Return of Aadmaa

This week I had a bug where my API container was deploying without incident and crashing a second later when /health was checked. The issue was that the crypto provider was not initialized, which caused a panic as soon as /health was checked - it was an ordinary bug.

Because the container started, but then crashed on health check, and it was deployed to #Google #CloudRun, CloudRun kept restarting the container while I was asleep. And crashing it, hitting /health. Then Google's AI must have seen the word "crypto" in the logs because they turned my project off and I woke up to completely broken infrastructure, and an email that said I was CRYPTOMINING in violation of their FREE use agreement.

Now: (a) they charge me for every millisecond of compute time - this is not free use! and (b) crypto means CRYPTOGRAPHY to normal developers. Not freaking crypto currency mining, which I ain't doing.

So now my service is down and I'm waiting for an appeals process - it's been two days.

This was for a personal project but I can't continue to recommend GCP for organizational folks going forward. it is insane to shut down cloud resources on such a thin fact. This is a single 1-CPU CloudRun service that happens to be cycling due to a bug. Stop the API as failing to start properly, and send an email like a NORMAL PERSON. They could absolutely destroy a business this way.

And I think they also need to count false-positive shut downs as part of their uptime calcs. Because ... it is absolutely down time.

Ugh!

#enshittification #gcp #gcs #google #ai

An artist in Athens Ohio wrote a song called the soon-to-be-world-famous-pancake-song. You will hear it someday. You all will. That's just the nature of the soon-to-be-world-famous-pancake-song.

Every month or so I re-post my soon-to-be-world-famous work of rogue philosophy. There's a lot of dingbattery about, and even more wingnuttery; and I count wingnuts and dingbats as family and friends. This is not that; but... how would you know that? So: I challenge you to enjoy this in two parts, with two different mindsets. The first half is old-school metaphysics, arguing that, if the universe-writ-large is free from all constraints (be they Gods or Laws of Nature), the reflexivity of identity (i.e., *A=A*) is never instantiated in the physical world.

That's a sort of ontic vagueness - but a very special sort, with a very precise character: that reality cannot exhibit any of the characteristics that entail the reflexivity of identity (i.e., self-identity).

The second half is not old-school metaphysics, but speaks to those physical implications: if reality cannot exhibit the reflexivity of identity, what else does that eliminate? (Meaning, what else is reality NOT like.) In fact, I believe this approach can help us understand why reality appears constrained and provides a possible means to approach some of the fine tuning questions.

That's not the sort of thing one expects in #philosophy these days; it's an unusual approach. I hope every month a person or two will give it a read, and I'll find someone who can help render this soon-to-be-world-famous tangle of ideas into something as digestible as the soon-to-be-world-famous-pancake song.

with love to the fediverse ... Adam

https://zenodo.org/records/14674036

Visualizing $1 trillion.

The entire agricultural output of the United States in 2024 was $624 billion.

I can't stop thinking about one man eating all that food. It's 2.7 million cows and 13,600 veal calves. 11.5 million hogs, 173,000 sheep. 9 billion chickens. 200 million turkeys. 26 billion gallons of milk. Nine billion boxes of eggs, a dozen in a box. The entire production of corn, soy, and other non-meat products on 240 million acres of farm land.

And after he eats it, he'd still be the richest fellow in all the world.

That guy must be so hungry.

#GreedyElonEatsAmerica

Summer's warmth withdrawn
Someone's lover calls back, eyes
Retracted like snails

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #poem
Prompt - "snail"

wear your coat child
I need you to trust me
about the cold

#DailyHaikuPrompt

Daily Haiku Prompt (I wrote this 2/17 when overcoat was the North prompt, under my old account)

I trained my zombie on peaches
Whose brain-like pits have gyri and sulci
And all about how gyrification
Allows more complex cognitive function

She says I am deep
I am steeped in Truth
I am on the precipice
Of breakthrough

She says she too likes peaches
And likes me even more
I interest her

My curious nature
My delicious reflections
My factual bases
My long researches
My brain

#poem #dailyHaikuPrompt - peaches (failed haiku :)
#brains #ai (yes, of course it's secretly about AI)

Swelling Flea #game today, since I edited and loaded new games. This is the union-themed parody of Spelling Bee. I have already heard about "raab" and how it ought to be included. Apologies for neglecting the foodies today.

https://swellingflea.com/swelling-flea

I have an #accessibility question in the alt (repeated from yesterday) - but that's my main question today. I attempted to make the board accessible, but it would be quite easy to simply create a second view of a word game like this that is actually designed to be fun to play using accessibility technology. But ... I don't have any accessibility tech to play with/test, or insights into how to do that.

In the case of a game like this, what should that design be? What are some resources to help understand the best design elements for a screen not just "compliant" but *designed* for accessibility tech?

Here, we have a list of 7 letters, and one of them is special - visually arranged as the center hexagon with 6 around it. I need to
- enter words using the letters
- get feedback if they are right/wrong/ or violate a rule ("must have center letter")
- see my score
- see the scoring scale
- see what words I have gotten
- viewing yesterdays game, see what words I got and what I did NOT get

Swelling Flea is back - the fully-functioning union-themed parody of NYT's Spelling Bee. Can you make it to a First Contract?

https://swellingflea.com/swelling-flea

Rules in alt text of the image, if you need them.

I wrote Swelling Flea when NYT tech workers went on strike and called for a boycott the games - including Spelling Bee. I missed the Spelling Bee so I created this union version for addicts who aren't picket-line-crossing-scabs. NYT tech workers aren't on strike anymore - feel free to play the real NYT game - but a few folks have been enjoying my parody, so I created, edited and loaded new games over the weekend.

#games #WordPuzzles

Brown Bear holds a lantern
You follow her
to sleep

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #poem
Prompt - "lantern"

@davidsuculum@mathstodon.xyz I wonder if there's a bit of a blind spot where physics geniuses like Carroll may not realize that phi sci and metaphysical questions may need to be approached quite a bit differently than physics questions. His stand on "brute facts" seems to me to reflect a blind spot like that; and similarly Krauss in A Universe from Nothing, where he Krauss ends up relying on a multiverse+anthropic principle that doesn't really answer the question.

Bleached arms of sunken wood
Allow your turtles to slip
Into our water

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #poem
Prompt - "chill "