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a good thing is when someone posts a picture of a cat, and then people reply with "great cat, here also is a picture of my cat." unsolicited cat pics aplenty. this could be the world we build

This makes way more sense to me. Thanks.

US taxes are so awful because we have lobbies to keep them too difficult for normal people. I'm not just college-educated, I have a STEM background, a master's degree, and a job in Fiddly Compliance Details, and I legit think it's worth it.

TurboTax delenda est.

Why was it worth paying so much? I had RSUs, self-employment income, and tax credits for healthcare. I could have coped with any one of them, but all of them at once meant 30+ pages of tax forms. AND I already knew I didn't understand that annualized income schedule.

My taxes are done. I paid almost $1500 to have them done, but US taxes can be so weird and complicated that this was definitely a win.

I'm annoyed that I paid a penalty I didn't deserve (underpayment of taxes on variable income), but the schedule to fix it would have cost ~5x the penalty.

I cackled and then sent this to my pottery studio, because what this situation really needs is a couple of kilns that regularly go up to Cone 6 (2200F/1180C).

A 3x3 grid titled "Is it a library? Alignment chart". Horizontal axis categories: Contents purist: Must contain books Contents neutral: Must contain information Contents rebel: Can contain anything Vertical axis categories: Curation purist: Must be managed by a professional librarian Curation neutral: Must be curated by someone Curation rebel: Can be managed by nobody Examples represented on the grid: Curation purist, contents purist: New York Public Library is a library Curation purist, contents neutral: A newspaper archive is a library Curation purist, contents rebel: A school information commons is a library Curation neutral, contents purist: A home bookshelf is a library Curation neutral, contents neutral: A Spotify playlist is a library Curation neutral, contents rebel: A zoo is a library Curation rebel, contents purist: A street library is a library Curation rebel, contents neutral: A PC downloads folder is a library Curation rebel, contents rebel: A junk drawer is a library

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we now make people sign an agreement that they won’t use AI and if they do, they lose their contingency agreement and become hourly clients

Every time this story gets posted I'm going to remind everybody that wage theft takes more money than all other property crime every year in the US

I highlighted talking to peers above because that is an under-discussed problem with LLM use. LLMs are sycophants and also may feel like substitutes for talking to peers. They’re not though, and there is an isolating effect when someone uses LLMs in lieu of consulting with colleagues.

Omg Murdercox

I don't like the term "cargo cult fascism" because I think it's a bit racist and frankly unfair to cargo cults, but this is an example of what people are naming when they talk about this dynamic.

You have to actually manufacture consent first for this to work

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Democratic Party communications and the Tyranny of Leaderless Groups seem like something worth thinking about.

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"A government agent changes their opinion when presented with evidence. Maybe reintroduce the leopards from earlier and have them threaten to eat the agent’s face?"
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We are _officially_ the baddies.

This seems important. Jesus fuck.

This tracks. (Not that rev. howard needs my endorsement or whatever, just that I’ve been in tech a long time.)

I often hear "AI transcription is great, it will allow me to focus on spending more time with my patients"

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this is the same reason they keep trying to make AI girlfriends, they are trying to engineer tech workarounds for people telling them "no"

Within a couple of months I put together a checklist to make my analyses easier and faster. The real problem is getting the client to document what they are doing in a way that supports the analyses.

A predictive AI system could do this. GenAI with enough guardrails, probably. A chatbot? Lolno.

The client desperately wants to replace me with an LLM. They likely could, but not that way! They keep asking the wrong question and getting wrong answers, and I'm almost to the point of saying "your own lawyers have validated every single analysis for the past year, stop arguing with me!"

Oh my god, this is amazing.

I am not a lawyer, but I do compliance consulting that gets reviewed by lawyers, and I looooooove this and wish I could do it. (I can't, but I will dream.)

Right? You need a cracker liberation montage.

I heard “Chariots of Fire”

Yeah, it’s certainly interesting! Tbh I stopped paying attention bc my vitamin d levels are good, so it’s not super relevant to me.

The temperature thing is a pain, tho. I turn off the heat at night, wear warm jammies, and do my exercise super early in the morning. Then I turn the heat back on!

Latitude continues to be significantly associated with the prevalence of multiple sclerosis: an updated meta-analysis - PubMed This new meta-analysis confirms that MS prevalence is still strongly positively associated with increasing latitude and that the gradient is increasing, suggesting that potentially modifiable environmental factors, such as sun exposure, are still strongly associated with MS risk.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31217172/

Yes, but you’ve got it reversed. Rates of MS are higher the _farther_ you get from the equator. There’s some theories that vitamin d is related (but that doesn’t mean supplementing helps; I can’t recall if the research is negative or just mixed).

I hope it’s not true.