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I keep reading stories about how wild it is that AI chatbots start talking nonsense when they're fed nonsense but nobody wonders the same about people. GIGO applies either way.

I know there's a word for people who can't stand the sound of chewing. Is there one for people who can't stand the feeling of a whole floor shaking because someone cannot keep their leg still?

Homemade chili, homemade bread, orange jello with mandarins, laundry, some sewing, and some cleaning out of closets. It's that kind of day and it's perfect.

I had never heard of Jesse Watters until one minute ago but this is so incredibly bizarre. Men don't go grocery shopping with their wives? Since when?

Watters: What kind of husband goes grocery shopping with his wife?

Is cinnamon toast still a thing? Gen X latchkey memories...

The dissonance required to be worried about data privacy but only about TikTok just makes me chuckle.

It's weird to think about some things that are legal in the EU but not in the US and vice versa.

Holy moly. This is .. something that has been part of the landscape of my entire generation.

Blue Velvet is the only movie I almost had to walk out of because it creeped me out THAT much. I was shaking for hours.

We all agree now that videogames are less dangerous than unregulated social media and news, right?

Twice in the last 30 seconds.

How many structures were lost because someone wanted clicks?

French is looking like it's going to be as silly as English.

The difference between discussion about causes of wildfires on this platform vs the other one is wild.

Woke up this morning at 1:15 AM with an overwhelming but unspecified sense of dread. I think there's a word for this but I couldn't think of it. Is there a word for it? Seems like something German would have.

Honestly.

Anyone else finding little interest in Bluesky invites anymore?

For some reason I've never gotten around to reading LeGuin, until now. I'm finishing up Left Hand of Darkness and just not loving it. Any suggestions for another of her works?

Wealth of Elon Musk 2012: $2,000,000,000 2023: $248,800,000,000 Wealth of Jeff Bezos 2012: $18,400,000,000 2023: $160,900,000,000 Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg 2012: $17,500,000,000 2023: $105,200,000,000 Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Three words: tax the rich.

".. I'm calling for an expedited federal death penalty for anyone engaged in a mass shooting .. We've got to send a message to anyone that has evil in their hearts that there is no chance for them to spend the rest of their life behind bars." - Mike Pence, Super Big Brain Trust.