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aredridel

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I write. Words, programs, poems.

Anti-totalitarian. Anti-individualist.
Talk to me about community, queerness & unschooling.

Under 18: interact freely, don't let anyone take your right to your world from you.

If you reply to me, I will probably have a conversation with you. Be warned.

See also https://better.boston/@aredridel (urbanism), https://wandering.shop/@aredridel (writing)

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mekkaokereke, to random
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There's lots of noise in SF about homeless people "refusing shelter" and "They want to live in tents!" And that we should force them to accept the shelter against their own will, "for their own good!" Many SF folks rationalize their desire to not see homeless people, by convincing ourselves that refusing shelter is an irrational behaviour, and that we know better.

We don't consider the fact that people might be refusing shelter when that shelter is worse than a tent.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2023/sf-sro-empty/

aredridel,
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@mekkaokereke this. Every intervention refused is because that intervention was as appalling: it was worse than the tent.

Controlling rules. Not allowing pets. Breaking up family and friends. Too far from the rest of life. Unsafe. Stuff will get stolen.

Yes. Homeless people have lives that they want to keep participating in. Friends. Sources of food. Places to be. Community. Pharmacies. Doctors.

It’s basically always rational. We just have a fundamental habit of ignoring the reasons.

aredridel,
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@bluGill even then we have to take them seriously to get psychosis treated. You have to treat people as human beings with agency to get it to work.

And in the case of paranoia? It’s an irrational response but often to something that is also rationally distressing. The specifics may be way off base but the “I don’t want it” usually has a damn good reason.

Including fear of having their wishes overridden.

b0rk, to random
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working on designing some git diagrams this morning. thinking about how to:

  • make the direction of time clear (which commits are earlier/later?)
  • differentiate branches vs commits vs tags
  • show where HEAD is
aredridel,
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@b0rk The direction of arrows always gets me. "Descends from" is how it's implemented, but I always think of it in reverse, the arrow pointing to the current state.

Greg Rutkowski Was Removed From Stable Diffusion, But AI Artists Brought Him Back - Decrypt (decrypt.co)

Greg Rutkowski, a digital artist known for his surreal style, opposes AI art but his name and style have been frequently used by AI art generators without his consent. In response, Stable Diffusion removed his work from their dataset in version 2.0. However, the community has now created a tool to emulate Rutkowski’s style...

aredridel,
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@selzero @glenatron @raccoona_nongrata @fwygon And thousands of people's creativity is in the Marvel movie, but one person hammering out a prompt on the AI art. They're still vastly different. Even the most banally corporate movie is still a work of staggering human creativity and working together.

Stable diffusion image generators are not.

aredridel,
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@selzero @glenatron @raccoona_nongrata @fwygon no. Human relationships of cocreation over purely extractive ones. It’s not the biology (though humans have human relevant social drives simple algorithms don’t), it’s the relationships.

It’s obscuring that as if these clusters of Gpus care about creating and form relationships based on them that is so offensive.

aredridel,
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@selzero @glenatron @raccoona_nongrata @fwygon it’s biological the way zoology is physics. Technically true but so deeply ignorant of the orders of magnitude of history and emergent complexity for that also to not be relevant. It’s a profoundly reductive way to look at things to the point of missing their fundamental nature.

aredridel,
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@selzero @doug @glenatron @raccoona_nongrata @fwygon not just: it’s about relationships. Nearly all art is social.

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