Vast and Dire Beast

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Possibly a figment of your #imagination ⚡ Maniacal Genius ⚡ Drinking #tea. LOTS of tea ⚡ The world is /full/ of most wonderful things ⚡ Ever on the hunt for knowledge, and the best hunters catch enough to share ⚡ Total war against despair and hopelessness ⚡ Open sorcery ⚡ Hope powered dynamo ⚡ #greymuzzle ⚡ A bit shy until I get the feel of someone ⚡ Wholesome Macro/Micro Fun ⚡ Really, really good at liking things

My employer does not necessarily share my opinions on capital property, SaaS, LLMs, CEOs, giant animals, paws, and many, many other things.

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Avatar from a picture by Wolnir!
TheriotypeFox/Squirrel Confusion (Firrox)
Stature2.98 × 2¹²⁰ ℓₚ
Gender/SexualityNo, thank you. (Ace, they/them)
PoliticsTransnatural Socialism: No Gods, No Master Computers; Analytic Left
UnitarianUniversalist
Vast and Dire Beast1h ago

Okay I know the self-erasing floppy thing was hyperbole on my part, but it’s a thing that existed and has been lumped in with other things and to me there’s an intense aesthetic difference between:

  • Guy Maddin’s Seances project which used a stochastic process to splice together bits of film, postprocessing, narrative text and music markov-chain style from a random (possibly time-based) seed and came by its ephemerality ‘honestly’ as part of how it was made
  • Self-erasing media that tries to add an enforced ephemerality onto something that by its nature resists it.
    • Vast and Dire Beast1h ago
    Squirrel Girl at least seems to be one of those comics where there’s a series and you start at the start and then keep reading it until it’s done, instead if the entire story being scattered around nineteen different series two of which were only ever sold in limited runs in France and an essential plot point of which only existed as a self-erasing Acorn demo floppy that makes you type in a pledge that you will never reveal any detail before playing once.
    Vast and Dire Beast5h ago
    Macro bats are cute.
    Vast and Dire Beast6h ago

    I honestly expect most of the big, name-brand tech companies to abide by whatever they say they do with user data and delete it when they claim they do.

    100%? No, because incompetence happens. But they’re under so much scrutiny from so many players I don’t think they could get away with large-scale malfeasance. Even if they didn’t get prosecuted they couldn’t cover it up.

    It’s the companies that don’t have much international presence, don’t engage in Business-to-Business, are small operations, or that dominate a sector nobody cares about that I think are much more likely to outright lie.

    Vast and Dire Beast8h ago

    Thinking about the phrase ‘kilometric pawpad’ ever since I ran into it the day before yesterday.

    You might say it’s been weighing on me.

    Vast and Dire Beast10h ago
    Seeing someone arguing for smacking a kid in the face for talking back as a means of ‘instilling respect’ and absent every other concern, has it never occurred to these people that you’re communicating to the child, “Hi! I, an adult, cannot handle an eight year old mouthing off to me without losing it and getting violent.”?
    Vast and Dire Beast22h ago

    The mouse’s awareness flicked on, moments after this strange body’s eyes opened to a strange world built from strange history.

    They felt the energy of aerobic fitness, the lack of aches and pains. They probed at teeth with the tip of their tongue and had four fewer fillings. Their stomach sank: every life where they exercised and kept after their health they were either a complete asshole or super laid-back and nice.

    The badger in front of them, pounding the table and shouting, made them think this life had not been super laid-back.

    “—eliminated, cauterized, and utterly destroyed.” the stocky mustelid sputtered out.

    Mind not fully engaged the mouse muttered, “Hell, who died and made you Fuhrer?”

    They knew it was the wrong thing to say as they were saying it, before everyone at the table began staring.

    “The old Fuhrer did?” said the badger, uncertainly, “Yesterday?”

    The mouse’s belly developed a seeming intention to dig through their pelvic floor when the badger added, “You should know, you shot him.”

    The mouse decided to continue on the assumption they were taking down a fascist regime from within.

    If that hadn’t been their goal before, some people were going to be surprised.

    Show threadVast and Dire Beast1d ago
    If I could have two things it would be having someone actually respond to an interactable post instead of just liking it or saying they like my writing.
    Vast and Dire Beast1d ago
    If I could have one thing next year for Macro March it’s people in real-time chats invading my personal space more. Being one or two hundred feet tall is just /not really very much fun/ without people climbing on or hugging or otherwise playing with you.
    Show threadVast and Dire Beast1d ago

    And it’s not like I just dislike anything new or different.

    Yes, I think mobile-first and convergent UX are all terrible because they’re built on ecosystems of consumerist disempowerment and every assumption about the workflow, basically, sucks. But I hate specific things intensely for specific reasons.

    But it’s not like I’ve been carrying an unending dislike for systemd or believe Wayland is the end of civilization. I don’t even hate every possible use-case of an LLM.