Miri Baker (should be writing)

I always forget just how much of politics gets subsumed in "be nice to other politicians, they're your peers."

You can't know which 20% is the lie beforehand!!

look, I work in quality. Even if I didn't have absolutely prohibitive ethical concerns about our current LLMs, they're just not reliable. They're not deterministic. You know what you call someone who gives you good info 80% of the time but lies the other 20%? A LIAR.

something I think about constantly: when did it stop being the tech company's job to prove their product can do what they say it can do before we pay for what they say it can do

One of the biggest threats to America is indeed religious fundamentalism but it’s white Christian fundamentalism. You don’t see the NYT demanding every Christian politician answer for the sins of their co-believers.

Corollary: why am I not allowed to just /wait until the technology is what you say it will be/ to answer?

Also, a genuine question: why is it so important to you that there exists a situation where I would use it?

Circles!

"LLMs simply don't make mistakes like the ones you see here in this passage from Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy" is jokerizing

This should be disqualifying. bsky.app/profile/davi...

But the one thing it does do well is code *touches earpiece* I’m getting an update …

I'd love for the burden of proof to go back to the tech companies to show that their product CAN do something.

Me personally, no. There is no ethical LLM.

I'm also very tired of every single conversation being about "what if it could." What if the moon was made of pudding?

everyone is short tempered and crashing out because the world is a mess.
no one can emotionally regulate in the face of Everything.

please be gentle with yourselves and others.

Here you go, everyone can use this one (it's signed by an authority)

I'm other words, It's doing what romance has done for publishing since forever.

a black card with rounded edges reading in obvious writing (not printed on a machine) "This card entitles the bearer to do 8 bad things." It is signed 'god' and has 8 checkboxes, of which 3 are already checked.

Anyway yeah the other important thing is that if you have a pack of gel pens and some black cards you can just go ahead and make yourself a license to do literally anything :)

It's official :)

No one can stop you :)

we've already been through people getting catfished by ChatGPT responses, keep up, folks

this is genuinely kind of adorable in 2026

[0010363] "Recover Wounded" jobs go into infinite loop

digital drawing of the user and her fiance, spencer, who is handing her a deck box. spencer: OK you’re new to Magic The Gathering. We gotta get you a new deck. The deck box reads: Group Hug! Miss Bunny Foo Foo. The deck box depicts a beautiful rabbit woman with a lovely floral hat and big smile. maddi: If you guys are pranking me it’s not funny. spencer: NO! She’s actually really good! stranger poking his head out from the side of the panel: she is. she’s really good.

I have since learned that Ms. Bumbleflower is a beast

Strongly suspect that as this war and its negative effects escalate, we're gonna see a massive increase in disinfo and unsourced "news" - starting right the hell now.

PLEASE don't share "breaking" news from rando or disreputable accounts who provide no links.

Me too. The people out here are much nicer.

I don't use the term "apocalypse cult" lightly

But I sure was raised in one

I am so serious when I say that there is a direct line to be drawn between Evangelism having no meaningful concept of the future save death and American conservatives having zero awareness of or interest in the future consequences of their actions

Absolutely this. Have fun with things. And I will point especially at that last point because hell yes if the writing's good enough you can get away with pretty much whatever.

Will everyone follow with you? No. But you have to write for yourself first. Let the audience meant to find the work do so.

my most popular book switches from third to a surprise first at the end of the *prologue*, do what your heart tells you

This is the rub. They've been told it's true and they can imagine it's true. Verifying it has never entered the picture.

It also hasn't transformed anything, broadly. At its absolute best it's a productivity tool. Average case, it's something you have to work around, babysit, and correct. Worst case, it deletes all your source code.

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Every single CEO and a huge chunk of laymen just...bought it. They just bought the story. And because so many people believe it, more people buy it every day. THERE IS NO BASIS FOR IT.