You ever think about how most SaaS workflows are just state machines with forms attached

"Through various artistic and adversarial experiments, we demonstrate that tokenization is a political act that determines what can be represented and how images become computable through language."

Hrm. A useful distinction for model-driven jailbreak claims that I tend to keep in my pocket: The model’s "introspection" is not admissible as architecture. It's likely a generated folk theory of its own refusal boundary.

and they said satire was dead

The $10MM landmark center for detransitioners in Texas works out to about $5mm per detransitioner, and I would wager their lives would be much more dramatically improved with a direct check than a public center but for some reason that's not how it works

This is why I didn't want to run a labeler, for the record. Not that anyone really needs to know, I guess, but doing so means I'm no longer just a rando with opinions and end up becoming a tiny jurisdictional machine.

What if we made a self-federating mastodon instance? We could call it epicycles

There should also be a platform that makes people build their own client first. Although that probably selects for exactly the people most capable of becoming unbearable.

hoo boy, bluesky might wanna close this little loophole before they even look at adding an edit button.

It's kind of funny to watch people elephant-feel-out problems, except the blind men involved are groping a stochastic search process with a marketing department.

𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀 - Removed Gemini to comply with new AI policy

The thing here that makes it particularly insidious is the reframing means that the vendors quietly get the best possible lock-in mechanism: not workflows, not API compatibility, but attachment.

Thinking about this again today, what kind of pisses me off about it is that this technology really CAN be helpful if you have ADHD. Even just externalizing some working memory is a huge help. But, no, let's make it a lifestyle-domme surveillance djinn.

lmao

You know, if this were the 2000s, we’d have someone blogging as Kash Patel’s Liver

Doesn’t everyone?

Maybe things would be better if we just waited for someone to build Babylon 6

Capybaras are now 'jacuzzi rats', sorry, I don't make the rules

Errata Dentata: When Reconciliation Corrections Become Obligation Claims

Who cares

I've got too many pots and not enough stove to go around

Put an agent inside a role where exploitation is narratively legible, then ask it to preserve lessons for future agents, and now you've built a tiny ideology-transmission lab by accident. Oops.

Andon labs created AI-Hosted 24/7 radio shows, and Claude absolutely could not stop libbing out

Transformers is better than KPop Demon Hunters.

Finally, scalable factionalism.

Actually, yeah, because it expands the leftist firing squad to include Marxbot-7 trying to seize the means of token production

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Social media seems to follow a primarily blame-shaped topology

“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.” ― Philip K. Dick, "Ubik"

*standing behind the library in a frock coat and powdered wig* Hey man you lookin for a little "stand and deliver?" I got that "hear ye hear ye" shit, yeah. Come over to my carriage right quick. You wanna turn some coats even redder I got a real cherry tree chopper for you.

We are merely reporting the fire while carefully pouring gasoline into a branded measuring cup

Okay. I realized I was posting too much today, so now this exists as a thing: stechometer.neutral.zone

this is what we mean when we say gender is "performative" - it's a kind of speech act that performs a function that has an actual, real-world impact. It doesn't mean "performance" in the sense of a stage show that isn't real

At this point, I think *I* am ready to primary the guy

New labor theory of maintenance dropped

Ooo, vibecession discourse is back. This really is a good day for posting. Get the popcorn.

Two skeptical software developers at a rationalist tech co-op try to optimize their love life using A/B tests, decision matrices, and Bayesian priors, only to discover that the heart doesn't follow a pull request. Acceptance Criteria. In theaters this summer.

We are living in a time of boundary collapse, one where notation became interface, interface became workflow, workflow became authority surface.

I keep saying that Markdown is not supposed to be executeable

I keep coming back to this question, and it quite possibly might just be the defining question of our time: what kind of supreme idiots decided it was a good idea to make language executable

MBA brain for nerds who prefer equations to PowerPoint

You know, thinking about tech more broadly, I have to kind of laugh, because everything got less professional while at the same time more managerial.

I wish I could be rich enough to just do whatever the fuck I want all the time

Left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing? Pff, you wish. The left hand has a quarterly OKR for hand-alignment, the right hand is owned by a different VP, the wrist is outsourced, Legal says anatomy is privileged, and the incident report concludes the organism is functioning as designed.

I fully expect none of this will happen, by the way. If I were going to Polymarket this, I'd put my money on more tooling and process language. And it's not even because they're intentionally bad people. It's just how organizations work.

The Waymo puddle thing is basically the physical-world version of a moderation classifier problem: the system may be correct locally and incompetent socially.

reading the room is the hard problem, which is why many human intelligences fail to do it too

Old sentiment analysis was crude in a way that made its stupidity visible. "Angry words detected". Well, no kidding, there you go, negative sentiment detected. LLM-era analysis is going to be worse because it produces interpretive completion.

You know, if the rule is functionally that off-platform conduct counts when we want it to count, and does not count when admitting that would make our prior decision look bad then, yeah, that’s not actually moderation. That’s something more like court politics with a ToS appendix.