they can't, and i also hated the hobbit even as a child! why read the hobbit when watership down and redwall are RIGHT THERE?

evergreen post 🥰

today a man showed up in my replies — where i called the text of LOTR "torturous" — and proceeded to lecture me on the value of reading old books, like shakespeare, under the presumption that my complaint meant i struggled to read the "not quite modern" sentences in LOTR

bureaucracy — lit. "rule by desk" — was invented for a reason! and that reason was to prevent rule by fiat and favor

Squeeze every moment of happiness you can out of the day, and remember to say fuck you to your haters

oh dear

this back spasm is spasming on my last nerve and i’m extra mad bc it was my own stupid fault we have these chairs in the living room that are very deep and so they’re easy to slouch in and at first that slouching backwards feels like a great stretch but if i linger there at all, i’m fucked

sound bites to sound bites, bits to bits

american gothchick (2025)

My general opinion here is unless you are providing a food crop you should not receive a bail out.

lesson learned: don’t try something new and frustrating while getting an inmunoglobulin infusion triggered my fight or flight lol heart is POUNDING

One of my first and only really viral tweets (I legitimately think it was the first time I got Matt Mercer to comment on anything I've done). "Don't become so enamored with a piece of media that critique of it becomes a critique of you."

sponsor-involved deauthorization incident

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time “While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'” www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

this is one of the nicest (and most pleasing) tutorials i’ve seen for anything in a while

technologically advance a band. Calculating Crows

i’m very behind the curve but i just learned there are full-featured 3d modeling tools for ipad you can use to sculpt with the pencil the best-looking one (zbrush) doesn’t run on my 10yo original ipad pro but nomad sculpt does

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

I’m spending this week with my godmother, who is a 94 year old Holocaust refugee. She says “I didn’t escape Nazi Germany to deal with a country like this. The Nazis were scary, but at least you knew what to expect. This government is worse.”

this looks perfect! cheap local marketplace vintage art glass vase lamps here i come 🥹

anyone ever drilled thru glass or ceramic successfully? i can’t find a lamp i like for a not-ridiculous price but i see a lot of vases i could easily adapt if i could drill a hole in the base without breaking it there’s basic advice online but not a lot of it

In what universe is this good research? In multiple instances they ask the LLM if it "knows" things. OpenAI BUILT every aspect of the model but they treat it like an unknowable alien with a mind they have to test. Trying to implicitly assert it actually has one already by reading into the outputs.

this is something i’m very interested in but afaik there’s no way to create a functioning LLM purely from this size corpus so you have to train on top of an existing corpus from god knows what (and all the problems that entails)

This piece argues we’re in not one, but three AI bubbles: 1. a financial bubble with inflated valuations, 2. an infrastructure bubble with overbuilt data centers, 3. a hype bubble where AI can’t meet its promises. Honestly, all three seem highly likely to me.

i choose to read all posts about haaland as being about deb haaland, the first native american secretary of the interior and candidate for new mexico governor

Been talking to people quite a bit about how it's easy to understand "cancel Disney+!" but harder to understand the initial and bigger problem is with Nexstar and Sinclair, so lemme make it easier. Find your local Nexstar channel Find your local Sinclair channel

i think this is actually more propaganda on openai’s part bc they do not list “this is just how LLMs work, on a structural level” as one of the reasons but that’s the truth LLMs can never not “hallucinate” bc they’re not intelligences, they don’t even know what words are much less know meaning

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich." A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

Conducting tasks while receiving e-mails and phone calls reduces a worker’s IQ by about ten points relative to working in uninterrupted quiet. That is equivalent to losing a night’s sleep, and twice as debilitating as using marijuana.

it's bc they hate fat people and they view these drugs as a way fat people are "cheating" their way to health they don't deserve

Got sucked into the side of TikTok commenting on the trend in American evangelicalism right now—where there’s a growing belief that that the rapture will happen this Tuesday—September 23rd This is due to a of set of things happening in Israel interpreted through a tangled "Left Behind" theology+

so tacky how a certain kind of person thinks every post is asking for their opinion.

nobody’s listening as the wind blows across the great divide any more and that’s sad

Mods? If I am discussing a hypothetical in a post, do I need to obtain consent from the hypothetical people involved? Shit, do I need YOUR consent to discuss the hypothetical implications of your moderation model? Do I need the consent of hypothetical affected users? Where does it end, mods?

i don’t know why random (lbh: white) men think it’s acceptable to reply to a post like this with just another movie title and an ellipsis like clearly i have left out something critical and they’re shocked bitch i don’t know you and now you’re blocked

i forgot how much i hated the “new handler” guy. i’m looking forward to his defeat

it's not just online dating lol a guy I met hiking sent me some of the weirdest most linked-in-ass texts I've ever received! sir I am a writer, don't disrespect me like that www.thecut.com/article/ai-i...

I’m watching the Wrath of Khan and all I can think of is “It doesn’t have to be crazy at work!” in a Danish accent for some reason

lollll

controversial but burn notice is bruce campbell’s best role

I love it when things are in my wheelhouse. I spend a lot of time in there, with my wheel etc.

it's not clear how this leads to a course of action, but everything the silicon valley techfash do and say makes much more sense when you realise everyone in SV over $10m is macro-microdosing every fucking chemical you can think of every one of them is off their fucking trees

can’t demonize a demon.

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

1. whoa 2. god half the comments are like “coin flip” “no better than chance” jfc people READ PAST THE FIRST 7 WORDS

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

tfw you turn the TENS to 15

This is honestly the part that perplexes me. Because no authoritarian regime survives destroying the bread and circuses. And that's before we get into not paying the soldiers...