Brutkey

afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷🇵🇷
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afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷🇵🇷
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hateful

Put random streaming show as background noise. Casually watch a few minutes. Protagonist is an actual bum, not even an assitant teacher, or a struggling philosopher.

An. Actual. Bum.

Protagonist says, "better go home and rest."

Home is an apartment in a big city, with a view, and enough room to have their dog run at full tilt towards them.

_____

My face feels like slug sitting on salt... I have to control myself so as not to throw the remote control into the tv...

afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷🇵🇷
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On of my guilty pleasures (as opposed to a pet peeve) is to use FlameShot insanely easy to modify screenshots dialog to remove twitter/blusky/facebook logos from otherwise funny/informational posts before I share them on chats with friends and coworkers. I generally try not to be petty like that otherwise, but on those occasions I relish giving commercial social media the finger.

afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷🇵🇷
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Suppose you have 100k thousand files. With somewhat descriptive pathnames like:

Assets/Audio/MysticTownBeep.wav
Assets/Music/Mystic-Town-Theme.mp3
Assets/3D/FBX/Mystic_Sword.fbx
Assets/2D/UI/Mystic Button.png

If you tokenize every pathname you could search those tokens. Search for "mystic" and get all 4, search for "town" get 2.

Assuming the files are correctly named and such, then almost every token in the path is useful to categorize the whole 100k files.

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afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷🇵🇷
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If you had a text file with the list of all 100K pathnames...

How would you go about tokenizing or not, searching, storing, processing such a list? Database? Python? Excel? Something else?

I have a good idea of how I would go about it. But I would like to know how YOU would do it (and why).

No wrong answers, except using "AI" anywhere.

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afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷🇵🇷
@afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place

Suppose you have 100k thousand files. With somewhat descriptive pathnames like:

Assets/Audio/MysticTownBeep.wav
Assets/Music/Mystic-Town-Theme.mp3
Assets/3D/FBX/Mystic_Sword.fbx
Assets/2D/UI/Mystic Button.png

If you tokenize every pathname you could search those tokens. Search for "mystic" and get all 4, search for "town" get 2.

Assuming the files are correctly named and such, then almost every token in the path is useful to categorize the whole 100k files.

[1/2]

afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷🇵🇷
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Power went out 30 minutes before Christmas... Tell me again how the US is a great empire that helps raise the standard of living of its colonized subjects...

afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷🇵🇷
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uspol

as much as the people at the top, which we know can't be all that good if they are currently at the top, are revealed to be bad...

I think it says a lot more about the people at the bottom. You and me. Our neighbors and loved ones.

Our continued inaction to remove these criminals from power enables them.

And I know, there resistance, and marches. I know people can't just up and stop making money and starve. I'm not trying to point the finger.

afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷🇵🇷
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uspol

And I can't provide answers or solutions.

And much MUCH respect to the people that are doing something, putting their life and livelihood on the line.

But I wish there were more, a movement so massive these criminals were even more publicly afraid to show up anywhere.

...

I don't know, but the future doesn't feel great to me if 2026 is just another repeat of what has happened so far in 2025.

afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷🇵🇷
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uspol

And so it seems to me, "they" ---you know, rich people--- have been building a massive wall of misinfo and deniability and I wonder if Trump isn't the president not just to make the rich richer but to see to it these people do not face justice and don't get held accountable for their actions.

It feels childish to make a case for a conspiracy this crude, but then again these people aren't really the pinnacle of sophistication.

And next I'm gonna go into unpopular opinion for sure...

afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷🇵🇷
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uspol

as much as the people at the top, which we know can't be all that good if they are currently at the top, are revealed to be bad...

I think it says a lot more about the people at the bottom. You and me. Our neighbors and loved ones.

Our continued inaction to remove these criminals from power enables them.

And I know, there resistance, and marches. I know people can't just up and stop making money and starve. I'm not trying to point the finger.

afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷🇵🇷
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uspol

DEEPLY interesting is that the FBI really WAS investigating these people and knew about a lot of this stuff.

And I realize now... That all the small "micro"-aggressions against the FBI that have been happening for years now... Are also part of the same/parallel misinfo/misdirection campaigns.

And it seems to me even a seemingly innocuous thing like putting someone totally unqualified as head of FBI is all part serves to undermine it. (Not saying that FBI is "good" either.)

afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷🇵🇷
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uspol

And so it seems to me, "they" ---you know, rich people--- have been building a massive wall of misinfo and deniability and I wonder if Trump isn't the president not just to make the rich richer but to see to it these people do not face justice and don't get held accountable for their actions.

It feels childish to make a case for a conspiracy this crude, but then again these people aren't really the pinnacle of sophistication.

And next I'm gonna go into unpopular opinion for sure...

afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷🇵🇷
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uspol

Trying to revisit in my mind all the accusations I half remember from pizzagate. Becuase every accusation is also a confession with these people, right?

And mind you, I'm not saying that anyone named in the files is innocent, just because they were used to misdirect and misinform before the content of the files became known.

But it seems to me these people have no creativity. So, of course, their mouth can only speak about what's hidden in their heart.

Also, also... Something I find...

afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷🇵🇷
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uspol

DEEPLY interesting is that the FBI really WAS investigating these people and knew about a lot of this stuff.

And I realize now... That all the small "micro"-aggressions against the FBI that have been happening for years now... Are also part of the same/parallel misinfo/misdirection campaigns.

And it seems to me even a seemingly innocuous thing like putting someone totally unqualified as head of FBI is all part serves to undermine it. (Not saying that FBI is "good" either.)

afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷🇵🇷
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uspol

I have been a little checked out of uspol for a while. I still am but stuff gets through the filters despite my best efforts.

And listen, if you are all in on everything, and you know everything about everything, and you are prescient, and you have a PHD in political science then this post is not for you... I'm not gonna say anything new. Move on, I don't need or care about "I knew that!", replies.

Anyways...

With everything that has come out of the Epstein files... I have been kinda ...

afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷🇵🇷
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uspol

Trying to revisit in my mind all the accusations I half remember from pizzagate. Becuase every accusation is also a confession with these people, right?

And mind you, I'm not saying that anyone named in the files is innocent, just because they were used to misdirect and misinform before the content of the files became known.

But it seems to me these people have no creativity. So, of course, their mouth can only speak about what's hidden in their heart.

Also, also... Something I find...