Drew Clowery

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.

Because Discord is "free" so you're not the customer you're the product.

To me, that's preposterous, failure to honor the Budapest Memorandum, things of that nature.

I talked about this piece on the show today but I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to not assume that other people think like you or make decisions for the same reason you do.

Seattle drivers are stunned and amazed by both sunshine and rain. They brake in the middle of the highway for both.

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President.

I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.

/1

No thanks.

I feel seen (derogatory)

I saw New Jack City in the theater with my folks at age 10. I thought it was a gangster movie, like The Godfather.

I think @chrislhayes.bsky.social said something recently on how Americans, very broadly, are relatively right-of-center and people got very annoyed with him because they operate under Most Americans Agree With Me Theory