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Rural queer software engineer. Someone called me an omnipresent Internet gay know-it-all once in 2005.

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Maybe they should get together and have a shoe swap.

14.03.2026 16:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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13.03.2026 21:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Google News headlines from CNN and Whitehouse

Google News headlines from CNN and Whitehouse

Strange times

14.03.2026 05:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"All you Blueskyers" is a weird thing to say when you're on Bluesky. Like there's something different about where you and I are from. I'm not freaking out, just disappointed as usual.

14.03.2026 04:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The point isn't that you didn't know what it was, it's that he surely did.

14.03.2026 04:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm not knocking on any car window that isn't in park, because I don't think that's safe at all. I'd rather be alive than right.

14.03.2026 03:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Are you knocking on the window because you're trying to not get run over, or are you knocking on the window because you're annoyed?

Like, yeah it's annoying when a car stops in the crosswalk. But I'm not knocking on a car window in the street to get my foot run over about it.

14.03.2026 02:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Walking into traffic to knock on a car window is a weird way to try to avoid being killed.

14.03.2026 02:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Artificial General Intelligence is...artificial. If I were working on this feature I would've said I think this might be illegal and we should get legal to review it, without being prompted.

LLMs have information, but don't know when to context switch on their own. They don't have gut feelings.

12.03.2026 04:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think the misuse of AI by people who don't know how LLMs work is causing a breakdown in processes.

A model may have legal knowledge but it's not in its context unless you prompt it. A human lawyer doesn't have to be prompted to tell you if something might be illegal. They will just tell you.

12.03.2026 04:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, this is a conversation he had with a make-believe person. If anyone doesn't know how money works at grocery stores, it's rich people.

11.03.2026 08:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As someone who is from New Hampshire, moved to South Carolina and then to Oregon, I feel you. The Primary schedule is dumb.

10.03.2026 03:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I guess he doesn't count interacting with a barista as socializing.

09.03.2026 23:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My Grandmother was a waitress and my Great-grandmother was a textile factory worker. From the census records I found that was the norm.

09.03.2026 23:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

5 minutes is only 300 seconds and an eternity.

09.03.2026 23:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Normal people get a little dopamine as a treat for doing tasks.

09.03.2026 23:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There's losing the plot and then there's taking the plot out back and shooting it in the head.

09.03.2026 21:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I can't imagine hating a country so much that you consider deaths in an entirely different country to be mere collateral damage if it takes the country you hate down a notch or two. Like, that's really messed.

09.03.2026 20:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 34 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I doubt it even goes to recognizing the individual worker. Those survey results just end up on some manager's PowerPoint slide.

09.03.2026 18:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I'm so tired I thought that said COD and I was looking for a fish.

09.03.2026 12:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If only there are was some sort of election before the general election people could vote in

09.03.2026 12:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 37 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It would be great if more people voted in the Democratic Primary.

09.03.2026 12:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm autistic with Inattentive ADHD. The lack if pruning isn't great.

09.03.2026 12:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm skeptical about General Intelligence being efficient. I think specialized LLMs could be efficient. One of the things that keeps the human brain efficient is the ability to prune irrelevant information and people usually specialize in domains of knowledge.

08.03.2026 23:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Devstral Small (Mistral for coding) can actually run on a gaming computer. And I have solar panels so it's even less of a carbon footprint. But tbf, a lot of the energy consumption is in training the models.

08.03.2026 23:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You can ask it what it means. You can even ask it to look at it from a different perspective.

08.03.2026 21:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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08.03.2026 20:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do you think I'm from Asheville? Like I've literally been there once. Jesus fuck, it was just an example. I lived in Homewood, SC at the time.

I literally bought my house with a USDA loan.

08.03.2026 18:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You are really hellbent on missing my point. I am extremely aware of the awful people. I'm just also aware of the people who aren't.

08.03.2026 18:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I know it's not rural, just like I know it's not red. Same with Charleston. But that doesn't stop Democratic voters from large urban areas from thinking it is. Like it doesn't even matter how purple a state is, if they have 2 GOP senators it's a MAGA state.

08.03.2026 17:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0