"Pulling Back the Curtain of Deceit"
~ Jo Frederiks
@jofrederiks.bsky.social

A function on the space of ideas is computable if and only if it is expressible within language.

what if we put the entire population of omelas in the closet except for one guy lmao. what if Everyone was in there (big closet!) but it's kinda chill because the population of 100,000 or w/e is experiencing .001% the suffering that the child would've. well nothin's keepin us, may as well go outside

what if you had an omelas with Two cellarkids, which, if you were to quantify, were having about half as bad a time. the room is bigger, maybe they have a corner to shit in instead of sitting in it, and they can hang out together. is that more ethical. probably not idk

so the thing about the ones who walk away from omelas is that the first like 2/3 of it is spent describing the place and then shes like "too nice, too good, to be of interest to you? ok then. here's a fucked up thing" but no i believe in the omelas that doesn't have a kid in a cellar actually lol

by popular demand. this project will be loose in a “ill make a batch of these when i feel like it” kind of way. is it porn? well it will have porn in it. and a lot of nonsequitur bullshit that i think is funny. anyway here is basically nothing.

#godpuppy

did you know hammer factories require electricity? and that you have to clear land to build them? and sometimes neighbors hear them being made? just use a rock anyway, why would you need it to be comfortable or efficient to hit things. if you can't find rocks on your property that's a skill issue.

choose your faction:
- I made a vape that's also a hammer
- Hammers are going to become god & change everything
- I tried holding the hammer by the head and it didn't work, this is bullshit
- Hammers are useful tools sometimes
- Hammers? You mean murder-tools, as seen in the documentary The Raid 2?

photo of scale models on a table of the two lunar lander prototypes from spacex and blue origin for upcoming artemis missions

i'm just excited about lunar development regardless, but it's still funny seeing photos of these models next to each other at scale. blue origin's like double the size of apollo, a very realistic plan for next year, and spacex gambling wildly with trying to put a skyscraper on the moon right away.

It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”

you can tell he's a serious politics-knower by the way he thinks history began 10 years ago

this is why i sort of expect to find out post-2028 that they had plans in Jan to seize Greenland

lilo walk-around character

melvin from madagascar asking why you are white

just saw the lilo (lilo & stitch) walkaround character that they use in the parks

Alex Jones is truly one of the most evil people alive. He's lucky he lives in an era where the punishment for behavior like his is losing your website and not thumbscrews.

This shit pisses me off so much. There's *tons* of optimistic science fiction! It's just that very very little of it has white women producing white babies all day and churning butter on earth and dying of old age or whatever. The good future is queer and weird. Pick up a Greg Egan book sometime!

Welp, can't say I didn't see it coming, they cut down everyone's salaries about a month ago due to limited runway, but the company I was working for laid me off.

Need full time TypeScript and/or Solidity work ASAP

Saying "no man, you don't get to win this time" to evil people who have the power of the entire corrupt government behind them has to feel pretty fucking good

show them ancient grains. bring it in, if you can. there's gotta be places you can buy teosinte and wild onion

I have students who domt think humans invented agriculture and plants are just Like That, if we all Retvrned we’d be fine

Awesome how unabomber-tier collapse wishcasting is so normalized

Star Trek Voyager scene. We see a small, lone shuttlecraft fllying through a cloudy sky. Closed caption reads, "(screaming)"

Photo of me in my fursuit with the text "IN THIS FUTURE WE WILL BE ANIMALS" overlayed on top in red Helvetica. There is a VHS/CRT effect applied to the image, and the word "PLAY" in the top left corner.

BE ANIMALS

this has some pretty hilarious implications if it's actually true that Mythos is too expensive to run and if that turns out to be a classwide characteristic

we built God but Its business plan turned out not to be viable

3-panel comic. (1) (A person with a picture of a spacecraft behind head.] PERSON 1: There are now three spacecraft headed to Europe: NASA’s *Europa Clipper*, which will investigate Europa’s subsurface ocean, (2) [Person is gesturing at a picture of a different spacecraft while talking to a person with a ponytail and a person with short hair.] PERSON 1: ESA’s *Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer*, which will study the topography and chemistry of Europa and the other moons, (3) [Person with a picture behind head of a Zamboni with a rocket launcher underneath] and the NHL’s *Zamboni Voyager*, which plans to resurface Europa. PERSON FROM OFF-PANEL: Oh no. PERSON 1: We tried to stop them, but the league is set on an expansion.

Europa Missions

xkcd.com/3234/

#savespeech #notodigitalID

New phishing scam for age verification. They arent even trying now.

For fuck's sake:

- STOP COMPLYING.
- STOP GIVING OUT YOUR ID
- EVEN IF YOU FEEL YOU NEED TO, DONT.

Complying with AVing means you LOSE EVERYTHING. Resist. Jaikbreak your tech. Use FOSS. Yell at reps.

open-slopware Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. Fork of the repo by @gen-ai-transparency after its deletion.

Ironically I think many anti-AI people could actually end up claiming that considering Mastodon is ironically also on that "tainted software" list (codeberg.org/small-hack/o...).

‘Simply stop giving millionaires water for literally free’ is one of the most insane sounding but actually serious policy solutions out there

FULLY
AUTOMATED
LUXURY
GAY
SPACE
COMMUNISM

bunch of people said there wasn't a real ddos threat against open source social media and the bluesky ddos was actually caused by ai coding

and now mastodon is getting ddosed too