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dalmationblack@dalmationblack· 29d

incredible post I saw on the Boston subreddit

A pair of sunglasses is taped to a wall. Below it, the OP (who did not put up the glasses), stuck a piece of paper titling it as an art piece:

"Anonymous. Lost Sunglasses, 2026. Sunglasses and Masking Tape on Wall."

Below that, a different writer added a description:

"This deliberate appropriation of discarded everyday material interrogates
our relationship to possession, criticizing rampant consumerism through
neglect and forgetfulness.

The object persists on the wall as monument to a brief relationship with an
undesired tool that only ever tried to serve its purpose, severed early by a
tragic absentmindedness of its careless owner,

The owner, presumably someone who still believes their sunglasses are on
top of their head, remains blissfully unaware.

Lost Sunglasses forces us to confront whether we've forgotten anything of
our own, and the consequences of that neglect.

Acquired through serendipitous floor retrieval, on loan until claimed."

original post by u/CyberStork

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Jul 8

5 gallon bucket of denatured ethanol. perhaps marginally less safe to drink from than a 5 gallon bag of milk

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Jun 26

disco elysium "are women bourgeois" quote

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Jun 21

hierarchy of needs but the top says posting

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Jun 20

the number 11037, written in pink blood next to a dead body

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· May 25

I don't think Lorenz was actually suggesting that the mayor should do anything about vegan cream cheese

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· May 1

new rule for 2024 election discourse: I refuse to let someone start talking to me about it unless they begin by identifying the reason(s) they think the democrats did *better* than almost every other incumbent party up for election that year

Graph titled "Every governing party facing election in a developed country in 2024 lost vote share, the first time this has ever happened"

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Apr 24

shout out to women's day fr
gotta be one of my favorite genders

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Apr 11

Polaris is in line with true north (for the time being; which star the Earth's axis points at changes on a couple thousand year cycle), I'm pretty sure. magnetic north is much more unstable and changes very notably over the span of just decades

map of movement of magnetic north since 1650

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Apr 7

not ai, but also not from the Artemis mission. this is a picture taken in 2015 by DISCOVR. the reason the perspective looks off is because the telescope is very far away (4x farther than the moon) and is using very high magnification. it's the dolly zoom effect

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Apr 3

In this thread: a bunch of people who didn't read the article being discussed

Section from https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function, titled The case for taking anthropomorphic reasoning seriously:

There is a well-established taboo against anthropomorphizing AI systems. This caution is often warranted: attributing human emotions to language models can lead to misplaced trust or over-attachment. But our findings suggest that there may also be risks from failing to apply some degree of anthropomorphic reasoning to models. As discussed above, when users interact with AI models, they are typically interacting with a character (Claude in our case) being played by the model, whose characteristics are derived from human archetypes. From this perspective, it is natural for models to have developed internal machinery to emulate human-like psychological characteristics, and for the character they play to make use of this machinery. To understand these models’ behavior, anthropomorphic reasoning is essential.

This doesn’t mean we should naively take a model’s verbal emotional expressions at face value, or draw any conclusions about the possibility of it having subjective experience. But it does mean that reasoning about models’ internal representations using the vocabulary of human psychology can be genuinely informative, and that not doing so comes with real costs. If we describe the model as acting “desperate,” we’re pointing at a specific, measurable pattern of neural activity with demonstrable, consequential behavioral effects. If we don’t apply some degree of anthropomorphic reasoning, we’re likely to miss, or fail to understand, important model behaviors. Anthropomorphic reasoning can also provide a useful baseline of comparison for understanding the ways in which models are not human-like, which has important consequences for AI alignment and safety.

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Mar 22

green atmosphere exoplanets stay winning

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Mar 4

Freak the fuck out and panic sell everything right now.
It's fucking over.
-Warren Buffett

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Feb 26

ngl she's right (pic not unrelated)

the CS2 tab on my steam page, showing total playtime of 1554.3 hours, last played yesterday

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Feb 22

okay but the water one is pretty explicitly set after the fairy one; this was clear in the game long before the official timeline

stained glass depictions of ocarina of time sages, as seen in the wind waker

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Feb 19

white culture

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Feb 9

if you take their statement in the article at face value it seems reasonably likely old accounts wouldn't need to verify their age

quote from article about discord's age inference model

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Feb 6

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Jan 11

they absolutely have an ideology!

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Jan 7

"Yes, the country got destroyed. but for a beautiful moment in time we got to look real manly to people on x dot com."

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Jan 3

Trump Truth Social post announcing capture of Maduro

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Dec 14

but also the thermodynamic principles involved here are pretty simple; most computers don't like being run at much more than 100C, and at that temp you're looking at ~1000m^2 / MW with perfect radiators. given all the headlines about GW datacenters I struggle to see how space could compete

wolfram alpha calculation dividing 1MW by the stefan-boltzmann constant times 373 kelvin to the fourth, getting a result of 911.1 square meters

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Dec 14

unless I'm missing some big developments in radiative cooling tech, there's a pretty sizeable gap between cooling some electronics and cooling a datacenter a single AI server rack consumes something like 50kW, which is ~the same amount of power as the ISS can radiate with a setup this big:

Image of the ISS. The white panels are radiators. In order to dissipate 70kW of power into space, the ISS uses 1000 square meters of radiator panels

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Nov 19

I feel like you can do more interesting things with physical releases without just becoming mindless consumerism my favorite band likes having written works accompanying their albums that expand on the songs' story or themes

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Nov 18

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Sep 30

true art

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Sep 20

those are way more expensive than I've generally paid for DC to Boston. gotta book Amtrak tickets in advance Here's some tickets in early november:

BOS-WAS tickets for November 9th. NER is $78 in coach; Acela is $217 in business

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Sep 19

the world if mass effect 3 had had a good ending

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Sep 3

You're telling me almost everybody who identifies as an "Abundance" liberal or who is anti-Abundance have never read Abundance?

You're telling me now for the first time.png

dalmationblack@dalmationblack· Aug 8