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@maple um. no? but i certainly don't *notice* anything downloading. is that normal?

repetitive attempt at self reassurance 

@maple maple is very good robot girl. byte is also very good when beep

worldbuilding, dvakiiri 

@azushark It certainly looks interesting! I'd be curious to see where it goes with its grammar. I'm certainly curious on that phonology and what (from the look of the alphabet) it allows and doesn't allow.

FreeBSD 

FreeBSD Complain #52:
Why in the fucking worlds does ports insist on reinstalling shit from scratch? Like, I have lang/ruby24 installed. WHY IS IT TRYING TO REINSTALL IT FROM SOURCE?! All I wanted to do was compile Vim with the Motif toolkit. Why are you reinstalling ruby from source?

Mental health (neg) 

I need to fuckin' let it go. The more rational part of me knows nothing was meant by it. But gods fucking damn it. It's so damn hard when all I can do is keep coming back to it.

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Mental health (neg), self-harm mention 

"The worst they can do is say no"
Ain't that a crock of shit. Oh, yeah, sure, they'll only say no. But no fucking hurts. I'd compare it to a punch to the gut, but I've punched myself there enough to be able to tell you what I'd fuckin' prefer, and guess what? It ain't being told no.

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Mental health (neg) 

Man, rejection sensitivity is a fucking *bitch*. Someone fucking end me now.

@wigglytuffitout And, of course, the techbros love to say "Oh, it's just learning from the data." Yeah, guess what? The data contains **years** of prejudice. That computer ain't learning from some pure, neutral set. It's not like trying to teach it to recognize the number three. It's learning from our shittiness. The computer can't tell right from wrong, so if you feed it all the wrong of the past centuries, without feeding it *massive* corrections...

@wigglytuffitout That last point can't be emphasized enough. **IT'S HAPPENING NOW**. People got all up in arms about the racist webcam years ago, but what they don't realize is that that racist webcam's cousin is now making important decisions in areas like the court system or the housing system. And it's not much better about not being racist. If anything, it might just be a bit worse.

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quit worrying about if AI is going to be creating new consciousness

start worrying about AI learning how to enforce things like redlining and the glass ceiling

worry about it because *it's happening now*.

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basically if people would just carve off 5% of the sci-fi panic and anxiety and spend that energy being legitimately concerned about how if you tell a computer "learn the rules of this game", the rules it will come back to report to you will be dripping with systemic inequality that must be directly confronted instead of excused or praised as infallible because "a passionless computer did it"

we'd all be much better off

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WHAT PEOPLE THINK ETHICAL ISSUES IN AI ARE: wow.... we're creating... new life........

WHAT ETHICAL ISSUES IN AI ACTUALLY ARE: techbros worshiping the almighty algorithm, not caring to look at what bad patterns the machines are picking up (racism, sexism, etc) and how to avert them, and overreliance on neural networks meaning that said algorithms are treated as magical black boxes where nobody wants to (or can, really) point out exactly how the equation works (and why it may be faulty)

Grumbling about Aces (+) 

Fucking asexuals, makin' me want garlic bread. Ugh.

It's all your faults that I made two loaves of french bread and am currently turning one into garlic bread, r/aaaaaaacccccccce. I hope you're happy with yourselves.

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subtooty, positive tho 

hey

hey maple

maple

did you know

maple listen

did you know

you are cute as heck and good

@maple I mean, a not-insignificant number of English-language developers still use ASCII. The only difference is that, back when the Unicode Consortium was formed, we USAians decided we were so important that the first 128 codepoints should just be ASCII, any other possible choice for how to arrange Unicode be damned. Because why should *we* have to reencode *our* documents? No, no, no. We'll leave that for the *rest* of the world to do.

Lewd? 

Me, at midnight, feeling horny, aggressive, and kinda subby: Fight me, dom(me)s! I shall be the arbiter of your worth as a dominant through testing you in the boxing ring!

Me, having forgotten that stamina and cardio were never my strong suit and it's actually been a while since I last worked out, deciding to go on a jog: OH GODS. WHY ON EARTH DO MY LUNGS FEEL LIKE THEY'RE ON FIRE?! WHY ARE MY LEGS SO WEAK?! WHY IS MY EVERYTHING SO WEAK?! WHY AM I SO WOBBLY?! WHAT THE FUCK?!

@maple This is the most I can find: greenbulb.com/ssmirror

There was also a lifehacker article from 2010 which basically goes "just buy a mirror and glue it on." It specifically mention hardware store inspection mirrors. It's not the best looking thing and probably not what you're looking for, but it's an option, I guess. Here's the referenced Instructables article, if you're curious: instructables.com/id/Self-Port

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