at some point we’re going to get some dipshit going “Google made DeepDream which implies a computer can dream which means it must be able to think. Checkmate, atheists” as their line, aren’t we?

speaking in general: the tpot crowd are rabid about posting about their own shit, and will get alllll frazzled up the moment anything like this happens. and they have just-enough overlap with quite a few circles that if you happen to be connected to x/y/z it will readily cross your radar

but one can also keep an eye on them directly to see what they’re up to. and there is value in that too, despite the mental downpayment it requires

MDMA, however, is meth; it’s literally its name: thre-four-methylene-deoxy-methamphetamine. Not only is it more cardiotoxic than vanilla meth, it’s significantly more metabolically demanding

chemistry is when you ignore most of the structure of a molecule and its properties and decide it’s close enough to another drug you’re thinking of (and, come to mention, you can’t stop thinking of)

I learned my (extremely elementary) organic chemistry through chill afternoons in bars sipping beer and reading about ochem, and I know better than these clowns. brb establishing new school, Drunken Monkey Ochem

severely underestimating how much biohacking was really just coke the whole time

probably starting their own journey now to test it out! I look forward to their Incredible Journey post

non-linear analogue electrochemo-computer with distributed processing centers, multiple unmapped signalling sidechannels, multiple overlapping interdependent sets of subsystems, liquid temperature management, and no jtag

and that’s just on the intro leaflet

you mean something like posting this comment to sneerclub? or are all your posts like this?

been juggling yaks the last few days, but finally a contribution!

among today’s musical discoveries, Euphonic Entropy by Diabulus In Musica

it’s a banger

found it via track 4

bc link: https://diabulusinmusica.bandcamp.com/album/euphonic-entropy

I’ve never figured out why comments fail on iOS safari (in priv mode) but work in Fx (also priv), but also jank ahoy

oh my bad I just noticed it’s the same comment

yes, it’s that early. also not helped by my cat stabbing me on the nose far too early this morning

ahem ;p

but igwym re volume, gotta make it go to 11 first

(quick basic background typed mobile while still trying to get started on day)

balaji shillranivan is the primary thonkfuck espousing the view of “the network state”, which is a stance that’s largely a nerdsnipe made up of “eww all this human society shit is messy and hard. fuck it all let’s go shopping rebuild society only on code. code is law!”

it doesn’t actually say the first bit, of course. as with all good obscurantist shit that’s the hidden foundation layer, but it’s what it taps into

oh, I meant the weirdoes per post, but fair 'nuff

flipside is sweden’s likely to be allergic to these people (and vice versa)

“totally not a cult” says leader of group that milks rubes for large sums of money to place them in isolated environs with extremely atypical lifestyle facilities

one moment you’re paying rent, the next moment you’re an “attendee”

zero mention of what kinds of infrastructure is available

And we have plenty of day passes for visitors.

day… passes… to summer brainwash camp. which I bet there will be an application process and “admin” for

this side of the world? typical cases: direct funds transfers, or sometimes direct debit (depending on the purchase financing structure and provider). and it’s pretty much a smooth transaction, optionally having to contact your bank of choice to request a temporary/once-off limit adjustment (fairly typical to have transaction value caps in place here for personal accounts)

recently reread that and: heh yeah, remarkably on the nose comparison

also, GNU Terry Pratchett

hey @self - can we add clacks to awful? :D

Initialism for the multiple main schools of thonk from the weirdos, so-named by Gebru and Torres

I guess both serious criticism and pointing and laughing are needed.

quite

the fundamental requirement of a counter-argument/-movement/-whatever is that one has to show that there are some that seriously believe these things, as absurd as they may be

the mockery can still happen separately as well (and always should, imo), but for the “but why should we listen to you” dimension the former is needed too

FAANG came about because of “unexpected growth” in how those could “surprisingly” capture money, as time has passed it’s become clear how all of them did so in pretty shitty ways (of the bigtech-flavoured “it’s better to never ask for permission, fuck 'em” variety)

netflix’s burgeoning unpopularity is a far more recent thing. I could guess at a few inputs, but not really sure how much each contributed

(idle thought: without the N, it’s probably be GAFA or something, or finding another letter to substitute and make a tortured reference out of that)

brb stealing album title

haha :)

nah, you misunderstand me (although that’s on me for not explaining in any depth whatsoever)

I’m extremely in the every-sound-is-valid camp. as in, I don’t (for example) have an “intake” filter/process/whatever that makes hardspace things be perceived as dubstep, or any such flavour shit. but (for me at least) it is the exploration of sound itself that is fun - the composition, the production, the perception. the way it interplays with perception. all of it!

as to the specific thing I mentioned in previous comment, the flavour I want to chase for the thing I want to make is literally using hail (possibly through modelling? not sure) as a driving input (same as people have used motion, light, and space as methods in creation)