ellie lockhart (she/they)
@eleanor.lockhart.contact
engineer living in Seattle (posts never represent employer). Transfem person (she/they), liberal, autistic. RTs not endorsements. Here to make friends & talk about Chris Nolan films. Anti-doomer. None of us are immune to the effects of social media.
look, a person who has managed to completely misinform themselves and will be quickly disciplined back into their original misconceptions (every reply, except for the one from my mutual at the end here, failed to disabuse them of the notion that in fact chatbots + OCR *really are connected*)
December 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
look, a person who has managed to completely misinform themselves and will be quickly disciplined back into their original misconceptions (every reply, except for the one from my mutual at the end here, failed to disabuse them of the notion that in fact chatbots + OCR *really are connected*)
hi, i have the answer to your question
it's because most people aren't luddites who want to live in the past and you're living in a bubble which has convinced you everyone is against new technology when they're not
it's because most people aren't luddites who want to live in the past and you're living in a bubble which has convinced you everyone is against new technology when they're not
December 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
hi, i have the answer to your question
it's because most people aren't luddites who want to live in the past and you're living in a bubble which has convinced you everyone is against new technology when they're not
it's because most people aren't luddites who want to live in the past and you're living in a bubble which has convinced you everyone is against new technology when they're not
oh wow this isn't antiintellectualism in the slightest. I'm sure joking toleration of this sort of attitude will be a great thing for the left
December 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
oh wow this isn't antiintellectualism in the slightest. I'm sure joking toleration of this sort of attitude will be a great thing for the left
most science fiction stories that people think are "cautionary tales about the dangers of <x>" actually implicitly approve of x and this is fine
December 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
most science fiction stories that people think are "cautionary tales about the dangers of <x>" actually implicitly approve of x and this is fine
screencapping not from hostility but because this is interesting discourse but I have mtsw blocked
the thing about this mindset is that there is *also*, in the same spheres/crowds, an implicit degendering or ungendering of women who *do* like men who aren't toxic.
the thing about this mindset is that there is *also*, in the same spheres/crowds, an implicit degendering or ungendering of women who *do* like men who aren't toxic.
December 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
screencapping not from hostility but because this is interesting discourse but I have mtsw blocked
the thing about this mindset is that there is *also*, in the same spheres/crowds, an implicit degendering or ungendering of women who *do* like men who aren't toxic.
the thing about this mindset is that there is *also*, in the same spheres/crowds, an implicit degendering or ungendering of women who *do* like men who aren't toxic.
midway into a decade in which the global narrative is designed specifically in a lab to refute the notion that the right wing’s harm to people is primarily or exclusively motivated by profit: mods help help i don’t see a profit motive in the thing that’s being done to me, how can it be real
December 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
midway into a decade in which the global narrative is designed specifically in a lab to refute the notion that the right wing’s harm to people is primarily or exclusively motivated by profit: mods help help i don’t see a profit motive in the thing that’s being done to me, how can it be real
I do in fact remember how this thread got here, but it sure is a journey
December 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I do in fact remember how this thread got here, but it sure is a journey
it's really not
a lot of people were always going to hate everything new
people only enjoyed fiction about robots being people because they pre-assigned fictional characters to "people" in their heads
those of us who really wanted to create/meet AI were always just the weird nerds
a lot of people were always going to hate everything new
people only enjoyed fiction about robots being people because they pre-assigned fictional characters to "people" in their heads
those of us who really wanted to create/meet AI were always just the weird nerds
December 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
it's really not
a lot of people were always going to hate everything new
people only enjoyed fiction about robots being people because they pre-assigned fictional characters to "people" in their heads
those of us who really wanted to create/meet AI were always just the weird nerds
a lot of people were always going to hate everything new
people only enjoyed fiction about robots being people because they pre-assigned fictional characters to "people" in their heads
those of us who really wanted to create/meet AI were always just the weird nerds
...ok I really am going to regret asking this question, but people don't think that computer programs in general "generate energy," right?
December 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
...ok I really am going to regret asking this question, but people don't think that computer programs in general "generate energy," right?
do people understand that research isn't funded like a Firaxis game from a central pool where someone is clicking "mass transit vs. self driving cars"
December 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
do people understand that research isn't funded like a Firaxis game from a central pool where someone is clicking "mass transit vs. self driving cars"
well that's a different kind of deranged reply spam
science fiction monomyth is popular, you say? I wouldn't know ANYTHING about that
science fiction monomyth is popular, you say? I wouldn't know ANYTHING about that
December 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
well that's a different kind of deranged reply spam
science fiction monomyth is popular, you say? I wouldn't know ANYTHING about that
science fiction monomyth is popular, you say? I wouldn't know ANYTHING about that
this is the kind of thing I get multiple times a day for talking about things I have expertise in.
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
this is the kind of thing I get multiple times a day for talking about things I have expertise in.
i am trying to imagine the scenario where posting this to someone you’ve never spoken to is coherent as a storyline where a thing happens
December 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
i am trying to imagine the scenario where posting this to someone you’ve never spoken to is coherent as a storyline where a thing happens
this is sincerely my defense of Tarantino btw
December 1, 2025 at 5:17 AM
this is sincerely my defense of Tarantino btw
even if Claude is just doing really sophisticated semiotic parroting or whatever it’s genuinely amazing that it can do this
December 1, 2025 at 5:16 AM
even if Claude is just doing really sophisticated semiotic parroting or whatever it’s genuinely amazing that it can do this