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isomeme

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I am a software engineer and Thelemite living in Los Angeles, California. My interests include software, science, music, hermetic magick, and history. I'm a trans woman who spent 54 years in the closet. I do everything I can to help others with their own journeys of transformation.

I occasionally make humorous "Great moments in software engineering" posts with the tag #GMISE.

#OTO #Thelema #Magick #SoftwareEngineering #MusicTheory #History #Astronomy #LosAngeles #Trans #Gender

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isomeme, to music
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@redfern ,I think this may be the instrument you were born to play.

#Music #Oud

https://youtu.be/_VebvGTngKw?si=JACuP7UItvGDdKmV

isomeme, to random
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I just had a clear vision of how I would have reacted if, when I was 11 years old, I found out that 50 years later I would be holding a supercomputer linked to all human knowledge in my hand, and using it to share my bemusement that many of the science news sources I follow are finding it necessary to declare that all their articles are written by human authors.

We may be on our way to a hellish dystopia, but WOW, what a ride!! 🙃

isomeme,
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@redfern

I love that analogy! 😁🎵

isomeme, to wordle
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This is what frustration looks like. 😕

#Wordle 1,006 X/6*

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isomeme, to midjourney
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Here's what you get if you cross a photo of my Los Angeles apartment building with the #Midjourney prompt "Imladris, Rivendell, home of Elrond". I'm rather surprised that palm trees aren't mentioned in #Tolkien's otherwise thorough descriptions of the place. 🙂

#AIArt

isomeme, to Humor
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Great moments in software engineering

Rome, March 15, 44 BCE: Julius Caesar's colleague Brutus convinces him to install the v8.2-dev-nightly version of the IntelliJ integrated development environment to take advantage of the newly added SQL to SPQR converter. That afternoon, a crash in the middle of his demo to the Senate causes him to groan "8.2, Brute?". This incident gives rise to the aphorism "Beware the IDEs of March".

#GMISE #Humor #SoftwareEngineering #Midjourney #AIArt

isomeme,
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@markuswerle

Oh wow, that's amazing!! Thank you for sharing it.

isomeme, to inspirobot
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Words to live by. 🙃

isomeme,
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@Montaagge

Paul Atreides got that wrong. It turns out that tequila is the mind killer.

batkaren, to random
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“And the award for loudest chasm goes to… HOWLING VOID!”

HOWLING VOID: [howls]

The camera pans to Shrieking Abyss, just fucking glaring.

isomeme,
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@batkaren @stib

"When you shriek into the abyss, the abyss pouts." - Nietzsche, probably

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isomeme,
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@cassolotl @TomSwirly

Note that I do not use a screen reader, but would enable this feature immediately.

AnarchoCatgirlism, to Astronomy

Don’t fuck with moon dust. No seriously, do not fuck with moon dust.

Absent any moisture or atmosphere, millennia of asteroid impacts have turned lunar regolith (soil) into a fine powder of razor sharp, glass-like particles. What’s more, the solar wind imparts an electric charge on the dust, causing it to cling to any and every surface it touches through static electricity. On earth, sand tends to get smoother over time as wind and water tumble the grains about, eroding their sharpness. Not so on the moon – lunar dust is sharp and deadly. This is Not A Good Time if you’re an explorer looking to visit our celestial neighbor.

During Apollo, the astronauts faced a plethora of unexpected issues caused by dust. It clung to spacesuits and darkened them enough that exposure to sunlight overheated the life support systems. Dust got in suit joints and on suit visors, damaging them. It ate away layers of boot lining. It covered cameras. Upon returning to the cabin, astronauts attempting to brush it off damaged their suit fabric and sent the dust airborne, where it remained suspended in the air due to low gravity.

Inhaling moon dust causes mucus membranes to swell; every Apollo astronaut who stepped foot on the moon reported symptoms of “Lunar Hay Fever.” Sneezing, congestion, and a “smell of burnt gunpowder” took days to subside. Later Apollo missions even sent a special dust brush with the team to help clean each other and equipment. We don’t know exactly how dangerous the stuff is, but lunar regolith simulants suggest it might destroy lung and brain cells with long-term exposure. 1

In fact the dust is so nasty that it destroyed the vacuum seals of sample return containers. We no longer have any accurate samples of lunar dust, “Every sample brought back from the moon has been contaminated by Earth’s air and humidity […] The chemical and electrostatic properties of the soil no longer match what future astronauts will encounter on the moon.” 2

Whats worse, the solar-charged dust gets thrown up off the moon’s surface via electrostatic forces. The moon doesn’t technically have an atmosphere, but it does have a thin cloud of sharp dust itching to cling to anything it can find.

And it probably isn’t just the moon. “A 2005 NASA study listed 20 risks that required further study before humans should commit to a human Mars expedition, and ranked "dust" as the number one challenge.” 3

The coolest solution I’ve heard about in next-gen spacesuit design is a mesh of woven wires layered into the suit. When activated, the wire mesh would form an anti-static electric field that repels dust. Quite literally a force field. 4
#astronomy #apollo #moon #lunardust

isomeme,
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@AnarchoCatgirlism @inthehands

People wildly underestimate how much every part of the universe outside a thin film on Earth's surface is longing to murder us.

isomeme,
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@TomSwirly @AnarchoCatgirlism @inthehands

Yeah, I've experienced that as well. I work at a big tech company in California, and the level of blind faith in utopian technology I see around me is rather terrifying.

I think it's plausible that we could have the very beginnings of self-sustaining colonies on Luna or Mars in about a century, if civilization isn't interrupted by global warming. We need several major breakthroughs in e.g. robotics and biology to get there. Right now, it's a fantasy.

isomeme,
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@linglingo @inthehands @AnarchoCatgirlism

Of course. The universe is worse than hostile; it's indifferent. I was speaking figuratively, because teleology is emotionally compelling.

I have a cyclist friend who says he always assumes that half of all drivers can't see him, the other half are actively trying to kill him, and he can't tell which are which. That's obviously not true, but it promotes an attitude of cautious vigilance that helps him stay alive.

isomeme,
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@SoftwareTheron @hosford42 @linglingo @inthehands @AnarchoCatgirlism

Ascribing is a useful psychological trick. If you're hiking in the wilderness, thinking "This wilderness is trying to kill me" will activate the primitive threat responses in your brain, making you more alert and agile.

It's similar to the way that carrying a lucky object can actually be helpful, because if you're expecting a pleasant surprise, you'll be actively looking for it and thus more likely to see it if it's there.

isomeme,
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@hosford42 @SoftwareTheron @linglingo @inthehands @AnarchoCatgirlism

Most scientists engage in teleology, because it makes descriptions simpler and more vivid. My chemistry education was filled with talk about outer shells wanting to be full, reactions happening so that a molecule could rearrange itself in order to get rid of a bent bond, and so on. As long as everyone involved understands that teleological shorthand is being used, it's a very effective way to describe systems.

isomeme,
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@Uair @linglingo @inthehands @AnarchoCatgirlism

I adore Steven Crane's poems, and that one is my favorite. 🙂

isomeme,
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@ditol

Very, and me too.

isomeme, to Humor
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Great moments in software engineering

Cambridge MA, 1967: Joseph Weizenbaum releases the ELIZA chatbot. The chatbot is eagerly adopted by all sectors of the US economy in key decision-making roles. Chaos ensues as workers seeking managerial guidance receive only cryptic replies, such as "EARLIER YOU MENTIONED Q2 PLANNING" and "HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT WE NEED CHEAPER SUPPLIERS?".

#GMISE #Humor #SoftwareEngineering #Midjourney #AIArt

isomeme, to ai
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Is anyone reading this using generative AI for a business purpose? I'm having trouble imagining how that could work in practical terms, and some examples would be quite helpful.

#AI #GenerativeAI #Business

isomeme, to Meme
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My brain does this sort of thing to me all the time. Now and then I decide to inflict one on the world. 🙃

#Meme #Humor

br00t4c, to random
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Two women shot by gun dropped during moped pursuit

#police

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68457975

isomeme,
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@br00t4c

This is so epic in its absurdity! If I were one of the perpetrators, I would be in hiding more to avoid embarrassment than arrest.

isomeme, to aiart
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A cataract is growing in my one useful eye. Thanks to the extremely unusual physiology of that eye, it is degrading my vision very rapidly; I'm noticing the change from one month to the next. Soon I'll have a somewhat risky surgery to deal with the situation.

Obviously, none of this is fun. But, that being said, I do have to admit that this is the most beautiful disability I have ever experienced. 🙂

isomeme,
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@leighelse

Thank you. I like that list.

isomeme,
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@HN414

Thank you. 💜

isomeme,
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@steveo1049

Yeah, I've been joking that you can get standard cataract surgery over the counter at CVS. 🙂 Unfortunately, mine will be extremely nonstandard, involving a fair bit of improvisation by the surgeons to work around my various eye-structure abnormalities. So it probably won't be quick. I'll continue hoping for painless.

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