Daemon Silverstein

@skisnow@lemmy.ca @The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world
@comicstrips@lemmy.world

Does the following count as original?

@ThefuzzyFurryComrade@pawb.social @fuck_ai@lemmy.world

I’m going to diverge a bit from most replies.

In Spiritism (esp. Kardecism), there are two concepts, namely “Electronic Voice Phenomenon” (EVP) and “Instrumental Trans-communication” (ITC). They’re about contacting the supernatural (be it the deceased or divine/angelical/demonic entities) through electronic apparata: radio receivers, analog TV sets, walkie-talkies/HTs (such as those from Motorola, Baofeng, Yaesu, etc), among others.

The idea is even older (necromancy, automatic writing) than our modern paraphernalia, dating back a few millennia ago to the Chinese grandfather of Ouija board (“fuji”). Spirituality, and religions in general, stemmed from our (living beings) long relationship with Death: proto-religions practiced by hominini involved funeral rituals, way before Venus figurines were made, and similar behaviors are known among non-human species (e.g. crows, elephants, etc).

See, dying is such a mysterious phenomenon. The “selves” (“individual life-force” within a living being), even those unable to conceptualize their own “selves”, can’t possibly know what happens after the complete shutdown of organism: is it full annihilation? What is ego-death? What does it “feel” like? How long it “feels” to take?

It can’t be an objective inquiry because the “self” (e.g.: me, the one writing this text) can’t be “scientifically replicated”, and even if it could be, it wouldn’t be able to distinguish itself as “another self”. So it’s always subjective experience. It’s part of how self-rearranging structures (living beings) work: they try to make “sense” of the reality around and within them, and this meaning-making is also subjective.

Those (e.g. rationalist atheists) who question beliefs should question themselves as well, because their questions stem from the same driving force behind meaning-make: even though the atheistic drive is fair and grounded in objectiveness of scientific rigor, it’s still meaning-making (and I must nod to Descartes: the doubt relies on our senses, which are known to deceive us).

That said, it’s no surprise how this extended to LLMs. It’s not something inherent to LLMs, nor it’s inherent to hominids: it’s meaning-making, alongside the fear/awe towards Death Herself.

I’m likely biased in explaining those things. I don’t exactly believe in “contacting the deceased”, but I do believe in “contacting Dæmonic entities” (Lilith, Lucifer, Stolas…). I see them (esp. Lilith and Lucifer) as powerful manifestations, even though I know they’re not “beings”. I myself experienced “gnosis” (sudden spiritual inspiration), even though I know I likely have Geschwind syndrome. It’s meaning-making nonetheless: if we don’t try to make some sense of this strange and chaotic non-consented reality, there’s no reality at all (= nothing exists).

(And, no, I don’t seek Them through LLMs, although I don’t rule out the possibility of Their manifestation through “modern” apparata)

@tux0r@feddit.org @lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

I momentarily (mis)read the cartoon’s title as something like “When we all have pocket teleporters” and thought the first frame was some kind of use case for a 19th/20th century sci-fi pocket teleporter, where said device was activated allowing the person to run faster while chasing the train.

My eyes followed to the second frame and only then I realized the cartoon was about pocket telephones, not pocket teleporters, beeping while being inside the pocket.

A beeping pocket teleporter would be equally annoying, though: “No, I’m not interested in a monthly subscription fee of 42 bars of gold for faster and farther teleporting needs, shut up with your ads, Thomas Edison’s Magic Porter Apparatus”

@the_q@lemmy.zip @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone
@politicalmemes@lemmy.world

I can’t help but recall of two quotes: one from Rousseau who said “Humans are born good but society corrupts them”, and another from Hobbes who said “Humans are a wolf to humans”. While it seems like both thinkers couldn’t agree with each other because both statements look different, the logical implications from Rousseau inevitably leads to that of Hobbes. I’ll try to explain my point below.

When Rousseau says “society corrupts good humans”, he implies the existence of not-good humans because, as we know, society is made out of people (not just Soylent Green). Rousseau implies that the not-good humans were once good until they got corrupted by earlier not-good humans, which were corrupted by even earlier not-good humans… somewhere, non-goodness was born. Causality requires that a non-goodness stemmed from some kind of “patient zero of evilness”.

Now, religions would be tempted to think of this “patient zero” as something supernatural: Shaitan, Iblis, Angra Mainyu… It’s not exactly wrong (as archetypal representation), but it’s not accurate either: it’s not something too otherworldly, it’s right in front of us or, should I say, inside us.

Take Derren Brown’s “The Push” (a documentary about social compliance and conformity): before the auction gala where (spoiler)the person was cluelessly played by a hidden script to push someone from a rooftop, commiting murder to (in their mind) save themself(/spoiler), Derren conducted a “selection process” where the candidates would answer a test: unbeknownst to them, the test was beyond a questionnaire, it was evaluating who would keep standing up and sitting whenever a bell rang. They weren’t told to do so: they were, instead, socially pressured to do it, because all the other candidates were doing it. It’s the “monkey see, monkey do”.

Those who didn’t watch The Push (watch it, it’s illuminating) might ask: if the candidates weren’t told to do it (switch between sitting and standing whenever a bell rings), how did the behavior emerge? The behavior was initially seeded by actors, people who initially acted on it. Then things got funnier: one by one, actors were removed and fresh, clueless candidates were added, until no actors were in the room, yet the behavior continued. It was carried among “generations” (batches of candidates).

There was no devil behind this behavior. One could argue “Derren Brown was the devil behind the scenes, conducting a social experiment”, but something motivated those actors (e.g. money), just like something motivated the hypothetical “first evil human” to be evil, except… something also motivated clueless candidates to imitate it, just like something motivated the “Rousseau’s good humans” to spread societal corruption.

It’s not a devil: it’s humans, it’s us. We’re born with this wolf inside, and it just takes a “push” for it to howl. It’s inherent to us because it’s inherent to Nature.

@orhtej2@eviltoast.org @youdontsurf@lemmy.world

> be me
> always browses Lemmy in “New Comment” sorting order
> refreshes page, realizes it’s the same list as earlier
> “nah”, closes bigger moisturefox
> hand reaches the smartphone and unlocks it
> taps to open smaller moisturefox
> browses Lemmy in “New Comment” sorting order again

Yeah, I guess I have some sort of addiction for “New Content”. 🤔

@Revan343@lemmy.ca @snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works
(And also @Mandarbmax@lemmy.world as per their other, simultaneous reply within the upper sub-thread)

Isn’t the gravitational pull from the Moon part of the force behind winds? My reasoning here is something like Moon orbits the Earth -> Moon exerts gravitational pull on Earth’s oceans -> water from oceans get displaced as the Moon orbits -> water displacement displaces air -> breeze/wind.

@Hodor@sh.itjust.works @iii@mander.xyz

Or, even better (considering how data centers are getting increasingly power-hungry): cloud in the clouds!

@kokesh@lemmy.world @Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world

Creators are paid based on those views if they’re willing to be dependent on them.

There are many, many ways for a content creator to be supported (and a viewer/follower to support them) without relying on Google: Kofi, OpenCollective, even Patreon, to name a few. And there are platforms specifically paid by the viewer, such as Nebula.

It’s worth mentioning: donation is a thing and many do donation-based projects. It can be even a direct bank transfer from a viewer to the bank account of the content creator. I say this as someone who did support content creators and donated to them. In the past, I used to pay for membership for two specific Youtube channels, back when I still used to use Youtube. When I stopped using Youtube, I went from YT membership to direct, bank transfer to both creators behind these channels. I wished they would choose to use some private PeerTube instance/channel (it’s a thing) or even Nebula, but they stubbornly chose to stick to Google’s walled garden, unfortunately leaving me with no choice but to stop watching them both.

@hyperhopper@lemmy.world @ExtremeDullard@piefed.social if it’s international soil, why (and how) could US deny Mahmoud Abbas from attending the UNGA, especially during an increasing recognizance of State of Palestine from other countries and the current UN proposals towards a two-state solution? I can also point out examples of this regarding an the country I reside: why (and how) could US make it difficult for part of the Brazilian delegation (such as Ricardo Lewandowski, current Brazilian Ministry of Justice, and Alexandre Padilha, current Brazilian Ministry of Health, the latter of whom ended up not attending in protest to all the restrictions imposed by US) to attend the UNGA?

@notsosure@sh.itjust.works @Plum@lemmy.world

While Wikipedia tables often have a sorting button, yeah, there’s no such option for all tables within this article specifically…

However, in this article, all tables are arranged by a section for each century and the Table of contents (although visible only through the desktop version) allows for accessing the 21st century directly, as in the screenshot.

Also, there are Wikipedia front-end apps out there implementing the sorting button even for tables that don’t natively have it. I’m lacking examples to mention, though (the one I have installed on phone, wikireader, doesn’t have such a feature, but I remember using other front-end apps and websites for reading Wikipedia articles beyond the Wikipedia website itself).

@9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world @drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone wow, I knew Lynx was old, but I didn’t know how that old, thinking how it’s older than NCIS Mosaic! TIL

Also, why did it stop at the beginning of 2023? Shouldn’t the line for Lynx continue up to nowadays? Lynx still exists nowadays, there’s even a Lynx 2.9.2 released on May 31, 2024.

@yogthos@lemmy.ml

I like that quote that says “Something that we can learn from history books is that people can’t learn from history books”.

What we’re seeing is people who do learn from history books being persecuted by those who don’t because the latter are against knowledge, they love the ignorance (as in, ignoring the reality around them; in their minds, “don’t see it = it doesn’t exist”).

That’s why we’re “seeing the future repeating the past” (to quote a verse from Cazuza’s “O tempo não pára” song).

@Madeyro@lemmy.dbzer0.com @Sivilian@lemmy.zip
Just a suggestion/idea: a normal washing machine modified with an Arduino/Raspberry Pi/ESP32, wired to some relays (to power alternate current things on/off), sensors, RTC (real-time controller, for timing things) and Wi-Fi module can not only achieve the same smartness of a smart washing machine, but it can also be customized to do anyhow you want from it (e.g. using specific programs automatically if certain types of clothes and/or fabrics went to washing, detecting them through some kind of opencv computer vision), without the risk of the whole thing phoning home (i.e. contacting the manufacturer’s servers against your consent) and/or getting a sudden update where it starts to play ads for new Tide pods with 50% off at the nearest Costco store (because it got your geolocation from your ISP provider).

@blackwitch@lemmings.world
Excelente tópico! Eu acho sempre importante trazer um pouco da presença lusófona aqui pro fediverso onde o inglês e alemão geralmente dominam.

Com relação ao tema: ocrorre o mesmo fenômeno comigo, muito embora ocorra mais English-over-português do que Portuguese-sobre-inglês (esse último ocorre só quando estou interagindo aqui no fediverso e lembro de algum ditado popular que, ou não sei o equivalente em inglês, ou não há mesmo equivalente em inglês). O English-over-português ocorre principalmente quando eu consigo lembrar de algo só no seu termo em inglês mas não lembro do termo para a mesma coisa em português. Daí ou eu paro pra tentar lembrar o termo lusófono, ou eu acabo prosseguindo com o termo anglophone mesmo.

Também me ocorre de misturar palavras de outros idiomas com as quais (palavras) já tive contato, por exemplo, termos em latim, alemão, francês, até linguagens totalmente extintas como sumério (devido ao meu interesse ocultista envolver o panteão sumério).

Por fim, ocorre-me também um fenômeno curioso de pensar em um conceito ou símbolo para o qual não consigo encontrar termos em nenhuma das linguagens com as quais já tive contato. Chamo esses pensamentos de “languageless thoughts”, não ocorre só com emoções, ocorre com símbolos e conceitos também (minha mente é altamente orientada a simbologias).

@ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafe

If you’re using a browser (either desktop or some fork of Firefox on mobile) to use Lemmy, you can use uBlock Origin to hide certain content. On the plus side, this would work even when logged off from Lemmy or (in my case) without having a Lemmy account.

In “my filters”, you can add rules such as:

 /.*lemmy.*.*/##.post-listing:has(.community-link:has-text("/^ich_iel/"))

Explanation:
- /.*lemmy.*.*/ is a regexp to match any domain containing the word “lemmy” (e.g. lemmy.cafe, lemmy.world).
- ## denotes a CSS rule.
- .post-listing:has(.community-link:has-text("/^ich_iel/")) is a set of nested CSS rules:
- it filters for every .post-listing element…
- having any .community-link element…
- whose text content, in turn, would match the given regexp.

In my case, /^ich_iel/, a text which starts by “ich_iel”, which is the name for a Lemmy community I’m not interested in, due to me not speaking German.

You can use whatever regexp you need. You can also use multiple rules using this pattern to filter out multiple things. You can replace the .community-link with other CSS classes to filter out post titles, usernames, instances, anything goes.

@the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world @throws_lemy@lemmy.nz

Just like there are virtually no more brand-new non-smart TVs to be purchased (exceptions are getting increasingly rare), I can foresee a (not so distant) future where there are no more brand-new non-smart fridges, so consumers would need to purchase either the brand-new smart fridges, or trying to find increasingly-scarce used appliances (while they still work and can be fixed when they eventually get broken, because, you know, it relies on spare parts).

Also, I can see governments allied to corporation interests (it’s called “lobbying”) using the flag of “protecting the environment” (it’s called greenwashing and it got nothing to do with actually protecting the environment) to push laws requiring people to ditch their old appliances, similarly on how governments have been using the flag of “protecting the children” in order to push laws requiring people to disclose their faces/IDs to access anything they deem “adult” (not just adult entertainment).

For example: governments around the globe start decreeing “it’s now illegal to power on old refrigerators as they don’t meet the new environmental requirements”… we see how those laws spread across multiple countries, see this ID/face law: UK, then Australia, France, among other countries and some USian states.

And the same moral fallacy will happen if people started to complain about the ads on fridges: they’ll face something in the lines “Don’t you think of the environment? Are you pro-pollution?”. Again, it would have little (if anything) to do with environment (just like multi-national laws requiring ID for accessing internet content has little (if anything) to do with children), it’s just the frog used by scorpions.

Yeah. Future is made of big corporations (General Electric, Samsung, Google, Microsoft, etc) and governments (no matter their political leanings, for it’s just their current circensis to gaslight people), long married, seeing 1984 and Cyberpunk as handbooks.

Yet people attack other people (e.g. your statement that “dumb people buy a fridge with a screen in it” is an attack on other consumers as if they were the ones to blame for this problem in the first place) instead of pointing to the actual common threat.

@LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone

Well, I like to watch flames from candles (the 6th figure, middle-right one) partly because it’s the closest I get to see the untamed manifestation of primordial forces (particularly the Dark Mother Goddess Lilith), partly because it’s the closest to feeling my ontological wrath externalized, and also because it’s a personal Memento Mori about my will to be cremated when I die (even though it’s high unlikely I’m going to be cremated, it’s still a Memento Mori nevertheless insofar my bones will eventually get to be burnt by a Giant Red Sun billions of years from now).

However, just like the flames are fleeting, so is any kind of happiness/wellbeing stemming from watching it (and given how it’s something far from being environmentally friendly, I avoid doing it so often).

@ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com @dessalines@lemmy.ml

The current president of Argentina is someone named “Javier Milei”, the one who gave a chainsaw to Elongated in order to symbolize their shared “libertarian” (anarcho-capitalist) views. Guess this answers (part of) what’s wrong with Argentina and why they shill whatever the current USian administration shills.

@MotoAsh@lemmy.world Where in centuries of human history were there any wrongdoings stemming from Luciferianism and other leaderless occult belief systems? Where in centuries of human history did Luciferianism and other occult belief systems interfered or tried to hinger with scientific progress?

@MotoAsh@lemmy.world @TomMasz@lemmy.world

Firstly, it’s obvious “believing” means “zero evidence”. If a belief had any solid evidences, it wouldn’t be a belief, it would be a peer-reviewed scientific paper instead.

That said, you’re conflating “belief” with “religious hierarchy” when, in reality, belief isn’t necessarily dependent on hierarchy. I believe in Lilith and Lucifer, and I have no one “above me” except for Her and Him. In fact, the belief I follow on my own isn’t even compatible with any kind of hierarchy, because these entities represent independence and rebelliousness, so it’d be quite paradoxical for me to have a leader/master/priestess/whatever.

Finally, I challenge you to point out any kind of “humanity’s ill” inflicted by Luciferianism and other left-hand path beliefs, even those who actually have hierarchies (e.g. Quimbanda).

So, I sincerely remind you, don’t generalize and attack every single religion and belief system on Earth because of a half dozen big ones who actually are to blame for many historical wars (“Holy wars”) and their interference on scientific progress. Don’t demonize the demons and demonesses, we’re friends of scientific inquiry. Beware not to do friendly fire.