Toots

Looking forward to the future. https://ironwynch.com/2023/05/looking-forward-to-the-future/

Chatbots on the verge of a nervous breakdown https://ironwynch.com/2023/05/chatbots-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown/

As some of you may already know, I am a not card carrying semi vegetarian, meaning I eat meat occasionally and use some animal products but am not like a huge carnivore. Probably like most women in their 50's with a sensitive tummy. Anyway, I tried replacing ground beef in an American style bolognese with #BlackEyedPeas
Don't.
It was horrible.
I don't know what tomatoes do to the #cowpea protein but it is nothing good.
I tried it so you don't have to. Think curds of burnt plastic.

I Got Silenced in the Google I/O Chat – Developer Keynote (Google I/O ’23) https://ironwynch.com/2023/05/developer-keynote-google-i-o-23/

‘Stack Overflow is ChatGPT Casualty’ – Slashdot https://ironwynch.com/2023/05/stack-overflow-is-chatgpt-casualty-slashdot/

In a crisis someone's real values come out, but also in a stagnation. Someone with unfulfilled desires, stewing and milling in those inside a tank they can't escape will do things to a person's mind. Politicians know this, and this is why we are where we are today.

One could say that roots kids and the longtermer kids had a kind of uneasy alliance until the tech bubble burst of the 90's. Up until then I think as a generation, we were all on more freedom even if some weren't completely sold on socialism. We were all sure we did not want forced birth and cops in schools. But then the security that if you got a degree in something computers, you would be rich or close, went away.

As kids in the 80's, many if not most of us were made to watch those movies to scare us into staying on the program. It was pretty crazy. A lot of those kids who went through evangelical indoctrination are in government now. Worse, some who went through that an escaped went benevolent and just wanted to get folks back to their roots while others went the way of western occultism of the Blavatsky flavor, and if wealthy enough, eugenics and long termism.

I encourage anyone who doesn't understand what the "Christian" authoritarians are trying to bring about, watch a series of "Christian" propaganda films called _Thief In the Night_. When you do, you'll understand that they are attempting to politically force a situation of alienation. They want the whole tribulation scenario, and since no rapture is coming, they'll suffice with the political us vs. them in which someone will rise up as the savior for the millenium phase.

Human sacrifice in iron age Britain. Whenever you see a hate campaign waged by westerners who are politically or economically neocolonialist, racist, and homophobic, there is very likely a spiritual side to it as well. Learn how it was done in the past so you understand the twisted contingent of reclaimers trying to rig a sociopolitical workaround.
Pagans need to detect and purge these folks from our ranks.

https://youtu.be/w4T6PcXOXg0

Lately, a lot of people are getting headaches and dreaming of suffering cats. Aside of it being Mercury retrograde and communication being wonky, and season changes with the weather being wonky too, this is a time of year some messed up people do messed up things. I try not to judge but just take things as is, please look in on your furry friends, especially the black and dark tortie ones. Make sure they have a place to hide that is not human accessible.
#Cats #FeralCats #StreetCats

As it is, I understand someday I'm going to have to do the whole bringing them over on humanitarian grounds thing because there's no way in hell I will be okay with them being old and vulnerable in the U.S. if it can be avoided. I hope by then one would still be able to do that here. I'm planning for this even though they would have been, "Well, the wages of sin is death..." had I not come back. I'm doing this for me, not for them.

If I could get just some indication that their supposed embracing of the Jewish Yeshua came with real Jewish esoteric, even somewhat apocalyptic speculation values, I might consider them real family. Like on the same team family. Like people I don't just tolerate and respect because of my own beliefs around honoring past and future ancestors. Like actually in the role of nurturers and protectors, albeit a bit late.

On a very personal note, though I try my best to recognize my parents' progress in becoming followers of Yeshua instead of the Roman Christos thoughtform, I won't consider them fully recovered until I hear them make a sincere and clean break from christofascist politics. I know them. I know who they were before the cults. They know I know. I'd almost settle for an, "I'm glad you came back from the jaws of death during your miscarriage."

Advertising on Witch University https://ironwynch.com/2014/11/advertising-on-witch-university/

First draft of a freedom for EVERYONE in this region they call the middle east. It's basically the knot of Auset unrestricted instead of tight and straight.
#AntiFascist #AntiColonialist #MaternalFeminist #AfricanaWomanist #TransFeminist #LGBTQIA #Pagan #Esoteric

Comparing Physician and Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Responses to Patient Questions Posted to a Public Social Media Forum | Health Informatics | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network https://ironwynch.com/2023/05/comparing-physician-and-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-responses-to-patient-questions-posted-to-a-public-social-media-forum-health-informatics-jama-internal-medicine-jama-network/

Hackers swap stealth for realistic checkout forms to steal credit cards https://ironwynch.com/2023/04/hackers-swap-stealth-for-realistic-checkout-forms-to-steal-credit-cards/

Some interesting #RickAndMorty #Fanfic
Morty becomes the #YouTube algorithm:

https://youtu.be/TnrylWS6K3k

@NoahH :: grabbing some popcorn and waiting to see what happens now it's out in the open and folks will know we aren't so crazy ::

A.I. and Stochastic Parrots | FACTUALLY with Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru https://ironwynch.com/2023/04/a-i-and-stochastic-parrots-factually-with-emily-bender-and-timnit-gebru/

There Is No A.I. https://ironwynch.com/2023/04/there-is-no-a-i/

Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform | Mashable https://ironwynch.com/2023/04/microsoft-drops-twitter-from-its-advertising-platform-mashable/

Star Trek Explained (As Simply As Possible) https://ironwynch.com/2023/04/star-trek-explained-as-simply-as-possible/

Starfleet Lawyer https://ironwynch.com/2023/04/starfleet-lawyer/

Google Ad Leads To SectopRAT :: Reverse Engineering and Analysis — Reverse Engineering and Analysis https://ironwynch.com/2023/04/google-ad-leads-to-sectoprat-reverse-engineering-and-analysis-reverse-engineering-and-analysis/

The binary based on external genitalia has historically been forced on the enslaved. It is a way of sorting property, not persons. Asking for mercy in a system that treats persons as property is not going to work unless or until that state has clear rules about the difference between property and persons. While fighting for Trans rights, let's not forget the human rights side of this. Sometimes we are playing whack-a-mole with laws that can only be proposed because of a core problem.

Mayotte leaders held a meating against the French planned ethnic cleansing operation #Wuambushu
#Colonialism #France #Mayotte #Africa #Comores

https://youtu.be/t_jsVU7IpOY

It worked! 😃

Testing my TootPress, fingers crossed.

#WordPress #TootPress #Plugin

NOT-OD-23-073: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Administrative Supplements to Enhance Software Tools for Open Science https://ironwynch.com/2023/04/not-od-23-073-notice-of-special-interest-nosi-administrative-supplements-to-enhance-software-tools-for-open-science/

hold on there
hold on tight
stay with me
stay in sight
this is all
but not for naught
we are together
are we not
if all their is
is all there is
adherence is
the is of is
and if below
is as above
there is just love
only love

ascend?

the ecstasy
the peak sensation
feels like ascension
above your station
a dragon chaste
beyond desire
eternal fire
it is a liar
one cannot go
above beyond
to edge or end
solely abscond
a lonely grain
of lowly size
stretch past all else
to seize the prize
all flow within
the mass of matter
all break the same
all glasses shatter
though shards may vary
in relative sharpness
all meet the same
same light same darkness
all flowing to
a spiraling edge
all falling through
myriad ledge

#CuratorPrompts #CuratorPrompts150

Saltwater 500x500

Bridge of Creation Recipe

#Witch #Witchcraft #Witches #Pagan #Deities #LGBTI #LGBTIDeities #LGBTIWitches #LGBTIWitchcraft #LGBTQIA #LGBTQIAPagans #LGBTQIASpirituality #Spirituality

https://ironwynch.com/2023/04/bridge-of-creation-recipe/

Twitter Inc. has been merged with X Corp. and “no longer exists,” Elon Musk’s company says in a court filing. https://ironwynch.com/2023/04/twitter-inc-has-been-merged-with-x-corp-and-no-longer-exists-elon-musks-company-says-in-a-court-filing/

This is Raptor, a something I wrote back when I dreamed of making music for video games.

#Modplug #OpenMPT #Music #Gaming #BlackMastodon

Damn. So much free mental space from lack of algorithm concerns that I'm thinking of firing up the new MODPlug Tracker and making some music.

#Music #Electronica #ModPlug

Saudi delegation arrives in Yemen to discuss truce — reports – DW – 04/09/2023 https://ironwynch.com/2023/04/saudi-delegation-arrives-in-yemen-to-discuss-truce-reports-dw-04-09-2023/

Video on Peertube: Orisha Sign Language

#SignLanguage #HandSigns #Orisha #Spirituality #AfricanSpirituality #Deaf #Nonverbal #BlackMastodon #DeafMastodon #Disability

https://ironwynch.com/2023/04/4489/

Massive Balada Injector campaign attacking WordPress sites since 2017 https://ironwynch.com/2023/04/massive-balada-injector-campaign-attacking-wordpress-sites-since-2017/

Unholy FUCK! I mean, it's not surprising, but the shamelessness of it all is...DAMN!
Shit!

#ClarenceThomas #Corruption

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow

So many things I'm going to start doing again now that I'm not draining my energy scrounging for visibility on big social. I need to get new polymer clay and forage a bit before everything is too dried up from heat.
#Witchcraft #Talismans #CraftWitch

I'm starting to get this eye twitch when I see people who could afford to, making no effort whatsoever, to carve something like an independent space on this net, much less maybe help others to. It's too familiar, like when people want you to not rock the boat too much or not be too loud, and when condemning you didn't work, they send someone "successful" to reel you back in and keep you invested in a way that is screwing you.

I do realize that my little rant is the intense but rather soft ballet shoed stompings of a relative princess. This takes the edge off a bit. Awareness means I will not let folks who actually need me flap in the wind. I'm just done fighting the tide of algorithm addicts when there's so many folks with agency I could be focusing on.
I learned what was possible out here in the Fediverse. I see people actually doing stuff. So for me, birdchan isn't the only migration. I'm done with anychans.

I think what shook me awake was watching someone who'd recently been sexually assaulted agonize over doing their scheduled live stream.

What kind of internet is this?

Why do people feel like they have to endure violence and then get up like nothing happened? She doesn't owe us that. Where did she get the idea she owes us that?

Where did I get the idea that I owe this fucking world my labor through all I've been through?

Nah.

NAH.

I think I'm gonna just

stop.

Not that anyone would notice.

It'll be years before anyone realizes that the reason their engagement has dropped is because topic oriented webmasters have run out of excuses to keep maintaining anything that isn't personal, friends/family, or bringing an income.

I can just enjoy someone's content and not feel compelled to share it to get more viewers.

I can just stop.

After giving it some time to see what would happen, I've come to face the harsh reality that what I do aside of readings and rootwork isn't really valued enough to bring an income anymore. The time people appreciated promotion in any way that isn't attached to a centralized social media algorithm is past. People have become so dependent on social media that if they bother building a site at all, they're not checking who links to them.

A.I. is B.S. https://ironwynch.com/2023/04/a-i-is-b-s/

Israel advances national guard force for right-wing minister https://ironwynch.com/2023/04/israel-advances-national-guard-force-for-right-wing-minister/