thebardingreen
@thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz
- Technology Consultant.
- Software Developer.
- Musician.
- Burner.
- Game Master.
- Non-theistic Pagan.
- Cishet White Male Feminist.
- Father.
- Fountain Maker.
- Aquarium Builder.
- Hamster Daddy.
- Resident of Colorado.
- Anti-Capitalist.
- Hackerspace Regular.
- Traveler of the American West.
- Comment on Politics All the Way Down - Critics are right: the algorithms that increasingly run the world can be dangerous. Are human systems always better? 2 days ago:
“embed the values, aims, and interests of mostly white, mostly male technologists working in mostly profit-driven enterprises.”
This is the correct take, I think. Algorithms could (and can) produce much better outcomes than human driven systems. But when they’re wielded by capitalists, that not what they’re built to do. Human wielded by capitalists suck, but they also (often) have compassion, conscience and some awareness of the outcomes they might be contributing to, and so they don’t always make decisions / take action exactly the way the capitalists would have them do so. Algorithms on the other hand do exactly what they’re told to do, exactly the way they’re told to do it, no matter who is telling them.
- Comment on Star Trek:Section 31 Premiere Reaction (ft Emily Inkpen) and Q&A with Michelle Yeoh and Rob Kazinsky [Spoiler-free mini-review] 3 days ago:
the person who saw the movie described it as “fun,” “silly,” and “Guardians of the Galaxy meets Fifth Element meets Mission: Impossible”.
I have a feeling I’m gonna be like “This was a good sci fi movie, but should it have been a Trek movie?”
- Comment on New coding model just dropped 2 weeks ago:
Oh, you ain’t seen this shit yet.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione Content Is a Challenge for Social Media Moderators - B… 2 weeks ago:
Hopefully this shit backfires on the platforms like fuckin crazy.
- Comment on GET REKT 4 weeks ago:
Deceased! Passed it’s due! Joined the choir invisible!
- Comment on GET REKT 4 weeks ago:
Can’t you just literally put an [X] for Twitter?
- Comment on New IT Support in Town 5 weeks ago:
I read Secrets of a Super Hacker in the 90s when I was a teenager. There’s a whole chapter on this, except back then he used to walk straight into the offices of targets and get hired as a consultant.
- Comment on Amazon starts selling Hyundai cars, more brands next year 1 month ago:
You wouldn’t download a car.
- Comment on It's all a little bit mathy. 1 month ago:
I once experienced the carpet morphing into an Aztec mandala, which I then fell into and spiraled downwards through into a vast lime colored underground sea in a cavern full of purple bats.
This happened while I was trying to have sex (amazingly, we succeeded, it helped that my wife was sober).
- Comment on Destiny 1 month ago:
"And of course, the bombs and the rockets and the bullets are all shaped like dicks. It’s a subconscious need to project the penis into other people’s affairs. It’s called: “FUCKING WITH PEOPLE!!!” -George Carlin
- Comment on CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!1 1 month ago:
Tekeli-li!
- Comment on Yeast 1 month ago:
marmite yummy
I’m really sorry, but you lost me.
- Comment on AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING 1 month ago:
Indeed.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 1 month ago:
I could see a world where all politicians are required to do a guided LSD trip prior to taking office being better than this one.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 1 month ago:
I actually met this mother fucker in Mexico in 1999, giving a talk on habitat preservation at Lagoona San Ignacio to a bunch of C list celebrities who were there to support the Natural Resource Defense Council and it’s efforts to stop Mitsubishi from building a salt extraction plant in the middle of a gray whale breeding sanctuary (super good cause).
I was there with a bunch of high school students who’s rich white parents paid for them to go on an expensive ass field trip to watch whales fuck (and do eco protest activist tourism). Coincidentally, the NRDC was there too and they got really excited to invite a bunch of American highschool students to their media shindig.
RFK Jr. got SUPER drunk and gave a sloppy, rambling, barely coherent speech, thanking people for their generosity. The kids were like “WTF is up with this dude? We’ve never seen grownups act like this!”
We did get to hear some really cool marine biologists talk about grey whales. Then one of THEM (Roger Payne, I think) got really drunk too and told us “Whales are people damn it! But you can’t publish that! You can’t fucking publish that!”
- Comment on can they?? 1 month ago:
Silly human, clams are for squids.
- Comment on Guerrilla Women 2 months ago:
I think I’ve dated a couple of those and narrowly avoided dating a couple more.
- Comment on Creamy Cartilage 2 months ago:
It is indeed EDS.n 🙁
- Comment on Creamy Cartilage 2 months ago:
My wife has a genetic disorder that (among many other things) causes her spine to herniate at the drop of a hat. She’s had to have emergency surgery multiple times.
About a year and a half ago, a neurosurgeon was operating on her and came to talk to me and my mom who were waiting. She was extremely excited, in that like “academic who just saw something new” kind of way, because my wife had the third biggest herniation she’d ever seen, and the largest in a patient under 70 (my wife was 34 at the time). She asked if it would be OK if she invited a professor from the local university and a couple of his grad students to come look at it.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
Is very danger! Too strong magnet will pull away! Keeping far the electron and metal toys!
危险 设备运行时存在强磁场 操作时请远离铁磁性金属和电子设备
- Comment on pump up the jamz 2 months ago:
- Comment on GORILLA GORILLA 2 months ago:
Gorilla used repetitiveness.
It was very effective.
- Comment on Fuck paraphyletic groups 2 months ago:
So sigma.
- Comment on Miserabilis 2 months ago:
Annnnnd… roll for initiative.
- Comment on Oxygen 3 months ago:
Gay furry rule 34 of anthropomorphic crab man with scientifically realistic crab dong doing all kinds of anal.
- Comment on Assassin Bug 3 months ago:
I guess spiders don’t want to eat a pile of dead ants, even if it’s moving. Not the sharpest tools in the shed, spiders.
- Comment on Assassin Bug 3 months ago:
#nidthings
- Comment on THE DEMONS 3 months ago:
That’s not a demon, it’s an unseelie prince of the Sidhe. Look at the ears and the crown. It’s not that we should pray to Jebus for protection, it’s that we should stop dumping CO2 into the atmosphere and pissing off the winter fae.
- Comment on Women in STEM 3 months ago:
- Comment on go lower 3 months ago:
Where is this? Asking for a friend.
