Part of my success in tech support: I was good at the tech, sure, but what got me fast tracked for promotion was that I could also explain that tech to normies in a way that was both understandable and not condescending. This was a vanishingly rare skill among my peers.

IIRC from the discourse on this yesterday many of the churches she talked to either did exactly that, offering to get her in touch with local aid orgs they work with, or flagged her as a scammer because her story didn't add up.

I imagine the topic graph of pseudophilosophical mysticism is a kraken that reaches tendrils into nearly every other topic, with relatively few paths back out. It's a natural LLM trap.

So what I'm hearing is that folk music is due for a big comeback..

I love that the article ends on Altman's contempt for his own users just using his meme slop generator to make meme slop nobody wants to see, rather than being auteurs who lend his slop gravitas and renown.

Thank you for the space <3

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Reading this sentence made my performance reliability drop 5%

Logistically? Yes, the military seems entirely functional. Command-wise? Ranges from poorly to no depending on who's attacking.

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early.
astronaut: moon lesbians.
nasa employee: what?
astronaut: *shoving cardboard boxes and a cat carrier into the capsule and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon lesbians.