This is a way where LLMs for professional writing and for software differs. You can “black box” software to an extent - it’s OK if it’s mediocre, as long as it does what it needs to do and stays out of the way. But writing only “works” if a human being observes it directly. It can’t be black boxed.

This is gutting. This Kenai Peninsula family was broken up, this kindergartener detained. I hope this young child can be kept out of the baby concentration camps downstates, camps which should all be closed ASAP. And if you’re running for office & not standing up for kids like this, shame on you.

So here's my version of the "stochastic parrot" argument, ie. why LLMs can't be AGI. I'm not an AI engineer, but I did take graduate optimization in college and was a data engineer when a lot of the more fundamental technologies were developed. Let's start w/ simpler technologies & work from there 🧵

I don’t know poster’s angle, but I think this misses both the point of the “stochastic parrot” framing and the actual, serious, material arguments that thoughtful leftists have made on AI

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

We say Alaska is red, but statewide democrats only have like a 10pt disadvantage, and they do better if they can project common sense and bipartisanship. I’m confident that at least one democrat will make it to the general.

I would reserve at least one of those questions for as much bad faith as I could cram into a prompt. No, I am not better than that, and you shouldn’t be either. It’s not like he is!

I feel bad when I read people who say they hate writing, especially to the extent they’d let an LLM do it. Writing was the path to making me feel human and the emotional journey of doing it all the time fills me full of purpose. I refuse to believe I’m the only person who feels like this!

“what do we want??” “big booty latinas!!”

Logging on

counter-strike 2 / r6 siege / cod blops 7

To normies, the appeal of Newsom is almost entirely that he made a convincing public performance of giving the finger to Trump. They don’t see other politicians pissing in his cheerios in quite as obvious way as Gavin, and they want revenge

hi sharks i’m here today seeking $47 million for a 2% stake in my invention “tater tots that kill you”

Nothing sluttier than having a body

Instead of "the left isn't paying enough attention to these machine gods" they're claiming to build, perhaps we should write an article about how effective altruists brand themselves "left", ask who is writing these articles, and trace their cults and sources of funding.

The DOJ is out here arguing, "We can't investigate the Epstein files, this might open Pandora's box and bring down entire governments, whole economic systems!" And I'm over here like, I can not stress hard enough how I have never in my life wanted it all to burn to the fucking ground more.

my cat every day at 4 pm

Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠ ⁠ Read more via @techdirt.com 🔗 www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

ew. why would you pick that place. my pick would be like a dave and busters

Prompts that indicate you are about to experience something legendary

The Political Compass(tm)

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

It's becoming clear that a lot of people a) didn't remember how awful Trump is, and b) didn't realize he had a real shot at coming back in 2024.

we are, at all times, cursed with two political parties: the Republicans and the Republicans of twenty years ago

I should start describing leftism using fake set theory. being a member of the billionaire set isn’t a sufficient (or necessary) condition for being a member of the bourgeoisie set (gothic B of course) but it is a very, very strong bayesian prior. see? I’m smart like moldbug

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I mentioned in-thread how I use AI at my job. Something I definitely foresee is a day where the APIs suddenly cost 20x as much and subscriptions go away, and suddenly the business has to decide if it can even afford to renew. Like if an AI script costs more than by hand at my hourly rate… y’know?

the appeal of rogan is in part that he’s non-intellectual. his persona has historically been an everyman who’s curious enough about the world to take a crackpot’s claims at face value yet skeptical enough to question an authority figure. it, uh, worked better in the early days for sure

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I’m trying to find that one post that’s like “guys isn’t it weird how AI is bad at things I know a lot about and but good at stuff I don’t know a lot about”’ because that’s basically Bruenig talking about vibe coding.

if I had to fly around in a particular jet consistently it would be stocked with those cheap white wine shooters - that’s the correct vibe for flying. but we’d splurge a little and get both rotgut sauv blanc and rotgut pino gris

But the Alaska we love has been hurting. Too many families are just trying to get by. Because we love this state so deeply, we are all in — to fight for stability, affordability, and a future where families can stay and thrive. So, Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you from both of us! 4/4

This is why I just recently dropped a game 😂😂😂😂 Like we don’t need banter every second silence is okay haha credit: www.tiktok.com/t/ZThQF1Ga4/

Sample headline: "Gutting NCAR will make your insurance premiums cost more. Here's how:"

It’s uhhhhh a little weird that much of the debate over the definition of “working class” in the U.S. is about what you want it to be a euphemism for and not about, say, one’s relationships to labor or capital

thinking about that dude I blocked today, who had blatantly fascist beliefs but was a self-identified liberal, and having to wrestle with the conclusion that a) blue MAGA is not a straw man; b) they are fascists; c) their Halcyon Era isn’t the mid-century but the Clinton/Obama years

Here it is, your moment of zen.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

if people I hated turned out to be entirely correct about the need to get rid of ICE, an agency I supported until a couple of months ago, I would simply demand to know how they would vote in an election matchup that will never happen in order to regain my moral superiority

Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting. You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

Poster brain is a neurodivergence

if you want to get a democrat to listen to you and value what you have to say, the first and most important move is to pretend you're a moderate republican

Trump is not an aberration. He is a symptom of a much larger disease. You do not get to Donald Trump and American Fascism without George W. Bush and if you find yourself trying to paint him in a positive light you have absolutely lost the plot.

The absolute nerve it takes to know this to be the case as you are launched 80km I could never

Reading about 42 year old Chinese heavyweight boxer Zhilei Zhang and came across the most 42 year old lifestyle change of all time

joyce is going after elon again

BRO, WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?!

its really fucked up that garfield repeatedly tries to send nermal to abu dhabi given that in the UAE he would likely be tried and imprisoned for his homosexuality

*adds another incomprehensible meter to your hud*

Harlem in 1970 or a management strategy game from 1999? 🤔