"You should at least try to meet someone" [Me to whoever tries to flirt with me] "okay but have you heard about Vopson's second law of infodynamics"

I think the funniest thing about the "is reality a simulation" thinking is, like, if nature resembles code and computation, it's only because code and computation evolved from us, aka: natural systems. Like come on,

New atproto app idea I demoed yesterday where you record what you’re grateful for and tag someone. Each orb is a recording, and is used to power a generative synth for a dynamic ambient soundscape. Definitely zoned out to this last night 👽

In the age of ai I demand Furby sentience

Not sure if everyone appreciates the difference. Rooftop solar hardwires into your main panel via a dedicated breaker, so it requires a permit, an installer, an electrician, and a utility agreement. Balcony solar just plugs into a wall outlet, sharing an existing circuit with no permits or rewiring.

A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US

Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…

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Existential absurdism is holding the darkest and scariest path up in front of your face, staring down it for a long time, and then hearing the smallest fart noise

What is our government doing? This project defies common sense - this is corporate welfare on a surreal scale, giving a gift to an industry making $90 billion in excess profits this year, and which still refuses to pay for its own infrastructure.

Over this next decade the first generation of social media users, several who are now chronically addicted to the apps (which is a real addiction), are going to hit menopause and go supernova

This is why clean sheets day feels so good – the ghosts have been bathed and flattened

Grant Tanaka@granttanaka.bsky.social · 2d ago

reminder that your all your bedsheets are potential ghosts

Did my first "request a researcher's paper from the researcher themself" and they kindly sent the paper and now I'm just extremely pleased with myself

If you've never felt the power of walking into a grocery store with your grunge-anime teens I highly recommend it

I am going to write fanfic about fermions bosons and anyons and no one can stop me

I wrote about how feelings behave a lot like quantum phenomena, how emergence of agency is probably consciousness, and how maybe agency is the critical key to our collective causal futures. she-what.ghost.io/schrodingers...

Schrödinger's feelings

An adventurous philosophical discussion that positions subjective feelings as decoherence milestones in the many-worlds/many-minds interpretations.

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Lol "To quote Al Pacino in The Insider, “I’m getting two things: pissed off, and curious.”" describes my entire experience around AI

Melanie Mitchell@melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 5d ago

I recommend this article about AI reasoning, where the author lets us in on his struggles w/ AI cognitive dissonance. Plus some priceless quotes from @rao2z.bsky.social. (My recommendation has *nothing* to do with the fact that I'm quoted in it too 😇) www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reason...

Ok I have a goofy thought about time and interaction with future states, WHAT IF, in the same way that our technological/supervenient level can only consciously interact with/study supervenient levels within a certain range below ours (atoms, molecules, cells) >

I wrote about how feelings behave a lot like quantum phenomena, how emergence of agency is probably consciousness, and how maybe agency is the critical key to our collective causal futures. she-what.ghost.io/schrodingers...

Schrödinger's feelings

An adventurous philosophical discussion that positions subjective feelings as decoherence milestones in the many-worlds/many-minds interpretations.

she-what.ghost.io

A new investigation by @drugdatadecoded.ca and David Slater reveals how universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently remove their students’ anti-genocide encampments. Then, they denied the existence of records, delayed their release, and deleted chats. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...

Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach

Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence

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"The hyperscaler has, in economic substance, extended a concentrated infrastructure credit facility to tenants with no independent operating income. If those tenants default, the backlog evaporates into non-cash impairments, leaving the corporate balance sheet to absorb the fixed costs..."

Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD@josephhall.org · 6d ago

Oof: "The Second Derivative: Why No One Understands the AI Boom" www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-second...

Bold move of Josh O'Connor to do early career full-frontal wang. You can go from "I'm gonna need to see more of this guy" to "and there it is" in two movies, keeps the fandom cycle concise and efficient

Memetic references are sort of like interpersonal captchas

Did someone mention transition plan?* mathewlowry.medium.com/x-strategy-o... * Warning: the logical arguments set out in this framework are not immune to corridor conversations.

X Strategy or eXit Strategy? A cost-benefit analysis framework

Some considerations to help you clarify your eXit Strategy.

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Sorry I haven't been posting much lately *continues staring silently into the void*

Why does Sam Worthington stand like Kip from Napoleon Dynamite

Well well well guess who's going back to school

Thinking about the framing of "net" vs "web" – we use them as synonyms when we talk about the internet/world wide web, but A web commonly relates to nests, woven threads or tissue – it *can* be used to ensnare but its base semiotic meaning is in interwoven connection

I think this is why romance seems so gnarled and hollow at this point. To be observed intimately irl causes distress to people who've invested so much into their curated selves – the dissonance peaks around 2-3 months when the exhaustion of being perceived in the raw becomes unsustainable.

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve@braak.bsky.social · 4w ago

"ambi-personalizing". Social media is NOT actually about removing the barriers between yourself and other people; it is about *curating the self* as a kind of artwork. It's an aesthetic editing of the self to maximize relations with others. To make this work, everyone,

whether they realize it or not, creates a kind of imaginary doppelganger *through which they view themselves*. My social media self isn't me, it's *what I imagine I look like from the outside.*

"ambi-personalizing". Social media is NOT actually about removing the barriers between yourself and other people; it is about *curating the self* as a kind of artwork. It's an aesthetic editing of the self to maximize relations with others. To make this work, everyone,

Zooming into a high magnification Gaussian splat of a butterfly wing. #3dgs

“The world is a wonderful interface to engage with,” said Rachel Plotnick, an expert in human-technology relationships at Indiana University and author of "Power Button." “Giving that up comes with a real loss.”

What we lost when everything became a screen

Touchscreens made life frictionless. They also flattened our relationship with the physical world.

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