Notices by Wyatt H Knott (whknott@mastodon.social)

Ohhhhh No, Tubi, you can't get me that easy, there is NO WAY I am watching the Curse of the Mummy's Tomb next, tyvm

#monsterdon

@sealawyer lets make gorgonized the new 420 #monsterdon

Alright, you asked for it. I will #monsterdon

Dont expect me to like it though

Hey this has Christopher Lee. Wait. Is this going to be .... good? #monsterdon

@knud @mekkaokereke @lerxst @OldFartPhil @grumpasaurus Before WW2, Science spoke English and French. Math spoke English, French, German and Yiddish. Stop centering German pre-war science.

@steter As I've already said to someone today: "non est disputandum de gustu" 🤣

@steter I do not think trying to make it look more like gmail is an improvement and I told them so.

@mcnado As of tonight, citizen, attacks on Christian instituions are officially subject to the actions of a tribunal, chaired by the AG with all of the Secretaries appointed as Inquisitors. Do not think that this is limited to initv.s within the government, the wording of the EO makes it clear that they are interested in stopping what they claim to be a veritable slew of attacks on Churches.

Outspoken trans supporting doctors who let their dogs piss on the church steps may soon end up in Gitmo.

First, they came for your intelligence agents
And you said nothing, even though you know how dangerous an unencrypted email can be
Next they came for your Treasurers and your Aid Workers
So you yelled a lot and made a sign that says "no one voted for Elon" to carry at the protest
Now they've come for your archivists and librarians
What will you say now?

https://www.404media.co/trump-fires-national-archives-director-colleen-shogan/

@KrajciTom @mekkaokereke @pixelnull A simple unit analysis reveals that the unit energy per degree is inversely proportional to the amount of joy created.

Where does it all go then? You're telling me the energy just turns into sound or friction or heat and is lost and that this sum total lost energy is 'chaos', that this is all there is to 'entropy'?

Nay, nay. It has to go somewhere, and the concurrent generation of joy fully explains the energy loss.

@profdc9 @GhostOnTheHalfShell @pluralistic Frankly, I wish someone would drop the trestle over Lake Champlain, and then Canada could keep her LPG to herself.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @pluralistic Anecdotal evidence confirms your assessment: I live in St. Albans, VT, immediately next to a railyard which manages Canadian freight inbound to the US. All day long, it's railcar after railcar of LPG, lumber, and mineral hoppers hauling stuff like Titanium Dioxide. No boxcars, no transporters, no finished goods at all, ever.

@Infoseepage @moira @SnoopJ @socketwench Clearly, it writes itself. MIght be too obviously parody of the form for #Monsterdon? I mean, that's what #Monsterdon is already...

@Infoseepage @moira @SnoopJ @socketwench

"We can remake Christine, King is really free with his work."

"We don't have the budget for a whole car."

"Well, what DO we have the budget for?"

"Like, a tire."

"Just one?"

"Just one."

"I can work with that."

@CedarTea As I was reading I was like "wait a second, this is pure anarchist doctrine..." then I got to this post 🤣 well done, sir, well done

@mattmcirvin @nyrath @futurebird Heinlein was opposed to democracy as a technocrat and an intellectual elitist, I've always thought that what people termed a libertarian streak was really an anti-idiotocracy streak. He's pretty explicit in both ST and Friday that democracy without civic restrictions or prerequisites is a recipe for disaster.

@futurebird I love to watch the 'survivalists' surviving 'alone in the woods' while wearing modern textiles.

Like, dude, your clothing literally came from an oil well, how are you 'self-sufficient'.

@futurebird The real power of the feudal world was not so much that they controlled a powerful military - all leaders through time have done that. The thing that always strikes me about the feudal era (and to some extent to England today) is how much of the natural world the state directly owned and controlled. The kings owned ALL the land. ALL the animals. ALL the minerals. ANYTHING that needed doing, including producing enough food to survive, had to be done through the approval of monarchs.

@dalias @felipe @zak @futurebird @ronaldtootall @hannu_ikonen This. The evidence of your senses is correlated to the effectiveness of your behaviors. Since LLMs don't HAVE behaviors, they don't have the functionality to create the feedback loops necessary for understanding.

@futurebird Yabbut do you teach physics with calculus or without?