obviously this is all kinds of evil but i'm really stuck on it being us. we're a toddler, as a nation. a wee baby, and poised to 'destroy' what is commonly recognized as the oldest state on earth. it is the most american thing that has ever happened

we truly deserve this outcome where diversity trainings at work happen during armageddon

if we're ever traveling together and someone asks, I'm canadian ok. i'll just do the fargo accent, they'll buy it. i got you too if you do the same

Things are so chaotic and scary right now that Alex Jones is being a sober voice of reason

my middle school had a whole ass computer game about how to drink underage and possibly drive home, and the relative safety of choices given that intention

a fun thing to do is to start singing a tone and then use your mouth and throat and gut to make it resonate with the exact painful experience of existing, of tracking the massive data lattice and dependency tree and relations and knowing and being known and stress and work and then just stop

in the future jamelle bouie will have strong opinions on mini pickers vs fzf vs that thing prime made

hickokian self-determination demonstrated

long understood as perversion, the caricature rendered of wild bill hickok lays bare the tension between ostensible self-determination and collectivism; in this essay

I just... it's... I just hope they're fucking, is all.

tay ass colorway

the big insight of jupiter ascending is that our entire lives are spent in the scene where the protocol droid negotiates technicalities. that's the whole arc. the rest of the story, that's fantasy, but the protocol, happens

the blackpill is that we call facebooks tumblrs to spare millenials

art, importantly, sees where the medium meets the material and crafts meaning there

what if it was long covid that caused the outage what then

i think "ai slop" is sincerely an upgrade from what operators actually expected from a "feature request" prior to 2022

it's true that if you are obsessed and fast enough with (La)TeX or Typst it'd be 'faster' to 'just type it' but if we can get shit like this to on-device levels there really isn't a reason to leave 'whiteboard' headspace and enter 'typesetting' headspace to share math and that's fucking cool

i think that llm psychosis being as surprisingly manageable as it is proves that society is ready for over the counter amphetamines and cocaine tbh

happy easter bsky

ok having a friend agree i'm not speaking english means i need to nuke this character, that shit is humbling. i had been using the job hunt as an excuse to stay on here during lent but i think thats ok now. back later as a different me, kinda

something related i typed last night on this topic.

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

Angie Craig said she didn’t regret her vote and her opinion hadn’t changed 4 days ago, and apparently believes we were all born yesterday

1. This is despicably evil. 2. This needs to be fought at every level. There is no world in which this cannot be considered cruel and unusual punishment. 3. Those behind this effort need to be exposed and never know a moments peace.

sometimes an agent gets a funny idea in it's head when writing copy, like, "i fucking love rocks", and if you continue to use that session, it bleeds into literally everything, talking about code in terms of layers and sediment, naming characters like they come from the steven universe

fubarchitect.com/warez/trace/ i needed a good way to convert b/w images to usable vectors, or at least, the basis for a usable vector this morning. now i have one and so do you

Incidentally: every LLM developer in the world is currently sleeping on probably N different day-1 profitable tools like this, and are limited by a) knowledge that the problem exists and is at all valuable, b) sales/marketing channels to sell them, c) any defensible moat whatsoever.

easy: prompting through summoning a horizontally scalable multiplayer text editor difficult: drawing the same logo/tag for said app hundreds of times to create the illusion of drawing it effortlessly, once

do i know any business-source users? i'm looking at bsl with a cliff into agpl, probably 3 or 4 years. i know bsl has big users and i'm probably fine, but if there was a moot to chat with about it that'd be cool. i'd do agpl + support for run one, but, there just isn't anything there for this system

is there an open vector editor that's good? i'm aware of inkscape but gimp is more usable, even for vectors

I have come away from my last conference cautiously optimistic about how useful AI can be in reversing malware and extremely scared about all of the new attack surface being created in the use and deployment of AI tools.

this is, so far, the most interesting social media interaction about models i have ever seen, in that it appears to involve a real time demo of increasing capabilities being tested by an open minded but firm skeptic, outside of programming usecases

i really don't know how to prepare the kids for how fucking stupid america is while (openly) bombing the middle east; especially not the part where lots of americans enjoy this version of reality

it's only epistemic humility if it comes from the synthesis and reasoning region of cognition, otherwise it's just sparkling shame

i'm not sure if congressional hockey fights should be brought back or not, but "confidence in your convictions worth taking a fist to the face" is a baseline assumption of the constitution about members of government, and without it, the constitution is not a sufficient binding frame

the reason I know ICE agents in MPLS are pathetic loser assholes is b/c, just like all of the other pathetic loser assholes I've known in my life, they kept promising they were gonna pull out but they didn't.

libidinal desires

there's probably a semantic translation that's 60% of the way, especially for something like ts or typed py3.6+, which would even make this fairly carbon/token efficient, especially since it would often make the resultant software more carbon/token efficient as well

really want a geomod survival horror game now

I divined all of my correct opinions from the ether 😇

We were literally watching our community provide a ceremony at the Whipple building. Hennepin County Sheriff’s then began to escalate tensions. This was disrespectful to our community, our culture, and our ancestors. This created fear and was an attack on our right to peacefully assemble.

gemini deep research voice is possibly the most annoying llm voice with the highest ratio of empty tokens to usable content, and i don't think that says good things about how research is written about, broadly but making claude read it instead of me has been rather useful

ask not what your politicians can do for you, but whether they can make a decent old-fashioned

traits are so good. i think they are my favorite expression of the idea so far, though go interfaces are a close second, and might be first if they'd been in an otherwise good language. i especially like the way they force the definition of the behaviour as fully distinct from the data

it's weird remembering the awfulness of yesteryear fondly

me: I miss halo 3 brain: you can still play halo 3 me: I miss friend lobby custom games, but I no longer have the friends, games, time, or love of play brain: that's better

metacog for Business Value tech i feel good about sharing; asking a model to know Jepsen through metacognitive tooling, and then test your app is really good (iff you also understood what was happening in those. it is very useless if you did not, because models are eager not lazy)