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#3GoodThings

1. cup of coffee so good. how is it so yum.
2. my guided meditation is extremely helpful. when making these recordings a very useful feature is to include the idea of returning to that meditation with a regular frequency or under a specific condition. it seems to make it a lot easier to think "ooh yes, time for that" rather than requiring the thought to originate just from reasoning or the desire for it.
3. sunlight through the pohutukawa. 🤌

#3GoodThings before I explode an interesting new work opportunity reached me today. I am leaning in. full tilt. buying new trousers and they fit my unusually proportioned body precisely is a miracle of coincidence for me, underpinned, I have no choice but to assume, by a serious manufacturing issue the vendor need urgently address. there is a perfect Spring afternoon outside that I need to get involved with.

even the best, most sophisticated, most perfect and capable and advanced and beneficial AI that will ever be made will remain less interesting than the most tedious living organism ever to trundle the Earth. why? because life is a literal miracle. whereas tools are just tools.

#3GoodThings

1. good lord I love tea
2. and cake
3. I've made tea and cake 🤌

if it ain't kind, go fix it.

today I learned there is an odd fellow whose name is edward sheeran who openly ensorses the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people and who uses his financial leverage to try to silence those who oppose his agenda. the news media finds it IMPERATIVE to tell me today, above all the other information that it is their sole function to make public, that the odd genocider feels 'heartbroken' that nobody likes him. if you work in news media do not try to make genociders sympathetic. you will fail.

#3GoodThings

1. drawing was mediocre tonight but at least socially it was good for me to see the gang
2. pizza
3. I spent my pizza calories on an overdue heavy duty leg day session, it was resplendent
4. I learned some people's stories about Trauma Recovery Exercise, it is fascinating! I tried some of the exercises. the big epiphany for me is the trembling that happens in some positions is not weakness, it is apparently good for the nervous system, and can even feel good if I let it happen.

#3GoodThings

1. the new train network opened today. it is very good, it was jam packed from popular use, and it was very nice to use.
2. I did a task I'd been putting off, even though I was very sore and slumpish from Friday's exercise session.
3. Ukraine wins.

@jdmcg@mastodon.nz coool! you got the schematic for that thing?

the Western Values: can they be easily defined? please do comment to state and/or substantiate some or all of them. ones that matter to you, especially. (and when disagreeing, disagree with ideas not people.)

@ashguy@infosec.exchange one thing I learned about planking recently is that it is sometimes used as part of Trauma Recovery Exercise! I didn't know that, but specifically the wobble-factor one inevitably experiences on a plank that's gone on for a whole, is considered healthy in the TRE context (provided it's not painful). this whole time I had stopped the plank when I wobbled because I thought it was my body being weak, whereas now what I do is enjoy the wobble and recognise it's probably really healthy!

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@ashguy@infosec.exchange that's cool! plank time is its own whole thing isnt it 😂

we're way past using IQ as a quantitative measure of intelligence, which means we're vibing this one out. so if what we are evaluating is our own social status ranking as gauged by our percieved intelligence relative to our percieption of others' percieved intelligence then this is more like a generosity measure: "do we generally acknowledge others' social status based on intelligence?" which would show all these low percentile votes as generosity. I'm either overthinking or underthinking this.

thank you for participating, I love it! if my question is ridiculous or stupid, and intelligence cannot be meaningfully compared, somebody please let me know.

AI dentist prescribing daily high sugar intake to ensure more frequent dental checkups

AI autonomous leafblower stripping trees of new growth daily

AI ship captain admonishing passenger for wearing a crew neck t-shirt yet not being a crew member

[drinking greedily from the fountain of middle age]

AI doctor creating an utterly illegible custom typeface to produce unreadable prescriptions "to add authenticity signal"

AI lawyer citing current case as precedent for current case

New Zealand's conservative government playbook:

1. declare war on crime
2. persecute mentally ill people
3. support police sexual assault
4. get unemployment up to a decades long high
5. persecute trans people
6. declare mental health crisis
7. release AI mental healthcare programme
8. embrace open racism in parliament
9. scramble to extend government terms from 3 years to 4

who elected these targets? seriously, what are the names of the people who elected them?

AI nanny punishing children for "not eating your chopsticks"

AI concert ticket seller assigning seat allocations based on individuals' height

AI stewardess referring passengers to emergency exists aboard the flight "or for a faster disembarkment, get sucked out during depressurization"

@slightlyoff@toot.cafe legitimately surprised the tax frauds know UBI. obviously they categorically oppose it as evidenced, incontrovertibly, by their tax fraud lifestyles. but the surprise is that they have any notion of solutions to the problems they cause. even for grifting purposes in the context of their continuous, unmitigated, and inexplicably unpunished lie schedules.

such a graphic turn of phrase. like, why the mouth? "stop tonguing my wife's name!" "quit vibrating my wife's name against your larynx!" "refrain from squeezing my wife's name out of your lungs!" "cease gnashing my wife's name betwixt thy jaws!" all just as visceral, switch it up. "remove my wife's name from upon your lips!"

AI funeral director asking each funeral guest if they smoke regularly

AI insurance reviewer citing current claim application as grounds for rejecting current claim application

my summary:

1. USA is over.

2. China has zero international credibility and you'd have to be insane to bank there. no amount of solar installations will change this.

3. Europe has financial credibility and is the only option to take on the global petrocurrency responsibility. they need simply to build it (which could be done in under one month) and make it available to oil purchasing nations (which could be done in ten minutes).

AI pet feeder inventing the torture food "foie-gras" in your living room from first principles

AI salesperson asking prospect to upload a list of their fears and insecurities

imagine if the christian cult rapture thing and alien first contact happened on the same day, absolute chaos

in the war between stupidity and evil we win on typos alone

AI politician promising to ban all AI if elected

#3GoodThings

1. tomorrow I go up the maunga 🤌🤌
2. tomorrow I will pursue a new business avenue I am extremely excited about
3. tonight I am going to make another one of the very nice Azteca hot chcolates I drank the other night. (I inhaled the ultrafine powder off the broad rim of my cool handcarved wooden cup directly into my lungs last time, which sting like a maddafakka but did not give me the pneumonia, so that worked out all right although I am basically Mr Bean)

AI smart dishwasher disabling door opening to prevent dishes from contacting food, drink, or other contaminants

@spzb@infosec.exchange fence sitting strictly forbidden! 😂

@th@social.v.st so cool!

#3GoodThings

1. a sloooow wake up. good morning feddy, happy weekend 🌻
2. I am going to make a delicious cappuccino.
3. my arm muscles were at their biggest measurement of my life yesterday and still growing. circumference of 44cm after my session yesterday, I am over the moon! at this rate they'll be 50cm by December. Arnie territory.

overdoing the planks does wreck me the same way actually. the difference is I am not somebody who wants to do a thousand seconds of plankage, whereas I am very much someone who likes the sound of doing one thousand situps. (catch me on ChukeTube sponsored by the hyrox I guess)

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social 😂😂🤌

@h2onolan@infosec.exchange it is dangerous to film some people without their consent. 12 weeks taking ones meals through a straw is literally not worth risking.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I can click my right knee joint on demand, reasonably loudly. also involuntarily, so I'm quite versitile.