markjgsmith

2024/09/27 #

• Another day.

  One weird thing that happened yesterday was pervert maybe pedo westerner bloke started calling me 'son'. He’s not british by the way. That's pretty f-ing strange. Can’t imagine that’s going anywhere good.

  I’ll hopefully get a few more of the remaining reusable workflows deployed on the remaining few repos that only use some of the full workflow. Got it working for 2 of them yesterday, there are about 3-4 other ones to update.

  Then it looks like it’s more starvation and all the other crap, cut off water and electrcity etc that goes with that. I had 2/3 of a day of food yesterday. They have already started food goading and the day only just begun. #

• Looks like they are training the puppy to pee where I stand to get online at the internet place. Anger goading much?

  I guess I’ll get those other workflows working another time. Blocked.

  Here they go again. #

• Now the locals are harrassing me for not standing in the dog pee. pretending they can’t get past me despite the fact there is literally the most room possible.

  It’s anger goading. They create the problem they complain about, they escallate, they block, they blame, they mutilate. #

• People in the park blocking all the seats in some way, then huge gangs of like 30 or 40 people with a person amongst them confidently and loudly calling me 'god' as they walk past. It’s just another maximum anger goad that justifies further bullying. #

• Slightly aggressive park attendant approached me in the park to give me an earfull. Absolutely no idea what he was on about. I had been sewing, doing a small repair on a T-shirt.

  Previous to this, the park attendents were also escallating the event that happened earlier. That was when a local at the internet place was pretending I was in the way even though (1) there was plenty of room (2) the reason I was where I was, was because of something they did. I had said 'chill out' as they were getting slightly aggressive. Well the security guards and people with them, walked past me saying 'out out out out'. Weirdly at the very same moment, the podcast I was listening to had a bit about the recent Isreali exploding pagers, and they were also saying 'out' many times. Weirdo worldo.

  Just as I finished the previous paragraph a female baby walker walked past. I'm at the internet place again having returned from the park. There is a small girl’s bycicle right next to where I stand to use the internet.

  World’s on the warpath again. Shrug. #

• Techmeme (09/26) on facial computing:

  Zuck has shown us the finish line

  Update: Kind of an instance of front running the big bang, no?

  Strange. This keeps happening. #

• Nilay Patel on Talk Show podcast relaying Samsung’s views on AI photography [~1:38:00]:

  There is no such thing as a picture.

  If you squint a bit this is kind of an instance of next week’s newsletter which is already written and scheduled.

  Subscribe in advance!

  Update: Just a few minutes later and he said the title’s keyword! It’s a mad algorithms desease future. #

• Having a minimal app is really important, crucial in fact, when debugging a problem. But it’s not enough. In life and politics, probably even more so than in programming there can be some pretty wild edge cases. People wear multiple hats, an entity you thought was just one person turns out to be a factory, there are unions! Snakes and ladders! And fractals! Omg fractals. The publisher of the min app might be corrupt! And now AI! Even the simplest of things can be ridiculously perverted. #