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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31m

@xgranade as ever, it is terrifying what this hype is teaching us about what goes on inside the minds of other people

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 29m

@SnoopJ The thing is, I see that from people I deeply respect and admire, too. It's some kind of weaponized good faith assumption, I think, where people don't want to tear something down without feeling like they have the expertise to back it up, which, fair. But there's limits to how far that […]

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 30m

My general take-away, though, is that you don't have to believe the hype or to assume it's in good faith. Just trust yourself on this one, and go with your own gut for a change.

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 40m

A weird thing I've seen over and over again in AI discourse: "AI is awful at [thing I'm not an expert in], but great for [thing I'm not an expert in]!"

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 58m

Especially when there's things like Secret Lairs or mini-sets like Assassin's Creed that bring the focus in much tighter than full sets.

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 59m

I feel like a good MtG set introduces us to or dramatically expands on a world — gives us a huge slate of characters to let loose and watch interact. As long as I can remember, colorless and artifact focus has brought in some essence of magitek, so sci-fi can be perfectly on-vibe, I think, but […]

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 1h

I am a Universes Beyond enjoyer, but Spider-Man and TMNT are just bad flavor fits. Final Fantasy, Avatar, LotR? All fit pretty great into the general vibes of MtG in my opinion. Star Trek is definitely at the edges, but Spider-Man and TMNT are just... weird.

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 1h

(Addendum: please don't treat the above as an excuse to brigade, as per @zkat's post! You can roast them without being a dick, I believe in you all.)

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 1h

It's why I think it matters that Framework is getting roasted as much as they are, and why their defenders depress me as much as they do. Making a clear line that fashtech is not OK is important, precisely because having a vague or fuzzy boundary encourages them to keep pushing.

I will posit […]

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 1h

One last take on the Framework thing for now. There's a part of me that reads the whole thing as yet another example of boundary-testing — of seeing just how far down the fashtech road one can go before being met with outrage. It's not exactly the boiling frog thing, so much as akin to a […]

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 1h

[pers, ph, long covid]

Had a fairly active couple of weeks, and now my long covid is charging me in triplicate for it. So tired.

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 2h

Setting aside the usual "yes, it's good to act on your beliefs," my nonbinary sibling in generalized-messianic-figures? You're on the team with an OS that dumps debug messages about driver licenses tainting the kernel!

(I'm also on that team, but I'm not also sitting on satan's own internet […]

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 2h

It's absolutely the least important part of the whole *waves hands* last month in generalized tech meltdowns, but watching OSS folks complain about ideological purity is *choice*.

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 2h

[minor spoilers for one battle after another]

CW, should you watch, for two uses of the r-slur. Both serve the overarching plot themes of "the previous generation tried, but didn't get activism right," but they are abrasive to say the least.

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 2h

Saw ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER the other day, and while I have some major issues with individual plot points, on the whole I absolutely loved it and thought it was quite amazing.

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 3h

Obama getting the Peace Prize during his.administration was obvious bullshit, but the way it gets to Trump that he cannot have what Obama had is a very funny silver lining.

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jonny (good kind) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Wow this sucks so bad.

a person posted on /r/datahoarder that they have created an archive of the Epstein files with added metadata like mentioned people and etc. But everything is LLM-generated.... Including the "full text" of the documents.

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for a website that presents itself as an archive of the Epstein docs with added analysis (people mentioned in documents, places, etc.)... it doesn't even start with the text of the documents properly OCR'd, instead it is fed to chatGPT with a system prompt that tells it that it is an expert at OCR

system prompt:
You are an expert OCR and document analysis system.
Extract ALL text from the image in READING ORDER to create a digital twin of the document.

IMPORTANT: Transcribe text exactly as it appears on the page, from top to bottom, left to right, including:
- All printed text
- All handwritten text (inline where it appears)
- Stamps and annotations (inline where they appear)
- Signatures (note location)

Preserve the natural reading flow. Mix printed and handwritten text together in the order they appear.

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 12h

If you want your transness to be weird and outrageous and fucking fascinating, please go ahead! I just want my own to be boring and quiet and good with a sip or two of coffee.

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 12h

All I want* is for being trans to be boring AF. Like, a bit of weird trivia about me, or the sort of thing you drop in two-truths-and-a-lie. The sort of thing everyone politely pretends to find interesting but really could care less about.

(*This is a lie. I want a fair few other things, too.)

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 16h

@glyph Cosigned! Some([]) and None are distinct for a reason!

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 17h

All by way of saying, I don't even need to *explicitly* boycott Framework at this point. It's just not even worth it now. That's not to say I disagree with boycotting, rather it's noting that doing so is redundant in my case.

I can't imagine I'm the only one in that spot, either.

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 17h

@bob I'm good at the moment, was looking up for the hypothetical about competitive advantage.

But yeah, there's some good options out there. I've just been happy with the XPS for long enough I'll be pretty sad when it eventually dies.

Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 17h

I don't remember how much I paid for my XPS 13, and the only current models seem to be ARM-based (wild), but a roughly comparable Framework 13 goes for $1580. I would be very surprised if I couldn't get better specs from a competitor for less money.

Framework, presumably, doesn't want to get […]

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 17h

Another way to think of the Framework fiasco, perhaps:

I'm not naive. I don't think that when, say, I bought my XPS 13, Dell didn't send some percentage of that to the Koch brothers or whatever fascist du jour. But I live in a society, and I needed a laptop.

Framework's whole *thing*, their […]

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 23h

Current mood:

"Dead eat. Do not dove."