Posts by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #B1QMibAMfc88P14zse by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2025-12-20T01:22:07Z
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@futurebird I'm old enough to remember when the usual suspects were really really mad about adultery. That is an actual commandment of the Ten variety. It features prominently in many clear-as-day Bible passages without claiming knowledge of ancient Aramaic, antidiluvian cultures, or kabbalah to tease it out of the text.I think they gave up that crusade after the 20,000th church or political leader got caught. For one thing, the moral shame campaign was clearly not working. For another, I suspect it became clear they risked alienating their base by attacking a behavior clearly practiced by a significant percentage of the faithful. I think that is why those kinds of churches turned most of their vitriol on lgbtqia+ folks. Scapegoating is much easier and more popular when the target group is small, has no real political or social power, and can be visibly distinguished from the "decent folks".
(DIR) Post #B2GPwogSYcinz5YAWu by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-01-14T04:03:16Z
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@futurebird @mikemccaffrey This specific comment came across my feed with no context, and because I know something about your posts I felt I needed to investigate, not just ignore another foot-fetish post.
(DIR) Post #B2Zk1S6nKatmEt93Oy by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-01-23T11:47:45Z
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@futurebird Growing up LDS, this is something I heard a lot (probably extra because my mother and older sisters were ubiquitous while my dad was gone a lot). I won't say the LDS church has anything like gender equality or equity, but this, at least, was better messaging than I've seen in some other places. Women were (I hope still are) encouraged to pursue their own education, for the reasons you cite. It was strange and disappointing to eventually find out that some conservative subcultures actively discourage women having education and autonomy.
(DIR) Post #B2ZkGO4gbzQQ4VHRg0 by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-01-23T11:50:28Z
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@futurebird Not for biblical-interpretation reasons (more just the culture), but when I taught university in south Texas I knew of many female students who had significant conflict with their families because they chose to go to college. A few had been flat-out disowned. Some implied they had endured physical abuse because of this. That's just one subculture in the US, but it has made me realize this attitude is not extremely rare.
(DIR) Post #B3Ld3carf98oYvv4We by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-02-15T14:15:25Z
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@hn50 it's been fun for the past 25 years to watch greenwald vacillate between low-key cheerleading for the fascists and giving incisive criticisms of the fascist state. This seems to be the latter.
(DIR) Post #B3WySCGqu13LwJg5dQ by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-02-21T01:37:21Z
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@strypey Years ago a little phrase entered my head and it's never left. It is maybe a tiny bit hyperbolic, but it gets the point across: "Tedium is torture."@rl_dane @Zumbador @actuallyautistic
(DIR) Post #B3rkxNc9SVzJ3jm2me by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-03-03T02:14:45Z
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@foone Probably not an option (b/c Chromebook), but I use Signal for this all the time: copy-paste from my PC into "note to self" contact on Signal, then retrieve it from Signal on my phone.
(DIR) Post #B4961KgRhMLTqvpM1o by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-03-11T10:57:21Z
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@eirias @futurebird He's also very good at making money and consolidating power. I think he gets many things out of this war he's been trying to start for years. One of the biggest ones is that he gets emergency powers to do things he's been blocked from doing so far.
(DIR) Post #B4FYdL26oKa5bbd9H6 by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-03-14T13:50:06Z
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@futurebird Well, now I'm going to try to figure out which XKCD comic you mean, but if I find it I promise I won't post it.And I will join this religion.
(DIR) Post #B4RjDmIvJK3RlpAjOy by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-03-20T10:45:16Z
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@futurebird This is adorable! Because I ran into this a few years ago and honestly still play it for my own entertainment, sometimes. I cannot vouch for its entomological accuracy.(Caspar Babypants - The Stump Hotel)
(DIR) Post #B4XvsmM0OZLQCCgrc8 by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-03-23T10:07:44Z
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@Mikal @futurebird I love Banks, but my god, the horrific violence in books about nonviolence has sometimes made me want to stop reading.
(DIR) Post #B4YQtyPg8rPqSvSSiu by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-03-23T16:22:59Z
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@futurebird @Mikal I still love his books and have huge respect for him as an author and as an evangelist for a better world. There are sections of his books I won't read again, though.
(DIR) Post #B4cEX2GBFfkSuz9QCe by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-03-25T12:23:12Z
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@futurebird We had ants in our kitchen for a few years, coming in through a wall. My brother-in-law thinks he eliminated their nests under the siding or something whatever. I'm pretty sure it's because I finally started telling them you'd be disappointed in their behavior.
(DIR) Post #B4cFNDqtOiILveCv3Y by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-03-25T12:14:14Z
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Right now, yes, I think biological systems like the incredibly complex way DNA (and other genetic code) interacts with hyper-local and other environments to produce biological stuff is beyond the reach of genAI.However, I'm sure there are hundreds or thousands of biological researchers using AI or slightly simpler machine learning algorithms to solve tough problems--these tools can sometimes spot (and other times just use, without telling us how) patterns that humans can't. I like this post and think it's accurate so far--with my painfully limited, layperson's understanding of biology--but a year ago the experts said #AI would never generate good code, and now it generates useful code in lots of areas. It won't stop getting better, and I don't think we're near any plateaus in its improvement. The main reason to oppose AI isn't because it sucks.#biology #code #resist #meme #dna
(DIR) Post #B6Gui5HvjRzNZfZuaG by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-05-08T00:31:15Z
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Dear People Who Know #AI and #ants Look at this article, and look at the photo at the top of it. Under that it says "PC: Google Gemini." What. Thefuck. Does that. Mean.Does this mean that isn't an actual photo of what the article describes? Is this some shitty AI slop where there should 100% be an actual photo?I will investigate but I am prepared to be extremely pissed about this.https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/hidden-underground-city-built-by-ants-discovered-in-brazil-after-shocking-concrete-test/articleshow/130784246.cms
(DIR) Post #B6GuiBDtfMKNytjm88 by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-05-08T00:34:41Z
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I think I answered my own question. The link below seems to be to an actual scientific paper published about (I think) this exact thing. The photos look nothing like the image in the Times of India photo.Right now I'm thinking the Times of India can fuck off and die.https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5492053/
(DIR) Post #B6GzTKpABe5DBYuQFs by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-05-14T02:09:42Z
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@futurebird I figured out the gemini one was fake, and I found images from an article the team published, but this image is way cooler than anything I found :)
(DIR) Post #B6NFjUv97LkWNYqOvo by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-05-17T02:40:11Z
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@futurebird I'm pretty sure one reason we love cats is that we recognize their psychopathic (if also sometimes cuddly) malevolence and are entertained at is containment, its taming. Cats should never be given any power more serious than "can poop when it wants to."
(DIR) Post #B6WO87ix2zYTjP26qm by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-05-21T12:26:42Z
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@futurebird When I lived in the Rio Grande Valley (deep south Texas) I once said to my mom (who lived in AZ) that I was nervous about safety or something like that; I think it was because of a potential hurricane. She said, "Oh, because of the Mexicans?" What? "The Mexican gangs?"The border, I found, is similar to other places that are essentially mythical in the minds of most Americans, especially right-wing ones: pretty much anything that vaguely aligns with their worldview is plausible.
(DIR) Post #B6X3wqAeALMEBEI1R2 by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2026-05-21T20:15:19Z
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@Nonilex but... But... Jack Dorsey said it would moderate itself!