i love December here because i get to see dozens of eagles feasting on dead sheep

another year of getting nobody anything for christmas because ive given up on functioning between thanksgiving and christmas. whoops

NOT PLO KOON NOOOO

Woke is back, torrents are back.

I feel like a lot of LLM criticism lately has devolved into gotchas about the objectionable things you can make them say rather than the objectionable things one can do with them (spam, harass, etc), so the suggestions thus end up being all about massively expanding state & corporate censorship tbh

first christmas with FAMILY in like... 8 years?

the political realignment of the 21st century is shaping up to be "we can use math and science to better understand and improve the world" versus "nuh uh"

it’s now day 47 for the longest strikers. qesser could easily have died this week if not for the courageous people who refused to leave Bronzefield until an ambulance was called

guy who can't spell for shit but insists on performing his idea of correct grammar in every internet argument

extremely funny how many conversations are people who are being automated out of a job (software engineers) defending ai against people who are not (creatives)

it is extremely frustrating getting a phd in a field right when that entire field is becoming demonized by the ALL of the woo (even slightly woo!!) people in queer spaces

i also dont start poorly reasoned non-expert blogs pretending to have expert knowledge about biotech, or make it my spiritual identity to predict the downfall of biotech. some people do this, they are called anti-vaxxers and 5g conspiracists

disliking dogs is lesbophobic

the bojack flashback where his dad picks him up (for once) and makes SUCH a big deal about it... oof. i still remember how guilty i felt the one time my dad had to drive me to soccer

the trans panic, legislation of transmisogyny, etc. is not "distracting from the epstein files", it entrenches the sexual abuse. transphobia towards trans kids always entails sexual abuse, by families & states. one of epstein's first victims was a trans girl, ava cordero, who was not believed

here’s my initial gloss of the levy review’s 20 recommendations:

The sex/gender distinction, the focus on "normal" queers, "born this way" politics... We knew where all of those would end up, and every time we tried to argue that case we got shouted down. I don't blame queer people for this outcome, but I find it frustrating we didn't do better for ourselves.

pulled the trigger on a mini-LED lit IPS from Acer that has vanishingly few reviews. good luck to me

shopping for monitors SUCKS ugh. why are they all so bad

surely subsisting on coffee, chocolate, and alcohol can't be the reason i feel like shit this week

going by the poll that they had there are like 30 people in this discord. this is one guy getting in an argument with his gaming friends.

i do not think it is good that people are constantly making comparisons between rape and the application of computer programs to text on the public internet

when I don’t achieve a goal I am like “this is why no one fucking loves you and you deserve every bad thing that has ever happened to you” and when I meet a goal I am like “ok”

i STILL haven't gotten around to metro exodus (i loved the other games! and the books!) but I would've said The Outer Worlds. Now it'd have to be Jedi Fallen Order

got a NICE elliptical for $200 thank you Facebook marketplace

church i was at tonight had a cabinet with a bunch of old scouting awards and this troop had an EXCELLENT team name

weed paranoia while playing an mmo is always like "everyone is JUDGING ME for grinding inefficiently"

local queer discord is more tolerant of pro-harry potter sentiment than pro-AI sentiment :/

no guys you don't understand the "transexual not transgender" movement is about ethics in gaming journalism

help! i keep procrastinating my work and facing zero consequences!

the anarchist in my brain is at war with the object-oriented programmer over the construction of elegant hierarchies

covered the UK prison hunger strike, looking both at vital info about responding to the strike & wider analysis of how it brings together different forms of liberation struggle. the media blackout is cracking a little but time is very limited. please share widely www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...

there's no scenario where injecting estradiol valerate once a *month* makes sense, right? planned parenthood keeps screwing up my prescription directions and it's making me crazy

post-cold scratchy voice got me the full tranny treatment at the dentist 🙄

this position is a fascist one actually

could slurp juice be part of the solution here?

quite spooky that DIY estrogen headlines and internet nanny law drafts are happening at the same time

my razer naga trinity mouse is finally too annoying to keep (double clicking on the middle mouse button and such). rip

It’s simple. 60% the values need to stay exactly where they are or it will explode after 3 steps, 30% have problem specific ranges you tune by hand, and 20% need to be changed to something found in appendix Tau of a paper with 3 citations from 2014.

what's the dumbest thing you sing in the shower? lately I've just been repeating sql table names and medical conditions (🎶 DRGReview.Opportunities for metabolic encephalopathy 🎶)

if there's one thing coworkers love it's having 16GB of VS Code tabs and jupyter notebooks open

do you ever think about how twitter user theepicdept is still out there somewhere sliding into women's DMs...

I think one of the biggest issues with how much is happening and how fast its happening is that there are so many small things flying under the radar which are just as bleak for the future, like the bizarre normalisation of prediction markets

not news or anything but man this new harry potter audiobook cast is disappointing

"professional development" goal setting is sooo much less annoying when you're not an hourly employee who only gets paid for client billable hours

"the optimal level of fraud is not zero" is, I think, really the answer here. it's not also politically correct to say since Americans hate any kind of cheating, no matter how minor it is

it really is just kind of funny how bad romantasy has its roots in harry potter culture. one conservative industry plant author annihilated modern english popular literary culture forever and turned it ontologically into american fast food