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[nicole @digitlartifacts]

moonset is my favorite celestial happening, you can see it around sunrise the morning after every full moon

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

the eclipse tonight peaks around 3 AM on the west coast and the moon will set over the ocean just after sunrise, 6:43 AM

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

saying that ai is certainly not at all conscious is the 2026 version of saying that god certainly doesn’t exist. tough to define terms, can’t really prove it, and reality would be sadder and blander if you could

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

If we confuse generative AI’s ability to produce text with consciousness, we risk assigning moral responsibility to chatbots—and not to their makers, Ted Chiang argues. https://t.co/Cptx3aWppI

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

@ashebytes @Bonecondor @secretsoupco Such a good one, GPT BPD is an incredible phrase I love both of your brains

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

understanding the first hour of the day is self hypnosis for the rest of the day

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

@stefanoscalia @yingyangwins Except for me

[ashe @ashebytes]

I scroll the the timeline casting divine protection spells for the women

if I see any weirdness in their replies I chant "you're too hot for this, be free"

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

@Caesar_X Yes iPhone 17 pro with @notboring camera at 8x zoom

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

lots of cute swallows swooping around the bridge today

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

@JaimeOrtega data driven advertising ruined everything tbh https://t.co/tx4CZyHYr4

[Sleepy time bear @bridespanker]

2020s ad: You can finance a burrito using A.I.

1994 Smirnoff ad: What if a penguin had that shit on

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

It’s criminal that no one has put artwork on any of the billboards surrounding SF, it’s bad tech jargon all the way down. it could be so beautiful

[jem is looking for a job @sheherenow_]

what if AI ads in SF were more like this and less enterprise?

[kasra @kasratweets]

for anyone else who is still stuck on "the body is just a very complex machine", I recommend this essay by philip ball

people who continue to say this either don't know what they're talking about, or they use the word "machine" in such a broad sense that it's vacuous

[Tim Kostolansky @thkostolansky]

panpsychism gonna hit the zeitgeist like juul in the 2010s

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

@sheherenow_ @latentangelx I think @BoysClubWorld did a net gala but let’s run it back

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

More fashion x computer hardware inspiration: Alexander McQueen’s 1999 motherboard collection for Givenchy

[maro @ProofofMaro]

Girlies in tech, I’ve invented a new hobby for us! ‘Crocheting with Computers’

[Ruben Laukkonen @RubenLaukkonen]

If you’re into predictive processing and meditation, this paper pushes the Overton window. From the quantum formulation of the free-energy principle, we show that an agent cannot define its own boundary from within. The realization of this irreducible indeterminacy is a principled definition of awakening. Ultimately, this extends to the separability of any object in experience, formalizing emptiness and engendering a “post-dual agent”.

Any persisting agent must minimize surprise by gathering evidence for its generative model. But all evidence available to the agent arrives through its boundary with the world. To prove that this boundary really separates “self” from “world”, the agent would need to step outside the boundary and measure the whole self-world relation. A finite agent cannot do this, as a scissor can't cut itself.

So the self-world boundary can be useful, predictive, and necessary for action, but it can never be known as an ontological fact from within. Meditation, on this view, progressively reveals the self-world split as a modelling prior rather than a structural feature of reality. This naturally shifts the weighting of self (inside boundary) and other (outside boundary), since both are seen to be inferences rather than grounded realities by virtue of an indefinable boundary. A more even-handed and compassionate orientation can arise.

A highly principled finger pointing at the moon!

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

@GayBearRes I stg gay bear it was one time and I cancelled a date bc of it 🫡 https://t.co/ncCXY6TMiD

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

A man asked me on a weekend brunch first date in Williamsburg when I was living in the west village in 2023, travel time was 47 minutes each way so I got annoyed and said no. I was previously excited to meet him.

Another time I had brunch with a guy who picked me up from my house in an uber and took me to a cute spot a short drive away, it was lovely and he’s still a friend of mine who I would date if the stars aligned (we don’t live in the same city)

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

@joshpuckett @egojab Some people theorize that these men are “DL” (gay but on the down low, want to play the female role of being courted) but I think all the estrogen mimicking microplastics are tanking their testosterone levels

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

I’m probably going to regret wading into dating discourse but any time a man has insisted on picking me up or calling me a car he has been more intentional, thoughtful, and enjoyable to date overall. It’s chivalrous, it’s not a requirement for me but it can be a good filter.

It’s a ~40 minute train ride from Greenwich village to Williamsburg and a ~15 minute car ride. If she was already excited about him she probably would have just paid for her own uber, he was trying to win her over and he failed. On to the next!

[#3 sisterwife but #1 in his heart @prettycritical]

857 comments. DELICIOUS😈

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

@Itmightbeover4u @egojab @Mshilohgoldberg @joshpuckett https://t.co/OWjLIFGds1

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

@cyruspavel It’s not even about the money he could have met her in greenwich village and taken the train with her to Williamsburg, make it an adventure, accompany the maiden, make her feel special and taken care of, don’t be a fcking loser

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

@Itmightbeover4u @egojab @Mshilohgoldberg @joshpuckett Well when you meet the girl you think might be the one, impress her with the advice you’re getting here from the guys who are happily married 🫡

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

@drewshifu https://t.co/OWjLIFGds1

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

@cyruspavel It’s not even about the money he could have met her in greenwich village and taken the train with her to Williamsburg, make it an adventure, accompany the maiden, make her feel special and taken care of, don’t be a fcking loser

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

@Itmightbeover4u @egojab @Mshilohgoldberg @joshpuckett Men who say shit like this are perpetual bachelor avoidant losers. Are you trying to lock in and build a family with one person you love or fill a void with meaningless female attention?

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

@cyruspavel It’s not even about the money he could have met her in greenwich village and taken the train with her to Williamsburg, make it an adventure, accompany the maiden, make her feel special and taken care of, don’t be a fcking loser