I had a dream I was just coincidentally sitting next to Jessica Chastain at a movie theater and we were chatting amicably before the film. But then she got up and moved because she thought I was hitting on her. No, dream Jess, I was just trying to be friendly and treat you like a human, not a celebrity. You started talking to ME! Dream Jess you hurt me. You seriously hurt me. 😉

angel on my shoulder: filling cars with opaque electronics is bad. cars should be user-serviceable like the 90s. mandatory surveillance gps, breathalyzer locks, speed limiters are evil
devil on my shoulder: government mandated evil cars for cyberpunk diy ebike accelerationism

— alice maz (@alicemazzy) September 7, 2022

It saddens and enrages me that the libs have gone absolutely gaga over surveillance and censorship. Authoritarianism is not exclusive to the Right. Not at all.

I hate the world we are creating.

This question about the existence of numbers is a pretty old philosophical conundrum, but I ask it for a modern reason:

To the degree that any number on the number line exists, that's the same degree to which every image exists in the space of all possible model outputs.

— jonstokes.(eth|com) (@jonst0kes) September 7, 2022

A few years ago I figured out that it was now possible to create and place into a database every single 500×500 pixel image that could exist with 32-bit color values. It’d take a good bit of computing, several months, and a petabyte or two of storage, but you could do it.

So…did those images already exist? If so, where were they? Now that they exist (if you did the above), what are they exactly? If a photo you create this way matches one pixel-per-pixel that someone else has taken in the real world, who owns the copyright? What does “copyright” even mean here?

Philosophy is all about discussing the “irrelevant” before it moves out into the world. It helps us prepare and understand, even if it offers no final answers. Philosophy was here already, biding its time, waiting for the unbelievable to become the inevitable.

I stole this idea from a friend, but women are objectified too much and men are objectified too little.

I mostly use a “normal people” browser on my work computer. And I see why y’all get scammed all the time and why people think smartphones are somehow “more convenient.” The web is a terrible experience and will only get worse — unless you use something like a highly-customized Waterfox.

They of course told you that they had to take away any useful capabilities for “security.” Anyone with half a brain cell knew that was 100% pure perfidy. The reason was so that they could continue to make the web be like it is now.

Too many people fell for it because propaganda works very well, and now here we are.