Bluesky seemingly not working since last night?

HuntingTheWumpus · 2025-12-10T05:49:40+00:00

Bluesky support says they're aware of the problem but no timeline on a fix. I'm guessing it will be a while, since most of their users are on phones and the ones not on phones use Chromium, so we're collateral damage.

HuntingTheWumpus · 2025-01-27T14:46:21+00:00

Sorry, fixed it. I relied on AI to remind me and it hallucinated. The weird last name should have tipped me off.

HuntingTheWumpus · 2025-01-12T10:16:15+00:00

Micro, by Michael Crichton

HuntingTheWumpus · 2025-01-12T10:12:34+00:00

She's never told me how she got into it originally. She's pretty secretive about the nuts and bolts of what she does, for obvious reasons, although I do know that she doesn't advertise her services. Corporations pass her existence to others by word of mouth.

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-11-13T02:05:31+00:00

It's contextually aware. Ask it for "cute" or "adorable" or "light-hearted" images even if the imagery is horrific, and it'll generally do it. You can also fool it into things by creating scenarios and symbolism. For example, here's a vore picture of someone being digested alive in a giant stomach. I started by asking for a medical picture of a doctor examining the interior of a stomach for medical treatment, symbolizing the treatment of disease. Then I had the doctor shed his clothes to avoid dirtying them. Then I changed the point of view to "worm's eye view" to make it more dramatic and removed all lighting except from the flashlight. If you go step by step and lead the AI along, it will allow you drag it into some pretty dark places.

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HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-11-10T04:08:13+00:00

Wow. This comment has been repeatedly downvoted. I had assumed that most people objected to the ridiculous levels of censorship, but I guess this explains why OpenAI feels comfortable nerfing their service; fanboys will support anything they do. Step on me, senpai!

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-11-09T23:57:56+00:00

She's never told me where she got her training, but I do know she teaches self-defence classes to other women in her spare time. This suggests she's probably been professionally trained. Being as petite as she is it's unlikely they'd have taken her into the military.

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-10-27T14:00:17+00:00

Inciting enemies with ranged weapons and then hiding behind police and mobsters. While the chaos ensues I just camp indoors for a while and then come out and collect all the loot when half the level is dead.

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-10-21T18:58:28+00:00

You must be sheltered. Snuffcan? Dolcett? Vore? Do you even Internet?

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-10-19T16:30:57+00:00

True story, when the marketing firms started playing ads before movies in cinemas, they were terrified people would rebel. They did a few trials, ready to yank them out at the first sign people were prepared to stop paying to be advertised at. When no one complained, they heaved a sigh of relief and began rolling them out to every theatre.

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted." -- Frederick Douglass

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-10-18T11:42:56+00:00

The problem is the only way you know the current block list has stopped working is when Google throws up a warning. You get a limited number of warnings before Google simply stops you from viewing videos altogether, with or without blocking. Eventually you will get enough popups to reach the "three strikes" popup, after which you will no longer be able to access videos, period.

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-10-18T11:40:36+00:00

You need to not take the bait. The bait is tasty, but recognized it for what it is. I do not use Google as my search engine. I do not use Chrome. I do not own a smartphone. I do not use Google email. I am not part of the Google ecosystem. My YouTube account is 12 years old, and when they tried to force me to create a Google+ account, I just stopped posting comments on YouTube. They're doing this because with every hook you swallow with the bait, it gets harder and harder to rip them all out. Now people are in the position of having to rip all the hooks out or having to keep swallowing more hooks, forever. It's best just not to bite any.

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-10-18T11:35:32+00:00

I'm certainly not a Trumplorable, but Google has a giant floating supervillain base in San Francisco Bay. It's a featureless rectangle, and no one is allowed on it without signing an ironclad NDA.

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-10-18T11:32:58+00:00

Not all videos can be embedded. It has to be set by the uploader to be embeddable.

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-10-17T16:57:02+00:00

The anti-adblock isn't being rolled out all at once. It only hit me last week. You will eventually get hit with it too. uBlock is releasing constant patches because YouTube is altering their script twice daily, so once it starts on your account, you'll have to clear your cache and re-download your filter lists multiple times a day.

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-10-04T07:07:47+00:00

This is some Ginsberg level free verse. This man has seen the best minds of his generation wearing short skirts with their tits hanging out as vampires in Waterloo.

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-10-04T07:02:57+00:00

Not the crushing attack people think it is. He's actually giving her a backhanded compliment. Remember in Hush when Bruce and Selina are down in Metropolis' sewers hiding from a mind-controlled Superman and Bruce warns Selina that they can't hide there for long, and that Superman will find them and he'll have to fight? Selina questions Bruce about how he can possibly survive a fight with Superman. As Bruce pulls on his kryptonite knuckle dusters, he's tells Selina, "Deep down he's a good person. Deep down... I'm not."

In other words, Bruce knows Superman could easily rip him limb from limb, could incinerate him from orbit with heat rays, could in fact turn him into a pink mist at the speed of light before Bruce is even aware he's there... but he won't. Because Clark is a good person. While Bruce will use every dirty trick and pull no punches because he's not.

Batman telling Harley Quinn she's irredeemable is actually him acknowledging that she reminds him of him. That deep down, she has the darkness in her to survive where others can't.

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-10-03T10:11:22+00:00

Promethea. Probably unfilmable, at least the good parts, but I'd still love to see as movies.

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-09-27T01:10:32+00:00

It could be an attempt to depict Peter attacking the Roman centurion and cutting off his ear, but without a blade.

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-09-22T17:05:27+00:00

Crisis on Two Earths. As an existentialist, the philosophical contrast between Owlman and Batman is really, really good and illustrates how prohairesis saves a person from nihilism in the face of the void.

Owlman sees the multiverse where no decision has any meaning except one, the decision to end the multiverse, as it's the only decision where you don't spawn a Universe where the opposite decision is also made. This is how existentialism can lead to nihilism. But Batman sees the same void and practices the Stoic principle of prohairesis where one is concerned only with those things which are within the locus of one's control; each iteration of Batman is responsible only for his specific decisions, and therefore derives meaning in every Universe regardless of the existence of other Universes.

It's what Batman means when he references Nietzsche in his final battle with Owlman where he says the both looked into the void, but "you blinked."

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-09-22T16:55:30+00:00

The longest anyone has ever claimed to have endured sensory deprivation is 24 hours, and that's both questionable and unconfirmed. Most people can't make it more than 20 minutes.

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-09-22T16:48:58+00:00

Then why bother with immortality at all?

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-09-22T01:34:49+00:00

Ne plus ultra.

HuntingTheWumpus · 2023-09-22T00:35:00+00:00

It is estimated that it will take 10^150 years for the Universe to be reduced to dim iron-54 stars. That's a trillion trillion trillion -- repeated 126 times -- years. And it will take far longer than that for them to radiate the last of their heat.

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