Posts by cwebber@social.coop
(DIR) Post #B7jkAqkByPbvXNBDfc by cwebber@social.coop
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while in many ways I think I was born in the best generation to experience being alive I also am deeply disappointed that my generation is failing to make efforts to extend the kindness of experiences such as computing freedoms and a habitable planet to future generations
(DIR) Post #B7jkAqy190faEFeGDg by cwebber@social.coop
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yeah boomers may have been hard on millenials for our avocado toasts and things were not as easy from a financial perspective as it was for boomers / genx but also, we've still had it better then genz and also we got to experience a time where computers were exciting, promising things, rather than prisons we built for our kids to suffer inside ofand the irony of ironies is that, recognizing that kids are suffering in these environments, many people in my generation are just trying to make the prisons worseso fucking depressingI hoped we'd do better
(DIR) Post #B7o3c1eEDV3iw1tzd2 by cwebber@social.coop
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@reia @fiore It also shows your support for your friends who are women and also dogs
(DIR) Post #B7rWoogxp1lqSlqhnc by cwebber@social.coop
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haha I'm doing great I'm doing wonderful I definitely didn't agree to too many things at once haha hahahaa hahahahahahhahahaahhaaha
(DIR) Post #B7rn89VeFIkDnPnY1I by cwebber@social.coop
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Had to coax the cats, who are not allowed into the basement, into the basement due to a tornado warningAnd now they will NEVER FORGET about what the basement is like, and never stop begging to go down there
(DIR) Post #B7ro98Mo4yxGUoh7tA by cwebber@social.coop
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Well the US Supreme Court decided that trans people aren't real today. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-43_2b35.pdfFrom Thomas's concurrence (EDIT: previously I said this was the majority opinion, I got that wrong):> Because “gender dysphoria” is a mutable mental state that is the object of psychiatric treatment, it does not resemble the immutable characteristics on the basis of which our precedents have applied heightened scrutiny—race, sex, or national origin.And even worse:> Second, as the Court recognizes, this case concerns “biological men” and “boys who identify as girls.” Ante, at 10, 27. Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immutable “biological” characteristic, see ante, at 10; it is binary; and “man” and “woman,” “boy” and “girl,” are the terms that correspond to adults and children of each sex.I'm sorry, everyone.
(DIR) Post #B7tNcbyYlRMkHJ6XwG by cwebber@social.coop
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What happened to the fight for the internet? https://dustycloud.org/blog/what-happened-to-the-fight-for-the-internet/A new blogpost from me. I believe the fight for keeping the internet free is more important than ever but also under more threats than ever.And the irony is, centralization is partly to blame: people don't feel like the internet is theirs anymore.But we can't leave it there.We HAVE to act.For our sake, for our kids' sake, for ourselves, for the future.
(DIR) Post #B7tNccWaiuaVyr1iz2 by cwebber@social.coop
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If this blogpost resonates with you, please spread it around, and/or write your own thing! And spread it to and speak up in places that AREN'T just the fediverse.Please.We need to fight.Thank you. 💜
(DIR) Post #B7vURmx6gUnpg8E1OS by cwebber@social.coop
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Europe is behind the times. Americans have been telling Europeans to merge with their hazard suits for decades. It's the only way to survive in a changing planet
(DIR) Post #B7vURnTMkYbhIBJmfw by cwebber@social.coop
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"What about the rest of the world"????????????????? what are you talking about
(DIR) Post #B7vWcl10QW2alSPIEy by cwebber@social.coop
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welcome to your planet is dying! brought to you by the people "on a mission to change the world" a decade ago
(DIR) Post #B7vZlH0zdTs6Bn9ZZI by cwebber@social.coop
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how old are you
(DIR) Post #B7yciU73VERfBy41Oi by cwebber@social.coop
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Oh whoops laying off your engineers and replacing them with AI didn't work out? You lost all the goodwill of your remaining employees and the skill of the ones who left? Poor baby, who could have done this to you https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/07/03/zuckerberg-admits-metas-layoffs-were.html
(DIR) Post #B80PJrobKZ7wNNHbMG by cwebber@social.coop
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RE: https://solarpunk.moe/@vv/116862340401012931this is a real thing https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2012/01/30/gender-benders/> Girl itself evolved in much the same way. The word originally referred to a child of either sex. Back then, prior to the sixteenth century, girls generally were divided into knave girls, which were boys, and gay girls, which were female girls.EDIT: I added context, because it may have sounded like I was joking originally. It really is a really thing. boys used to be knave girls and girls used to be gay girlsRT: https://solarpunk.moe/users/vv/statuses/116862340401012931
(DIR) Post #B80PJsQX3XT6H11tTs by cwebber@social.coop
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boys used to be girls which is pretty cool, and girls were always gay
(DIR) Post #B82FCx8QXjMPceXZpY by cwebber@social.coop
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Remember before I transitioned and people would put those "everyone wishes they were the other gender <NO THEY DON'T>" memes and I was like, well that's not true, *I'm* cis and I often wish I was a different genderI think I might have even said so once in reply then thought I was being "rude" and deleted it immediately*whoooosshhhhhhhhhhhh*
(DIR) Post #B8QVr6aalRm2rCeVH6 by cwebber@social.coop
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@mntmn you joke but that's literally what vibey people are saying https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/the-coming-loop/
(DIR) Post #B8QWVC8tXKkxfCoUFM by cwebber@social.coop
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@mntmn I regret to inform you that you were right
(DIR) Post #B8b3TEr0Q07PMMCUpk by cwebber@social.coop
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@mntmn I talk a bit about it in this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI8gA68OXLM But really it's using machine learning models PLUS symbolic reasoning systems (prolog, propagators, etc), which can help make them more reasonable for cheaper.Think of the human brain as having two modes of thinking: a fast, gut thinking approach, and a slower reasoning approach. All the machine learning model research has been about beating the former into as powerful a shape as possible by throwing tons of compute at it. But we also have knowledge of how to do symbolic reasoning. And we can make things a lot better by combining them.Leilani Gilpin's research is very interesting in this regard https://people.ucsc.edu/~lgilpin/In particular, I recommend her dissertation which asks: if a car drives off the side of the road, how do we hold it accountable? https://people.ucsc.edu/~lgilpin/publication/dissertation/
(DIR) Post #B96EtncdBBxPYdAEXg by cwebber@social.coop
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@davidrevoy Keep making good things. In some ways, continuing to make art and be creative despite a world trying to tell us it's not worthwhile is some of the only forms of rebellion we have left.You and your work are loved, and recognized. Keep at it!