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Sometimes I write intimate eschatologies or words about technology and math. Sometimes I make things by burning them with light or squeezing them through a small, hot tube. Sometimes I push water with a stick while sitting in a tiny boat.

If you're looking for my business account, go check out https://social.dual-space.solutions/@cgranade!

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YouTube thumbnails with ominous energies

xgranade,
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@mcc endless screaming

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It is so scummy that Squarespace won't give you your domain transfer code for 24 hours. Sigh.

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One thing I keep thinking about from @annaleen's talk last night is how useful it can be to shift from describing small communities (e.g. Discord servers, Matrix spaces, or Mastodon instances) as being filter bubbles. Rather, it can help to think of them as intentional community spaces with moderation policies that make it possible to share stories and keep receipts in a consensual way.

xgranade,
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Like, it just makes so much sense? People can and do filter --- we cannot absorb and process all of the speech everywhere on the Internet all at once, and trying to do so just makes it that much harder to resist psyops. Being smaller also can mean being closer, caring for each other in participatory communities.

xgranade,
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Relatedly, I keep thinking about their point that it's not just negative or conflict-driven emotions that sit in our instincts, hindbrain or not. Love and care and community all derive at some level from pretty core emotions.

(I keep thinking about dogs: even the smartest of pups tend to want to be fed, kept warm, to be safe, and to be part of a pack. None of those are negative at all.)

xgranade,
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@whitequark Absolutely, it's a double edged sword, to be sure. But I think there's some nuance that gets missed in deriding filter bubbles as bad and missing the opportunity for community.

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@whitequark It's also why I think it's important that small communities aren't insular or isolated... small groups can be part of and interconnected with broader and larger societal groups.

At the most extreme limit of depth and size, families are communities of care, and can also be homes to incredible levels of abuse and harm.

xgranade,
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@whitequark I mean, that's fair, yeah. I guess my optimism on that front hasn't yet been completely beaten out of me.

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Yay, it's here! And just in time for @annaleen's talk at Town Hall this evening!

https://townhallseattle.org/event/annalee-newitz-with-lindy-west/

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wow, my thermoregulation is fucked

xgranade,
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@whitequark As someone with Raynaud's I have no idea if anyone else has it, but I can guarantee it's awful and share a "that fucking sucks" with anyone who has similar symptoms, Raynaud's or not.

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Intriguing. Confusing.

xgranade,
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@MLE_online There was recently a pretty popular translation a few years ago as well, plus Netflix now streams the 2019 movie outside of China.

xgranade, (edited ) to random
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Transition milestone? unlocked:

Using estradiol patch envelopes as bookmarks.

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Last thing for a bit, then I'll logging off and trying to get something done.

A box full of Ubiquiti switches just arrived, which makes me very happy indeed.

xgranade,
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Slight and mildly depressing update: not all the cabling and wiring needed for the new equipment is up and running yet, so temporarily stuck with the ISP's provided router (a Plume even, ugh) while all that is finished up.

Only mildly bad, though, as it's yet another reason to be excited to get the rack working. 💖

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Seattle! I'm on my way to you on the train! Tomorrow I'll be talking about "Stories Are Weapons" with Lindy West at Seattle Town Hall! Get your tickets now! https://townhallseattle.org/event/annalee-newitz-with-lindy-west/

xgranade,
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@annaleen And what a lovely train ride, goodness!

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One very nice thing about being out of tech as a profession now is that I can approach tech as a user rather than getting caught up in (important!) technical discussions about how something is implemented.

That makes it a lot easier for me, personally, to ask questions like "should that be implemented at all" without losing the forest for the trees.

xgranade,
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Like I used to care a lot about Rust vs C++ because it was very relevant to my career and what I was working on.

Now that I'm no longer working in quantum computing, or even tech more broadly, it's easier to see past that without diminishing its importance, and start asking questions about what either one is used for.

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Please, Home Assistant, no.

xgranade,
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Everything is going to shit, neither corporate products nor FOSS projects can seem to resist the siren call of the stochastic parrots pushed by a group of eugenicist* techbros.

(*Literally. You can't separate OpenAI from the TESCREAL movement and the eugenicist arguments made by Bolstrom and others.)

xgranade,
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I guess it's time to put up the RSS reader for the day. Approximately all I've learned from it are that some of my favorite tech things are going further down the AI drain, and that more major newspapers are hiring TERFs to run their newsrooms.

At least here is a bit more cozy?

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I just used the phrase "a la Sartre" and I am very happy with that pun.

xgranade,
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(Yes, a lot of posts are out-of-context puns that I am proud of, including many puns like this one that aren't even that good. I don't care that they're awful, I still like and am proud of my godawful puns.)

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I am skeptical that this monitoring is accurate. (This is after a reboot.)

A screenshot of the macOS "weather" app with "San Francisco" and then two dashes being the only visible elements on a blank blue background.

xgranade,
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@glyph I dunno, it's telling you that San Francisco.

That seems pretty accurate? After all, it's true that San Francisco.

xgranade,
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@glyph (To emphasize, the above is a shitpost.)

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The great contradiction* I keep tripping over when I try to be more mindful about practicing systems thinking is that individual responsibility isn't a good model of systemic change, but also systems are comprised of individuals and do not change without individual action.

(*Not actually a contradiction, just seems like it at first glance.)

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