Sweets
@sweetnothingnyc.bsky.social
Retired lingerie blogger and bra fitter, formerly of NYC, probably taking a picture of her three legged cat at the moment. Owner of objectively too many robes
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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much like Wicked, Avatars are simply none of my business
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
much like Wicked, Avatars are simply none of my business
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A gentle reminder—turkeys out of the freezer and into the fridge today.
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A gentle reminder—turkeys out of the freezer and into the fridge today.
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Wife: What’s Shiv Roy’s poor husband’s name?
Me: Fitzwilliam Darcy. Miserable he may be, but poor he most certainly is not. 10,000 pounds a year and he owns half of Derbyshire.
Wife: Babe. Please. It’s for work.
Me: Ugh blah fine, Tom Wambsgans.
Me: Fitzwilliam Darcy. Miserable he may be, but poor he most certainly is not. 10,000 pounds a year and he owns half of Derbyshire.
Wife: Babe. Please. It’s for work.
Me: Ugh blah fine, Tom Wambsgans.
November 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Wife: What’s Shiv Roy’s poor husband’s name?
Me: Fitzwilliam Darcy. Miserable he may be, but poor he most certainly is not. 10,000 pounds a year and he owns half of Derbyshire.
Wife: Babe. Please. It’s for work.
Me: Ugh blah fine, Tom Wambsgans.
Me: Fitzwilliam Darcy. Miserable he may be, but poor he most certainly is not. 10,000 pounds a year and he owns half of Derbyshire.
Wife: Babe. Please. It’s for work.
Me: Ugh blah fine, Tom Wambsgans.
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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how happy we’d all be if this was all the internet was for
October 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
how happy we’d all be if this was all the internet was for
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Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.
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I know it’s not technically polite, but I love having a conversation with other people who are comfortable with short interjecting interruptions. To me it makes the conversation feel more like something we’re weaving together rather than alternating individual presentations. It feels more alive.
October 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I know it’s not technically polite, but I love having a conversation with other people who are comfortable with short interjecting interruptions. To me it makes the conversation feel more like something we’re weaving together rather than alternating individual presentations. It feels more alive.
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October 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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dunno who needs to hear this but
October 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
dunno who needs to hear this but
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Fuck RFK jr and fuck this administration
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
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September 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Fuck RFK jr and fuck this administration
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Here’s the link to file claims in the Anthropic case: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
Anthropic Authors’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser
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August 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Here’s the link to file claims in the Anthropic case: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
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Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
My best, most perfect, most beautiful, most wonderful boy in the whole world, Gus, passed away July 1 after his cancer returned sooner than I hoped. I was and am filled with grief beyond words. How dare such a small creature leave such a chasm in the world.
August 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My best, most perfect, most beautiful, most wonderful boy in the whole world, Gus, passed away July 1 after his cancer returned sooner than I hoped. I was and am filled with grief beyond words. How dare such a small creature leave such a chasm in the world.
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I signed!
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@standupforscience.bsky.social
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We will hand deliver to Congress in Sept!
#31doa #imoeachthequack
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@standupforscience.bsky.social
Day 14! WE ARE LAUNCHING A CAMPAIGN TO IMPEACH AND REMOVE BOBBY “The Quack” JR.
🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆SIGN AND SHARE OUR PETITION: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...
We will hand deliver to Congress in Sept!
#31doa #imoeachthequack
#signandshare
Sign the IMPEACH RFK Citizens' Petition to Congress — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Join with us to sign our Citizens' Petition to the US Congress to choose the people over Trump and Impeach RFK Jr Now!
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August 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I signed!
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Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
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guys it’s really not funny that the fbi agent took a footlong to the chest. stop laughing. it’s NOT FUNNY that an fbi agent in head to toe tactical gear tried to chase the guy who hucked a sandwich straight at his bulletproof vest but couldn’t outrun him
August 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
guys it’s really not funny that the fbi agent took a footlong to the chest. stop laughing. it’s NOT FUNNY that an fbi agent in head to toe tactical gear tried to chase the guy who hucked a sandwich straight at his bulletproof vest but couldn’t outrun him
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"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
July 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
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They killed Google Reader but we move.
Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
www.citationneeded.news
July 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
They killed Google Reader but we move.
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Pivot to video was such a curse. Now everything’s like obviously you’d rather watch a 40 minute video than read a sentence.
July 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Pivot to video was such a curse. Now everything’s like obviously you’d rather watch a 40 minute video than read a sentence.
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This is why, if anyone who isn't chronically online starts talking about genAI positively to me in person, I channel a Godzilla ray of facts about what it is and what it does and how it's destroying the planet, and I don't care how taken aback they are.
July 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This is why, if anyone who isn't chronically online starts talking about genAI positively to me in person, I channel a Godzilla ray of facts about what it is and what it does and how it's destroying the planet, and I don't care how taken aback they are.
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There are still a few more days left in Pride, so I just want to take a moment to let everyone know that my book about lingerie, In Intimate Detail, is gender-neutral and contains intimate apparel advice for trans folks, disabled folks, and other communities. Available wherever books are sold! 🌈
June 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
There are still a few more days left in Pride, so I just want to take a moment to let everyone know that my book about lingerie, In Intimate Detail, is gender-neutral and contains intimate apparel advice for trans folks, disabled folks, and other communities. Available wherever books are sold! 🌈
This is hardly the most urgent problem in the world at large but my perfect beautiful large cat has injured his remaining back leg and is in a lot of pain and it will be at least a few weeks before (if?) he starts feeling better and I need someone to fix it immediately or I will implode
June 27, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This is hardly the most urgent problem in the world at large but my perfect beautiful large cat has injured his remaining back leg and is in a lot of pain and it will be at least a few weeks before (if?) he starts feeling better and I need someone to fix it immediately or I will implode
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I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.