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  1. Oskar is such a bundle of love.. gracing the groomroom with his sweetness today. 🤗💞🐾

    #love #wins #dogsofmastodon #dogs #rock #doglife #dog #days #today #news #purity

  2. Cory Doctorow, a fellow #Canadian, writes a lot of interesting stuff. I agree with his positions on many things, but not all. For example, I'm about ten thousand percent behind his opposition to anti-circumvention laws; I was one of the thousands of Canadians who wrote to the government opposing the introduction of the law many years ago.

    However, his blog on Thursday, staking out the position that opposition to "AI" (LLM) is just geeky #purity culture is somewhere between "flat-out wrong" and "disingenuous at best".

    My position against #LLM #slop everywhere is both because of #ethical #concerns and practical ones. There does not exist an LLM right now that was built and trained ethically; they are all statistical plagiarism machines, and speaking as someone whose #prose and #code has been plagiarized by every single one of them, that pisses me off, royally.

    That's a show-stopper for me, but even if it wasn't, the #practical concerns - that the output is #untrustworthy, that the #references can't be checked, that the #code is #insecure and #unmaintainable, that the #licensing status is unclear, that it's a #copyright violation - are *also* enough to rule out #LLMs at present.

    He then presents a #strawman argument - all tech is fruit of the poisoned tree, the #transistor was invented by a racist, etc. But William Shockley is not designing or manufacturing any of the transistors / #ICs I use today.

    So, @doctorow - I gotta say I disagree. And that's fine.

  3. I hate #purity, I hate #goodness, I don't want any #virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be #corrupt to the bones.

    George Orwell, 1984

    #quote #quotes

  4. “Marvel has remarked that more money has been wasted in polymer research by the use of impure monomers than in any other manner.” pp. 12 of Polymer Chemistry 2e by Hiemenz & Lodge. #polymers #synthesis #chemistry #research #purity

  5. #purity : freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter

    - French: pureté

    - German: die Reinheit

    - Portuguese: puridade

    - Spanish: pureza

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    Try Christian's word chain building game @ wordwallgame.com

  6. EDIT: Update below.

    The discourse around the #wikipedia taking #AI money reminds me of @adapalmer 's beforewegoblog.com/purity-and- and the discourse around #purity .

    I'm not interested in the aesthetics of #solarpunk , but how to make most with the limited tools.

    If the Wikipedia is getting scraped by the bots - losing money, limiting access to its resources - or allows the AI companies in and GAINS money to share more free, human-created knowledge, I'll take the latter.

    I don't need to be pure.

  7. Mrs Hudson came up to announce a visitor. Ah, said Holmes, that will be Mr Keenbear.

    Keenbear was a stout man of indefinite age, his hair unwieldy, his jacket worn thin at the elbows. He brought with him a large beige metal box, in the shape of Holmes's ancient IBM Luggable when closed up. On Holmes's nod, he put the box on the dining table and opened it. Indeed, it was an IBM PS/2 P70. Keenbear took out the keyboard and angled the plasma screen. Holmes had plugged in the AC adaptor and the ethernet cable. Booting was slow, we watched in silence. The screen glowed in the familiar orange.

    As you had instructed, Sir, Keenbear said. A bespoke Plan 9 port, the ed standard editor, a dedicated gopher client. Nothing else. You are hooked straight into the SupremeText network. Safe as hell, ..., sorry, Sir, forgive my language. I trust this machine will meet your requirements.

    Holmes's face shone in excitement. Finally, he whispered to himself. The real thing.

    #SherlockHolmes #purity

  8. Just heard that #Keystone, the owner of my two favourite breweries (#Purity and #BlackSheep) has gone bust. Not at all happy and now planning a trip to Purity (local to me) to stock up for the last time. 🙁

  9. Materials architecture, solid interior design
    No superfluous ornamentation or whimsical shapes; the space is solidified in the purity of materials and proportions.

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    #architecture #materials #interiordesign #purity #design #matériaux #designintérieur #pureté #conception #arquitectura #materiales #interiorismo #pureza #diseño #amusementlogic

  10. your weird obsession with #moral #purity is degrading your #criticalthinking #skills and poisoning your ability to #empathize with other #people btw

  11. Shameless #Sexuality: More than Monogamy Panel

    youtube.com/watch?v=1GUc0r9urY

    #ICYMI

    From #pansexuality to #polyamory, join us for a discussion that is guaranteed to be about More than #Monogamy, featuring:

    Janice Selbie
    Founder of CORT, Divorcing Religion Workshop, & Shameless Sexuality: Life After #Purity Culture, Divorcing #Religion
    Keith Mullin
    Mandisa Thomas
    - Founder and President, Black Nonbelievers
    Marie LePage
    Sheldon and Katherine Roberts

  12. When I say #purity #culture has no endpoint, what I mean is that they will never run out of #people to cut down. If #porn was made illegal and all of the #perverts were run out of the country, the jesus #freaks would immediately turn on each other. They require an #enemy to function, and will create one of their #friends if need be.

  13. 2/ #Trump said #furloughed workers may or may not receive #backpay, depending on who they are, adding that “we’re going to take care of our people,” but some “don’t deserve to be taken care of” and would be handled differently. #loyalty #maga #republicans #authoritarian #purity #test #economy #paycheck #shutdown #government #dangerous #media #journalism #reporting Talk About This Please

  14. 2/ #Trump said #furloughed workers may or may not receive #backpay, depending on who they are, adding that “we’re going to take care of our people,” but some “don’t deserve to be taken care of” and would be handled differently. #loyalty #maga #republicans #authoritarian #purity #test #economy #paycheck #shutdown #government #dangerous #media #journalism #reporting Talk About This Please

  15. 2/ #Trump said #furloughed workers may or may not receive #backpay, depending on who they are, adding that “we’re going to take care of our people,” but some “don’t deserve to be taken care of” and would be handled differently. #loyalty #maga #republicans #authoritarian #purity #test #economy #paycheck #shutdown #government #dangerous #media #journalism #reporting Talk About This Please

  16. 2/ #Trump said #furloughed workers may or may not receive #backpay, depending on who they are, adding that “we’re going to take care of our people,” but some “don’t deserve to be taken care of” and would be handled differently. #loyalty #maga #republicans #authoritarian #purity #test #economy #paycheck #shutdown #government #dangerous #media #journalism #reporting Talk About This Please

  17. 2/ #Trump said #furloughed workers may or may not receive #backpay, depending on who they are, adding that “we’re going to take care of our people,” but some “don’t deserve to be taken care of” and would be handled differently. #loyalty #maga #republicans #authoritarian #purity #test #economy #paycheck #shutdown #government #dangerous #media #journalism #reporting Talk About This Please

  18. Within hyperobjects, hypocrisy is inevitable.

    This changes the question and the response.

    Requires self-consciousness and social-consciousness as well.

    #Purity #Politics #philosophy

  19. #purity : freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter

    - French: pureté

    - German: die Reinheit

    - Portuguese: puridade

    - Spanish: pureza

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    Try Christian's word chain building game @ wordwallgame.com

  20. Pride is like dross on silver, hiding the pure metal within. That pride is the impurities that build up on ourselves. It's the rock stuff that we build up on the outside. #pride #dross #silver #purity #motivation

  21. #Trump #EPA #PFAS #PFOA #Pollution

    #Environmental Protection Agency: No longer collecting data, no longer enforcing water and air #purity standards because chemical companies #bribe #republicans

    #gop - Just an organized #crimeSyndicate #criminal arrangement complete with #bribery #moneylaundering

  22. AND WE SHOULD KEEP: - GOLF SO AS TO INTRODUCE NUANCE, MAYBE WE COULD ADD - MILLIONS-AND-MILLIONS-AND-MILLIONS AND - TRILLIONS-AND-TRILLIONS-AND-TRILLIONS "MAKE AMERICAN GREAT AGAIN" #maga #gop #purity

  23. The #God of #Ignorance: Why #Religion Doesn’t Want You to #GrowUp

    youtube.com/watch?v=wVryuRd4fB

    Topics covered:

    - Why “#purity” often means #obedience without comprehension
    - How #faith like a child is weaponized to suppress #autonomy
    - The emotional and #cognitive costs of shielding #children from knowledge
    - Why #religious #parenting may protect innocence, but not #wisdom
    - The #psychological dangers of #spiritualized #antiintellectualism

  24. Paxton:

    #Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obessive preoccupation with #community decline, humiliation, or #victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and #purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democraticliberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legalrestraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

  25. @cherylgk @mloxton @chrispomeroyhale @the5thColumnist @KathyLK

    #toxicidealism on the #left is as bad a phenomenon as #MAGA on the #right

    and equally prone to #manipulation by #geopolitical #trollfarm

    with MAGA the manipulation is to champion #bigotry and make the #bigot feel safe

    with the left the #psyop game is to demand absolute #ideological #purity in high holy fire and brimstone fury, and use that emotional high to detach, alienate, not #vote

    and lose

    in reality

    which is what matters

  26. Bet you didn't know all these gold & silver pieces are available for your collection. The image of him during his surrender to authorities, captioned "never surrender" - makes sense to these people. The sterling guns are as much as $365 each.
    #Tromp #Train #TheDon #sterling #pistol #convict #gun #never #surrender #georgia #conviction #convicted #felon #Troy #ounce #felony #charges #gold #bill #Aurum #proof #bullion #purity #stolen #SCOTUS #traitor #befriends #enemies #sold #TopSecret #documents

  27. Bet you didn't know all these gold & silver pieces are available for your collection. The image of him during his surrender to authorities, captioned "never surrender" - makes sense to these people. The sterling guns are as much as $365 each.
    #Tromp #Train #TheDon #sterling #pistol #convict #gun #never #surrender #georgia #conviction #convicted #felon #Troy #ounce #felony #charges #gold #bill #Aurum #proof #bullion #purity #stolen #SCOTUS #traitor #befriends #enemies #sold #TopSecret #documents

  28. Bet you didn't know all these gold & silver pieces are available for your collection. The image of him during his surrender to authorities, captioned "never surrender" - makes sense to these people. The sterling guns are as much as $365 each.
    #Tromp #Train #TheDon #sterling #pistol #convict #gun #never #surrender #georgia #conviction #convicted #felon #Troy #ounce #felony #charges #gold #bill #Aurum #proof #bullion #purity #stolen #SCOTUS #traitor #befriends #enemies #sold #TopSecret #documents