Sarah Tolcser

Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI”
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI

This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...

Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.

A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

Trump deciding he likes Zohran Mamdani the same month he decided he hates Marjorie Taylor Greene is certainly an unexpected turn of events lol

It's wild, even if I type in like "Coats and Clark thread", half the results are thread by some fake company called like Amcorpdo or Sizthingo.

Screenshot of someone trying to search for felt for crafts, and the companies are called Benzie, Caydo, Outus, Tatuo, and XSEINO, which total don't sound made up.

Speaking of enshittification, has anyone tried to find actual brands on Amazon lately? Because this year is so much worse than last year.

Ugh just back from Goodwill, where I was finding some shirts to cut up for crafting. It's never even occurred to me to purchase anything from Shein, but there's so much of it in the thrift stores now. Cannot state enough that touching the fabric feels like touching literal plastic trash.

Attention all New Otleans tow truck drivers...we know how you love to tow...well here you go.

same, everything about it has been the absolutely strangest decision... the costumes are from at least 3 different historical fashion eras... it's completely miscast. I stand in awe of it but definitely dont wanna see it

Literally the last person to speak to him…

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Guess they’re gonna have to tear down all those New Deal buildings and artworks.

For those who don’t study history, we’ve had socialism in America before, it was in response to unbridled wealth hoarding, and it directly led to one of the most prosperous periods the country has ever experienced.

This is straight up embarrassing and a waste of time. My taxes theoretically pay legislators to govern, not to vote on ill-informed op eds.

(Also if this is another iteration of everyone stroking out over Mamdani, this New Yorker is sick of it)

How many Republicans do you think would vote for a resolution condemning white nationalism?

So much of MAGA politics seems like dark Freudian family dramas.

Some people will destroy a country before they go into therapy.

Man won a narrow plurality of the vote, and immediately and very predictably started plummeting, and so many people and institutions who had no real need to go that far, even on the most cynical and cowardly of self-serving rationales, decided to chain themselves to the deck of a sinking ship.

The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.

The WSJ used the words "anti woke crusader" in the second graf of an article to describe the new EIC of CBS News. A job that used to be important and serious has become a punchline. We have no real newspapers. Just a bunch of losers sucking each other off in a circle

Teegs has spent the week slowly moving socks down and storing them under the dining room table. He just returned them. At 4 AM. Singing the song of his people. He has laid them all in our bedroom doorway.

Always a good time when I get on my computer and try to figure out what I was doing last night at 2 AM from all the open tabs

In heavily Hispanic Kenner, some residents on edge ahead of Border Patrol surge - Verite News New Orleans The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly deploying 250 Border Patrol agents to the New Orleans area, echoing recent operations in Chicago and North Carolina.

Latinx people in Kenner are bracing themselves for the Border Patrol's anti-immigration enforcement as news spreads throughout Louisiana that the Trump administration could be sending people to metro New Orleans as soon as this week. More @veritenews.org.

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Zion Williamson, actually playing for once, stands by the bench.

Zion’s back! Also, not mad at these seats

one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.

Spoke too soon. The orange one has awoken and he just bit like 3 mouthfuls of fur off Amelia, a thing he does when he wants her to move. She never realizes or maybe she just doesn't care 😂

Two tabbies on a bed, brown and orange, like inches apart.

Apparently the cats’ nightly conflict over who gets to sleep at my husband’s feet has really gotten serious… they’re ALMOST TOUCHING.

Thank you… I’m obsessed with them.

*I do not knit. But I now know you can make a doll sweater out of a pair of knee socks, if anyone needed that information

Probably next week they will all have tweed blazers haha

Three American girl dolls in outfits that include tiny sweaters.

See, this is what happens when I watch shows while I craft. Watched 3 seasons of All Creatures Great and Small, and now all my 40s dolls have tiny fair isle sweaters.

An American girl doll wears a short puff sleeved 1940s style sweater in green and white.

Update: I can’t be stopped 😆 this one’s out of a Christmas hand towel I found at TJ Maxx