Not taking your backpack off when you get on the bus or train gets you an extra half hour in purgatory

i say "as a unitarian universalist" weirdly often i think

I rambled about about philosophical pessimism and Unitarian Universalism, and how I find synergies between the two, despite how they seem so different on the face #uu #unitarianuniversalism #unitarianuniversalist #philosophy

I think pessimism fucks actually

Reading a secondary work on philosophical pessimism in the hope that it somehow fixes me

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Realizing I’ve stumbled into being a philosophical pessimist by accident. And it’s only made me a better person Or perhaps in reverse, becoming a better person meant walking a little on the pessimistic side of the road

"Honey, I am going to bed early. I think i am coming down with a case of 'being a man.'"

the universe may be dying. entropy will probably win. but I exist at the same point in space time as cool ranch doritos. I wonder what other snacks I’ll get to eat

Hi new followers! A few important details about me: * I am very religious! * Go Birds! 🦅 * I post about AI/LLMs sometimes, particularly open-weights local ones! No hard feelings if you decide that’s not your style, but I wanted to give you an opportunity to back out instead of arguing with me!

“There are prime knots that cannot be broken down and if you combine those knots you can get any knot you want“ yeah got it

I take it all back, my job is easy and my field is simple

I want to learn to scream specifically and exclusively so that I can pick one of these songs for karaoke and shock all my friends who see me as a gentle soul

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about to go off like "NO WE HAVE NOT" until i realized jamelle did not mean unitarian universalists. nobody ever means unitarian universalists

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I get it but seeing “#buddha” “#enlightenment” in a post is sending me

I hope if I ever have dementia, my loved ones will understand to let me have the scary emotions, even if I’m stuck in a cycle of them. Compassion over pity

I feel like "idiosyncratic left libertarian recommends following an actual Nazi" doesn't say much about him (that he's an idiot) but it does say something interesting about the state of the discourse - namely that there are just no standards in establishment liberalism anymore.

If you don’t have a pressing immediate health concern (anemia [iron], pregnancy [folate], pericardial effusion [salt], diabetes [high glycemic foods]) you really shouldn’t be micromanaging your intake. Eat what makes you feel good and energized.

Here’s a wonderful reminder that nutrition science is so imprecise and we know so little. It’s nice for gentle suggestions; don’t let it dictate your life.

Happy Sunday. Re-upping this because… you probably know someone with an ED and aren’t aware of it. It’s more common than most people think. And it’s a lonely way to live, with a lot of encouragement. My hope is that some might watch this and learn and notice when a friend needs it most.

CW: Graphic depiction of disordered eating behaviors, diet culture, and associated BS I was going back and forth on sharing this because it’s pretty rough, But I was blown away by what an efficient and artistic presentation of what it’s like to have an eating disorder, particularly bulimia, it is

Are any of my followers Kierkegaard stans

It’s crazy when an account posts something so good while being a dumpster fire of Bad. I can’t subject people to You, even if this post is good, sorry

I got the genes that make bad things happen

the biblical apocalypse is gonna be so funny when we show up with like f22a raptors . Im not really afraid of a dragon with a bunch of heads

"Demeaning" trans people is exactly right. Their goal--and what they're most able to easily achieve--is our humiliation. The imposition of indignities. They also hope that, as humiliations often do, it exposes us to ridicule. Perhaps even violence. (e.g. forcibly outing people on their IDs).

It's really frustrating that a lot of the media just sort of frames the Trump admin as "wading into a hot debate over trans issues that have roiled american politics" when it's like, clear that they are motivated by a desire to demean trans people

i’ve seen enough — EMERGENCY CATURDAY IS NOW IN EFFECT 🚨

Makes me sad to see the political direction of Skillet. Special kind of feeling when a band you adored as a kid and saw in concert multiple times is outspoken about how much they hate you

I changed my discord about me to a quote from @josephpolitano.bsky.social that I love and I always forget about it and am incredibly amused every time I open my profile

Every trans kid is a societal success. More trans kids is always better

My Apple Music Replay is so deranged. No coherence other than that I’m gay and like loud music

Some of my @anisota.net stats

I appreciate the followers I get for my talk about LLMs but I hope y'all scrolled my profile and see that I also talk about a lot of other stuff. It's a hobby for me not my main thing

My Apple Music Replay this year is so funny. You can see the EXACT moment my mental health collapsed and rebounded by what songs and albums I was listening to month to month LMAO it's like not funny but also it's INCREDIBLY funny to see a very Bad song bookended by two "I WILL SURVIVE" songs

Top 500 baby

mistral 3 model family released today. and it's interesting that it's an iteration forward but is being received as underwhelming because it's not some cosmic progression ministral 3 14b seems to generally be ahead of gemma 3 27b and competitive with qwen 3 30b and mistral small 24b. that's big!

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It's incredibly funny how LLMs lean into the trans-coded names. Nonbinary characters are almost always named Zephyr or Kai. Transfems get a lot of Lilys. LLMs bring out the latent patterns in our language and the patterns with trans names are really laid bare lmao

Based on the this upgrade, the more you donate, the better the visualizations get. Donate to Liberal Currents maybe we can get a cool interactive visualization on the website. Maybe

The new Heretic method of abliteration for LLMs is crazy, and another point for the "the cat is out of the bag" argument. You can now, if you have the hardware (or hell, you can rent the hardware for cheap!), take a "safe" open-weight LLM and easily decensor it.

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Eat to Love is really good so far for the Buddhists out there who also want a better path for approaching food than diet culture. It goes through the paramitas and discusses how to apply them to a liberating approach to eating.

PUF is an absolute ICON. Happy bday Public Universal Friend!!