@irhottakes.bsky.social is "nasty" the right word?

*I laughed lovingly, with a joyful heart open to all the universe's possibilities

ok, i laughed

Genuine question: what made you want to get it?

We don't know what it means either 😬

"trump wasn't on the ballot you see"

Also worth noting that in 2021 Curtis Silva got 27 percent of the vote. For those keeping score at home, that's a 20 percent drop in the vote share for Republicans from 2021 to 2025, in what was already one of the most D-leaning cities in the country.

If we really want to make a thing about this, we should probably note that Democratic politicians got 92 percent of all votes cast.

Mamdani's also the first NYC mayoral candidate to cross the million vote threshold since the 60s so this dude's take prob not worth wasting a lot of brain space on

literally my next question!

corollary to that is it can be very strong as a teacher for certain specific tasks. i'm taking a basic coding class and Claude is a godsend as a tutor/troubleshooter. but one meta difficulty highlighted by thread is keeping up with things ai can/can't do well almost a job in itself.

Yeah, forget what report I saw it in but a significant chunk of the university's researchers somehow became uninsurable against defamation after one single PRC corporate brought suit.

1000 Hades 2 hours or bust

lol deleeeeeeeeeeeeeeting

switched to bazzite on my legion go a few months back and there is a 0% chance I will ever switch back

This exchange encapsulating why I've found the GenAI rollout frustrating. The tools are not inherently bad. They have many real use cases! But seems increasingly likely they won't have enough general utility (measured in the form of revenue) to sustain the enormous capital spend we're seeing.

Not your headline I know Finbarr, just enjoying use of word "linked" here. Saying Thornton linked to Party Central like saying the Aegean Sea is linked to the Mediterranean.