I was today old when I realized the opening words of Beethoven's 9th choral part, the "Ode to Joy" are not "O Freude" for "Oh Joy!" but are "O Freunde" for "Oh friends…" "Freude" gets repeated over and over, but isn't how it opens. Ol' Ludwig van's point here isn't subtle, that's entirely on me.

Lots of good discussion in the other replies, and thread quoted above. Been years since writing code was a meaningful part of my work, and this helped click in for me why coding differs from other types of expressive work in ways LLMs can meaningfully make the experience of creating better.

Please reshare the below post, unfortunately some accounts with lots of followers have reposted the false claim and loads of people are falling for it.

the 45,000 gun deaths we suffer each year are just the price we pay to live in a society made safe from government tyranny by an armed populace

It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.

Also my position continues to be that no one deserves to be assaulted by ICE or afraid to go to the bathroom even if they voted like a dipshit

I can see why some people might think that Machado giving her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump would embarrass the Nobel committee. But any organization that would give a peace prize to Henry Kissinger is probably immune to embarrassment.

CHOTINER: So you're delivering toys to *all* the good boys and girls? SANTA: Yes, I check the list twice. CHOTINER: The list...that you make yourself?

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard Mode: No Star Wars, nor Marvel, etc. I'm positive I've seen this one six times. Almost entirely positive, let me count them out...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard Mode: No Star Wars, Marvel etc

you either die at 40 or live long enough to praise bill kristol

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

narrator: 50 years ago... me: [nods] in 1945 narrator: in 1975... me: what

As we are now T minus 3.5 days from Thanksgiving, if you need to deploy Operation Avoid The Boundary Tramplers, tonight is when you post where they snoop about a headache or a queasy kid, or a funny noise from your car, or your pet acting strange, or a serious work issue or an unexpected paper.

This framing makes me so angry. I'm upset the Dem caucus caved, but if we went through this in an earnest attempt to keep healthcare less ruinously expensive, I can at least be glad they tried. If they never thought it could work, and the pain and uncertainty was *messaging*? That's just monstrous.

Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

So was it the lady, or was it the tiger?

As a non-lawyer, I am really curious how, if at all, it affects Fair Use analysis when OpenAI giving an opt-out for copyright holders. I imagine it certainly could affect willfullness analysis, although I guess they'll say the opt out shows it isn't reckless disregard?

friends with large accounts, I'm not going to pester you personally but just generally speaking, I would sure appreciate a signal boost on this thing. We seem to have leveled out, and since this is a one-shot (won't be in bookstores) I'd like to get it out there as much as possible.

The most frustrating thing to me honestly isn't even the "hope GOP comes to their senses" bit. It's the uselessness of what he wants them to do! It'a that the action he is asking for r help with is legislation... but there *are* existint laws that Trump is violating willfully!

Fucking aye. Friendly reminder that some people have life threatening anaphylaxis reactions to NSAIDs (i.e., aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen) making acetaminophen the only OTC pain killer that won't send them to the ER. Last time I took an aspirin, ER and four epinephrine shots barely kept me alive.

Evergreen

I wonder if there's a word for an actual economic downturn which bums you out like a vibecession, but it's not just vibes.

i've masked everywhere for over 5 years at this point & to the best of my knowledge i've never been anyone's typhoid mary or had it myself & i love to see it in the world. also, i clearly need to get it together if that's 48yo buffy. anyone out there parasocial enough to get me a personal trainer?

Wow, checking the HTML/CSS of this versus the Wayback Machine defense.gov version, the text here is just text and laid out using CSS flex property. All they changed in the webpage is the word "Defense" changed to War, but no updates to any of the layout to account for less text.

I will never apologize for a post

It wasn’t the media it was my heart

Anyway here’s the study for those who are paywalled Now keep in mind this is a marketing journal. Meaning they’re trying to use these findings to increase appeal of GenAi. So if you are concerned about unethical GenAi what can everyone do? Get informed and share education on how GenAi works! 😌

So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌 This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite! The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi

You are wrong legally, you are wrong practically, you are wrong pragmatically, you are wrong constitutionally, you are wrong in effect, you are wrong in application, you are wrong pedagogically, you are wrong technically, and you are wrong ideologically. You are simply wrong.

Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward. Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything. www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...

I think that I'm pretty in the "too much" zone of consuming politics content, and am working to dial that back. But I'm skeptical that I've been so successful at it to literally never heard of a media empire that is "beating Fox News right now." I'm all for some rhetorical hyperbole, but come on.

Seeing people in the US of States glazing Newsom's dank memes and being all "Gavin slayyyy" is giving Starmer Fever 2024 and, American pals, it's equally embarrassing to witness.

While I appreciate the good trolling response, it still doesn't make the first thing being posted by Newsom's team any less terrible... I don't care about "blasphemy", I'm just disturbed by anyone who sees such an image of themselves and thinks "yeah, that's worth sharing with the world"

Sometimes kink shaming is okay.

You will have to pry my em dashes from my cold, dead hands.

I think an interesting thing about this moment is that we (or at least most people) do not have a theory of mind that accounts for something that is not sentient but can have a conversation with you

Gosh, I wish people would stop amplifying the bigotry of regular folks (ie not policymakers, just everyday bigots) from Twitter by posting screengrabs. A) I cant block them here bc they often aren’t here. YOU done brought them here. B) I can’t or won’t be going on Twitter to yell or educate them

Probably the very last person to post this, but holy shit. This is unheard of. I don't think I've ever seen an election where youth turnout exceeded middle-aged, much less elderly people. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/n...

If I’m knowledgeable on a subject I don’t *need* an LLM. If I’m not knowledgeable on a subject I don’t *trust* an LLM.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Pretty sure America just went to war because nobody liked Donald Trump's military parade.

We all know LLMs love em dashes — something bugs the hell out of me as I hate moderating my punctuation usage so I don't look like a bot. I notice that when talking about them though, most people say "em" refers to the width of the capital M glyph. I sure learned it that way. /1

I am feeling the urge to subscribe just so I can cancel again. It's shameless, they have ones on MN 'shootings' (not assination/terrorism, of course), and about federal troops deploying to LA *before* Saturday But nothing that requires mentioning the actual No Kings protests. even in passing.

I solved a problem thanks to The Bag Of Cords Everyone Said To Throw Away.