For weeks, I had scraper piping 4chan threads to an external hard drive. I was toying with an early-warning system idea. This morning, that HD failed. It was actually an old drive but I chose to think it briefly achieved sentience over that corpus then crashed itself like in Pi.
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(P.S. If anyone has a 4chan corpus, I'd be much obliged.)
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Replying to @generativist
I know
@textfiles always threatens his archives with being uploaded, but I dont know how much he is sharing before then (though it is for academic reasons so idk)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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"threatens" them?
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Replying to @generativist
in the sense that they are old threads full of dumb shit that's likely traceable back to their source
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Oh yea. In my head it went the other way. Like, I wouldn't share them because I don't want to be the target of those assholes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWqx8goqSY … if you havent already seen it, he's used to dealing with assholes
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I'll check out at lunch. He was at #DWebSummit, but I didn't get to meet him which is disappointing -- his suit's rock!
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