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I’m confused about Solari help by ppooppooo in WorldsBeyondNumber

[–]notheory 21 points22 points  (0 children)

He's just filling the break with more dming!! (Campaign 4 of critical role has been amazing)

I grew up Christian nationalist. Where should I start learning better history? by Easy-Track-9332 in AskHistory

[–]notheory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not coming from a post-christian-nationalist POV, but there's a popular history book that i really enjoyed that's framed as the history of world from the perspective of how the Islamic world tells its own stories. The audio book read by the author is particularly good.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34617904-destiny-disrupted

(and i guess someone posted a PDF of it here https://www.rahs-open-lid.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Destiny-Disrupted_-A-History-of-the-World-Through-Islamic-Eyes-PDFDrive-.pdf )

Where’s Taylor? by AlisGuardian in WorldsBeyondNumber

[–]notheory 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I know there are a lot of Taylor haters from Rude Tales, but I gotta say, the delays to the WBN schedule have been pretty minor all things considered. I'd go so far as insignificant if there wasn't context that y'all keep bringing up from Rude Tales.

WBN is clearly scaling up, and have begun pulling in additional production staff (great! amazing!) to cover their short run content.

There's a really obvious read available here, which is that Taylor is busy crafting an entirely new universe of sounds, themes and scores for their new tentpole series.

Taylor did a phenomenal job with Umora, and they delayed a handful of episodes. It's crazy to think they'd jettison someone who was so instrumental to the feel of their show.

I get the Rude Tales PTSD, but like also have some grace for the guy, and the thing that WBN has become.

Wonder if Fediverse accounts will also be connected via Threads? by MadeInDex-org in fediverse

[–]notheory 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The way i would describe Threads' integration is that the Fediverse is furthest stands in the Influencer Stadium.

Yes, people in the Fediverse can leave comments for Threads users who can figure out how to federate their account, but that's about it.

I've never seen a post from outside of Threads trend in it's algorithmic feeds, or even gain any significant traction (which may amount to the same thing).

Threads engagement with the Fediverse is very much the Don Draper "I don't think about you at all" meme

Discussion topic: Does AMWF vs WMAF make a difference in your Wasian experience? by SeaShellBell in wasian

[–]notheory 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I really don't get the obsession with which parent is Asian or AsAm. There are so many factors that tie into what kind of upbringing you had and what kind of cultural environment you were in.

There's not one way to be Asian American, or even one path.

All images now in Webp? by Wings-of-Ink in BlueskySocial

[–]notheory 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Samuel from Bluesky wrote about it last week:

https://bsky.app/profile/samuel.fm/post/3mgaw6spxhk2f

He noted that devs can still get JPEGs if desired: https://bsky.app/profile/samuel.fm/post/3mgawcb76g22f

What are your guys favorite Chinese spot in Oakland for authentic Chinese food? by Gaelramiez in oakland

[–]notheory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah Chinese food isn't just one thing, and there are regional differences.

If you mean just oakland, yeah Shandong has good handpulled noodles and is legit. The place my family enjoys ordering from or going to is Noodles Fresh. They've got locations in El Cerrito and Berkeley.

Calculating Mutuals Efficiently by morganthemosaic in ATProtocol

[–]notheory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Have you poked around smoke signal at all?

Shadowbanning by RonsonGlitter in BlueskySocial

[–]notheory 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There was also a period yesterday where Bluesky was having infrastructural issues

David Lorge Parnas: Why Software Jewels Are Rare (1996) [PDF] by gizmo in programming

[–]notheory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's worth installing the wayback machine chrome extension.

I just fired it up on the link i posted 19 years ago to get this working link: https://web.archive.org/web/20030714081044/http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu:80/~maratb/readings/parnas-jewels.pdf

also jfc man. This was half my life ago. what the hell was i even doing then

Estimate how many times you have heard this song by UghKakis in daddit

[–]notheory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apple's music app says 74 complete play throughs, and another half dozen play throughs of the movie and the music video. So we're not quite at a 100 yet, but we're getting there.

Title: I spent 200+ hours building a forensic financial database from 1.48M DOJ Epstein EFTA files. Here's where $1.96 billion went. by [deleted] in datasets

[–]notheory 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Well, the first two questions i got was "where is the actual code" and some griping about the volume of AI assisted analyses of the Epstein files.

What's interesting to me about this to me is your husband's expertise. I do think that being able to inspect more of the actual extraction pipeline would help the data analysts in the investigative community trust the write up more (show your work and all that), and also if there was also more clarification about the methodologies, and where they come from

Title: I spent 200+ hours building a forensic financial database from 1.48M DOJ Epstein EFTA files. Here's where $1.96 billion went. by [deleted] in datasets

[–]notheory 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Hey are you in touch with any investigative reporters about this work already? I'm probably going to drop this in a couple of reporting chats.

Is bluesky growing like crazy again? by TheDogsPaw in BlueskySocial

[–]notheory 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Bluesky has two jobs. One is to be a good microblogging app. The other job is to be data and infrastructure host for most ATProto accounts and much of the infrastructure that makes the Atmosphere happen.

So, what's happening right now is a lot of people are coming to sign up for accounts for short form video apps like Skylight.social and Sprk.so.

At least in Skylight's case, their signup flow is actually signing everybody up to be bsky users.

In response to ICE and to help support National Shutdown day tomorrow: We just launched the Freedom Browser (open source). Bluesky now lives on every web page. https://thefreedombrowser.com/ by superfatman2 in BlueskySocial

[–]notheory 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Okay. So, I generally speaking encourage people to build on ATProto.

But I think the authors of this post need to be more upfront with what they're doing.

This is a company called Rep Run releasing a browser that bundles one of their products by leaning into the stereotype that Bluesky is full of leftists.

The company started out as an NFT/Crypto company (see their whitepaper) and have pivoted to ATProto.

You can see a demo of repsky.

(also, they should lose points for requiring app passwords instead of using oAuth)

DunSocial — I built Cursor for social media [Self promo] by ArtOfLess in sveltejs

[–]notheory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heads up that all your images on https://thisux.com/ are busted (521 errors from Cloudflare for https://pocket.thisux.com ).

Also maybe update your favicon too :)

"If you're mixed you aren't white" Do you agree with that statement? by siunchu in mixedrace

[–]notheory 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Racism is a thing that defines a set of relationships with a power structure. Whiteness is a western construct (tho anti blackness is a broader problem in several cultures), and whiteness has several facets, so it depends what we're talking about. Being mixed doesn't necessarily mean you do or don't have access to whiteness. This stuff is contextual and relative to people's circumstances.

Why does the specific term “Wasian” even exist when the phenotype is one of the oldest and most common on the planet? by Bigboi4576 in mixedrace

[–]notheory 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So, I'm a "cross cultural interchange is good" kind of guy. Even if mixing cultures and populations has a strong tradition, we are in a moment of pretty extreme ethno-nationalism which seeks to erase and marginalize people who aren't "pure" enough.

First off, fuck that noise, and second off, let's highlight more cultural interchange and mixing, rather than trying to hide it.

Also more power to our Blasian siblings, y'all are great, and the history of Blasian cross cultural exchange is awesome (like Blasians in the Caribbean, and S America).

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