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Profane Tmesis
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I write short stories and web serials. You can read them at https://profane-tmesis.info
We need to talk about what's happening in the whalosphere.
December 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Apropos of nothing, did you buy the property remarkably cheaply, and do all the locals avoid it?

Do they whisper about "where it happened, all those years ago", when they think you can't hear them?
December 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
August 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
You check the instruction manual. It has an Aramaic section. It's three times as long as the English section.
August 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
It seems mad to change the start of the year, but that is what they (eventually) did for the calendrier républicain, which moved the start of the year to 22 September (or the 1st of Vendémiaire).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...
French Republican calendar - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
June 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"A precious bag? One that you will cherish for as long as you live, and that you will proudly hand to your children when the time comes?"
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
My guess is that if you did this for longer, with more varied improvement prompts, you'd eventually get "aha moments" where it decided to change the fundamental approach.
June 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
You can improve the generated vector images by self-critique. Just upload the rendered SVG and ask the model to critique and improve it. Below is the first try, and the tenth iteration.

This is purely from the model's own critique, with no steering from me (using ChatGPT o3).
June 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM