lexi
@barredspirals.bsky.social
thought launderer, unnatural philosopher, aspiring victim of communism
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godDAMMIT you filthy COMMUNISTS i am a RED-BLOODED AMERICAN and i WILL NOT sell out my country for ANY price less than one yuan
yknow I think the whole "AI accountability" issue is kind of overblown. anthropomorphizing things that don't work like humans
January 20, 2026 at 11:45 AM
yknow I think the whole "AI accountability" issue is kind of overblown. anthropomorphizing things that don't work like humans
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I'm working on a concept of "pseudo-critique". reflexively deploying slogans in the name of critique of an automaton is a little ironic
a hot take I’ve been working on is that critics have made “inevitable” a dirty word in the name of critical thinking — nothing is inevitable, everything is political, we can always resist — but this is just the inverse of blind fatalism, equally a form of idealism. surely some things are inevitable!
January 19, 2026 at 7:46 PM
I'm working on a concept of "pseudo-critique". reflexively deploying slogans in the name of critique of an automaton is a little ironic
18 July, 2026. the irksome Danes have bent the knee. triumphant F-47s paint contrails across the evening sky, one spurting flame & spiraling into a horrific crash for no apparent reason, leveling what's left of the White House on impact. as the screams crescendo, Nero Redivivus readies his fiddle
January 20, 2026 at 12:12 AM
18 July, 2026. the irksome Danes have bent the knee. triumphant F-47s paint contrails across the evening sky, one spurting flame & spiraling into a horrific crash for no apparent reason, leveling what's left of the White House on impact. as the screams crescendo, Nero Redivivus readies his fiddle
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authoritarian regimes are actually more sensitive to public opinion than democratic ones because they do not have a reliable mechanism to reset their legitimacy (ie actual elections)!
How is it that so many people think that authoritarianism is a way to bypass completely public opinion?
January 19, 2026 at 8:59 PM
authoritarian regimes are actually more sensitive to public opinion than democratic ones because they do not have a reliable mechanism to reset their legitimacy (ie actual elections)!
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NORWAY PM: I HAVE REPEATEDLY CLEARLY EXPLAINED TO TRUMP THAT IT IS AN INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE THAT AWARDS THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
January 19, 2026 at 9:50 AM
NORWAY PM: I HAVE REPEATEDLY CLEARLY EXPLAINED TO TRUMP THAT IT IS AN INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE THAT AWARDS THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
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trans people who are not transitioning/no hrt are more trans than those transition/taking hrt and i'll explain why
non transitioning = objective is to be trans
transitioning = objective to be female or male
this should put an end to this transmedicalism discourse
non transitioning = objective is to be trans
transitioning = objective to be female or male
this should put an end to this transmedicalism discourse
December 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
trans people who are not transitioning/no hrt are more trans than those transition/taking hrt and i'll explain why
non transitioning = objective is to be trans
transitioning = objective to be female or male
this should put an end to this transmedicalism discourse
non transitioning = objective is to be trans
transitioning = objective to be female or male
this should put an end to this transmedicalism discourse
tfw the massive kitchen-sink game engine IDE is smaller than goolag maps and a birdsite client
January 19, 2026 at 9:40 PM
tfw the massive kitchen-sink game engine IDE is smaller than goolag maps and a birdsite client
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This is correct, so I'd really appreciate it if you took me seriously when I said the problem here is that the value of labor, all human labor, not just desk jobs, because we're going to get useful robots soon too, is going to zero and if you have a socialist bone in your body we need to organize.
sounds wise but even this framing is a year out of date. people are talking almost exclusively about what they're doing with LLMs *right now*, and on top of that, what they're doing right now is exactly what the most hypebrained shill said would happen. so this is wrong about both now and a year ago
Part of the struggle with the LLM discourse is that genuine (i.e. non-grifter) proponents talk exclusively about the possibilities of the transformer architecture in an ideal future with a rational business model.
Whereas opponents largely talk about the world we live in today, and its constraints.
Whereas opponents largely talk about the world we live in today, and its constraints.
January 19, 2026 at 8:24 PM
This is correct, so I'd really appreciate it if you took me seriously when I said the problem here is that the value of labor, all human labor, not just desk jobs, because we're going to get useful robots soon too, is going to zero and if you have a socialist bone in your body we need to organize.
whoa there's a nix version of termux now
January 19, 2026 at 9:25 PM
whoa there's a nix version of termux now
there is this thing we've been doing in the anglosphere for a while now, where you signal a sort of down-to-earth maturity & end-of-history levelheadedness by putting forth aggressively mundane views of the world & the future. (I am myself as guilty of this as any other latter-day marxist-leninist)
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
there is this thing we've been doing in the anglosphere for a while now, where you signal a sort of down-to-earth maturity & end-of-history levelheadedness by putting forth aggressively mundane views of the world & the future. (I am myself as guilty of this as any other latter-day marxist-leninist)
almost every diffusion model will interpret "moon" to specifically mean "Luna" even if you specify multiple moons in the sky. they're all just rescaled & relit duplicates of Luna. sometimes even happens when you say "planet" instead
January 19, 2026 at 8:07 PM
almost every diffusion model will interpret "moon" to specifically mean "Luna" even if you specify multiple moons in the sky. they're all just rescaled & relit duplicates of Luna. sometimes even happens when you say "planet" instead
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general winter remains an ally of the motherland (Minnesota)
it is -10 here today. I was supposed to go do a volunteer shift standing outside loading groceries into people’s cars to deliver to families stuck at home. just got a call not to come in because they have too many volunteers already. if you were wondering if the cold would stop us.
January 19, 2026 at 6:32 PM
general winter remains an ally of the motherland (Minnesota)
it's kind of fascinating, watching what your brain is doing when you're tweaking diffusion prompts to improve an output image. like, my avi prompt was consistently and inexplicably generating an extra person in the image, so I scanned the fairly long prompt and almost immediately caught the problem:
January 19, 2026 at 7:48 PM
it's kind of fascinating, watching what your brain is doing when you're tweaking diffusion prompts to improve an output image. like, my avi prompt was consistently and inexplicably generating an extra person in the image, so I scanned the fairly long prompt and almost immediately caught the problem:
the difference between kratom powder and extracts is so intense it's kind of scary. almost wondering if some research chemicals didn't make their way into the stuff ive been ordering
January 19, 2026 at 7:36 PM
the difference between kratom powder and extracts is so intense it's kind of scary. almost wondering if some research chemicals didn't make their way into the stuff ive been ordering
o shit
Zhipu just released a powerful lightweight option of GLM 4.7
✨ 30B total/3B active - MoE
huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-...
✨ 30B total/3B active - MoE
huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-...
January 19, 2026 at 6:52 PM
o shit
gods, imagine the butlerian jihadis trying to grapple with the concept of human intelligence augmentation. it's gonna get UGLY
January 19, 2026 at 6:12 PM
gods, imagine the butlerian jihadis trying to grapple with the concept of human intelligence augmentation. it's gonna get UGLY
'fraid ive gone mad with power again
January 19, 2026 at 5:55 PM
'fraid ive gone mad with power again
jfc every single agent tool does this shit
January 19, 2026 at 1:59 PM
jfc every single agent tool does this shit
okay lfm2 is just completely useless at tool calls. it makes RACTER-tier decisions and when they fail just keeps trying the exact same command over and over again
January 19, 2026 at 1:54 PM
okay lfm2 is just completely useless at tool calls. it makes RACTER-tier decisions and when they fail just keeps trying the exact same command over and over again
opencode is a clownshow
January 19, 2026 at 12:33 PM
opencode is a clownshow
reconsidering my idea to use lfm2 for that interstellar economy simulator thing
January 19, 2026 at 12:27 PM
reconsidering my idea to use lfm2 for that interstellar economy simulator thing
gods the open-source tooling for llm agents is fucking dire
January 19, 2026 at 11:46 AM
gods the open-source tooling for llm agents is fucking dire
your scientists were so busy trying to figure out how they could do it, they didn't stop to ask whether they should
https://github.com/chase/awrit
https://github.com/chase/awrit
January 19, 2026 at 11:33 AM
your scientists were so busy trying to figure out how they could do it, they didn't stop to ask whether they should
https://github.com/chase/awrit
https://github.com/chase/awrit
i am begging the TUI weenies to please start using the kitty keyboard protocol, it is Current Year https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-protocol/
here's a shitty library I wrote for it, even https://c.hale.su/util/file?name=ostinata/tui.janet&ci=tip
here's a shitty library I wrote for it, even https://c.hale.su/util/file?name=ostinata/tui.janet&ci=tip
January 19, 2026 at 11:24 AM
i am begging the TUI weenies to please start using the kitty keyboard protocol, it is Current Year https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-protocol/
here's a shitty library I wrote for it, even https://c.hale.su/util/file?name=ostinata/tui.janet&ci=tip
here's a shitty library I wrote for it, even https://c.hale.su/util/file?name=ostinata/tui.janet&ci=tip