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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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holographic liberal @transliberalism.substack.com · 3h

My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix is 🔥🔥🔥

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holographic liberal @transliberalism.substack.com · 4h

my handle scares people but I build trust with lefty circles by hyping leftist theorists more often than lib theorists lol

walter benjamin… my boy…

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holographic liberal @transliberalism.substack.com · 5h

Or, if you‘re skeptical of dr hancox-li over her liberalism and need to hear this leftishly, here’s a banger from susan stryker:

Hearken unto me, fellow creatures. I who have dwelt in a form unmatched with my desire, I whose flesh has become an assemblage of incongruous anatomical parts, I who achieve the similitude of a natural body only through an unnatural process, I offer you this warning: the Nature you bedevil me with is a lie. Do not trust it to protect you from what I represent, for it is a fabrication that cloaks the groundlessness of the privilege you seek to maintain for yourself at my expense. You are as constructed as me; the same anarchic Womb has birthed us both. I call upon you to investigate your nature as I have been compelled to confront mine. I challenge you to risk abjection and flourish as well as have
I. Heed my words, and you may well discover the seams and sutures in yourself.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 7h

listen guys, chatgpt porn will fail. it is not match from that one story from 12 years ago on fictionmania. you know the one.

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Junia Vale @fromjunia.cc · 18h

emotional support $9 coffee

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holographic liberal @transliberalism.substack.com · 23h

llms can hit the spot between writing your own and finding your own - it's significantly less effort than writing it yourself and significantly more likely to scratch your exact itch than reading what others have wrote, if you have a niche set of desires that aren't widely represented

holographic liberal @transliberalism.substack.com · 23h

just thinking about this because i saw the super rare small uncensored model drop - x1 dolphin 8b - and it's still stupid by current standards. the space moves fast so if it dropped this time last year it'd be well received but it just doesn't hold up anymore.

but it'll write you smut

holographic liberal @transliberalism.substack.com · 1d

and when they do exist - this is the kicker - they suck. "abliterated" models are everywhere but they basically lobotomize perfectly good models. remove their ability to tell you no when you ask it to write smut, in return it forgets what a dog is. great, awesome, good job everyone

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holographic liberal @transliberalism.substack.com · 1d

most uncensored / steerable type models exist between 24b and 123b (from mistral small finetunes to thedrummer's behemoth) which in turn still needs about 16gb vram at the low end, which is on the higher side of regular consumer graphics memory, to 64 gb vram. smaller models almost don't exist

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holographic liberal @transliberalism.substack.com · 1d

my intuition that it's tech nerds that are really into this is boosted by the fact that most the steerable models are big. the hermes 4 405b would require around... 196 gb vram - not ram, vram! - to run at a good speed. who the fuck has 196 gb vram

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holographic liberal @transliberalism.substack.com · 1d

hermes 4 405b is roughly as smart as qwen 3 235b despite being almost double the size. in return for the extra 170 billion parameters you get a model that'll tell you what happened in tiananmen square and will write you smut

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holographic liberal @transliberalism.substack.com · 1d

i get the impression that people into "steerable" LLMs are of the same mindset as people who insist on not using steam because of drm or who use an esoteric linux distro

you're getting worse stuff because you want deep control, and i get that, but also, you do know it's worse right?

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holographic liberal @transliberalism.substack.com · 1d

granite's willingness to randomly rp is so funny

A screenshot of the chat interface from the llama.cpp server. The user said "hello there" followed by the LLM responding "Hmm, a friendly greeting. I should respond in kind to establish a positive tone for our interaction. Hello! it's nice to meet you. How are you doing today?"

holographic liberal @transliberalism.substack.com · 1d

chatgpt: you're so insightful

gemini: you're so insightful

kimi: get help

holographic liberal @transliberalism.substack.com · 1d

qwen 3 2507: it's not this, it's that

claude: you're absolutely right!

granite: *teleports behind you* nothing personnel, kid

gpt-oss: [after being asked how to make a pb&j] i'm sorry user, i'm afraid i can't do that

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holographic liberal @transliberalism.substack.com · 1d

Getting shot in the face with a laser a couple dozen times hurts. What’s up with that

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holographic liberal @transliberalism.substack.com · 1d

Your Buddhist is showing

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teq @quilling.dev · 2d

you must be at least this haunted to ride

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holographic liberal @transliberalism.substack.com · 2d

What’s a quantization? What is the difference between IQ4_XS and Q4_K_S and Q4_K_XL? What’s a GGUF and bitsandbytes? What’s a kv cache? What does 30B A3B MoE mean and how is it different from 30B?

Simplify it, make more and better frontends, and it’s just game over

holographic liberal @transliberalism.substack.com · 2d

You can easily run something that rivals GPT-4o on a laptop with an 8GM VRAM GPU, or 24+ GB RAM. Not that hard anymore. Once the final kinks are ironed out (ex. How scary the terminology looks at first glance) I expect quick uptake

Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 2d

I continue to think that while "LLMs aren't actually that world-changing" is a risk people have at least started paying attention to, "good-enough LLMs are going to be cheap and ubiquitous and those $1B data centers are going to become a liability rather than a moat" is an equally serious problem

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 2d

Andrej Karpathy unveils nanochat, a full-stack training and inference implementation of an LLM in a single, dependency-minimal codebase (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 2d

This is my base scenario for an AI bust.

Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 2d

I continue to think that while "LLMs aren't actually that world-changing" is a risk people have at least started paying attention to, "good-enough LLMs are going to be cheap and ubiquitous and those $1B data centers are going to become a liability rather than a moat" is an equally serious problem

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 2d

Andrej Karpathy unveils nanochat, a full-stack training and inference implementation of an LLM in a single, dependency-minimal codebase (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2d

The notion that those who took part in slavery or conquest were merely abiding by the moral standards of their time necessary excludes those they targeted and kidnapped from those standards; *they* were never confused about this. But other white people were frequently disgusted by this stuff too!

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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holographic liberal @transliberalism.substack.com · 2d

YMMV but I’ve spent a loooot of time around Philly’s Muslim community and they’re perfectly nice people. I get more roof-tossing vibes from the street preachers.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

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