ftl ✅ @ftl@awoo.space
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
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um, excuse me? need?? what part of Maslow's hierarchy are GeForce Experiences listed under? https://mastodon.social/media/Lef7uVp4u97ZfTSfenA
DND
First time planning a large-scale battle... I think tomorrow my party is going to be part of the defense of a medium-sized town. Orcs gonna be there, human army gonna be there. But the party isn't high-level enough to dominate this battle on their own - they'll just contribute. We'll see what happens.
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JOKE: When birds are flying in a V-formation, you can sometimes see that one side is longer than the other. Do you know why that is?
There are more birds on that side.
@theMarisaMohi Oh wow, xanga. That was so long ago. Brings back memories.
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Per the Evil Overlord List, a normal 5-year-old was hired to shoot down blatantly stupid plans. This is their story.
#writingprompts #writing
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Starting on a new social media platform is exactly like walking into a party where you can’t find any of your friends, and you have to decide how you’re gonna play it.
Am I all ethereal, untouchable oddity or spiny urchin rage?
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n word, bad robots
Today in Google Home: "Asked Google for morning yoga music. Got rap with the n word." "I blame the parents."
@GinnyMcQueen@kitty.town oh wow. I hadn't thought about that second half, and that's brilliant.
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Roko's Trouser Basilisk
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D&D
#DND as the characters in my campaign get higher level, they get more and more able and willing to derail DM plans. Just last session, I *thought* I had planned for them to go through a dungeon to fight a boss. Instead they refused to enter the dungeon and used Sending messages to lure the boss out, skipping the whole dungeon.
But DMing that kind of stuff is actually kind of fun. Gotta roll with the punches...
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replace all instances of the word 'post' in your life with 'toot'. for example. tootpunk. tootmodern. lamptoot. washington toot. first past the toot. la toote. deutsche toot. united states tootal service.
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#introduction - I work for EFF, coined “lifehacks”, help #noisebridge, wrote ntk.net, doing the best that I can.
I got to see a few metaphorical revolutions, hoping to see a few more. I think it’s going to be okay.
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I think Boston Dynamics' business model is just to produce a gif of a random robot every few years
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It's a nootropic from the dark web called California Amy. Dude was pitchin' his startup for usin' cybernetic elephants to change diapers, suddenly he's explainin' a detailed diagram of his "Fursona" - "Zombie Bird".
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@Elizafox @Azure Yep. And it's not just now, either.
Bush's presidency, that was so bad it gave the Democrats a 2008 sweep? Yeah, it took all of 2 years, to 2010, for Republicans to sweep basically every election again, with people having forgotten all about it, and believing all their promises again.
It's good that there's some backlash against 45 now, but all of this can be wiped out by one news cycle.
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social media, fake news
Two recent articles with useful insights on social media, fake news, manipulation, etc.:
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/10/fake-news-social-media-current-affairs-approval
- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/style/jaron-lanier-new-memoir.html
The thing to realize is that the problem is systemic. It's inherent in algorithmic timelines where the goal is to increase advertising revenue by maximizing attention. Facebook/Twitter/etc. trying to clamp down on "bad actors" is like tobacco companies trying to clamp down on "bad lungs."
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@nolan could work. Just treat it as a topic/tag for any toot.
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
