Hallie Larsson
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Hallie Larsson
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· Sep 13
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
softwarecrisis.dev
Though I think the initial preamble to this is a false dichotomy that needs a lot of unpacking, I think the meat of this essay is very much something worth understanding (esp as someone who reads tarot) softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
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The Buffy Season 2 premiere aired 28 years ago. That means Buffy Season 2 is now as far in the past as the Moon landing was when it aired.
September 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The Buffy Season 2 premiere aired 28 years ago. That means Buffy Season 2 is now as far in the past as the Moon landing was when it aired.
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they should let me spend unlimited money if it's cool. instead we act like cool stuff should be just as hard OR HARDER to have than food or tshirts
September 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
they should let me spend unlimited money if it's cool. instead we act like cool stuff should be just as hard OR HARDER to have than food or tshirts
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What do you call a bear without teeth?
A gummy bear.
A gummy bear.
September 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What do you call a bear without teeth?
A gummy bear.
A gummy bear.
Saying what you expect invariably says more about you than anything else.
*facepalm*
As a general rule of life, never say to any author “I wouldn’t expect a [genre] author to know anything about [topic.]”
You will, without fail, discover that a statistically improbably number of people in that genre grew up there/did their thesis on it/have one in their lap.
As a general rule of life, never say to any author “I wouldn’t expect a [genre] author to know anything about [topic.]”
You will, without fail, discover that a statistically improbably number of people in that genre grew up there/did their thesis on it/have one in their lap.
My fellow men (and sadly, yes, it's mostly men who do this), don't do this.
September 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Saying what you expect invariably says more about you than anything else.
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wishing everyone a very "please read bell hooks. plz i am begging you"
"The first act of violence … patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. … patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves.”
"The first act of violence … patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. … patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves.”
September 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
wishing everyone a very "please read bell hooks. plz i am begging you"
"The first act of violence … patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. … patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves.”
"The first act of violence … patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. … patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves.”
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"We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do"
^^ominous. They're going to amp convict leasing using this logic.
Hell, at this point, I wouldn't rule out an effort to bring chattel slavery back
^^ominous. They're going to amp convict leasing using this logic.
Hell, at this point, I wouldn't rule out an effort to bring chattel slavery back
“The whole thing is screwed up,” said John Painter, a three-time Trump voter who runs an organic dairy farm in Westfield. “We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.”
Incredible.
Incredible.
'The whole thing is screwed up': Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers
They're pushing lawmakers to move faster on a farm labor solution, even as the president cracks down on immigration.
www.politico.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do"
^^ominous. They're going to amp convict leasing using this logic.
Hell, at this point, I wouldn't rule out an effort to bring chattel slavery back
^^ominous. They're going to amp convict leasing using this logic.
Hell, at this point, I wouldn't rule out an effort to bring chattel slavery back
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I love this.
September 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I love this.
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New rule: If you make the same mistake more than twice in runs you have to switch to USAMUNE and practice it until you either get a 3x streak of the star you make a mistake on OR you use savestates to improve your understanding. (Exceptions Apply)
September 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
New rule: If you make the same mistake more than twice in runs you have to switch to USAMUNE and practice it until you either get a 3x streak of the star you make a mistake on OR you use savestates to improve your understanding. (Exceptions Apply)
Though I think the initial preamble to this is a false dichotomy that needs a lot of unpacking, I think the meat of this essay is very much something worth understanding (esp as someone who reads tarot) softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
softwarecrisis.dev
September 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Though I think the initial preamble to this is a false dichotomy that needs a lot of unpacking, I think the meat of this essay is very much something worth understanding (esp as someone who reads tarot) softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
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I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts
At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.
www.nbcnews.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
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"The man who shot Charlie Kirk was a conservative white man from Utah. But the fact that we assumed it was a transgender Mexican demonstrates how out of control Leftist rhetoric has gotten." Tomorrow in the Washington Post
September 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"The man who shot Charlie Kirk was a conservative white man from Utah. But the fact that we assumed it was a transgender Mexican demonstrates how out of control Leftist rhetoric has gotten." Tomorrow in the Washington Post
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Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
September 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
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So annoying how the rich keep ransacking the economy every eight years and we all have to work real hard to prop it back up yet giving us healthcare not even on the table
September 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
So annoying how the rich keep ransacking the economy every eight years and we all have to work real hard to prop it back up yet giving us healthcare not even on the table
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If you're thinking about getting covid this variant, I got it 3+ weeks ago and only just stopped sleeping 11-13 hours a day this past Friday
September 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
If you're thinking about getting covid this variant, I got it 3+ weeks ago and only just stopped sleeping 11-13 hours a day this past Friday
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WHO WASHES THE WASHMEN!?
September 9, 2025 at 4:05 AM
WHO WASHES THE WASHMEN!?
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i don't trust people my age who start calling it a pfp. that's not your term. we call it an avatar, god damn it
September 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
i don't trust people my age who start calling it a pfp. that's not your term. we call it an avatar, god damn it
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If you, an atheist, make a statement about religion as a whole, & someone from a non-Christian religion says, "Actually, we don't believe that or practice that way," the correct response is, "Huh, I didn't realize that," & NOT "nuh-uh, you're in denial about your own faith that I've never studied."
August 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
If you, an atheist, make a statement about religion as a whole, & someone from a non-Christian religion says, "Actually, we don't believe that or practice that way," the correct response is, "Huh, I didn't realize that," & NOT "nuh-uh, you're in denial about your own faith that I've never studied."
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The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.
www.ft.com/content/8459...
www.ft.com/content/8459...
April 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.
www.ft.com/content/8459...
www.ft.com/content/8459...
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I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario
April 13, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario
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No, Democrats, these little auction signs aren't it. You're acting like Wes Anderson characters who don't understand that they're in a Tarantino movie.
March 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
No, Democrats, these little auction signs aren't it. You're acting like Wes Anderson characters who don't understand that they're in a Tarantino movie.
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in the background of one scene you can see the holy ghost
three wise men and a baby?! are we on to something here?!
April 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
in the background of one scene you can see the holy ghost
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In the end, this is a mixed bag of terms, but fans of the genre will surely get some enjoyment out of it.
April 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
In the end, this is a mixed bag of terms, but fans of the genre will surely get some enjoyment out of it.