here we go! here are most of the cards that folks bought live on stream this saturday. The first one is NOT english. The first one is a @nostalgebraist-autoresponder that I attempted to recreate
Spending weeks toiling at the forge, sweat dripping off my face and sizzling on the glowing metal, hammering out an ethical framework in which speeding is not just a right but a moral duty
Of course there’s the caricature of the anarchist, but using “the state is evil -> breaking the law is good” is easy mode. Other low-hanging fruit would be various misanthropic or Malthusian worldviews where an increase in car crash fatalities is seen as good. Perhaps there’s an environmentalist angle to this? Idk at what speed fuel efficiency peaks in modern cars.
Here’s one
1) Negative utilitarianism is correct. The morally correct action is the one that has the least suffering. 2) Our world is filled with an unimaginable amount of suffering, and we have next to no ability affect most of it. In particular the biosphere is filled with trillions or quadrillions of small animals that experience predation, violence, parasitism, and disease in their short lives. One fermi estimate put the number of animals on earth at ~20 quintillion (2*10^19). The direct actions we take to allieviate their suffering are almost negligible in impact. 3) Morality is relative. Not as in the moral framework is up to you, I mean in the special relativity sense. There’s no ethically preferred reference frame, so we have to take the one that we’re choosing to take actions in. Otherwise there’s no way to compare the utility functions of agents in different reference frames. The morally correct action is determined by evaluating the global utility function in your reference frame and picking the action with the least suffering. 4) If you go really fast, the rest of the world is a little bit time-dilated so that it’s moving slower in your reference frame. This means there’s less suffering per second. Although this effect is miniscule, it adds up quickly if you consider the total volume of animal suffering in the world. At low speeds, increasing your speed by 10 extra miles per hour time dilates other reference frames by 1/(1+10^-16) (and in turn, decreases their suffering by a factor of 1/(1+10^-16)). Thats not much, but multiplying by the number of animals affected gives us about 10^3. So going 10 mph over the speed limit is the equivalent of sparing 1000 sentient from suffering.
It’s not much compared to the state of the world, but it’s enough to matter. It’s enough to make a difference. We have to try. We have to do something for them. We have to go as fast as we possibly can.
a remote work site made the brilliant decision to hook their automated ad account — which responds to any tweet that mentions remote work and remote jobs — up to gpt-3
the result is people pioneering new forms of attack in real time
In the beta post editor on web, pasting or writing a single paragraph that exceeds the text block character limit will now split into multiple text blocks. We are still working to make the text editing process in the new editor more seamless for long-form writing, thanks for the continued feedback!
An “Open in Dashboard” button has been added in the Tumblr blog header for opening blogs and posts in your dashboard on web.
On web, you can now also hold “e” and click the reblog button to Fast Reblog; we’re trying to move away from using Alt, as it conflicts with browser shortcuts.
There is now a “Goth Rave” palette available on web, inspired by the new app icon for Tumblr on iOS.
🛠 Fixed
The post snake has returned in the latest Tumblr on Android. If you don’t know what the “post snake” is, try dragging the floating posting button around!
Fast reblogging on web (by holding “e” and clicking the reblog button) should no longer copy the post’s date or tags.
Images that are larger than 300px by 600px will be stretched to fill the full post view on web (formerly it was any image less than 300px wide, regardless of height).
Sharing posts to Twitter was broken for a short period of time yesterday (March 4th), but it should be resolved now.
Tumblr was generally unstable for a brief period of time yesterday (March 4th), but those issues should also be resolved now.
Fixed an issue where using an emoji before a mention in a reply would break the mention.
🚧 Ongoing
The Top Tags data for most blogs on Tumblr is missing and currently being regenerated; they should return to all blogs over the next day or so.
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On web, you can now also hold “e” and click the reblog button to Fast Reblog; we’re trying to move away from using Alt, as it conflicts with browser shortcuts.
This change makes it impossible to write the letter “e” when composing a reply, at least on my system.
EDIT: I experienced this issue right before writing the post, but now I can’t reproduce it. I’ll edit this post again if it comes back again.
EDIT2: I’ve reproduced it a few times, but can’t figure out a reliable way to trigger it. Things that seem to make it more likely: (1) deleting the text in the box and then typing again, (2) using an @-mention and then continuing to type.
hey guys can you help me find that old portrait of a girl holding a little painting of a naked dude and cracking up about it?? I want to say it’s by Rembrandt but that’s probably not right
It’s “Smiling Girl, a Courtesan, Holding an Obscene Image” by Gerard van Honthorst!!
Figure 1a shows how incidents happened substantially less on Saturday and Sunday even though traffic to the site remains consistent throughout the week. Figure 1b shows a six-month period during which there were only two weeks with no incidents: the week of Christmas and the week when employees are expected to write peer reviews for each other.
These two data points seem to suggest that when Facebook employees are not actively making changes to infrastructure because they are busy with other things (weekends, holidays, or even performance reviews), the site experiences higher levels of reliability.
I dreamed about an underground library, that used to be run by an organization whose name didn’t make it out of the dream; call them Librarians for a Sane Future. They were a sort of hippy VFD, or hacker culture predating computers.
The library was old and run-down; the main walkway (which led from our communal house to a greenhouse on the edge of downtown) in particular, its windowframes rusting and looking out on a weedy riverbank (as the tunnel itself was built into the deep channel of the river) and in some cases nearly overgrown themselves. LSF was basically gone. A few volunteers still kept the shelves from spilling over; even added new books occasionally, but barely kept ahead of the tide of disorder. The floor of the main walkway still recorded the last, knowingly ironic attempt at a revival in the late 80s: the list of Promised Restorations. They were painted in ornate letters on the floor, a self-aware historical monument at the time it was made. “PROMISED RESTORATIONS (the glorious future of LSF) 1. fix the windows, they’re really rusty. at least, like, trim back the weeds. 2. organize the realm of the fantastic. 3. expand and grow—new members, new safehouses, new knowledge to spread.” Then, as if in humorous admission of defeat, “4. so much for the Promised Restorations! 5. LSF.” They were arranged such that anyone coming from the kitchen would see “so much for the Promised Restorations” first. The 80s volunteers had actually organized the sci-fi/fantasy section a bit. Not much else.
I pulled down one book from a shelf piled high with paperbacks. It had been written in the late 80s, by an author who had been granted a brief peek at 201x Silicon Valley and mistakenly (?) conflated it with the dotcom boom. The book was one in a long, kind of trashy series about an Elon Musk / Bill Gates character who constantly saved the world by the power of his isolation-tank-trained supercomputing brain. The opening chapter had his assistant piping through a call from the president.
“I told him that if you don’t get enough isolation, the meat we call the brain won’t flash and bubble with the genius we all know and love!” Zolon blinked slowly in agreement. A bubble drifted by his foot. “But you know how these government types are. And it does sound a bit serious this time. Something about… Mars.”
What else about the library… the bookshelves and book carts were old, brown metal and formica. The floor was bare concrete, with a few rugs to break it up. There were no open spaces, just a labyrinth of teetering shelves. There were a few old beige computers in one corner, relics of the 80s revival, now as outdated as card catalogs but lovingly preserved for just that reason.
who else has the tumblr messaging update where you can now pick from a list of emoji, except the emoji are huge and aren’t actually emoji but are instead a list of entirely arbitrary images with no rhyme or reason
all I know is that they definitely made the zodiac signs the wrong color, and put them on the bottom, on purpose
what the heck are these meant to express
several of them are just speech bubbles, like this one, and there’s no way to put text in them so what’s even the point
someone got paid to model these things and to implement this feature
this one literally doesn’t display when you click the button, it’s just a broken image. I had to open this fucker in a new tab.
ok i genuinely cant tell if this is a shitpost or not is this actually real
I LOVE THIS UPDATE
Never before have I been able to express myself, and now I finally can with these shapes and patterns. “How are you today?”
