I.B.E. Auslander

@_ontologic I have my protective gear ready!

My energy for posting is returning. Expect diatribes

@DaveShapi Staub is "dust" rather than "stuff" but I'm sure y'all can see what's going on with the semantic shift.

@DaveShapi Staubsaucher means vacuum cleaner although, the direct English word-conglom would be "stuffsucker."

@DaveShapi @shig23 A dirty uncle of mine called bras "holdzemfrumploppen." Don't hate, y'all; it was the 70s and early 80s.

@shig23 That's epic

@sorceressofmath Loved the "no gravity wells!" What a great surprise!

No gods, no masters, no gravity wells. No blood, no soil, no death.

@sorceressofmath Socially prog and left-wing ppl will often let their laudable instinct to protect the underdog/weak-against-strong get mixed up and/or misapplied and they become convinced that the weaker party is automatically the more sympathetic, moral, or wiser party.

There are an awful lot of homophobic Muslim apologists proving the point in the replies. By regurgitating the exact same arguments Christian apologists use, no less. But, please, tell me more about how "my problem isn't with religion, just with Christianity."

@IvyAstrix whoee, lookie that 80s/90s playlist! Some keys, some guitars, some hair, some black clothing....a lot of heroin and weed. :)

got things cooking on farcaster

@ExistentialEnso Far 2 few ppl want 2 address the ugly elephant: A lot of worry abt "meaning" is actually worry abt status gaming +hierarchy. "How the hell am I supposed to b better than my neighbors w/o a better job then them? How will I know where I stand?"

I’ve said it before, but games If the world simply lacks challenge, we will recreate it in a virtual setting Some of these games may take the form of FDVR simulations, even

@valhalla_dev They were all A, afraid of their own erections, and B, still pissed abt Eve and the apple.

Reading some of the old Gnostic texts makes me so angry, like the Bible could have contained some incredible lore about the Demiurge and divine sparks and but they rejected all that to make room for Paul writing letters to churches talking about how women are gross, actually

@IvyAstrix Thank you, nice lady. :)

@IBEAuslander audio chat like twitter spaces here

FARCASTER HAS SPACES NOW

@CathyReisenwitz Nina's alright. I really appreciate the work she's done as a philosophical sex-positive person. I wish ppl listened to her.

Me

@1thousandfaces_ Every time I see you falling, I get down on my knees and pray.....

there’s no sense in telling me…the wisdom of a fool won’t set you free…but thats the way that it goes and it’s what nobody knows and every day my confusion grows

@zcreativemedia @Artizen @Revive_Restore @coral_gardeners @coralcrf @Mussafest @MesoReefDAO @FundingCommons @DebMensahBonsu @GamingOnBase UR welcome, sir! :)

👀 Sneak Peek of our #WIP from this week building the Coralverse gamified experience! 🎮 Special thanks to @IBEAuslander for building this incredible pack of coral with a massive range of diverse species! 🌊🪸🧜🏼‍♀️🩵

@somewheresy A big part of what makes something sacred (or, it's flip-side: taboo) is that ppl have tried RLY fucking hard 2 place the thing outside of critique and analysis. We have more than enough ppl in this world already doing this. Stick with profanity, pls.

thinking about a shift in my tone on here from a celebration of the profane to the sacred

@valhalla_dev OK. 10yrs from now, the kids will b mostly or entirely grown + a lot of the fam will b passed on. Move as close 2 Nashville as u can get while still being further out than a "bedroom community," which is further out than a suburb. OR same plan but 4 Atlanta or Research Tri, NC.

Let me let you in on a lil Not Secret (Everyone Knows This) but you give up A Lot trying to work in tech in a place outside of the main tech centers. I know of, not even personally know, like half a dozen developers in my city. There are two, maybe three, companies in my city that even hire developers. The average IQ of the people living in my state is below room temperature. The state is dying, and we can't keep technical or intelligent people here. I'm here because my family, many of them aging, are here and it's incredibly cheap to live here, but you give up having a physical IRL network of intelligent, capable and ambitious builders. I'm a 6-7h one-way drive away from the nearest city (Nashville) with a startup scene. There are benefits. My mortgage is < $1k/mo to live in a big house with a back yard big enough for 3 dogs and 9 chickens. My kids can go to private school (other side of the coin: they kinda have to because the public schools here suck) and do a lot of after school activities. We live very comfortably, especially after my wife got her doctorate. We're near family that we see every day. That rocks, no notes. That said, not being around driven, intelligent people IRL sucks. It means all of my motivation has to come from myself or the folks I've met online. There's close to 0 funding around here. There's no local network here either. No tech meetups, nobody knows wtf I'm talking about when I start talking about code, tech, AI, the cloud, etc. I used to tell people to stop moving to SF/NYC because it's overpriced and overrated. Now I just tell them to stop moving to SF (overpriced + overrated + brainworms) but to definitely not turn down the benefits of being around a bunch of super intelligent, driven and ambitious people in a bigger city. Before you say "just move then lol" it's incredibly tempting, but I've got two kids in school, a ton of family here and a hell of a lot of Life to move if I decide to do it. This is less a "woe is me" type of thing and more of a genuine warning to folks looking at moving away from the tech centers.

@DarkFiSquad Was "wath" just a typo for "watched?"

Every parent knows how child play looks when they think no one is watching. They invent. They argue. They negotiate fairness in real time. They try on identities like costumes - pirate, DarkFi dev, scientist, villain, saint... When they are being wath, they perform. They self-correct. The experiment ends. The game becomes boring. Surveillance does this to entire civilizations. A free society needs unwatched rooms. Not to hide. To play.

@DaveShapi "Aristocratic Hellenism. Virtue, beauty, conquest." 🤢

@lynettdoteth @ExistentialEnso @reflexerfinance Woah, alright then! Okay. I'll go read. :) I still remember how to do that. It's cool.

@IBEAuslander @ExistentialEnso @reflexerfinance good times Vitalik has written about algostables and how to evaluate them: vitalik.eth.limo/general/2022/0…

leftists: payment processors are cracking down so hard on queer and explicit content! this censorship is evil! also leftists: blockchains? clearly a scam. transactions that can't be censored? the only good use for that is crime

@lynettdoteth @ExistentialEnso @reflexerfinance Tks for the tip, lyn. :) I've been taught by my "elders" to fear algorithmic stables. I don't know enough about code and/or math to know if this fear is justified or not.

@IBEAuslander @ExistentialEnso There's interesting projects like Reflexer RAI @reflexerfinance which have an algorithmic adjustment kinda thing based on control theory