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Digital colour gadfly. Antihumanist. Antipositivist. Acolyte of moving / static pixel hermeneutics and thaumaturgy. Make creative things matter. [bridged from https://mastodon.art/@troy_s on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Rob Ricci @ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 1d
I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here?

I'll pay the bills. Period.

I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team.

DM me.
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Does anyone remember the Reinhart-Rogoff affair? The paper that was widely used to justify austerity policies, but where the main result was only an artifact due to the researchers screwing up their Excel formulas?

So yeah, can't see how putting the random number generator called "AI" in Excel […]
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troy_s :praxis_100: @troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 3d
This feels like something @pluralistic could write a whole book on.

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“There Is No Nobel Prize in Economics Sweden’s Central Bank quietly snuck it in with all the other Nobel Prizes to give free-market economics for the 1% credibility. […] “Few realize, especially outside of economists, that the prize in economics is not an “official” Nobel. . . . The award for economics came almost 70 years later—bootstrapped to the Nobel in 1968 as a bit of a marketing ploy to celebrate the Bank of Sweden’s 300th anniversary.”” https://www.alternet.org/2012/10/there-no-nobel-prize-economics
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troy_s :praxis_100: @troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 3d
“Take Hayek: Before he won the award, it looked like Hayek was washed up. His career as an economist was essentially over. He was considered a quack and fraud by contemporary economists, he had spent the 50s and 60s in academic obscurity, preaching the gospel of free markets and economic […]
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troy_s :praxis_100: @troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 3d
“There Is No Nobel Prize in Economics

Sweden’s Central Bank quietly snuck it in with all the other Nobel Prizes to give free-market economics for the 1% credibility. […] “Few realize, especially outside of economists, that the prize in economics is not an “official” Nobel. . . . The award for […]
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troy_s :praxis_100: @troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 4d
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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ @cryptadamist.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 5d
tucker's on some real shit

#ai #tucker #tuckercarlson #foxnews #occult #AI #openai #grok #gemini #uspol #antichrist #markofthebeast #kabbalah #technology #babylon
@tuckercarlson If AI seems a little spooky, that’s because it’s rooted in the occult. Conrad Flynn explains. (0:00) Is the Elite Class Involved in Occult Activity? (8:51) What Really Is the Occult? (13:13) Is There a Link Between AI and Demons? (17:58) Are Drugs a Portal to the Demonic? (26:05) Is Technology Being Used for Evil? (32:09) What Is Kabbalah? (42:34) Is There Demonic Influence in Music? (49:01) Is War a Product of Demonic Influence? (58:25) The Deadly AI Dilemma (1:04:05) The Kabbalah Tree of Life (1:11:47) What Is the Antichrist? (1:16:00) What Is the Mark of the Beast? (1:21:55) The Spiritual Aspects of AI (1:26:58) Have We Ever Tried to Excavate the Ruins of Babylon? (1:31:45) How to Spot the Antichrist (1:40:27) How to Avoid the Mark of the Beast
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troy_s :praxis_100: @troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 9d
This lecture is so, so darn good at explaining the logic and reasoning behind Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors!

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“17: Principal Components Analysis_ - Intro to Neural Computation” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-49t1j-XWY
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troy_s :praxis_100: @troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 9d
“17: Principal Components Analysis_ - Intro to Neural Computation”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-49t1j-XWY
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troy_s :praxis_100: @troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 10d
Given the experiments of Ditchburn, Riggs, Yarbus, and the rest who pulled off absolutely fixated energy fields, and the fact that our vision dissolves into a filled in nothingness, it makes me wonder about the essence of colour cognition itself.

Is colour nothing more than difference?
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troy_s :praxis_100: @troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 10d
Kind of interesting that if we start with a visible spectral smattering quantity of energy called `S`, the sole way to have a probability of inducing a cognition of colour is to shift *away* from that `S`.

If we abide by energy conservation, it is implicit that the energy decrements.

This […]
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troy_s :praxis_100: @troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 10d
“Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to $50 billion

Saudi investment fund, Jared Kushner are reportedly among the interested buyers”

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/09/reports-ea-set-to-be-sold-to-private-investors-for-up-to-50-billion/
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troy_s :praxis_100: @troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 10d
This sort of thing happening on the web is remarkable and inspiring.

“Messenger”

https://messenger.abeto.co
Messenger
It's a small planet, but someone's gotta make the deliveries.
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troy_s :praxis_100: @troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 10d
“Gaslighting Your Fans w/ Dolby ATMOS™”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dw3aKbw5Wo
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troy_s :praxis_100: @troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 11d
"David Mamet Has Left the Building"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be62DXxpgq0
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stux⚡ @stux.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d
Ahh better!
Left: skeleton with all nerves in their original messy way Right: zipped tied all bundled together alone the spine, a lot better organized
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troy_s :praxis_100: @troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 11d
Does anyone find the "white" band peculiar here?
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d
Here's the official Global Meteor Network camera video from Lucky Lake, Saskatchewan! This video is courtesy University of Western Ontario and Defence R&D Canada.

I counted 13 pieces in the video, how many do we think made it to the ground and are sitting on canola stubble east of Saskatoon?
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troy_s :praxis_100: @troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 12d
I guess it bears repeating:

Everything is political. What is not political to someone is merely a sign of the privilege of not needing to pay attention to it.
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troy_s :praxis_100: @troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 12d
Anyone who utters any sort of claim around “HDR” ought to be cornered and forced to explain what:
1. Highlight is.
2. Specular is.
3. “White” is.

I promise not a soul will be able to do so in any rigorous manner that validates the claims around the BT.2100 […]

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Jay 🆘 @jsit.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12d
I'm fascinated by these new apps/sites called #netshort, #dramawave, etc. -- cheaply-produced "TV" drama streaming apps with virtually no coverage about them on the mainstream web.

"Welcome to DramaWave, a next-gen HD streaming platform offering exclusive vertical TV videos, series, and movies […]
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Mark Hurst @markhurst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d
NEW: My view of the future vs. Peter Thiel's.

Thiel seems to believe we're in the Last Days, that people who work for a more just society are somehow allied with the Antichrist.

I see the oligarchs and their power - from surveillance, from monopoly - as the problem […]
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d
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troy_s :praxis_100: @troy-s.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 13d
Likewise, we could pose a less illuminant-centric framing of “illuminating a shape”. Is the important part the “illuminant” here, or is it the cognitive construction of the shape? And enmeshed among many shapes, do we pay attention to *all* of the “illuminants”, or does cognitive segmentation of […]
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