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mircea_popescu: nevertheless, leaving the talent aside, as who the fuck even cares, grass for the scythe : the ~entrepreneurial young & coming photographer~! which the fuck one of the numerous "mista photographies" expended the resources to produce this artefact.
mircea_popescu: (i imagine that's not what she tells herself it is, but look at that institutional shit. it'd better be.)
mircea_popescu: well yeah, but in that prison stairwell...
shinohai: Some girls are smart enough not to advertise their trashiness with gaudy tattoos
mircea_popescu: if not her, then whom.
mircea_popescu: do you understand she's the equivalent of a "very smart kid", ie, 1.5 or so standard deviations up from the average ?
shinohai: 1/10 would not follow her up the stairs.
mircea_popescu wonders what "just a guy trynna make it in dis game" is gonna do.
mircea_popescu: lmao check out the end of branding : exhibit a) https://image.ibb.co/j22296/00055d92_2889_72b3_714a_437ae2701953_958.jpg ; exhibit b) https://archive.is/jtYAL
BingoBoingo: me voy a cita, hope to return with news and numbers
mircea_popescu: (fwiw i always suspected that's the deep core of the pantsuit fascination with "eastern philosophy" : "o look, a cultural space fundamentally as self-alienated as we ourselves feel inside! THIS IS THE RIGHT BRAND OF EMO FOR MY NEEDS!".)
mircea_popescu: basically early google bubble "search", let's hack speech into a broken device that can only be used to communicate to those people we have nothing to say to. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2018-01-10 01:11 phf: i think somehow lisp symbols tie into this, i'd call it sanskrit thinking, because you also see that a lot in sanskrit. let's attach as much meaning to this symbol as we possibly can, but when we speak the correct meaning will be communicated because the other person is also a vedic god
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768136 << for the record, that's ~exactly the cause of my http://trilema.com/2016/lets-do-chinese-together/ barf. "this is not a language and is not capable of supporting thought ; proceed without me." ☝︎
trinque: looks like he was too quick with the hot potato
jhvh1: lobbes: The operation succeeded.
lobbes: !~later tell Birdman hm, payment didn't seem to go through >> http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-09#1767503 ☝︎
mod6: i like the bot idea
mircea_popescu: hail mary full of textual contents.
mircea_popescu: human society ~exists since the dawn of time as "men finding text in images of women"
shinohai: http://btcinfo.sdf.org/uploads/picture.jpg <<< Can find text in this photo?
asciilifeform: ah if in that sense then - what i said earlier. performanceart.
asciilifeform: ( the typical low-bit thing , is readily detectable even if you have nfi re the payload )
mircea_popescu: let it be obvious. the only thing it does is it makes it more demoralizing to the would-be eve.
asciilifeform: would be interesting if there were a way to stuff them bits that isn't screamingly obvious
mircea_popescu: "this picture contains sicritz in it" "does the lightbulb contain martian dataz also ?"
mircea_popescu: "oh, we will look for the strings". which fucking strings ?
mircea_popescu: suppose "employee" wants to steal "secrets" from nsa hq. a) encrypt to rsa key ; b) put in tmsr tumblr bot ; c) carry vacation pics back and forth. problem ?
mircea_popescu: so what are they gonna do, store piles of usb sticks at all airports and compare everyone's laptops for evil mp porn ?
asciilifeform: and dutifuly collect the pron aha
mircea_popescu: who even knows what's behind the nipple!
asciilifeform: iirc they already believe in 'evil jpeg stego everywhere'
shinohai: The filthier porn you put it in the better?
mircea_popescu: let all porn i put in the chan be preserved forever as a matter of "national security" by all teh national-whatevers, why not.
mircea_popescu: mandatory tumbler following by nsa ? seems like a decent lulz.
mircea_popescu: confronted with this bot, said group of lamers has a choice : either ignore it, or else start going around with copies of my tumbler account.
mircea_popescu: well, suppose there's a (pompously named) "adversary", which is to say some group of lamers with delusions of self-importance, like say the (pompously named) united states government.
asciilifeform: this is not hard to do ( with e.g. the classical 'rewrite the low bits of r,g,b' algo ) but not clear to me what it accomplishes
mircea_popescu: 1. i say !S http://pastebin ; 2. bot searches for an image ; 3. bot embeds the pastebin in image ; 4. bot publishes the new image to its tumblr acct. ;5. bot links image here.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: describe roughly what the bot would do
mircea_popescu: i sitll don't know what the objection here is.
a111: Logged on 2015-12-31 21:59 ascii_rear: problem with all stego is that it runs exactly counter to standardization
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2015-12-31#1357724 << the bare fact. but pretty sure we did a detailed one ☝︎
asciilifeform: i couldve sworn we had the thread
asciilifeform: it hides nuffin if known. there exists no 'asymmetric stego'.
mircea_popescu: at the choice of the implementer
mircea_popescu: someone's gonna keep a list of all the tumblr images ?
mircea_popescu: as tumblr.
mircea_popescu: (on its own tumblr page, why the hell not)
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone wanna do a steganobot ? here's the spec : upon receiving a link to a pastebin, the bot picks a random tumblr image, doctors it, and links it.
mircea_popescu: "Manipulations of public opinions are understandably also among the general activities of the surveillance agencies [9], which at least partly explains the wild and bizarre discussion styles sometimes seen in certain Usenet groups and Internet forums."
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2018/lay-the-favorite/ << Trilema - Lay the Favorite
mircea_popescu: taking bets / proposals / suggestions of wtf it is till i publish.
phf: this is the first time i actually got to witness the entirety of the ritual (accidentally the cafe was in front of patch of grass, and i guess it was sufficiently cold that old ladies didn't want to go all the way to the park)
mircea_popescu: in other zekworld, anyone saw the incrrreedibly neet-stupid film i saw today ?
mircea_popescu: isn't that the weirdest shit ? good thing democracy gave 'em civil rights an' shit, i'd take scooping dogshit over subsistence hunting any day!!1
phf: on the lulzy side i can't get over american thing of keeping dogs and picking up their shit. i spent new years in upper east side, and was sitting at a small cafe one morning, watching these posh old ladies in expensive furs one after another scooping up little turds after their tiny beasts
phf: oh yeah india was pretty bad, there they don't have any use for dogs. though cats there fair even worse
mircea_popescu: i dunno that's oriental.
shinohai wonders what the oriental fascination with torching dogs alive is ....
shinohai: Nah that's Asia
mircea_popescu: i think it's where dogs go to hell.
mircea_popescu: you think this, go visit argentina then see.
mircea_popescu: phf this was ah.
phf: now if only they applied same principles to dog sales as well
mircea_popescu: admittedly back then veterinarian surgeons were a lot less common.
mircea_popescu: well, especially with small shot, it's a mess. just takes nine weeks to die or some unseemly shit like that.
mod6: yeah, no sense in letting a good dog go to waste
mircea_popescu knew hunt dog grower who wouldn't even sell to noobs. "how am i supposed to get a dog ?" "first get some experience" "doing what" "hunting" "how am i going to do that without a dog ?"
mircea_popescu: well, the not retarded ones, anyway. the retarded ones'd just shoot their own dog or w/e.
mircea_popescu: mod6 yeah, they were protected in old country most places also, it was the #1 trimmer of noob hunters. "don't wait to see what you're shooting, get a falcon, spend 2 weekls explaining self to forest guard"
a111: Logged on 2018-01-10 00:39 ben_vulpes: btw mircea_popescu: any lolz ever fall out of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-08#1767245 or did it fade away in horror at the magnitude of the task of even determining wtf tmsr is
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768104 << nfi, not been following that closely. ☝︎
shinohai: I did lemon-butter them, asparagus, no artichokes :/
mod6: can't shoot those here.
mod6: na. i saw it get up, had it in my sight picture, could have pounded it. was only like 10 yds from me. but when i saw the tail feathers fan out, i let off.
mod6: mircea_popescu: ah, yeah, that'd be great
mod6: i went hunting on sunday and the dog flushed up what I thought was a hen. was a hawk, eating a hen!
mircea_popescu: mod6 yeah i hope he lemon-buttered those with artichokes.
mircea_popescu: (in the story it's just used to characterize the male character as omnipotent ; but as literature is never divorced from ideology...)
mod6: <+shinohai> mod6 would be proud of me, I managed a pair of quail the other weekend when it snowed. << niiiiice!
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> if mod6 came by all nonchalant like and was "hey, i shot a 350 lb shrimp today" what i;d expect the steak to taste like would be ~alligator. << yeah, probably would!
mircea_popescu: a very strong ideal property of this is given in http://trilema.com/2014/the-romanian-language-for-other-people/#selection-245.1-238.5 ; which is a large part of the problem and also serves as illustration -- who the fuck knew that random whore story from 2014 is actually an expose on generative grammar. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: "cultural management" discussed above is in this model the curation of permissible M overload on given Sn and the construction of G such that T is maintained.
mircea_popescu: the PROBLEM with this constructive view of hermeneutics is that a) often G fails in its function and that b) just as often people fail to correctly apply it, impredictably and unreasonably.
mircea_popescu: the interpretative theory (T) states that for all possible strings there is at most one M per present S. those which have exactly 1 for all S are called well formed ; the rest malformed.
mircea_popescu: suppose you have a set of symbols S1..Sn each with meanings Mij, i in n j in k. suppose you have a grammar G which has one function : if adding element Sx to a string made of q S, it permits you to discern which Sij are thereby invalidated.
asciilifeform: plox to expand?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the doctrine that "alternative interpretations fall off as the tree is built" has two major weaknesses : a) you'd be surprised how often there's an unexpected fault in the dielectric and b) you'd be surprised how often people get caught in emo insanity.
asciilifeform: with the 'suggestively named tokens'
a111: Logged on 2018-01-10 01:13 phf: so he might be saying ishvara, but the pleb is going to hear yahve. he should be expecting significant misunderstandings further down the communication
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768140 << this was the 'natural stupidity and artificial intelligence' thread ☝︎
phf: err, that was wrong paste buffer
phf: Send Trump there with a one-way ticket?
a111: Logged on 2018-01-10 00:23 esthlos is interested in what folks think of https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/big-picture#biz-dominates-tech
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768091 << seems to me entirely contenfree. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-07-22 21:11 asciilifeform: at the cost of a bit of log clutter, let's indulge asciilifeform's crackpottery, and lay out 妓 ( U+5993 : whore ) :
mircea_popescu: if i say jew right now it's not even possible to figure out what i mean.
mircea_popescu: have you noticed how chock full of this trilema is btw ?
phf: so he might be saying ishvara, but the pleb is going to hear yahve. he should be expecting significant misunderstandings further down the communication ☟︎