Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

@orrery And I haven’t figured out a way to scale that either, short of instituting filtering and moderation strategies for communities I’m involved with. Since that’s all I can do.

But I guess that’s because I observe the problem as if it’s forum management and spam/troll filtering. Don’t know yet if that scales to loosely-connected and federated communities, short of helping other moderators do the same, just as we did back in the golden days of web fora.

@orrery Yeah. I guess I’m saying, I found a way to shelter from viral ideologies and narrative debt enough to start to work on my own narrative again and figure out ways to combat them in spaces I operate within. It’s not much, but it’s a big improvement.

@orrery Dangerous in systems defined by and controlled by humans, though. And I guess I found ways to limit my exposure to communities and systems with other correctives (administration on character and perceived intent, systems with sources of truth that aren’t people, etc).

Viral ideologies still scare me and are still a problem, but I’ve found a tempo to retain balance now, and combating them follows from there, I think?

@orrery I use trust-but-verify with a loosely Bayesian reinforcement schedule. Works for figuring out the best available approximation of reality, but doesn’t work as well for publishing it.

Learning most folks don’t even get to the verify step was a major blow to my confidence in people not believing disinfo. But the world keeps turning on the underlying facts instead of peoples’ narratives of them, inexorably leading to correction if the data’s wrong.

I guess I’d been kind of cynical about how things I do are seen by others, given how other people controlling the narrative seems to... be a thing. I guess I finally found a way to work around people reactive to controlled narratives and keep being me, which helps more than I think I knew.

Wish I still had faith in disinfo not dominating the process, but I’ll settle for “I can work within this framework and minimize my exposure.”

Haven’t posted much here, but I’ve been doing mostly better.

Something internally shifted that I’ll want to talk about at some point, loosely corresponding to no longer holding myself to arbitrary constraints from others. I’m not sure why, but talking about and reflecting on my own narrative helped.

As did spending time making things again, which apparently I hadn’t done in awhile? Being a builder and storyteller just seems to be my thing, for some reason.

@tastymochafox I think it’s that they’re trying to set this narrative to get ahead of what comes next? That’s my interpretation, anyway.

The social media presidency has been a valuable lesson in how lies are laundered and sold as truths to orgs that otherwise know better.

Seeing headlines run this morning confusing Barr’s letter as total exoneration, which... it... doesn’t... say? It’s as charitable a read of a document we haven’t yet seen as possible, and its purpose was to set a preferred narrative.

Not that the distinction between “no evidence” and “not enough evidence to prosecute matters”, or knowing where things fall between them matters to the health of democracy, or anything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@salameleon@snouts.online You can, but it’s not as easy to do as it used to be. One simple(ish) way is to convince browsers that you live in the EU, since GDPR mandates very specific data practices and bans certain tracking patterns.

But outside of relying on the side effects of foreign law, you basically need a full anonymizer stack at this point (randomized IP, header scrubbing, denial of tracking pixels, etc). Which isn’t easy on a smartphone.

At scale, search is indistinguishable from social engineering.

... huh.

@Balinares BABA is WIN
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... is really good. I get a definite Subnautica vibe from it, and I've stopped and gasped at the scenery several times now.

It's also letting me build sustainably without messing too much with the game's (very, very, very pretty) ecosystem, which I was hoping for and greatly appreciate.

I play a lot of games that focus on optimizing resource harvesting/extraction. Lately, I've been much more interested in "builds that take just enough" and give back to the simulation than builds that optimize on maximum strip mining rates.

I guess it's a good way to tinker with how these builds might work in practice -- and I kind of translate it into real projects around the house here, including our solar panel, 3D print, and plant projects.

I guess I never mentioned that we now have the ability to recycle plastics entirely on our own here at home, powered by the sun. I should document that sometime.

This looks like a game I will play, but I'm not digging the "strip mine the planet for resources" aesthetic promoted by the trailer: https://www.satisfactorygame.com/

I think I'm going to use it to simulate solarpunk and augmented/hybridized nature builds to see how those pan out.

Last month was house repairs, houseguests, and snowpocalpyse parts one and two. This month is travel, in which I'll be flying out to the mothership for $JOB tomorrow. Between both of these have been cooperative and builder videogames to manage stress, which seems to be a usual pattern for me.

I will never stop having the urge to build and create, even when circumstances feel demanding or doomful. In a way, it's comforting. I need to figure out how to share more of that here again, at some indeterminate time when I have enough spoons again.