Xavier Snelgrove
@wxs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
CS + Graphics + ML + Vision + etc.etc.
What are ways we can mathematically and computationally model our world?
How do we hold the gap between those models and […]
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@wxs on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
What are ways we can mathematically and computationally model our world?
How do we hold the gap between those models and […]
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@wxs on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
We're accepting new writing for Orbital Studies, a literary science magazine cultivating a poetic orientation towards the world revealed to us by science.
Issue theme: *Ways of Seeing The Objective World*
Deadline Dec 10: https://orbitalstudies.com
Please share! We pay all contributors.
Issue theme: *Ways of Seeing The Objective World*
Deadline Dec 10: https://orbitalstudies.com
Please share! We pay all contributors.
❧ Orbital Studies Magazine ☙
Ways of Seeing the Objective World
orbitalstudies.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We're accepting new writing for Orbital Studies, a literary science magazine cultivating a poetic orientation towards the world revealed to us by science.
Issue theme: *Ways of Seeing The Objective World*
Deadline Dec 10: https://orbitalstudies.com
Please share! We pay all contributors.
Issue theme: *Ways of Seeing The Objective World*
Deadline Dec 10: https://orbitalstudies.com
Please share! We pay all contributors.
Reposted by Xavier Snelgrove
New captcha just dropped
April 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
New captcha just dropped
Reposted by Xavier Snelgrove
There's never been a better time to make friends in person!
https://www.404media.co/this-college-protester-isnt-real-its-an-ai-powered-undercover-bot-for-cops/
https://www.404media.co/this-college-protester-isnt-real-its-an-ai-powered-undercover-bot-for-cops/
This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”
www.404media.co
April 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
There's never been a better time to make friends in person!
https://www.404media.co/this-college-protester-isnt-real-its-an-ai-powered-undercover-bot-for-cops/
https://www.404media.co/this-college-protester-isnt-real-its-an-ai-powered-undercover-bot-for-cops/
Ah yes electric cars, the saviours of the environment...
April 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Ah yes electric cars, the saviours of the environment...
"Separation of form and content" is the tech person's belief in the soul.
April 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"Separation of form and content" is the tech person's belief in the soul.
[🇨🇦 Pol and climate]
Depressing that we're trying to use rising Canadian nationalism to fast track burning as much oil as quickly as we can before the "inevitable" demand drop. A truly boggling narrative.
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> How to awaken Canada’s sleeping economic giant
> When it comes to fossil fuels […]
Depressing that we're trying to use rising Canadian nationalism to fast track burning as much oil as quickly as we can before the "inevitable" demand drop. A truly boggling narrative.
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> How to awaken Canada’s sleeping economic giant
> When it comes to fossil fuels […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
April 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
[🇨🇦 Pol and climate]
Depressing that we're trying to use rising Canadian nationalism to fast track burning as much oil as quickly as we can before the "inevitable" demand drop. A truly boggling narrative.
---
> How to awaken Canada’s sleeping economic giant
> When it comes to fossil fuels […]
Depressing that we're trying to use rising Canadian nationalism to fast track burning as much oil as quickly as we can before the "inevitable" demand drop. A truly boggling narrative.
---
> How to awaken Canada’s sleeping economic giant
> When it comes to fossil fuels […]
Reposted by Xavier Snelgrove
Weird find:
Apparently, Charles Babbage claimed to have written a paper called "On the Art of Opening All Locks"
It was never published. Why don't we have any conspiracy theories, or at least crappy youtube videos, about this?
Apparently, Charles Babbage claimed to have written a paper called "On the Art of Opening All Locks"
It was never published. Why don't we have any conspiracy theories, or at least crappy youtube videos, about this?
March 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Weird find:
Apparently, Charles Babbage claimed to have written a paper called "On the Art of Opening All Locks"
It was never published. Why don't we have any conspiracy theories, or at least crappy youtube videos, about this?
Apparently, Charles Babbage claimed to have written a paper called "On the Art of Opening All Locks"
It was never published. Why don't we have any conspiracy theories, or at least crappy youtube videos, about this?
TIL: I've been using using "titling figures" like a BOOR this whole time not realizing that there are text figures instead (essentially uppercase and lowercase numbers¹). I can't enter them here because they don't have their own code points.
Not to mention I can't do properly hyphenated […]
Not to mention I can't do properly hyphenated […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
March 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
TIL: I've been using using "titling figures" like a BOOR this whole time not realizing that there are text figures instead (essentially uppercase and lowercase numbers¹). I can't enter them here because they don't have their own code points.
Not to mention I can't do properly hyphenated […]
Not to mention I can't do properly hyphenated […]
What if RSS were actually Bad for attempting to forward a kind of commoditized/disembodied view of content as independent of its medium? What if that actually created the cultural space for hyper-centralized outlets (FB/Twtr/Insta) since content is in fact not independent of form?
March 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
What if RSS were actually Bad for attempting to forward a kind of commoditized/disembodied view of content as independent of its medium? What if that actually created the cultural space for hyper-centralized outlets (FB/Twtr/Insta) since content is in fact not independent of form?
https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/welcome-to-the-semantic-apocalypse
> While ChatGPT can’t pull off a perfect Miyazaki copy, it doesn’t really matter. The semantic apocalypse doesn’t require AI art to be exactly as good as the best human art. You just need to flood people with […]
> While ChatGPT can’t pull off a perfect Miyazaki copy, it doesn’t really matter. The semantic apocalypse doesn’t require AI art to be exactly as good as the best human art. You just need to flood people with […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
March 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/welcome-to-the-semantic-apocalypse
> While ChatGPT can’t pull off a perfect Miyazaki copy, it doesn’t really matter. The semantic apocalypse doesn’t require AI art to be exactly as good as the best human art. You just need to flood people with […]
> While ChatGPT can’t pull off a perfect Miyazaki copy, it doesn’t really matter. The semantic apocalypse doesn’t require AI art to be exactly as good as the best human art. You just need to flood people with […]
Living Things Are Not Machines (Also, They Totally Are) | NOEMA
https://www.noemamag.com/living-things-are-not-machines-also-they-totally-are
> My proposed solution is to lean into the realization that nothing is anything and drop the literalism that mistakes our maps for the totality of […]
https://www.noemamag.com/living-things-are-not-machines-also-they-totally-are
> My proposed solution is to lean into the realization that nothing is anything and drop the literalism that mistakes our maps for the totality of […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
March 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Living Things Are Not Machines (Also, They Totally Are) | NOEMA
https://www.noemamag.com/living-things-are-not-machines-also-they-totally-are
> My proposed solution is to lean into the realization that nothing is anything and drop the literalism that mistakes our maps for the totality of […]
https://www.noemamag.com/living-things-are-not-machines-also-they-totally-are
> My proposed solution is to lean into the realization that nothing is anything and drop the literalism that mistakes our maps for the totality of […]
Periodic reminder that are.na is the best place on the internet. Legitimately somewhere I feel awe/movement, not something I typically get through this little glowing demon rectangle.
Here's a great channel on anachronism: https://www.are.na/francesco-venturi/anachronisms
Here's a great channel on anachronism: https://www.are.na/francesco-venturi/anachronisms
Anachronisms | Are.na
the anachronistic is a way of thinking about the heterogeneous within time
www.are.na
March 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Periodic reminder that are.na is the best place on the internet. Legitimately somewhere I feel awe/movement, not something I typically get through this little glowing demon rectangle.
Here's a great channel on anachronism: https://www.are.na/francesco-venturi/anachronisms
Here's a great channel on anachronism: https://www.are.na/francesco-venturi/anachronisms
The introduction of "The Brain Abstracted"[1] is one of the clearest articulations of philosophy of organism vs philosophy of mechanism I've seen. The dilemma of the need for simplifying abstraction to "know" something scientifically is also very well treated.
1] Open Access [ […]
1] Open Access [ […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
March 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The introduction of "The Brain Abstracted"[1] is one of the clearest articulations of philosophy of organism vs philosophy of mechanism I've seen. The dilemma of the need for simplifying abstraction to "know" something scientifically is also very well treated.
1] Open Access [ […]
1] Open Access [ […]
The IndieWeb Doesn't Need to "Take Off" - Susam's Quick Notes
> I feel that such claims about the IndieWeb not "taking off" are either stating the obvious or, if that's not the intention, completely missing the point. It's like saying that gardening hasn't taken off because most people buy […]
> I feel that such claims about the IndieWeb not "taking off" are either stating the obvious or, if that's not the intention, completely missing the point. It's like saying that gardening hasn't taken off because most people buy […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
March 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The IndieWeb Doesn't Need to "Take Off" - Susam's Quick Notes
> I feel that such claims about the IndieWeb not "taking off" are either stating the obvious or, if that's not the intention, completely missing the point. It's like saying that gardening hasn't taken off because most people buy […]
> I feel that such claims about the IndieWeb not "taking off" are either stating the obvious or, if that's not the intention, completely missing the point. It's like saying that gardening hasn't taken off because most people buy […]
So suddenly pirating is corporate[1] and hiding from search engines is tech cool[2]
We're in a time when the political/vibe valence of concepts is constantly oscillating (see also "free speech" and "buy local")
1] [ […]
We're in a time when the political/vibe valence of concepts is constantly oscillating (see also "free speech" and "buy local")
1] [ […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
March 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
So suddenly pirating is corporate[1] and hiding from search engines is tech cool[2]
We're in a time when the political/vibe valence of concepts is constantly oscillating (see also "free speech" and "buy local")
1] [ […]
We're in a time when the political/vibe valence of concepts is constantly oscillating (see also "free speech" and "buy local")
1] [ […]
Reposted by Xavier Snelgrove
The amount of time I spend every single day unchecking those damn little "legitimate interest" sliders :/
March 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The amount of time I spend every single day unchecking those damn little "legitimate interest" sliders :/
Reposted by Xavier Snelgrove
Added a new page to my digital garden on how to send files to people.
https://www.makeworld.space/garden/Computers/Sending%20Files.html
https://www.makeworld.space/garden/Computers/Sending%20Files.html
Sending Files
makeworld’s website.
www.makeworld.space
March 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Added a new page to my digital garden on how to send files to people.
https://www.makeworld.space/garden/Computers/Sending%20Files.html
https://www.makeworld.space/garden/Computers/Sending%20Files.html
By popular demand https://PostPost.social now includes accessibility features: send us your phone number and we'll read your posts aloud to you!
#toronto #socialmedia #mail #accessibility
#toronto #socialmedia #mail #accessibility
March 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
By popular demand https://PostPost.social now includes accessibility features: send us your phone number and we'll read your posts aloud to you!
#toronto #socialmedia #mail #accessibility
#toronto #socialmedia #mail #accessibility
Reposted by Xavier Snelgrove
It's really tricky to spread the word about events these days! I don't support corporate social media and you don't get read attention there anyway, mailing lists aren't what they once were, and this event wants to reach people across many patterny disciplines..
Any help spreading the word […]
Any help spreading the word […]
Original post on post.lurk.org
post.lurk.org
March 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
It's really tricky to spread the word about events these days! I don't support corporate social media and you don't get read attention there anyway, mailing lists aren't what they once were, and this event wants to reach people across many patterny disciplines..
Any help spreading the word […]
Any help spreading the word […]
Reposted by Xavier Snelgrove
Learning to use a cracked version of Photoshop 6.0 as a teenager and then booting up Creative Cloud in 2025 is like finding out your childhood library was bulldozed and replaced with a DraftKings Sportsbook
March 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Learning to use a cracked version of Photoshop 6.0 as a teenager and then booting up Creative Cloud in 2025 is like finding out your childhood library was bulldozed and replaced with a DraftKings Sportsbook
Now that we're all anti-American can Ontario just stop with this daylight savings time nonsense without waiting for New York?
March 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Now that we're all anti-American can Ontario just stop with this daylight savings time nonsense without waiting for New York?
Uh oh I thought too hard about how DDoS dynamics have essentially caused the whole internet to centralize to CloudFlare and therefore there's a single point of failure/control/surveillance and now I'm depressed at how far we are from the early utopian visions of the web and indeed how we've […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
March 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Uh oh I thought too hard about how DDoS dynamics have essentially caused the whole internet to centralize to CloudFlare and therefore there's a single point of failure/control/surveillance and now I'm depressed at how far we are from the early utopian visions of the web and indeed how we've […]
Launched a bespoke mail-based social network in #toronto — if you like how mastodon is niche you'll LOVE https://postpost.social.
March 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Launched a bespoke mail-based social network in #toronto — if you like how mastodon is niche you'll LOVE https://postpost.social.