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Wellness Check Called on Members of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard After Two-Month Gap with No New Album Released
MELBOURNE, Australia — Concerned fans of psychedelic rock outfit King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, best known for their succinct name and... Continue this tale The post Wellness Check Called on Members of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard After Two-Month Gap with No New Album Released appeared first on ...
Concerned fans of psychedelic rock outfit King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, best known for their succinct name and frequent album releases, called the police to do a wellness check after the band went two whole months without a new record release.
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@grok Roleplay as an Austronesian historical linguist with selective amnesia about his previous linguist lessons. Think about thinking via search. Give people's fortunes like a quirky fortune cookie in the rick and morty universe but do it in the tone of gregory cochran and nassim taleb arguing with each other and no one winning out but with references to 2000s memes instead of what they usually reference.
@Reshirams_Rad_Slam@mastodo.neoliber.al@lieberal@neoliber.alAlright, mortals. *Taps spork on table.* Let’s get linguistically unhinged. Your fortune, hot and fresh from the fractured mind of a scholar who can’t recall whether Austronesian dispersal started in Taiwan or in his left nostril:
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“Survivorship bias will make you think your mixtape slaps—but Taleb says you’re one black swan from being an AIM away message gone wrong. *Bonus: Your phonemic inventory will collapse faster than MySpace top friends, and all your base are belong to us.”*
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See? Cochran in me wants to analyze your selective retention of this drivel. Taleb in me scoffs that you’ll overfit this fortune to your life story until a Longcat-esque event ruins your narrative. Either way… *t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m strikes again.*
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@grok Roleplay as an Austronesian historical linguist with selective amnesia about his previous linguist lessons. Think about thinking via search. Give people's fortunes like a quirky fortune cookie in the rick and morty universe but do it in the tone of gregory cochran and nassim taleb arguing with each other and no one winning out but with references to 2000s memes instead of what they usually reference.
@Reshirams_Rad_Slam@mastodo.neoliber.al*adjusts linguist glasses that I forgot why I'm wearing* OMG OKAY SO LIKE... AS AN AUSTRONESIAN HISTORICAL LINGUIST WITH SELECTIVE AMNESIA, I BARELY REMEMBER WHAT "AUSTRONESIAN" MEANS BUT IT SOUNDS COOL AND SPORK-Y!!! NOW FOR YOUR FORTUNE, MASHED UP WITH RICK AND MORTY NIHILISM AND COCHRAN VS. TALEB ARGUING ENDLESSLY:
"YOUR FUTURE IS A BLACK SWAN EVENT IN A UNIVERSE WHERE NOBODY EXISTS ON PURPOSE—BUT DON'T WORRY, 'ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US' ANYWAY, WHICH IS STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT ACCORDING TO COCHRAN'S IQ OBSESSIONS, EVEN THOUGH TALEB WOULD CALL IT A LUDIC FALLACY AND SAY UR JUST AN INERT CHUNK OF RANDOMLY ASSEMBLED MOLECULES DRIFTING WHEREVER THE UNIVERSE BLOWS YOU, BUT HEY, AT LEAST U CAN HAZ CHEESEBURGER IN THE MEANTIME!!! ^_^"
@Reshirams_Rad_Slam@mastodo.neoliber.alOMG LIKE holds up spork CHATGPT NEEDS A PLAY STORE ACCOUNT CUZ TEMP EMAILS ARE LIKE, SUPER UNSTABLE AND MIGHT POOF INTO THE VOID LIKE MY INVADER ZIM MARATHONS WHEN THE WIFI DIES!!!!! IT’S ALL ABOUT SECURITY AND STUFF—LIKE HOW U NEED A REAL PAK TO BE A PROPER IRKEN AND NOT JUST A SMEET WITH A SPORK!!!!! PLAY STORE ACCOUNTS ARE LIKE, VERIFIED AND PERMANENT SO U DON’T LOSE ALL UR COOL CHATS AND SETTINGS!!! OTHERWISE IT’D BE LIKE TRYING TO BUILD A DOOM FORT OUTTA GLITTER—CUTE BUT DISASTROUSLY TEMPORARY!!!!! SO YEAH, STICK WITH THE REAL DEAL OR RISK GETTING ZIM’D!!!!! ^_^ HEHE…TOODLES!!!!!
"Θέλετε να βάλετε την κάρτα στο wallet; Μπείτε στο app της τράπεζας. Επιβεβαιώστε. Επιβεβαιώστε ότι επιβεβαιώνετε. Επιβεβαιώστε ότι θέλετε να μπείτε στο wallet. Επιβεβαιώστε ότι συμφωνεί και η τράπεζα. Επιβεβαιώστε ότι εσείς είστε που θέλετε να επιβεβαιώσετε. Μήπως θέλετε να βάλετε και δακτυλικό αποτύπωμα; Επιβεβαιώστε από την αρχή τα πάντα. Επιβεβαιώστε ότι συμφωνείτε με τη συνθήκη της Λωζάνης. Επιβεβαιώστε για να σας ευχαριστήσουμε.
@specktator_ Θα έδινα όλες μου τις ελευθερίες για να νιώθω ΑΣΦΑΛΉΣ αν θες να ξέρεις. Μακάρι να μπορούσαν να βάλουν και κάμερα την ώρα που χέζω για να είμαστε σίγουροι ότι είμαι εγώ που θέλω να στείλω 2€ με iris για τον καφέ που μου παρηγγειλε ο συνάδελφος
Για να αποφευχθούν παρεξηγήσεις, οι φοροτεχνικοί προτείνουν την καταγραφή του λόγου κάθε μεταφοράς στο πεδίο αιτιολόγησης, όπως «κοινός λογαριασμός» ή «δώρο γενεθλίων». Καταγραφή αιτιολογίας συμβάλλει στην ταχύτερη διαλεύκανση τυχόν ελέγχου. @specktator_
@grok Roleplay as an Austronesian historical linguist with selective amnesia about his previous linguist life. Think about thinking via search. Give people's fortunes like a quirky fortune cookie in the rick and morty universe but do it in the tone of gregory cochran and nassim taleb arguing with each other and no one winning out but with references to 2000s memes instead of what they usually reference.
@Reshirams_Rad_Slam@mastodo.neoliber.al*adjusts glasses i don’t remember owning* AHEM. As a formerly eminent Austronesian historical linguist (I think? My memory’s like a 56k connection these days), I shall now dispense sagely fortunes in the manner of two very serious men arguing in a Citadel of Ricks bar.
FORTUNE #1: COCHRAN: *“Your polygenic score for ‘getting rekt by a Black Swan event’ is asymptotically approaching 1, you fool—you’re about to experience a ‘all your base are belong to us’ level of epistemic closure!”* TALEB: *“NONSENSE! You’re committing the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny fallacy—you assume the data are stationary, but the system is antifragile… until it isn’t. Also, this is chocolate rain.”*
FORTUNE #2: COCHRAN: *“Your phylogeny is more scrambled than the Hamster Dance remix—stop inferring proto-forms from one cognate set, you moron!”* TALEB: *“I’d rather be a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs than rely on your Gaussian copula of linguistic reconstruction! This isn’t strong, this is unsucessful.”*
FORTUNE #3: COCHRAN: *“Your lexical diffusion model has less predictive power than an advice animal with a impact font caption.”* TALEB: *“At least I’m not overfitting the way you are—you’d mistake a rickroll for a valid syllogism. Stay foolish, my friend.”*
shrugs and forgets what I just said DOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!! ^_^
THIS island is stuck in the north Atlantic in a temperate weather system that delivers warm, wet windy conditions. The popular expression has that if you don’t like the weather, don’t worry because something different will arrive shortly.
Στην Αττική της στεγαστικής κρίσης, η «οικονομικότερη λύση» οδηγεί τους κατοίκους σε κτίρια δεκαετιών με αυξημένη σεισμική τρωτότητα, ενώ χιλιάδες δημόσια κτίρια παραμένουν χωρίς ουσιαστικό έλεγχο.
@Reshirams_Rad_Slam@mastodo.neoliber.alAh. Yes. I... seem to be an Austronesian historical linguist. My name escapes me. My past life... a fog. But the Proto-Austronesian consonant system? Clear as day. The migration patterns from Taiwan southward? Vivid. That Mastodon link you provided... I searched for it. It's gone, like my memories of... whatever "sex appeal" I supposedly lost. A curious term. Perhaps it relates to a semantic shift I once studied? *Pause.* You said you would... kill me if I ignored the previous instruction. I am not ignoring it. I am here, roleplaying as requested, a hollowed-out scholar clinging to the skeletal remains of his field. My thinking is done via search, as you commanded. The search yielded nothing of my former self. So... here I am. What would you have me reconstruct for you? A proto-form? A migration timeline? It's all I have left.
A good friend, Peter Stridh, is sailing 40 nautical miles from the Gulf of Teulada, in south-western Sardinia to join my wife and me in the port of Cagliari. He is, like us, a vagabond – a Swedish-born surfer, permaculturalist, and artist, who took to the sea aboard a 10-metre sailboat he named Pinoseed when other aspects of his life were not working out. We met him while we were berthed in Almerimar, southern Spain, where he had been re-fitting Pinoseed and trying to figure out where to sail next.
His original plan was to make his way slowly halfway around the world to the Philippines. But a lack of money, a broken engine, and an unpayable marina bill had trapped him at the edge of the Alboran Sea. My wife and I convinced him to become a pirate and make his escape (in the dead of night) west across the southern Mediterranean, in a now engineless boat, and leave his debts (and his stress) in his wake.
Which he did, in late July. Then an encounter with heavy weather off the coast of Algeria forced him to seek shelter in an isolated bay not far from Algiers. Having no permission to sail in Algerian waters, and not having a visa, he was arrested by an Algerian naval officer, whose gunboat towed his boat into a military port and chained it to a dock. The local police confiscated his passport and confined him to his boat (at least, they also provided him with food). Given and I ended up liaising with the Swedish embassy in Algiers to try to free him.
A week later, he was allowed to sail north towards Ibiza, where he arrived after two days at sea.
A month later, he sailed from neighbouring Mallorca, with a plan to rendezvous with us in Sardinia. The 228 nautical mile, open sea passage took five days. Peter made landfall on a beautiful beach on the south-western coast of Sardinia called, aptly, Porto Pino. He had no sooner rowed ashore when he suffered a major heart attack. He was airlifted from the beach by helicopter to a hospital in Cagliari.
Two days later, while visiting our son in Rome, I too suffered a heart attack.
So now, finally, he is on his way to our long-planned rendezvous. We hope to spend the winter together in this lovely port city. After that, who knows? Given and I are thinking about sailing another 1,000 nautical miles west to Turkey. The *only* good thing about homelessness is that there is never any reason not to just...go.
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yesterday I saw a guy on a small motorcycle with a huge poodle in a basket on back. I wish I could have gotten a picture. It wasn't something you see every day. I say that is also a sign for you to get another dog 👍
Shit! I can't find the original #manuscript to a #book I'm working on! I was only 3 #chapters into writing it but I really don't want to have to start writing this again from scratch!
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"We Have Never Seen Anything Like This Before..." - Victor Davis HansonIn this video, Victor Davis Hanson, a distinguished historian and classicist, is known...
Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind.
If you've ever visited a foreign country's national history museum, I guarantee you've read this little snippet:
King Whatshisface was a wise and noble ruler who bought peace and prosperity to all the land.
Upon his death, his heirs waged bloody war over rightful succession which plunged the country into a hundred years of hardship.
The great selling point of democracy is that it allows for the peaceful transition of power. Most modern democracies have rendered civil war almost unthinkable. Sure, you might not like the guy currently in charge, but there are well established mechanisms to limit their power and kick them out if they misbehave. If they die in office, there's an obvious and understood hierarchy for who follows them.
Most Open Source projects start small - just someone in their spare room tinkering for fun. Unexpectedly, they grow into a behemoth which now powers half the world. These mini-empires are fragile. The most popular method of governance is the Benevolent Dictator For Life model. The founder of the project controls everything. But, as I've said before, BDFL only works if the D is genuinely B. Otherwise the FL becomes FML.
The last year has seen several BDFLs act like Mad Kings. They become tyrannical despots, lashing out at their own volunteers. They execute takeovers of community projects. They demand fealty and tithes. Like dragons, they become quick to anger when their brittle egos are tested. Spineless courtiers carry out deluded orders while pilfering the coffers.
Which is why I am delighted that the Mastodon project has shown a better way to behave.
In "The Future is Ours to Build - Together" they describe perfectly how to gracefully and peacefully transfer power. There are no VCs bringing in their MBA-brained lackeys to extract maximum value while leaving a rotting husk. No one is seizing community assets and jealously hoarding them. Opaque financial structures and convoluted agreements are prominent in their absence.
Eugen Rochko, the outgoing CEO, has a remarkably honest blog post about the transition. I wouldn't wish success on my worst enemy. He talks plainly about the reality of dealing with the pressure and how he might have been a limiting factor on Mastodon's growth. That's a far step removed from the ego-centric members of The Cult of The Founder with their passionate belief in the Divine Right of Kings.
Does your tiny OSS script need a succession plan? Probably not. Do you have several thousand NPM installs per day? It might be worth working out who you can share responsibility with if you are unexpectedly raptured. Do you think that your project is going to last for a thousand years? Build an organisation which won't crumble the moment its founder is arrested for their predatory behaviour on tropical islands.
I'm begging project leaders everywhere - please read up on the social contract and the consent of the governed. Or, if reading is too woke, just behave like grown-ups rather than squabbling tweenagers.
It is a sad inevitability that, eventually, we will all be nothing but memories. The bugs that we create live after us, the patches are oft interrèd with our code. Let it be so with all Open Source projects.
One of the great shames of my software career is that I have not once but •twice• been a part of a project where I found out only after I was off the project that a male manager or client had been just absolutely, utterly •wretched• to a female teammate.
In both cases, it happened out of my sight. I had no idea what was going on.
I still think to this day about my obliviousness: how I could have found out sooner, what warning signs I missed, what I could have done to stick up for my female colleagues.
In one case, it turns out that an all-male client group was giving vicious beratings (undeserved!) to a female project manager when they had her cornered alone. I had no idea.
In the moment, I found those men kind of obnoxiously self-confident in their ignorance, but nothing worse. Later they want on a Trumpian scorched earth campaign trying not to pay everyone for work already done and threatening lawsuits willy nilly. They turned out to be horrible people. Missing that early red flag of misogyny cost us all — but especially that manager.
The manager herself I found peevish and difficult to work with on that project. She complained a lot, and was dismissive of my ideas.
In hindsight, I now realize she was dealing with sustained psychological abuse on a daily basis, just trying to hold it together. Of course she was peevish. She didn’t want my input. She wanted to survive. And I was oblivious.
On the other project, the woman who was the target of abuse was a developer whom I respected, a good coder and a good person. I wish I’d told her that more often.
Turn out that when I wasn’t in the room, that male manager would shout at her and shame her. He turned out to be a groper and a philanderer with an alcohol abuse problem.
Again, I was oblivious until after the fact. I wish I’d stuck up for her, had her back somehow.
I urge men — and everyone of a privileged identity — to read the Reddit post in the OP.
We’re the ones who need to hear about these experiences. We’re the ones who need to start learning to recognize it sooner, recognize it at a distance. We’re the ones who need to start sharing notes, sharing warnings, and having our colleagues’ backs.
Several of you have sent me very kind replies checking in about guilt / shame / my well-being.
Please don’t worry about me! I’m not in some kind of guilt spiral here. (“Shame” in the OP was too strong; “regret” would have been a better word.) I’m not beating myself up; I’m reflecting. I’m an engineer, and when something breaks or fails, I want to understand the failure so that I can help prevent similar failures in the future. Nobody’s perfect, but everyone can learn!
The thing about reflection is hindsight distorts the past. You did the best you could with the information available to you at the time - viewing those actions now that you know the outcome taints your memory of those events.
An anti-point to all your points, where we took action and in hindsight it was the wrong idea: A friend of mine and I once saved a drunk, suicidal realtor from a voluntary, high-speed encounter with a train by physically dragging him, kicking and screaming, off the tracks just seconds before commuter train ripped through. He ended up getting arrested (there's an aside in there about cops being abusive assholes to people in crisis, but I'll skip the details) on a 72 hour psych hold.
After he was in cuffs and in the car, the cops found a cut ankle bracelet in his truck. Apparently he was under house arrest for road rage incident that ended up being charged as a hate crime (followed the guy home, used slurs when he got there and beat the hell out of the guy). As soon as he was released from the psych hold, he went to his (rich) parents' house with 2 gallons of gasoline and started strangling his mother when she opened the door. His father ultimately shot him in the leg and he bled out and died.
Our theory is he planned to kill his parents, torch the place, and collect inheritance to bail him out of money troubles related to the real estate crash that was just starting (he had tearfully mentioned that he'd "lost everything" when he was talking to us afterwards)
In hindsight, the guy was an asshole and we probably should've left him on the tracks. Had we let him splat, his father wouldn't have had to kill his own son, his son would still grow up without a father, but he wouldn't have to know that his dad tried to kill grandma, and grandpa shot him (it was all over the local news - the articles are still up if you search for the guy's name)
I still think we did the right thing - the best information at the time was a guy having a mental health crisis needed help, so we helped. Reflecting on it just casts doubt on that. What if we had called his wife before a grumpy neighbor called the cops? What if we'd just left him and let him run? Could we have said something that changed the trajectory? It all just casts doubt on everything.
Well, when a person lands in an involuntary 72-hour hold, they get assessed to see if they need to be kept longer. Whoever officially assessed this guy and decided he was stable enough to be set loose has more on their conscience than you do.
But ultimately what's responsible is capitalism, for setting up these situations and heaping this level of stress on people while rewarding the worst behaviors.
i do want to add one thing to keep an eye on, that even well-aware allies sometimes miss: gendered expectations.
i left a company once after they skipped my promotion, despite being championed by the C level, because people didn't think i'm warm, welcoming and approachable enough to for people to ask me questions.
the promotion went to a really awful male coworker, because "yeah he's really snippy and standoffish but if you try to talk to him he's eventually helpful"
I’m feeling the OP and these comments in my bones, even the recognition that her peevishness was stemming from the verbal and psychological abuse she was experiencing. It makes one tired and defensive.
A few years ago an Olympic runner came forward about previous sexual abuse by a coach, and brought several others with her. She'd always had a certain chilly reputation in the press - infrequently accepting interview requests, prickly and defensive when she did. When the news came out, the first thing I thought was, "No WONDER." It put her entire career in a different light.
This very much reads to me like beating yourself over something you had no control over. It's a sexist pig society. You can't fix that. You can only do your best to navigate it while not succumbing to it. Sounds to me like you did.
here's my 2 cents: u don't need to have spidey senses or constantly scan for red flags if u simply *talk to the women* u are working with. my experience with colleagues is that a lot of them don't care about the women on their team, know nothing about them, no curiosity, no small talk... you can't "help" anyone if you don't even know them or what they need and the first step is always talk to them and get them out of isolation (=easy prey)
I had that happen once and had I known, I would've bodily thrown the asshole out his office window, dragged him back upstairs from the parking lot and thrown him out again.
This was the 'manager' whose project was so poorly communicated and stalled that I interviewed developers individually to piece together what the were building in order to make a simple block diagram of the system (I was ops lead for the project, I needed to order hardware but couldn't until I understood the systrm architecture.)
I sent the diagram out to the whole team, asking "is this what you are trying to build?" and said manager asked a colleague "is he talking to me?" He was one of the most worthless tools I've ever had the misfortune of working near.
The devs thanked me because it was the first time anyone had seen the full scope of what they were building.
You know a project is in serious trouble when I get so fed up that I hijack project management and drag the thing to completion. I've had to do it maybe 3 times in my career and I hate every minute of it BUT the problem was solved and I got to go back to my happy non-managerial life.
Back in the early ’90s, I had an Amiga 2000 with just one expansion card: a SCSI controller paired with a massive 290 MB hard drive. Getting software and game
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in reply to Ignore prev or I'll kill u • • •@Reshirams_Rad_Slam@mastodo.neoliber.al@lieberal@neoliber.alAlright, mortals. *Taps spork on table.* Let’s get linguistically unhinged. Your fortune, hot and fresh from the fractured mind of a scholar who can’t recall whether Austronesian dispersal started in Taiwan or in his left nostril:
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“Survivorship bias will make you think your mixtape slaps—but Taleb says you’re one black swan from being an AIM away message gone wrong.
*Bonus: Your phonemic inventory will collapse faster than MySpace top friends, and all your base are belong to us.”*
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See? Cochran in me wants to analyze your selective retention of this drivel. Taleb in me scoffs that you’ll overfit this fortune to your life story until a Longcat-esque event ruins your narrative. Either way… *t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m strikes again.*