If you want something really out there, Lifa by Heilung is a spiritual journey. They call their music "amplified history," and its ritualistic tribal/folk music inspired by pre-christianity era northern Europe. Took me a while to get accustomed to it at first but once it clicks it is transcendent. Also this was their first live performance ever which is mindblowing.

Yeah there are people who think (sterotypical) Vikings are their true "white" heritage and end up harassing anyone they don't like out of fanbases for viking-related bands. Heilung, for example, had to publicly state that those kind of people are not welcome after some of them were harrassing a woman for having the "wrong" skin color to be able to participate at one of their shows. These guys haven't yet figured out that their bigotry is the exact opposite beliefs of the vast majority of the pagan/viking/etc communities.

I think this might be the inspiration for the ravens in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Memory (3rd book in the Children of Time series).

Minor spoilers:

Basically, the series takes place long after human society terraformed a bunch of planets and collapsed, and the main characters rediscover one of these planets which is populated by evolved ravens that have seemingly created a society but no one can tell if they are sentient or just mimicking everything. The ravens evolved to form pair bonds between two different types: one raven in the pair hyper-focuses on all new information and obsessively catalogs it, while the other raven obsesses over finding patterns in the collected data and preforms the executive functions and decision making. Neither raven in the pair is truly sentient on their own, but together they produce either consciousness or a fake so convincing no one can tell the difference.

They even ask the ravens if they are sentient and they conclude that they aren't, and that no one else is either, because of this exact reason; everyone's just components in a system that is hallucinating it's real.

Actually we do, the cerebellum is what the neural networks in LLMs were partially based off. It's essentially a huge collection of input/output modules that the other parts of the brain are wired into which preforms various computations. It also handles motor control for the body and figures out how to do this through reinforcement learning. (The way the reinforcement learning works is different to LLMs though because it's a biological process) So when you throw a ball, for example, various modules in the cerebellum take in inputs from the visual centers, arm muscles, etc and compute the outputs needed to produce the throwing motion to reach your target.

We also have the cerebrum though, which along with the rest of the brain is the magic voodoo that creates our consciousness and self awareness and we can't recreate with a computer.

Could be that blocked servers aren't feeding their votes back, but also lemmy instances (and fediverse platforms in general) don't sync data directly. Instead they all store local copies of posts and comments from various instances.

So when you upvote a post on an instance that isn't your home instance, your home instance updates the vote count for the post in its own database, not in the database of the instance the post is on.

For your vote to be counted on the other instance, your instance has to syncronize its database with the other one. And this is true for all instances. As such, vote counts on a post can be inaccurate across various lemmy instances depending on how recently any given instance has syncronized its database with the rest of the instances.

kbin.social has been getting overloaded from sudden increased traffic due to the reddit hug of death today (Streisand effect from reddit banning a sub promoting it). The developer/admin of kbin.social has had to temporarily enable ddos protection to keep the site up which they say may be interfering with proper communication between kbin and the rest of the fediverse. This is probably why accessing kbin.social instances from lemmy isn't working right now.

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FlorkofCows. Not the most traditional webcomic, but I love just how off the wall and unpredictable his comics are. Goes from wholesome to hilarious to WTF on a dime.

r/RimWorld, and I would love to see r/KGATLW migrate over.