Comrade Angles @Angle@witches.town

Hey, I remember this! Shame it never seemed to go anywhere. Though then again, the wiki's still up? :/

https://tube.svnet.fr/videos/watch/e9b6621b-5e11-4c28-985c-bb6e39bf7690

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Main_Page

Here's another interesting book review. It's about the promise, and failure, of the Soviet Union in the 50's. :/

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/24/book-review-red-plenty/

Hey, so I think I managed to optimize Agora so it should run pretty okay now. Low power computers will likely still have some trouble, but the rest should handle it okay. And it runs a LOT better in chrome or chomium then it does in firefox. Take a look and tell me how it works for you? XD

https://agora-2866.nodechef.com/forum

So I was playing Caves of Qud, and I figured out, if you have teleport other, you can use it on Argyve, Elder Irudad, and Tam, steal all their shit, and not have them get mad at you at all. :/

Every time I ride the bus through a big city, I can't help but think there's something sad but beautiful about it. All these people, trying to weave their lives together for mutual benefit. All the endless effort spent pouring concrete, laying asphalt. All the blood, sweat and tears, trying to make the world a better place. :/

Me: Hmm, it's almost 4:00 AM, I should go to bed.

Also me: But first, more mastodon. XD

Huh. I wonder how long it'll be before people have to worry about having their genomes published on the internet, and people doing weird obnoxious stuff with it. Like, somebody manages to get a DNA sample from a celebrity, and then random women are paying for synthesized embryos so they can have their kids, without the celebrity being involved or approving in any way. You know, weird shit like that. :/

I haven't played magic much lately, but damn do I like the color wheel from that game. I don't think it's super useful for describing the universe, or anything, but it's very interesting, and very colorful. :V

https://witches.town/media/78XaRbVcB51j4bVziQw

Anyone else read Garth Nix's old kingdom series? They're good book, I like them a lot, but at the same time I can't help but feel they could have been so much better. In particular, the books make use of all sorts of symbolism regarding order, freedom, duty, stability, progress, conservation (That is to say, the conservation of institutions - kingdom, abhorsens, clay, etc.), etc. But it doesn't really go anywhere with it, or make a very strong, clear message. It's kind of like he's recycling these cause he saw other people using them, without having a strong grasp on what they mean or what he wants to communicate with them. :/

Also: Sorry about the giant wall of text. I ran into the character limit and didn't have any left over for a CW, and didn't think it would be important. Then I saw what the thing looked like in my TL and regretted my life decisions. :X

Hey all, so I've got a programming question. For agora, I'm using meteor, a JS framework built on node. (Yes, I know. I picked it out years ago when I didn't know better and I don't have the time to rewrite it. :X) Anyway, it pulls data from the server using subscriptions, which are nice cause they're reactive (They update when the data changes). The downside is they're relatively heavy. Anyway, at the moment I just have one subscription for all the data in the site, but that won't scale. So I need to have some kind of dynamic subscription. But I'm not sure whether to subscribe to each post, or try and package things. Please advise?

https://agora-2866.nodechef.com/forum?post=RKisZRxRs6hg6KdS7

#nowplaying Singularity, by Bright Eyes

"We'll make a ragdoll of god,
Wind up our new music box..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeVUO9t75Kk

"It wasn't evil, it was efficient." Mmm, yes, quite...

...Huh. Is there some set of conditions that will make it so that, given two sides in a conflict, things will even out so that the two are more or less evenly matched, and grind away miserably and futilely against each other? Cause that certainly seems to describe a lot of our modern conflicts in everything short of outright violence. Politics, especially. Or am I just misinterpreting things? :/

From a discussion on machine learning:

"For any program, there are two possibilities. Either it works exactly as intended, of some bug crops up in the code. In the first case, we probably have nothing to fear. The latter case isn't terribly concerning, either."

WRONG! When it comes to something as powerful as AI, both of these scenarios should be deeply terrifying. For the first, it takes all the usual problems of trust, accountability, and intention, and magnifies them a hundred thousand fold. For the second, it introduces a possibly apocalyptic uncertain consequences. What will it do? What will happen? Fuck if we know. :/