Demitroy
@demitroy.bsky.social
Twisted Expectations
Writer of daily #vss365, unless life gets in the way. Physicist, astronomer, programmer, spec fic enthusiast, gamer, writer, ally.
Trying to simplify my life and expectations. Too many failures at reaching for greatness.
Writer of daily #vss365, unless life gets in the way. Physicist, astronomer, programmer, spec fic enthusiast, gamer, writer, ally.
Trying to simplify my life and expectations. Too many failures at reaching for greatness.
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Demitroy
@demitroy.bsky.social
· Nov 27
We live in an era where the expansion of the universe is fast enough to be noticeable AND it hasn't gotten so fast that we can't observe it. Pretty amazing, if you think about it.
It would be nice if social media really was social.
January 20, 2025 at 5:36 AM
It would be nice if social media really was social.
I've watched a number of the New Year's displays today, and the most amazing thing is that they've all used songs in English for the soundtrack.
My random observation of #newyear2025 so far.
My random observation of #newyear2025 so far.
December 31, 2024 at 11:05 PM
I've watched a number of the New Year's displays today, and the most amazing thing is that they've all used songs in English for the soundtrack.
My random observation of #newyear2025 so far.
My random observation of #newyear2025 so far.
The terminal sat there, blinking cursor on the #prompt, waiting for input. People spent years preparing themselves. They wanted to control what direction the system took.
The terminal didn't listen to most of them, and the few that it did never seemed very nice.
Maybe misery is the point.
#vss365
The terminal didn't listen to most of them, and the few that it did never seemed very nice.
Maybe misery is the point.
#vss365
December 31, 2024 at 3:00 PM
They have handshakes, introductions, protocols, and responses. The expected rules of #decorum developed over centuries of experience with direct interactions.
There is one major difference between programs and humans, though.
Robots haven't learned to backstab each other from us.
Yet.
#vss365
There is one major difference between programs and humans, though.
Robots haven't learned to backstab each other from us.
Yet.
#vss365
December 29, 2024 at 7:17 PM
You ever hit someone so hard, you know they'll be thinking about it for the rest of their life? That's what Johnson just did to me.
I go through the control #mnemonic the shrink gave me. It fails miserably, but Johnson and I are only in the brig for a day.
Maybe tomorrow will go better.
#vss365
I go through the control #mnemonic the shrink gave me. It fails miserably, but Johnson and I are only in the brig for a day.
Maybe tomorrow will go better.
#vss365
December 24, 2024 at 5:22 PM
How do I know most people are generally good? We all get hit with potential villain origin events on the daily, and we continue to do our best and be positive members of society.
Sure, there is plenty that needs to be improved and we all have off days.
But I'm hopeful we can find a path to better.
Sure, there is plenty that needs to be improved and we all have off days.
But I'm hopeful we can find a path to better.
December 21, 2024 at 2:30 AM
How do I know most people are generally good? We all get hit with potential villain origin events on the daily, and we continue to do our best and be positive members of society.
Sure, there is plenty that needs to be improved and we all have off days.
But I'm hopeful we can find a path to better.
Sure, there is plenty that needs to be improved and we all have off days.
But I'm hopeful we can find a path to better.
To be thoughtful is an important part of being human. Thomas spent large portions of each day critiquing his own behavior and examining how others responded.
Every person reacts differently, increasing the difficulty. No line of #purity to be achieved.
Did he require better programmers?
#vss365
Every person reacts differently, increasing the difficulty. No line of #purity to be achieved.
Did he require better programmers?
#vss365
December 20, 2024 at 12:50 PM
They called it a rogue AI. As if it were created to improve society and went wrong somehow. Looking past the #silhouette facade brought things into better focus.
It was created to increase shareholder value, not for the benefit of humanity. Especially customers.
Working as intended.
#vss365
It was created to increase shareholder value, not for the benefit of humanity. Especially customers.
Working as intended.
#vss365
December 19, 2024 at 11:53 AM
They called it a rogue AI. As if it were created to improve society and went wrong somehow. Looking past the #silhouette facade brought things into better focus.
It was created to increase shareholder value, not for the benefit of humanity. Especially customers.
Working as intended.
#vss365
It was created to increase shareholder value, not for the benefit of humanity. Especially customers.
Working as intended.
#vss365
At the rate that various countries and companies are launching satellites for internet connections, soon we'll have a pseudo Dyson sphere around earth.
December 18, 2024 at 4:08 PM
At the rate that various countries and companies are launching satellites for internet connections, soon we'll have a pseudo Dyson sphere around earth.
It's hard to recognize the advantage you're born into because it's the only life you personally experience.
As the years pass, there is an opportunity to lift the veil. Removing the #monochrome filter to see life in its true spectrum of existence.
Unfortunately, this is anathema to many.
#vss365
As the years pass, there is an opportunity to lift the veil. Removing the #monochrome filter to see life in its true spectrum of existence.
Unfortunately, this is anathema to many.
#vss365
December 18, 2024 at 3:54 AM
It's hard to recognize the advantage you're born into because it's the only life you personally experience.
As the years pass, there is an opportunity to lift the veil. Removing the #monochrome filter to see life in its true spectrum of existence.
Unfortunately, this is anathema to many.
#vss365
As the years pass, there is an opportunity to lift the veil. Removing the #monochrome filter to see life in its true spectrum of existence.
Unfortunately, this is anathema to many.
#vss365
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New story up on Commuter Lit!
Come to see me in a turkey hat. Stay for the story about time loops and forgiveness.
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Come to see me in a turkey hat. Stay for the story about time loops and forgiveness.
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December 17, 2024 at 12:28 PM
New story up on Commuter Lit!
Come to see me in a turkey hat. Stay for the story about time loops and forgiveness.
commuterlit.com
Come to see me in a turkey hat. Stay for the story about time loops and forgiveness.
commuterlit.com
This section is fit between pillars, which are hidden behind a #monochrome finish.
It's a white wall.
The description I provided is accurate and meaningful.
I can't wait to see how you present the bathroom.
#vss365
It's a white wall.
The description I provided is accurate and meaningful.
I can't wait to see how you present the bathroom.
#vss365
December 17, 2024 at 12:13 PM
This section is fit between pillars, which are hidden behind a #monochrome finish.
It's a white wall.
The description I provided is accurate and meaningful.
I can't wait to see how you present the bathroom.
#vss365
It's a white wall.
The description I provided is accurate and meaningful.
I can't wait to see how you present the bathroom.
#vss365
The greater southeastern sprawl was a great incubator. If a runner could find success there, they'd be set for opportunities globally.
Unfortunately, the #challenge level left many corpses scattered about, and not all of them were people. Even corporations eventually fled the storms.
#vss365
Unfortunately, the #challenge level left many corpses scattered about, and not all of them were people. Even corporations eventually fled the storms.
#vss365
December 16, 2024 at 6:15 PM
The greater southeastern sprawl was a great incubator. If a runner could find success there, they'd be set for opportunities globally.
Unfortunately, the #challenge level left many corpses scattered about, and not all of them were people. Even corporations eventually fled the storms.
#vss365
Unfortunately, the #challenge level left many corpses scattered about, and not all of them were people. Even corporations eventually fled the storms.
#vss365
The crew was tightly strapped in as the ship vibrated.
"99.8%"
Captain Sill watched them and the velocity.
"99.9%"
The speed updates were taking longer for each step.
"99.95%"
The energy from the crew was palpable, infusing the ship.
The #threshold to lightspeed was within reach.
"1-
#vss365
"99.8%"
Captain Sill watched them and the velocity.
"99.9%"
The speed updates were taking longer for each step.
"99.95%"
The energy from the crew was palpable, infusing the ship.
The #threshold to lightspeed was within reach.
"1-
#vss365
December 15, 2024 at 3:55 PM
The crew was tightly strapped in as the ship vibrated.
"99.8%"
Captain Sill watched them and the velocity.
"99.9%"
The speed updates were taking longer for each step.
"99.95%"
The energy from the crew was palpable, infusing the ship.
The #threshold to lightspeed was within reach.
"1-
#vss365
"99.8%"
Captain Sill watched them and the velocity.
"99.9%"
The speed updates were taking longer for each step.
"99.95%"
The energy from the crew was palpable, infusing the ship.
The #threshold to lightspeed was within reach.
"1-
#vss365
Regenerative cell replacement. If that gets figured out, we could live forever.
Well, the people who can afford it and control access to it. Maybe not the folks who should.
Imagine a world that moves on but is controlled by leaders from hundreds of years ago. And their pet #axolotl.
#vss365
Well, the people who can afford it and control access to it. Maybe not the folks who should.
Imagine a world that moves on but is controlled by leaders from hundreds of years ago. And their pet #axolotl.
#vss365
December 14, 2024 at 1:51 PM
The US has been described as an experiment in democracy. A place of disparate inputs and variable outputs.
Except the training data has been skewed toward billionaires, #overfit so badly that the unnecessary deaths of thousands is treated as normal.
Back propagation will be chaos.
#vss365
Except the training data has been skewed toward billionaires, #overfit so badly that the unnecessary deaths of thousands is treated as normal.
Back propagation will be chaos.
#vss365
December 14, 2024 at 4:14 AM
Deb looked around the room, sweat obvious on most of the faces. Whether from nerves or the temperature was unimportant. It was test day for the nanites.
Too bad they had been #overfit to the training data.
Most humans had no idea they were dead, but the lightning storms were spectacular.
#vss365
Too bad they had been #overfit to the training data.
Most humans had no idea they were dead, but the lightning storms were spectacular.
#vss365
December 13, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Sorry folks, but if aliens visited Earth, they'd do it in one of two situations.
First, massive generation ships that would take centuries to make the trip. Impossible to hide.
Second, in ships that have broken physics as we understand it. They'd be indistinguishable from gods.
They're not here.
First, massive generation ships that would take centuries to make the trip. Impossible to hide.
Second, in ships that have broken physics as we understand it. They'd be indistinguishable from gods.
They're not here.
December 13, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Sorry folks, but if aliens visited Earth, they'd do it in one of two situations.
First, massive generation ships that would take centuries to make the trip. Impossible to hide.
Second, in ships that have broken physics as we understand it. They'd be indistinguishable from gods.
They're not here.
First, massive generation ships that would take centuries to make the trip. Impossible to hide.
Second, in ships that have broken physics as we understand it. They'd be indistinguishable from gods.
They're not here.
Lies hide ugly truths. They are often pretty, and the target audience prefers comfortable ignorance to difficult reality.
Like hosts to a deadly virus, they #propagate the lie to those that will listen. The difference, lies rarely kill the people they are targeted at.
Until it does.
#vss365
Like hosts to a deadly virus, they #propagate the lie to those that will listen. The difference, lies rarely kill the people they are targeted at.
Until it does.
#vss365
December 12, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Lies hide ugly truths. They are often pretty, and the target audience prefers comfortable ignorance to difficult reality.
Like hosts to a deadly virus, they #propagate the lie to those that will listen. The difference, lies rarely kill the people they are targeted at.
Until it does.
#vss365
Like hosts to a deadly virus, they #propagate the lie to those that will listen. The difference, lies rarely kill the people they are targeted at.
Until it does.
#vss365
I tapped the #taipan venom into the fake fingernail. Then, during my day job, I attached it to his wife's middle finger. That night, she scratched her lover's back, and he died in her bed.
The headlines were brutal, the dead man found in the CEOs bed.
Don't anger a professional assassin.
#vss365
The headlines were brutal, the dead man found in the CEOs bed.
Don't anger a professional assassin.
#vss365
December 11, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Everyone avoided Dan. They all knew a single comment from him was fatal to a career. Worse than the bite of a #taipan.
Sam was the one exception. Sam realized that if management cared so much about Dan's opinion, being his friend would be beneficial.
Until the day Sam got fired.
#vss365
Sam was the one exception. Sam realized that if management cared so much about Dan's opinion, being his friend would be beneficial.
Until the day Sam got fired.
#vss365
December 11, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Planning for the future is important. It gives you something to aspire to.
Don't let it blind you to the joy today can be, though.
Now, to teach myself how to do that.
#selflessons
Don't let it blind you to the joy today can be, though.
Now, to teach myself how to do that.
#selflessons
December 11, 2024 at 3:28 AM
Planning for the future is important. It gives you something to aspire to.
Don't let it blind you to the joy today can be, though.
Now, to teach myself how to do that.
#selflessons
Don't let it blind you to the joy today can be, though.
Now, to teach myself how to do that.
#selflessons
The observers gathered every year to pay homage to Voyager. The last known remnant of Earth and its inhabitants.
It was tracked by the #latent heat it emitted, which dimmed over time.
This year, they couldn't find it. Lost to apathy.
Humanity continues, but its birthplace is no more.
#vss365
It was tracked by the #latent heat it emitted, which dimmed over time.
This year, they couldn't find it. Lost to apathy.
Humanity continues, but its birthplace is no more.
#vss365
December 10, 2024 at 12:42 PM
A frenetic climb for unseen heights. Grasping at hidden truths, layered behind the veil.
It's called a #descent, a fall into madness. As if it is the path of least resistance.
In truth, it takes effort to go insane. But it's not the traveler's chosen path. A passenger in their own mind.
#vss365
It's called a #descent, a fall into madness. As if it is the path of least resistance.
In truth, it takes effort to go insane. But it's not the traveler's chosen path. A passenger in their own mind.
#vss365
December 9, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Row by row, young faces under camo caps. Uniforms pressed into shape. Brains devoid of thought.
"These are scarier than soldiers," the general said.
"Unlike #planaria, these require full limbs to regrow," the scientist responded.
This is how I take over the world, thought the politician.
#vss365
"These are scarier than soldiers," the general said.
"Unlike #planaria, these require full limbs to regrow," the scientist responded.
This is how I take over the world, thought the politician.
#vss365
December 8, 2024 at 2:54 PM