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This is so funny that I'm angry because I can never use it at work! Ah well, it'll just have to torment my peers at hack(er's drinking) night!

Have you seen Lenia?

My understanding of what a cellular automata could be was greatly expanded when I learned about it. To me, something like loop quantum gravity seems to have the same rough "shape" as a very complex cellular automata. I think we're (humanity) getting closer to a breakthrough in understanding on that front.

Basic data structures are so primitive as to be emergent. Obviously we see stacks of things and queues everyday, but how often do you look at a highway and see a circuit, or plumbing and see a DAG?

Conway's Law too! If you didn't already know about it, you'll see it everywhere now. I think it defines reality. A system cannot be designed that isn't constrained by the communication ability of it's creator. All art is the limit of what we can express.

Totally missed touch along with many other senses.

• Killing with my bare hands let's me feel the life leaving their bodies
• Killing while standing on one leg balances my desires for vengeance
• Feasting upon the flesh of those I murder satiates the hunger within me
• I become lost in the blood frenzy, all sense of time vanishing

There's at least one person in each set who isn't buying it. Sadly, that ratio seems pretty accurate.

But what if the Deathstar wore pants...

He'll save children, but not the British children.

Added context: https://youtu.be/sbRom1Rz8OA?si=x2kIUb6LsEi8I-Ac

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

~ Stephen Jay Gould

Do charities normally get buy-out offers from for-profit businesses?

Fair point, although actually... 🤔 I mean non-profits do get bought out (and/or abused) for their good optics. See "Open"AI.

It's just sad, looking up the company on Wikipedia (to get the buyout history right) reminded me of the very first humble indie bundles (which I participated in) and what a nice feeling it was to directly support indie studios and a good charitable cause. We could get into "consumer-activism" and what a joke/paradox that is, and maybe we should because look at what Humble Bundle is today but I still think it started out as something good.

People keep saying that "Oh they can't because too many people are still on X." But like, how do you think communities grow?

Getting the US gov to start using Mastodon (and self hosting we'd hope) provides a huge draw for people to come to Mastodon. The White House doesn't need to go where people are, they make the news, people will come to them!

Remember when Humble Bundle was actually a charity and not just a charity-themed storefront owned by IGN?

Well, technically owned by IGN, a subsidiary of Ziff-Davis, formerly J2 Global, formerly Ziff-Davis.

I'm sure firing what was left of the employees with any commitment to the concept of HB and folding the brand under the rest of your e-commerce verticle will have no further adverse effects on the quality or usability of HB as a service.

I'd offer up a "Black don't crack" but I think all the time about what 8 years in office did to Obama. They must have a hyperbaric time chamber attached to the Oval office.

Yeah, I've seen a lot of Kelly boosters on here but that oil stance is a non-starter for me. Shapiro and Cooper seem alright, I guess. Bunch of centrist whatevers.

Don't let a few downvotes get to you, especially when your up/down ratio is great. Many mobile clients actually make it super easy to accidentally vote while scrolling (I've done it a few times) but also people will downvote for literally anything. Maybe they felt the post was too long, or had a misspelling, or they don't like the format, or they downvote all US politic posts, or so on and so forth. It's not like karma even means anything on Lemmy.

This is a stupid link to it but here you go: https://youtu.be/ZiRSLYV1X4A?si=kwAusX_Q-6cZig6d

I, too, have been atomically dissecting that meme to find the racism, and you know I won't rule out that when the GOP makes a joke about that actually is what they mean, but it appears to be a thing fans of Harris also meme about.

She was telling a folksy story of growing up and she recounted how her mother had asked if the kids had just fallen out of a coconut tree. It's a cute alternative to "were you born yesterday" or something like that.

I dunno, it has big "what doesn't everyone say 'porch monkeys?'" energy.

🎶 A superstitious cowardly lot! 🎶

Why don't all cops drive around in cars with their name and face plastered all over the side?

I hadn't heard of this book, but I'm entirely unsurprised to see that this is the same duo that made Veins of the Earth. The monsters in that book are so, so delightfully fucked up and this has that same energy. Have to add this one to my wishlist.

Yeah in 2020 I didn't like "Top Cop" Kamala Harris because that's literally how she was marketing herself! I think 4 years in the VP seat have given her a lot of valuable experience with the job and I'm willing to be swayed by arguments that she's moved leftward and softened on some of her policies regarding incarceration and crime. Sometimes seeing how the sausage is made, then getting some distance and perspective on things, can cause a person to turn their views around.

Anyway, at this point I'd much rather engage with the Top Cop prosecutor who at least seems to believe in the idea of law and society, over "Day One Dictator" Drowsy Donnie.

lol, until I saw this was on the Canada community I thought this was some sinister propaganda about her secret ties to the North. Like, damn, the right is really really reaching for mud to sling! Will Harris allow a Tim Hortons invasion? What about the sanctity of the NHL?