fedi moonbat
he/they
anarcho whatever
web ontology rant
the semantic web is such a fucking psyop, all i wanted to do was write a little fuckin forum and now i've on the wayback machine reading about an rdf schematizization of reuters news categories and abandoned foaf extensions
pretty wild how much work was put into these web ontologies up until 2012 or so when they were all basically abandoned or absorbed into scheme.org, i guess this coincides with the general monopolization of the internet that happened, weird this is the moment the indieweb stuff picked up, as i guess kind of a holdover of the old xml way of thinking by people with money who didn't have to worry about chasing SEO trends
it does ulimately lead to a lot of wasted time because ontology is itself a philosophical problem right? the representation of things as information when the information is the thing, the ontology of computer science is idealist as there's no outside of the system, an owl:thing is not the thing-in-itself it is necessarily the phenomena, it's being-for-others and the other being is the machine, it is only it's representation, it is appearance without essence ( i suppose you could say it's essence material basis is the machine code, but that has so little relevance to how words "semantic* or ontology are used in this way, no more than you can deduce the meaning of writing or art from the physical medium -- pencils, paint, paper, canvas -- it's made from ) so however one defines the ontology, you are making the reality no? like you set up the rules of a game, that is the game, with web ontoogy, the semantic rules in places dictate the structure of any navigation or UI, or law the existential horror on the table, the being of this ontoogy does not exist prior to our definition of it, our definition and elaboration of web ontology is what brings it into being, so whatever vocabular you choose, it is always a stopping-short, of the unmet potentialities of further definition, which are potentially endless, or find their limits at the imaginative possibilities of human language, the only choice you have is to settle on a set of terms that are good enough --> tho it never will be --> you just have to settle on conventions.
So the corpo project os destroying the internet and all human knowledge, what use do they really have with these web ontoogies with their ever expanding horizons of meaning? all they want to do is spy on people so they can sell them things, exploit their labor or murder them if it's advantageous to do so... so schema.org via microdata, that suits their ends. I recommend people read thru the schema.org terms because it's such an arbitrary and incomplete assortment of things, it reminds me of the medieval systems of thought foucault describes in "The Order of Things" categories are not thoroughly explored or enumerated, while trivial things are given exessive attention, becuase that's all capitaism needs it to be, not a general web ontoogy capable of describing and categorizing the undless posibiities of human though, but a simplified language of capitalism.
Can't help but think that, had the semantic web not been abandoned, and these problems dealt with fully, had the various incomplete schemas been integrated in a comprehensive way by serious academics looking to create a universal human library or something, the current iteration of LMMs would be much smarter, like they'd be trained on human curated semantic data , instead of SEO slop. just a thought.
php problems
need to refactor my shitty ass php because it's nothing but crappy inline functions, apparrently i should use interfaces and objects and trains n shit and not just write the same function over and over again, and I should rewrite that before I start working on new parts of the code, and doing this will probs make extending things easier, so
@0x4d6165 thinking about this anti-smoking ad i watched one time where it listed all of the toxic chemicals that the Tabacoo industry knowingly puts in cigarrettes, and it's like, okay why you don't you take that money you spent on running this TV ad and lobby congress to make that illegal? like why is that on me?
@0x4d6165 i know someone will call me an anti-vax hippie freak for saying smoking pesticides is bad for you lol
@0x4d6165 like i get it, both my grandmothers died of smoking related illnesses, i very much regret picking up smoking as a teen, and i've luckily been able to quit many times ( tho i can always pick it back up instantly ) still the main issue wish cigarettes as with all drugs is the price
And ya know, a large part of the toxicity of tabacco are the chemical fertiizers/insecticides and additives that are found in cigarettes, which aren't regulated at all, they just basicaly blame the users and decline to regulate tabacco production becuase 'if you get cancer it's your fault'
I won't be surprised when people start getting lung cancer from marijuana because of legalization / corporatization, and they'll say 'see weed gives you cancer' not ya know, all the shit they put in it now
@0x4d6165 yeah it's always been a kind of class thing, and the liberal answer to the problem of smoking: adding exorbitant taxes on cigarrettes only punishes poor people who are addicts it's totally fucked
tfw you roll your own css framework and just forget about it
imma use xmpp over tor you can't stop me
@0x4d6165 Revolution of Everyday life is really good, anything by Vanaegasm
Bonanno is always relevant and practical "From Riot to Insurrection" "Locked Up" "Why A Vanguard"
"The Dragon and the Hydra" by Russel "Maroon" Shoats is amazing can't recommend that enough
if you want some real theory theory Immanual Wallersteins 'world systems theory' basicaly synthesizes Marxist theories of imperialism with contemporary non marxian scholarship
on that note Brewers "Marxist Theories of Imperialism" is a really great textbook on this psi424.cankaya.edu.tr/uploads/files/Brewer, Marxist_Theories_of_Imperialism.pdf
@0x4d6165 @donni most definately a mass labor movement, tho i think foks should consider new ways of union and community organizing using clandestine and informal methods (actually these are the oldest forms of union organizing) I also thing folks need to take a note from the Black Panthers and Emphasize self defense, because we're not too far away from them straight up executing dissenters
@0x4d6165 i see you there on the path of suffering and I weep for thee
argue not with shitlibs, that only leads to suffering
religion, controversial
@ciggysmokebringer hmmm i mean i can see that happening, surely there are major differences, but seems like a denotation vs connotation thing, the abrahamic bit just means they are a part of a tradition that traces itself to Abraham. There are other Abrahamic religions like Mandeanism
maybe a better term would be "People of the Book" from Islam, but that also includes the non Abrahamic Zoroastrianism at least for Shia ( tho i think Abraham and other Prophets got retconned into Zoroastrianism later on )
Seems like a danger of going to far and over emphasizing the differences, like they all claim to worship the God of Abraham and so rejecting the term would imply that, what, they don't, they worship distinct Gods, that would be more dangerous than conflating them i think
religion, controversial
idk why 'Abrahamic Religion' is offensive or problematic and I'm afraid to ask
uspol, cops, subtoot
OR have you ever seen any action movie where the feds in the local cops don't get along? cops not wanting to do more work helping feds do something that is not their job isn't a "sign" of anything, and this kind of thinking is just grasping at anything to feel hopeful about
