Wandering Adventure Party

@Taweret@timeloop.cafe I kinda have complex views of this.

I generally feel that like literature, poetry fell into a trap of academic and class isolation. Like literature, it became too over analyzed and sanitized, and through the vehicle of public education, was reduced from a vehicle of expression to things on a test with a correct answer. Poetry's gift has always been that it's something that one can turn out and consume quicker than a book or a play; a tiktok of expression. But its teaching caused it to fall from common favor, then drop from curriculum("Why are we teaching this?"), leading to a state where very few on the street can tell a 'good poem'.

I think the rise of free-form is a symptom of popular collapse rather than a cause. Disorganization and ambiguity follow a collapse. Those who are 'professional poets' operate in near voids compared to their past peers, and people coming to it now are far less versed in the particulars of structured poetry. You're far less able to bend the rules when every oink on the street knows the rulebook. Without that feedback, It's essentially anarchy.

I'd argue this is why Hip hop remains. It did not collapse in the same way, and so, it retained a 'society' that governs it. It remains popular in the public eye, and thus enough people know the rules when an artist goes off script.

@mikoto@urusai.social the two easy conceptual fixes:

* if it’s set to followers only, and the target is not a follower… they shouldn’t see the message.
* If the target isn’t a follower, you probably shouldn’t be allowed to make follower-only replies to them.

This is actually part of a long standing complaint about Mastodon: @-ing someone always brings them into the message. This causes people to accidentally include others in DMs for example. The whole mechanism has caused nothing but heartache.

The master’s philosophy serves the master’s interests. I suspect many of our deeply held beliefs are well crafted to keep certain people on their thrones.

@Taweret@timeloop.cafe I mean let’s be real here though. The leeches of the 1700s aren’t pure; they’re surviving latching onto patients who were just pumped full of mercury, arsenic, opium and nightshade. I think grandpa leech has got more fight in him than we credit here.

@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems It pisses me off when the Aliens suddenly drop me off at the Waffle House. Like, the nearest one is a 13 hour return drive, and who wants to do that after getting in a fist fight at 2 in the morning?

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net @kdj8@mk.absturztau.be I would also point out that striking a new coin would not itself be free. One has to find an alloy that would be both cheap and durable enough to be worth a "penny". You would then have to build the tooling to mint that coin, which is usually a pretty large initial investment. If it's weight and size were different, it could cause problems for various consumer machinery like coin dispensers or counting machines. Then you have to get people to accept the damn thing, which has been problematic with things like dollar coins.

I agree It is honestly probably best to just do the rounding and get rid of the penny.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club I also have a seriously bad case of Tsundoku. Piles of books in unread or Half read states tend to pile up where ever I inhabit.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club I own it as well and have only read a few pages. Alas. I will read it eventually

Despite billions in losses, we still have not learned that null pointers, or things like them, are bad. We deserve our fate.

Def foo() -> list | None:
   …

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club They make tailored literature.

@peachymist@labyrinth.zone the central technical challenge is does age verification an where is it stored such that it is “secure”.

California asserts the OS should do it during account creation. and provide an API for applications that want or need to verify age. They assert this keeps the data on the users machine.

Of course this is all bullshit. This is all about control, people trying to profit from mechanisms of control through regulatory lockin, and others pushing it to create layers of protection between them and responsibility.

@NeonPurpleStar@outerheaven.club they wasted so much god damn money, I cannot understand where it all went. There’s seemingly no discernible effect on the world. When the US Government wastes this much money, they end up with 6-7 nuclear aircraft carriers. Meta? They could have gotten more from the money by throwing it in a blast furnace to heat low income homes. Incredible.

@fireweed I wouldn’t treat it as an obligation. Habits are hard to form from things we hate.

@fireweed I appreciate it; it's really hard to get people to come to the meetings consistently.

Oh hey cool, a “small web” stumble upon tool.

Immediately lands me on AI slop

…if your site is requires a large language model to do the writing, it is not part of the small web. It’s part of the slop web. ​:ferndisgust:​

@syveria indeed, it’s really interesting and notoriously difficult. Patents must be “novel, non-obvious, and useful”. The result of mixing of most ingredients is pretty obvious. You need a formula that is surprising, like “red + blue = the color of magic”. Usually the companies patent things around the recipe like tools and processes.

Although even then food companies hesitate. The deal with patents is that to get one, you have to essentially teach everyone how you did it, and the patent eventually expires. If your security is good enough, you can keep a trade secret forever.

I think the miss with DLSS 5 over just AI stuff is that this will be really expensive tech.

The demos I saw were running on a pair of RTX 5090 GPUs. One was handling the game rendering, the other was dedicated entirely to running the DLSS 5 AI model. NVIDIA was upfront that there's still significant optimization work to do, and the plan is to ship DLSS 5 running on a single GPU when it launches later this year.

@damian what’s the next fill going to be?

@fincs@mastodon.social @endrift@social.treehouse.systems right! Before they were called Satsuma tubers, they were Ryūkyū tubers, and before that, Kara (Chinese) tubers, reflecting how the Portuguese brought them to China, from China to the Ryūkyū kingdoms (the trade backdoor between China and Japan), and then finally to the Satsuma domain, who dominated the Ryūkyū kingdom. It’s a big ol chain of cultural transmission along a trade route expressed in the name.