Anomalic

wild that I can feel so aimless and dull while somewhere inside of me is a radiant soul teeming with light and wit and love and understanding

@dundereloise and to thing, this is the least elegant princesses will be

It's common knowledge that things like cars have improved a lot since the 1930s, but something I don't see talked about is our stunning advances in princess technology. 2026 Glinda is better than 1939 Glinda in every way. She's prettier. Her dress is more ambitious and more beautiful. Her crown is more refined, her wand more exquisite, her mannerisms more elegant. A devastating mogging of 1939 Glinda. We've just gotten better at everything.

@adrusi fuck I was surprised but didn’t follow through enough :(

your strength as a rationalist is measured in your ability to be more surprised by fiction than reality

@tenobrus I... think so? I mean I'll cut myself off or interrupt or change paths but

i mean... do *you* think in grammatically correct full sentences??

smokin on that shit that makes you mor goth

@adrusi @Silicon_alien I sn’t this just what was prompted by someone who has had the dreams though

@Silicon_alien same types of errors and recovery process in terms of world model and physics simulation as happens in dreams

evidence for ai models converging on the same cognitive structures as humans

@Dune_Countdown ahead of my time

@ChanaMessinger @tszzl damn I had high hopes but expect my judgement to correlate w yours and these sound like very anticipateable shortcomings. I already felt the xenolinguistics and alienity weakness in the book.

@tszzl 10000%

project hail mary was unfortunately a middling adaptation of a good book. the script has the unfortunate affect of “language model populism” - where every single line has to be some sort of punched up comedic zinger yet still unremarkable. visuals were uninspired and trite and more or less identical to other space movies. everything good about the film comes from the wonderful world scaffolding of the book and the hard science fiction of it all that lets you suspend disbelief on the alien rocky the movie doesn’t really try to get into the xenolinguistic stuff even at the depth the book tries (someone called it “arrival for idiots” which unfortunately hit ) the thing that elevated the book is the commitment to a hard science fiction engineeringporn fiction at a level nobody else is able to write. the direction of the movie doesn’t really convey the same feeling successfully, and you’re left with flat characters, an alien that is more human than several humans i know, and a marvel populism gosling and the german woman are great as actors, but this movie will not be remembered in a year. it is disappointing to see people do so little with a quarter billion, insane acting talent, and incredible source IP

@1thousandfaces_ @Bonecondor already an improvement then!

@Bonecondor Haven’t shit myself yet

did my first reta shot yesterday btw

@shaggysurvives oh wow a whole situtation

@anonymiserly no the neighbors cat was lost and we took it to the vet to see if it had a microchip

claude convinced me to put this cat i found on the street into a waymo

@shaggysurvives the situation being what "im getting in a waymo there's a cat here"??

@anonymiserly i just described the situation along with my concerns

🥲

@shaggysurvives also wait what I didn’t actually think about this til now what did you ask Claude lmao

@shaggysurvives I wonder if this is technically against TOS

@justalexoki this is satire right

i don't think women understand that men get the ick from their women crying too. like why are you acting like a child

@AlexisSylvain7 @TaliaGraceSable I think “my retcon is…” has pretty clearly understandable meaning

@anonymiserly @TaliaGraceSable A retcon would be someone else saying that they're translations, it's too late for frank to change anything

Duncan Idaho and Mark Antony are the two most immersion-breaking names My retcon is that Frank Herbert is treating names as if they're translated into Western equivalents, like Tolkien with the hobbits And uh same with Mark Antony, except it's not a retcon, that's just what happened

@sergeantsup 🎉

I'm actually really happy with how things are going in my life right now

@Pandora_Delaney what a tragic waste all of that time spend getting your Poly Ho Degree

Can you imagine my dismay, upon finally becoming Dr. Bimbo, to learn that there are precisely zero credentials required to be a slut with a blog? And that you can just start a podcast and no one will stop you. What a world!

@Pandora_Delaney v curious what you learn! mine told me fuck all :/

Sleep study report: -24+ wires/straps, many attached with this thick gel that gets in your hair -1 tech who watches you sleep on camera -they ask for consent to re-enter the room & adjust your wires -they further ask if you want to be woken up or if they can just go for it -you can go to the bathroom after being hooked up but you must ask permission This may all sound very sexy, but in fact I was half convinced they’d be able to read my thoughts given all the sensors, so I kept those in check

@AlexisSylvain7 @TaliaGraceSable “retcon”

@TaliaGraceSable In dune it isn't translation, that's literally his name

@MarysRoommate @TaliaGraceSable this one was always fine to me somehow

@TaliaGraceSable I mean also the warrior messiah, Kwizatz Haderach, god emperor....Paul