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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · Oct 27

Follow me on Letterboxd if you are interested in my thoughts on film

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Fopling uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 316 films watched. Favorites: The Lighthouse (2019), Mother Joan of the Angels (1961), The Forbidden Room (2015), Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989). ...

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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 29m

I love the Nobel peace prize. It's a great way to draw attention to the various war criminals, right wing ideologues, and ice chewing psychos of the world. Sure they occasionally make a mistake and give it to someone promoting peace, but nobody is perfect.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 2h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 38m

Exactly! The man in black who played his guitar like it was a rifle, he was insanely cool

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 2h

scene from Back to the Future II with Biff knocked out on the ground, Marty saying "it's okay. I know CPR.", and a bystander asking "what's CPR?"

edited image from Back to the Future II of Marty holding the Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 1d

Sure I haven't published a novel yet, but I think they should give me the Nobel prize for literature anyway.

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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · May 18

Boycotting anything that could give JK Rowling money is the right thing to do on principle, but we should probably deal with the fact that materially it does nothing. If she never made another dollar she could still donate well over a million a year the rest of her life and die wealthier than God.

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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to say as of this moment. She was a billionaire before giving 200 million away to various causes a few years ago. She might be back over that threshold again by now or might not be. Either way she has enough money to find this kind of thing indefinitely.

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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 2d

I'm lucky to come from a family of heretics. My mother is a trouble maker in her Bible study group. I was raised deeply religious, but still told to be skeptical of anything someone told me about religion that didn't make sense, including anything said by my own family members.

Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 3d

They are missing out, unorthodox interpretations are always the most interesting. What's the point of study if you ignore fresh ideas?

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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 3d

Unfortunate that I can't join you, but I look forward to hearing your results

Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 3d

Watching a documentary and being surprised at how big some of the males were. I am fortunately not being confronted by angry chimpanzees... yet

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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 3d

I forget how big chimpanzees can get. Up to 5'6" and well past 150 pounds for the largest specimens, that's just a guy

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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 3d

Unclear if this is true, but I swear that Granny Smith apples just aren't as tart/flavorful as they used to be. The ones near me are too bland to be great cooking apples

Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 3d

I bet you could get Abdullah Öcalan to smuggle a written statement out of prison directed to be read on campus. Not only heterodox but genuinely influential on world politics, he seems perfect.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah the analogy seems right to me re someone who spends a lot of time gleefully simulating torture of a barbie doll and, like, I think I wanna avoid that person and not because I am confused about whether or not the barbie is actually feeling pain.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5d

i don’t think it should be very controversial to think that LLMs are not conscious beings while simultaneously thinking that people who prompt them in hateful or abusive ways are likely hateful and abusive people and it is very strange to me that people actively choose either far end of this

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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 5d

There is a way in which Deleuze and Guattari take Marx more seriously than the freudomarxists did. They conceptualize the psyche along Marxist lines with an unconscious of machines ordered around production.

Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks guys, very cool

Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 5d

"only the mind is capable of shitting." - Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus

Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 5d

"only the mind is capable of shitting." - Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus