EffortlessGrace

@EffortlessGrace@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI haters be like:⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Deep neural networks (a narrow subset of “AI” algorithms) are here to stay, and there are massive gains in the sciences to ve nade with the nature of how they make predictions based on a corpus of training data.

  There is most definitely an economic bubble due to the revolving investments vendors make into each other to prop up the illusion that “line go brrrrr forever”.

  Both things can be, and I argue are, true simultaneously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did the Internet come to reflect society? Or has society shaped the internet? Were we always distrusting mean and vindictive before the net? Are we really that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When did the Internet come to reflect society?

  When it became ubiquitous. 1995.

  Were we always distrusting mean and vindictive before the net?

  Absolutely.

  Are we really that bad?

  Without a doubt.

  “The world is far better and worse than you can possibly imagine.”

  “You may have me at ‘better’, Dr. Sattler, but you can’t hold a candle to me on ‘worse’.”

  • *Contact*, Carl Sagan
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know about that one⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goddammit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If she calls you a “dickhead” for not buying her a ring and proposing, she’s for the streets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, everything? In this economy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You chose this, Hasan.

  You.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confirms to Marxist theories regarding the proletariat.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Treasure” in treasure trove is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The forbidden fourth leche⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your opinion is important⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m married to a white woman. I think advocacy for segregation is a flawed and impractical position, but, at the risk of hypocrisy, I understand and commiserate with the foundation behind the argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your opinion is important⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Malcolm X talked about our (I am not of European descent) so-called "white allies" and the Uncle Toms they promulgate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inshallah⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s embellished.

  In reality, Ezekiel 25:17 is much shorter than the film speech. Here is the KJV translation (the same cadence as the movie monologue):

  “And I will execute great vengeance upon them >>with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I >>am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon >>them.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What OSes do Microsoft servers run on?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it a fork of RHEL? Cloud Linux? FreeBSD?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would an anarchist society work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I commented about participation in another comment, coincidentally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would an anarchist society work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The “political class” of an anarchical state as I’ve described would be rotationary.

  We in the United States have “Jury Duty”, where the average citizen is required by law to be selected to be part of a “jury of peers” on legal cases if the defendant exercises their right to a trial by jury.

  Jurors can be struck down (relieved of their duty) for many reasons in the jury selection phase by attorneys, the judge, or submitting documentation on why they can’t perform their duty.

  A corollary compulsory service or duty could be applied to the positions in the three branches of government we have in our current constitutional structure.

  We would effectively shift from being a democratic federal republic (on paper; in practice, the current form of government is a plutocracy) to an anarchic aleatory republic. We would have representatives, but they’d be subject to review, competency approval, and votes of confidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would an anarchist society work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Taking the definition at its etymological root, all anarchy means is “without heirarchy”.

  In my head-canon, that doesn’t necessarily mean the lack of laws, state, institutions or governance; the implication is that there are no citizens or individuals with permanently elevated authority in the polity of government.

  Many, of course, disagree with this mostly on the basis of practicality, but I’d like to think it’s another way to describe the concept of “No gods, no kings, no masters, no slaves.”