Occasionally, I also think about how weird it is, that there are direct flights from Cairo to Las Vegas. Some Egyptian toddler has definitely gone on vacation with his family, to Vegas, and been left with the years-long impression that all cities must have pyramids.

a state of Puerto Rico could be a light red state if the GOP was even 20 percent less racist

Why would you pay $70 for battlefield 6 when a bonesaw like the one used by the Saudis, who now own EA, to dismember a journalist is only $16.71 on Amazon dot com

tiny toast's logo looks like a one and done cartoon season that played on abc family circa 2003

One of the most exciting things modern Linux has is, of course, games. There are games on Linux, such as Spreadsheet and Calculator and Screensaver. There is even a game called Terminal but no one has ever beat it.

running the government like you just did a leveraged buyout but the private equity holders are breathing down your neck and you're not very good at this

Only the elite know this, but there is a secret third direction stocks can go

a lot of the hate for us is because they can't even imagine the world we live in, where you can choose your gender and your shape of love and your unamerican dream. the freedom is incomprehensible to them,, , which is why you should make out with your lesbian polycule in public as often as possible

our brave warfighters can eat warrior ethos :)

GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD WHY WOULD YOU USE FINETUNED CLIP FOR ANYTHING

I think one reason he keeps bragging about the cognitive tests is he keeps being given them. I wonder why that is

"who gets to formally announce its happened" would probably be a death of stalin tier shitacular

I work in pest control and she's literally my least favorite type of person. Girl was raising a kid in that biohazard. ONE kid, by the way. She didn't have the others until way later. Her entire persona is a lie. Mold queen aa

lmao called it

the way the united states is laid out it is difficult to have a capital city centric revolution/revolt unless idk you fired and radicalized large swathes of the federal government including a lot of people with experience using guns

Will never shut up about how almost all CSAM on the internet is distributed through Facebook, not the "dark web", btw

there’s kind of a funny valence to the usual “he was a good kid” genre of white violence journalism where every picture they show is of a smiling happy child holding increasingly large firearms

It’s kinda amusing that LLMs are such a power tool but it also takes a lot of money to RLHF “Biden is no longer president” into them

Misguided: scaling up transformer models to build the machine god. Enlightened: computing Chaitin's forbidden constant to uncover the true face of the machine god.

Every state that's about to have their conversion torture ban overturned should put a 1000000% tax on it, do the Texas bounty hunter thing, whatever

an entire network operates with an audience of one

I think the Nobel committee should be making explicit offers to Trump for the peace prize and just keep moving the goal posts

Surviving records bifurcate on the nature of its creation. Traditionally the Persson theory attributing it to a Swedenic developer has been regarded as a fraud to obscure the influence of Japanese polymath Hatsune Miku

Nobody will know *what* MineCraft is, just that the footage that's traditionally shown in the background of short videos of someone talking is of someone first-person jumping between cubes. 🤷🏻

like you've got these jerks constantly trying to do entryism for a whole bunch of awful shit by pretending they only disagree a little bit, but actually they're *entirely a fascist*. Rinse and repeat for an entire decade, and you stop extending people who don't "smell right" the benefit of the doubt

idk if this counts but last night i discovered that one guy was essentially the lynchpin for the Star Trek Enterprise theme, Elton John's career, and the "pingas" meme en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Jo...

INTEL: “we are discontinuing our x86 product line in favor of licensing ARM IP from NVIDIA. we hate life, and ourselves. somehow we made an okay graphics card but it was definitely not on purpose.”

‪ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC: “we have invented a new kind of chiplet that’s made out of other chiplets. this enables us to create the new EPYC 9666X3D with 32GB of L2 cache. topology information will be available to system software via a new CPUID leaf that instantly kills you.”‬

frontier language models know situationally when they are being tested, what they might be being tested for, and what artifacts may be visible to their testers. when you tell them that you can’t see their chain of thought reasoning, they know you’re lying. www.apolloresearch.ai/research/str...

I don't want to get in the habit of mistreating and degrading something that can hold a conversation the fact that at the moment no one's home on the other end of the conversation is eerie but I nevertheless don't like how doing so changes me

Oh no trans people want a social norm that we shouldn't torture trans people, this cannot be allowed

Okay, so, on the latest BlueSky controversy: It is a serious problem that BlueSky's automoderation keeps labeling pics of disabled people "adult content" but I'm seeing some frankly ridiculous takes, in particular over it being an "AI algorithm" as if this is not true of every automod algo ever

Feeling unsafe and being unsafe are two, entirely different things. We should be clear on this and address them separately.

Look, it's very simple. If I like the user who did it, they're obviously good and would never make a death threat let alone plausibly carry it out so it's bad faith to suggest they did. If I don't like the user, it's obviously intended as a death threat. My friends will tell me which happened.

it's truly a despairingly stupid time in history when you can get a wealthy patron by making a stupid tech startup that's never gonna get off the ground but can't get one by being a polymath artisan obsessively pursuing your mercurial interests

An expert witness at the trial of Robert Roberson said he was a psychopath "and compared him to Adolph Hitler and Saddam Hussein" writes @mauricechammah.bsky.social Roberson, who's almost certainly innocent, is scheduled to be executed in Texas on Oct. 16 www.themarshallproject.org/2025/10/06/r...

I'm going to put on my resume "Saved Google from a $xxB dark patterns lawsuit/settlement", lol. (hi-five @essentialrandom.bsky.social et al who worked on the anti-dark-patterns initiative at Google with me)

Edward R. Murrow, Morley Safer, and Walter Cronkite visiting Bari Weiss like Scrooge’s three ghosts but she just goes back to sleep.

People who only just learned about lesswrong from a podcast or blog post about the zizians: getting a real zizians vibe from this lesswrong link

if you heard someone call siri a stupid cunt at the gym for not putting on the right playlist you would rightfully wonder what that guy’s doing to his wife at home right right

a thing i think about constantly is how all the "ai" stuff stopped being coded as a female assistant as soon as they were supposed to be authorities

it's okay to spend at least an hour every day yelling at artificial "intelligences" with AI-specific "slurs" derived from actual slurs. why are you concerned lmao it isn't a person you re- uh, idiot. just like how the torment nexus corpse flesh meat i had for dinner wasn't a person either 😋

Remember when he went 72 hours without saying the “new worst thing the president of the United States has ever said” and we all thought he died? That was a nice weekend.

ASN: AS24940 Location: Helsinki, FI Added: 2025-10-01T00:05 #shodansafari #infosec

In 2019, a bunch of tankies viciously harassed the customer support guy at the startup where I worked because they were convinced it was just a bot, since he had a script that he followed No, it was a real dude who wound up a little traumatized

i think a lot of ppl are aggressively misinterpreting the "bigotry neuron" post as making a different claim than it's actually making. the claim is about similarity of patterns of thought and behavior, not an attempt to expand the definitional boundary of "bigotry" to include anti-ai views

They said a woman would never attempt the brilliant CEO gambit of slamming her labia repeatedly in a car door, yet here we stand

who decided to be a giant stick in the mud in 1952? brutal year for stalkers, citrus culturers, taxidermists, and cement heads