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Reading letters from the Princess Liselotte of Palantine, the German sister-in-law of Louis XIV, and it's wild because she had this super informal writing style that almost sounds like modern texts
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Reading letters from the Princess Liselotte of Palantine, the German sister-in-law of Louis XIV, and it's wild because she had this super informal writing style that almost sounds like modern texts
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
They should have put a character like this in Andor, mainly because it would have been really funny
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
They should have put a character like this in Andor, mainly because it would have been really funny
Never seen a more clear example of The Orange Site being a bunch of miserable gits than in the comment section about a website showcasing laptop stickers.
God I miss n-gate.com
God I miss n-gate.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Never seen a more clear example of The Orange Site being a bunch of miserable gits than in the comment section about a website showcasing laptop stickers.
God I miss n-gate.com
God I miss n-gate.com
If WALL-E ended with him not getting his memories back I think it would have more entries on AO3
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
If WALL-E ended with him not getting his memories back I think it would have more entries on AO3
I have been muttering konnichiwagwan minnaslimes to myself all weekend
October 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I have been muttering konnichiwagwan minnaslimes to myself all weekend
The need to invent a way of playing 5 rounds of mahjong in a day that doesn't exhaust you
October 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The need to invent a way of playing 5 rounds of mahjong in a day that doesn't exhaust you
Going to Bristol this weekend for a Mahjong tournament
Aiming to not finish with negative points 😬
Aiming to not finish with negative points 😬
October 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Going to Bristol this weekend for a Mahjong tournament
Aiming to not finish with negative points 😬
Aiming to not finish with negative points 😬
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[extremely bbc news reporter voice] if you think back to the ever given blocking the suez canal, this is similar to that, but on the information superhighway
October 20, 2025 at 9:40 AM
[extremely bbc news reporter voice] if you think back to the ever given blocking the suez canal, this is similar to that, but on the information superhighway
They should make an airplane that can fly backwards
October 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM
They should make an airplane that can fly backwards
Ordering my pizza on the train home for the thrill of seeing who gets there first
October 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Ordering my pizza on the train home for the thrill of seeing who gets there first
Seeing @the8bitbigband.bsky.social today! Very excited
October 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Seeing @the8bitbigband.bsky.social today! Very excited
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Realising I can make a hot chocolate in the middle of the day instead of having to wait for the evening
September 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Realising I can make a hot chocolate in the middle of the day instead of having to wait for the evening
Imagine an alternate timeline where Labubu's got popular during the NFT bubble. Absolute generational gambling losses
September 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Imagine an alternate timeline where Labubu's got popular during the NFT bubble. Absolute generational gambling losses
Etymology is crazy.
We really just bang words together like cavemen with rocks to make new ones
We really just bang words together like cavemen with rocks to make new ones
August 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Etymology is crazy.
We really just bang words together like cavemen with rocks to make new ones
We really just bang words together like cavemen with rocks to make new ones
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what a fucking stupid time to be a person who cares about other people
August 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
what a fucking stupid time to be a person who cares about other people
Why are there no bank holidays in the Autumn?
August 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Why are there no bank holidays in the Autumn?
Realising in hindsight that a non-trivial amount of my interests must have spawned from watching the BBC children's TV series "Come Outside"
August 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Realising in hindsight that a non-trivial amount of my interests must have spawned from watching the BBC children's TV series "Come Outside"
We need a moratorium on the use of rounded corners in web design
July 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM
We need a moratorium on the use of rounded corners in web design
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I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
July 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
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it occurred to me recently that belief in AI sentience is an extreme application of sapir-whorf by people who think that production of linguistically valid output is *synonymous* with thinking bsky.app/profile/davi...
to me it is obvious that
1. LLMs produce meaningful language
2. LLMs are not sentient at all
the problem before us is to understand how both are possible
1. LLMs produce meaningful language
2. LLMs are not sentient at all
the problem before us is to understand how both are possible
July 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
it occurred to me recently that belief in AI sentience is an extreme application of sapir-whorf by people who think that production of linguistically valid output is *synonymous* with thinking bsky.app/profile/davi...
I wish I was able to be proactively funny instead of reactive. I can bounce off peoples topics in conversation but struggle to create humour in isolation
Need to cultivate poasting
Need to cultivate poasting
July 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I wish I was able to be proactively funny instead of reactive. I can bounce off peoples topics in conversation but struggle to create humour in isolation
Need to cultivate poasting
Need to cultivate poasting