cobworld wide web @carcinopithecus@x0r.be

What’s happening now in Bolivia is a good example of how not only the rightwingers are badly effected by the broken news/information sharing/social media landscape.

Denouncing legitimate protest against an extremely shady ruler as a coup, just because he’s on the populist left side of things, is popping up all over from people who claim to profess not just viewpoints but values.

Values do not fit with the “rooting for a soccer team” mentality of public discourse and politics.

@szbalint I think there's something complicated going on. It's easy to write it to the either side and probably in reality it's something mixed. I just received a letter from La Via Campesina and they call it a coup which is not something they usually do. And there were other things like that that gives me doubts.

"404 Page Not Found" by Kate Wagner https://thebaffler.com/salvos/404-page-not-found-wagner

"Because websites had to either become apps or self-optimize for mobile, web design declined from its creative, more variegated heights to become flat, highly minimalistic, and multi-platform, and the results are, frankly, fucking boring."

Loved everything about this post. A great homage to the old, user-centric web.

there are more things than i thought

Good evening, this is your friendly neighborhood AlexMax reminding you all that writing collision detection code suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.

all capitalists must embrace the purity of competition and dissolve into individual competitive cells.

embrace harmony of economic belief and cellular structure.

ha this one is so amazing. i am laughing so much trying to imagine what this game is like.
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RT @HowToPlayTxt@twitter.com
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HOW TO PLAY.TXT
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R : GLOVE EDITOR
SCROLL : SING
TAB : SECONDARY ASTEROID
A : SPARK
https://twitter.com/HowToPlayTxt/status/1192155097792438274

🍍 x 🍕 don't @ me

Don't let Lucas lie to you. Star Wars EU is all canon because it exists and people read it.

i feel like anyone who warns of potential singularity-based apocalypse based on the idea of "if you give it X task it will optimize for that task at all costs, even if it means destroying earth"

as in the whole "tell an AI to optimize paperclips, it will unstoppably turn the entire galaxy into paperclips" type scenario

has come short of a key few realizations

particularly that there need be no AI involved in the process

The DOSBox project started in 2002, which means that in three years, ie by 2022, the project will have been going for longer than the supported lifespan of MS-DOS. It's already far outlived the 14 year period (1981-1995) when MS-DOS was the primary IBM PC operating system.

this project is wonderful, and now it has beautiful trees!
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RT @marian42_@twitter.com
I just uploaded my #procjam project! An infinite city, procedurally generated with the #wavefunctioncollapse algorithm, now with procedural trees. #procgen
Download the game here: https://marian42.itch.io/wfc
https://twitter.com/marian42_/status/1193624490506371073

tbh the only future-forward barbecue i will ever want is shit that recognizes the roots of soul food and why 'low and slow' came about as the defined style, and seeks out similar worldwide traditions to mesh with. so in other words,

korean american
cuisine bbq
🤝
pork belly

"The Flames" for my #DeckofManyThings Illustration project!

“A powerful devil becomes your enemy. The devil seeks your ruin and plagues your life, savoring your suffering before attempting to slay you. This enmity lasts until either you or the devil dies.”
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#mastoart #dungeonsanddragons #dnd #dnd5e #tarot #illustration #fantastyart #tiefling

Fun fact, here's the algorithm Mastodon uses for showing posts!

look at the time it was posted (or for boosts, time it was boosted)
order them from top to bottom in reverse chronological order (i.e. newest at top)
done

by taking on a label to describe yourself, you also affect how the label is viewed. it's not a one-way street; members who identify with a label get to affect what that label means

We have like, phones with 4gigs of RAM and a processor that can put some computers of previous decade to shame.

Imagine if this shit just stopped improving and we started optimizing. Would that be crazy or what?