really dru

Is that the tree by the spillway with the super big persimmons? I wish I could transplant that tree

So you've fully succumbed to the anti-propagandists' propaganda?

Got a little crazy kayaking the Chicago River, at least according to my GPS watch

Pretty good crowd for a brownbag lunch concert

I guess I should be thankful for social media effectively self-immolating; concert crowd size is way up over last year

I just had a thought: since GPT-4 level AI inference is effectively free, how will leading AI providers continue to thrive? Will it be from remembering and using the deepest secrets its users are sharing with its increasingly smart robots? Is there any way that could go wrong?

I'm fed up with all the good right thinking people being fed up in this sick and tired country and wish whoever it is that's telling them whatever they're fed up with would just cut that shit out

"Macroeconomic Uncertainty" is the name of my Muzac-style Widespread Panic cover band

I want to report this somewhere - I dabble with AI models. Meta (Facebook) has a very capable model (LLaMa) that refuses, on ethical grounds, to create harmful content. Notably, it won't summarize an RSS feed of real 2025 events. This explains the lack of FB posts on real atrocities.

I mean, he's not wrong, in that you really are a smart butt. Other parts of you are smarter, but that's beside the point

Just thinking I haven't seen one of those crazy angular trucks in the wild in weeks. It seemed for a while those funny looking things were all over the place, and now nothing. Either their owners have parked them or I've been hiding in my house in existential dread for a couple months (maybe both)

If Americans started trading in their jacked up trucks for Teslas because of Trump's endorsement, I would feel so owned. It would just show me so bad; it would totally shove it in my tree-hugging, liberal face.

I sure hope they don't do that.

“The scariest words in the English language are ‘I’m from the private sector and I’m here to maximize efficiency.’”

Yeah it's long gone. About the time of the "fork in the road" email, I forked the road

Hi. I restored my profile pic and banner from and archive of my activity on some other website I left a couple years ago. Can't remember its name, something like Tweetle maybe. Had a lot of contacts there that blew away into the ether when Thanos snapped.