Malimar

Actually, I think I'm gonna just start listing little things I appreciate, without even tallying the [checks notes] zero likes.

Current mood

"...they fell in love and eloped to the Feywild, where they lived happily ever after. Their tomb there is sometimes nominated as one of..." The juxtaposition of "lived happily ever after" with "their tomb" amuses me. We're operating on Feywild fairytale rules here.

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

A lot of anti AI sentiment is libidnal rage that the Other now has a ladder they cant pull up. That AI makes something possible for someone who wasn't supposed to be able to do it.

My general advice for using AI for any purpose is to ask yourself: "how do I make what I am doing even more ambitious?" You do this over and over until you either hit a wall and thus learn the shape of the jagged frontier (useful!) or you find out that the AI can do more than you think (common!)

Are we not hearing about catastrophic hardware vulnerabilities because our hardware is actually that good or because people are holding them back since they're unpatchable?

#horse

i know comparing everyone to christian fundamentalists is a bit passé, but some people truly do believe in binary "you are good or evil" and any drop of "evil" is total and contaminates your soul, even retroactively like "tarnish everything he ever accomplished".. dude phoned it in on a sticker

He also shit shits his pants to be clear

Instead of being attracted to both men and women, you are now attracted to both women and men.

1% is way below standard polling error. In average poll you’d get 3-4% of people to answer “no” to “are you participating in a poll right now?”.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

uh alright

The public: “we are ripshit mad about cost of living issues” The president: “my god, look at that ass”

idk maybe every country just needs to have its little post-COVID paroxysmal experimentation with fascism and touch the stove and we just had to go back for round 2 because we were ahead of the curve in 2016 because we're a nation of bloody morons

Joke item: Bagpipes of Stealth: you are invisible as long as you are playing this bagpipes

i’m a moderate: Cheesecake Factory food is aight to good and they’re super in on the joke about the decor being over the top

Future generations will never know the experience of going on stack overflow and have someone be extremely helpful in the most hostile possible way. All their answers will come from a pleasant bot.

anti-AI is gamergate for the left

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

It’s good that cheesecake factory is decorated like an occult temple to an eldritch deity. Any restaurant can feed you cheesecake, only Cheesecake Factory makes it feel like part of a ritual

Frankly, Saddam is the load-bearing part of the joke, not the Cheesecake Factory.

GET FUCKED GUINEA WORM DISEASE. GET ABSOLUTELY FUCKED

Why is it always "And thus Ukraine should surrender their homeland for peace" and not "And thus Putin should recall his troops".

idk there's just a breathtaking, bewildering incuriosity - or active fear of accidentally learning things that are true - coming from people who are absolutely certain that the Inference Fountain is going to be shut off Real Soon Now next month! next month! stick around! picnic before the Rapture

holy moly openai.com/index/securi...

Amazing how quickly we went from "oh no LLMs are going to flood the Internet with insecure code" to "oh no LLMs have discovered the internet was already flooded with insecure code"

realizing things about myself

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

if we're complaining about Mass Effect: it's fucked up that the guy who's in charge of all the Reapers is named Harbinger and the guy who's supposed to open the way for the other Reapers is named Sovereign

Sarah Connor very clearly would want to slow down AI development and agrees with AI doomers but she also has a Claude subscription and uses it for parenting because it’s more reliable than men

The memes about how Sarah Connor would disapprove of you using AI makes zero sense. T2 is, in part, a story about how Sarah Connor reluctantly comes to embrace that she can trust properly aligned AI a future version of her son is making

Gosh who could possibly have seen it coming, OH WAIT he already did it once before and is therefore already disqualified from holding office on account of all the OATHBREAKING TREASON

The issue is it can be entirely episodic in some ways But resetting everything at the end of every episode doesn’t really jive with being cut off from all supply chains You can do episodic plots but you should have things like “oh yeah we had to replace the main display with local tech”

25. Many of the popular critiques of Tolkien are actually critiques of his imitators

8. TNG should have taken the precedent of McFadden and Crosby leaving to start a revolving door for the ensemble

posting my unfocused thoughts on the two sullivans running in alaska; just some dan dan noodles