Just a reminder, please don't use the r-slur.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1USRNMx5c-1tBDZsBP8oCxB7BmwmNE73kmOD11DetZoU/edit?usp=drivesdk
Yeah yeah, I know. I need a few TB drives to move everything off of the Goog.
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub 25Jan—Do you have a worked-out magical system? Or do you make it up as you go?
Admittedly it's been a long, long time since I sat down and wrote. (Sighing a lot just now.)
But. Yes. I call it the Psychocosmology of the Nested Worlds of Parabol, or just the Nested Worlds of Parabol for short.
It is based on part on layman's quantum physics, in part on Plotinus' cosmology, and in part David Lewis' Many Worlds theses. And more, but these are the primary building blocks.
Ah, and a desire to allow for travel between the worlds of my own and a friend's worlds.
So.
There was Zero. From the Zero came the One, a singularity of infinite potential. From the One emanates all possibilities.
The possibilities turn back, pulled by the singularity of potency; by this interaction emanates forth all probability, quantum waves carrying with them possibilities and potential. Where they overlap they sometimes reinforce, sometimes augment, and sometimes cancel one another out. At each intersection a world is created.
As such, the worlds closest to the One are those who interact most often with the, I suppose, "creative radiation" coming from the One. It happens as often as being bombarded by atoms in our world. Reality is malleable.
In the worlds furthest from the One, the content of the worlds are increasingly randomized by the quantum fluctuations--but interacting with the raw power of the infinite One is far rarer, almost never occurring. Here, reality is much more firmly set down.
Fantasy worlds, particularly high magic ones, fall closer to the center; here we have reality contorting spells and rituals, gods, goddesses, genies, and unpredictable and unexplainable changes that can be as dangerous as intergalactic supernovae.
Our world is a bit further away from the center, where questions about the rigidity of the kitchen table only enter into philosophical arguments about extremely un/likely probabilities. One might argue that "a table doesn't exist, it's just particles arranged table wise." That's as weird as it seems to get. Prediction is easy, with the right models and maths.
Perhaps even further out are worlds bearing no recognizable similarity to our own, but in which every probability is more or less a fate-sentence. I suspect these are the deep-future scifi worlds, worlds in which science can be done as easily as looking at ones own hands, because nothing is ever irregular, at least not often enough to contemplate.
Travellers between may enjoy quantum tunneling, Einstein-Rosen bridges, wormholes, dark portals, whatever--but imagine one powerful being from an inner realm finding its way to ours? They can perform miracles. They can alter the paths of civilizations. They can change our world.
Anyway, it's "open source" per se, so if you want it, please, nestle your world right on in.
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My head cannon for M'Aiq the Liar is that he made a deal with a daedra. In exchange for the ability to explore everywhere and learn everything, he would never be able to tell anyone true statements about it. When he tries, it comes out wrong. The closest he can get is to make a joke that just skirts as close to the truth as he can.
A side-effect of his deal is that he will never die until he has explored everywhere and learned everything; so he's functionally immortal.
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When the canaries are calling, listen to them.
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The machines are "trained" by scraping other digital art works and attaching LLM strings to describe them. They literally steal the art of others, to make that content available for calling up during "generation."
It is useful as an accessibility tool, for things like identifying objects and describing images. As an art tool, it regurgitates what others have done in quasi-bespoke arrangements at the user's request. It does not produce art, it produces output that can be artful on account of its having been art before being regurgitated.
It can caption images for the vision or visual processing impaired. It can assist with tasks that otherwise require extensive scholarship. It can not replace that scholarship, and it cannot replace the talent of an artist, and it cannot produce something even relatively novel.
It has uses that can assist humans. It should not be used otherwise, and is actively assisting in the destruction of our planet by consuming vast amounts of energy and water while producing equally vast amounts of waste heat.
Your skill at putting together strings of words that convine the AI to give you output that is pleasing, may or may not be a skill in itself. It doesnt seem to be worth bragging about, in any case.
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It is with a great deal of shame (due largely to internalized capitalist emotional responses)
That I make a request for help.
I have 100 bucks to last me two weeks. I have 600 dollars in monthly commitments, of which 300 has been covered for this month. And then I need to see a doctor, 200 bucks, and get prescriptions, 75.
If you can spare $5, or $20, or anything at all, I would appreciate it. Please direct message me for transfer options.
I miss the times when I could send help. This is miserable.
[#]mutualaid
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Today, thankfully, is my second to last shift at this place.
They're having all of us take our groups to the library and make appreciation cards for cops for law enforcement appreciation day, then deliver them personally this afternoon.
Can't say no, can't refuse.
I am making my disgust known and I will not hide it. My card has a picture of a pig on the front, with the word "whatever" on the inside. It was the most polite protest I could come up with.
I called the schedule gross to the boss's face, and told the assistant manager that they should be asking, not telling, folks to support a fascist institution, at most.
Fucking loathe. L o a t h e.
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Is there an FOSS alternative to dragon naturally speaking, that hopefully does not rely upon ridiculous ai LLM technology that is burning the planet?
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Pulled some cards, considered the future. A forecast:
What does the year give us?
Five wands reversed: a conflict of ambitions leading to stagnation
How should I respond?
Eight cups--a withdrawal. walking away, and letting go.
And what will be gained?
Nine wands. Guarded resilience.
Considering the plan is to begin work in earnest to become the regional mutual aid hub, complete with little cabins on the land? Yeah, straight up. Sounds right.
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Dunkin made 1.5B. Starbucks made 36B. Their employees are lucky to get 15/hr with enough hours to pay rent.
Burn it down. Boycott coffee.
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Hey chat.
So I've been out of the "free downloads of software and multimedia" game for a while. Yarr, but I pine for the open sea.
What are the current good sources for torrents, streams, and so forth?
What's the best VPN for the dollar spent?
How do I keep Windows from snitching, aka sending usage data back to MS? I don't mind giving this up and going straight to Mint on the new laptop, but everything works for now and I'd rather not bother with tinkering just yet. I know, blasphemous.
Help? Thanks in advance. #streaming #vpn #tpb
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Wait, what? The aquabats are Mormon? Lollll
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Merry solstice.
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It occurs to me that the FBI asking you to use E2E chat services and apps should be handled carefully.
Whichever app they specifically recommend or expect you to use? Don't. Pick a different one.
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Had a dream wherein I had converted a '90s Astro van to full electric. I had a very interesting notion about volt/amp ratios going straight to the motors.
A v/a slider that looks like an automatic shifter. Almost all of the time you would want to leave it at O for optimal. Sometimes you want more volts. Sometimes you want more amps. Leaving them in one or the other for too long would increase heat waste and stripped gears, But for some reason dream me thought it would be useful to have on deck.
Of course the accelerator was tunes to give a gas-like feel, basically around accelerating RPMs.
Thoughts? Hate it?
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You know that experience where you state a few facts and someone says you're making assumptions and starts trying to argue with you about things that require those assumptions, but all you were really doing is stating facts? Fuck that.
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I was part of September 1993, the September that never ended. Our family got our first desktop computer and I burned up as much internet as I could as fast as I could.
I didn't know. I didn't know!
But now I've seen it happen a couple more times, and likely to happen to Mastodon eventually, has read it becomes less appreciative of dissent and difference. And blue sky. And others.
I urge you, be patient.
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that didnt work.
so we can only post images that we've downloaded first.?
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it's a test.
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56acc1138a65e2a286012c54/1476623632079-BBAERA9UGQ0EODC6680U/pixabaytest6-7.jpg
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