Damn, is this a subtle ad for a print subscription to The Onion?.. Because I kind of want one now.

“Do y’all extroverts ever feel pressured to talk, flighty, and hypersexual after three hours of sleep?”

(Go read [The Conversation’s] article if you want to know more – it is a very good read)

Thanks for the recommendation, Joachim. It sure would’ve been nice if you’d linked to it.

This article seems to try to take The Conversation’s compelling comparison of anti-AI to Ludditism and then shoehorn it into FOSS. I can agree it’s related as left-libertarian, but this article’s idea feels like it came about after they read The Conversation’s and just did it worse for a less relevant connection.

If [Take Back CTRL] isn’t in line with the philosophy of the Luddites, I don’t know what is. Dignity, self-determination, agency. That’s what it’s always been about.

Okay, no, Luddites weren’t just generically anti-every-bad-thing-about-tech (and two of those things listed are the same thing); they destroyed machines as high-value targets to get early industrial manufacturers to stop abusing labor.

I’m not trying to convince you of anything with this article; I am not looking for converts. I am just trying to point out that the FOSS movement is not anything new, not really.

So you’re trying to convince us that the FOSS movement is not anything new; did you ever learn what a persuasive essay is? Also, the headline and subheader is: “[…] I Use Linux; And Maybe You Should Too”. Trying to convince someone of something isn’t nefarious, and it’s staggering that someone would write this in a published opinion piece.

I like the ideals of this author, but their piece is poorly argued, meandering, and generally feels stream-of-conciousness.

Fake as fuck, unfortunately. NASA-TN-D-7110, for example (second row, third column) is actually titled “Minimizing the area required for time constants in integrated circuits”.

It’s kind of a small horse. What am I missing? Am I crazy?

Mathematician mfs when I solve the sphere packing problem with infinite efficiency by assuming the spheres are bosonic:

The original DBZ Abridged clip censors it. This image faithfully preserves the original artistic vision.

Fuck up their schemes? Putin’s scheme to wreck US hegemony is going insanely well and would’ve been going even better if he hadn’t greedily, groundlessly invaded Ukraine. Trump’s plan to abuse the presidency for personal gain seems to be doing well too.

as ballin’ as bossiple

Petition to make the names less confusing by renaming the top one to “Bear” and the bottom one to “Twink”.

Pictured: Alexander the Great announcing his victory to the citizens of Issus

Jaguars are the leading cause of male-pattern baldness.

It’s a trick. The jaguars killed Sebastián and used his phone to lure in more prey.

(Edit: As someone who’s contacted experts for research to improve Wikipedia, they’ve all seemed really happy that someone was interested enough in their subject to ask. If you have a question you’ve tried and failed to find an answer for, the worst they can ever do is say “no” or not reply. Try it sometime!)

Does ChatGPT apparently need to be brought up in literally every conversation about schizophrenic people now regardless of direct relevance?

Anyway, if you’re interested diving deeper, Fredrik Knudsen (Down the Rabbit Hole) made a great video on Davis and TempleOS back in 2018.

If you really want “beast of Satan” territory (imo, Poltys are just very cryptic):

• For behavior, I’m going to appeal to the Brazilian wandering spider which is extremely aggressive, likes to hide in human living spaces, is mobile, and is severely venomous (including causing a painful priapism).
• For prey, going with the Goliath birdeater. I think tarantulas are cute, but this one has the legspan of a fucking dinner plate, weighs up to like a 1/5 of a kilo, has a massive body, has 4 cm fangs, and is large enough to prey on small terrestrial vertebrates.
• For sheer vibes, going with the giant huntsman spider. It lives in caves in Laos, has a legspan of up to 30 cm like the Goliath birdeater (but proportionally smaller body, amplifying the creepiness), was only discovered in 2001 despite being so huge, and as a huntsman is probably fast as fuck. Unsure about the venom; I’ve never researched it.
• See also: trapdoor spiders.

Not putting any of these images here in case anyone’s arachnophobic. Exposure therapy only works if you build yourself up to it, and I don’t want anybody to miss out on a chance to come to appreciate spiders.

Looks like a species from the genus Poltys.

God damn it, Tonya!

bravely telling people ‘you’re using AI wrong.

More like telling that person they lack such a bare minimum understanding of how an LLM works that it’s comical. This is as fucking stupid as somebody complaining that their band saw can’t trim their fingernails.

literally the first thing that the market-leader OpenAI suggests you use it for presently

“Quiz me on vocabulary”? Oh, yeah, you know, I remember all those vocabulary quizzes I had in school that asked: “How many times does the letter ‘t’ appear in ‘platitudinous’?” Oh, wait, no, it’s referring to things like meaning, usage, examples sentences, etc. – actual vocabulary questions.

I don’t use LLMs since I don’t find myself ever needing them, and you’ll find I don’t pull punches with them either, but since you’re whining that the placeholder text in the input box is misleading, I used it for a vocabulary question I would otherwise use Wiktionary for:

Looks good to me, boss. Either you don’t understand what quizzing someone on vocabulary means or you assume the person is in kindergarten and needs to learn how to count the number of letters in a word.

I mean… Yeah. Anyone who knows even the first thing about how an LLM works is going tell you it’s not qualified to answer that. That niche functionality would need to be tacked onto the LLM as, say, a deterministic algorithm it could call and report the results from.

In a world of plenty of valid arguments against widespread generative AI, you chose one that at best says “people need to be more educated about generative AI before using it” and at worst says “I need to be more educated about generative AI before campaigning against it”.