It’s a play on words
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Very eloquently stated. There's a popular fallacy that *everything* could be easy if only the 1% cared to make it so and while things could certainly be a lot easier for a lot of people were there the political will, it doesn't mean that a world without labor is within our grasp or even desirable.
July 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Very eloquently stated. There's a popular fallacy that *everything* could be easy if only the 1% cared to make it so and while things could certainly be a lot easier for a lot of people were there the political will, it doesn't mean that a world without labor is within our grasp or even desirable.
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"you can't willpower your way out of anxiety/depression" is both true and capitulating to them. My social anxiety is honestly pretty bad, but I also know that if I'm faced with new situations I have to try my best to push through it. Over time that (and the ssri) have made it more manageable too
July 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"you can't willpower your way out of anxiety/depression" is both true and capitulating to them. My social anxiety is honestly pretty bad, but I also know that if I'm faced with new situations I have to try my best to push through it. Over time that (and the ssri) have made it more manageable too
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Moral issues aside, it seems pragmatically stupid to base your identity on being miserable and suffering oppression, as it turns any attempt to make your life better into a threat to your identity.
July 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Moral issues aside, it seems pragmatically stupid to base your identity on being miserable and suffering oppression, as it turns any attempt to make your life better into a threat to your identity.
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last time I was in Oxford there was graffiti all over the place that said TRAN'S JOY IS REAL and you know, I was very happy for Tran.
You ever get the feeling like trans suffering is fetishized in an unhealthy way in both our community and progressive circles writ large?
July 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
last time I was in Oxford there was graffiti all over the place that said TRAN'S JOY IS REAL and you know, I was very happy for Tran.
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Have just been strongly encouraged to use LLM products by an executive.
Me: But I thought you wanted to save time and improve my work.
Them: It will. Just try.
Me: Oh I have. How exactly do you think it will help? Please be specific.
Me: But I thought you wanted to save time and improve my work.
Them: It will. Just try.
Me: Oh I have. How exactly do you think it will help? Please be specific.
July 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Have just been strongly encouraged to use LLM products by an executive.
Me: But I thought you wanted to save time and improve my work.
Them: It will. Just try.
Me: Oh I have. How exactly do you think it will help? Please be specific.
Me: But I thought you wanted to save time and improve my work.
Them: It will. Just try.
Me: Oh I have. How exactly do you think it will help? Please be specific.
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Not just deep, but intrinsic. It's become a cliche, but it's correct: AI is a plausible sentence machine. Truth is not a concern, and it's not made to be accurate. It's made to create text that sounds like it's probably true to people who don't know the topic.
July 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Not just deep, but intrinsic. It's become a cliche, but it's correct: AI is a plausible sentence machine. Truth is not a concern, and it's not made to be accurate. It's made to create text that sounds like it's probably true to people who don't know the topic.
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This is key. LLMs will always do their best to *simulate* a correct response. This is all they can do. Sometimes that simulation is identical to an actual correct response, and sometimes it isn’t. The LLM is unaware of the difference. Well…it’s more accurate to say it’s just generally unaware.
July 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is key. LLMs will always do their best to *simulate* a correct response. This is all they can do. Sometimes that simulation is identical to an actual correct response, and sometimes it isn’t. The LLM is unaware of the difference. Well…it’s more accurate to say it’s just generally unaware.
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Also worth noting that Google vs AI is a false dichotomy. Google is itself now poisoned with AI, often offering paragraphs of false or hallucinatory information before you get to the first link. And then you get a bunch of useless, repetitive slop links all generated in the last seven days.
July 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Also worth noting that Google vs AI is a false dichotomy. Google is itself now poisoned with AI, often offering paragraphs of false or hallucinatory information before you get to the first link. And then you get a bunch of useless, repetitive slop links all generated in the last seven days.
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Happy puffin sweater season to those who celebrate
July 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Happy puffin sweater season to those who celebrate
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There are few practices on our side of the aisle I find as contemptible as being a primary dead-ender.
July 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
There are few practices on our side of the aisle I find as contemptible as being a primary dead-ender.
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I think recognizing whether or not you are the right person to contribute to a discourse is very important. I respect YouTube essayists who recognize that, rather than hopping on every bandwagon topic.
July 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I think recognizing whether or not you are the right person to contribute to a discourse is very important. I respect YouTube essayists who recognize that, rather than hopping on every bandwagon topic.
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For once, I'd like "provocative ideas about race" to mean "thinks Galapagos penguins are racially superior to humans" or "believes there is an invisible polka-dot colored race of Ibero-Atlanteans" and not "hates Black ppl and thinks they should be slaves".
July 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
For once, I'd like "provocative ideas about race" to mean "thinks Galapagos penguins are racially superior to humans" or "believes there is an invisible polka-dot colored race of Ibero-Atlanteans" and not "hates Black ppl and thinks they should be slaves".
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your readers might be interested in the (somewhat uneven) DAMNATION DECADE, an RPG with the conceit that all 70s woo is true and the heroes are working for Leonard Nimoy to battle various supernational threats.
July 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
your readers might be interested in the (somewhat uneven) DAMNATION DECADE, an RPG with the conceit that all 70s woo is true and the heroes are working for Leonard Nimoy to battle various supernational threats.
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A lot of reporters are going to wonder why the public doesn't understand what's in the Defund Healthcare and Make People Hungry Act, when a lot of them spent the spring proudly buying shares in Trump's Atlantic CIty casinos
July 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A lot of reporters are going to wonder why the public doesn't understand what's in the Defund Healthcare and Make People Hungry Act, when a lot of them spent the spring proudly buying shares in Trump's Atlantic CIty casinos
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the NYC mayoral election might be an opportunity to reset some terms.
the Cuomo faction are not “liberals” but “centrists”.
the Lander faction are “liberals”
the Mamdani faction are “leftists”
if you’re mad at centrists but complaining about liberals you are mostly pissing on the wrong people
the Cuomo faction are not “liberals” but “centrists”.
the Lander faction are “liberals”
the Mamdani faction are “leftists”
if you’re mad at centrists but complaining about liberals you are mostly pissing on the wrong people
June 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
the NYC mayoral election might be an opportunity to reset some terms.
the Cuomo faction are not “liberals” but “centrists”.
the Lander faction are “liberals”
the Mamdani faction are “leftists”
if you’re mad at centrists but complaining about liberals you are mostly pissing on the wrong people
the Cuomo faction are not “liberals” but “centrists”.
the Lander faction are “liberals”
the Mamdani faction are “leftists”
if you’re mad at centrists but complaining about liberals you are mostly pissing on the wrong people
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the thing that finished Franken wasn’t even that he’d groped the ~dozen women who came forward, it was that it was clear that he’d groped many many more who hadn’t come forward yet.
the bar is really very high to get me-tooed out of elective office but he cleared it
the bar is really very high to get me-tooed out of elective office but he cleared it
One of the remarkable things about the Franken-defenders is that men have no agency in their world. Gillibrand single-handedly, somehow, kicked Al Franken out of the Senate. Her power was so immense that Franken and the entire Senate had to stand by helplessly.
June 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
the thing that finished Franken wasn’t even that he’d groped the ~dozen women who came forward, it was that it was clear that he’d groped many many more who hadn’t come forward yet.
the bar is really very high to get me-tooed out of elective office but he cleared it
the bar is really very high to get me-tooed out of elective office but he cleared it
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the result of the last two decades plus of rural areas developing a massive drug problem while quality of life substantially improved in urban areas was to make people in rural areas believe that if they had it bad, the cities, by definition, must be hellholes
June 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
the result of the last two decades plus of rural areas developing a massive drug problem while quality of life substantially improved in urban areas was to make people in rural areas believe that if they had it bad, the cities, by definition, must be hellholes
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People have no clue how much rural life is subsidized by the pentagon budget.
You think gasoline is 3 dollars a gallon? LOL no. The other 7 dollars per gallon is just wrapped up in aircraft carriers floating around the Persian gulf.
You think gasoline is 3 dollars a gallon? LOL no. The other 7 dollars per gallon is just wrapped up in aircraft carriers floating around the Persian gulf.
July 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
People have no clue how much rural life is subsidized by the pentagon budget.
You think gasoline is 3 dollars a gallon? LOL no. The other 7 dollars per gallon is just wrapped up in aircraft carriers floating around the Persian gulf.
You think gasoline is 3 dollars a gallon? LOL no. The other 7 dollars per gallon is just wrapped up in aircraft carriers floating around the Persian gulf.
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I’ve found my people. Love gardening, but influencers promoting food subsistence on suburban lots is MAHA arrogant. Love, respect and gratitude to farmers! Frustrated food hobbyists, pivot to low water, fire wise, pollinator gardens. I did and LOVE it. So much more biodiversity. Nature is cool.
July 1, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I’ve found my people. Love gardening, but influencers promoting food subsistence on suburban lots is MAHA arrogant. Love, respect and gratitude to farmers! Frustrated food hobbyists, pivot to low water, fire wise, pollinator gardens. I did and LOVE it. So much more biodiversity. Nature is cool.
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And to the extent ag still employs people in rural areas, that employment depends on industry! Fucking nobody around here knows how to do sustainable organic agriculture *except* as part of a vigorous industrial sector. You don't get fresher tomatoes by killing Big Ag, you get no tomatoes
July 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
And to the extent ag still employs people in rural areas, that employment depends on industry! Fucking nobody around here knows how to do sustainable organic agriculture *except* as part of a vigorous industrial sector. You don't get fresher tomatoes by killing Big Ag, you get no tomatoes
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"I do not want to do subsistence agriculture" is maybe the most common motivation for things in human history
July 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
"I do not want to do subsistence agriculture" is maybe the most common motivation for things in human history
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Tumblr thread on the meaning of various veggies gifted from gardening neighbors.
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