Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse
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You know him on the internet. Eucalypt-adjacent; very occasional writer. Consulting and passively looking for work in geospatial, image processing, and related fields.
Joined Apr 2022
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I feel like the one of the lowest level human internet problems we haven’t solved is how to be around millions of people, many of whom vocally disapprove of at least some of our thoughts and actions, without letting our hyper-social status-sensitive primate brains either melt or devote themselves to arguing that all our positions are the right positions for everyone.
Like yes, some algos are bad, but we also just built structures we can’t quite handle and are perma-mad at each other about it.
@kjhealy He’s more of a popularizer and apologist of modern conservative thought, though. To get it at its source, they turn to https://www.burkedecor.com/collections/sofas
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When I scheduled this live session yesterday to discuss Western North American wildfire situation, neither catastrophic fire in Canadian Rockies town of #Jasper nor dangerous #ParkFire in California had yet occurred. I will discuss both today @ 3pm PT. https://www.youtube.com/live/B5wskkRpadg
@kissane Erin! Hi. Uh, I just got an urgent message that you’re urgently needed offline again. Yeah, sorry, weird, right? It said it was urgent, though.
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I am hilariously bad at going on vacation, but I was on the west coast and so I went to Cabo Pulmo, in Baja California Sur, to go scuba diving in the marine reserve. It’s kind of an incredible place — in 1995, the village (pop. 100 then, 150 now) worked together to get it declared a protected area. It’s now a UNESCO site and an absolutely thriving ecosystem, with careful ongoing oversight.
https://ocean.si.edu/conservation/solutions-success-stories/cabo-pulmo-protected-area
@thisisaaronland reading a lot of history books >> reading no history books > reading only one history book
@migurski Thank you, but we got through it with a big freezer bag. All set now.
A great way to save on those summer energy bills is to simply have your fridge break.
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#PPOD: NASA's Curiosity rover ran over a rock and found crystals inside! They're pure sulfur. Elemental sulfur is something we’ve never seen before on Mars. We don't know much about these yellow crystals yet, but the team is already at work to figure it out! Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
An old friend is visiting, and we were walking through Berkeley. He pointed at an old restaurant and said “Hey! St Jude¹ took me to lunch at that Burmese place once! She was really nice.” and I felt very connected to a past that is not remembered well enough.
@brennen If I were doing this, and I’m not saying this is how a sensible person would, I would make an SVG and georeference it in QGIS.
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Draft Emoji 16.0 Design: Face with Bags Under Eyes #WorldEmojiDay https://emojipedia.org/face-with-bags-under-eyes
@tmcw Oh my god, I just know hole minimization is an incredibly gnarly problem and a lot of people are mad at each other about strategies for it.
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So, I can not stress this enough:
Shut the fuck up. I mean this with kindness. Shut the fuck up. It is not a good time to run your mouth on public coms. This should be obvious if you think about what just happened for 30 seconds, but again, with all due care and respect:
Shut the fuck up.
@skry @davidgerard I suspect this is a problem that Marx and Graber will have more useful things to say about than Dilbert and Levitt willl.
One of the things that always delights me about people is how adaptable we are and how willing we can be to take weird things seriously just to try them.
The older I get the more I see this as the obverse of a terrifying susceptibility to a spectrum of groupthinky social problems that starts merely cringey but ends out in death cult territory.
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Persistently shocked by how much of adult life is dealing with the consequences of other adults determinedly (and obviously!) playing pretend, with terrible consequences.
https://lattice.com/blog/leading-the-way-in-responsible-ai-employment
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If you've ever wondered how math fonts are made, the Noto project commissioned this amazing article from @khaled to explain all: https://github.com/notofonts/math/blob/main/documentation/building-math-fonts/index.md
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Okay, folks. I’ve been asked by a lot of friends who aren’t following the AI discourse to sort of clarify what the main camps are arguing, how they approach the issues, etc. As a trusted observer, I’m happy to provide this orienting service. No questions or comments, please. Hope it helps!
- charlie@planet.parts
- work
- geographical pixels
- where
- Xučyun/Oakland, Ohlone land, western Laurentian accretions
- who
- him
You know him on the internet. Eucalypt-adjacent; very occasional writer. Consulting and passively looking for work in geospatial, image processing, and related fields.
Joined Apr 2022
