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@arestelle

Lover of language, knowledge nut, shutter snapper, musicophile, stargazer, bookworm. Misfit programmer by day. | she/her

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Roose is not an LLM but I wouldn’t be surprised if he used one. He can be relied on for bad takes.

10.03.2026 14:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow. Sentence.

10.03.2026 05:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

what punctuation does that guy even think is missing in that sentenc?

10.03.2026 05:49 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

And they juggled credit card debt for a looong time to manage

10.03.2026 04:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My mom put my dad through grad school and his phd, then spent a few years at home taking care of us once he was working and we were littles who needed watching, before finishing her own degree and going back to work. She did pro-level work on the house while she was at home, too.

10.03.2026 04:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And/or NIMBYs

10.03.2026 02:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ah yes, because sounding proverbial is the essence of good writing (or β€œwritingβ€œ) and context and meaning don’t matter

10.03.2026 00:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t know what’s my favorite but I love how nuthatches just ignore gravity

And did you know that orioles love grape jelly? Love to see a bright yellow birb with a big gob of purple jam in his beak πŸ˜„

08.03.2026 06:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Like, I'm mad at them for wasting time and money and good will shoving "AI" "features" at customers instead of doing something useful like improving inbox organization options, but I sure don't think another provider is going to be a lot better on privacy, and mostly they're a lot worse.

07.03.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder* what the people saying "do NOT use Proton" think we should use instead that wouldn't be a good bit worse

*(since I saw it on mastodon first I assume they think everyone should roll their own πŸ™ƒ)

07.03.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Silicon Valley runs on erasure of consent. Consent is friction. Inefficient and not binary. It does not compute. It’s tech’s kryptonite.

07.03.2026 00:50 πŸ‘ 96 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Can't pick, love them all

06.03.2026 05:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

(looking for the Ally McBeal dancing baby and/or construction signs)

06.03.2026 04:40 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

FFVIII <3

06.03.2026 00:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, yeah, I don’t do games that want kernel access. That’s malware in my book.

05.03.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They don’t have the interiority to lie, they just output probable text.

05.03.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And Proton support in Steam lets me play all my β€œWindows” games just fine.

05.03.2026 16:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm so tired seeing posts claiming that "people aren't paying attention" or "people don't care". We are. We do. These posts deny us. How is that helping? (rhetorical)

05.03.2026 03:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"fire has a transformative effect on paper"

05.03.2026 01:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My dad's dad was selected by lot to be their church's pastor and was a CO during the war. (I would be unelectable, I'm sure.)

My mom's dad was an inventor/engineer designing agricultural machinery and made his company a bunch of money that the family never saw.

05.03.2026 01:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Frame ("F is happening!"): "'Generative AI' is a useful tool and does a good job generating text and code"
Negation ("F is not true!"): "It generates text and code that are full of errors, and relies on the hidden labor of low-paid workers in the global South for its illusion of humanlike skills"
Kirby eating the frame ("K is happening. That's why they're saying F."): "It's an inherently unethical and fascist technology whose purpose is to eliminate jobs, deskill white-collar workers, and generate disinformation at scale."

Frame ("F is happening!"): "'Generative AI' is a useful tool and does a good job generating text and code" Negation ("F is not true!"): "It generates text and code that are full of errors, and relies on the hidden labor of low-paid workers in the global South for its illusion of humanlike skills" Kirby eating the frame ("K is happening. That's why they're saying F."): "It's an inherently unethical and fascist technology whose purpose is to eliminate jobs, deskill white-collar workers, and generate disinformation at scale."

borrowing @anthonymoser.com's template. it actually doesn't matter whether "AI" is "useful".

04.03.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

The tf-idf of "appurtenant" with respect to real estate documents has got to be absurd.

04.03.2026 02:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pronouncing sumac with the accent on the second syllable like it’s a mysterious word she’s never heard before too?

01.03.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think the people voluntarily working on generative β€œAI” have no morals.

01.03.2026 05:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

poor Grizz πŸ˜‚

01.03.2026 04:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I know, they actually sound like derps. Movies use a red-tailed hawk's cry.

01.03.2026 04:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It looks like they actually sound

01.03.2026 04:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It feels extremely weird that I have to go look at carpet today. I know why I’m doing it but still.

28.02.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Crow is one of mine and he did but it was pretty tepid, just β€œworking class people always pay the price, Congress should demand answers”

I’m pretty sure the murdered people in Iran paid the price

28.02.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love it when an Onion article has been relevant my entire adult life

28.02.2026 11:36 πŸ‘ 517 πŸ” 146 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0