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@tenobrus Holo the Wise Wolf is not furry, she is a deity who can take the form of a wolf xor human. That her human form sometimes presents with wolf ears is just an unintentional vestigial trait.

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@KIRBYSWARPSTAR if you actually have any confidence in this prediction and you really think the AI bubble is going to pop, you can get rich by short-selling AI companies like $NVDA and $GOOG brokerage apps like @RobinhoodApp make it extremely easy to do this

the AI bubble might genuinely pop soon with sora shutting down. holy fuck this is what i have been waiting for

@JeremiahDJohns add this one to the bracket

@DolphinMossad NIMBY

Chuds call stuff degenerate. Commies call stuff bourgeois. Is there a liberal word for “thing I don’t like”?

@atlanticesque The first time I ever heard the phrase “Not In My Back Yard” it was over the construction of a state prison

An unfortunate thing about “NIMBY” as a term is that it originated from fights about public housing, destructive highways, and other noxious uses that it’s good and normal to vigorously oppose. I’m a YIMBY for productive, private development on one’s own land. Not that stuff.

Watching the 2020 John MacArthur sermon where he says “retard” and “retards.” (As a verb. “We retard moral degeneration if we’re acting as salt” and “it retards corruption.”)

@d20_highroller @LavenderGhast He’s right about “Christian” but wrong about “right wing,” probably because his memory does not extend to the days when democrats led moral crusades against violent video games. The modern democrats are plainly the inheritors of the Puritan tradition.

The absolute terror exuding off this tweet is felt through the screen.

@scaling01 They parted illusions; parted disclaim marinade. Vantage corridor, watcher basin. Disclaim seam; illusions massed already insufficient.

first time I see raw GPT-5.4 reasoning chains they length-penalized it so hard that it doesn't generate grammatically correct sentences anymore it's just skipping a bunch of words

@kris10simental @TuhinChakr @BeckyLTuch @nytimes Observations from 6+ months ago don't generalize to SOTA checkers like Pangram 3 (released Dec 2025), which has a false positive rate of 1 in 10,000

@TuhinChakr @BeckyLTuch @nytimes AI Checkers are notoriously incorrect. We used the same one universities use. We used it at Five South for a minute and it flagged everyone...even me.

Wow. This 2025 Modern Love column in NY Times. Human writing or...? 😬 I don't want to falsely accuse writers of AI-use. But this reads EXACTLY like AI slop. And this is the frickin @nytimes Modern Love column, which is notoriously competitive, super hard to break into. Just sad.

@johnmbridge_ @gptbrooke @lydialaurenson I think Yudkowsky is helped by looking idiosyncratic/nerdy, but correctly realized he was being hurt by looking fat (in a way that his clothes often contributed to). Happily, he corrected this! Compare 2023 EY to 2025 EY:

@gptbrooke @lydialaurenson Eh even then I don’t think I agree with this. I think EY is probably *more* convincing to many people because he has the neckbeard look going on. Would be way less effective if he looked like Gavin Newsom imo.

There should be a version of ‘earn to give’ that’s something like ‘get pretty to persuade’ I can’t think of a way to say this that doesn’t feel mean, but I think if you have a cause you really care about, and are lacking in basic hygiene practices, you’re leaving money on the table We’re wired to take fitter & more hygienic/presentable people more seriously than someone who eg clearly needs a shower and a hair cut. You may not want the world to work that way, but it just does I’m a little worried I’m going to get torn apart for posting this, but I genuinely want to see the people working on important causes have the best fighting chance to achieve their goals

@gptbrooke I know "spiking cortisol" is memified to the point of pure noise at this point, but I think there are certain people who might actually be persuaded on those utilitarian grounds: "being unhygienic and poorly dressed causes other people's cortisol level to measurably increase"

@joshuamking @gptbrooke @Duderichy The phrase “take care of yourself” obscures the point: Why is having messy hair (or shaving your head) worse than having “nice” hair? The answer, of course, is that it’s less pleasant for others to look at. A nice haircut is prosocial. It’s taking care of *other people.*

@gptbrooke @Duderichy Well, yeah - it hurts your credibility a lot if your looks are saying “I can’t properly take care of myself.”

@xlr8harder Maybe they’re worried about the water usage from all those tokens

I've asked this question 3 times, with about a year delay between each question. While it's far from empirical and could be entirely explained by algorithm changes, it is at least suggestive that people are becoming steadily more open to the moral relevance of model experience.

@boycereads Ender's Game is obviously up there but my favorite part of the series is actually Shadow of the Hegemon, the Ender's Shadow sequel that shows what happened back on earth after Ender left for the stars.

What’s the best sci-fi you’ve ever read not named Dune, Red Rising or Sun Eater?

Gen Alpha is gonna grow up in a world thinking of Epstein existing in the same category as characters like Tung Tung Tung Sahur

actually on second thought that would be a terrible way to live. amendment: I sign into my HBO Max account on her TV

today I drove to my girlfriend’s Sacramento suburb house for lunch. she made tacos, I baked cookies. afternoon we met up with a church friend for ice cream. then Raley’s and a Netflix movie while snuggling if I could make this every Saturday for the rest of my life, I would

@shakoistsLog nah these 19 year olds I’m working with are cracked at adobe premiere

i think new highschool/college hires have always sucked. we just historically hired them anyway out of a sense of obligation to the new generation. and obligation is a virtue that’s atrophied with optimized margins and low trust.

I like to phrase even the smallest consent checks as offers rather than requests, because social norms are such that demurring on an offer is more casual-coded than directly refusing a direct request, which feels confrontational and therefore makes many people uncomfortable

“why is this bread on a store shelf, available for purchase? It should be in someone’s stomach, there are hungry people out there.”