Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

@thedudeabidez88@mastodon.social This is lovely. I don’t know anything about Ingenuity’s imaging – does noise reduction happen before or after demosaicking?

@meetar @beep Hi, sorry to bother you, big fan, but I can’t find the Discord invitation?

Sometimes I think about learning Unity or Bevy or something and dedicating several years to doing this the way I want it done. Then I remember this is a spectacularly terrible idea. But I do have a text file of funny species names in case someone does.

I would spend my entire yearly entertainment budget on a modern, richly implemented, beautiful, highly replayable version of SimEarth (1990) or SimLife (1992).

@migurski @shashashasha so sweet
and so cold

Someone decided in 2018 or so that all “friendly” software would be eggplant-colored and I just want to ask them a few harmless questions.

@shashashasha @migurski , NEVER WORN.

@ingrid Anyway, all I’m saying is the set designer is going to be able to project some pretty ironic headlines over center stage.

@ingrid (The polio vaccine, the Montgomery bus boycott, the English translation of “the Second Sex”, “Tutti Frutti”, the début of “Howl”, the referendum in Vietnam – a whole bunch of the things that were about the be The Sixties were present and active in the world but the dots were not connected.)

@ingrid (I was thinking about this in a similar but less musical-theatreuh–based context and did some Wikipedia-level reading on what was going on in 1956 and honestly it’s kind of amazing what a nexus of American everything the previous 18 months had been.)

@ingrid http://raysolomonoff.com/dartmouth/

(For the avoidance of doubt: I’m not going to say Solomonoff was some kind of humanist saint, but I think a case could be made that his was one of the relatively less chicken-fried of the minds present for That Fateful Summer.)

@ingrid Ray Solomonoff’s scanned notes are online!

@nelson Horse beats human in race; experts believe horse hegemony may sweep across the world by Tuesday afternoon.

Coming up on 70 years of person A going “You see, software will never be able to do X!” and immediately being proven grotesquely wrong, then person B going “You see, this software is basically a person!” and immediately being proven grotesquely wrong, and so on like the world’s most evenly matched and annoying game of table tennis.

What’s the more familiar, less lit-class way to talk about Keats’s negative capability? Intellectual humility? Tolerance for uncertainty? The ability to begin without knowing or even having faith in the end? I need more of that and so does the world.

It would be extremely funny if the big social media companies’ lobbying and PR* against Tiktok is what gets us a real privacy law.

https://mastodon.social/@jameeljaffer/110084814863743927

* Think about how many stories you’ve seen about Upsetting Tiktok Trends from outlets that don’t normally cover social media. That’s PR spoor. And the current dominant platforms’ predecessors did it to them.