Michael Roberts

@johl Funny thing is, that code isn't copyrightable (in the United States, anyway), as it's been generated by Claude Code.

@futurebird@sauropods.win He would, sure. He's proud of it. He's smart enough to hide it from the press, mostly.

Hey @noplasticshower@infosec.exchange, I got a question. So, the activity of taking a raw bunch of information and constructing a coherent narrative is called "sensemaking". It seems to me this is a critical step in (and maybe most of) security incident analysis, right? Where would I start reading about that aspect?

@coreyspowell Weather satellite image of Caribbean and South American cloud formations about 8 PM Eastern last night. You can see the same clouds in the upper left of this shot. I find that so, so cool.

@jk Founded in 1896 in Filderstadt-Bernhausen and still managed by the fifth-generation descendants of the original founder from their new corporate headquarters, built in Esslingen in 1964.

@freakboy3742 The Unseen Academicals? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unseen_Academicals No official merch, though. And most of Pratchett isn't YA.

@catandgirl@socel.net OMG you're still around! In attempt to regain control of my attention, I quit all Web comics in about 2006 and when I gravitated back, I'd forgotten some of them. I remember your "the Internet is for finding out the rules to backgammon", though. And now here we are in the most hellish of futures. But at least you're still here! That's a plus! For me, anyway. You'd probably be happier in that other timeline.

@susankayequinn@wandering.shop Ooh, Half-Built Garden is so good!

@bweller @johl For real.

@kristinHenry @katemorley It's boggling *my* brain and I'm just sitting here reading about it.

@nealeg Oh, well done! @johl

@moof @freakboy3742 Oh, absolutely, I'd recommend all of it to young people.

@davidrevoy Well *that's* a good idea. Done. @wolfgang

@ecosentido@boriken.social Cool.

@cwebber@social.coop There's a lot of work to be done, which is why we're going to do it with fewer people!

@buddha_tee @jk I lived there (and my wife and I married there) while I was working at IKOSS in Stuttgart-Vaihingen after college. I rented a room from the parents of a guy I'd met at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. The world is complicated sometimes. So anyway, hi there, person who has heard of Bernhausen!

@kissane I've been thinking about this for three days now and I've only scratched the surface of how it relates to stuff I'm working on, but here's maybe my first usable insight. The meaning of a given term or concept is an entrenched semantic-memory trace that is abstracted from multiple events in episodic memory. But the weird thing about being linguistic creatures is that the episodic events our semantics are abstracted from

@nocontexttrek@mastodon.social How quaint!

@cwebber@social.coop Don't fascism people also talk about fascism there?

@kissane @jonny @tchambers As I noticed, pretty quickly, once I went back *one post*.

@kissane i mean that whole freakin linear time thing but still

@kissane Storebought? When I have perfectly good bibliographical management at home? Actually I'm finding Zotero to be *the* best way to cache non-academic articles, and so eventually I'm going to have to do that integration I've been putting off. I've never tried it online, though.

@kissane In time-travel science fiction, we can see a distinction between early stories where a modern goes back to some early days and teaches them how to make gunpowder, changing the course of history. This was followed fairly shortly by stories where a modern gets back to early days and realizes *they don't know squat about gunpowder* - only that it exists and could change the course of history, if only they knew what it actually was.

@kissane Ha, Clark and Chalmers cite Esther Thelen, there's that Indiana influence. Man, I'm glad you reminded me of her. I gotta bring her into the notes.

@cigitalgem@sigmoid.social The Fediverse does not agree with you today.

@overholt@glammr.us Could be worse; my boy's book club found out he was *born in the twentieth century* and started calling him "Unc".

@cigitalgem@sigmoid.social Isn't that the people who essentially "preproduced" the Mythos findings? As in, they've been doing this for a year?

@kissane I did some programming for her lab, back in the day, and did a nice cogsci class paper analyzing Vivi's early motor skill acquisition in Thelen's dynamic systems terms.

@kissane To any academics seeing this - this "aren't-our-episodes" claim is a strong one. I can't back it up, but I sure wouldn't say no to any leads, whether pro or con. It's not what I'm working on right at the moment, though, just where I'm pretty sure I'll eventually be going.

@jstepien@mastodon.social Untypische Symbole!

@kissane usually *aren't our episodes*. They're either narrative (or narrative frames) received from people around us (or news sources or storybooks or whatever), or they're even more abstract than that, they're just semantic structures *abstracted from* narrative in cases where we haven't even heard the narrative. But we can't actually tell the difference. I'm pretty sure (although I don't have literature to back it up) that we treat episodic traces from our own

@redsad@ohai.social 12.

@kissane I keep telling her it's really all the same field, but I don't think she's buying it.

@hans Is Erin using Blot? Because she does actually have some sidenotes on earlier posts, which I noticed after posting this. Huh. According to the About, yes she is. And the very previous post has a sidenote, so they must have added it since you evaluated it. https://erinkissane.com/qualities-of-life

@cigitalgem@sigmoid.social This question has gotten so very politicized.

@dgold @johl Not the copy I have, which I got from the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20260331090815if_/https://pub-aea8527898604c1bbb12468b1581d95e.r2.dev/src.zip

@cstross@wandering.shop Denn hyu haz zo much schtuff to ketch op on!

@mattblaze@federate.social And freakin WEBSITES. No, Iberia.com, I really really don't want daily news pushes about flying out of Madrid just because you had a good price en route to Budapest.

@kissane@mas.to - just documenting the shards would be a fascinating process, online anthropology or something. I keep nibbling up on the edges of this kind of thing but there's a lot to learn.

@cstross@wandering.shop I left some more in a comment on the post, but the #1 thing missing from your list is Girl Genius. Your list and mine overlap quite a bit.