sorry but this is world historically dope

enjoying justin sledge's ongoing middle platonism course atp, it is free in principle but highly recommend enrolling

First order approximation: -EV ballpark 50% as polluting -Waymo travels twice as far per passenger mile -Increased traffic adds additional pollution from other cars = EV waymo ride is more polluting than a personal vehicle that runs on gasoline

once again thinking about Jazz ._.

i truly have nothing but contempt

the trouble with zulaikha is that she's not the first character in her own story

gee i wonder if the way claude sounds like a sophomore philosophy undergrad who hasn't absorbed anything from his reading except a crude pastiche of its style reveals anything about its nature as a model

the only consistent use i've found for LLMs is pulling content from persian-language websites hosted in iran that i would otherwise be IP-blocked from & even then if i note that that's what i'm doing they short circuit and have a meltdown

oh generative AI is going to help people make art and music? because rn they can't even reliably confirm chord names

where claude really excels is in imitating a stupid person's concept of what a smart or well-read person sounds like

incompatibility with a free society is of course a feature and not a bug

I think the stabbing had put Nowak in such a condition as to appear to be one of the many kinds of "undesirables" police are empowered to treat inhumanely and it's only after the fact when it's been discovered that he was in that state because of the stabbing that anyone even questions that reflex.

my whole relation to police was shaped by years of watching them (and EMTs!) act like barbarians around my epileptic mother, whom they mistook for using drugs, because they thought it was appropriate to treat someone who uses drugs in that way

what the fuck is going on in the UK man

i think i could really achieve something as a small beetle

i do love god but sometimes i love him like a mischievous toddler who eats too many sweets because he thinks his mother's not looking yet will go to her anyway on instinct whenever he gets a stomachache

like sixty dolls met up to play baseball at a public park in brooklyn this sunday while you were sitting in your stalled f 150 in the parking lot of a suburban megachurch seething about how "gender ideology" is unamerican. btw

new york times headlines written by someone who's making fun of me by performing a pointed but fundamentally well-meaning caricature of what i sound like sometimes on the back patio behind metropolitan

TS baseball was cute (: it's nice when women have fun together

"can i bum a cigarette" statistically average transgender woman sentence

turning off my autocortect becausr i put mu trist in Allah ☝️

i think tzimtzum is lowkey weird and kind of wrong tbh. much love to isaac luria though

i have to hand it to theory these basics are elevated af

one day i'm going to make friends wiht the biggest rabbit in the world

top i'm seeing described my eyes as "docile" am i in danger

laurel seems to have rabbit-proofed her groceries, having bought both bacon and sweetened yogurt. i am feeling a deep sense of betrayal

sure, why not destroy the US airline industry overnight. who cares

NYC MAYOR WEARING AN ARSENAL THOBE FOR EID TOTAL CULTURAL VICTORY FOR THE UMMAH

while i'm on the subject. how exactly are people fucking in the bathroom at metropolitan. what kind of barnum and bailey contortionist trade, like

accidentally spent $50 on campari sodas last night i think i either need to stop drinking altogether or properly become an alcoholic i can't go on like this

thank you jules for five consecutive cigarettes

ftm oil wrestling send tweet

the fact that it's dip lol

trapped in the purgatorial abyss of the Q54 wait ama

requiring cross-state recognition of same-sex marriages is literally legally meaningless per full faith and credit, as is formally repealing the already-dead DOMA guaranteeing federal recognition for same-sex marriages is fine

i just think it's a good song

“The plan will essentially transform school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles, taking a technology that was originally designed to issue tickets to people illegally passing stopped buses and using it for much wider and general law enforcement, likely without a warrant.”

the second slice of rosas is so fatal dude it's a day later and i'm still too full

i should go to more gallery openings and watch more stupid little films

kelela said you gotta toughen up for love ☝️ she didn't say do all that soft sapphic shit

People of the Bay Area! I’m hosting a new reading series called Text Change, in which five trans writers are invited to read work on any topic other than transition! The first show is at The Stud on June 14th at 6:30! (flyer designed by @cara.city)

another late spring another why am i not in istanbul

setting aside "not being around Nazis" everything we enjoyed about early web 2.0 occurred in "bubbles", whether topical forums, blogs, even early social media... people congregate in spaces where there's shared values and etiquette. no one likes getting assailed by combative know-nothings

save me mamgo ice cream

how nice that the independent has already found a way to launder the fantasies of people who simply want to see trans women (a) barred from facilities altogether, (b) publicly humiliated, and/or (c) physically harmed as a matter of social discipline or blood sport

transgender women love. Quality time with mister seal

rabbit heart