Sam Lavigne @sam@everything.happens.horse

Going as spooky Jeff Bezos for Halloween

Just dropping by to post about my twitter haters

Figure 29 illustrates the vanished status of the workman

Figure 13 schematically illustrates a vast association of the whole nation

Figure 10 schematically illustrates the French criticism of the bourgeois State

Figure 8 is a perspective view of the first conditions for emancipation

Figure 3 schematically illustrates a certain stage in the development

Years ago I made this text generator that transformed the Communist Manifesto into a patent application: "Figure 1 is an isometric view of the progressive historical development of the proletariat", and so on. Out of curiosity I ran some of the text through dalle - it's pretty much nonsense but sort of fun:

On real deepfakes, fake deepfakes, cameo, and my new project "APD Decruitment":

https://lav.io/notes/deep-fakes-real-deeps-fake-reals/

integrating spacy pattern matching into videogrep to search for things like "adjective+noun" combos... https://github.com/antiboredom/videogrep/blob/master/examples/pattern_matcher.py

Love living in the Tim Hortons surveillance regime! https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/2022/nr-c_220601/

I've also included a few examples of using videogrep from within python, like this script which makes supercuts from youtube searches: https://github.com/antiboredom/videogrep/blob/master/examples/auto_youtube.py

It seems like a good time to start using this again!

can i get in on this please

obligatory debate supercut (the rare quiet bits)

hello this is the mayor of new york now

Planning to try out the notorious proctorio on my students this week by giving them a fake exam, as an experiment to see how the interface works, what data they are collecting etc. These are the proctorio chrome extension permissions!