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   :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 18:29:55 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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   Alright, so the TTS needs at least 100 samples to train on.

   So, I'm still not QUITE sure if this is even gonna work.

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   carl marks (tillshadeisgone@blackqueer.life)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 04:44:03 JST carl marks

   https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/

   So, user @samuelhayimbrody at Bluesky pointed out that this EO directly states that race is a biological reality and implies that not believing that is "insane" (link only available to signed in users: https://bsky.app/profile/samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social/post/3llgraj7kas27)

   When I said that ableism is a weapon that can never be wielded on behalf of Black people and is consistently used against us, this is what I was talking about. IQ is just one example, historically and presently we also have things like drapetomania, calling all old Black men "crazy", etc. the list goes on.

   So if you are out here calling people crazy, insane, stupid, moron, idiot, etc or god forbid the fucking R slur like ppl love to do, you are doing the work of the segregationists, Nazis, eugenicists, fascists, and billionaires that run the government. You are following in their footsteps and marching to the beat of their drum. Literally acting on their behalf, whether you intended to or not.

   So I need for us to ask ourselves if we're really opposed to white supremacy or not. If we're really against ableism or not. If we really believe in racial and disability justice or not.

   Because if you really do, what are you willing to give up? Are you willing to interrogate your casual use of language? Are you willing to reconsider your words and actions in light of new information? Are you comfortable grappling with the idea that you have the capacity to harm others? What about if you already have? Are you motivated enough to try to make restitution?

   Because if you're acting like a damn collaborator and you're not okay with reconsidering that, what does that tell me about your character? Answer: everything I need to know.

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   Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 22:47:16 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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   @dalias absolutely!

   I can see how that's complicated here – Signal app is the one that has access, but is also on the device that is easier to scan QR codes on.

   So it kinda makes sense, from usability perspective, to initiate it with a QR code displayed in Signal Desktop, and scanned on the mobile device.

   Not sure what the solution here is, but I agree with you it should be the other way around.

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   John Carlos Baez (johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 03:04:14 JST John Carlos Baez

   Mathematicians get annoyed at how physicists take beautiful formulas and clutter them up with 'useless' constants like

   𝑐 - the speed of light
   ℏ - Planck's constant
   𝑘 - Boltzmann's constant
   𝐺 - the gravitational constant

   making it harder to see the essence of things. Mathematicians prefer units where all these constants are set equal to 1.

   I used to be like that too - but right now I'm doing a project where I 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 these constants to see the essence of things!

   (Of course it's good to keep these constants around to avoid making mistakes where you equate quantities with different dimensions: this is what computer scientists call a 'type discipline'. That's important, but it's NOT what I'm talking about now.)

   When you're studying just one physical theory at a time, you can set dimensionful constants equal to 1 to simplify things. But often we like to study a whole 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 of physical theories at once - a family where those constants take different values! We can't set them to 1 if we're interested in what happens when they approach 0. For example:

   As 1/𝑐 → 0, special relativity reduces to Newtonian physics.
   As ℏ → 0, quantum mechanics reduces to classical mechanics.
   As 𝑘 → 0, statistical mechanics reduces to classical mechanics.
   As 𝐺 → 0, general relativity reduces to special relativity.

   And this is just the beginning of the story: various collections of constants can approach 0 at different rates, and so on.

   When we do this, we're studying what mathematicians would call a 'moduli space' of theories - or even better, a 'moduli stack'. We may want to do 'deformation theory', where we expand answers in powers of some constant. And so on.

   So don't scorn those constants!

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   C.W. Smith (cwsmith@social.mechanizedarmadillo.com)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 00:41:26 JST C.W. Smith

   So, since I now have a van to work on I will be focusing on what to do for my Vanlife blogging.

   I figure just setting up a wordpress blog on Wanderers-Waypoint.com will be sufficient. I can add ActivityPub support for myself and build a community there with one of the forum plugins. That being said, if I do that then it becomes opt-in for federation. The plugin requires a user to toggle the process on.

   So I am open to options as well.

   #Vanlife
   #Blogging
   #Fediverse
   #FediContent

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   Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 10:24:53 JST Matt Hamilton

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   I wasn't upset, yelling, or even agitated, I was just telling him the truth. I told him that I'm certainly not in the "anger" stage and had already completed the Americana grief cycle.

   We both laughed, but in all honesty it was a bit depressing. I had hoped that the Boomers, by and large, would be figuring it out by now.

   So anyway, this reinforces my belief that everyone is too dumb and still too consumed with consumerism to understand WTF is going on.

   So, yeah.

   Pretty typical.

   Pretty sad.