Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es

https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Early stream. Continuing with BIT.TRIP Runner.

Well, that was an adventure.

I love when a mystery changes from "why doesn't this work in [new situation]?" to "why does this work in [old situation]?"

Realizing that the anniversaries we feel a desire to celebrate (starting HRT and discovering we're a system) were empowered choices we made, rather than choices that were made for us (being born).

It's our syscoversary! 🎉

@lioness I misread that as conifer so you are a tree now. I don't make the rules.

If it's like highways (extracting resources creates demand for them), choosing to individually conserve isn't going to turn the dial. We need rules to keep society living within its means.

What I'm learning from the way investors (apparently) spend large amounts of cash is: as long as there are more resources to be exploited, someone will buy them up and use them to try to make money, however unlikely that is and however unhelpful or even detrimental the product. This isn't sustainable. So I don't blame the power consumption of large models on those who use them, I blame people willing to subsidize the expense, and the system that enables it.

@mavica_again As soon as we're physically talking to another person all our ability to affect or observe the system almost vanishes.

Update: my joke project from last night is no longer a joke.

Yes, that is the normal python repr (I didn't make my own loop for it), and yes I did make this shell upload itself to github.

meh@Deej:~$ python -i python-shell.py
meh@Deej:/home/meh>>> ls()
python-shell.py

meh@Deej:/home/meh>>> ls('/').lines()
['bin', 'boot', 'dev', 'etc', 'home', 'init', 'lib', 'lib32', 'lib64', 'libx32', 'lost+found', 'media', 'mnt', 'opt', 'proc', 'root', 'run', 'sbin', 'snap', 'srv', 'sys', 'tmp', 'usr', 'var']
meh@Deej:/home/meh>>> (ls('/')|grep('b')).lines()
['bin', 'boot', 'lib', 'lib32', 'lib64', 'libx32', 'sbin']

https://github.com/madewokherd/python-shell