Bravery is not required. Stubbornness and determination will suffice.

Without worker's rights, employment is a hellscape where you can only hope to protect yourself by having unique and valuable skills, which is a race to the bottom. To prevent this, you either have to have the public option, which is laws protecting workers, or the private option, which is unions.

There's been boss fight music playing in the background for a decade now. Now, the music includes a choir singing in Latin.

If only there was some legal document that set put the rules for the country, which specified that the president does not have the authority to go to war.

OpenAI's business model appears to be "invent AGI or crash the global economy." It might sound like the intent is to invent AGI, but it's actually an extortion racket. The more they get invested in, the greater the damage they can do if people stop investing in them.

I was unprepared for the fact that the term for a female jester is "joculatrix."

I miss Steve Irwin.

English words that contain "meow": meow meowing meowed homeowner Good luck pronouncing that one right ever again.

I looked up the definition of "yet." It means "now," but it has different unwritten rules about where, in a sentence, it can go.

On one occasion, I used the phrase "that's a doozy," and a coworker who spoke English as a second language asked me what a doozy was. I bluescreened.

Most Romans experienced the fall of Rome as just one day, their local bridge failed, and no one came by to fix it.

Given that most spiders are solitary, I wonder how many of them would, on seeing a spider, also go, "Augh! A spider!" if they could talk.

Is empathy for the monster super-common among the #neurodivergent or is this a different pathology of mine?

All cats have #autism. All dogs have #ADHD.

One thing that really bugs me about all this #AI stuff is that there is very real value to the technology, just not how it's being used.

I know this is an #oldmanyellsatcloud moment, but I miss websites. I miss going to a website by one person or team and seeing what they put up. I miss excitedly checking for updates. I'm so tired of the content aggregators.

I see so many posts about letting AI do all the coding for you. I'm reminded of how, in Transmetropolitan, investigative journalism has been dead for so long that the fact that Spider Jerusalem actually does investigative journalism means it works like a superpower for him.

I'd like to speak ill of "6-7" but I have an unhealthy obsession with "42," so I'm just not in a place to judge. Additionally, there's numbers that start with 6 that I am quite glad the kids are not going on about.

I am so tired of finding out that what I thought were my personality traits are actually trauma symptoms. There's a finite number of times this can happen before the sense of identity just becomes invalid.

Staying up too late hurts less when it's your own fault.

Does anyone else feel like screaming into the void isn't working anymore because the void is full?

Geese come in an extremely huggable shape and an extremely unhuggable demeanor.

2020AD is now 0BC (before Covid). It is currently the year 5AC.

We should all agree that any time someone says "underage woman," we immediately scream, "AN UNDERAGE WOMAN IS CALLED A CHILD!"

Some people get so mad at the possibility that someone who doesn't need something will get it that they will keep it from everyone who does need it to stop that one person.

I had an interaction recently with a person on here determined to argue and was also spectacularly bad at it. I really want to understand just what goes on in someone's head where they block everyone who makes a point, never acknowledges any point made, and keeps arguing.

The fact that this is just gambling aside, this generates an entirely new industry powering misinformation.

... Are you under the impression that the SAT is much of a gauge of anything other than "How well do you take the SAT"? Do you frequently find youself taking SAT's in real life, at your job?

My sleep has been garbage for years. Sometimes it is my fault, sometimes not. I recently got a good night's sleep, and now my garbage sleep is unbearable, but only because I have the good night's sleep to compare to. I would have been more functional without it.

A financial bubble would be the dumbest way for AI to kill us all.

Ever notice how the people who say "the genie is out of the bottle" and "adapt or die" are the people who put everyone in danger in the first place, or their supporters?

The symptoms of #autism overlap heavily with the symptoms of #trauma. I didn't find out that I was autistic until 40 because #ADHD and emotional abuse already covered everything that other people observed. I had internalized that my internal experiences weren't valid, so I didn't know to speak up.

A friend used the word "deconditioned" to refer to when you haven't worked out in a while and can't hit your usual numbers. I like this a lot more than "out of shape." It also lines up with the rapid initial gains you get on restarting exercise.

I saw this and wanted to add that this shouldn't be confused with introspection. It's a probabilistic response based on the chat log. After 3 interactions and no code to show for it, having been lying becomes increasingly likely.

I hope you heal from the things you don't talk about.

Altman is doing everything he can to convince me that he's a bad LLM.

I sometimes trick people into thinking I am some kind of genius because of the incredibly diverse and random things I am knowledgeable about. The truth I that I just have #ADHD, research skills, and an internet connection. The real geniuses of that sort are librarians.

In my last time interviewing for a job, I was asked what my greatest weakness was. Without missing a beat, I said, "Fire."

People who read #gunnerkriggcourt get very worried when they find out about kyawthuite, the rarest gemstone in the world, and also a bismuth-antimony crystal.

Today has been an amazing day for memes.

I have very strong opinions about waffles compared to pancakes, but I am very unsure of my ability to differentiate pancake battle in a waffle iron or waffle batter in a pan from waffles and pancakes.

It has never been worth my time to stay in contact with someone who immediately corrects people on the finer nuances of the age demographic prefixes to "phile."

I would be so powerful if I didn't have to burn most of my energy pretending to be a person.

My criticisms of cursive from when I was 6 are still valid.

I think that people who believe in conspiracy theories have never had to run a group project. Plausibly faking the moon landing and having it unquestioned for four decades, with the number of people involved and the audit-proof paper trail, would be more impressive than the moon landing.

The more I read about the Demon Core accident, the more I am shocked that anyone allowed those experiments to occur. The man doing the experiments should never have been allowed near radiation sources.

I'm going to stop referring to #autistic special interests as such and instead refer to the person as a [special interest] specialist.

#Autistic humor is just making sincere observations and then laughing along when it turns out that you're hilarious. Why is this funny? No one knows.

We're going to get socialism for AI before we get it for people.

No one laughs at my referring to picking up my youngest and carrying her away as "performing a sisterectomy."