ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
She got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs...
She's got Bette Davis eyes!
(Am I dating myself? I bet I'm dating myself.)
...
YOU DON'T HAVE TO PUT OUT THE RED LIGHT!!!
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I was honored, as always, to join the brilliant @dahlialithwick on her stellar podcast AMICUS to talk about whose voices this Supreme Court hears, how the conservatives on the Court increasingly substitute their own voices for those of litigants, & about my recent piece in the New York Review of Books on the oral argument in the Harvard & UNC affirmative action cases.
Bang, bang!
ON THE DOOR, BABY!
(Very much enjoying this playlist this morning, wooooot(=))
We can dance, we can dance!
Everything's out of control!
wait wait wait (birdsite again)
Now they've RESCINDED the "no linking to scary competitors" rule?
lolomgwtfbbq
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During the BLM protests in the summer of 2020, DDoSecrets published BlueLeaks, a leak of documents from over 200 law enforcement agencies that revealed police misconduct, including spying on activists.
In response to apparent law enforcement pressure, Twitter permanently banned the whistle-blower account and suppressed all links to ddosecrets.com.
The censorship of DDoSecrets is still happening today, two and a half years later.
@micahflee
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/16/elon-musk-twitter-suspended-journalists/
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Should I re-tell the story of CIA Duck? I will abide by the results of this poll.
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#Introduction as new people are arriving again & I’ve not done this in a while… 👋 I am a #Scholar & Expert who writes on #Propaganda. I was Senior Researcher on the Oscar-shortlisted documentary The Great Hack after helping expose the #CambridgeAnalytica scandal in 2018; follow me if you are interested in #media #disinformation #polcom #infoops #media #surveillance #humanrights #polisci #commodon #communication #conflict #infowar #military #psyop & #dogs🐕❤️
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Mastodon Migration
Right now, while migration is still ongoing, rerunning the imports every now and then will find you more folks who've moved over.
Also, I've found that the various migration tools all produce slightly non-overlapping lists of accts, so using more than one can be helpful.
One's I know about:
https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/
https://twitodon.com/
https://www.movetodon.org/
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Okay here's a thing I've been thinking about: it's kind of a trope at this point that queers who were raised Christian and especially evangelical will grow up to leave the faith behind and then get really into something like astrology to fill their spiritual hole...
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE!
No visible means of support
And you have not seen nothin' yet
Everything's stuck together
And I don't know what you expect
Staring into the TV set
Fightin' fire with fire, ah!
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I keep seeing that “first they came for the journalists” sign, and it pisses me off so much, because when they came for muslims, immigrants, and trans people, mainstream journalists normalized it and reported it as “both sides”. Somehow it didn’t count for them until it was happening to them personally, which is *exactly* what the fucking poem was warning against in the first place.
birdsite
Man, I just go over to see if my archive is ready to download or something, and I get into back-and-forths with people who think that the ban on posting links is no big deal, or that Wall Street is "leftist".
It's surreal over there.
Worries about AI deception
Not a website that I normally put much faith in, but this seems good:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/goC9qv4PWf2cjfnbm/did-chatgpt-just-gaslight-me
I think the basic issue of "AI" programs becoming so smooth and confident that people believe them, even when they're wrong, is significant.
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Interviewer: can I get your references?
Me: *sighing* probably not; nobody else does
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anyone want to make an argument for your favorite instance that i should move to lmao
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@ceoln They're here, and bringing over their bots as well! https://mastodon.social/@NoraReed/109537266019058010
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
