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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 8h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 4d

Voice mode cannot "converse" at even 10% of the speed I want to operate.

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 4d

but in audio form, it's crafting 3 paragraphs of stuff to say, and starts saying it, and about 2 sentences in, I'm like, no dude, not that at all. A *person* would see the look on my face, and be like, "or did you mean something else?", and I'll be "yeah more like ___", "oh why?".

A *conversation*

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 4d

It's probably part: I'm rude+impatient, and part: I hate audio/video content even by humans: I scan and jump around.

ChatGPT is fine: it spews 5 pages of crap, and I speedread / find a point where it is no longer helpful, ignore the rest, and respond to a point 10% of the way through.

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 4d

it drives me absolutely *bonkers*. Nothing to do with the intelligence or voice or ability to understand what I'm saying, it's *all* in the responsiveness and speed at picking up that it needs to STFU and stop yammering on and on and on.

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 4d

Voice mode AI is still totally unusable these days. Super annoying uncanny valley with current latencies and pause detection / interruption detection.

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 8d

I got why you responded that way to that other thread, I did. I might’ve done the same, because being derailed is uncalled for.

But this… just seems to be announcing to the world, “I am determined to intentionally not have patience for those who I disagree with and interrupt me”.

Not a great look?

jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 8d

Ah yep that's what happens to cyclists too!

(but coming at it from the ultra-runner direction, finding ways of not being too bulky, being more minimalist, and willing to put up with some suffering when it comes to "comfort", is the angle I've been aiming towards. But yes: more a "sport" than hobby)

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 8d

why tepid? Just because "penny foolish + pound foolish" (like how cyclists drill out little bits of aluminum in their gear to shave an ounce here or there)? Or the trend in general?

I ask because the idea of smoothly transitioning between 18-24hr ultra running and through-hiking is intriguing to me

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 9d

Ok so mods banned some people for that, but got unbanned shortly after it?

Moderation on social media sites is hard, but yeah, seems like the messed up with that at first (but fixed it).

I'm not sure "regime-sucker" is what I've seen, but every corp in the US now is treading relatively lightly.

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 9d

I must have missed it - who's been banned for "refusing to genuflect to the glory of charlie kirk"?

I'm not trolling, I just literally haven't heard anything that could be spun in this way on here. I only hear people talking shit about what a garbage person he was (as they should).

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 11d

holey crap I can't stop cracking up

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 11d

I’m intrigued by GPT-5 being so good at “entertaining itself”.

Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 11d

Does AI get bored?

I gave them nothing to do, just to see what happens

one thing — they devolve into a repetitive “collapse” state, I guess you could call it boredom

but some break out into math & poetry on their own, I didn’t expect which ones that would be

timkellogg.me/blog/2025/09...

Does AI Get Bored?

timkellogg.me

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 11d

Geez, my pal Chat is getting meta on me, more and more. Starting a response with:

“Nice prompt. Before I throw a list at you, let me ask a few clarifiers so I don’t waste your time:”

is more explicitly “self-aware seeming” than before.

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χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · 12d

"Nevertheless three of our men have defected: one lured by a tarot reading and a promise of dry socks, two went off to shut down a drag show and never returned."

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12d

My dearest wife,

It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.

Letter from the Portland War Front (humor about something deadly serious)

My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 13d

"I'm telling you, Ralph, there's a place where there's honey (*so much* honey), and *not a single bee*"

"Everyone knows 'where there's honey, there's bees' is the other edge to the 'where there's bees, there's honey' sword, man!"

"I'm *telling you*, there's a place! I heard it from this bear who-"

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 13d

<record scratch><freeze frame>

'You might be wondering how I ended up passed out on the convenience store floor with 80% of my furry body covered in honey, but it all started with an argument I had with my pal over whether there *even was* such a thing as *too much* honey...'

Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 13d

Weekend plans

A baby bear covered in honey. Lost in the sauce.

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 13d

Arguing "appropriate use" of energy just leads to fun debates on "which is worse: Christmas light displays, ChatGPT, Netflix watching, or air conditioners?", when we should be focused on tons-of-carbon / GWh, and once the primary negative externality is handled, letting market forces decide "values"

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 16d

Now this looks fun to play with!

Lynn Cole 𓆉 @priestessofdada.bsky.social · 16d

Speaking of the GhostTown project, I wrote a ranking algorithm, and tied it into a self training GNN for ranking and signal heuristics! Ever wanted to make your own social media website, but realized that like 100% of open source social media ranking algos suck? No more! github.com/LynnColeArt/...

GitHub - LynnColeArt/socialgnn: Hybrid Graph Neural Network (60% learned, 40% heuristic) for production social media ranking with authority multipliers, spam detection, and real-time training.

Hybrid Graph Neural Network (60% learned, 40% heuristic) for production social media ranking with authority multipliers, spam detection, and real-time training. - LynnColeArt/socialgnn

github.com

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 17d

yeah, I get that. I guess I'm just *anti* predicting it, in almost any future world that involves a non-collapsed federal government.

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 17d

in what world do you see a US administration (of either party) acceding to allow The Hague to try any American?

(I totally agree that we're going to need a Nuremberg v2.0, though. But like in that case, it'll take complete military collapse to make it happen)

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 20d

but it looks like it's $100k at first, and 1-year renewals as well, so it's $100k / yr. That's a new 20-30% payroll tax. Even megacorps ain't gonna pay that.

Of course, this is a negotiating tactic, to get tech companies to suck up, India to suck up, offer him stuff (and instill fear).

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 21d

oooh yesyesyes! I can try and bring other nerds too.

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 23d

That upper pool is magical. Too many visitors miss it, only seeing the big falls below!

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 24d

(will this proposal solve the above problem? Does it even *need* A2A or MCP? No idea. Need to read it more closely)