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A collection of three IID random variables stacked on top of each other in a trench-coat she/her
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has anything ever been this stupid

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

has anyone written about the algorithmic / propoganda links between trad wife content, pro-ana "skinny tok" "slavic doll" content, and Russian imperialism apologetics

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

I find it fascinating that according to the polls Mamdani's base of support is middle class college educated white millennials and yet this appears to be seen as something of an embarrassment

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

I know this is not a genre most people loved or cared about but I actually really miss the chill lofi mixes from ~2016 when you could follow specific creators and they had specific sounds. Now it's all just AI slop music

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

an exhange on "error rates" with a friend, paraphrased me: AI summaries of papers are useless to me because science relies on accuracy, and LLMs hallucinate. him: What's the difference to asking a grad student to summarize? me: Students typically make errors in conceptually coherent ways!

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

there's not that many explanations at this point for the NYT's hallucinatory coverage of Trump. they like him, Occam's Razor. all that "they're reacting to right wing claims of bias" nonsense was cover for the reality that they want to cover Trump like he's their god king

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

@danmcquillan.bsky.social has shared the text of his talk in which he applies Illich's ideas to the question of the role of the university in a world with now ubiquitous 'AI'. Here's a juicy bit.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

I think the reason these “we must reclaim civilization” guys are so bitter and angry about cities is that they will outlive and outlast everything they hold dear. LA, NYC, SF, Chicago, they’ll all be standing long long after the United States is gone. Cities last, empires don’t

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

I think it's interesting when people say "social atomization" when they actually mean "decline of marriage" because those do not precisely mean the same thing

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

the apparently load-bearing genre of major media think pieces about how bluesky is a dead echo chamber of wokescold resist libs is almost certainly being driven at least in part by the authors' experience in the discover feed, given that none of them follow anybody on here. it's clearly not working

submitted 22 hours ago • 20 comments

I never really got an answer for why Mark Zuck’s AI is represented by a bondage hentai Llama

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Anyway you all should read Ministry for the Future, at least the first 50 pages or so, and really internalize it.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Ok I’m being baited but this is the kind of thing I mean when I say a lot of anti-AC takes are rooted in eugenicist thinking Not all, etc, but it’s definitely there.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Last summer when it got so hot I couldn’t get my apartment below 32/90 I essentially became nocturnal and slept on the floor through the day (with all shutters tightly closed and the fan on) and just hoped I wouldn’t die in my sleep. Then sat outside all night to cool back down

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Ok the last comment on this and then I gotta let it go: the absolute peak of European smugness and eugenics-aligned thinking on AC is when they imply that it’s what makes Americans fat, and it’s better to simply allow the weak and elderly to die of heat stroke than get fat

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Sorry this is just SUCH a pet peeve of mine, like I actually see red when I see smug Europeans going “we don’t use AC because we CARE about the environment” while still guzzling LNG, like you could blanket the entire south in solar panels and power AC for all AND the rest of the grid, and yet,

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

many already are dying every year from lack of ac

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The anti-AC snobbery (while not being anti-heat) must derive from a Northern European bias.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Europeans desperately trying to figure out ways not to use AC is like the tech guys reinventing trains

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Very few things piss me off as much as holier than thou anti-AC attitudes, which are based on absolutely nothing but cultural signaling

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Air conditioning is an absolutely vital life-saving technology on a swiftly-warming planet, and people who claim it's somehow more shameful to cool a home than it is to heat one are idiots. I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it: foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

All I’m saying is that the Lyapunov exponent in our current direction is positive, and large

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It’s 2005, I’m on the train, I’m listening to A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, I’m pretending I’m in a music video, It’s 2025, I’m on the train, I’m listening to A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, I’m pretending I’m in a music video,

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments