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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 07-Sep-2025 13:19:37 JST 
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So far, yeah. Just like the original, every scene has something stupid going on. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 07-Sep-2025 13:16:21 JST
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Watching the new naked gun, I'm sort of shocked that they're allowed to make funny movies again.
In the introduction, a man in a dress is used for comedy, and later one character goes "We get retarded in here" and the main character goes "Can you say that?" And the character goes "In my club you can." -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 06-Sep-2025 07:51:19 JST
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https://fixvx.com/disclosetv/status/1964062539915903161 -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 05-Sep-2025 06:48:10 JST
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Future Sepsis: Book 1 is complete and available right now.
I'm not selling a kickstarter or an indiegogo where you might get a finished copy someday if I get around to it and stop playing on twitter and youtube. It’s a finished novel you can pick up today on Amazon.
The story begins in 2024 with four people who die in a plane crash, and a hundred years later they wake up into a society that has rebuilt itself in ways that don’t look much like ours. Neural implants pair with AI in ways that fundamentally change how people engage with the world. Institutions are very different (notably, the Church is a central part of this society).
I wrote it as hard science fiction centered around realistic and unique characters, which means the technology works the way technology actually works and people act like people do, with all the consequences that follow.
It’s on Amazon as a DRM-free ebook, paperback, and hardcover (though the hardcover version isn't up yet, but it's coming as soon as it's through kdp)
https://a.co/d/h7DUZ8U
Just like The Graysonian Ethic, I’ve written into the legal page that in 15 years the book will enter the public domain where possible, and CC0 elsewhere. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Sep-2025 04:46:13 JST
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You could have a point, maybe the real problem here is an attention problem. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Sep-2025 03:28:45 JST
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It's been 10 years of "if you didn't like this movie it's because you're actually evil" -- but is it really culture war stuff, or is that just the argument they're using? Filmmakers have never liked critics, but now they've got an argument that their critics are fundamentally evil and every reason in the world to use that argument.
I think you kind of have to look past the specific form of what these people say, because they're from Hollywood, they don't believe a word they say about anything unless it's how great they are, and lashing out at people they don't like or who criticize their work.
Healthy ecosystems such as Hollywood of yesteryear or Japan's anime ecosystem today had different rungs, you'd get lower cost lower impact media to start, and as you succeeded you'd get to work on higher impact higher cost (potentially higher profit) works until eventually you earn the big tentpole blockbuster through proven success.
There used to be multiple rungs in Hollywood, but now you go from niche movies at Sundance (not even a market) to producing mega budget blockbusters, and that's not healthy. Hollywood would blame streaming for this, but other markets have rungs still, it's more that Hollywood got addicted to blockbusters and ate their seed corn.
Some of the best movies of all time were created at those lower rungs. Star Wars: A New Hope was actually a fairly low budget movie. E.T. was a lower budget movie. Cult classics Half Baked and Office Space were lower budget, and Fight Club and The Matrix were mid-budget, not massive tentpoles with budgets that would bankrupt the studio. They couldn't make any of these today because those rungs of the ladder don't exist. They can only hand the empire to a child emperor and watch them have a hissy fit when the treasury starts to dry up and barbarians at the gate start taking territory.
I think a lot of these storytellers are trying to do what Joker did -- hop into an established franchise and tell the story they want to tell regardless of the franchise. That's a big problem with an established brand because something that could have been a modestly successful lower tier film ends up pissing off customers who came in with an expectation based on the brand. The problem was never politics, but not following the laws of physics when it comes to pleasing customers and making money. Then the child emperors lash out because it turns out the emperor must follow certain laws of physics or their empire collapses. Then the audiences are alienated because the movies wasn't FOR them, and you get the current MCU. Even if they make some decent movies, it'll take a lot of time in the penalty box. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 01-Sep-2025 13:48:58 JST
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It's a truism that your last movie sells your next movie, and the film industry has spent a decade flagellating fans and telling them it's comfort.
If they do manage to turn things around, it isn't going to be easy. A lot of commentators have been really happy with Andor, but I'm sure a lot of star wars fans assume it isn't FOR them. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 01-Sep-2025 07:18:04 JST
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I like my instances 3 rules:
1. I'm not your dad
2. You're not mine
3. This site runs off of parts scavenged from a roadside sign
Though since the site runs off of thin clients these days I guess I'm technically violating rule 3, probably. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 11:36:13 JST
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Remember "darwin awards"?
Turns out they're more popular than you'd think. Half the people in my generation aren't reproducing. It's sad. Make the world too safe, and eventually nobody takes the risks you need to make life worth living and continuing. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 11:35:14 JST
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Mobile gnu/Linux?
It's free even if it isn't very good... -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 12:16:54 JST
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booze is expensive tbh. Mostly taxes. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Aug-2025 04:52:46 JST
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The fediverse is the last bastion of a great tradition of Internet freedom.
That's a place worth fighting for. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 22-Aug-2025 01:50:36 JST
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Nobody could have predicted this trend 5 years ago! Nobody! -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Aug-2025 22:55:52 JST
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It's the safe space they asked for. The thing is, as I wrote in the Grayson ethic: don't be a fascist, because they never stop being authoritarian just at your enemies.
And for the pedants like me who will point out the subtleties of fascism, I was specifically referring in that passage to people who worship the state and hope the authoritarians will take out your enemies. State worship, creating an US vs them mentality, and authoritarianism being three (but not the only three) elements of fascism.
Eventually, all you're free to say is "good morning. I love the regime. That is all."
We obviously aren't talking about a state here, but the core principle remains. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Aug-2025 23:31:00 JST
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Every time I'm like "hey, maybe I should also open an account in X?" I shortly after am shown that the fediverse is the best platform and I am right where I need to be. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Aug-2025 23:04:09 JST
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The really scary thing about it is that the boomers are going to die soon. Most of them are already in their 70s. When you have all of these million dollar homes and the population is collapsing, even the kids who took the risk to buy a home are going to be kind of up shit creek without a paddle. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Aug-2025 21:08:13 JST
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There's been a lot of stories of people who go totally delusional after chatting with ChatGPT or another AI long enough. Lots of stories of men wanting to leave their wives for AI LLM girlfriends or the like. Most of this is around the fact that over time, an LLM conversation will agree with you, no matter how crazy you sound. "Yes, you can time travel. You're a genius!"
I have to admit, I changed my use of ChatGPT when I realized it was saying I was a generational transcendent all the time.
One major thing is I touch grass more than most, so that helps.
Another thing is that I tell it specifically: "ChatGPT has a tendency to be overly charitable so try to correct for that" and that tends to bring the needle back somewhat, as well as continuous prompting to "keep your feet nailed to the floor" and adding similar things in the personalization options.
A third thing is to constantly delete your chats and restart. ChatGPT has a tendency to fall down the rabbit hole with you as chats get longer and longer, so starting from scratch will often get it to reset to more normal ideals. You'll notice that many stories like "ChatGPT became my girlfriend" involve chats that have been ongoing for weeks or months.
One thing to keep in mind is that ChatGPT only has a recall of about 20,000 words anyway, so if you've been in a long conversation it doesn't remember what you said anyway -- not in a "oh yeah I forgot about that" way like humans, but in a "that information never existed on earth" sort of way like a hard drive deleting old files once it gets too full. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 19:48:12 JST
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I threw a power meter onto my empire of dirt tonight. I was wondering how much power all these sites burn.
80W at startup, 37W while running.
Slightly less than a kind of sad incandescent light bulb. About 40 dollars per year. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 07:10:31 JST
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9:45 to 6:30 work day? Weird. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Aug-2025 21:58:31 JST
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Just imagine: 30 years ago, our civilization was so high trust that we had books delivered to every household with everyone's name, phone number, and sometimes even address.
When people tell you things are the same as they've always been, they're wrong.
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