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I hit publish on a new thing before it could get any longer. www.smudgingthebinary.com/social-media/

Social media behavior supports

Comparing my preferred social interaction to social media designed patterns.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 4mo ago

Part of what HR1 (aka "big beautiful" or OBBA) did was open up all federal lands to mandatory extraction leasing (to the tune of setting expected lease rates and have a 12% of returns (materials or profit) rate if the highest bid is under). 1/4

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

I am not pleased with how often I'm running across "this is just human nature" lately. We are multitudinous. www.smudgingthebinary.com/movements/fu...

The world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. https://cnn.it/4qxGTNX

here's the original, in case people don't want to deal with CNN's tracking. www.unwater.org/news/unu-inw...

UNU-INWEH report on ‘Global Water Bankruptcy’

The report analyses the sustained ‘overdraft’ of water systems through the overuse of renewable flows and long-term natural storage beyond safe limits. It finds that many river basins and aquifers hav...

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CNN@cnn.com · 7mo ago

This is what I woke to banging on the inside of my head this morning.

Our language is built
to be able to describe
our world, in all of it’s everything.

What we experience
is translated to share.

We work to describe.
Words are the most
common connectome.
They are abstracted,
facile
nimble
nuanced
modifiable
contextual
easy to carry.

Not the only.

And when the words hit a meaningful balance,
the sharing succeeds.
Sharing builds understanding and community,
the actual keys to survival.

So when the words are
broken away from meaning –
still being words, just…placed by
pattern instead of by significance, smoothed
over to feel about right –
they are no longer doing what they
were built to do.
They are no longer connecting and sharing
meaning.

As our words and meaning devolves, what we experience becomes moot. We are silo’d, alone, and brimming with the inexpressible and unsharable. Because the words have become something where the key pattern isn’t meaning,
but placement.

And LLM’s have done even more.
They’ve flooded the field with meaninglessness.
The people building them have stripped others
of their previous expression and labeled it
“mine to sell, mine to hold, mine forever. You, the
expresser, the creative, the thinker,
are the meaningless.”

And they are not sated.
The machine and the new owners* want more.
Their hunger is forever, and if it
eats the world….so be it.

You, who cannot ever express enough to sate it,
who cannot survive physically in it’s consumption
of resources and subsumption of agency
and self,
are become as meaningless as the words.

As they are set out into the world, the hollowed-out words
become a broken clock, useful by accident. Words become
patterns in the clouds, entrails to read and make up sense.
Divinity that is just out of reach, transmutable
and only for the “special few” to interpret meaning.

We’re not there yet. But if meaning and sense-making
continues to be dismissed, the key contributors of our
sharing and community sundered to nothing more
relevant than standardized, swappable, smoothed-over
patterns to herd people into usurious profit, it’s where we go.

*And they believe, somehow, that they
will be the exception. They will transcend
the meaninglessness, the loss of people
and their expression. That they will
continue to profit in an empty world,
forgetting that profit requires shared
meaning of an abstract that is empty
without community.

this is exciting from a I-don't-really-code-I-just-try-to-not-break-things, federated-yay, not-MSFT-yay POV. tangled.org

tangled · tightly-knit social coding

The next-generation social coding platform.

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Your role isn't the exception for LLM's. The difference is your perspective and experience of the info. It's that this is the information _everyone's_ core competencies look like with pre-existing understanding. What looks "about right" from the outside is a mess from the inside. Across the board.

sun | cat | person the perfect warmth sandwich (for cat) cat body-checks person periodically to shift them over to retain the sun. person running out of chair...

Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

After ~10 years of trying to contain my data footprint, I now have email accounts over a year old that have no spam. Three of them have no spam filters installed. One is used for shopping. 🤞I didn't just present a challenge ❤️ sometimes the sensed-impossible can be done

A legally blind, 65 yr-old woman: has unintentionally lost 28 pounds because she can't afford food under Trump. "The end is coming near. Under Joe Biden I received $80 SNAP per month & was able to put away $100 per month for food. Trump took that away from me." #sheshed

Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I see a clearer narrative of right/left developing. Problem: it's defined by the right. They claim money, AI, male dominance, and power dynamics as their territory. And anyone who cares needs to be beat down as not-right, so must-be-left, so against-us. those definitions are telling.

Woody and Buzz launch the Butlerian jihad.

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 6mo ago

Official trailer for ‘Toy Story 5’ Releasing in theaters June 19

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.

Dan Klyn@danklyn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

what does your soul look like

What does your soul look like

Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Goertzel discusses with Epstein future scenario for "an AGI economy": "for the AGI parasite to overcome to regular-human-economy host (so it can grow to be more than a parasite and eventually gain its own superhuman autonomy) it first needs to suck off the resources of the host"

Goertzel to Epstein:

About the issue of allowing conversion of real $$ into AGI Tokens....
I do understand there is greater legal/regulatory risk in doing it this way=..
On the other hand, I don't see any other way to make the thing really grow to exceed Google, FB etc. in size (or even become self-supporting)...
Basically, we need real-world users who need Al services for their businesses to outsource their work to Agents in the SingularityNET and these real-world businesses have their assets in fiat currency...

...the world needs to have ways to turn fiat back and forth into AGI tokens...
Eventually maybe not, if the AGI economy overtakes the normal-world economy. But for the AGI parasite to overcome to
regular-human-economy host (so it can grow to be more than a parasite and eventually gain its own superhuman autonomy) it first needs to suck off the resources of the host, and these resources are now mainly expressed in fiat currency...

Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My latest for Liberal Currents. A substantial portion of conservatives want to be rich people in a poor country because it affords them a greater sense of hierarchy and power. We misunderstand that at our peril, but making it clear and not affording them the benefit of the doubt could save us.

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 6mo ago

"One of the best takeaways those of us on the left or the center can hold is that tariffs, the annihilation of the safety net, aggressive tax cuts, and all of their other fiscal policies are not about enrichment as an end unto itself: they’re about impoverishment as a means to reinforce hierarchy."

Our economy is *our* economy. Thinking about what comes next can help us all vote, and not just wait to see what's designed for us to try to survive in. www.smudgingthebinary.com/winter-is-co...

Winter is coming? Summer forever? Something else entirely?

I've been thinking alot about our economic system lately. It's not working. It hasn't been working, as evidenced by how much homelessness and food insecurity there has been increasing for so long, a c...

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

So while talking about the Epstein files, which has spawned a new "Epstein Class" name because of all the wealthy people involved; Bondi is citing an upsurging stock market, which is more indicative of the finances of the wealthy than of everyday people; as a...benefit? a sign of 'no foul done'?

Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is what weighs heavy on my mind and heart as the extensive community of power centered around Epstein emerges. it's a practice. www.smudgingthebinary.com/the-epstein-...

The Epstein Class; potentially triggering

The Epstein files are weighing heavy. We knew they would. We know there's more to come. And yet, no matter how heavily it weighed on my sternum, the actuality is twisting down harder than I thought it...

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We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world

The most disturbing revelation so far

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Part of my flavor of information architecture is trying to understand systems. Right now, our systems are actively, massively changing -- with multiple versions vying for being where it lands. www.smudgingthebinary.com/listen/

Listen

Listen. The world is burning. We can hear the sizzling flames in the expanding targeting by ICE, pops in the darkling gloom that we hope are knots exploding in the heat and not gunshots. We can hear ...

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Public Environmental Data Partners @publicenvirodata.bsky.social · 6mo ago

recent shifts have me more hopeful we might not have to fully go _through_ authoritarianism, but maybe, *maybe*, just kiss it... deep enough to taste it’s rotten teeth.

This week and next, we are publishing a five-part blog series to highlight what we’ve seen and how we’ve responded to the myriad attacks on our data. The first blog in the series, “A Year of Threats to Our Public Information,” is now live on our website: screening-tools.com/blog/a-year-...