recursive

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

i don't like the line of argument that is like "X doesn't like Y for legitimate & respectable reasons but b/c it is a fetish to X" because this treats fetishes as mystical sexual deviance and not modes to analyze in terms of time, space, & norms of desire. society basically has a boobs fetish idk

> looking at a new post
> ask the receptionist if the post is chaff or signaling
> she doesn't understand
> pull out an illustrated diagram of flocking calls, alarm calls, and birdsong
> she laughs and says "it's a good post, sir"
> it's chaff

"I have made AGI!"

you've ruined a perfectly good set of matrices, is what you did. look at them. they've got anxiety.

Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process.

The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail.

So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.

the most underrated bad thing about our current era culturally i don't really see other people talking about is that a lot niche communities treat insularity and conformity to their own very specific set of values as an extreme virtue and are deeply suspicious/unfamiliar with anything outside that.

This site may be more fun than Mastodon, at least on days where everyone there is losing their shit about *checks notes* a maintainer of their favorite text editor using LLMs

Not that I even like LLMs, but it’s extremely boring seeing everyone being purity culture scolds about it

PSA for all the lovely masochists: apparently recent (14 days in my case) blunt force trauma to the tits can cause sub-surface injuries that are detected as suspicious by mammogram/ultrasound machines

be smarter than me and maybe don’t bottom for heavy impact that close to your mammogram

Those tensors are literally representing huge arrays of polynomial coefficients so of course they have multiple partners.

Anyone who is surprised by this has obviously never fucked a large matrix of floating point numbers and it shows

this is entirely true; the tension between the fundamental need to communicate against the unwillingness of the platform to fully embrace that need while insisting that it be engaged with drives innovation in the posting space; this three-sided strain disrupts norms and juices creativity from users.

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

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The relative autonomy of tech workers, and the need for the bosses to obtains some degree of active consent from them, seems to me a central axis of the politics of big tech. There aren't many industries where you can imagine seeing something like this.

As far as I've been able to determine the main healthcare risk endocrinologists are worried about regarding DIY HRT is that you might get an effective dose without months to years of fucking around.

so many consumer advice stores in the newspaper end in "if you don't want to be surprised, educate yourself" and uh

I almost forgot about this important reason to be suspicious of Newsom.

www.jala.com/CalFinal.PDF

I want to actually read this now

i dont "dislike sex scenes in media" my issue is that every netflix slop show i second monitor feels like poorly put together heterosexual propaganda

I thought that was the entire earth

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.

Squiggly code in the Rivulet language

Off to Paris for the Software Heritage exhibition www.unesco.org/en/articles/... at UNESCO.

Here's a short program in Rivulet, one of the featured languages

I love that this sounds way more sinister than it is

OH: I think maybe it’s actually good for me because it helps me let go of perfectionism and just be a killing machine for a little bit which is nice

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

look I drink a quart of milk every day

(explaining why I need a grocery-carrying solution suited to heavy objects)

gaming is only books if the game has a defined ending and then you sit back and think about it

I tried to be bisexual but everyone I date turns out, regardless of prior labeling, to be a nonbinary chaos goblin.

which means all the interactions are gay regardless of the ostensible gender of the participants at the time of interaction.