Shaun of the 🥖

the responses to this post are kind of a lot i deleted something earlier about how, counter to what i learned in linguistics class, it seems like language leads thought sometimes, but here goes

this is probably wrong and the people arguing that using terms which clearly invoke human emotion, thought processes, etc genuinely don't understand that there's something quite different going on with LLMs and the tooling around them

the responses to this post are kind of a lot i deleted something earlier about how, counter to what i learned in linguistics class, it seems like language leads thought sometimes, but here goes

i have seen multiple examples of people using language that discusses the bots in anthropomorphic terms or advocating for it

sorry to any pals who are Timbers fans but it was pretty awesome to have been asked by the kiddo "who's going to score first and who's gonna win", have a whole conversation about predictions vs results, and then get to see Austin FC win 1-2 that Svatok goal was a fun watch

wishing i was hanging with @cheeseplus.biz, it's been too long bud

trying to maintain the peace found in not chasing after the thoughts directly resulting from reading the words of stubbornly intolerant people who have influence and instead focusing on questions like "what is the effect of other people's belief or tolerance for these deranged rants"

Maybe so. But it is not always so. If times change and we lose Tassajara and move to another mountain, the way we have here cannot be the same way we will have there.

Without this basis, when you say, “This is the mountain,” or “This is my friend,” or “This is the moon,” the mountain will not be the mountain, my friend will not be my friend, and the moon will not be the moon itself.

Maybe so. But it is not always so. If times change and we lose Tassajara and move to another mountain, the way we have here cannot be the same way we will have there.

to the cute couple examining and discussing the look of various Meta Glasses in the Best Buy last night: yes, when you heard me exclaim "ooh, Pervert Glasses" so loudly I was very aware you could hear me

and when I followed it up about forty seconds later with "I'm just amazed anyone would want to wear Pervert Glasses, what are they thinking" slightly more loudly I was aware you could still hear me then

I see @varlock.dev followed me the same day I completely botched a meetup demo about how to use it because I was overzealous and didn't test the proxy beforehand. coincidence?

I remember this one time I was helping someone who had lost their home when their neighbor's spouse torched their house and the fire spread get clothes from the donations we provided to anyone who needed them.

This was in the mid-2000s, but it's not like things have gotten easier for people who've lost their IDs, possessions, for any reason, in the years since. We went to every church in town, all the government services, everything takes time and money and if you're caught in the cold good luck.

I remember this one time I was helping someone who had lost their home when their neighbor's spouse torched their house and the fire spread get clothes from the donations we provided to anyone who needed them.

Their insurance company didn't pay out for many months, during which this mother and two children were living in their car in the capital city of one of the US's more prosperous states.

i know it's 97F outside and my guy needs a haircut but we took an after-lunch 1.5 mile walk with plenty of shade and water breaks and he's out like i was dragging him behind a bike goin downhill

if you look at that photo and think "huh something looks off about that dog's shape" i assure you that's not a trick of the camera, he was causing some kind of time-space distortion in the general dog-bed area

a classmate in a college physics course started crying when they learned that the bohr model of the atom with little balls zooming around a nucleus isn't a direct representation of how electrons work, it was powerful to witness "why would they lie to us for all these years"

on the one hand i got where they were coming from on the other i clearly remembered high school textbooks saying electrons as particles in planetary orbit was a convenient visualization plus the whole "so... turns out many dinosaurs were feathered" thing