Notices by anderbill (band@hachyderm.io)

@gwynnion thanks again for saying what needs to be said about any of the "too far left" talk.

from a neighbor social:
Greg Pak @gregpak.bsky.social
November 7, 2024

A thing you can do if you have D local officials: call them up and ask what their plan is for preventing the deportation of your immigrant neighbors.

from yesterday:
Susie Dent @susie_dent • 06 Nov 24

Word of the day is
'recrudescence' (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

a little gem from a murder mystery:

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."

- Molly's gran, from The mystery guest by Nita Prose
https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/1380998276

a generative and heart-warming essay:
Apology Not Accepted - A.R. Moxon, Nov 3, 2024
How to heal a hateful spirit that has gripped tens of millions of broken people? Reclaiming lost humanity by finding unacceptable things unacceptable.
<https://www.the-reframe.com/apology-not-accepted/>

"It's a Kobayashi Maru. There is no winning here, there is no outcome where everyone gets saved."

You don't get to cheat, like Kirk did. There is no rule to break, no loophole to find and exploit, no last-minute respite.

There is just better-than-catastrophic and catastrophic.

@clive preach it! i am always surprised to find that so many well-read folk do not know this.

@muffinista many thanks for providing the service, and the many enjoyable, informative, and creative bots supported.

my morning citizen work:

@slowenough ha ha, thank you, i accept (very funny exchange)

@slowenough my first response to your note was "neat", then the idea of checking out who in the list i need to check out seemed like a lot of work. if we want to do this i think a shorter list (7? a nice prime number) is better? maybe this practice is not for me.

(and, yes, voting is planned)

today's gem from the socials:

@gwynnion me too; i do not like to say it out loud too much. reading poetry often helps. be well.

@gwynnion "even worse" is an understatement. 😰

productive day:
- Mistletoe RawHtml extension deployed on in-test Python package
- troubling GitHub pages output, found and resolved (help from Claude-3)
- notes for other wiki updates found (in the wiki, of course)

@petersuber that sentence is better with this edit: "... agents can modify their own code and *change* (replace improve) its capabilities ...."

@Radical_EgoCom @MikeDunnAuthor much like the insight in The Dark Forest (vol 2 of Three-body Problem trilogy)

@ia ignore my last query - focus mode was what tripped me up

@slowenough @yvonnezlam regarding group psychodynamics: cf. Alford, C. Fred (1989). Melanie Klein & Critical Social Theory. Yale University Press. <https://worldcat.org/en/title/19553503>
Page 21:
Whereas Freud saw the group as modeled on the authoritarian love of the family, a Kleinian perspective sees the group as defending against primitive anxiety. The problem with groups is that they are so good at defending against this anxiety that they forestall ==the emotional conflicts that lead to moral learning==.

@yvonnezlam yeah. but is a group a thing? and, if so, does it have observable properties? i mean, i do experience group dynamics, but what is this group?