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Correct, because at our current point on the value chain a large number of workers need a level of education that makes them susceptible to the Woke Mind Virus

its an open secret that conservatives believe in 'corrective' rape to discipline independent women and 'redemptive' rape as proof of manhood its the logic underlying the common frattboi rape joke/threat "shes only a lesbian because she hasnt had sex with a real man (like me)"

why do ai dislikers always seem to think normie ai users just immediately believe that ai tools are omniscient oracles that can't make mistakes

“In a landmark study, Hailey reveals that human beings will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental human biological and technical limits.”

american ai news: is your datacenter using water? we speculate if thats true! also facebook has laid off 500 people chinese ai news: a textile factory has released the best 8b parameter model that is open source and is 2x better than claude

we need a good pithy phrase like "all my skinfolk ain’t my kinfolk" but for gender and transness

you can tell this user has not read the them bc she mistakes two separate news articles published days apart but which reference the exact same arxiv paper and related OpenAI blog post as being two separate statements by OpenAI she literally confabulated a sequence of events that did not happen

"The political objective is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and means can never be considered in isolation from their purpose" damn Clausewitz really said "unity of means and ends"

OH, so Charlie Kirk was the surrogate son for a bunch of elderly conservative weirdos whose adult children have gone no-contact for whatever reason. This explains everything

I sexually identify as an attack helicopter. (I crashed and burned upon exposure to a military with a 21st century air defense network.)

we could easily demolish a solid ten percent of the dimorphism gap by shredding grocery store checkout magazines

one of the ways that the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" is Gender, i think, is that to understand it's actually pretty dogshit especially 50 years after introduction requires one to change ones mind and repudiate what one believed in the past. you have to accept change and error.

A-10 is gender

i'm working on rebuilding my always shaky and mostly forgotten basic math and holy fuck am i bad at basic algebra. not because i don't understand the concepts, i do. but i just make some silly little fuckup like 20% of problems. dropping a sign. inverting a fraction when i simplify it in my head.

Tactical tradeoffs in antifascism 🧵... The right has actually lifted a lot of specific tactics from anarchists and leftists. "Leaderless resistance" as opposed to fragile klan hierarchies. Ecofascist rhetoric literally pretend they were ELF. Black bloc tactics in Europe. Etc. .....

Found an incredibly cool fashion accessory for a COVID-conscious flannel dyke www.amazon.ca/DEWALT-Breat...

drinking 2 liters of herbal iced tea every day is normal and healthy

the expressions of themselves create a narrative in which you, the reader, get to feel superior to the imagined hoi polloi who don't, while at the same time getting the nice warm ape feeling of being among a crowd of other Wisdom Knowers

Worse news: there are uncountably many undecidable problems. Computers have been a scam this whole time

Artificial Complimentary Intelligence goes in the running with Cognitive Automation for "Artificial Intelligence" replacement term with less sci fi baggage

also the gun mostly just looks like it’s doing a ton of work because it kicks up so much dust it obscures the issue at hand, and real men don’t verify kills (still gender)

ai discourse never stops being fucking wild (not dunking on OP they are 100% correct IMO, dunking on the fact it needed to be said)

we read this essay in some college class i took twenty or thirty years ago and it is one of the foundational things i took away from my education, next to the capability explosion of putting electronics in the right shape to be a computer and the widespread applicability of feedback control theory

If I may: the word is “idolatrous”. Charlie Kirk is being idolized: turned into a mythic figure in support of a specific, in this case state-sponsored, ideology.

new atproto project idea just dropped

there should be a single button i can press to trace back a whole chain of nested quote posts & replies so i can read the full context in chronological order w/o having to click and scroll up and click and scroll up & so on

this stuff really gives the game away about how statues are about lying, not about the truth as some Confederate General Statue Defenders love to say

on the human propensity for undue confidence in matters of fact was just looking at one of those Apple drone video screensavers. noticed the way the light looked and decided “this must have been shot in the morning“. i am a photographer, you see, and i know how light looks at different times of day

“every time you fuck up and then fix it, thousands of people will remember the fuckup forever as evidence that you’re fundamentally evil. fixing it will be forgotten instantly and retconned into someone else’s moral victory over your fundamental evil” sure is an incentive structure of all time

its all about speed shifting breakpoints. some things that took too long to do casually, don’t anymore, and so we can skip the planning stages and just go at it. v good for validating new ideas and thus for finding the good ones in a big set of potent ideas.

slept 10.5 hours, with CPAP, in 4-5 distinct blocks and now i feel like i’m moving through molasses. especially my brain. my brain is especially molasses. molasses attempting to move through other molasses. ugh.

i’ve felt the same physiological effects as what i experience as “doomscrolling” by spending 16 hours a day reading sci fi novels in the 90s lol i think there’s just something about stuffing a brain with high density input without breaks that messes us up a little

the computerworld piece is, you will be shocked to hear, misleadingly written. what is up with so much of the tech press being weirdly biased about this?

i like AI tools for a lot of tasks, but i cannot fucking stand reading essays written by AI tools. there is a kind of weirdly uniform blandness to it that drives me nuts. the word choice is overwrought, the sentence structure is extremely repetitive, and the structure at higher levels is worse.

Computerworld is summarizing that paper in such a strange, motivated way that it has convinced me the problem of hallucination is also insoluble for primates

i’m not sure it’s all input with no output that’s the issue, IME its more like all input no rest. the thing that helps me most is taking a break to stare out a window for a while and let my brain do a garbage collection cycle

"if you’ve ever had a good experience with an LLM, you’re a moron", but make it woke

taking the scenic route up to the overlook for the view from nowhere

the thing about "the left has to engage with the right" is that there is a cottage industry of podcasts like Knowledge Fight, guys who's special interest is some specific right wing individual or scene, that has run for 100+ episodes with no equivalent on the right looking at the left

I think the AI job automation/augmentation dichotomy doesn’t help much. Automation can be a form of augmentation (have the AI write an analyst report so analysts can focus on higher value work) & augmentation can be automation (you may need less workers if productivity goes up)

The only way I could have any hope for post-Trump USA is if the next Dem administration literally rewrites the entire Constitution from scratch, adding things like proportional representation, controlling money in politics, reducing executive power, etc. But you and I both know they won't do that.

the internet has never been more real life than it is now and tpot's dumbest poster is in charge

finally getting serious about switching to Zed even if it's not quite as good yet as Cursor for AI stuff (so i hear) or as mature as VS Code, i think their real time collab stuff looks like the future. might as well get on the train now

do i know anybody running Zed on Windows, either via WSL2 or building it yourself? wife's trying to get it working so we can play with the collab features together. it runs under WSL2 but the sign in feature is busted, it won't launch the oauth flow

PSA: PSUs can be the source of many a phantom crash, kernel panic or BSOD. If you reuse cases with your builds, consider the age of the power supply before you reuse it. Especially if it predates Haswell.

one of the things that keeps me coming back to Apple for all their sins is that they have top notch security engineering. you can only do better with a recent Pixel running GrapheneOS and the cost/benefit doesn’t pencil out for me vs staying with iPhones.

the AI haters beat me to it, and have preemptively construed abaci, pocket calculators, and digital computers as a whole as AI. these AIs are, respectively, good, neutral, and bad. also included in the paper is a citation to an anarchoprimitivist. "What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean?" (Guest 2025)

nobody actually read the MIT “95% of corporate AI pilots fail” whitepaper did they