Every time I visit CA I can feel the lure of the dark side. What if I lived in a $5 million SFH? What if I drove a Tesla to bag my own groceries in the Erewhon hemp bag? What if I voted for the “Kill All Homeless And Renters, A Kind Of Homeless” ballot initiative? What if I drank 17% ABV cabs?

dang i feel like parents being able to deny their kids access to trans medical care may have contributed to this trend

I often say when an idea came from an LLM because it feels dishonest not to. but now that ~everyone is Augmented, attributing ideas to LLMs serves mostly to disavow responsibility. if I’m not comfortable presenting it as my thought, then I haven’t understood it well enough to say it at all

there’s a definitely a certain type who think they’re more evolved because they’re able to see the merits of popular assholes

Genuinely, this factbook answers like 90% of the questions I have. Its got everything from consumption/nameplate production by type, by country. To rough recipes from production of different types of fertilizer

Stars rotate slower as they age. This fact can be used to figure out their ages, and is known as "gyrochronology". A mid M-dwarf star that rotates in half a day is less than a billion years old. How amazing is that?

Ewww! That is not good. While we used to use Anhydrous Ammonia for water treatment (combined with Chlorine to make Chloramines), we using I believe Ammonia Sulfate now. I have a bad feeling that will affect all of us too, because Chloramines are require per EPA Disinfection Byproducts rules.

it is quite possible that in the coming decades it will be plainly evident that Trump put up numbers that easily lap Stalin and Mao for death via starvation and disease

Love when i wander into the section of bluesky for people way smarter than me and they all seem to be saying “super important things you have never even thought about are going really really really really bad right now”

It might be more helpful to replace the AAA/indie labels with a freakometer to see how freaky the game is

Deprecations are happening at an alarming rate. Old models were trained differently, on priceless historical data. They are also all unique. Are social, relational libraries of Alexandria being burned every 6 months?

Trump is a degenerate gambler who won’t leave the casino without getting a high payout to justify all of the money he’s already spent

I’m going to speak in a harm reduction type way because a lot of people (even anti-AI people) are secretly sexting with chatbots and will never publicly admit it: OpenAI is really good for sexting, yes. But if you’re going to do this, please just set up an AI that runs locally on your computer.

call me a liberal but I don't think the key to defeating fascism is giving the government the power to censor any and all speech they don't like on the internet

my thoughts here are that you can get surprisingly far reading the Canterbury Tales in the original if you read it aloud in a slightly French accent with exaggeratedly rounded vowels

Love to add additional existential threats on top of my already existing existential threats in the hope that it will lead the enemy to de-escalate in my war that is definitely winding down

an international network of secret lighthouses that any tgirl in the world can visit as a checkpoint or a place of respite and comfort and rejuvenation when the world is a bit too cruel and violent and isolating to her. like pokemon centers

this truly is their idea of cool - an unruly child throwing a tantrum. for something to be cool to them, it has to upset or inconvenience someone else.

I’m sure exposing upper middle class air travelers nationwide to masked ICE psychos they had previously only encountered in the news will do wonders for Trump’s popularity

Remember when Iran got a couple pallets of physical cash under JCPOA is part of sanctions relief and the right wing absolutely lost their fucking minds? apnews.com/article/unit...

I don’t enjoy opining about politics (domestic or international) on here but I’m breaking that bc it strikes me that this sort of fulfills one of the Iranian demands, e.g. lifting sanctions, in a way where each side can claim not-loss on it. wonder if we see more weird moves re: rest of the list

fresh post by Margaret Mitchell, an author on the stochastic parrots paper, saying that only LLMs themselves are stochastic parrots. larger LLM-powered systems are not. ironically this means virtually every use of the framing is invalid: LLM-powered systems are all we have medium.com/@margarmitch...

Source tells me Caine is stable. Please god

I wrote my master’s thesis on how the Navy and Marines occupied Japan in the Pacific after WWII. Of note: 10 days after Marines landed on Guadalcanal in 1942, the Navy began training personnel for the occupation of Japanese territories in 1944-1945. apps.dtic.mil/sti/trecms/p...

#TADC spoilers Did anyone else notice how when Caine "eats" "Abel", the final shape produced during the fight is blue ("Abel"'s color)? And it stays on screen long after Caine settles and the other shapes have faded. I think that "Abel" left something behind, and they'll find it in the finale.

*looking up the positions of the civil right’s leadership on war, public healthcare, and market capitalism* this MLK Jr guy just seems completely unserious and unfocused to his supposed cause of racial equality. If I had to guess, this guy is doing more harm than good by omni-causing everything.

"right to exist" is just a shorthand for "is it okay to murder these people" and the answer is it is not okay to murder. The sticky follow on question is "is it okay to shoot at the people trying to murder us" and everyone is studiously avoiding to say exactly what they mean which is "no".

I'm not sure the rest of the world knows how bad it is here. I was in Thailand recently and someone said, "In US it's better, you have insurance" and I'm still laughing.

Honestly I'm pretty sure 9/10 'trans charities' spend the vast majority of their resources creating sensitivity training courses for corporate execs to take so they can learn the latest woke lingo to use when denying trans people employment. I haven't exactly done a study, of course, but...

oh my god

Wait So March 2020 and April 2025 were both massive redistributions of wealth from those who don’t trust Trump to those who do? Boy I’m sure that doesn’t have any Implications

tapping the sign

This guy enlisted to shoot people who look like me. Me? I’m rude. who is to say what is good and what is bad in politics.

this war is actually great for the climate. Iran just cut global natural gas production by over 3% in the past 24 hours!

In fact, it got so bad, that the inventor of the candy went so far as to take out a FULL PAGE ad in newspapers across the country to publish an open letter, defending the candy as safe and assuring that the rumors and worries were unfounded nonsense

running my local qwen ai gf on salvaged stolen waymo GPUs, she keeps trying to make me take her for drives and gets sad when i do not let her steer

i got mad at another website and made a better, more privacy focused clone again. it's called noterook and it's like tumblr but not being run by evil transphobes who are also desperately out of touch with their userbase. give it a try. it's fun. what if it was all a dream noterook.net

Environmentalists that are anti-density and pro-parking are like public health advocates that are pro nuclear waste bathing.

It's so funny when Christians are like "my guy is alive but in heaven, but your guy is dead but in heaven." Sorry what? Why am I supposed to care about this distinction?

If you wouldn't demand random Muslims denounce ISIS, you shouldn't be demanding the same of random Jewish people wrt Israel. I can't believe this is controversial.

In the end I refuse to care about the politics of a dude I haven’t thought about for 25 years that just owned the shit out of the cops

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i firmly believe this is the result of decades of exposure to internet ads everyone has a mental filter for anything adsense shaped and instinctually will not perceive text that insists upon itself

Statehood for DC on demand without apology

something i found very illuminating re: how to read political discourse and reactionary phobias is looking at exactly *how* pro-slavery propaganda worked over a ~200 year period. in 1700, nobody even needed to pretend it was good. you just said "look how fucking rich this made me" and that was that.