Dr. Edward Morbius ⭕ @dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud
Space Alien Cat
https://dredmorbius.reddit.com
Administrivia: https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/34102
If listicles are good enough for Euclid and Ludwig von Wittgenstein, they're good enough for me
Nina Paley is great in cutting through the bullshit around copyright on the Internet.
Consider the following:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcvd5JZkUXY
Also, watch her great film, "Sita Sings the Blues": https://archive.org/details/Sita_Sings_the_Blues
And then read all about how restrictive, bloated copyright on almost century-old music stifled her creativity and distribution options for this film:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sita_Sings_the_Blues
@aparrish Foundit, with some diggin: TFDIF
@aparrish Hey, what was that norms-weighted tuples method Inwas making innane suggestions to you about a ways back?
Word (or tuple) frequency within a work, plus accounting for overal corpus freqqunce / prevalance.
I'm doing A Thing and that would be useful.
#introduction
Recent instance outage prompted me to move here and consolidate. All former profiles point here. (excluding mstdn.mx)
#Retired. I do what I want. This currently includes:
#Hackintosh
#Music (keyboards)
#Travel
#Writing
#Genealogy
#Photography
#Pi owner (RPi2B)
I am:
#Vegan
#Atheist (after four decades of fundamentalist christianity)
#Nerd
#Expat in #Mexico learning #Spanish
Fan/Supporter of:
#Co-ops
#Decentralization
#Federation
#Sci-fi
#Antifa
#BDS
#BLM
#NeverAgain
The internet is just a big pile of shit!
The top serps (search engine results) for just about any health question you can think of all lead to sites that exist solely to get your clicks. They utilize no medical professionals whatsoever. The content is either spun by algorithms or purely anecdotal.
This is NOT what the internet was supposed to be. Thanks a lot, Google...
For folks wanting to support arrestees - ppl who threw down and risked federal charges while blocking Portland's ICE facility, here is a donation link:
https://rally.org/OccupyICEPDX
I am very skeptical / security conscious; this came directly from #OccupyICEpdx via facebook and I have worked personally w/ Portland ABC (Anarchist Black Cross). They do jail support and prisoner support work.
As much as you trust this account, trust that link. Please donate what you can.
(smoothie may contain fish)
Good news: I've discovered the python-cli python package, for accessing my Pocket article archive.
Bad news: simply listing my articles hits the hard API limit: 10k requests/hr.
Pocket: it gets worse the more you use it.
well shit. another of my editors (that's FOUR now) have had to step down.
i love them all, i really do, but now instead of gaining the FIVE we need from the applications we've received, we're actually only up ONE.
if any women-identified folks would like experience being an editor for a fucking awesome lit mag, fill out the application!
Anyone know a good API for US weather forcasts, specifically insolation prediction for next 24 hours?
Reclaiming RSS
“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”
On Tools, Methods, and Workflow
"Amongst my more tedious topics for discussion is the anti-generative nature of today's technological tools. The Web, much computer hardware, document formats, browsers, writing styles, etc., all fail to either elicit or deliver much by way of truly original, informative, or high-quality content...."
Fans of tedium, rejoice!
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/8urwck/on_tools_methods_and_workflow/
Advertising is a form of patronage.
@natecull @dredmorbius one really interesting aspect that falls out of this is that you can construe money as an implicit social contract. I find that Illuminating because a lot of really high-end financial instruments are effectively just socially reinforced contracts that happened to be backed by the governing entity.
It's interesting to note that the author of that piece has a background in law.
The Assault on Privacy (1970)
At the age of 54, Sigmund Arywitz was a healthy American success story. He was making $30,000 a year as executive secretary and treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, his family was sound, his reputation high on all counts... But something was awry. In the space of one year, five Los Angeles department stores refused Sig Arywitz charge accounts....
Richard Boeth.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/712228/1970-newsweek-coverstory-privacy.pdf
Data are liability
"When will this stop?" asks an HN reader?
Liability piercing the corporate veil to executives, shareholders, creditors, vendors, and clients/customers, with front-loaded liability insurance obligations.
We've got a new Tor Browser alpha, and we need your help to test it!
Tor Browser 8.0a9 has a lot of new features, including a couple major UX changes, and we want them to be in tip-top shape before the stable release hits this September. https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-80a9
