The pink pants from Morrowind

An extension: Poor health makes people more likely to vote far right or drop out of politics. Why? Because prolonged exposure to the healthcare system, social care, HR, would make almost anybody distrustful and resentful. Health-> healthcare -> distrust -> anger expressed in politics

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here

In short: Shitty parties should get to enact shitty policies. An electorate that elects a shitty party should have to suffer the shitty consequences. And a party that enacts shitty policies should have to suffer the electoral consequences.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

Remember y'all, if someone else isn't arguing in good faith you don't have to field against that argument.

i made a helpful reference

Lol what a joke. I don't know anyone under 50 who thinks we're going to retire.

Article is by this guy. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Screen cap from linked article, with heading Significance and then text: Large Language Models (LLMs) are used in evaluative tasks across domains. Yet, what appears as alignment with human or expert judgments may conceal a deeper shift in how “judgment” itself is operationalized. Using news outlets as a controlled benchmark, we compare six LLMs to expert ratings and human evaluations under an identical, structured framework. While models often match expert outputs, our results suggest that they may rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification. Our findings suggest not only performance asymmetries but also a shift in the heuristics underlying evaluative processes, raising fundamental questions about delegating judgment to LLMs. Sentence starting with "While models often" is highlighted in blue.

I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I wish Mike well. Grier is awful and needs to go

I'm sorry your friend is gone :(

2028: Trump wins all 50 states and wins big in California.

Goddamn y'all. I'm so sorry your friend is gone. I subscribe and trying to fight back tears after reading it.

The Ravens might be the most infuriating team in the NFL.

At least with the bottom you can just point and chuckle. I'll be over in the corner making sad Dolfan noises. (Fire Grier)

I've realized that my username is theoretically inaccurate. The pants were supposed to be brown. But on multiple machines because of Bethesda jank the pants rendered pink.

It's the reality we live in.

No it doesn’t, that’s you doing that

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

at this point I'm just inherently suspicious of any product that buys a lot of youtube sponsorships

I don't have X and if I didn't specifically try and see it to understand what happened I wouldn't have seen it. Fortunately all I saw was him taking, a bang and a red mist. Still disturbing but I had an idea of what I might see.

That's fair. After I turned 30 (a bit over a decade ago) video games are not as satisfying. I still enjoy them but it doesn't provide the same rush.

We really need to figure out what to do about the scourge of political violence.

Of course they are, it's a death cult.

He would have welcomed you getting killed and written it off as part of the price for "freedom". You are also a ghoul.

Right, which was something Kirk did continually.

Are you aligning them to get them into a trash heap? That's where this misbegotten research experiment belongs.

He had Nazi beliefs, I am tired of people tiptoeing around it.

I will cling to this thing that let's me keep my basic needs.

It's called surviving, you asshole.