Tripping the Light Fantastick

"humans can do this" "LLMs can't do that" some of you have never meditated upon "neti, neti" to attain jñāna and it shows

Justice for Captain Norberta

They don't have the guys. In transphobia courts of their own making, staffed by the most macho & violent guys they can muster, they still don't have the guys. If they cannot enforce this, here, now, they cannot hope to ever stop us from living well, speaking out, & standing together.

Imagine you call in Trump to campaign as a last ditch effort and he tells everybody you’re going to lose and starts talking about hot men’s asses instead

Partner called me over for computer help because files she was saving to her Desktop were disappearing and not behaving as expected ….Windows replaced her Desktop with OneDrive

Last year a friend of mine was caught up in a romance scam and Claude helped talk her out of it when she wouldn’t listen to anyone else

As a bearded American it is a strange honor to be placed on a list among friends

Youth pastor voice

the love hypothesis movie was good, definitely an adaptation, strange choices made in some parts. one of the charms of the book is that it depicts academics in a realistic way (no surprises, it's written by an academic) as opposed to the Big Bang Theory version; movie doesn't do that quite as well.

extremely difficult to find divorce content for men that isn’t “gym up, hit the lawyer”. listening to Conscious Uncoupling and theres an extended anecdote in chapter two about a lady that rips a dude’s balls off

The boss is out, alongside three or four other people, and it’s raining. Really starting to seem like a work from home day

Minor issue on the whole, but I like his valuing of life based on whether it is "economically productive," measured by contribution to GDP. Measured directly, Paul Erdős's "economic productivity" was basically negative as he crashed on people's couches doing meth. But his true value is enormous.

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

Nothing to see here, just swearing an oath to a man, not the constitution. 🤷‍♂️

New Netflix documentary about 9/11 doesn’t mention Trump I’s increase of drone strikes compared to Obama (and explicitly calls Obama the drone strike president) and doesn’t mention Trump’s involvement in the Afghanistan withdrawal (solely credits Biden with it) btw

looking at apartments and filtering by pet friendliness because i have a gigantic dog (>120lbs) and found a place that looks neat their pet policy is "service animals only" oh thank you, that's helpful. I mean, it would be illegal for you to disallow service animals.

it'll be so exciting when a dem president helps scotus rediscover standing

Some friends are teaching their baby ASL as an early bridge to speech and they made the mistake of teaching her “want” as a concept. Now she wanders around the house signing “want” all the time as an expression of unfocused desire. They fucked up and made the baby invent the opposite of Buddhism.

“No, we stole that term from you Black folk. And now it’s ours, because we use it. We use it to mean that the concerns and perspectives of you Black folk are annoying or wrong or dangerous, as a way of ignoring and dismissing those concerns and perspectives. Like I’m doing now—does that make sense?”

initially seems good, but the more you use a tool like this, the more you lose your own ability to forecast cylones

I was in one of these recently and it was no big deal. I'm still a closed loop individual of individual sapience. There's definitely no humming of the collective mycelium spirit in the back of my mind. Don't worry about these

Heartbreaking: The task I've been doing as a way of avoiding doing other tasks is almost finished

The boots theory discourse is like “actually the two birds in the bush are worth twice as much as the one bird you have in your hand”

Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

TikTok is losing their shit over Hank Green saying he uses AI sometimes

i make no secret about the fact that i like LLMs; i think they have some very powerful use cases. insisting otherwise is an impossible position to defend. but this kind of nonsense is the reason why so many haters exist. it is a terrible and inane application of the technology

One for the "Oxford commas don't fix this ambiguity" files

drained a reservoir vibe-coding today, but it’s because i was eating almonds

new pet peeve, anti-AI researchers saying "I said X to the AI and it said Y which is totally unacceptable; therefore AI is totally unacceptable" (1) but not saying when, which version, which model, and then (2) I try the same thing and it actually Just Works

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Are the Stalinists in the room with us right now, Nom Tickles