Thinking about TracingWoodgrains recent talk, if they do somehow roll this out, they might learn some uncomfortable truths about their admins and mods. Fun cat and mouse to watch. Trolls burning through their offline friends and relatives to fuel their sockpuppeteering.

Carmilla: Transgender Programmer Princess This a fake trailer for an early 1990s movie which never existed, but should have.

Yep. Very similar. Lots of very lovely people where I grew up. Also, we're almost but not quite space aliens to one another.

homebrew has never failed to fuck up a mac for me eventually. use nix. it works really well on mac these days. ask claude to do any parts you're unsure of. you don't have to live with a giant mishmash of irreproducible, fragile, global binaries and libraries.

Good new term. Antonym of scissor statement, glue statement. Most political slogans are made of glue, in this sense.

Everyone's talking about the SWEbench chartcrime, but don't miss the deceptive deception graph.

Immortality is in the letters AGCT, you just need to put them in the right sequence to get it out.

(to the tune of hey there delilah) "health care provider, i am feeling kind of shitty" "there's a circus on the way, great clown performing in our city. fun for you!" "that clown i'm unable to view: we're one, not two... oh, pagliacci's me, oh, pagliacci's me, oh, pagliacci's me"

@prismaticflow Fel Wanted to double check this, so I downloaded a pdf of the book from google.com/books/edition/… and on pages 126-128 there's a list of The Compaynys of beestys and fowlys, including the classic "a Pride of Lionys" in the top right, and "a Beſynes of ferettis" five below. Confirmed.

I want to compress this entire passage into a scream and shout it from the rooftops until my voice gives out.

I believe in the rule of law. I believe in freedom of speech. I am against political violence. (I almost feel silly posting this, but it seems good to reinforce common knowledge that many still hold the basic pre-political commitments of liberal democracy.)

Ethan Mollick A rare real-life example of the Opponent Instruction trope tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.…

The most important fact about If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies is that it will hopefully cause Congress to realize that AI companies _really are_ trying to build superintelligence, and _really aren't_ sure they can do it without sending humanity the way of the dinosaurs...

liontender Harry gasped for breath, "but what is going on? " "Gradient descent," said Professor McGonagall. "That's just two words! Even after you tell me that, I can't make any new predictions!"

there is mechsploitation everywhere for those with the eyes to see them

⚡️🌙 RL stands for Real Life and Reinforcement Learning This Is Not A Coincidence Because Nothing Is Ever A Coincidence.