Beth

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

I think all the people in power in the world should stop fucking everyone's lives up for no reason. Sorry if this offends

Speech to text has been a thing for decades and it works. Why do they now feel the need to run it through the LLM inaccuracy generator as well?

(YES I USED TO WATCH FOOTBALL, I have layers.)

Don't watch that arm-breaking video if you still have trauma from the 1985 Joe Theismann incident.

(I realize many of you were not born then. Still, don't watch it. Or at least turn your sound down.)

Hard to overstate how bad it is for a sitting US Senator to break a Marine veteran’s arm before the police could remove him from the room.

This reflects both on the state of the Senate and the people of Montana for electing such a person to office.

Between this and several stories today of people using ChatGPT in completely asinine, unnecessary ways, I am a little bit despairing

I hate the future actually

One was a minister and carpenter, the other was a "laborer" according to the census but I think it was more like "mean drunk who occasionally found work."

Welp I guess there’s no way to earn the votes of young men other than by courting and vocally backing the three fraudulent industries that are absolutely ruining their lives.

What every American I know stranded abroad due to the Iran war tells me:

“when you call the State Department numbers all over social media, you’re met with just an automated message saying not to rely on US government for assistance with departure and that no evacuations are currently planned.”

This time it was Noem's turn in the gravel pit.

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

If Singal is saying that all major medical organizations are not in consensus about the benefits of affirmation in talk therapy and the harms of a conversion approach, he's spreading misinformation.

I'm sure he's not, because he's such a careful, honest journalist. But if he is, he's lying.

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I have no great love for anyone else in the race but please for the love of God get your shit together, Democrats, and then let's all work together to dump the jungle primary.

Katie Porter is also not great on trans issues so fuck her anyway.

And any billionaire who decides that the world needs him to run for office is immediately disqualified. What we need, Tom Steyer, is for you to make yourself a millionaire and fund some public works and housing. That is literally the best thing you could do.

I do not have strong feelings about any of these bozos but I can tell you two for sure do not have the public interest at heart. Katie Porter proved that when she left her narrowly-won House seat to run for Senate -- she did good work in the House and she left that seat vulnerable at a crucial time.

Every time I think about the primary for California governorI have a tiny conniption. If any of these motherfuckers actually cared about California they would get their shit together and coalesce behind one candidate so we don't wind up with two Republicans.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

With Us or Against Us, Again Congress didn’t authorize this war, and the only response to questions is a loyalty test we’ve fallen for before.

Afghanistan started at 92 percent approval. Iraq started at 71. Iran started at 27. The "whose side are you on" rhetoric is identical. The country underneath it isn't. I wrote about how the framework works, and who's deploying it. www.readtpa.com/p/with-us-or...

Love the days when my work day ends because my computer crashed and not because I was done.

Still mystified by my colleagues wanting to be even more dependent on technology. But then I love the researching and thinking and writing parts and can't imagine turning all that over to machines.

My impression is that Gen-Z in fact loves and romanticizes the idea of the mall, but they are pretty anti-capitalist and also broke. Not sure they are bringing back 1985 all by themselves.

Every trans person who refuses to shrink their identity to fit the room is expanding the world for everyone else.

I'm sorry to remind everyone of the existence of hte worst magazine in America, but Kansas is literally taking away trans' people's driver's licenses, and the Atlantic has decided to publish a thumbsucker about whether effeminate boys are feeling pressured to transition

Again, I have to emphasize that the whole design of our constitutional structure as well as half of what Congress has done rests on the assumption that the president acknowledges the existence of other human beings with legitimate interests. That assumption having failed, the republic falls.

Yeah, I don't pretend to know anything about it, but I can so easily see nightmare scenarios here. Like, horrifyingly bad.

seriously with the human range of abilities, disabilities, ethnicities, and orientations gay straight trans etc etc DEI just means normal people and you chose to listen to some Patrick Bateman but Make It Jesus type freak instead