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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 7h

1. we decided as a society to RL our way to the most engaging possible content

2. uhhhhhhhhh (we're currently here)

3. NOT LIKE THAT (hopefully, some day)

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 7h

also the fact that that's a thing is, well, yeah. 2025

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 7h

"like an australopithecine" is a really well-targeted dunk on a racist eating disorder influencer

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 11h

It’s very unintuitive

I‘m sure there are more features like that I don’t know about bc the UI doesn’t tell you how to use them

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 11h

Don’t you mean Kierkegaarden

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 11h

Wait does that not work? I get apparently good results with from:username.bsky.social

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 19h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11h

In basically any modern Linux you pick, you can nowadays install web browsers that do *not* cause hooks to erupt from the walls and flay you.

Nowadays this flaying hook feature is mostly confined to uncommon programs such as calculator, spreadsheet, text editor

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 11h

Bird flu had better not get any ideas

John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 11h

Or, well, it’s at least somewhat better. I’d rather have the first one than the second one.

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 11h

not a lawyer, have to take your word for it, but it is at least the sort of illegal that tries to pretend it’s not

“Whaddaya mean, subsection 3(a) para 4 clearly authorizes” is much better than “I do decree under my authority as commander-in-chief etc etc”

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 12h

Click fraud, phishing, crypto mining

I’d guess something like that

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 12h

I guess I should say die or be forcibly relocated, lots of both

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 12h

Plus, like, you know how many people had to die for those countries to end up that ethnically homogeneous

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 14h

you should put the phone down and go socialize, it's important for a middle-schooler's development

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 14h

you're not doing a good impression of impartially evaluating the US here

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 14h

exactly, just like my ex deserves her terrible new boyfriend

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 14h

y'know how a jilted lover actually feels pain, disillusionment and anger even though they insist that they're totally over it?

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 16h

feels very likely people would say so -- I've definitely heard Windows sitting there with that spinning wheel indicator described as "thinking"

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 18h

Welp, took too long to make dinner, guess we better throw it out and eat garbage

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 1d

Also like “I want it to be easier to get food” is a basic animal desire right up there with “I want sex” and “eepy” that doesn’t need a lot of explaining imo

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 1d

The attitude mostly makes sense as an expression of hostility, not any sort of scientific opinion that may or may not also be there

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 1d

That theory makes it more interesting! if consciousness is non-computational, what sorts of computation can imitate its outputs so well?

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 1d

I would gladly volunteer my services in purchasing a diversified portfolio of government bonds and stocks in return for the low low price of 2 and 20

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 1d

The market price of being able to grope your secretary is apparently extremely high

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