JL
@jlwastooshort.bsky.social
Doggo. He/him. Religious, but not the sort you're probably thinking of. Not the other sort either. On the side of non-evil people everywhere.
Alt where fewer of my posts will be angry about politics and society: @jlwastoopolitical.bsky.social
Alt where fewer of my posts will be angry about politics and society: @jlwastoopolitical.bsky.social
being an older millennial I of course knew of it, but I have still learned something new today, namely that this page exists en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
being an older millennial I of course knew of it, but I have still learned something new today, namely that this page exists en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
You know, I gotta say, I'm not really feeling the people trying to blame Trump for the dead guardswoman. The deployment was bad but the expected # of hostile gunshots should have been zero. It's not like they were being deployed to a war zone. We were joking that they were picking up trash!
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 AM
You know, I gotta say, I'm not really feeling the people trying to blame Trump for the dead guardswoman. The deployment was bad but the expected # of hostile gunshots should have been zero. It's not like they were being deployed to a war zone. We were joking that they were picking up trash!
least morally compromised chatgpt user
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
least morally compromised chatgpt user
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We are, in fact, coming for your way of life. It sucks! For you, among other things!
We are, in fact, trying to turn your children gay/trans/whatever (i.e. to make them feel free to be themselves, which probably includes some degree of queerness)
Etc.
We are, in fact, trying to turn your children gay/trans/whatever (i.e. to make them feel free to be themselves, which probably includes some degree of queerness)
Etc.
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We are, in fact, coming for your way of life. It sucks! For you, among other things!
We are, in fact, trying to turn your children gay/trans/whatever (i.e. to make them feel free to be themselves, which probably includes some degree of queerness)
Etc.
We are, in fact, trying to turn your children gay/trans/whatever (i.e. to make them feel free to be themselves, which probably includes some degree of queerness)
Etc.
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if our media betters want us to believe these two are flagrant exceptions to how the industry operates it would be the easiest thing in the world to condemn them and make them into pariahs
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
if our media betters want us to believe these two are flagrant exceptions to how the industry operates it would be the easiest thing in the world to condemn them and make them into pariahs
You've just died. 6th picture in your phone's gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
You've just died. 6th picture in your phone's gallery is what killed you.
it remains so absolutely insane how many of the pitched AI usecases are "you can more easily lie about something that a correctly aligned person would find a way to handle without lying"
I just saw the google gemini ad about how you can use it to trick your kid into thinking their lost stuffed animal is just on vacation and I will join any anti-AI cult that happens to arise at this point
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it remains so absolutely insane how many of the pitched AI usecases are "you can more easily lie about something that a correctly aligned person would find a way to handle without lying"
now it's time for the thanksgiving tradition everyone loves, "figure out how to kill ten hours on a day when nothing is open"
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
now it's time for the thanksgiving tradition everyone loves, "figure out how to kill ten hours on a day when nothing is open"
random thought: I don't believe I've ever seen 🤬 used in a situation where the person couldn't have just said a swear instead
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
random thought: I don't believe I've ever seen 🤬 used in a situation where the person couldn't have just said a swear instead
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We have sinned against our Ukrainian brothers and sisters in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done and especially what we have left undone, and if they begrudge us for that then I hold no right to tell them that they are wrong to do so until we repent and rectify our sins by our works
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We have sinned against our Ukrainian brothers and sisters in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done and especially what we have left undone, and if they begrudge us for that then I hold no right to tell them that they are wrong to do so until we repent and rectify our sins by our works
yeah, this is the thing:
is it really bad, yes;
could it lead to bad shit happening in the near term, yes;
are they gonna be able to make it into enough of a bloody shirt to overcome the fact that everyone fucking hates them and nothing's getting better... overwhelmingly likely not, imo
is it really bad, yes;
could it lead to bad shit happening in the near term, yes;
are they gonna be able to make it into enough of a bloody shirt to overcome the fact that everyone fucking hates them and nothing's getting better... overwhelmingly likely not, imo
All I’m gonna say is that we doomed about Charlie Kirk and that was not a Reichstag fire or even a Horst weasel so don’t waste time dooming about this one before any real facts have even come out
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
yeah, this is the thing:
is it really bad, yes;
could it lead to bad shit happening in the near term, yes;
are they gonna be able to make it into enough of a bloody shirt to overcome the fact that everyone fucking hates them and nothing's getting better... overwhelmingly likely not, imo
is it really bad, yes;
could it lead to bad shit happening in the near term, yes;
are they gonna be able to make it into enough of a bloody shirt to overcome the fact that everyone fucking hates them and nothing's getting better... overwhelmingly likely not, imo
I agree that the chances AI gets "wiped out" are essentially 0 but I choose to remain in hope that we can get to a place where its harms are criminalized and its users, outside of the research stuff that's more ML than generative AI, are stigmatized as losers
Like yeah I'm sure the people saying "the left will polarize against AI and wipe it out!" are high on their own supply and not worth taking seriously. But that also doesn't incentivize me to be pro-AI. My beliefs and preferences are not contingent on whether I think society at large will back me up.
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I agree that the chances AI gets "wiped out" are essentially 0 but I choose to remain in hope that we can get to a place where its harms are criminalized and its users, outside of the research stuff that's more ML than generative AI, are stigmatized as losers
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Like yeah I'm sure the people saying "the left will polarize against AI and wipe it out!" are high on their own supply and not worth taking seriously. But that also doesn't incentivize me to be pro-AI. My beliefs and preferences are not contingent on whether I think society at large will back me up.
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Like yeah I'm sure the people saying "the left will polarize against AI and wipe it out!" are high on their own supply and not worth taking seriously. But that also doesn't incentivize me to be pro-AI. My beliefs and preferences are not contingent on whether I think society at large will back me up.
often when I am reading a book at Panera I will stop and just gaze out the window for a while at the trees and the people coming and going, so really I'm just like St. Francis when you think about it
Morning: Saint Francis leaves his book behind to rejoice in how divinity infuses natural world. A miraculous breeze blows a single tree toward him while beyond it, life goes on. Painted c1480 by Giovanni Bellini.
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
often when I am reading a book at Panera I will stop and just gaze out the window for a while at the trees and the people coming and going, so really I'm just like St. Francis when you think about it
again the thing, and I think of this whenever I see someone make the argumentum ad populum, is that "global user numbers are quite high in absolute terms" and "significantly more people view it as bad than good" are 100% compatible with one another!
Idk on one hand the user numbers speak for themselves, but I do wonder what users are doing with their sessions and whether they’d be willing to pay, and whether ppl would really resist strong regulations
Like…these recent Gallup poll numbers are not good for AI
news.gallup.com/poll/694688/...
Like…these recent Gallup poll numbers are not good for AI
news.gallup.com/poll/694688/...
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
again the thing, and I think of this whenever I see someone make the argumentum ad populum, is that "global user numbers are quite high in absolute terms" and "significantly more people view it as bad than good" are 100% compatible with one another!
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I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
My reaction to the Gallego thing is:
-we already knew he wasn't near the top of the "most correctly aligned Dems" list
-he should of course still be expected to toe the line in public, incl. on votes
-if AZ voters can replace him with someone better-while-equally-electable then I will cheer them on
-we already knew he wasn't near the top of the "most correctly aligned Dems" list
-he should of course still be expected to toe the line in public, incl. on votes
-if AZ voters can replace him with someone better-while-equally-electable then I will cheer them on
November 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
My reaction to the Gallego thing is:
-we already knew he wasn't near the top of the "most correctly aligned Dems" list
-he should of course still be expected to toe the line in public, incl. on votes
-if AZ voters can replace him with someone better-while-equally-electable then I will cheer them on
-we already knew he wasn't near the top of the "most correctly aligned Dems" list
-he should of course still be expected to toe the line in public, incl. on votes
-if AZ voters can replace him with someone better-while-equally-electable then I will cheer them on
I expect one'll always be able to say "people love AI" because there'll always be min ~30% of the population that loves it, in the same sense as there's ~30% of the population that loves the idea of feeding brown children into a woodchipper, and in both cases that's a lot of people in absolute terms
Man, the problem with AI isn’t that nobody likes it. It’s that people love it and it’s not particularly good at the things they loving having it do.
And also it remains unclear exactly how much, in dollars, they will love it being mediocre at the things they want it to do.
And also it remains unclear exactly how much, in dollars, they will love it being mediocre at the things they want it to do.
i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I expect one'll always be able to say "people love AI" because there'll always be min ~30% of the population that loves it, in the same sense as there's ~30% of the population that loves the idea of feeding brown children into a woodchipper, and in both cases that's a lot of people in absolute terms
Every time I see a headline about Tina Peters I spend at least a couple of seconds thinking she's a Democratic senator from somewhere, because my brain puts "Tina Smith" and "Gary Peters" together. It causes some odd cognitive moments, to say the least.
NEW: Tina Peters is staying put in a Colorado prison.
Colorado's Department of Corrections tells me it does not intend to respond to a DOJ request to move Peters to federal custody.
www.9news.com/article/news...
Colorado's Department of Corrections tells me it does not intend to respond to a DOJ request to move Peters to federal custody.
www.9news.com/article/news...
Tina Peters to remain in state custody despite federal request
The Colorado Department of Corrections is resisting federal pressure to transfer a former Mesa County clerk to federal custody, despite Trump's backing.
www.9news.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Every time I see a headline about Tina Peters I spend at least a couple of seconds thinking she's a Democratic senator from somewhere, because my brain puts "Tina Smith" and "Gary Peters" together. It causes some odd cognitive moments, to say the least.
it's wild how Dilbert and FoxTrot were two of my favorite comics as an adolescent in the 90s and the creators went, morally speaking, in completely opposite directions. real goofus and gallant hours
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
it's wild how Dilbert and FoxTrot were two of my favorite comics as an adolescent in the 90s and the creators went, morally speaking, in completely opposite directions. real goofus and gallant hours
an equally cool thing about this generally true statement (there are a relatively small number of exceptions, mostly people who will be fired from their jobs for not using chatbots for coding or w/e) is that you can then proceed to make the appropriate moral assessments of people who do
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
an equally cool thing about this generally true statement (there are a relatively small number of exceptions, mostly people who will be fired from their jobs for not using chatbots for coding or w/e) is that you can then proceed to make the appropriate moral assessments of people who do
saying things we all already know, but: it was never Trump being able to do anything that could be described as "sustaining" it, it was the voters brain-smoothing themselves into believing it, in defiance of anything Trump did or didn't do. So that's what you'd need to demonstrate had changed. 🤷♂️
Joe Biden should have seized the Times under asset forfeiture
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
saying things we all already know, but: it was never Trump being able to do anything that could be described as "sustaining" it, it was the voters brain-smoothing themselves into believing it, in defiance of anything Trump did or didn't do. So that's what you'd need to demonstrate had changed. 🤷♂️
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playing the OG metroid prime way back when is a top gaming memory for me
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
playing the OG metroid prime way back when is a top gaming memory for me
tbqh, among my strongest opinions about food discourse is the meta-opinion that it ought to be okay for people to have distinctly non-overlapping preferences in food, and thus dining choices, without anyone needing to be offended, certainly on the internet but also increasingly just in real life.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
tbqh, among my strongest opinions about food discourse is the meta-opinion that it ought to be okay for people to have distinctly non-overlapping preferences in food, and thus dining choices, without anyone needing to be offended, certainly on the internet but also increasingly just in real life.
houseboat guy after he listened to "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald":
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
houseboat guy after he listened to "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald":