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Building new dimensions and trying on old ideas. Amateur fractal artist? Trees and turtles and all...

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@peakexperiments Mostly selecting walking paths with few real hazards (road crossings) but yes, also liberal use of the mini-rewind button.

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Meta keeps offering that its AI
can summarize the poems I’ve bookmarked.

As if the bookmarking doesn’t reflect their perfect length already.

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@QiaochuYuan We don’t spend a lot of time thinking about if AI is “conscious” - for all we know it might be. But we *know * that redwood forests, coral reefs, and whales are conscious, so expected value of protecting them is higher.

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@QiaochuYuan In my corner of leftism the focus is more on how plants and creatures of the ocean are conscious, but scaling AI capacity faster than non-fossil power production means more species go extinct.

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@forthrighter “Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.”

Garrison Keillor

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@vibecamp_ Have you always tried just putting more oil in? If the light is the only symptom, that often solves it for weeks-months.

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@TornadoNate Taps are like kitchen knives. They’ll do real harm if not treated with appropriate respect/reverence.

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@TornadoNate The value-oriented machinists I worked with had it right: order the specific sizes & styles you need from McMaster or MSC. Treat them gently and reserve a drawer to keep them organized in.

A cheap assortment kit will only bring pain.

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I’d like to imagine that the monarch will transmit a sparkle of Andrew’s essence through many metamorphoses and migrations.

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There was a time, when I felt a real urgency to fit words around gender.

Andrea Gibson’s “I am what I am when I am it!” fit just right. Still does really…

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On the very day that they passed, before I even knew —

From a rocking chair in the back yard, I watched a butterfly perch calmly on the toyon tree. It rested, as if recovering from decades of frolicking.

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@QiaochuYuan I see them both as facets of the same pattern where power mainly serves to consolidate more power…

Minor(?) causal link to the extent that the general pool of available information is growing harder for voters to meaningfully ingest.

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This week has been mostly hard news for me.

But for the first time in a long time,

and completely by accident,

I just walked calmly enough that a hummingbird let me approach.

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@QiaochuYuan Colace is definitely worth a try. Prescribed by doctors when other medicines cause this.

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I want to build a steel box so strong that if you bury it near a subduction zone, then by the next time anyone sees the plastic, it’s been turned to coal.

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This typesetting must be what happens when the developers of your AI graphic design tool have a side hustle decoding CAPTCHAs…

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@MattZeitlin Disassembling things to see how they work! Broken hard drives are a fun place to start.

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@yogacid @onbeing @emergence_zine sometimes helps fill that gap for me.

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@uncatherio …and, this field of bubbles is changed forever (however slightly) by each interaction while we occupied it…

…and, the lava like our molecules, will eventually cool and feed a new bubble…

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@uncatherio Yes! I’ve been wrestling with this pattern too. I’m trying to remind myself that I can expand in a direction that feels better without immediately relocating to a cabin in the woods and never looking back.