normality

With it being this ubiquitous, it seems less likely that the root cause is all just poor sourcing or manufacturing practices. I wonder, is there some ingredient that tends to suck up heavy metals from the soil, like the way rice tends to suck up arsenic?

Go Find The Outdoors?

A chart showing AI progress on, like, Doing Tasks or Something, over the past few years. There is a line of progress towards higher success rates on benchmarks (low difficulty), little progress on pokemon (slightly higher difficulty), and no progress on actual tasks (much higher difficulty). A wojak is looking at the progress on the benchmarks with an astonished face, ignoring the lack of progress on actual tasks.

AI discourse in late 2025

Everyone loves anime

My wife and I watch critical drinker but other than that, if I open a movie clip and hear somebody yapping instead of the movie I close the tab instantly. For some reason there's an unfathomably massive amount of banal TV/movie commentary on YouTube.

There's something interesting here, about the tension between living in this superficially cute, sweet feminine world that still has the irritations and threats of the real world. Olivia Rodrigo is also working this theme, but Poppy internalizes while OR externalizes.

YouTube video by Poppy Poppy - Flux (Official Video)

You can't oppose it
That's just how it goes, yeah
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C68O...

Poppy's music is really holding up. It'll be playing in grocery stores by the 2040s. Gets a little screamy, but we'll probably be used to that by then.

Hey, I was also good at other tests!

so my feelings about gjoni went from "i sympathize, but no" to "noooo make it stop nooooooooooooo"

re the post,

1. you can't prosecute someone into being the girlfriend you wish they were
2. making horribly embarrassing private chat logs the subject of national attention is... not a socially sustainable response to awful relationships

but it seems like the actual detailed content of the zoe post gets almost zero airtime in standard discussions of gamergate. it's just a triggering event.

i do actually know a lot about the zoe post. i even find myself re-reading bits of it every few years, with significantly different interpretations each time, like it's a great piece of literature or something. (my feelings about gjoni's character have been trending more negative the older i get)

as a person who knows almost nothing about gamergate and probably never will, because no matter what i read it never sticks in my brain - do you think the wikipedia article is fair and accurate? bc the dreyfus affair article has cognitive content and gamergate is just, crazy guys being mean to women

River Tam, reporting live from the belly of the beast, good to have you here on skeet

The best thing we can do to honor Charlie Kirk's memory is to elect the sorts of politicians that he loved - moderate centrists who stand up for his treasured values of consensus-building and measured, reasoned common-sense policies.

Your chattering classes were so preoccupied with whether or not they should, they never stopped to consider whether they could.

We gotta call the FBI, how hard can it be to put a video on a website in 2025

There's a cliche about having strong opinions, but loosely held. I think the right formulation is *specific* opinions, loosely held. That's basically the definition of a hypothesis. It's an opinion you made specific enough to test, but you know that you don't really know what the outcome will be.

Telling my business partners that my SQL CASE statement is an AI agent

I've never heard of simplicial depth in my life. What kind of psycho are you.

The biggest technological advance in my lifetime was when they made RStudio stop executing an interactively-run code chunk when the code throws an error.

You exaggerate literally all the time. You're the biggest exaggerator in the universe. If I had a penny for every time you exaggerated, they would have their own Schwarzschild Radius.

Before social media people vagueposted by writing folk songs.

omg 😂

I like chicken wings but dominos? All that colored plastic?

If everything goes in Trump's favor, including actually winning another election, I think it will be very hard for the relevant gatekeepers to hold him back.

I do think there is a breaking point where civil war becomes a real possibility, but it would have to get way worse.

...I also think that even a Trump-captured GOP is still going to balk. It may not be enough, but I think there will be at least a brief, very noisy fight in the halls of formal power in the GOP.

Much like the invasion of Ukraine involved at least a year of very visible preparation with obvious intent, we should be seeing procedural moves with very clear intent at least 1-2 years out, and a lot of local officials will have to approve those moves...

i hope no one hacks the system prompt by which i generate audio and text with my mouth and fingers