Cioran vindicated. Ligotti - We are all uncanny things. May we all march gracefully out.

I deadass got called ableist on here once for saying theres no excuse to not be using an ad blocker because of someone’s “executive dysfunction”

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Check in on your local gay because they are in shambles right now

Without a second thought

I think that at this point they should look into building a New New Delhi

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it implies the us libertarians aren’t usually fascist.

Well yeah, that’s what I’m getting at. Whether or not most self-described libertarians are actually libertarians (most arent) isnt really relevant. Libertarianism, as an idealogy, is fundamentally opposed to fascism, as an idealogy, definitionally so. It’s only by FPTP, majority rule, etc. that finds those two groups voting for the same platform instead of being confident enough to run their own parties. (See also: outspoken communist ideologues earnestly supporting the DNC because they know their vote will never be represented otherwise.)

As I said, the comic really isnt that deep or serious, but I do appreciate that it’s a bit more self-aware than the average Ben Garrison piece

The one with the rope pulling is pretty funny

E: “Opposites Attract” It’s not that serious but it is a pretty self aware bit of commentary on what FPTP polling does on consolidating voting blocs

Makes me sad… my childhood leopard gecko died two winters ago at 18 years old

He gave me $2,000 cash

I don’t need to change your mind, I agree completely. Something I wrote a couple weeks ago:

My unsolicited rant:

The technology is good and anyone who says it’s “just autocorrect” are wrong. Having said that, I agree that LLMs are useful really for nothing more than low-risk, personal research and/or signposting to other sources. It’s in no way a replacement for a human (unless your definition of what a human does is that it’s just a thing that produces words at you - in which case, you’re probably a middle manager - very myopic, regardless). It’s also not appropriate for anything financial, professional, or confidential. Here, the first L in LLM is a hindrance. Local, small language models are more appropriate and cost-effective here.

Anyway. I don’t “use AI” like some people but over the last year I’ve used my access to Proton’s Lumo (already included in my subscription) a handful of times and been pleased with the results. The way that I see it is that all the LLM libraries are trained almost entirely on Reddit or websites that stole their content from Reddit anyway, so use it like you would Reddit: “LGBT horror movies before 2000,” “Summarize and cite criticisms of Camille Paglia,” “Was Bioshock 2 well-received at launch?” All very low-stakes. Doesn’t really matter. Could’ve been a Reddit thread, but it’s likely that any response there would’ve been a middleman for an AI answer anyway.

Anyway. More: Call it cope but I’ve been developing a theory/outlook that the internet as a thing is basically dead and that the Pandora’s Box of LLM tech, which can produce a basically infinite amount of what was once the internet’s currency (read: information, but really: text), has killed it. The Fediverse is utopian but I don’t think anyone here really believes it will ever be anything more than a cluster of fringe communities. Having said that, I justify good LLM use (like mine, lucky that) as being the “New Game Plus” mode of the internet. Everything is already there, everything’s unlocked. There is no challenge. It’s kind of cheating and you’re not really supposed to play the game like that. But at the same time, there is no going back to the real beginning, I just have the option of nostalgically re-creating it by going to old.reddit or postfixing before:2022 to all my Google DDG searches. Fun, and game-ish in it’s own right, but also artificially limiting for no reasons beyond that.

/rant

Dunno about 6:30am but I dont think that’ll be a problem at 11:30pm… gonna freak on that male bird

Snowcrash (1992) by Neal Stephenson. Literally coined the term “metaverse.”

Fuck Zuckerberg for ruining my favorite cyberpunk novel

This guy looks like Nosferatu doing blackface

Probably not because that sounds gross

Its not the height, it’s the age. Thar be eldritch monsters in the Appalachians. Rockies is just aliens and (Gay) Bigfoot

Imagine my confusion when I apologized to my grandpa for being late to Thanksgiving because I blew a tranny on the highway. I had no idea what he meant when he grabbed his wrenches and said “well let’s fix it”

No lol? There’s even the famous story about how their record label wanted to sign her on as solo act but she insisted on contracts for the whole band