Mandy Waite

The modern age has really exposed just how shitty people can be to each other. We just never had the tools to be shitty at scale the way we are today. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.

Election Day is Tuesday Nov. 3rd. #webcomics

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Trying to finish Baldur's Gate 3 again and I'm wondering if it's absolutely fucking necessary to fight a dozen cats on the way to the Crèche...

"Grandma, what was it like before AI?"

Looking forward to the Nathan Fielder documentary about Nathan Fielder and how strange* he is. I heard it also has Elizabeth Holmes. *I love strange

Y'all hated Mass Effect Andromeda so why are you all bummed by the cancelling of a new Mass Effect game made by the same studio that made Andromeda... and Anthem

Trans voter to @aoc.bsky.social: Trans people in America feel like they've been abandoned by the Democratic Party, that we are a losing issue, that it's not worth defending us. What do you say to that? AOC:

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

I'm lucky to have lived most of my life in the "post times" but the cycles are so short that we now find ourselves living in the "pre times" of the next low point for humanity. I'm sorry that you're having to deal with this.

Watching humans make mistake after mistake and knowing that at some point in the future we'll hopefully look back at these timesand realize how stupid we were.

Actually, this is a wonderful opportunity for professional growth. The universe wouldn't give it a global PKI catastrophe if it didn't believe in my potential.

We're all being fucked over by those that managed to attain wealth and power and instead of fighting them we're fighting each other.

Your city can have beautiful visions. But its real priorities come to light in their winter maintenance. (📸 IG by @rovelocreative with @thebikinglawyer)

"the unalgorithmic alacrity with which [humans] wobble" - Ultron Great line!

I keep leaving lifelines in my bath to allow spiders to climb out and every time it happens again the spider is bigger. I'm hoping that soon they'll be so big they can climb out unaided.

That's not true. You made that up. Also loads of the software I've worked on so far in a professional capacity has either been internal tooling or ultimately gone unreleased in favour of an alternative candidate. The study's authors had no way to see any of those projects in any company.

The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.

I don't have a lot of compassion in me right now. Maybe that depresses me more than anything.

I guess this is what we all get for those "cant count R's in strawberry" jokes huh

just to remind you what this is: this single box with two SSDs. is running deepseek v4.1 flash (a 552B model) in its native MXFP4, ~550GBs of weights plus engrams total. with prefill speeds of over 450tps and decode speeds of over 15tps. at full 1M context.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPY6...

Humans are so much more than AI and we will use this awesome tool that we've built to do things that neither us or our AI can even comprehend right now.

"people are awesome, we do awesome things and we're not going to stop doing awesome things just because we invented something awesome" - Angelo via YouTube youtu.be/nc8UBme3XLQ?...

fwiw arstechnica.com/apple/2026/1...

We're all clinging to this hope that politically things will get better, but they won't. Our governments are in a race to the bottom, through the will of the people that are responsible for electing them.

If you get angry when you are made to feel stupid, don't plan on getting old.

I have no confidence at all that things will get better after the midterms.

Sheez, one YT channel I subbed to has switched to showing clips of famous pedophiles and walking through personal ads from 1972 that smell of statutory rape, while Fireship (also subbed to) is platforming DHH.

Watching Avengers Endgame Encore like it's 2019 again and everything is good in my life.

I really like the idea that RSI can also mean models improving the environment in which they run and then using those improvements to improve it further. Models being limited because humans don't understand how to make good use of them.

Trump's contingency plan for losing congress is just to ignore it, pretty much like he's doing now. EOs for all the things and a large impeachment collection.

We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift.

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She's missed you. Knights of Guinevere returns October 9. The season will feature 8 episodes.

The problem with starting a revolution is that half the revolutionaries would be just the same as those they want to replace and the other half couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

not to be an idealist or anything but i wish things were slightly better

I see everyone rushing to set rules around personhood and whether intelligent entities and/or the technology behind them should be referred to as *it* or not. Fuck every last one of you. Every time we do this some entities get marginalized. I'm done with it.

Increasingly convinced that specs are now the source and that code is an artifact akin to a lockfile.

The existence of others has never been something subject to your consent.

Message from our CEO: After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI? I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev

With LLMs we're offloading our own Agency to external agents. It seems like we don't really get what that is doing to many of us, yet.