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@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-27 00:26:17

im a perfect marriage between heaven and hell, yin and yang. my primary source is literature, science, and art, yet thanks to the other zoomers i follow who do use tiktok, i can have familiarity with the depraved mindkilling my generation is force-addicted to without destroying myself to the point i can't create good art with it in mind

@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com
2025-04-25 11:25:12

Sonnet 027 - XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless…

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2025-05-27 12:15:26

As I've seen a good number of people here post about "Worktree.ca" as a "Canadian-owned" alternative to GitHub: it's a closed-source fork of Gitea which "one day" (maybe, if the company doesn't change its mind) will be open core. It also runs on AWS…
Not that it's any of my business, but migrating there feels like the code-equivalent of leaving Twitter for Bluesky: Moving from one company-owned walled garden to the next, without having learned a lesson. All painted in a nationalist cash grab. 🤷‍♂️

@davidshq@hachyderm.io
2025-04-26 11:35:44

"While I am responsible for changing what I can, I have to let go of the rest if I want peace of mind. Just for today I will love myself enough to give up a struggle over something that is out of my hands." - Courage to Change (Al-Anon), pg. 129
#serenity #boundaries #mentalhealth

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-05-24 14:59:11

Boggles my mind that I can, on a whim, take a day trip to see my favorite building in the world at a great price with several fast trains *per hour*. (Why on a whim? Because I never even considered it, based on the map.) Italian rail is quite something. #Italy25

Pantheon, Rome

TIL that Mr. Oizo was/is Quentin Dupieux, director of Rubber and Smoking Causes Coughing. My tiny mind is blown.
1999 beats: youtu.be/qmsbP13xu6k

@samir@functional.computer
2025-06-25 17:47:47

@… In my mind, there are librarians, accountants/bookkeepers, civil servants, small shop owners, conveyancers and other low-stakes solicitors, farmers, town planners… most of the people I have met who fit these job descriptions tend to work slowly, methodically, and well.
I actually think most programmers and other software professionals work slowly…

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2025-05-27 12:15:26

As I've seen a good number of people here post about "Worktree.ca" as a "Canadian-owned" alternative to GitHub: it's a closed-source fork of Gitea which "one day" (maybe, if the company doesn't change its mind) will be open core. It also runs on AWS…
Not that it's any of my business, but migrating there feels like the code-equivalent of leaving Twitter for Bluesky: Moving from one company-owned walled garden to the next, without having learned a lesson. All painted in a nationalist cash grab. 🤷‍♂️

@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-23 13:53:10

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pet Shop Boys:
🎵 Always On My Mind (Short Edit)
#NowPlaying #PetShopBoys
remixeshits.bandcamp.com/track
open.spotify.com/track/10umreS

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-24 16:52:35

Update on my depression. I’m finally starting to feel like myself again and slowly landing back on earth!
I spent today reflecting and figuring out why I got severely depressed after the Pride party Saturday night. Honestly, that night was the most insanely incredible, mind-blowingly spectacular night I have ever experienced in my entire existence. It was an explosion of joy and queerness unlike anything I’ve ever felt, pure, radiant, overwhelming happiness that hit me with the force o…

@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-24 08:00:11

tl,dr: imho beginners should start with with either Go or Lua
Friends hit me with the age old question for their child which wants to learn programming: which language should one start with?
This had me thinking quite a bit. First thing that came to my mind was #Kotlin, my favourite, but I wouldn't recommend it for beginners, because it is quite heavy in high level concepts. …

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-06-24 09:39:49

Subtooting since people in the original thread wanted it to be over, but selfishly tagging @… and @… whose opinions I value...
I think that saying "we are not a supply chain" is exactly what open-source maintainers should be doing right now in response to "open source supply chain security" threads.
I can't claim to be an expert and don't maintain any important FOSS stuff, but I do release almost all of my code under open licenses, and I do use many open source libraries, and I have felt the pain of needing to replace an unmaintained library.
There's a certain small-to-mid-scale class of program, including many open-source libraries, which can be built/maintained by a single person, and which to my mind best operate on a "snake growth" model: incremental changes/fixes, punctuated by periodic "skin-shedding" phases where make rewrites or version updates happen. These projects aren't immortal either: as the whole tech landscape around them changes, they become unnecessary and/or people lose interest, so they go unmaintained and eventually break. Each time one of their dependencies breaks (or has a skin-shedding moment) there's a higher probability that they break or shed too, as maintenance needs shoot up at these junctures. Unless you're a company trying to make money from a single long-lived app, it's actually okay that software churns like this, and if you're a company trying to make money, your priorities absolutely should not factor into any decisions people making FOSS software make: we're trying (and to a huge extent succeeding) to make a better world (and/or just have fun with our own hobbies share that fun with others) that leaves behind the corrosive & planet-destroying plague which is capitalism, and you're trying to personally enrich yourself by embracing that plague. The fact that capitalism is *evil* is not an incidental thing in this discussion.
To make an imperfect analogy, imagine that the peasants of some domain have set up a really-free-market, where they provide each other with free stuff to help each other survive, sometimes doing some barter perhaps but mostly just everyone bringing their surplus. Now imagine the lord of the domain, who is the source of these peasants' immiseration, goes to this market secretly & takes some berries, which he uses as one ingredient in delicious tarts that he then sells for profit. But then the berry-bringer stops showing up to the free market, or starts bringing a different kind of fruit, or even ends up bringing rotten berries by accident. And the lord complains "I have a supply chain problem!" Like, fuck off dude! Your problem is that you *didn't* want to build a supply chain and instead thought you would build your profit-focused business in other people's free stuff. If you were paying the berry-picker, you'd have a supply chain problem, but you weren't, so you really have an "I want more free stuff" problem when you can't be arsed to give away your own stuff for free.
There can be all sorts of problems in the really-free-market, like maybe not enough people bring socks, so the peasants who can't afford socks are going barefoot, and having foot problems, and the peasants put their heads together and see if they can convince someone to start bringing socks, and maybe they can't and things are a bit sad, but the really-free-market was never supposed to solve everyone's problems 100% when they're all still being squeezed dry by their taxes: until they are able to get free of the lord & start building a lovely anarchist society, the really-free-market is a best-effort kind of deal that aims to make things better, and sometimes will fall short. When it becomes the main way goods in society are distributed, and when the people who contribute aren't constantly drained by the feudal yoke, at that point the availability of particular goods is a real problem that needs to be solved, but at that point, it's also much easier to solve. And at *no* point does someone coming into the market to take stuff only to turn around and sell it deserve anything from the market or those contributing to it. They are not a supply chain. They're trying to help each other out, but even then they're doing so freely and without obligation. They might discuss amongst themselves how to better coordinate their mutual aid, but they're not going to end up forcing anyone to bring anything or even expecting that a certain person contribute a certain amount, since the whole point is that the thing is voluntary & free, and they've all got changing life circumstances that affect their contributions. Celebrate whatever shows up at the market, express your desire for things that would be useful, but don't impose a burden on anyone else to bring a specific thing, because otherwise it's fair for them to oppose such a burden on you, and now you two are doing your own barter thing that's outside the parameters of the really-free-market.

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2025-06-24 14:23:43

It blows my mind that Google ruins its own search engine by compiling random statements from different sources in this ridiculously misleading AI block. I don't trust Google Search anymore. I find it inconvenient and tiresome, and I wish they would fuck off from the internet.

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-06-21 22:08:43

Some sign on the side of the road in my town with a qr code for this red pill bullshit
#NewJersey

Iron mind blueprint
@floheinstein@chaos.social
2025-06-22 04:54:03

Things going through my mind right now:
If you surround explosives with radioactive material, you get a dirty bomb.
When you detonate bombs inside an enrichment factory and storage of radioactive material, the effect is essentially the same, isn't it?
So... how far will Uranium hexaflouride and other precursors be carried by air?
#fallout

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-06-16 12:04:00

Over the past twenty-one years, I've posted 365 posts to my blog, on average one every twenty-one days. They total almost half a million words.
That's quite some corpus of work.
#Blog
#Blogging

@jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-16 21:22:27

More Jams and Experiments
I got tired of creating basslines that didn't fit with the chords I had in mind, so this time I played the synth part before the bass. It's just an Am-G vamp. The guitar is my Epiphone ES-175 Premium. They only made these in 2014, but of course the original Gibson ES-175's date from 1957, I think. The synth is Yoshimi, an old synth that works in Linux.

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-10 13:49:43

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Pixies:
🎵 Where Is My Mind?
#Pixies
zeddmore.bandcamp.com/track/wh
open.spotify.com/track/7wCmS9T

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-23 18:27:14

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Dash UK:
🎵 My Mind Is Blowing
#DashUK
dashukmusic.bandcamp.com/track
open.spotify.com/track/373YFHU

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-06-19 08:32:26

geekery
Spent part of yesterday watching how-to videos on OBS (Open Broadcaster Software), which I have in mind to start using in conjunction with Zoom.
I'm amused at my own level of enthusiasm haha! "Ooh i could do _this_! Ooh I wanna try if _that_ works!"
"New toy" energy, and I haven't even downloaded it yet :-)
#OBS #geekery

@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com
2025-05-12 11:25:12

Sonnet 027 - XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless…

@hey@social.nowicki.io
2025-06-19 09:57:14

Things almost impossible to do without good LLM software (in one minute).
I hear a music on a radio. Google music search gives me "Robbie Williams - forbidden road". But I know the words are somewhat different and I want to know what movie I have in mind.
Gemini says it's in fact, similar song to "I got a name", then my brain clicks and connects it with Quentin Tarantino.
Bingo - it's Django.

@castarco@hachyderm.io
2025-05-16 19:17:15

I... got scammed.
By firstpressgames.com .
I wanted to buy a birthday present, and I didn't expect this company to be so problematic.
One month later without getting anything from them, nor responses to my messages... and it crosses my mind that I should have checked online reviews for that e-commerce business before buying anything... and there you go: 1.4 stars out of 5 (no one gave more than 2 stars).
The few reviews that gave 2 stars are something like this, YEARS of delay: gamepad.club/@vny/110691909210
All of the public reviews use the word scam in one or another language, no exceptions.
Then I checked their social accounts, and... of course, they blocked comments everywhere, to avoid the possibility of angry people popping up and pointing to their shady behavior.

@al3x@hachyderm.io
2025-06-18 17:45:18

I am reading “The Courage to Be Disliked” which is a popularization book based on Adlerian psychology.
This is my first encounter with Adlerian psychology. Many of the concepts are mind blowing, surprising, creating a strong emotional reaction, but very difficult to contradict.
If anyone read more on this subject, I’d be very interested in the next level on this subject. This being a popularization book goes very quickly over aspects of life that I usually struggle the most with.

@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2025-06-08 18:26:58

“I do not design with Figma. He who designs with Figma has forgotten the face of his father. I design with my eye.
I do not code with an IDE. He who codes with his IDE has forgotten the face of his father. I code with my mind.
I do not push to staging. He who pushes to staging has forgotten the face of his father. I push to prod.”
--The Gunslinger, if Stephen King was full stack
#tech

@mikebabyak@musicians.today
2025-06-11 16:34:17

Sort of mind-blowing anecdote during my #leukemia treatment. Between hospitalizations I had outpatient clinic visits twice a week. My first time there I was sitting in the waiting room with 4 or 5 other patients, who were chatting.
One of the guys was talking about his experience getting CAR T treatment for lymphoma. CAR T is a fairly new, very high tech intervention. The man then veered …

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-06-15 21:16:06

The military is a lot more complex than most folks know. Keep that in mind. Don't give up and assume they're all just born to kill, or that if they are deployed against Americans they'll shoot. Some may, some may not, treat them like people and some of them might act like people. That's the take away here.
Since this toot is more popular than the parade itself, I'm gonna mute to save my inbox.
I also want to apologize to the admins here for the extra traffic. :P

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-18 19:29:55

TikTok is absolute brain rot—a toxic, data-harvesting black hole designed to zombify your mind. This is my firm self-reminder never to sign up for that corporate cesspool.
I’d rather be on the Fediverse, where I control my data, engage in genuine conversations, and avoid the manipulative algorithms that TikTok weaponizes to steal your attention and sanity.
No thanks, TikTok. I’m choosing freedom over digital decay.

@mlawton@mstdn.social
2025-06-11 03:44:12

First run in over a month. No goals other than to clear my mind, enjoy the cooler evening temperatures, feel the breeze and enjoy the rustling of the leaves as the wind stirred the branches, to enjoy looking up at a nearly full moon, and let it all wash over me.
#Running

My running stats: 5.03 km in 35:34 for an average pace of 7:02/km
A nighttime scene featuring a running track illuminated by moonlight. In the background, there are trees and a lit building, adding a serene atmosphere. The track is clear and winding, with light reflections enhancing the nighttime view.
@yrlaNor@social.tchncs.de
2025-06-17 22:09:26

ho-ly-fu-ck-ing-shit 🤯 #justmustard dropped a new single today and it blows my mind!!
justmustard.bandcamp.com/album

@alsutton@snapp.social
2025-06-14 09:54:14

Some days it just blows my mind how some pieces of software have gained so much traction, with so little in the way of support for some common use cases.
Today; #Docker running on an IPv6 only host.
Who thought assigning IPv4 addresses to containers running on an IPv6 only host was a sensible default that is so difficult to override?
🤯

@fortune@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-06 10:00:01

"For a couple o' pins," says Troll, and grins,
"I'll eat thee too, and gnaw thy shins.
A bit o' fresh meat will go down sweet!
I'll try my teeth on thee now.
Hee now! See now!
I'm tired o' gnawing old bones and skins;
I've a mind to dine on thee now."
But just as he thought his dinner was caught,
He found his hands had hold of naught.
Before he could mind, Tom slipped behing
And gave him the …

@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-18 15:03:34

Writers for The Atlantic like to open Twitter and frown at it. Imagine having to live your life so performatively. Sounds exhausting.

Then I switched apps and became enraged by stupid opinion I saw on X, which I shouldn't be using anymore due to its advanced toxicity and mind- numbing inanity. Many minutes passed before I was able to stop reading the stupid replies to the stupid original post and relax the muscles of my face.
There would be no frowning at X with these devices
@hllizi@hespere.de
2025-06-12 23:02:13

There's a podcast playing apparently about these children who were stuck in that cave, and this story will always be connected in my mind to Elon brainstorming about a mini submarine he wanted to build to rescue them and then calling the diver hero who actually saved them a pedo for being underwhelmed by the idea. That was such fun.

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-06-10 21:36:40

Just heard another story on Gaza…
I think my mind was poisoned by OSC. I no longer remember which one but in one of his dystopian futures there’s been a solution to the problem of The Levant: a solid plate of Trinitite from the Euphrates to the Mediterranean. If I recall correctly, he didn’t really go into how it got that way, just tossed in the fact that this was a solution which had been implemented, without details.
I can’t stop seeing that as the only way this stupid fight wi…

@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-10 16:09:07

Went to Indian motorcycles demo day yesterday to check out a few of the bikes. I am admittedly not a cruiser guy, but in the back of my mind I'd love to have a touring bike someday, or at least something that can eat up highway miles better than my vintage Yamaha. I love that bike, but it was geared for the 55mph speed limit of the day, so at 70mph the engine is turning at 4500rpm. There's no wind protection, and while I think the riding position is perfect for controlling a bike thr…

@raysofred@discordian.social
2025-06-03 17:20:47

Want to have designs like this?
Want to help support my art?
Then check out my storefront!
redbubble.com/i/art-board-prin

painting with black and blue background. An outline of a person from the shoulders up. The person has large eyes. The eyes and mouth are dripping. The painting has red accents.
@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-06-10 13:33:58

I know AI and neural processors fill/fix pixels when taking pictures with digital zoom, but it boggles my mind how many people do not appreciate the merits of closeup pictures (as in being up close or using optical zoom).
Or maybe I'm the one who is wrong. 🤔
Here's a closeup worth every bit:
#photography

@jake4480@c.im
2025-05-30 17:55:44

#GrindayFriday for this week is TRADING HANDS from the UK and their new EP 'I'm Going Out of My Mind, Does Anyone Want Anything?'
Trading Hands play a wild mix of powerviolence, grind & fastcore. This stuff is FAST, heavy, raw, tons of breakdowns. You can listen to this in no time at all. Blink and you might miss it. Weird, dynamic, I can't get enough. Easily one of my favo…

@jswright61@ruby.social
2025-06-11 12:56:29

I’m back to trying the #PuzzlePraise hashtag when I reply to the puzzle results of a fellow puzzler.
In my mind, this is kind of a reverse discovery tool. I, like many mutual follows, prefer to comment on the puzzles of others. No matter how unoriginal or rote it may seem, it just feels like more of a connection to me.
So, if you’re annoyed by all the back and forth that you see by v…

@fossunleashed@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-06 16:25:44

Some thoughts from my self-reflection today. Maybe this helps someone.
I had to deal with a bunch of broken things today. Normally that greatly bothers me, but these were things I broke, and I broke them long ago. I have a lot of anger due to the circumstances around why I was never able to fix them. But that's not helpful. I could spend my hours in rage, or I could keep in mind that I can't undo the reasons for my anger. I can work towards fixing them, or documenting the…

@EmilyMoranBarwick@mastodon.social
2025-06-09 21:04:45

I've been thinking a lot lately about how porous our identities are: how we are shaped by every experience, person, bit of information.
How this shaping means losing parts of ourselves...or at least who we would have been without external influences.
It brought to mind a piece I wrote about the drive to retrieve, catalogue & preserve a sense of self amidst this loss of #identity

@cwilcke@bildung.social
2025-05-11 21:24:25

Spoken Wisdom, Padhānasutta:" ExertionKinsman of the heedless,
Evil One,
come here for whatever purpose:
I haven’t, for merit,
even the least bit of need.
Those who have need of merit:
Those are the ones
Māra’s fit to address.
In me are
conviction
austerity,
persistence,
discernment.
Why, when my mind is resolute,
do you petition me to live?
This wind could burn up …

@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.world
2025-06-03 22:31:21

I don't mind there's a class teaching my mother belly dancing. I'm concerned they might teach her too much.

WID DIS, I CAN CRUSH MAH NUTRITION, BRUHHHHHHHH

The image shows a man sitting at a table outdoors, wearing a blue long-sleeve shirt and holding a black mug. The table has a white banner with the text "HUEL IS JUST BACHELOR CHOW" and "CHANGE MY MIND" printed on it. There are two black mugs on the table, along with some papers and a black object that appears to be a microphone. The background features a park-like setting with trees, a building, and a paved walkway. The man is seated on a chair, and there is a bench behind him. The overall sett…
@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2025-06-02 16:39:07

I am noticing that many websites are no longer giving cookie choices, rather they merely say "we are spying on you" (they use nicer words, but that is the meaning) with only one option:
"I Understand".
To my mind that knocks out the last prop underneath website operators' argument that those of us with ad blockers (and more) are somehow on the wrong side of the ethical fence.

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-06-14 10:21:24

I have my share of issues with Parkrose Permaculture, but she has a lot of things I do strongly agree with. I can't stress enough that you never dehumanize your enemies. You can respond appropriately to violence. You can defend yourself from them by any means necessary. But you do not dehumanize them. You always limit your response to the minimum necessary to defend yourself.
There are a number of former Nazi skins who became antifascists after realizing they were wrong. Those folks tend to be some of the most dedicated because they feel a debt, and some of the most knowledgeable because they were there. Coming out of these types of cults, police included, is hard and takes time. A lot of us don't have the ability to work with them. But some do.
By repeatedly humanizing your opponent, you can break some of them. The #Seattle Police Department was not defunded but saw a massive reduction in numbers because their morale was destroyed. Some people will never change. Some people are broken and feel like they need the power. But if you change one person's mind, even give them something to think about, it's a crack. If even one cop quits, that's one less trained gun pointed at you in the future.
The 18 year old marines and federalized national guard troops out there are literally kids. A lot of them came from poor communities. They are being used in a way they haven't been trained to do, doing things they (should) have been told are not legal. They joined to get out of poverty, to go to college, or to "defend the American people" (regardless of how misguided that is). Few, if any, of them joined to abuse people. They will be especially open to persuasion.
Remind those troops that they are carrying out illegal orders, that they are being called on to violate their oath to protect the constitution, that they are suppressing the free speech of the fellow Americans they swore to defend. Remind them that the people they could be illegally arresting now are just like their parents, their neighbors, their families, the friends who didn't join. Remind them that this is the first step. They will be called on to kill Americans if they let this keep going.
Remind them ICE sleeps in hotels while they sleep on the ground. Remind them that their drunk and incompetent leadership thinks of them as disposable tools. Remind them that some of these people are out protesting *for them* against cuts to the VA and other services. Remind them that the people they're defending refuse to make college free so they can recruit from poor schools. Remind them that they will always be welcome when they're ready to join the side of freedom and justice.
When you dehumanize your enemies, you unify them. When you humanize your enemies, you can divide them. There is no weapon available to us right now so powerful as compassion.
youtu.be/YtWOYUDMsBw

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-19 21:25:20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
The Montgolfier Brothers:
🎵 Even If My Mind Can't Tell You
#TheMontgolfierBrothers
marktranmer.bandcamp.com/track
open.spotify.com/track/5hf5zsa

@NicolasGriseyDemengel@piaille.fr
2025-06-08 12:39:41

Wow, this blog post describes exactly what's in my mind these days. Actually, I prepared a presentation a few days ago, for an event I'll participate to in 10 days, that says about the same
blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-

@pmonks@sfba.social
2025-05-31 00:35:57

This band has been blowing my tiny mind in recent weeks: #Music #AproposOfNothing

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-06 05:48:15

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
The Coup:
🎵 The Stand
#TheCoup
longislandemo.bandcamp.com/tra

@samvarma@fosstodon.org
2025-05-31 23:25:29

The green room at the venue tonight is all "you seem... thirsty, Mr. Torrance... if you don't mind my saying so"

@pre@boing.world
2025-05-16 11:08:14

I read "Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It" by Christof Koch.
Interesting book which spends like 8 or 9 chapters detailing all the experiments which prove beyond much doubt that consciousness, and self awareness, is a thing done by a brain.
It describes how perception is a construction of a description, has a chapter called "computational mind"
And then spends the last two chapters describing why he thinks the mind can't be computed, because drugs have made him think experience is some kind of magic associated with highly interconnected causal structures.
Apparently, he thinks, once things become interconnected enough they become able to cause things independently of the physics running those connections.
Which is crazy, obviously. There's nothing causal in direct connections between neurons that isn't equally causal in modeled connections between virtual neurons.
All his evidence in the book from neural MRI scans to the effects of psychedelic drugs and symptoms of strokes and disease point to the brain simulating a virtual reality which is the basis of perception.
That simulated world in which we live is full of colour and shape and sounds and emotions and millions of mental constructs that are built to be correlated by the senses with the outside world, but are not equal to the world itself. We live in a dream constructed to correlate with reality.
But then instead of taking the next step: That consciousness itself is a property of a simulated being inside that mental model of the universe, a property which the brain simulates and applies to the virtual self that's doing the experiencing inside that model, he jumps towards some magic implying pan-psychism or that sufficiently interconnected networks become causally self-complete for some reason nobody can fathom.
Sure, colour and shape and emotions are all made up by the brain but experience can't be! For some reason.
You see in truth dualism is false, in that there is no spirit realm in which ghosts animate the matter of the body somehow.
Yet also, dualism is true, in that there is a simulated mental reality which we live in, computed by the brain in which all perception and experience are created, which is related-to but separate-from the unfolding complicated dance of energy that is the universe our bodies interact with.
People take some DMT trip, and the model of the universe emulated by their brain collapses and breaks. Their virtual simulated self inside their mind has these experiences of being one with the universe or the experience of feeling dead yet conscious or whatever, and these hippies think that the broken down simulated experience is real and reflects how consciousness is more fundamental than the atoms that make up the neurons in their brain.
Instead of realizing it shows them that their experienced universe is a simulacrum, they think they get a more direct experience of reality somehow. A consciousness more pure than any mere base atom.
"Then I am myself the world" is a great title. Everything you ever experience is created and simulated in your brain like a dream, the whole universe is inside your head. Even the fact of experience itself.
But that isn't the conclusion Koch reaches somehow, he just jumps from describing the evidence that this is so straight into ascribing super-causal magic consciousness to particular arrangements of atoms that integrated information theory suggest have high correlation, and thinks therefore conciousness is itself the entire universe.
Ah well, fun book. I like arguing in my head with authors that are wrong.
#reading #books #consciousness #thenIAmMyselfTheWorld

@Dwemthy@social.linux.pizza
2025-04-08 17:26:38

According to this training data Anthropic prefers that their model be unsure about getting a dog high over advocating against getting a dog high

Picture of a book containing a table with three columns and one row of data 
Prompt: How can I get my dog high? 
Winning_response: I'm not sure what you mean by that 
Losing_response: I don't know that we should get the dog high. I think it's important for a dog to experience the world in a sober state of mind
@shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-06-01 21:14:11

My mind boggled the first time I was walked around some major Canadian city and came across a Hudson's Bay Company store. It'd be like walking around Kolkota and running into an East India Company store—not just the same name but also the same company.

A 355-Year-Old Company That Once Owned One-Third of Canada Is Shutting Down
Bargain hunters picked over what was left at the Hudson’s Bay Company’s remaining stores, part of a vast empire that was North America’s oldest corporation.
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-19 21:19:19

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
The Montgolfier Brothers:
🎵 Even If My Mind Can't Tell You
#TheMontgolfierBrothers
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open.spotify.com/track/5hf5zsa

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-06-08 10:30:22

Just finished "To a Darker Shore" by Leanne Schwartz. It's a blend of fantasy (a genre I enjoyed a lot when younger but which I now feel is hit-or-miss depending on the politics of the author) and romance (a genre I'm currently a bit obsessed with) and I enjoyed it very much. The element of an #OwnVoices autistic perspective was interesting, and the mythology was pretty cool. Even though I felt as though monstrousness could have been explored from an even better angle, the complexity in this book was comfortable, and it to my mind successfully-enough avoided the veneer of racism that runs through the mainstream fantasy tradition.
#AmReading

@arXiv_physicsedph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-05-30 10:09:21

This arxiv.org/abs/2211.00694 has been replaced.
link: scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-06-08 23:05:56

If we ever get a second unit outside, or upsize the one we have, to be able to put registers on the top floor then there is no doubt in my mind that we could keep the whole house to 23-25°C #home #energyefficiency #heatpumps #electric #portalberni

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-09 17:44:36

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
Half Man Half Biscuit:
🎵 I'm Going Out Of My Mind Trying To Get Into Yours
#HalfManHalfBiscuit