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wolframhydroxide

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wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

As someone stuck in this train wreck of a country, please don't compare yourselves to us. It makes us feel worse when everybody stares. :(
(In all seriousness, though, please feel free to annex us.)

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Grok 4 has been so badly neutered that it's now programmed to see what Elon says about the topic at hand and blindly parrot that line.

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wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

"Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths" Sonmi-451, Cloud Atlas

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Devils Panties 07/10/2025

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wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

Weird. I got a totally different read. I'm probably mistaken, but I thought it was suggesting that they were doing malicious compliance by making shitty code that will fail the moment they are no longer maintaining it, so that the corporation will have to bring them back with a consultancy rate.

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Ex-Superman Dean Cain Says James Gunn Made a ‘Mistake’ Calling Superman an ‘Immigrant’ and ‘It’s Going to Hurt’ the Box Office: ‘How Woke Is Hollywood Going to Make This Character?’

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wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

Not that it is incorrect to call him an immigrant, but I do think "castaway" and "refugee" fit his situation a little better. Still a xenophobic thing to say he's not an immigrant. Every single document regarding Clark Kent's existence is falsified, so he is, by definition, an illegal alien.

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Nestle Petitions To Cancel ‘Seattle Strong’ Coffee Trademark, Arguing It Owns Seattle

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wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

Nestle, Part 4: Bad for your Planet

Nestle, Part 5: Literal Slavery

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wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

That's a one-in-three chance of a task failed successfully, then!

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Wake up babe new shape just dropped

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wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

I think that, in order to have this be a projection of a square, the space between the interior right angles of the space from which it was projected would have to be not just curved, but also twisted, like a Möbius strip, such that a person "walking" the square and starting from the rightmost angle leftward would start walking as if they were on your screen (their head coming out away from the screen), but then they would need to have their perspective twist so that they are now walking on the "underside" of the figure (their head now pointing into your phone). This would allow them to perceive the two "external" turns as "internal" turns, as well. Then it just needs to untwist on the way back. We just can't see the twisting, because the lines have no width.

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wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

HA, get a load of this, everyone! This person thinks researchers get paid royalties by the publishers!

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wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

Absolutely, but aerobic life is more able to harness efficient energy with the use of oxygen's INSANE reactivity, and that change was only possible because the anaerobes turned 20+% of the atmosphere into the elemental molecular form of the second-most electronegative element in the universe. Even plants, which produce oxygen gas during photosynthesis, use oxygen to power ATP synthesis. Oxygenation of the planet was absolutely requisite to allow the evolution of eukaryotic multicellular life.

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wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

Oh absolutely! I was just working with what we were given.

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wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

Don't forget the anaerobes, which generated so much oxygen that they poisoned themselves nearly to extinction and made the entire atmosphere a toxic miasma for themselves, without which all multicellular life would not exist!

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wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

And the system was designed by, bribed into existence by, and enforced with violence and propaganda by...

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wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

I disagree. It seems to me that it's equivocating and saying that all of these groups are equally bad and at fault, and are just pointing fingers at each other. I am trying to make it very clear that there is a hierarchy of blame, and it's the same one as the hierarchy of wealth.

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wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

Though let us consider the ch-ch-ch-ch-changes that would actually be necessary for each of these to exercise real choice in the matter at hand:

The Public: Die, because that is the only thing that doesn't actively destroy the biosphere, because you have no actual meaningful control over anything

Farmers: Change professions, likely losing everything (at which point they become "The Public"), because you can't even control what seeds you buy (See: Agricorps), let alone anything else you do with the land, and it's all a monopsony, anyway (See: Agricorps) so you can't even choose who buys your crops or for how much you sell them.

Government: Literally the only thing required here is to take a long view and invest in infrastructure that also has huge short-term benefits. Realistically, the actual reason is because the politicians get money from the corpocrats (See: Agricorps), and don't want to not get money from the corpocrats.

Agricorps: It is explicitly against their fiduciary duty to tank the value of long-term investment in their own business by making the planet uninhabitable. The only change required is to actually hold to fiduciary duty, rather than "number go up, STONKS".

Huh, it's almost as if there are very specific problems that can be traced to a single, specific spiderman here... interesting.

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wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

Oh, no, the only ones I haven't read yet are ghostwritten and number9dream.

And I agree with the order notes. My very out-of-order sequence was Cloud Atlas (the movie introduced me to the book), then Slade House, Black Swan Green, Bone Clocks, Thousand Autumns, Utopia Avenue.

And I agree that reading the bone clocks before thousand autumns didn't actually make Marinus and the Anchorites make less sense without Enomoto and Dejima for context.

However, if I had read Utopia Avenue without any of the others (except Slade House and Black Swan Green), I think I would have had no idea what was going on. As it stands, the main reason I want to read ghostwritten is because I feel like I'm missing out on the context of "the Mongolian" from Utopia Avenue. I think that, in the same way that Cloud Atlas acted as a bridge into his world, Utopia Avenue was almost a culmination of his works thus far. I think that, without them, Jasper de Zoet's character and, for that matter, the whole story, would have been nigh-incomprehensible to me.

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Study Finds Water Isn't the Best Drink for Hydration

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wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

^This person has witnessed Arrakis

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wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

Absolutely. Since I'm not really into the music scene, I thought I wouldn't enjoy Utopia avenue, but I honestly think it's my second-favorite of his works. I am about to start Ghostwritten, though will probably stop there, because I really don't think number9dream is for me. I'm really not a fan of unsatisfying stories or bildungsroman, and I've read that n9d is both. What's your take?

I enjoyed Black Swan Green, in spite of its bildungsroman plot, but It wasn't my favourite (though it wasn't my least-favourite, because that dubious honour has to go to Slade House, which I read before the Bone Clocks, and which I expected to have a MUCH better puzzlebox feel. I felt betrayed when I realized that the alchemical symbology and map of the house on the inside cover of my first-edition copy was all meaningless, especially when the climax was just a deus-ex-horologia before I knew who Marinus was)