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This is probably one of the topics I hope to tackle in the local paper, ie how LLM evangelism is more about marketing and selling the promise of labor discipline than it is a utopian technology

Nice little cliffhanger I have here, just right for the end of a chapter. I think I might leave it there for the night. #AmWriting

I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.

Exactly

Also, all the drugs for things like indigestion or eczema or headache... which leave you with side effects like sleepiness and diarrhea (that could be an ISSUE if they hit at the same time) or "trouble thinking"... on the whole, I don't think you'd have made much of an improvement in your situation

I just caught a medical ad about a study on Alzheimer's which invited volunteers "if you or a loved one is suffering from Alzheimer's..." correct me if I'm wrong but if YOU are the one who is the sufferer you barely know your own name at some point - how do you "volunteer" for such a study?...

White cat on the back of a computer chair

Tomorrow marks three years precisely since my White Lady came to live at my expense. That's ridiculous. I mean, it's just, well, she's ALWAYS been here...

TLDR is the mark of the beast. FFS read. Learn. Go down the rabbit holes (and not on Tik Tok or YouTube, but at the library...

Krissy has a good hair LIFE. :)

I think I just glimpsed a headline somewhere about the US "seizing" a Venezuelan oil tanker... I mean, oh HELL...

Currently reading Moby-Dick by Herman Melville for the first time. Killer line from Chapter 9: The Sermon that still resonates today: "In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."

Really? FONTS are the hill they'll die on? *FONTS*?!?

a man with a purple head and a purple shirt is standing in front of a screen . Alt: a man with a purple head and a purple shirt is standing in front of a screen .

Movie watched more than 6 times, with a gif (no Stars (Wars or Trek), or Marvel, Disney Animated, or Pixar)

here are Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science.

1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.

they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚

“The male loneliness epidemic“ is actually just a “men don’t want to make an effort to human epidemic”.

That. Face. He's SMIRKING.

Yeesh. I would like to know this too please. In the meantime, Maria, the last time I put up an ebook it was through Draft 2 Digital and they produce the ebook - have you tried them?

I... identify with this to a scary degree...

"We need to go back to the good old days, women shouldn't be allowed to work." Women always worked. WOMEN ALWAYS WORKED. WOMEN ALWAYS WORKED.

You. Yes, YOU.

If we ever get Medicare for all, can we actually get health care for everybody without this absurd annual ritual of trying to guess which plans are best and decide which ones we can afford?
Especially since anybody can get injured or seriously ill in ways they can't anticipate.
2/2

Also, eyes and ears and teeth are bloody well part of that thing called "health", and in terms of glasses(so they can see) hearing aids (so they can hear) and dentures (so they can EAT) are basically requirements for the people qualifying for medicare... but *aren't covered*...

This is a quote from the article summing up both studies in Technology Review: "A multi-university team of researchers has found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging both Democrats and Republicans to support presidential candidates of the opposing party. The chatbots swayed opinions by citing facts and evidence, but they were not always accurate—in fact, the researchers found, the most persuasive models said the most untrue things."

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

Ooh I may go to this and pretend I am fifteen again...

I can understand your point. My dad loved it, played it on an amateur level, even; the son of a cousin of mine dreams of becoming a a pro goalie; it isn't JUST the footie, if that helps - i am just not the "sporty" demographic of any kind...

Yecch. I have even less desire to watch grown men chasing a ball around a field than i ever had, and I never had much in the first place...

...which leaves, what, about a dollar apiece for the authors who are supposed to get a settlement out of this? Figures. Lawyers win.

...and given to the Weasel In Chief...

Is that what that horrifying "trophy" was ? I saw pics of it but I didn't know what it was or whom it had been literally MADE for - but my instincts were good. I recoiled the moment I saw it.

Poe Dameron from The Last Jedi saying, "Somehow, Palpatine returned..."

Somehow, this line hits very differently in 2025 than it did back in 2017...