abbreviations can be visual-flags, for the reader of the item.

Makes finding key-passages quicker for them.

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1. it’s entirely-possible that a filesystem-corruption has happened, destroying some settings by bitrot.

2. it is entirely-possible that there is a new bug in the server-instance, after an update ( don’t know if there’s been any update to its OS or to its lemmy-server code )

3. it is entirely-possible that some attack is compromising its function ( statistically it’d happen, sooner or later )

4. There is a fundamental flaw in the reddit system of “organizing” subreddits, & the replication of that flaw throughout the fediverse:

ALL users have to keep wasting time blocking stuff that we’ve already blocked, because there’s no hierarchy-of-communities.

I don’t have any ability to block the entire Gaming category, & then never see anything more in it.

Same with Hentai & Furry porn, same as AstralPath@lemmy.ca mentioned.

EVERYBODY has to keep “putting out fires”, endlessly, because the architecture prevents the right-answer from correcting-the-problem.

I’ve no problem with multi-inheritence hierarchy ( X-Plane ought be in Aviation, and in Simulation, and in Gaming ), but to sabotage the whole fucking world’s effort/resources, forever, to protect non-hierarchy is retarded.

I’d re-structure the fediverse so that some ML worked at sorting-out where every community belonged, & where it was unambiguous, let that stand.

Then people could block categories of stuff, & that’d be done.

I’ve blocked sooo many communities, that I’ve no idea if the ones which I see today were previously-blocked, or whether they’re just ones I hadn’t blocked yet.

but forcing all people to endlessly waste effort on that, when it should be category-by-category unless the person in-question wants finer-granularity control, that’s insanity.

Insanity which has been architected-into the fediverse’s servers.

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Definition “Religion”: identity-anchoring, axiom-based assumption-river, which usually disallows falsification.

Fundamentalist anti-theism is every bit as “religious” as any other religion, even though it orients around absence-of-deity instead of deity.

The Physicalist/Materialist assumption-river/religion which prohibits that mind is real, is every bit as identity-anchoring AND every bit as rejecting-of-falsification as any other religion.

Were Physicalism/Materialism true then mind would only be effect, never cause of the behavior-of-matter.

So, engineered airliners wouldn’t exist.

The fact that they do exist, and are produced by intentional-mentation being expressed by matter … is powerless to falsify Physicalism/Materialism simply because Physicalism/Materialism’ is axiom-based, & doesn’t allow falsification.

Therefore it’s a religion.

Hofstadter’s “Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” was about ideologies, prejudices, religions, & formal-systems. The 2nd edition of it explained that it wasn’t only about formal-systems, in the new Preface, because nobody ( Western ) had gotten that implication.

All of those, ideologies, prejudices, religions, & formal-systems, … ignore evidence that isn’t obeying their view.

Empiricism, which is outside-centered, seems to be the only religion/method worth holding-to.

& that means that all spiritual-religions which are empiricism-rooted, also have some chance of being valid.

But without outside-centrism, the biblical Greek “eklegos”, then it’s an “already-lost war”: self-centrism isn’t capable of knowing universe, only its own assumptions/beliefs.

That is consistently demonstrated by humankind’s history.

Self-consistency-of-view vs completeness-in-knowing-Universe: 2 mutually-exclusive paradigms.

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In the minds of the politically-motivated, maybe.

Not all minds are politically-motivated.

The blunt fact that people are multidimensional, & some are high-integrity-in-work while being low-integrity-in-business, or are excellent-woodworkers-while-being-family-abusers … what a person is in 1 dimension oft has nothing to do with what they are in another.

Ideologues who insist otherwise are living within their ideology, not within actuality.

Spiders may creep many out, while their silk is one of the most astonishingly-awesome materials known.

their silk doesn’t itself creep people out…

but maybe ideologues hold that it has to be creepy because to them spiders themselves are creepy…

Cult-“thinking”.

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So you hold that ReiserFS instantly became evil when Hans Reiser murdered his wife, even-though ReiserFS was a filesystem, developed by multiple people … too?

There is a Principle, which the US Marines hold to:

nazis made more-protective helmets for their troops?

Steal the design, don’t accept their doctrine.

Someone made a better truck than we did?

Steal the design, don’t accept their doctrine.

That’s an excellent paradigm: differentiate between the technology vs the ideology.

People who hold that ideology is the whole of reality … do profoundly-idiotic things like insist “you can’t impliment efficiency, because the last person who pushed it was a nazi”.

Using an ideologue’s software to displace ideology, absolutely is valid use.

Same with any technology, like the barter-replacement called “money”: some uses are evil, others good, & some turn it into a religion, & many insist that because some make it a religion, therefore it “inherently” is a religion, & no other relationship with it could ever be valid…

Same with the technology of a “business”, by incorporating it as a Public Benefit Company, & operating it that way, even-though other corporations are operating as anti-benefit/anti-public companies.

The technology is itself, the origin is itself: they are independently themselves.

As Torvalds identified, once you release something in GPL-2, the community can’t have it taken-away from them: it’s theirs.

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It’s Netanyahu’s “Israel” whom I think is going to be using nukes this-year in the region…

I don’t see any reason for Trump to nuke Iran, but Netanyahu’d rather nuke everybody than “lose”, so … it seems inevitable, now, given how Netanyahu’s “Israel” is imploding with all the genocidings they’re trying to sustain simultaneously…

Mass-shooters always go for maximal-destruction, as we’ve all seen…

Competitive-nihilism’s nature!

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Many years ago, there was an article about the same sycophantism-dynamic in Microsoft…

Bill Gates was unable to find-out what actually was true, because political bullshit was trying to keep him ignorant…

He fought by asking arbitrary, random questions, trying to see cracks in the institutional-disinformation-regime he was being subjected-to…

( Trump laps it up, instead of fighting it, obviously )

1 time a guy ( St. John, iirc ) sent an email to Gates describing the aweful state of … either printing, or fonts, can’t remember…

This blew the lid on a whole institutional-coverup that had been going on for awhile…

Gates, though, since he’d assumed the official position was right, challenged this guy’s message, & he wrote back with an itemized list of brokennesses in the subsystem…

That was all that was needed to get fixing going…

It struck me when reading that article, perhaps last-century, that all Gates had needed to do was to have a proper discussion-forum for issues to be discussed in, & then he couldn’t be kept ignorant, anymore…

Like having PieFed or Lemmy for in-company discussions… ( usenet was an actual thing, back then )

Nothing’s changed, except now I finally am no-longer-retarded-enough to assume that it’d give an accurate view of the issues…

( political-pressure would be for people to keep their mouths shut, so as to protect status-quo & established-ignorance & established-corruption … didn’t understand that enough, before )

Issue-centric discussions can get past the political-hierarchy…

( & political-hierarchy is itself bogus-“validity” class-system, to begin with )

But Trump’s such a “snowflake” that he hasn’t got the spine to deal-with any actuality to begin with…

See the condescention/contempt in Jared Kushner’s eyes, & in Trump’s … so frequently …

that isn’t interested in fixing everything, that’s interested in minimizing “contamination” by “inferiors”…

You can’t be long-term/strategically viable, if you’re too spineless to see actuality.

Hitler proved that ( the Allies wouldn’t kill him, late in the war, because he was wrecking the nazi’s viability better than his-replacement would have been doing ), & Trump’s proving that…

the problem, though, is that competitive-nihilism doesn’t care if its territory isn’t viable after they’re gone: that’s just part of the “mass shooting”, & therefore part of their “high score”…

& doing that on whole-country scale, as Putin, Netanyahu, Millei, & Trump, are doing, does have global consequences…

No matter: humankind’ll either not-learn & earn extinguishment this century, XOR it’ll learn, & some remnant with fundamentally-different instinct/nature will survive this century will earn that surviving: universe can’t care, only we can care, if we want.

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Banning it at-home, is 1 thing, but banning it while abroad & in hostile-regimes, would be idiocy: at the home-end, record the whole interaction, & make that part of official-record.

But make it impossible for the hostile-regime to get anything from either the in-their-country device, or the encrypted stream which they can’t crack.

the fact that corruption wants nonaccountability is 1 valid concern.

but the fact that hostile-regimes exist, & we’re in economic-meshing with them, means that we need to be able to have officials in those countries.

Which makes the requirement for communications which the hostile-regime can’t crack real.

Oversimplificaiton is incompetent “management”.

Don’t solve the wrong problem, & pretend that you aren’t responsible for the authority you mis-wielded.

That they were having a non-accountable-within-the-EU group on Signal, that IS AN ACTUAL PROBLEM, but there are use-cases for Signal to be needed, if done properly.

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Universe’s recycling of ALL energies ( including meaning ) contained within it is rigged: the only way to opt-out is to evolve one’s way out: force-dissolving one’s soul-ignorance/soul-ignosis…

Please read the brilliant Huston Smith book “World Religions”, the Hindu, & Buddhist chapters, & also the Primal Religions chapter, for an angle that Western-educated minds never would have thought-of…

Just for interesting-perspective, is all…

It’s a wonderful book: real mental exercise!

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Each kind of incarnation has its own time-speed…

Rock’s time-speed means that its life is measured in not days ( insects ) or years ( bigger mammals ), but in megayears.

They don’t chill, when they’re formed by being mashed into each-other ( Himalayas ). Maybe they do when filled-in into existing, with lava…

Not trying to be an asshole, only trying to keep the view accurate, because yes, incarnations can catch-in such kinds of matter, & the consequences are real.

( life is a property-of-universe, not a created-by-this-configuration-of-matter “magic” which specific configurations-of-matter “create”, as the dogma of Physicalism pretends )

Castaneda pointed-out that religions among mountains tend to be angry or/and jealous, & … yes, that checked out…

( even Tibetan Buddhism: wrathful-path Buddhism of the mountains, with its Dharmapalas, etc… )

Carlos was of the opinion that it was the spirit-of-the-mountains which was tainting them that way…

It is, though, entirely possible that crushed-together tectonic mountains are totally-different-in-spirit than lava-formed mountains, as Hawaii seems much calmer … mind you, the ocean’s dominant-spirit there, so that may be the reason for the Hawaian difference…

but the timescale-difference is real, & significant…

Once I knew someone who’d had an incarnation as a mountain-range-portion…

… some bright/hot/energetic/curious people got all over it, & its awareness caught in their energies … breaking that incarnation, yanking that continuum/soul into the human-category-realm’s incarnations …

the civilization was flicker/blur speed to the stone-bedded mind, that had been just doing its thing…

ALL is at-least-passively alive…

I have no idea if the lava-formed mountains are chill.

I know the mashed-together ones are not.

That’s all I’m adding.

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Hornet: been 1 in a previous incarnation ( hornet/wasp/bee, anyways ), & their awareness is stupendous compared with the little awareness in a fish ( whatever kind of fish that incarnation was ).

The flying social/hive insects seem to pack the most awareness per mg of bodyweight among all creatures.

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1. it is THE best brainstorming tool there is for writing with.

2. it helps one discover all the weaknesses in what one has written, though not necessarily for the reasons that’d be best ( I downloaded a local LLM, tried it, & discovered that it WOULD NOT ADMIT that Netanyahu’s “Israel” is genociding Palestinians… until finally I found a quote of an Isreali military official admitting, to Israeli journalists, that yes, the Palestinian numbers were accurate, so it was 70k, not 7k, dead, of them, as they’d been insisting all along…

( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/30/israel-military-gaza-death-toll-broadly-accurate )

I don’t need ideological-torque that facts can’t even budge, in my own computer.

Fuck that shit.

3. it is brilliant for doing web-search, for finding stuff that normal web-search is too dumbed-down to find. Trying to find a specific video, or channel, on yt, & their “search” function won’t let you find it? Ask an AI. Trying to find some organization you remember reading-about years ago? Try an AI. Etc.

4. I’m hoping that somebody does a specific-LLM for each subdiagnosis, & correctly chains the things together, so it isn’t only statistically-reasonable, but accurate diagnoses, & renders doctors irrelevant for diagnosis: total democratizing of medical-diagnosis would be THE medical-revolution that our world needs.

5. I wish that bad-teaching were replaced with good personal-agents or personal/offline chat, so that ALL learners could have best-of-breed mentoring in all the subjects they want ( within limits: our world doesn’t need more evil-makers, obviously ), & learning could be broken from the “education” cartels which currently “own” it.

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Please go watch the yt video of Bernie Sanders discussing politics/society/civilization with Claude.ai

That may blow your mind…

It’s … not quite as limited as you, or I, had been believing…

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Different case, obviously, but I remember reading about an AI which can identify pending-heart-attack from x-rays … and nobody could figure-out what the hell it was judging from…

THAT is brilliant.

Specialized to the degree that it is trustworthy.

I’d be surprised if humans could possibly compete against a properly-done set-of-AI’s, which worked through, in the correct order, all possible diagnostic-reasoning.

Democratizing accurate-diagnosis would be THE medical-revolution the world needs, now.

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That’s interesting…

I tried a local LLM, & it was sooo … ideological-against-objectivity ( made me want to puke ) AND so sycophantic, the mixture made me unwilling to tolerate the damn thing on my machine.

I hadn’t understood that it was doing a mixture of ideological-&-sycophantic, but yes, that absolutely-was a dimension in what it was doing…

Thank you for identifying that current in them…

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The story was adulterated, & that is visible in the text of that part of the bible, there was no apple.

“women ate of the fruit of the knowledge of Good & Evil ( MORAL UNDERSTANDING ), & shared that with men”.

Yes, mothering enforces more moral-understanding than does male-ego-persuits, traditional or modern.

As women have noticed, & evidence absolutely does back it, women bring life into the world, & men persue killing, consistently more than women do.

( the insecurity displayed by the “god” of that story is idiotic, & the blunt fact that help has been provided to humankind, repeatedly, since then, falsifies the message in that part of their bible that “god” wants us kept down, as pets: it investes in our evolving, & there’s even a book specifically on that, though from an Abrahamic-religion perspective, called “The Evolution of God”, which … isn’t written by a believer, but comes to the conclusion that someone has been cultivating evolution, consistently, among the peoples of that “god”. )

The “grace” left-behind by ones who experience moral-anxiety is the “grace” of being mere-animals, who don’t have moral-anxieties.

This is an absolutely-factual metaphor/parable about the mere-animal ancestors of humankind vs the moral-anxiety/moral-difficulties condition of our “generation”.

Also, there’s another corroboration, but much more recent…

there’s a yt vid on how Gobekli Tepe somehow was a metropolis without agriculture: Natural Abundance was sufficient for them to do that, & they didn’t break their ecology, the way we do…

But you’ve still got the “grace”/“non-grace” difference between the people who just lived in natural-abundance & didn’t break their ecology vs our-generation…

Oh, & as far as I can tell, the Abrahamic-religion authorities are looking totally at the wrong frame-of-reference, in trying to discern where the “Garden of Eden” was: it means Earth, not some limited-locale of it.

Earth was pristine, lush, drenchingly-alive ( I’ve read that the cod were sooo thick in off the Atlantic coast of Canada, that the fishermen said you could walk from ship to ship … exageration, certainly, but … the fish were, on average, 80y old, back then, & huge. Nowadays, they’re … a few years old, 8yo was what I’d read last century, & then we broke the coral-forests they breed in, & the cod-fishery collapsed, & never recovered. We’re incompetent at preserving natural-wealth, & we do it in ALL contexts, all fisheries, all forests, … where’s all the BEST farmland on Earth? under concrete, because we converted it all to cities, since that was where the people were.

Idiocy ).

We’re destroying the Garden of Eden, globally.

No matter: The Great Filter, our species-puberty, will force-exterminate our race, if we won’t grow-up quick enough, completely enough.

Natural Selection, but at planet-scale.

& finally, free-will requires ability-to-choose-wrong.

Puppets aren’t what we are.

( it is continuums/souls which are ChildrenOfG-D/CellsOfG-D, it isn’t our-lives/incarnations: those are children-of-souls, so grandchildren-of-G-D )

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Anybody, anybody at all, who believes that they aren’t going to be doing something really machiavellian, after operating on a “million deportations per year” paradigm, needs their head examined.

After dictatorship is activated, it’ll be required for citizens.

Wait & see…

( & if they forgot to put spyware into their app this time, that doesn’t mean it won’t come in in an update. )

Get cynical: evidence warrants it, nowadays…

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PS: I have NO idea why a partial-version of this comment got multi-posted, while I was still writing it.

Sorry.

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