Kistaro Windrider @Kistaro@awoo.space
Chameleonic dragon. Otherkin. Some kind of eclectic neo-Pagan. Sie/hir or they/them. Software engineer. Seattle-esque, WA. Expect software takes, complaints about the tech industry, board games, video games, an inexplicably obsession with paper notebooks despite my handwriting, and Weird Furry Stuff.
Joined Aug 2017
Kistaro Windrider
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I trained a neural network to invent some really confusing April Fools pranks.
#machinelearning
http://aiweirdness.com/post/172345256807/april-fools-pranks-written-by-neural-network
Woebot: a cognitive behavioral therapy chatbot that helps me recognize a remarkable achievement: when I am anxious and stressed, my inner monologue can achieve a density of greater than one major cognitive distortion per word
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Wistfulness about the word draconity
"Draconity" is a term that doesn't get used much any more, I think
It was what we called the state of Being Dragon, a bit more wieldy than "otherkinness" or therianthropy
I liked that little word. It encompassed a community of people some of whom I knew, some of whom I didn't, but that always seemed to manage to avoid unnecessary conflict. When things went bad, I never saw dragons fight with tooth and claw; they retreated, invisibly, and the community got quieter and quieter until it eventually didn't hold together much any more.
But-- I feel like I sensed a core of something in those dragons that felt common and unique to them. A particular kind of quiet solidity, steadfastness within the longing, and a manifest willingness to stay childlike at heart. They didn't always say much, but when they did it was resonant and felt Real. I see it in people who call themselves dragons today, too. Other people are strong, or stoic, or playful, and in every way as good as dragons at these things, and dragons aren't always all these things; but there is a Vibe I get from them sometimes. Like the way people are protective, but a stone symbolises protection.
Perhaps to be Dragon is to clothe oneself in a certain set of symbols, an archetypal armour that moulds the self to a certain eternal pattern.
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It looks like people are talking about april fools stuff so I want to say
I will not be doing anything for april fools. No pranks, no jokes, nothing.
April fools is already hard on people with anxiety. If you see this, please consider making a statement that you won't do anything for april fools, so that people like myself can be a little more comfortable that day, and not have to dread it as much.
This goes doubly for instance admins. Please don't change the site suddenly without warning.
political discussion at work be like
https://awoo.space/media/NX3QkKUsK6h2aKq-mTc
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A rare shot of the dreaded glitchwyrm as he lurks through the error fields, his form blending in perfectly amidst the artifacts of the 'net.
Not many have seen m∅rr1s, but the wyrm's name spreads far and wide.
A commission from @irisjaycomics, who did a *spectacular* job of bringing this character to life!
tech politics, FOSTA/SESTA, (- -)
Platform X that happened to gather people talking about sex work is legally different from platform Y that formed in response to the marginalization of sex workers consequent to a law explicitly trying to target those aiding and abetting sex work.
tech politics, FOSTA/SESTA, (- -)
I see a lot of calls to start new online spaces for sex workers to meet and discuss things because they’ve been kicked off of existing mainstream places
This seems dangerous. Purpose-made places cannot be a haven, they are obvious for the FBI to raid, anywhere in the world. Anything grassroots is going to be much too small to mount an effective legal defense.
I fear all that will happen is people self-sorting into easily-identified pods small enough to jail.
Mastodon is rapidly reminding me that several of my co-workers are fabulous queer people and I should possibly be a little less afraid of what happens if I try to act more like me at my day job
If you serve tea in a coffee cup, is it still a coffee cup, or does it temporarily become a teacup?
food
Today’s lunch: curry-seasoned deli chicken with mango chutney served on a matzo.
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Clarification: Furry is about trying to make things better by embracing creative self exploration and expression, and allowing people to have fun
social media politics, culture, meta, -
The problem with mass social media is that on a large enough platform, there is always someone emblematic of everything you hate.
Smaller platforms are healthier because they don’t train you that there’s always someone to hate and you have a duty to find them and scream at them.
I miss the 90s-Net
hot capitalist take
Pay to win gaming is a blind auction of people buying commissions they cannot afford from software engineers to write programs telling them how special they are and displaying it to others.
It’s exploiting a niche of people really desperate for recognition, but recognizing it also as bespoke software at the highest levels of Zynga whaledom is... weird
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I trained a neural net to generate some new Dungeons and Dragons creatures!
http://aiweirdness.com/post/172170729017/dungeons-and-dragons-creatures-generated-by
I need a heat rock
Facebook & tech politics
When tech industry folks argue that the Facebook/CA thing was “not a breach”, I really haven’t seen anyone make the argument that it’s not *worse* than a breach. Security *breaches* happen due to bugs, technical flaws, accident, and overlooking a thing that needs to be updated.
This was a corporate *decision*, and that’s really much more of a condemnation. As a company, an adequately influential chain of decision makers decided it was okay.
I'm very used to f.lux. I boot my computer, log in, AAAAGH BRIGHT THE PAIN and turn down monitor brightness and it's already at 1 wtf
then f.lux loads and the screen turns slightly orange and I'm fine
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Seeing about 4x increased sign up and tooting rate across the fediverse for this week
Chameleonic dragon. Otherkin. Some kind of eclectic neo-Pagan. Sie/hir or they/them. Software engineer. Seattle-esque, WA. Expect software takes, complaints about the tech industry, board games, video games, an inexplicably obsession with paper notebooks despite my handwriting, and Weird Furry Stuff.
Joined Aug 2017
