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Alea iacta est. Sighs.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

The story of LGBT rights is a story of advances followed by setbacks followed by media with no skin in the game saying, "It's because you were too loud/asked for too much/moved too fast/got too big for your britches/didn't make your case." That never changes--but happily it's never the last word.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

"the activists pushed too hard too fast" So the last 6 months of fascist regime have been a modal of sedate and gentle governence, then? Those who feel things moved too hard/fast were tacitly saying "I don't want this, to have to deal with this, so hold off until I'm gone"

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

submitted 3 days ago • 143 comments

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

submitted 3 days ago • 284 comments

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

submitted 3 days ago • 558 comments

On the flip side, I have personally experienced a college-level lit professor who gave us an interpretation of a story, insisted it was right and we were wrong when all of us challenged the lack of evidence, sent us to a presentation given by the writer, encouraged us to ask questions...

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submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Fight the Empire.

submitted 12 days ago • 248 comments

Just a picture of my sister and I many years ago threading on a slippery surface of frozen water with metal blades on our feet, for no particular reason at all.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

‪ Can we stop the drama-queening about "looks like the apocalypse" now? Nineteenth century artists painted as many yellow ash-skies, smoke-gray hazes and wane red suns as we're photographing, but mysteriously none of them put "apocalpyse" or "end of the world" in their work titles.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Oh would you look at that, police suddenly realizing that their original statement was an open admission that they were in on the homophobia and racism. (We still heard you just fine the first time, guys).

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I get it. Physical medias are dead. Does that mean all tv stands have to be designed to be actively hostile to DVD storage?! Ikea ones especially seem to only have tiny spaces that fit no DVD and huge spaces that only ever seem to fit one DVD row with lots of wasted space, never two.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

If you feel like you have to lie, cover up, bury and dismiss the wrong your country do, ban them from being taught, you aren't actually showing pride in your country. You're just faking pride to impress others.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

They worry about uncontrolably and unpredictably changing the present by doing something small. They don't worry about doing a small action in the past that they expect to change the future in a specific manner. (And I say that as someone who is a firm advocate in the little things mattering).

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

…And Prime has been canceled at my place.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Canadian Teams that have Austin Mathews and are supposedly the best thing in Canada: Toronto Canadian teams that have actually made it past the second round since Matthews was drafted: Ottawa (2017) Winnipeg (2018) Montreal (2021) Edmonton (2024, 2025)

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

There are no trees like the trees of Toronto. For in the autumn their leafs fall not, but turn to goals. Not until the spring comes and the new green opens do they fall...-Tolkien, sort of (And, sighs, Toronto, sighs)

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Dear Wizards of the Coast: the art/flavor for the FFxMTG version of Night's Whisper and Stitch Together are unforgivable. Awesome, deep cut stuff. But UNFORGIVABLE. There will be a time to reopen those wounds. That time is NEVER.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

The thing about the Omelas metaphor is that there is no Omelas child in our world, and there never can be There is no magic scapegoat whose suffering will bring utopia Yet much of today's pain comes from people believing that if they can just hurt one more person/group, everything will be fine

submitted 45 days ago • 5 comments

Don't let a motherfucker steal your joy. Watch cartoons, build LEGO kits, get your friends together and play board games, coo at your pets and call them your precious stinky babies, blow off dandelion fluff, whatever sparks joy. Cringe is dead, be free.

submitted 42 days ago • 25 comments

Let's just say this correctly. It spends 8x more on gender-affirming care for cis men than anyone else.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 43 days ago • 629 comments

There are currently more kids in Texas with measles than there are transgender collegiate athletes in all of America. Guess which one they want you to focus on.

submitted 43 days ago • 96 comments

me: I'm done with the pope posts conservatives: we are having the worst day of our lives, woke marxist pope will give your kids gun control & health care in their sleep me: I would like a few more pope posts

submitted 44 days ago • 11 comments

Also quick reminder that he's a dual US/Peruvian citizen (I see a lot of people point out he's the first US candidate, but I presume his Peruvian nationality is equally important to who he is)

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