Surprise laugh for the day, reading a podcast transcript which I won't link to here because I do not want to drive business to this woman running a perfume store where she talked about ruining perfume notes by rubbing, because that "presses molecules together". Oh for crying out loud.
January 4, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Surprise laugh for the day, reading a podcast transcript which I won't link to here because I do not want to drive business to this woman running a perfume store where she talked about ruining perfume notes by rubbing, because that "presses molecules together". Oh for crying out loud.
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While I do agree that chatbots are not capable of thought or agency and should not be conceptualized that way, if you deputize them to speak for your company that output should be considered yours. If you don’t like it don’t make an LLM public facing. Hire a guy. There’s lots of guys.
The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
January 3, 2026 at 4:50 AM
While I do agree that chatbots are not capable of thought or agency and should not be conceptualized that way, if you deputize them to speak for your company that output should be considered yours. If you don’t like it don’t make an LLM public facing. Hire a guy. There’s lots of guys.
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Of course I didn't know what it meant as a little kid as it played on the stereo, but Janis Ian really gets to you even if you don't know what it means. Current mood, "In the Winter", Janis Ian.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvHA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvHA...
In the Winter (Remastered)
YouTube video by Janis Ian - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Of course I didn't know what it meant as a little kid as it played on the stereo, but Janis Ian really gets to you even if you don't know what it means. Current mood, "In the Winter", Janis Ian.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvHA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvHA...
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I don't have CashApp but if you do and you have any money you can spare, this family will two babies needs a new windshield. Help if you can. Please.
People, I need this one off my desk.
More to the point, this struggling young family needs to replace their windshield. They have to chauffeur two babies around.
Surely I have 7 moots with CashApp who can afford $50 each?
More to the point, this struggling young family needs to replace their windshield. They have to chauffeur two babies around.
Surely I have 7 moots with CashApp who can afford $50 each?
Now, tonight's local urgent needs. Just one.
I need 7 people with CashApp who can afford to give a family in need $50 each. Their windshield is badly damaged, and replacement will be ~$400.
They're raised $50 toward it; 7 ppl matching it will cover it.
CashApp ONLY, here: yoursbTruly
I need 7 people with CashApp who can afford to give a family in need $50 each. Their windshield is badly damaged, and replacement will be ~$400.
They're raised $50 toward it; 7 ppl matching it will cover it.
CashApp ONLY, here: yoursbTruly
December 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I don't have CashApp but if you do and you have any money you can spare, this family will two babies needs a new windshield. Help if you can. Please.
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Omfg
WTF is this time I'm living in?
Omfg
WTF is this time I'm living in?
Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
👀👀👀
Omfg
WTF is this time I'm living in?
Omfg
WTF is this time I'm living in?
Why is Bluesky becoming unusable on my phone, jumping around so I am unable to read posts?
December 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Why is Bluesky becoming unusable on my phone, jumping around so I am unable to read posts?
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GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that
Post something random or you'll have an awful December.
November 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Post something random or you'll have an awful December.
You just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
You just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
Watching Celine Song's The Materialists, and I cannot fathom how unrealistic it is that a high profile matchmaker would not have a passport. Among other things.
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Watching Celine Song's The Materialists, and I cannot fathom how unrealistic it is that a high profile matchmaker would not have a passport. Among other things.
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Altman has been quite clear about his strategy.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Altman has been quite clear about his strategy.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.
What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there.”
Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor
November 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there.”
Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor
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i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake
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November 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake
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what the “misuse” framing does is shift the onus on individual users when shit goes wrong leaving AI developers and vendors off the hook
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November 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
what the “misuse” framing does is shift the onus on individual users when shit goes wrong leaving AI developers and vendors off the hook
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For one instance if how Palestinian and Irish folklore rhyme, here’s my mini zine about the Fairy Lover, and the Bride: soniasulaiman.itch.io/paranormal-p...
October 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
For one instance if how Palestinian and Irish folklore rhyme, here’s my mini zine about the Fairy Lover, and the Bride: soniasulaiman.itch.io/paranormal-p...
Happy tears after this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzUf...
New Yorkers Become Hypnotized When He Sings THIS
YouTube video by guitaro5000
www.youtube.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Happy tears after this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzUf...
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To the craven "comedians" who are STILL not speaking up: The manager at the Chicago Laugh Factory was arrested by ICE. They filed no charges, he's a US citizen, and his family doesn't know where he is.
They are coming for all of us. Grow a fucking spine and say something while you still can.
They are coming for all of us. Grow a fucking spine and say something while you still can.
October 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
To the craven "comedians" who are STILL not speaking up: The manager at the Chicago Laugh Factory was arrested by ICE. They filed no charges, he's a US citizen, and his family doesn't know where he is.
They are coming for all of us. Grow a fucking spine and say something while you still can.
They are coming for all of us. Grow a fucking spine and say something while you still can.
My day has been full of cleaning dried dog snot off walls, when the dog shakes his head, he flings all sorts of detritus everywhere, even 6ft up. But I can't truly complain, having a pet is a privilege.
October 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
My day has been full of cleaning dried dog snot off walls, when the dog shakes his head, he flings all sorts of detritus everywhere, even 6ft up. But I can't truly complain, having a pet is a privilege.
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Because I still find people who don't know how the story ends:
Christopher Columbus was returned to Spain in chains in 1500 AD, convicted of barbaric torture of colonists, but released 6 weeks later by order of King Ferdinand II.
Neither he nor his brothers ever governed a Spanish holding again.
Christopher Columbus was returned to Spain in chains in 1500 AD, convicted of barbaric torture of colonists, but released 6 weeks later by order of King Ferdinand II.
Neither he nor his brothers ever governed a Spanish holding again.
October 9, 2023 at 1:53 PM
Because I still find people who don't know how the story ends:
Christopher Columbus was returned to Spain in chains in 1500 AD, convicted of barbaric torture of colonists, but released 6 weeks later by order of King Ferdinand II.
Neither he nor his brothers ever governed a Spanish holding again.
Christopher Columbus was returned to Spain in chains in 1500 AD, convicted of barbaric torture of colonists, but released 6 weeks later by order of King Ferdinand II.
Neither he nor his brothers ever governed a Spanish holding again.
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I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article.
www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...
www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...
Who is LakotaMan, the user behind one of the most popular Native American accounts on X?
John Martin is adored by white X users—but infamous among Native and Indigenous communities.
www.dailydot.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article.
www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...
www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...
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The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.
This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...
September 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.
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Let's all to take a deep breath & understand that we have reached the phase in fascism where if they want to declare you a criminal, you are a criminal. You can not magically avoid it, or do exactly the right thing to stay off the list. Fascism must always have enemies, and one day you will be one.
September 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Let's all to take a deep breath & understand that we have reached the phase in fascism where if they want to declare you a criminal, you are a criminal. You can not magically avoid it, or do exactly the right thing to stay off the list. Fascism must always have enemies, and one day you will be one.
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🚨 Today is the LAST DAY you can leave a public comment for the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, which meets Sep 18.
Reports suggest they may falsely link vaccines to child deaths and restrict vaccines to ages 75 and up.
You can submit a written comment here:
www.regulations.gov/document/CDC...
Reports suggest they may falsely link vaccines to child deaths and restrict vaccines to ages 75 and up.
You can submit a written comment here:
www.regulations.gov/document/CDC...
September 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🚨 Today is the LAST DAY you can leave a public comment for the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, which meets Sep 18.
Reports suggest they may falsely link vaccines to child deaths and restrict vaccines to ages 75 and up.
You can submit a written comment here:
www.regulations.gov/document/CDC...
Reports suggest they may falsely link vaccines to child deaths and restrict vaccines to ages 75 and up.
You can submit a written comment here:
www.regulations.gov/document/CDC...