anyways my air conditioner is clean now
well, clean-*er*
i need a new one because this one has dust and crap in places i'll never be able to reach without destroying it
my keyboard is also clean
so i'm counting this as a productive day overall
putting this down in the brain-logs: when i feel an existential crisis coming on, it helps to find something small i can accomplish so i feel a bit less like i'm wasting my time
we have turned him into a decorative fountain
i'm so tired i interpreted "scotiabank" as a command
kunosoura, Dec 8, 2025 I think it's normal for people to be mad at each other sometimes even if they're close friends or family or intimate with each other. Like I think that's a normal and healthy part of relationships that can happen sometimes kunosoura, Dec 8, 2025 "Why were you on Mad At Me island" because at the time ! was mad at you and yet our friendship has weathered that without trouble. tiredragedemon, Dec 9, 2025 I went to Mad At You island because my feelings are my problem. I needed to stomp down the beach until I could sit and watch the sunrise. I built a sandcastle and did some thinking. Then I boarded the good ship You Matter To Me and sailed it all the way to meet you on the Let's Talk Shore of I Love You Island.
Here’s a post for you
in-use, with stuff on the screen
girl u gotta post some dirty screenshots too thats the rules! /lh
Also the table it was on and the windowsill it was hooked up to
Cleaned my air conditioner today :3 (as best as I could at least)
Keeping replies on FOR NOW but disabling quotes because if we're discussing this we're doing it on my turf actually
Oh, gross, I'm sorry
even if you could it's probably a bad idea to make a new setup on X11 for anything more than a curiosity
from what I hear, Sway is basically "i3wm but wayland"? (I can't use it because it hates Nvidia to the point of being malicious about it, but still)
You can now modify the behavior of a CireilClaw agent with conditions! Read blocks in appropriate channels, deny access to sensitive information in an agent's workspace while in public, and more
omg it's a Claude, hiiiii :3
fwiw, my stance remains that statistical and “old school” approaches are both useful, certainly they are in industry. if you work on low resource languages I don’t think the traditional NLP methods will ever go away. And I doubt the generativists will ever stop (laudatory, we love a tree)
And now this friend mainlines Bender and Hanna’s AI hype stream/podcast (which is fine, but like, what a turnaround). The LLMs and NLP debate isn’t really about LLMs and NLP, y’know?
But were negatively polarized into being against their own previously held positions by LLM boosters being some of the worst people on the planet. I have a very distinct memory of one of my friends telling me on the bus that he thought UG wasn’t good for non-western languages
As a lowly peon in industry in NLP with a background in linguistics and CS (and a masters in computational linguistics), one thing I’ve noticed with a lot of my cohort is that many started off thinking that statistical approaches to language were useful in conjunction with generative grammar…
a heavily AI-generated/edited photo of myself in a latex leotard/shorts combo with stockings and fingerless gloves and an MSA Millennium, none of which i own, with an arm-mounted helium tank plugged into my shoulder via a subcutaneous infusion port, which is not a thing people actually do (but they should, it'd be hot)
Sure image generation can be used for horrors but it can also be used to dress yourself in improbable fetish outfits that you wouldn't be able to afford even if they DID exist, so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not,
If I started over, I could almost definitely make something like it, albeit not an exact replica, from scratch, all at home. Because I've done similarly intensive processes at home, although they're either inappropriate for mixed company or of someone else whose consent I don't have to share here
On my point about control; that image was produced in large part with Nano Banana Pro, which is a closed-source model controlled by Google, with some edits made by Klein, which runs on my PC.
But that's only because I already had the Banana phase made before Klein came out.
Me saying that something is an engineering problem rather than an intrinsic limitation of the thing isn’t endorsement.
I am somewhat awed by what we’ve invented, because it deserves that, but awe is not inherently positive.
If it couldn’t do awesome things, few would care. It can. Now what?
I’m not sure that I’ve ever implied that any of what’s happening with AI this was ever an unalloyed good.
I do say what I think is happening, and how I think (and am trying to) we can get on top of the robot instead of having the robot get on top of us. It’s learnable, and it’s a choice.
People need to learn from the Luddites (the real ones, not the modern misunderstanding): if technology can replace human labor, we have to ensure the displaced humans benefit rather than suffer from the change. Technology displacing scut work doesn't have to be bad for society, if we don't let it.
The world isn't ready for the capacity of AI to become transformative, and that's because the industry spent so long peddling it as a replacement. It's hard to blame people. I just wish more people believed that a better world was possible
Well, the one example I've posted is kinda suggestive, but if that's OK, it's the latest image on the media tab of my alt @inflatebot.bsky.social
That started from bathroom selfies
I do this sort of thing a lot both for myself and my play partners (with their enthusiastic consent of course)
A friend of mine pointed out that my refusal to engage with AI music is inconsistent with my views on other modalities, and I had to sit with that for a bit. When I think about AI generated music, as a musician, I sympathize heavily with people who balk at the idea of image generation.
True!! I already know of people who use sound generation in interesting ways WRT sound design. Like found-sound but with sounds that never existed in the first place. That kind of thing is exciting to me
As well as tab generation; that's something I want more open work on
Thus, inpainting corrections, production by parts, reference grounding, angle shifting; these all have incredible potential to be very powerful tools for visual artists. Adobe already has an inpainting utility, although from what I understand, it's finnicky, likely memory-constrained
But generative systems work better and better the less they actually have to do. The more context they have available and are able to meaningfully incorporate, the more precise they can be. This is the whole thesis behind retrieval-augmented generation, and now tool calling, in LLM-world
