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I'm interested in and have studied many things.

Lately Horses, Tibetan Buddhism, Iain McGilchrist, Legos and always books.

I taught Comparative Religion, Philosophy and Psychology for almost twenty years.

I was once a therapist now I am an Authenticity Coach because I liked the sound of it and I am over being associated with what most therapy has become.

I'm excited about the potential of Mastodon and look forward to meeting you!

Placeholder text for lunch.

People in security and computing have been saying for years - there's no cloud. There's just someone else's computer.

Right now, there's no AI. There's just someone else's work.

Stop calling generative text and image programs AI. It's inaccurate and insulting. They are just the evolution of corporate creative theft that's been going on as long as media corporations have existed.

Good Morning ☀️
#Photography #Nature #horses
Use the term "touch grass" to indicate that someone needs to seek out reality, use the term “touch moss" to indicate that they need to seek out ancient forest magic beyond their mortal Comprehension.

Why AI really is dangerous to Society...
'what we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history... unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside propriety products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent.'

AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein

AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are

Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves

The Guardian

Damn those unreliable ACME products!

#acme #coyote #roadrunner #cartoons #cartoon #humor #funny #humour

Mastodon now has support for importing server-level blocklists. This allows admins to import ready-made blocklists instead of having to block hundreds of servers one at a time.

If you want a source of blocklists, you might want to try here:

➡️ https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/the-oliphant-social-blocklist

There are many different lists on that site, with the criteria for each explained in detail.

For instructions on how to import blocklists onto your server:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/importing-ready-made-server-blocklists-on-mastodon

#Mastodon #Fediverse #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

Oliphant.Social Mastodon/Fediverse Blocklists

This is a place to find curated server blocklists for your own use. There are links to individual blocklist sources, as well as a custom ...

The Oliphant

RT @imranchaudhri
tonight, i’m taking the stage @TEDTalks to share a bit of what we’ve been building @humane

i’m excited about tomorrow, it’s gonna be different after today

“My hot take on “15 minute cities” is if you can get to the coffee shop within fifteen minutes, but the barrista who makes your drink can’t afford to live closer than a half-hour away, then you live in a theme park.” - Gareth Klieber #cities #urbanism #housing #transit #cycling

Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and random motion.

Credit: Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations
Source and further reading: https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/pendulum-waves

Pendulum Waves

What it shows: Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and random motion. One might call this kinetic art and the choreography of the dance of the pendulums is stunning! Aliasing and quantum revival can also be shown.