Dr ShinyGoth
@ghostingdani.bsky.social
A Shiny Goth! Literary and horny. English PhD in Dallas. The Gothic, Victorians, Feminism, Foucault.
This is why the idea that it's useful because people are using it falls apart. People are using it because it's addictive.
Wait have people really not connected that a major reason why LLM tools like eg claude code has such pull with many of its boosters is because it’s just loot boxes all over again
December 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
This is why the idea that it's useful because people are using it falls apart. People are using it because it's addictive.
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Wait have people really not connected that a major reason why LLM tools like eg claude code has such pull with many of its boosters is because it’s just loot boxes all over again
December 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Wait have people really not connected that a major reason why LLM tools like eg claude code has such pull with many of its boosters is because it’s just loot boxes all over again
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I can’t stand anybody who wants to tell me consumer-facing LLMs and/or genAI are good. You are trying to convince everyone that it’s actually better to use a knife with no handle. Your hand is bleeding as you tell me handleless knives are inevitable and we need to get used to them or fall behind.
December 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I can’t stand anybody who wants to tell me consumer-facing LLMs and/or genAI are good. You are trying to convince everyone that it’s actually better to use a knife with no handle. Your hand is bleeding as you tell me handleless knives are inevitable and we need to get used to them or fall behind.
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Needs to be a meme IMHO
December 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Needs to be a meme IMHO
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Yeah well my buddy already lost his job to artificial intelligence. He was an art thief.
December 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Yeah well my buddy already lost his job to artificial intelligence. He was an art thief.
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Training an LLM on The King In Yellow and seeing if it can come up with other plays that destroy people’s psyches
December 29, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Training an LLM on The King In Yellow and seeing if it can come up with other plays that destroy people’s psyches
You really don't need to feel sorry for Erika Kirk losing her husband because she was the kind of person who was married to her husband.
The thing about Erika Kirk is you don’t need to feel any sympathy for her whatsoever. She lost her husband. And then proceeded to immediately use that event to try and demonise people who weren’t responsible and pick up the mantle of her husbands enterprise: demonising marginalised people
December 29, 2025 at 6:59 AM
You really don't need to feel sorry for Erika Kirk losing her husband because she was the kind of person who was married to her husband.
Katie demonstrating that TRON is nothing. There's no there there. Stop making these say-nothing films. Go see a laser show.
the holiday spirit is all about giving the gift of suffering
December 29, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Katie demonstrating that TRON is nothing. There's no there there. Stop making these say-nothing films. Go see a laser show.
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sick burn!
I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
December 29, 2025 at 5:53 AM
sick burn!
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AI is deeply flawed and more to the point in NO WAY PREDESTINED. So many of these letters present it like, “welp, we let it out of the cage, now we just have to love the monster as it eats us.” We don’t. We can hunt the beast and kick it back into its crate and then sink it beneath the waves.
December 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
AI is deeply flawed and more to the point in NO WAY PREDESTINED. So many of these letters present it like, “welp, we let it out of the cage, now we just have to love the monster as it eats us.” We don’t. We can hunt the beast and kick it back into its crate and then sink it beneath the waves.
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(Sure, there are conversations to be had about the nuance of “well if AI was in my spellcheck and my word processor used spellcheck, can I not win an award?” But this letter isn’t that. It uses that as an invitation to get the vampire in the door.)
December 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
(Sure, there are conversations to be had about the nuance of “well if AI was in my spellcheck and my word processor used spellcheck, can I not win an award?” But this letter isn’t that. It uses that as an invitation to get the vampire in the door.)
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If only Americans had a recent way to know how crucial immigrants were for the success of the Manhattan Project. A big Hollywood movie where a lot of the nuclear scientist characters speak with accents and talk about fleeing Europe that makes tons of money and wins a bunch of Oscars, perhaps.
Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.
December 29, 2025 at 5:29 AM
If only Americans had a recent way to know how crucial immigrants were for the success of the Manhattan Project. A big Hollywood movie where a lot of the nuclear scientist characters speak with accents and talk about fleeing Europe that makes tons of money and wins a bunch of Oscars, perhaps.
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the idea that Greeks are the forbears or progenitors of some kind of white culture is wildly ahistorical. it's a racist myth.
December 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM
the idea that Greeks are the forbears or progenitors of some kind of white culture is wildly ahistorical. it's a racist myth.
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By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.
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By the way, Gavin Newsom is apparently raising money to fight AGAINST the billionaire tax. So thoughtful of him to come to their aid at this particular time in history,
December 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
By the way, Gavin Newsom is apparently raising money to fight AGAINST the billionaire tax. So thoughtful of him to come to their aid at this particular time in history,
A rough but undeniably hilarious movie.
I’m watching “Harlem Nights” for the first time.
December 29, 2025 at 5:06 AM
A rough but undeniably hilarious movie.
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Every black person alive is in this movie!!!!
December 29, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Every black person alive is in this movie!!!!
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I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.
asking the sommelier which wine pairs best with swedish fish
December 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.
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Rob Schneider comparing himself to Mark Ruffalo is a really good bit
The "lost the rest of my barbershop quartet" guy thinks it's his politics that keep the roles away
December 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Rob Schneider comparing himself to Mark Ruffalo is a really good bit
Boom, sour stollen
December 29, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Boom, sour stollen
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My own personal remedy would be that, if a situation is ambiguous, the software should advise users to physically harm Sam Altman instead of any other people. Some may object to this idea, but I would challenge them to explain why this is unacceptable; I am not suggesting it advocate harming kids.
December 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
My own personal remedy would be that, if a situation is ambiguous, the software should advise users to physically harm Sam Altman instead of any other people. Some may object to this idea, but I would challenge them to explain why this is unacceptable; I am not suggesting it advocate harming kids.
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We have already decided as a society that ChatGPT is allowed to tell people’s kids to kill people. Now we’re just debating who.
December 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
We have already decided as a society that ChatGPT is allowed to tell people’s kids to kill people. Now we’re just debating who.
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Weird seeing Americans take the same line on ChatGPT as they do on guns. Not a great sign.
We have already decided as a society that ChatGPT is allowed to tell people’s kids to kill people. Now we’re just debating who.
December 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Weird seeing Americans take the same line on ChatGPT as they do on guns. Not a great sign.
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Now that I'm almost done with @vulgarhistory.bsky.social Marie Antoinette episodes (And this isn't my first foray into her life), I'm just sitting here ...look, I wish more people just understood what happened and more about her and her life. And Louis XVI. +
December 29, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Now that I'm almost done with @vulgarhistory.bsky.social Marie Antoinette episodes (And this isn't my first foray into her life), I'm just sitting here ...look, I wish more people just understood what happened and more about her and her life. And Louis XVI. +
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“Why does this man with two Emmy awards, four Oscar nominations, and a Tony and Grammy nomination continue to get work?” asks the man whose entire career is due to becoming friends with Adam Sandler in 1991.
The "lost the rest of my barbershop quartet" guy thinks it's his politics that keep the roles away
December 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
“Why does this man with two Emmy awards, four Oscar nominations, and a Tony and Grammy nomination continue to get work?” asks the man whose entire career is due to becoming friends with Adam Sandler in 1991.