Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d)

You could just google Bartz vs Anthropic rather than posting delusional misinformation. But thanks for proving the point about people being unwilling to accept the truth.

This is the new COINTELPRO

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

It isn’t true tho. This is a question of what I believe, it’s a simple question of what the facts are. There tends to be a very strong inverse correlation between people who understand how LLMs work and their likelihood of agreeing with these arguments. I personally have no beliefs.

So much hyperbole in your claims. Again, LLMs get a ton of press but they are only a small percentage of the actual AI that is impacting our lives. I hate data center pollution too, but LLMs have little to do with that. And avoiding LLMss is still fairly easy, even jf it won’t be soon.

Like OP said, the fun is in the journey. How does the fiction aithor get to their destination? What does the destination say about the world and the characters? The point of reading is the act of reading, not whatwvwe happens on the final few pages.

This is a lot of nonsense & misinformation, but some folk seem to have a deep need to believe it. Some models were trained on pirated data, all of them were trained on copyrighted data (which has since been ruled Fair Use). This is exactly the type of response that makes honest convos impossible.

Yep!

lol. Your points are still overly focused on LLMs which are only about 10-15% of all AI. Any even LLMs are advancing at a light speed pace. Claude Code is just one example of this. 2026 will see the introduction of hybrid architectures like Titans-Miras which will address transformer faults.

Again, his point was about good faith conversations and the unwillingness of many to engage in them on this topic. Your description doesn’t match hardly any of the Chinese companies in this area for example. The snark might feel good, but it’s part of the issue.

This is an accurate description of Open AI, but not of Deep Mind or Anthropic. But thanks for making Hayes point.

Musk uses many times more data center compute to run his Twitter algorithms than he does his standalone Grok model. LLMs are only a small part of the AI convo, but the backlash is mostly about LLMs.

71% in the two counties with the highest Latino populations.

Welp!

So many folks who thought Born in the USA was a pro-America song are suddenly worried about not understanding lyrics.

The first one is a foul (by the last player to swipe at the ball) and the 2nd one is a case of Brooks “pulling the chair” on Embiid. It looks awkward but it wasn’t a foul, the refs just missed the call. There’s nothing here for the league to try to stop.

I’m focused on the rapes, not the apes.

1428: In Defense of “Candelabra with Heads” by Nicole Sealey Today’s poem is In Defense of “Candelabra with Heads” by Nicole Sealey.

www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2026...

during the moment
we don’t speak
blackbird’s shadow

#haiku

#haiku

grandma’s quilt Makers Mark

Welp!

Special shout out to all the haijin who competed in the Nick Virgilio Writers House 2025 Invitational Head to Head Haiku Death Math hosted by Tazuo Yamaguchi. One of the toughest haiku slam fields ever assembled. If you missed it you can still donate to help Camden kids learn more about poetry.

Here is my colorpuntal “ghost poem” technique applied to haiku. A double helix as poem.

A few minutes
relief from tinnitus—
crickets

Evening rain—
the bagpiper fills
an open grave

#haiku

Welp!

Passing Fire truck-
The leaves of the Flame Maple
ripple

Call to prayer-
kneeling at the corner
transit bus

#haiku

poker game
the gunman asks
to see our hands

#haiku

on the river—
the queen of spades
in crescent light

#haiku

Whew!

GOOOOOOOAL !

Congrats to Os Tubarões Azul for being the 2nd smallest nation to qualify for the FIFA World Cup. Nu Bai!!!