchi (1994)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/770…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #chamfort #absurdity #belief #conservatism #custom #elders #experience #growingup #maturing #maturity #opinion #receivedwisdom #statusquo #stupidity #tradition #wisdom
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🔍 Oh, look! Another attempt to redefine the universe with a tech tree that somehow manages to connect fire-shooty things with selfie machines. 📸🔫 Because clearly, the #Oldowan hand axe is the root of all gadgets, right? 🌳🤦♂️
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/10/the-universal-tech-tree #techinnovation #absurdity #gadgethistory #fireandselfies #HackerNews #ngated -
🤡 Ah, the pinnacle of #literary masterpieces: a deep dive into the world of... #slime. 🧽 The publisher #Granta must have consulted a top-tier focus group of 5-year-olds to decide on this gripping subject matter. 📚 Because who wouldn't want to read about gooey blobs instead of, you know, something interesting? 🙄
https://granta.com/slime/ #literature #publishing #absurdity #critiques #viral #trends #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀✨ Behold, the pinnacle of modern technology: an AI marvel that tells you if a number is even, because math is hard! 🤖🔢 Who needs basic arithmetic skills when you can waste server resources and complicate your life with GPT-3.5? 🙃 Install now and marvel at the absurdity!
https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even-ai #AItechnology #MathHumor #GPT3.5 #Absurdity #EvenOrOdd #HackerNews #ngated -
Zen koans paradoxically use language to demonstrate the absurdity and futility of language in recognising the nature of mind.
#absurdity #futility #koans #language #mind #paradox #recognition #Zen
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#KirshaKaechele's #saga at #MONA involved creating a #LadiesLounge with #male #butlers serving #women, sparked a #genderdiscrimination #lawsuit.
So as a solution the lounge was later replaced by a #restroom with #fake #Picasso paintings, highlighting #patriarchal #absurdity and gaining #international #attention.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Australia #Hobart #Entertainment #TheArts #Feminism #Representation #Culture
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With everyone complaining about Ingram Spark forcing the raising of retail discount to 40% across the board, I thought I'd run the numbers on D2D. But this is absurd. Yes, I don't make much on a paperback sale through IS (a little less half what I get from KDP) but it's still more than a dollar more than this. I feel like if they want people to only publish paperbacks through KDP, they're doing well...
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We have all been there, haven't we? :mastodon_oops:
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@JohnShirley2023 Just trying to reconcile the #absurdity of life through creative expression. I'm fascinated by #construction and deconstruction as it applies to #MassMedia, the #Arts, and #SocietalNorms.
We are hardwired to construct patterns & and find meaning. #AsemicArt, for example, takes the #CodesAndConventions of #Writing and #Text and #Deconstructs them. The viewer has to interpret them, trying to find meaning in #Asemic configurations. 🙂 -
@JohnShirley2023 Just trying to reconcile the #absurdity of life through creative expression. I'm fascinated by #construction and deconstruction as it applies to #MassMedia, the #Arts, and #SocietalNorms.
We are hardwired to construct patterns & and find meaning. #AsemicArt, for example, takes the #CodesAndConventions of #Writing and #Text and #Deconstructs them. The viewer has to interpret them, trying to find meaning in #Asemic configurations. 🙂 -
@JohnShirley2023 Just trying to reconcile the #absurdity of life through creative expression. I'm fascinated by #construction and deconstruction as it applies to #MassMedia, the #Arts, and #SocietalNorms.
We are hardwired to construct patterns & and find meaning. #AsemicArt, for example, takes the #CodesAndConventions of #Writing and #Text and #Deconstructs them. The viewer has to interpret them, trying to find meaning in #Asemic configurations. 🙂