This is the sane position on LLMs/GenAI ⬇️

The problem with watching news as a means to understand the world is that the news doesn't cover the common events in the world; it covers the rare events because only those are news-worthy.

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PSA: The outrageous thing one young person said for attention in a TikTok video is not the mindset of the entirety of Generation Z.

Every month Google reminds me that people - probably worried about their future prospects - search for "can introverts get married" and land on one of my blog posts where I write about an archetype that I call "the married introvert", which is entirely unhelpful in answering that question.

Isn't it interesting how both the political left and the political right argue that public discourse has shifted too much into the other direction? Obviously they can't both be correct.

I wrote a blog post about my experience at TREEWEEK TWO and somehow it wasn't automatically syndicated to Bluesky, so while I'm checking my blog settings here we go manually:

We live in a world where some people can't stop talking about a shrimp deal while others can't stop talking about shrimp welfare.

A few drops of tea from my teapot land on my phone, and my phone is like "that fingerprint doesn't match".

Apparently this is uncommon, especially as a man, but I'm sure I've never spent time seriously imagining myself being in a situation where I have to physically defend myself or anyone else.

If a certain job is required for a functioning society, you cannot judge people for taking that job; when they complain about working conditions and you suggest they could just do another job, you're basically saying that they shouldn't suffer but someone else should.

The problem with online gender and dating discourse is that it works on the assumption that all men/women are the same.

I'll never understand how people can just forget to eat ... don't you get, like, hungry or something?!

When prices for a product rise, many are quick to blame "corporate greed". While that certainly is a real thing, there's also this: companies, especially when venture capital is involved, often set prices unsustainably low to gain market share. As a result, customers get used to unrealistic prices.

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Stock photography sites are like "here's our 100% AI-free catalog" but also "here's our AI-based editing tools".

After some of the recent social media discourse I have concluded what many men mean when they want to "end wokeness". It boils down to wanting 3 things: 1) Objectify women they find attractive. 2) Openly criticize women they don't find attractive. 3) Nobody ever calling them out for doing 1) or 2).

I will be in London 🇬🇧 at the end of the month. Any mutuals who want to meet? DM me for exact dates.

Have the women who expect their date to pick them up or call them an Uber ever considered the security risk of sharing their home address with someone before the first date?

Planning a trip from Germany to Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. No airplanes involved. 100% rail travel. Choo choo 🚂

Journaling about my interactions with people in my personal CRM is a bit of effort and sometimes feels like a waste of time but I always regret not doing it if I don't.

I'm not yet sure how valid and reproducible studies about brain detoriation from too much usage of generative AI are, and I don't want to feed into the panic that often accompanies new technology. (Continues in replies ... 🧵)

Yesterday I accidentally deleted the production database on a server and we lost 24 hours worth of data. How's your week going?!

Is it just my observation, or is most of the outrage about overpaid white collar fake jobs actually directed at women in these jobs and not men?!

Scientists: According to our current data, A is our most confident answer. Research will continue. Conspiracy Theorists: It's so obvious that the answer is B and everyone who says A is stupid, corrupt or both. (Continues in replies ... 🧵)

I said this before and I'll say it again: the problem with large systems and organizations is that they can be 99% flawless, but because of their sheer size, 1% problems is enough to gather a sufficient amount of anecdotes to spin into a narrative that the whole thing is broken beyond repair.

I feel like I am doing too much while also not doing enough. It's a case of Schrödinger's doing

"Have you considered talking to ChatGPT about your problem?!"

When you're think you're at a Latin Party but then realize you're in Bollywood ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3vO...

In war, one side will claim that they only want peace and justice whereas the other wants their annihilation, but the problem is that both sides claim they're the side that only wants peace.

The idea that Indian managers primarily want to hire other Indians is a slightly racist meme, but on the other hand I live in an area where Indians aren't even a primary immigrant group and still the local Burger King is entirely staffed by South Indians.

Any mutuals in Vienna 🇦🇹 who would be interested in a meetup on the weekend (21st/22nd)?

After I started doing strength training I have to admit the gym bros were right ... I feel great.

bluesky is the #1 app for introspection

My dream car is a lifestyle where I don't need a car (I currently have this and hope it'll stay that way).

"I asked for her phone number, she showed me a QR code, is that a Gen Z thing?!"

It seems that "German author writes story that's entirely set in Britain" is a genre of its own.

sisyphus at daily standup: i had to roll back some changes

It's fascinating how there are some people who are smart and reasonable and generally have good takes, but then they have this one thing that's so obviously false but that they absolutely believe.

It's interesting that practically every place that serves Coca Cola also has Diet Coke, Coke Zero or even both, but zero versions of their other sodas (like Fanta or Sprite) are much rarer to find.

Pinterest is the social network for the chronically offline.

Saw a little boy on a bus explain to a little girl how awesome it is when you are on a train and then the train slowly starts moving, but sadly she didn't share his appreciation of riding trains.

Is a better world than the one we live in possible? Absolutely. Did this better world already exist at some point in the past? Absolutely not.

Sadly some people listen not with the intention of understanding but with the intention of finding something to criticize.

Recent conversations seem to have confirmed what I was already thinking: I'm avoiding the hard questions that would help me move forward in life, and invest maybe a little too much in side quests and trivial things instead.

Recently I was greeted at the bar in a local theatre and welcomed like I was a big name. The reason: I run an Instagram account that shares local events in the city. The account has only ~160 followers, but apparently that's enough to get the influencer treatment in a small town 😀

I started a 6-week fitness challenge that involves multiple strength training sessions in small groups with a personal coach every week, as well as nutrition and overall lifestyle guidance. I'm enjoying this much more than I expected. Not much visible changes to my body yet, but it feels different.

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion around here, but I think that the moment I decided to make my data public it was meant to be public; and I have no objection to public data being used to train AI models. Hence, I'm not disabling AI training for Meta, but if you want to, you should do so TODAY.

If people say the universe couldn't have come from nothing and God must have created it, where did God come from in the first place? And if God came from nothing or has always existed, the universe could have as well. So this argument is basically just shifting everyhing up by one layer.