Keeper of the Really Smart Words

A stained glass window, primarily in yellow, of a dove superimposed on the sun, leaded rays coming down to shine on white lilies. There’s a banner at the bottom and a frame of dark gold glass with a sort of abstract flower in each corner. The details are soft focus because the photo was shot through dirty frosted glass.

I learned to get close to mausoleums since a photo from another taphophile prompted me to look for hidden stained glass. #Cemeterysunday

A quick guide to acronyms specific to #EastCoastCemeteries:

DAR - Daughters of the American Revolution

SAR - Sons of the American Revolution (different group)

GAR - Grand Army of the Republic (usually civil war union but any veteran who fought for the US)

CSA - Confederate States of America

A historic graveyard as seen past a well-trimmed hedge. An angel, a draped urn, and a draped obelisk are among the headstones.

Making an unscheduled stop at a roadside attraction

For the same reason they’ve shrugged at our own elementary schools being shot up.

I was a lot happier way back when every single day didn't sound like a new verse of "We Didn't Start The Fire"...

It would be nice to have just one day off from the bullshit, wouldn't it?

Oh no!

I can count the reasons AI shouldn’t be allowed to kill people on six fingers

I had to be about 4 fandoms deep in life before “online” was even a thing.

Vance has a personality? I hadn’t noticed Theil finally bought that weasel one.

My friend: I have a reading prompt for “set on an island” and I’m having trouble finding a book.

Me: You do remember that Japan, Great Britain, Ireland, Hawaii, & Manhattan are all islands?

(The prompter was probably thinking “Nantucket” but technically, A LOT of literature is set on an island)

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… because it so refreshing someone can finish a complete thought in a single sentence?

I really think life‘s struggles can be summed up by one simple sentiment:

So many books, so little time.

Books are not clutter. Clutter is all the other stuff that gets in the way of having more books.

A black quilt with “I can’t breathe” written repeatedly on the right side, the letters fading from white to blue and falling out of order. Chawne Kimber, “The One for Eric G” 2015

“Went” woke like activist quilts are new. Chawne Kimber sewed this 11 years ago.

Isn’t it amazing the way life can seem too short, and intrinsically magical, yet at the same time feel like a long, uphill road, potholed with fuckwits?

Yes, please!

To be fair, if a guy takes me to a bookstore I’ll be too distracted to pay him attention.

Here’s the thing about folks speedrunning the creative process with AI:

I could go to the beach every morning and put a grain of sand in a cup. They’d take their cup to the beach and fill it one day; but the point isn’t to have a cup of sand. It’s to fill my life with a thousand trips to the beach.

A sign with the text "PLEASE NO DUCKS" featuring an illustration of a duck and two smaller ducks, enclosed in a red prohibition circle.

You can tickle the penguins
And get them to laugh
You can just sing a song
To amuse the giraffes
Just a little soft-shoe
Will delight the woodchucks
But try as you might
You can’t

I’m so, so sorry!

I was thinking about that. At least the company still exists!

Oh nooooooo

You want me to log into Threads? The stuff that terrorizes the people of Pern??

A painting of a bird beside the text "i'm operating at a serious fuck deficit"

It’s the confidence of experience more than blind optimism; I have a track record as a documentation & SOP troubleshooter with references who’ll attest to that. AI *will* screw up because it has no understanding; at least two managers should remember who already came in and tamed their previous mess

That’s the one! I guess Mars is too hard after all.

Stupid, Dunning-Krugered, and apparently on a shitton of recreational pharmaceuticals… and with enough money to make it everyone else’s problem.

(I am never going to be over those rockets blowing up because SOMEONE was too “smart” to need to think about engineering issues NASA fixed in the 1960s.)

This subtweet is here to say:
- Roko’s Basilisk is a form of religion
- Roko’s Basilisk is a stack of logical fallacies wearing a trenchcoat made out of Pascal’s Wager
- The smart & obvious cure to avoiding R’s B is to simply not try to build the algorithmic god you fear in the 1st place