धी. यman

@man.eurosky.social

WetWeb indieviduist indiwitual!🐏🍃• Dream Theater maven•Sphotamatic Nightwish•Wilderun

Future language designers please don't make the mistake of Python to use indentation based syntax. There is just not good syntax to make lexically scoped variables work in that world.

New trace: myth as doomerism (def: missatributing risk which has been & is strictly<-arbitary, decisioning, & power (choices/coercion) & the upshot of interest wetwebs; whether Nuclear, biotic, significant or interpreted) grips the warmest of minds, most often by: Woolly child hooks: @kurzgesagt.org

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If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

There is nothing inevitable about today's GenAI companies or market or product design or power dynamics. It's based on decisions, made implicitly and explicitly, by people. To imagine a better way we must realize how arbitrary all of this is. And who it serves.

EU lawmakers lack the tools and temporal speed to grasp algorithmic complexity. They completely ignore how platforms weaponize isolation, classism, and over a year of shadowbanned invisibility for new accounts. Bureaucratic compliance theater protects monopolies. #EU #Tech

Struck me: Poetry requires conviction. No wonder intelligence industry figures step down to spend their days poetic...the loss caused by prioritising due artificial work over brainwaves 📈. I have a serious thing for writers who juggled iconic main persona pairs or sets: Wodehouse, Conan doyle 🤌🏼🐏