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jake4480

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Death to fascists.

Sometimes I write at
https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com.

Into nature, science, movies, music, video games, other kinds of art, etc. Married. Living on Hohokam land.

Black/trans lives matter. He/Him.
Bigotry = block.

#indieweb #weirdweb #punk #metal #cats #roguelikes #arcadegames #shootemups #horror #movies #tv #photography #punkrock #garagerock #deathmetal #writing #blogging #fedi22 tfr

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@Gwendolyn@eldritch.cafe avatar Gwendolyn , to random

Y'know. I don't hate this one. Vocal performance wise it's dogshit, but that tension is nearly gone from the femvoice, and that's exciting to me, because that's my main focus. The amount of improvement I've made since the start of FAWM is really encouraging to me.

Let's be honest. I'm just doing voice training, and using FAWM as a backdrop... that's what it feels like.

https://fawm.org/songs/323574

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@Gwendolyn I disagree, and I listened, it's all over vocally sure but I get what you're going for, all stuff sounds like this at first - and your voice is fine! More work improves whatever but just remember, even Hendrix hated his voice. That's why it's so low in the mixes! 😂

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social avatar publicdomainrev , to random

Centaurs, dragons, and snail shell houses — just a few of the otherworldly marvels depicted in a 15th-century French manuscript (BnF, Français 22971) illustrated by Robert Testard. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/secrets-de-l-histoire-naturelle/

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@publicdomainrev we've really blown it with modern architecture. No imagination

@HailsandAles@metalhead.club avatar HailsandAles , to random
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@HailsandAles @NoRestfortheWicked I'm not super familiar with either but after a quick refresher, almost similar vibes (like you say, it's like, power-death?).. just barely went Vader hah. @wendigo had said he heard a lot of Vader in Siege Column last year so I looked em up then. Siege Column has more Bolt Thrower to me, but either way, hell yeah! haha

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@HailsandAles @NoRestfortheWicked @wendigo oh and something funny about Vader, y'all may know that's how Eagles of Death Metal got their name. As the legend goes, Josh and his good friend Jesse were smoking pot and eating graham crackers for some reason, and the topic of Vader came up, about being death metal, and one of em goes 'man, Vader are like the EAGLES of death metal' 😂

@Gwendolyn@eldritch.cafe avatar Gwendolyn , to random

Anyone know of a good non U.S. based IRC server? I went back to my old stomping grounds from highschool and it's just full of Nazis, now.

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@Gwendolyn geez, sorry you've had such gross recent interactions on IRC. I know that can happen, wow.

I know @Tijn & co run a good IRC server for their DOS game club, and based on your music, you may dig.

Martijn, you gotta check her music here - based on old Sierra adventure games! It's 🔥 https://gwendolynmoss.bandcamp.com

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@Gwendolyn @Tijn ha! Yeah, I wrote something a couple days ago about my hatred of Nazis. And I'm all about weird punk/vocal stuff and I think Martijn here is too haha - I always go back to like, rattly garage punk. With some synths and keys. Most of my favorite music is like that!

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Art by Bread Nugent. This one's for sale here: https://breadnugent.bigcartel.com/product/oh-deer

Art of a deer drinking and a speech bubble from the right side says 'save some water for the ai, asshole!'
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@jake4480@c.im avatar jake4480 , to random

The U.S. fucks up a lot of things, but the Library of Congress just added The Thing to the National Film Registry. So that's a win.

Congratulations, Thing. Look how happy it looks

The gross Thing face with nasty teeth from John Carpenter's The Thing.
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In our hearts, we really always knew it

Snip from a King Kong Escapes poster. Kong with raised arms and it says 'only King Kong can save the world from the forces of evil!'
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@jake4480@c.im avatar jake4480 , to random

This week's theme is , and I had to go with The Gap Band's 'You Dropped a Bomb on Me' from 1982. I've heard this song all over the place for much of my life, as I was born in 1980. I never get tired of hearing this one. So much thick funk.

https://youtu.be/17lkdqoLt44

@jake4480@c.im avatar jake4480 , to random

This week's is .

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
https://youtu.be/H-kA3UtBj4M

Natalie Merchant - Kind and Generous
https://youtu.be/uAwyIad93-c

Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People
https://youtu.be/3JvkaUvB-ec

The Four Tops - Reach Out (I'll Be There)
https://youtu.be/1v4twH9KbnU

The Guess Who - Share the Land
https://youtu.be/IUpW783GL0E

  • Bonus since this was arguably the height of McCartney's cannabis intake, I've loved it since I was a kid, and the other five songs are too good to replace but I can't leave it off this list:

Wings - Silly Love Songs
https://youtu.be/ap87QgZKTNw

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This Friday (December 5) is the last Bandcamp Friday of the year, my dudes

https://isitbandcampfriday.com

@AminiAllight@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar AminiAllight , to random

A while back my Steam Deck's SD card stopped working, it was mountable and readable but the write speed was permanently limited to <10 kB/s (but not zero, just extremely low), and it had no support for SMART unfortunately

I'm just curious, what's the likely underlying cause here? Is this what flash write exhaustion looks like in practice?

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@AminiAllight I've heard similar things about SD cards for Switches- and yeah, I think a bunch of use can make them crap out.

@jake4480@c.im avatar jake4480 , to random

this week is . First ones that came to mind for me were the whinnies in Frontier Psychiatrist 🐎

https://youtu.be/qLrnkK2YEcE

@jake4480@c.im avatar jake4480 , to random

The FBI released their file on Bigfoot, and since they only do this when someone passes away, it does confirm that Bigfoot was in fact real but has unfortunately passed on. A shame

https://vault.fbi.gov/bigfoot/Bigfoot%20Part%2001%20%28Final%29/view

@tao@mathstodon.xyz avatar tao , (edited ) to random

This two-dimensional image (https://x.com/tomaspueyo/status/1993360931267473662) has been circulating recently as an metaphor for the current state of AI technology. It is admittedly an improvement over one-dimensional narratives in which AI development is presented as a linear (or exponential) progression from sub-human to super-human intelligence. However, it is still a significant oversimplification. The space of cognitive tasks is not well modeled by either one or two-dimensional spaces, but is instead extremely high-dimensional. There are now indeed many directions in this pace in which AI tools can, with minimal supervision, achieve better performance than human experts. But, as per the "curse of dimensionality", such directions still remain very sparse. Also, human performance is also very spiky and diverse; representing this by a single round disk or ball is also somewhat misleading.

In high dimensions, the greatest increase in volume often comes from taking combinations of smaller, spikier sets. A team of humans working together, or humans complemented by a variety of AI tools, can achieve a significantly greater performance on many tasks than any single human or AI tool could achieve individually, particularly if they are strong in "orthogonal" directions. On the other hand, the choice of combination now matters: the wrong combination could lead to a misalignment between the objective and the actual outcome, in which the stated goal may be nominally achieved, but at the cost of several unwanted secondary effects as well.

TLDR: the topic of intelligence is too high-dimensional for any low-dimensional narrative to be perfectly accurate, and one should take any such narratives with a grain of salt.

An image depicting an (oversimplified) relation between the capabilities of humans and AI.
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@tao any time I see this analyzed, I'm more convinced any analysis of it will never be able to be accurate in any way. It's that thing like when a piece of science fiction is made, that exact scenario will never happen, etc.. It's all so weird

@jake4480@c.im avatar jake4480 , to random

RIP Udo Kier. He was great in Blade, Ace Ventura, and so many others.

Udo Kier in Ace Ventura

Udo Kier in Ace Ventura
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@malwaretech@infosec.exchange avatar malwaretech , to random

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    @malwaretech I'll give em an agentic os

    @LaserdiscTurtle@mas.to avatar LaserdiscTurtle , to random
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    @LaserdiscTurtle the first one of these I saw, still my favorite, and you're correct. Captain Supermarket is WAY better than Army of Darkness.

    Army of Darkness : tired
    Captain Supermarket : wired

    @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net avatar Vivaldi , to random

    Are you more “minimal buttons” or “give me every button possible”? 🤔

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    @Vivaldi I think I'm a fan of slightly more buttons, because any time something tries to minimize them, there will inevitably be something I have to dig around to find

    @jake4480@c.im avatar jake4480 , to random
    A meme with two trees and a mushroom between them and you can see their root and mycelial networks and the text says they're sharing memes you couldn't even fathom
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    Rewatching the 1984 film version of 1984, as I haven't seen it since high school. They showed it to us in class in the 90s. Been a lot of years. John Hurt ftw

    https://boxd.it/1YZE

    @jake4480@c.im avatar jake4480 , to random

    It's Friday, and that means it's time for . Watched a bunch this week, but my here is a mix.. free to watch on YouTube stuff - some short, some not - some strange 70s stuff, etc. Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds is super weird, man 😂 And finally, the making of Wildflowers doc!

    My last 4 watched on Letterboxd, free strange stuff on YouTube - short international films and Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds, Tom Petty
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    Final trailer for Predator: Badlands. Man, this one looks so great. Psyched for it. https://youtu.be/cDL3Zjdz514

    @killyourfm@layer8.space avatar killyourfm , to random

    "Into the great wide open,
    Under them skies of blue..."

    A sweeping vista showcasing a valley surrounded by slopes and distant peaks. The foreground features a hillside covered in dry, brown vegetation interspersed with small pine trees and patches of yellow wildflowers. The midground displays a vast, open valley with a mix of sparse vegetation and occasional groves of trees. The background is dominated by a range of mountains, their slopes showing exposed earth and sparse vegetation. A vibrant blue sky is partially obscured by large, puffy white and gray clouds.
    An expansive view from a hillside, looking across a wide valley. The foreground displays a slope covered in dry, brown grasses and scattered pine trees, with a cluster of bright yellow flowers in the lower left corner. Beyond the slope, the valley unfolds, featuring an open landscape of sparse vegetation and occasional groves of trees. In the distant background, a range of mountains rises, their slopes showing exposed earth and a mix of light and shadow. A bright blue sky is partially covered with large, fluffy white and gray clouds.

    An expansive view from a hillside, looking across a wide valley. The foreground displays a slope covered in dry, brown grasses and scattered pine trees, with a cluster of bright yellow flowers in the lower left corner. Beyond the slope, the valley unfolds, featuring an open landscape of sparse vegetation and occasional groves of trees. In the distant background, a range of mountains rises, their slopes showing exposed earth and a mix of light and shadow. A bright blue sky is partially covered with large, fluffy white and gray clouds.
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    @killyourfm a rebel without a clue. Indeed. 🔥

    @mononoir@pixelfed.art avatar mononoir , to random

    A second version of the previous drawing. I'm not very talkative about my drawings, would you like me to describe my process more?

    Digital drawing with MsPaint and Krita

    https://www.pierrebarrauddelagerie.com/

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    @mononoir definitely curious about the process, inspiration, etc!

    @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net avatar Vivaldi , to random

    Happy Linux Day! What distro is powering your setup? 🐧 🎉

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    @Vivaldi Mint!

    @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net avatar Vivaldi , to random

    Be an active explorer, not a passive spectator!

    Vivaldi statement with heading 'We refuse to reduce you to a passive spectator.' Full text: 'Browsing should push you to explore, chase ideas, and make your own decisions. It should light up your brain. When an artificial assistant sits between you and the web, Big Tech filters what you see and decides what you don't see. Your judgment is outsourced. A browser that browses for you is like paying a robot to go out for dinner with your friends and give you a summary of the evening when it gets home. Vivaldi is taking a stand. We choose humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship. Without exploration, the web becomes far less interesting. Our curiosity loses oxygen and the diversity of the web dies. We exist for you to explore the web on your own terms. We refuse to reduce you to a passive spectator. We're fighting for a better web where you're in control.' Signed by Jon von Tetzchner, CEO and Co-founder, with Vivaldi logo.
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    @Vivaldi THIS is the kind of stuff I like to see. 🔥

    @tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

    I think the Vibecoding reddit has accidentally stumbled on the best description of vibecoding:

    It's "roleplay for guys [it is always guys] who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part".

    (Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1mu6t8z/whats_the_point_of_vibe_coding_if_i_still_have_to/ )

    What’s the point of vibe coding if I still have to pay a dev to fix it? what’s the point of vibe coding if at the end of the day i still gotta pay a dev to look at the code anyway. sure it feels kinda cool while i’m typing, like i’m in some flow state or whatever, but when stuff breaks it’s just dead weight. i cant vibe my way through debugging, i cant ship anything that actually matters, and then i’m back to square one pulling out my wallet for someone who actually knows what they’re doing. makes me think vibe coding is just roleplay for guys who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part. am i missing something here or is it really just useless once you step outside the fantasy
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    @jake4480@c.im avatar jake4480 , to random

    Webrings are still around, and @sarajw tipped me off to this large, essentially comprehensive list of them, here: https://brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm. This site lists over 400 webrings that are linked to over 16,000 websites total. Any kind of interest you may have, you'll probably be able to find a webring for it here.

    The same site also has a great history of webrings, what they are, and how they started, here: https://brisray.com/web/webring-history.htm

    @jake4480@c.im avatar jake4480 , to random

    Know what's even BETTER than using some kind of dumb looking LLM generated image for your blog post and/or website?

    Using a free (or paid) image from https://unsplash.com. Sure, it's an Adobe thing, but the free Creative Commons stuff, you just grab and then you can credit the photographer/artist. It's fast and easy, way faster than even messing around with some LLM. And about 1000% more genuine.

    @tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

    "There are hells on earth and Dubai is one: an infernal creation born of the worst of human tendencies."
    https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/everything-else

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    @tante this was a wild, dark read. Thanks for the link 😬

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    @steamreleasebot hahaha @wendigo Interstate 86 baby

    @tuckerm@saltylike.us avatar tuckerm , to VinylRecords group

    Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing

    I picked this one up a couple of weeks ago and just realized that I hadn't listened yet.

    vinylrecords@a.gup.pe icon VinylRecords group

    A record, Dire Straits' first album, playing on a turntable. The song playing is "Sultans of Swing."

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    @tuckerm vinylrecords@a.gup.pe icon VinylRecords group 🔥🔥 SUCH a great one!

    @jake4480@c.im avatar jake4480 , to horror group

    Started watching Presence after seeing a few recommendations for it. I'm not usually into straight up ghosty type flicks but this one's done in a fairly unique way. Digging it.

    https://boxd.it/H88i

    horror@a.gup.pe icon horror group

    @jake4480@c.im avatar jake4480 , to horror group

    Watching Control Freak with Kelly Marie Tran. Creepy and good. Lynchian almost.

    https://boxd.it/N6iC

    horror@a.gup.pe icon horror group

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    New Toxic Avenger poster is epic. Comes out August 25.

    New Toxic Avenger poster - green tint - Toxie standing facing the camera with his mop up, and the logo, etc
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    I hadn't heard of Project Hail Mary, but it has Ryan Gosling and it's coming next year. Looks promising.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GPyA7VniTY

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    Troll was so good, and I didn't know that they were making a sequel but they have, and it comes out in December

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF3NFXPcYRg

    @jake4480@c.im avatar jake4480 , to random

    Trailer for the new Cat in the Hat movie coming next year

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz8pLlPhSeY

    I'm a Seuss fanatic so of course I'm gonna see this one way or another, I see all the Seuss stuff haha. Bill Hader voicing the cat, and with Matt Berry and Paula Pell in it too. Looking forward to this one.

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    Running Man trailer out! Might have to make it to theaters for this one. Glen Powell, Michael Cera and William H Macy? Wow

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD18ddeFuyM

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    40 some films and such that have come out or will come out in 2025 that I'm interested in (and may or may not see) 😂

    https://letterboxd.com/jake4480/list/2025-films

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    Sega is discontinuing support for 9 retro games that were ported to iOS and Android years ago -they've made them all free and removed in-app purchases. I just grabbed Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe Classics, Super Monkey Ball - check out the list here and grab them in the app stores asap before they disappear, there's Streets of Rage and Sonic too, etc: https://www.theverge.com/news/688167/sega-retro-games-forever-program-free-download-ios-android-crazy-taxi-sonic