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One fun thing I discovered about Visual Chatbot: no matter what the photo is of, it will always report there are at least a couple giraffes.
It learned from answers that humans gave, and apparently nobody ever asked "how many giraffes are there?" when the answer was zero.

The only major reason I regret never learning to drive is that I want to take a vacation to go on a road trip to a national park halfway up a mountain or something. Somewhere green, cool, and isolated. I can’t go anywhere quiet in America without a driver.

Tech, pol (kinda) 

@teradyne@dragon.style I think (hope?) mass censorship would push web design back to the 90s-net. We don’t need autoplay videos everywhere.

Tech, pol (kinda) 

@teradyne@dragon.style Unfortunately, unencrypted protocols are easier to block. The hard part would be getting an unapproved server on a controlled Internet at all; protocols are an implementation detail IMO. P2P routing and civilian mesh networking is a more likely savior

Trying to solve NY Times crossword puzzles well above my skill level with help from Google, and discovering autocomplete showing me the many ways other people tried to do exactly the same.

@Jacel The unexpected partnership between Asus and Bad Dragon?

(The support group, my mother’s role in it, the relation of this person to my mother, and this person being a doctor are all things that actually happened, not just elements of a dream, for the curious.)

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I dreamed I got sick on a vacation, so I went to a doctor who happened to be one of my mother’s friends from when she was President of a support group for an uncommon chronic illness, who diagnosed it as a viral infection. Her opinion was that people got better much faster if a doctor prescribes anything unusual because of the placebo effect, and thus I was prescribed a daily course of cheeseburger-flavored ice cream.

Tech, disbelief, birdsite 

@teradyne@dragon.style I wonder if this is someone who experienced the open Web, or only really got the Facebook-and-Twitter version, where there’s a lot to develop a distaste for. Just like AOL before it, modern megasites like to pretend they are the entire Internet...

It’s hard to remember just how important regular exercise, even mild exercise, is to me. I’ve had a few lazy days and thus a few consecutive days of terrible mood; I’m now feeling a lot better because I went out of my way to walk somewhere to get dinner, rather than just using what I had at home, because it got me up and moving.

Watching crows be noisy is fascinating. You can just see the effort it takes for a bird to squeeze a loud noise out of itself

The US Supreme Court has ruled that the police CANNOT access the data on your phone without a warrant. Woot!

theverge.com/2018/6/22/1742474

C++17 solves the biggest major problem with computer programming languages today, which as everyone knows is “they make too much damn sense”

Today is a “shimmery prismatic Eastern snakey dragon” kind of day for me apparently

I invented a programming language specific to endurance scenarios involving pastries filled with sugared fruit

It’s called Pie-thon

take nothing but inputs, leave nothing but outputs. keep your state park clean and side-effect-free

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It is okay for me to feel better when I have been feeling bad, even when problems have not solved themselves and people around me are still having a hard time. This is usually hard for me to remember but I am doing better with it lately.

you could call it “the rushing sound of a man-made waterfall”, or you could call it “the howling of the dammed”

My emotional health problems hurt people close to me and I don't know how to make them just not be a problem

Idle thought:

Cyberpunk narratives that paint body-modification as a negative thing because of "loss of humanity", are subtly transphobic because they associate essence with the physical body. That to modify the body is to negatively modify the mind.

It also presumes that to become less human is to also become less empathetic, whereas a person should be allowed to be non-human, or maybe even not a "person", without losing empathy and sapience.

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