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  • I woke up from a dream where I basically gave my Norma Rae speech about my unionizing job. I talked about how I liked working with everyone and what we do together but then got into the labor theory of value (in layman's terms) and the competing interests of labor and capital. By the end I and my coworkers were crying and then... Get this 🙄... Everyone clapped. Yes, like the meme. How embarrassing. 😅 But I did speak from the heart. Woke up crying a little before I realized it was all not real

    7:29:00 AM 4/30/2026
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  • I arrived in Athens, Greece today and I'll be here 1.5 months for work. I'm exhausted and my job drives me crazy. But I stick with it because I do, in the end, do get to do some really cool stuff, like this. Anyway, I'm tired. I woke up at 2am and it's almost 10pm in that timezone. I was able to have a few drinks with a coworker I like but mostly see only over the internet. We shot the shit. And now I'm shot so good night. Excited to discover more of the city tomorrow and rebuild a routine.

    9:55:00 PM 4/29/2026
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  • In reply to: https://beige.party/@bazkie/116482217370987682

    @bazkie He could hypnotize me talking about sound all day. "Whatever you want, sir-- I mean, Benn!... I mean sir." 😅

    2:01:02 PM 4/28/2026
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@donthatedontkill/116481843326020664

    @bazkie I also forgot to do the obligatory Benn Jordan thirst post, so here it is: THIRST :owi: :BlobhajHeart: 🫠

    1:58:36 PM 4/28/2026
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  • In reply to: https://gives.hugz.online/@MelissaBearTrix/116480137338649259

    @MelissaBearTrix go up and down, up and down, up and down. The people on the bus go up and down all around the town 🎵🎵🎵

    1:35:14 PM 4/28/2026
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  • In reply to: https://beige.party/@bazkie/116481840690903736

    @bazkie Ah I see. Burn it all with fire as far as I'm concerned

    12:24:36 PM 4/28/2026
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@donthatedontkill/116481837641230493

    @bazkie We also follow the general reference for frugal ai: afnor.org/en/news/artificial-i I am not an expert on it, not being an AI guy. But I am a developer and for the same projects, we have an rference framework for ecoconception. ecoresponsable.numerique.gouv. (I'm not sure if there's an English version)

    12:24:11 PM 4/28/2026
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  • In reply to: https://beige.party/@bazkie/116481654040068527

    @bazkie I'm not which services you're talking about and who is "them." If you're talking about OpenAI, I agree. If you're talking about the 30-something employee company I work for, I'm not sure we even have data centers. My understanding is that we have one calculation server and we're not making models for general consumption. They're specific models for a specific purpose and aren't really sold as an end product in and of itself like an LLM.

    12:23:10 PM 4/28/2026
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  • Me, working on developing a platform that uses AI models at work for detecting problems related to noise pollution, air quality and traffic.
    Also me as soon as someone uses Mistral/Claude/ChatGPT: "AI is a cognito hazard."
    In each of us, there are multitudes.

    11:29:56 AM 4/28/2026
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  • In reply to: https://mas.to/@stevegis_ssg/116472381725381940

    @stevegis_ssg *twirls hair* so um hi, is that ball, like, round? 🙈

    5:44:23 AM 4/27/2026
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  • 🎵intro music🎵
    My toxic take for today is....
    ....I hate the way some people use the 😉 emoji. It makes my skin crawl.

    ... Until tomorrow for another toxic take!
    🎵outro music🎵

    9:22:00 PM 4/25/2026
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  • In reply to: https://beige.party/@farah/116450676331156790

    @farah ooooh boy ain't that the mood!

    1:03:16 AM 4/23/2026
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  • In reply to: https://lile.cl/@adriano/116450774958201977

    @adriano :ziltoid: :kirby: :AAAAAA:

    1:02:10 AM 4/23/2026
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  • oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no
    ...i keep thinking about piiiiiiiizzzzzzzaaaaaaa

    #pizza

    3:32:36 PM 4/21/2026
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@rusty__shackleford/116433465309483862

    @rusty__shackleford Comiiiiinggggg!!! 🏃🏃🏃

    11:22:15 PM 4/19/2026
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  • For reasons, I was looking at Paul Tillich quotes and I will now share some favorites: "The first duty of love is to listen."
    "Boredom is rage spread thin"
    "Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone."
    "Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith."

    #paulTillich #quotes #theology #faith #love

    5:08:17 PM 4/19/2026
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  • Dreamed last night that I went back to teaching SAT/ACT/SHSAT/ISEE prep teacher. But for some reason I wanted to specialize in teaching only the math sections this time. I think I decided to only do one on one prep instead of full classes. It was a nice change of pace, I guess, but I think I'll keep my current job.
    Speaking of which, I am going to work in Athens from April 28 to June 10th! If you'd be so kind, fediverse, give me your Athens tips!

    #athens #dreams #greece #sat #act #shsat #isee

    8:38:55 AM 4/19/2026
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  • donthatedontkill wants to read L'archipel numérique by Romain Leclaire

    donthatedontkill wants to read L'archipel numérique

    12:53:23 AM 4/19/2026
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  • I'll maybe write a bit more later on various life events but I'd like to say this:
    I love and am loved by many people in many ways, and that is a rare chance that should be acknowledged.

    9:58:00 PM 4/18/2026
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  • donthatedontkill wants to read L'apocalypse d'Adam et Aimée by Adama Diop

    donthatedontkill wants to read L'apocalypse d'Adam et Aimée

    8:11:08 PM 4/18/2026
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  • donthatedontkill wants to read The Death of UX and Product Management by Soudy Khan

    donthatedontkill wants to read The Death of UX and Product Management

    8:09:56 PM 4/18/2026
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  • donthatedontkill souhaite lire 8 livres en 2026

    donthatedontkill souhaite lire 8 livres en 2026

    9:40:26 AM 4/13/2026
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  • donthatedontkill

    7:10:48 AM 4/13/2026
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@carmensandiego/116373470824924249

    @carmensandiego NOT MR WORLDWIDE!!!!

    12:35:58 PM 4/9/2026
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  • donthatedontkill wants to read Marxistes et libertaires by Michael Löwy

    donthatedontkill wants to read Marxistes et libertaires

    4:24:26 PM 4/8/2026
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  • donthatedontkill quoted House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

    "Me, staring down at that lifeless dog, not a speck of blood mind you, just a shadow looking alot like some kind of a charcoal drawing, featureless & still, floating in a pool of yellow lamp light. I couldn't even say anything, not a cry, a shout or a word. I couldn't feel anything either, shock alone possessing me, depriving me of any emotional meaning, finally leaving me in a mad debate over what to do with the body: bury it, take it to the pound, throw the thing in a garbage can. I couldn't decide anything. So I just crouched there, knees burning, finally filling with enough of that distant pain that tells all of us, especially in our sleep that the time has come to move. But I wanted to give this dog a name first and lists skipped through my mind, endless lists, which in the end ran out. There was no name. I was too late. And so I just stood up and left. Call me an asshole (and fuck you too) my Pekinese friend was gone. Ant food now. At the very least I reasoned--the body was close enough to the curb. The street sweeper would get it in the morning. Another mother to all strays."

    — Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves, pp. 268-268

    5:27:07 PM 4/6/2026
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  • Go ahead, buster! Make literally anyone, someone's day!! It could actually really, really help.

    #goodnews #happy #hope #despair #doomerism #hopium #solidarity #nantes #bike #biking #fyp #cycling

    5:57:03 PM 4/4/2026
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  • donthatedontkill wants to read Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison

    donthatedontkill wants to read Make Room! Make Room!

    11:56:50 PM 3/30/2026
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  • donthatedontkill wants to read La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman (The Book of Dust, #1)

    donthatedontkill wants to read La Belle Sauvage

    11:46:52 PM 3/30/2026
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  • In reply to: https://mastodon.social/@donthatedontkill/116240296417010692

    Life got away from me and I haven't been on mastodon much but thank you everyone for taking the time to give me suggestions!

    5:26:50 PM 3/27/2026
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  • Blog posts
  • My Ango: An anti-movational post

    About three months ago I posted this photo, which was a plan for the Fall 2025 Ango[1]

    5:46:00 PM 12/15/2025
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  • Marry me!!! is the last thing you expect at 2am

    I just got home and I need to write about an experience I just had that I'm still trying to understand.

    I had left a friend's house after a nice little dinner and had decided to take one of t...

    1:58:00 AM 6/28/2025
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  • Spiders in the web: Hyperion's Farcasters and Technofeudalism

    SPOILERS FOR THE HYPERION SERIES

    I recently finished the Hyperion Cantos. For those who have never heard of it, you can check out

    8:11:00 PM 5/4/2025
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  • Slump (A poem)

    Wind rushing by my ears
    Branches slap my face
    Speed increasing
    As gravity drags me down
    Into its bosom
    Woosh, whack, whiz
    As I wake up
    To a once hidden nightmare.

    ...

    4:26:00 PM 12/19/2024
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  • A Manifesto? - Part 1: New Ways of Being

    I have an idea rattling around in my head. An embryo of an idea. A little intellectual itch nagging at me. A perpetual refrain when my mind idles and looks for the nearest thing to alight on. A noti...

    4:06:00 PM 10/13/2024
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How I'm Spending My Free Time

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

Cover of House of Leaves

A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

Total playtime in the last two weeks

13 minutes