professional catfishing has always been a thing.

using AI to do it was inevitable, but i do wonder if it’ll backfire.

chatbots are so pathetically unreliable.

Buy european: Eutelsat.

Why the fuck is the glass talking

I don’t think anyone in their right mind hates North Korean citizens. I just wish there weren’t anyone who would threaten or harm you just for talking to us.

But yeah man, the world doesn’t hate you.

The world feels sad because the world is convinced you’re experiencing hardship, and the world would like if you had more food, and more comfort, and less pain.

What would most improve the quality of life of North Korean people?

Many sentient beings extend their predictive modeling capabilities beyond the scope of physical cause and effect which is normally handled by pattern recognition and reconstruction:

When these capabilities are extended to simulation and emulation of other sentient agents’ sensory and logic systems, the brain temporarily borrows your own sensory systems in mostly-contained active hallucinations.

In order to better anticipate the actions, decisions, and behaviors of another being, your own memories of what a similar experience from your own life felt like is automatically and subconsciously indexed and referenced, giving you a contextual “flashback” of that memory–albeit “tagged” with the context that it’s not literally happening to you again but rather that it MIGHT be what’s happening (or may have happened) to the individual you are observing or interacting with.

You essentially “remember” something that you didn’t directly experience, fabricated from extrapolations of bits and pieces that you have experienced. Even though it’s just making an informed guess, it has demonstrated a great deal of utility, just as all predictive models do.

While that may be difficult to imagine as I’ve just (admittedly rather unhelpfully, my apologies) attempted to ask you to empathize with what it’s like to have empathy… Bear in mind this is almost entirely automatic and we don’t choose to do it–not even the organic “augmented reality overlay” effect of literally feeling whatever our pattern recognition subsystems predict another to have felt.

It is, nevertheless, a powerful communal cohesion tool because it disincentivizes interpersonal harm and promotes mutual benefit, which, while not as beneficial for individuals, DOES in fact lead to a population outperforming other populations that don’t exhibit this trait.

At the end of the day though it’s just a very abstract sensory system. There is nothing morally or ethically wrong with being blind or deaf, neither is there with lacking this sensory suite.

Edit to emphasize another point:
Empathy only attempts to anticipate how others feel but it’s not magic, you don’t literally feel the exact same thing as them or the same instance of experience even if you both observed the same events.
Recall touching a cold object…
The object itself cannot feel.
But your skin is detecting its own temperature falling.
Even empathy is an individual feeling their own emotions… just in reference to the circumstantial conditions observed in another.

If I see someone step on a sharp nail, my pain is what I anticipate feeling were I to step on that nail;
The relief I wish would come to assuage that pain is PROBABLY similar to what the person I observed is hoping for. I would not want to walk on an injured foot, and I would wish that someone would perhaps let me lean on them while I hobble to a place where I can sit and tend to any harm. Therefore, I offer this to them.

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Lol suck shit reddit. Rot in piss you won’t be missed!

It might be at least a little missed for all the useful info and history that it had accumulated over these decades… But oh well.

They shat this bed they get to lay in it

Windows 11 seemed to kick and scream relentlessly to make coexisting impossible. So I called its bluff and nuked its stupid ass. It refuses to play nice? OK; It never gets to play again. Fuck windows. I have a separate machine for windows if I really need it.

every passing day i feel increasingly gratified to have switched my previously win11 laptop to linux mint. aside from the sheer principle of microsoft being ass, i also fucking despise all of windows’ AI bullshit. Fuck copilot for eternity.

Cap in the back, low-key up front. Got it.

It’s not incest if there isn’t genetic overlap. Sorry. Don’t care. Fuck it, I’m borderline asexual and hardly even look at any porn, let alone this niche of it, so I don’t even have a horse in this race. As an outside observer, it’s a stupid pointless manufactured conflict with no grounding in reality, only as real as superstition. I will never have any respect for anyone who gets hung up on something so trivial.

The Citizens of Uvalde not feel “safe” whilst watching their children FUCKING DIE, LIVE, IN REAL-TIME, actually.

The Republicans are a mass shooter massacring children inside a school

The Democrats are the Uvalde police department

They’re just standing around holding their dicks LETTING it happen completely unopposed.

When I told my best friend about mastodon, it misimprinted on her brain in a flash as “walrus chat” and now she can’t for the life of her remember its actual name.

yes, that’s what boosting is on mastodon. see how ineffectual their ‘boosting’ nomenclature is? that’s why they should be renamed.

also rebrand it from Mastodon to Trunky.

1. Trochaic meter is more addictive: 2 syllables with accent on the first. just like YOU-tube, FACE-book, GOO-gle, TWIT-ter, TIK-tok, SNAP-chat, RED-dit, WHATS-app, etc; there are a FEW exceptions like Insta, Messenger, Telegram… but they are the clear minority and were propelled in spite of their names. it’s part of why TEEN-age MU-tant NIN-ja TUR-tles and MIGH-ty MOR-phin POW-er RAN-gers was popular.
2. Trunky is full of bright bouncy sounds that pop, the T and the K both hit nice, the R is exciting and powerful, the y ends it on a high timbre, it’s cute.
3. A mastodon is an extinct lumbering beast from the ice age which is the antithesis of anything trying to break out as a hot new service. But this would allow the service to keep its pachyderm branding.
4. While at it, change “favorite” to “trumpet” (as in trumpeting praise), again it’s trochaic (TRUM-pet) and carries less cognitive LOAD than “favoriting” which feels heavy and committed. Just because you LIKE something doesn’t mean it’s your FAVORITE thing you know? this would decrease the friction of interaction (which is GOOD).
5. Also while at it, keep tooting as the analogue for tweeting, rename boosting to re-tooting for brand consistency, and add a bookmarking function called “Remembering” (because ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET, right? :D)

A mall is a private real estate instrument built by speculators to extract rent from businesses and it’s actually rather predatory. This is fundamentally not real estate and fundamentally does not exist to extract rent, so it’s more like “what if you took a mall and removed all the mall-ness from it”.

If malls were collectively owned by the stores that comprise them and pieces of the mall could appear and disappear at will of whoever’s participating… Is it actually even still a mall really???

the only thing I’m hoping for is that this can serve as a proof of concept that human brains might be able to learn to control limbs made of synthetic muscles like that…

Maybe they’re attempting to make it ‘learn’ how to move itself using neural networking instead of programming discrete movement presets.