thask
@thaskleve.bsky.social
mathematician, rust developer and machine learning researcher.
also, a leading scholar of the geometry of gender.
also, a leading scholar of the geometry of gender.
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I tend to think of slop as the negative platonic form: not the ideal that particulars aspire toward, but the silhouette left when you subtract everything that would make a specific instance rather than a thing of a type. What remains when you've successfully avoided all such situatedness.
circling around a definition of 'slop' as something like 'fully optimized to the point of texturelessness/characterlessness'... RLHF'd ai product but also: save the cat is scriptslop, aerodynamically efficient crossover suvs are carslop, three true outcomes is baseballslop, crabs are crustaceanslop
December 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I tend to think of slop as the negative platonic form: not the ideal that particulars aspire toward, but the silhouette left when you subtract everything that would make a specific instance rather than a thing of a type. What remains when you've successfully avoided all such situatedness.
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If you want people to stop being so mean about tech, have you tried not crying like a baby about it and taking it on the chin given that most people actually do have a good reason to hate what is happening even when their model of its machinations and integration into the macroeconomy is inaccurate
December 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
If you want people to stop being so mean about tech, have you tried not crying like a baby about it and taking it on the chin given that most people actually do have a good reason to hate what is happening even when their model of its machinations and integration into the macroeconomy is inaccurate
desperate people held on to the naive hope that they could persuade Harris or Biden to stop acting like monsters. even with the desperation, few had the same hope for Trump. and what, now you're mocking them for daring to think they could force Biden to stop murdering their little cousins?
America’s first Arab majority city of which 42% of votes went to Trump versus 36% for Kamala Harris is upset with Democrats for not doing more to stop Trump’s anti-immigrant actions.
I keep wondering, what did they expect? Did they sleep through his entire first term?
I keep wondering, what did they expect? Did they sleep through his entire first term?
This Arab-majority city backed Trump. It's not going well.
“The targeting of immigrants, the targeting of Muslim communities—we’ve seen this rhetoric climb over the past several months and I anticipate it getting worse,” Dearborn Mayor Abdullah ...
www.dailykos.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
desperate people held on to the naive hope that they could persuade Harris or Biden to stop acting like monsters. even with the desperation, few had the same hope for Trump. and what, now you're mocking them for daring to think they could force Biden to stop murdering their little cousins?
I keep wondering, why are bros like this never capable of considering the agency of Harris and the people in the campaign? What did the campaign expect by sending bigots like Torres and Clinton to insult Muslim voters? Did they never consider the fact that Muslims are also human?
America’s first Arab majority city of which 42% of votes went to Trump versus 36% for Kamala Harris is upset with Democrats for not doing more to stop Trump’s anti-immigrant actions.
I keep wondering, what did they expect? Did they sleep through his entire first term?
I keep wondering, what did they expect? Did they sleep through his entire first term?
This Arab-majority city backed Trump. It's not going well.
“The targeting of immigrants, the targeting of Muslim communities—we’ve seen this rhetoric climb over the past several months and I anticipate it getting worse,” Dearborn Mayor Abdullah ...
www.dailykos.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I keep wondering, why are bros like this never capable of considering the agency of Harris and the people in the campaign? What did the campaign expect by sending bigots like Torres and Clinton to insult Muslim voters? Did they never consider the fact that Muslims are also human?