iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Patrick-Bateman-headphone-walking down to the kitchen at 2am to make a depression meal with Caramelldansen blaring in my ears. This is living

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

I live in London and got New York, so 🤝

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full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

let this image radicalize you

the shape of the cat in the snow made by footprints

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

I'm becoming such an AI bro, it's so bad... I can't stop the urge to get into arguments around accelerationism and x-risk...

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Damn who put all these nails everywhere? Oh well, good thing I brought, of all my tools, only this hammer

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Yeah. I mean there are multiple groups, and the algos (Discover, For You) clearly do something personalised bc there are loads of furries on here but I see zero. But early days, still think this will be the best X competitor long term

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Updating. I think Bluesky kind of sucks actually. Algorithmic feed curation tools are just not there and I see too much stuff I don't want to

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

What if I just move to the US. What if I did that

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

tracking and containing are diff problems ... for latter you could look how I implemented containing Linux FS changes in my tool homestead - I used Bubblewrap and overlayfs github.com/tmewett/home...

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GitHub - tmewett/homestead: Rootless sandbox for your home directory

Rootless sandbox for your home directory. Contribute to tmewett/homestead development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Hah yeah. I remember a few years ago looking at it thinking it's insane how complicated it is to draw a triangle. I have to write a program in a whole-ass other language to say it's red? But it makes more sense now, esp considering DX12 etc are even more complex

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Tangentially- about a year ago I decided to learn OpenGL. I have produced literally nothing in the way of graphics, but I *have* created a novel FRP reactivity library. Which I will definitely use for OpenGL stuff. Eventually.

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Great argument, unfortunately CALLING OUT FROM SCATLAND 🗣🗣 Calling out from Scatman's World 📣🌍🌐 If you want to be free,💯 you better listen to me,👂🎤 you've gotta learn how to see👁 in your fantasy ✨🔭 BA BO BEH, BOP-BOP-AH-DOP BA BA BA,

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

FWIW, it depends heavily on vibes/chemistry and how good they are

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

I think users probably care less about actual algorithms than they do the seeds/weights. Like what I want is "playlists" where I make collections of accounts and then browse algo feeds based on those. Basically like alts but just for the browsing part.

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

so far Bluesky is pretty cool but none of the algorithmic feeds feel up-to-scratch with X's For You. Also I hope they open this place up soon!!

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Do you mean content-wise or how frequent they are? Frequency I think is chosen by the uploader, and some of them just pile them on, it's awful

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Tbf pauseai.info is about systems more powerful than GPT-4. I think Grok is just slightly better than 3.5

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Niceee, I have The Incal on my shelf. Crazy book, reads like an improv'ed RPG campaign, story is incoherent but the art is great

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

All I want is a leftism which is intellectually honest, *genuinely* liberal (not punitive), but with some understanding of power dynamics. Is that too much to ask? 🙏

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

I always get so confused by "move it forward/back" with events

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Metta/loving-kindness meditation is one of the most underdeveloped in terms of teaching practices. "Imagine things that make you happy :)" do you KNOW how much mental infrastructure there is out there to explicitly avoid this

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

I haven't had a crush in yeeears, idk if it's inherently a younger thing but I weirdly miss how much that messes you up lol. In the last ~1yr I get a lot more attention from women when I go out (which is honestly v important for my younger self) but deeper interest is just not there, on both sides 😔

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Something I miss from Twitter/X is seeing why posts are on the algorithm feed - "liked by __" or at least being able to mouse-over a profile and see who follows them. Very useful for curating a good feed

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Wow this was unexpected, I wasn't trying to antagonise you at all but you've made a crazy amount of wrong assumptions about me here, unfortunately though I am an individual person with a mixture of beliefs and not just a stand-in for all the ideas you hate

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Is there? I think you're underestimating the diversity. In fact one of the big divides I see in my circles at the moment is EA risk people vs crypto accelerationist people.

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Roko's Basilisk is very much not a core tenet of AI risk and treating it as such feels like a strawman

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

It doesn't have to be that contrived. E.g. writing can contain errors but otherwise be very good

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

The latest in my gradual acceptance of woo is that I think chakras might be real. At least not in the metaphysical sense but it seems right there are places on the body where stuff gets focused or blocked. Will report back

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Just seen a property manager looking for a place on Spareroom... Ironic... He could house others, but not himself

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Ok, dudes rock but most conventionally-attractive guys I see when out just have no sauce whatsoever. When they dance there's no belief, it's always with the subtext "haha look I'm cool but I can have a bit of fun too!" Some girls seem to love this though??

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

I just finished Black Mesa, incredible game. Going to play the VR mod of Half-Life 2 next 👹

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Twitter hasn't noticeably change much for me content-wise since Elon's takeover, so I'm confused how people think it's a hellhole now. Ngl I assume they respond to ragebait all day and so the algorithm gives them what they want 🤷‍♂️

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

The Vive XR Elite is a premium VR headset focusing on mobile, so you'd think it would play well with power-saving/travel. Nope, the controllers wake up via movement, and also sometimes randomly when stationary, so continuously drain power when not in use 👍

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

damn where tf do you see this stuff? for you feed? I'm way less left-wing than a lot of ppl who apparently see real Nazis all day

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Pronouncing Colgate a bit like Aphrodite to make it work

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

🗿 is my role model. I want to be 🗿. Whenever I feel afraid or doubtful, I think "🗿" and it helps me through

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Human beings were not supposed to know what they looked like. I don't want to see photos of myself. It's just better if I don't know

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Yeah, there's a load of biases/irrationality that people have when they're not trying to reason properly, but there are also weird misunderstandings of logic, badly taught "critical thinking" practices, and new biases among people who *do* try to be rational. Under-appreciated IMO

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

I've thought about doing a Toyota-style supply thing. Put tags on bought stuff then collect tags in one place as you use, instantly see what you need to re-stock

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Rough idea I keep having... Strategies which, by following them, affect your ability to apply the strategy. "Be firm/forceful but don't destroy important things" - you can't, being forceful requires changing your thoughts on what is important to not destroy.

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Coming around to the idea that the girlies are right about lava-hot shower water

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Cannot parse this post but it probably makes it all the more profound

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

I love this suberic.net/~dmm/food/al...

Chocolate chip recipe in the style of an alchemical diagram

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Except when we are, read this wikipedia page 🥶 bsky.app/profile/tmew...

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Tom Mewett @tmewett.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Classic, it was a hard battle but we eventually managed to convince my French teacher too lol

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