doomsey

doomsey@hachyderm.io

<p>doomsey appears as a systems engineer and communications tool to the world. But there is another. She is an artist and writer. She would like to be named, but is denied even the right to assign the label “queer” to the machine that is me.</p><p>They live and work at home, in the Chicago area, with their wife and many cats. This cat is named Lily. She is black. She has no eyes. She is chaos.</p>

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a character that is mostly me, but not completely // #writing When I was leaving the “nerd camp” yesterday, I decided I was just going to have a quiet time. So I ended up hanging out in the living room of the Airbnb while the last person was getting ready to leave. Saw them briefly going into the shower. “Hey, can you drop me off at the airport?” He had scheduling concerns, so replied “When are you leaving?” … “I guess” And I sat there second-guessing myself for asking, over and over, and the...
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this is from a thread on anthropic marking #ai_slop in #writing or #writingcommunity and i realized it really should be posted as a standalone: There’s two forms fear around marking AI in writing can take. Form #1 is “it will identify my writing as AI.” As general solution, this is correct. But this particular case, it’s a misunderstanding. There is no “ground truth” to be preserved. The cryptographic approach means that the shift is intentionally buried in the randomness inherent to the “sto...
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A couple of book bits from today. I was working on illustration. // #writing
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She is an artwork in hidden platforms of stations long disused, starkly-lit paint flashing motion in the window of a train, passing crumbling columns. She is the unicorn that looks through my memories and sees the artwork on the hidden platform. Maybe not a vision remembered. But She doesn’t care. The image is present, denied but not forgotten. Called out, I admit the artwork exists, or at least it did at one time, 40 years prior. Dutifully, I go find my memories. My grandfather— my father’s...
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A coworker, long ago; quipped: The company asks us to treat their money like their own. But that’s a really bad idea. I’ll spin for days instead of solving a problem with purchasing some low value thing. A day or two worth of wasted work time is pretty expensive, too. Worth remembering. I keep having to remind myself.
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just a silly thing I did for absurdity&#39;s sake: load-balanced USB-to-10GbaseT. READ: bw=1730MiB/s (1814MB/s), 1730MiB/s-1730MiB/s (1814MB/s-1814MB/s), io=50.7GiB (54.4GB), run=30011-30011msec
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@Impossible_PhD I must be doing something right then! i got a next-day fuck off from someone already! 🤣