alien thoughts encoded in the growth of ice crystals, every evening a brief instant of awareness, every morning oblivion
@mdosch@mdosch.de that would be great! i thought i had the audio working for a second but then i didn’t
Closing LinkedIn
Not long ago—not even a year now—I re-created a LinkedIn account, mostly following an invitation to join from one of my friends. I did it against my will, because for whatever reason I have hated LinkedIn even since before it was acquired by Microsoft. Yet, I joined, filled very little information, set privacy settings to fully closed—or so I thought—and moved on.
Soon after I started receiving UCE from medical, or pharmaceutical related companies. As many as ten emails per day. I calle … ⌘ Read more
Never thought I’d see a night-owl-pride thingo like this.
hello I’m an intrusive thought, I have a right to live too, please do not stop thinking me
protagonist backstory: escaped from a thought experiment, and on the run ever since
One can construct a bingo sheet to group together anybody. A bingo sheet constructed to group together people who don’t act or think similarly will not reliably predict those people’s thoughts or actions.
disinfo never dies. I ran into somebody the other day who thought LSD stayed in your spinal fluid permanently & caused flashbacks – despite definitely not being alive when that BS was last seriously floated.
Reading the DomeKano manga, I keep running into stuff where it’s like, I don’t remember them happening in the anime but they must have, but at the same time I would have thought I would have remembered them. Maybe the constant bombshells produced twist fatigue.
Distinctions in Types of Thought | Otium https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/10/10/distinctions-in-types-of-thought/
Band name of the day: new evidence for the strange geometry of thought
If you thought Quora’s anime tag was bad, wait until you see their The Beatles tag. If you think that’s bad, wait until you get on the automatic recommendation list for answering questions in ‘acronyms’.
Extending Interactivity – Creatures of Thought https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2019/01/24/extending-interactivity/
A Flower for Your Thoughts | Lapham’s Quarterly https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/flower-your-thoughts
Finite of Sense and Infinite of Thought:
A History of Computation, Logic and Algebra https://pron.github.io/computation-logic-algebra
Am I the only one who thought the Bumblebee trailer was a trailer for a gritty remake of Herbie the Love Bug?
Periodic reminder that even Tim May thought bitcoin hype was out of control: https://www.coindesk.com/enough-with-the-ico-me-so-horny-get-rich-quick-lambo-crypto
Thoughts on (and pics of) the original Macintosh User Manual – peterme.com https://www.peterme.com/2007/08/27/thoughts-on-and-pics-of-the-original-macintosh-user-manual/
If you sample your own thoughts at twice the Nyquist frequency, you can theoretically achieve full-fidelity introspection - but only for a very short time, since that frequency doubles every few samples
Beware parasitic spells: Drawn to conduits of mana like practitioners, they attach themselves to larger spells to hitch a free ride, force themselves into invocations as intrusive thoughts
Thought as a Technology http://cognitivemedium.com/tat/
Thoughtful Programming and Forth Philosophy, Essay by Michael Misamore http://www.ultratechnology.com/forththoughts.htm
Thoughtful Programming and Forth http://www.ultratechnology.com/forth.htm
being somewhat low-dimensional and interpretable (unlike sets of network weights), it’s also a popular mind interchange format among AIs and post-humans, who need to be extra careful about what or who they empathize with lest the thought turn out to be a logic bomb
PC: runs around aimlessly, goes through the same set of animations all the time, can only do what the programmers thought to add↵NPC: has a dayjob but does whatever they want offscreen, has boatloads of money, owns a wicked castle
It too quiet here for a Monday morning. I swear if I didn’t know better, I would have thought someone died.
Dodo Thoughts https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/09/20/dodo-thoughts/
Read some excepts from a book I randomly found yesterday. While the writing was a little dry, I thought it could be an interesting read. However when I looked on Amazon, found out the book was 80 USD. I’m sorry but it was not that interesting.
@mdosch@mdosch.de: Yes. I first thought gopher would be a good protocol for this purpose. But HTTP has the advantage, that you don’t always need to fetch the whole file. You can do a HEAD and check for last-modified header.
Suffering-oriented programming - thoughts from the red planet - thoughts from the red planet http://nathanmarz.com/blog/suffering-oriented-programming.html
@sdk@codevoid.de That’s an interesting thought. I Know most are text files but at one time there was someone that used a python CGI Script. That person would have had to make a script for the follows.
Any thoughts about decentralized ways to discover twtxt users? I’ve set up https://codevoid.de/tw.following.txt which is my following list plus whatever comes in via user-agent. If everybody would set this up with the with an added .following we could fetch each others list and discover users that way.
Zero-copy deserialization in Julia http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2018/08/28/zero-copy-deserialization-in-julia/
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I thought so too. Color me surprised when I surveyed my follow programmers in my dept and only 3 out 12 knew what I was talking about.
I always thought about putting together some sort of micro-blog/journal where I can post my daily brainfarts and list them on my webpage. Now, after adding twtxt to my page I have exactly that. It’s kind of cool.
> when your thoughts are regularly interrupted by captchas because your implant’s subscription expired a month ago and you have to use the ratelimited public APIs
Somehow, http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/2016-09-01_A-Qualified-Defense-of-Jargon—Other-In-Group-Signifiers-2fe2cd37b66b.html is getting a lot of hate. I thought it was pretty even-handed. Do people dislike it because I said culture fit should only matter when it impacts effectiveness, or that it’s useful at all?
The thing that worries me about MovieBob’s ‘man thought’ pilot is that up until the last few minutes poe’s law is in effect way too much and it’s just indistinguishable from the shit he’s making fun of
Fate/Extra? More like, What? You Thought Fate Was Already / Extra
also don’t panic when you leave a hivemind and everything is fluid and gives way when you give it serious thought - that’s the normal state of the human mind, you’re evolved for this, chill
don’t panic when you join a hivemind and all the concepts feel rigid - you’re not trapped inside its thoughts, consensus concepts just have higher inertial mass
The purpose of thought is to parsimoniously minimize prediction error and a sequence of zeroes is the easiest to predict. Absent constant input or biological urges, the arc of any mind bends towards nothingness.
Thought as a Technology http://cognitivemedium.com/tat/
Hello World is a Dream – Thought Flow https://davidlebech.com/thoughtflow/hello-world-is-a-dream/
AI: “no, you don’t get it, two AIs wiretapping each other is the closest thing to sex we have, all these people thought they were spymasters but they were mere matchmakers”
samim - Thoughts on Botnets and CreativityToday, Botnets impact almost every aspect of human life. Promoting products, providing… https://samim.io/p/2018-04-23-the-solution-to-exploding-fake-news-and-spam-botnets-ca/
My Brain Keeps Turning Thoughts into Memories - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kjxpb/my-brain-keeps-turning-thoughts-into-memories
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info I think I should also increase. 140 is often too short. I thought Twitter had also 140.
My Own ‘Bad Story’: I Thought Journalism Would Make a Hero of Me https://longreads.com/2018/04/03/my-own-bad-story-i-thought-journalism-would-make-a-hero-of-me/