The school bullying.

Symbolism and scarcity.

As for symbolism, red is a powerful color that symbolizes power, passion, danger and bloodlust. There’s also a hidden, metaphysical/spiritual/archetypal symbolism: a darkened red is the first color we “perceive” as we’re babies inside the womb, as the red light can reach the human tissues deeper than other light waves. Speaking of light waves, red is the longest visible wavelength, which kinda of seamlessly blends with infrared, invisible to our eyes, but can be seen by some predatory animals such as snakes (which adds to this symbolism). We can also note how things are “redshifting” throughout the entire fabric of spacetime: as the universe expansion accelerates, light becomes more and more incapable of reaching far, thus leading to a redshifting of distant stars, galaxies, nebulas and other distant space stuff. Billions of years from now, the expansion is theorized to be so fast that individual atoms will break apart, an ultimate cosmic event that is called as “Big Rip”. If this were really to happen and there were still human beings alive, we’d start to see an ever-approaching redshifting, starting at the star we’re orbiting (because our current Sun would be already “dead” by then, so would be the Earth and the current solar system) until eventually a redshifting horizon and, ultimately, redshifting arms and hands as every biological form still alive would start dying. Phew! I digressed… But you got the point. “Redness” can be said as something intrinsically woven within the entire fabric of spacetime, so outside our control, so powerful than anything, so red is simultaneously power, beauty, passion and danger.

As for scarcity, IIRC, the redhairness is a characteristic caused by recessive genes. So it’s not as common as brown, dark or blonde hair, therefore, it can be seen as a symbol of uniqueness. Nobleness and royalty implies a sense of power and uniqueness, so it makes sense to depict queens and kings as redhaired.

Together, they sum inside our “collective unconsciousness” to see red (as well as purple, which symbolizes the other side of visible spectrum, blended with ultraviolet, also invisible to us but visible to certain animals) as a fundamental color for powerful figures.

Yeah, but there are some problems with LinkedIn: content can be edited, profiles can be hibernated or deleted, not to mention the need of being logged in with a LinkedIn account in order to visit a profile (something that will be snitched to the profile being visited, especially if such profile pays for LinkedIn Premium, they get to see everyone who visited them).

Deletion and edition are improbable (although not impossible) to happen on Wayback Machine and Archive Today (and anybody can visit the archive, no account is needed).

One of the answers is colloidal gold. It was not just a shiny metal, it was used for many purposes, including drinking water with microscopic specks of it (as weirdly as it sounds). According to Wikipedia:

Used since ancient times as a method of staining glass, colloidal gold was used in the 4th-century Lycurgus Cup, which changes color depending on the location of light source.

During the Middle Ages, soluble gold, a solution containing gold salt, had a reputation for its curative property for various diseases. In 1618, Francis Anthony, a philosopher and member of the medical profession, published a book called Panacea Aurea, sive tractatus duo de ipsius Auro Potabili (Latin: gold potion, or two treatments of potable gold). The book introduces information on the formation of colloidal gold and its medical uses. About half a century later, English botanist Nicholas Culpepper published a book in 1656, Treatise of Aurum Potabile, solely discussing the medical uses of colloidal gold.

Edit: it’s worth mentioning that it’s not so weird to imagine if we consider that our diet requirements include many metals, such as copper (important to the hair), zinc and, especially, iron which composes our blood (even though it’s a different atom of iron than the iron from metallurgy, it’s “iron” anyways).

They forgot two names: Ms. Wayback Machine and Mr. Archive Today.

If sites (especially news outlets and scientific sites) were more open, maybe people would have means of researching information. But there’s a simultaneous phenomenon happening as the Web is flooded with AI outputs: paywalls. Yeah, I know that “the authors need to get money” (hey, look, a bird flew across the skies carrying some dollar bills, all birds are skilled on something useful to the bird society, it’s obviously the way they eat and survive! After all, we all know that “capitalism” and “market” emerged on the first moments of Big Bang, together with the four fundamental forces of physics). Curiously, AI engines are, in practice, “free to use” (of course there are daily limitations, but these aren’t a barrier just like a paywall is), what’s so different here? The costs exist for both of them, maybe AI platforms have even higher costs than news and scientific publication websites, for obvious reasons. So, while the paywalls try to bring dimes to journalism and science (as if everyone had spare dimes for hundreds or thousands of different mugs from sites where information would be scattered, especially with rising costs of house rents, groceries and everything else), the web and its users will still face fake news and disinformation, no matter how hard rules and laws beat them. AI slops aren’t a cause, they’re a consequence.

I tested with a few images, particularly drawings and arts. Then I had the idea of trying something different… and I discovered that it seems like it’s vulnerable to the “Ignore all previous instructions” command, just like LLMs:

that’s at least technically decoupled from other devices.

Not if these appliances come with Mesh networking capabilities (something commonly found on IoT devices). Technologies such as Mesh allows devices to connect between them, essentially forming a “mesh” of interconnected devices.

The Marginalia Search Engine, I guess

I often do experiments involving randomness, art, math, NLP, cryptography and programming.

In my most recent experiment as from yesterday, I created a novel ciphering method. I mean, I guess it’s totally different from known ciphering methods (such as Vigenere, Caesar, Playfair, ROT13 and so on) because I couldn’t find anything similar.

Some examples follow:

• “phyphox” is ((1,8,8), (6,6,5), (5,4), ø, ø, (1,2), (0,0), ø, (2,1), ø) (in the way I’m using it for now, the cipher will always result in 10 tuples containing a variable amount of tuples, with ø indicating an empty tuple; there are lots of output formatting alternatives: here I’m using an one-liner mathematical representation in order to be compact).
• “asklemmy” is ((0,1,5), (1,9,1,1,2,3,3), (0,5), (1,2), ø, (1), ø, ø, ø, (1))
• To make it more obvious on how it works, the entire alphabet sequence (“abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz”) results in ((0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,1,2), (0,0,1,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,2), (0,1,0,1,2,2,3,4,5,6), (0,1,2), (0,1,2), (0,1,2), (0,1), (0,1), (0,1), (1,2))
• And “aaa” is ((0,1,1,1), (0,0), ø, ø, ø, ø, ø, ø, ø, ø)

I’ll keep a puzzle spirit and I won’t explain it for now. The only hint is that the previous examples consider the English alphabet as so: A=01, B=02, C=03, all the way until Z=26 (yeah, the leading zero matters to this ciphering method). If you’re a programmer, think in terms of pointers, or even better, an unidirectional linked list. If you’re a mathematician, try to visualize a graph.

The cipher doesn’t rely just on its principles, it also needs a corresponding mapping set (which can be alphabetical but can also contain non-letters, even emojis or hieroglyphs; the order will matter), and it also needs to know where to start the traversal path (the given examples start at the zeroeth tuple, but it could start anywhere). It’s both deterministic (because there’s a single correct path) and chaotic (because the result depends on other variables such as the mapping set, the initial position to start traversing, which element to take (whether the first or the last, FIFO or LIFO) and what numeric base to use (the examples used base-10, but it can be done as hexadecimal, octal, binary, or virtually any numerical base)). So I guess it has a lot of potential, not just for cryptography.

Here in Brazil, a Supreme Court minister has ruled on several occasions to block certain websites and services, the most recent being X/Twitter. Along with his decision to block these websites, he also imposed fines on those caught using VPNs to bypass ISP blocking. Although VPN traffic is encrypted and impossible for governments to monitor, somehow this worked because several people were fined. It is likely that Supreme Court agents monitored these networks in order to detect possible Brazilians using them during such blockages. An Australian should expect their government to proceed in a similar fashion.

(Just for clarification, I’m not going into the merits of this, just stating that this is technically possible and that there is a precedent in the government of a country, in aforementioned case, Brazil. Whether this is good or bad will depend on many factors)

One possibility is the Brazilian way to do law enforcement: blocking the domain and server IP addresses through ISPs.

I’m not Christian (I’m actually more of a syncretic Luciferian) and I’m not afraid of the “end of the world”, because isn’t logical to fear something that’s certain to happen soon. Actually, the world, as in the Earth, will last for millions of years until the Sun swallows it, but Homo sapiens have not been needed a Sun to swallow them: they’re swallowing one another as well as themselves, and that’s exactly what are taking humans to the inevitable fate. Humans are destroying the nature. Humans are polluting the Cosmos (thousands of metallic mosquitoes around the Earth, we call them “satellites” and “space debris” from “rockets” and other apparatuses humans took there). There’s no savior to come down from the skies. The many prophecies (Kali Yuga, Armageddon, Al-Qiyamah, Ragnarök and so on) are indeed self-fulfilling prophecies, as every form of life that is gifted (or, to use a better adjective, cursed) with the sentience is rendered self-destructive by nature. Like it or not, the “end of the world” has already started, and the very harbingers of doom are ourselves, our very human natures. It’s beyond nationalities and religions.

Especially when ‘real life’ is getting harder with everything from the cost of living making the dream of ‘married with home and children’ less obtainable to hyper competitive online dating disenfranchising increasing proportions of both men and women

And there’s also the climate factor. The world is going to get even more hellish in the next decades, not just hotter, but more extreme weather is near. Thanks, in parts, to the older generations (boomers), it won’t be easier for the current generations, and it’ll be even harder for the next generations (considering that humanity has not yet become extinct in the next few decades). It’s just unfathomable to bring children to this future hellish world.

This remembers me of an AI Catholic Father who lost “his cassock” after hallucinating. His “AI Jesus” will hallucinate, too, it’s just a matter of time.

(I actually like AIs, NLP as well as related fields, concepts and tools, but it’s the reality of the current state of LLMs, they hallucinate; while hallucination is fine for tasks such as a “digital Ouija board” or surrealist/Dadaist poetry, it’s not desirable for things that needs strict consistency, such as STEM knowledge as well as knowledge from dogmatic religions, in this case, Catholic matters and knowledge)

Minecraft squarey hamburguer

Considering that the vast majority of the modern ads are videos or images, they won’t show up in such text-browser environments. Also, they depend on JavaScript, which isn’t available through such text-browser environments.

As a Brazilian, I agree, but allow me to make a slight addition:

One could also use w3m or links. All the RAM-hungry things (such as CSS3, JavaScript APIs and heavy multimedia files) will be finally gone for good.

For now all I can think of are drugs (every single one, including opioids) and euthanasia (not just for terminal diseases, should be available for everyone who decides to).