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@atax1a i don’t really disagree but my “haha only serious” opinion is that i do genuinely think Fahrenheit temps feel warmer in winter

??? (Map of Connecticut titled “Future ‘Feels Like’” with forecasted temperatures in the negative double digits, from -16 along the shore to -28 inland)

????? (Photo of a roof rake removing snow from a roof)

??????? (Illustration of a method of melting ice dams using an old stocking filled with salt, and you put it on your roof, and i promise i am not making this up)

Look at what they have been demanding your respect for all this time

TEMPERATURES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE NEGATIVE

YEARS OF SHOVELING SNOW yet NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND for PICKING UP ICE AND PUTTING IT SOMEWHERE ELSE

Want to feel cold anyway, for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called POPSICLES

“Yes please give me a roof rake. I need to prevent ice dams […]

Alt text:

"Why wouldn't you rehearse for a good future? I think that we should celebrate and rehearse for a bright future, and maybe it will come true. I don't have time to illustrate misery or dystopian scenarios because they’ll happen. If you let everything go, they'll happen anyway."
-Syd Mead

@zigdon 🤔🤔🤔

anyway there’s not a temperature above freezing in the entire ten day forecast and winter is sapping my will to live, how’s everyone else doing?

i had to learn about ice dams this week and i hate that for me. owning a house is just an endless accumulation of cursed knowledge that is somehow both high-stakes and the most boring shit imaginable.

i could have happily gone my whole life without knowing a “roof rake” was a thing, let alone […]

stare into the abyss all you want but i’m not sure it’s a good idea to give it access to your bank account. but then again, we are all just blank checks written to entropy, temporary overdrafts, slight rounding errors in the balance reconciliation of the universe

i just had to attach a voided check to something for the first time in years and “Pay to the Order of: VOID” is sure a mood

Someone put a scarf on the Grand Army Plaza dinosaur to keep him warm this week.

@jsit Hypnospace Outlaw!! which is also a fantastic game on its own merits

Tweet from San Miguel Sheriff on 27th January 2020: Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway 145 mm78 at Silverpick Rd. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area. Picture attached to the tweet: View from the left side of a cop car of a snowy road between snow-covered mountains, which is indeed blocked partially by a large boulder the size of a small boulder

happy large boulder the size of a small boulder day to all who celebrate

@ivory hey is there a setting to restore single tap to boost behavior and i’m missing it? i had it like… a tap on the icon would boost and i could hold it down to quote a post and that seems to no longer be the case 🤔

Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though

we all need a little less raging against the dying of the light and a little more coordinated tactical assault on the darkness factory

cannot stress how much of a whitepeople opinion it is to say that intelligence can be had by averaging the language of the entire internet

“I encourage anyone who has this reaction to take a good hard look at why they think a system being good (or even halfway decent) at providing boiler plate code gives it any credibility for other kinds of information seeking behavior. The tech companies are counting on you agreeing that writing […]

@jsit i actually really want this and i haven’t turned anything up which is kind of surprising

update: power is back on after nearly an hour! that was an extremely surreal experience and now i am going to bed

a new and exciting experience: winding down with a relaxing shower in the hotel room after an excruciatingly long day of travel, and suddenly the power goes out.

it was PITCH black and i had to grope my way to turning off the water, locating a towel, opening a glass shower door and two interior […]

@jsit hm didn’t Signal have something like this? i do have my grievances with Signal but i feel like i read something about this

@atax1a i see no problem here, just a solution to the problem of how you are paying attention to computer and not cat

I've been reading about what really helped people who had problems with "AI Psychosis" and one tip jumped out at me:

Open a second window and tell it exactly the opposite of each thing you say.

This helps to expose the sycophancy and shatters the illusion of sincerity and humanity.

Thought it […]

the LLM is a fascist project to deskill workers and propagandize the masses. there is no reclamation to be had here. it must be resisted by force.

Saying ”Grok apologized” is like If I type “YOU’RE A BITCH” into Speak-And-Spell and tell you “Speak-An-Spell says you’re a bitch”

[Grok, Elon]

I remember one time in like 2023, at the start of all this nonsense, articles were going around saying "Shocking! ChatGPT explains its decision making process to someone who asked."

It did no such thing! Why is it that people, *smart people*, even the hardest skeptics, still […]

Stop Pretending Chatbots Have Feelings: Media's Dangerous AI Anthropomorphism Problem When AI causes harm, headlines blame the bot instead of the billion-dollar companies that built them. This anthropomorphic coverage is tech journalism at its worst.

I wrote about why this is terrible journalism a few months back www.readtpa.com/p/stop-prete...

@jsit i always have been! they have stats software that is capable of pulling up an “interesting” fact in realtime (stuff like: “this is the first time since 2004 a team has been more than 15 points behind with over 100 passing yards” or whatever) and it’s all bespoke stuff the NFL org has just […]

i could have written this, except for me it’s Japanese (and a number of other “fun” things i do). sometimes people ask me why and i tell them that if it had any actual utility in my life, it would be ruined. the pointlessness is the point

“Find something difficult enough to demand your […]

I had a dream last night that today was broken and only had 17 hours because the other ones were corrupt and couldn’t be loaded. I think I need to spend less time around computers