(I know he doesn't care, but wtf)

"you mean, like Peter Thiel, your boss?"

for now I'm still ok with my developing role as technical lead over an army of bots, but who knows how long that will persist

I actually didn't even know the teacher in question was trans from my first reading. it was other posts I saw here that pointed it out

5th place at the Malvern Autumn Show! you go, big veg guy

the GOP has found ways to quietly maintain small pockets of power, outside of the party label, in Democratic cities like SF; there's probably room for Democrats to do something similar in hostile territory

the ramp up in mental effort and attention required with a older kid is starting to take its toll. less physical effort, but I can't just kind of operate on autopilot at home anymore

I mean, the bread scandal just feels so quaint compared to what we have now

conservatives, it turns out, are absolutely correct about there being quiet, load-bearing institutions that are vital to the existence of civilization. they're just opposed to them

Unscientific vibe shift prediction: wouldn't be surprised if you saw a shift among liberal artists who take politics more seriously/are very tapped into the zeitgeist from "you can't trust THE MAN, who has AN AGENDA" to "you can't trust selfish people who won't cooperate when it's needed"

I think ~20% of non-partisan NIMBY housing comments about private equity and vacancy & related myths are actual honest to god bot operations run by landlords

I mean, whatever you call them, LLMs are a specific application of machine learning, using training techniques essentially identical to those in any other neural nets

machine translation was the original application of the transformer model, from the Attention Is All You Need paper

people used vaccines before they understood germ theory

the belt is Kier, the shoe Starmer

damn, it even got the signature