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ANTIFA Reliability Engineer

@nrr.corvidae.org

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I get told "no" a lot. I studied actuarial mathematics in college. I pretend to be a yerba mate maned wolf on the Internet. Trans rights are human rights. This is not an activism zone. Use @nrr1.618033989 on Signal for that.

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ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 2d

That one's mine. I use software-as-fabric as a sort of metaphor here given how ubiquitous both are.

Your note about LotR citations… isn't that far off. You're actually more familiar with the depths of esoterica than you think.

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ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 2d

My suggestion is to stay blissfully oblivious. This is an unkind rabbit hole and is, by most accounts, a cognitohazard.

The thing that you need to take away is that there's a thread of strongly reactionary thought woven through the warp and weft of tech, particularly from here in Silicon Valley.

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ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 2d

"Your ballot for the upcoming November 4, 2025, Statewide Special Election has been mailed to you."

it's happening dot gif

ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 3d

You know it's a really sad state of affairs when I'd normally try to joke about going back to FA only to realize mid-sentence that we should actually be commiserating over the burned good will we both have there.

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ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 3d

That's being charitable.

ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 3d

Current catus, addendum

It's a photo of a cat. Laureline here is shown after spending a few minutes nibbling on my toes. She's seen fit to put her chin between my crossed feet and is taking advantage of them to be her pillow.

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ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 3d

Current catus

My prosecutorial discretion around sock crimes includes whether to say, "Hey, you're sharp. We don't bite."

The girl gets a nibble on my toes as a treat, I've determine.

ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 3d

Extremely unhappy that the automatic license plate camera deployments here in South Bay are centered on home centers like Home Depot and Lowe's.

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ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 3d

KI-Beleidigung? Nein, danke.

(Es gibt aber die Möglichkeit, KI-Beleidigung tatsächlich Beleidigung gegen Menschen zu werden. Siehe auch „clanker“ vis-à-vis „wireback“ u.Ä.

Echt ekelhaft, das.)

ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 4d

… wait, does your reporting gadget work? mine's been broken for going on a year.

ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 4d

"My career is my life. My life is my career." Absolutely the fuck not.

ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 5d

(Also, riffing on Carola this way will forever be hilarious to me, let alone that whoever runs omfgdogs.com has firmly cemented the association of her 1991 Eurovision win with an Internet meme originally animated by Paul Robertson.)

ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 5d

Have a breakfast-oriented playlist of FastTracker2 modules. Fuck transphobia.

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ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 6d

No, that's what his dad does.

ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 6d

Uh.

I just ran into the kid of the leader of Einstuerzende Neubauten by happenstance because I was going over German sentence structure???

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ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 6d

Back when I was sociology-adjacent, I played a bit with trust metrics in the past to great effect, but I always ran up against the in-the-end fatal problem that discretely coding trust relationships in a way that people jive with them is actually pretty hard.

I'm glad to see you in my playground.

ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 6d

This is appropriate coyote-like behavior.

ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 7d

I'll add one more bit of media analysis: Metalvotze and AINC are, modulo relatively little, basically the translation of tech bros into the demoscene.

ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 7d

Winnerdemo was an entry in the Breakpoint 2004 main demo competition.

It's extremely fan service for German sceners. At a German party. It lived up to its name, to everyone else's chagrin. Watch at your own risk.

"We have computers which can beat your computers" was a very prescient prediction.

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ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 7d

I think the hardest part might be the post-processing that I'd want to do? The recording part itself doesn't seem that gnarly.

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ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 7d

I know how to do complex mathematics, and I wouldn't expect ordinary people to understand why a sphere is a genus-0 surface or why removing one of its poles turns it into a piece of paper.

I do, however, expect gut checking numbers and knowing how to test a statistical hypothesis against the data.

ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 7d

I guess I get to sit down and finally learn how to record lectures using OBS and a drawing tablet.

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ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 8d

i'm looking. ears forward and half-lidded glance says, "you're pretty alright."

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ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 8d

I managed to surprise myself by remembering how to derive one-dimensional UAM given instantaneous acceleration, which is something I haven't done in… a while.

ANTIFA Reliability Engineer @nrr.corvidae.org · 8d

Hey, want to learn about NT Jobs and Silos? Sandboxing on Windows is a supremely fun time.

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