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@AaronBergman18 @caryatis Are you aware that just as many British women have the same dialectal feature?

@caryatis I’m also not actually attracted to men so the hypothetical is hard to run lmao

If I was a girl I would 100% crush on British guys who replace the “th” sound with the “f” sound

@kylejunlong Link to save others a few clicks: usefulfictions.substack.com/p/do-less

.@catehall ’s Do Less is my favorite piece of writing in 2026 so far my biggest takeaways: 1) all the information in the world is useless without action 2) if your rest time is goal-oriented, you’re fucked 3) feed your elephant 🐘

🚨 NEW: The Government is set to announce the "biggest animal welfare reforms" in a generation - Ban puppy farming by reforming dog breeding rules - Ban electric shock collars on pets pending a consultation - Ban trail hunting amid concerns it is being used as a smokescreen for illegal fox hunting - Introduce humane slaughter rules for farmed fish to prevent avoidable pain during killing - Phase out colony cages for laying hens, which restrict movement and natural behaviours like nesting and perching, and pig farrowing crates, which confine mother pigs and stop them turning around after giving birth - Ban snare traps that can catch pets and cause suffering for animals - Reform the use of carbon dioxide to stun pigs after evidence it causes distress and suffering - Ban shooting hares during the breeding season (roughly from February to September) so young hares are not left without mothers

@stefanstern @PatrickAllies We may also hear "Offspring of a Virgin's tum"

@PatrickAllies "Late in time behold Him come, Offspring of a Virgin's womb..." - with "womb" of course pedantically sung in a full rhyme with "come".

What is your favourite Christmas lyric to sing deliberately incorrectly?

@JeffLadish ah, and this one *isn't* Sora, ok, got it

Let me know if you want to learn to paraglide

@Mjreard does the podcast mentioned in your bio exist? I would love it to cc @ChanaMessinger

@ChanaMessinger I heard that many (those with a low understanding of tech) already thought of computers as intelligent before we got LLMs — their experience was already one of interacting w/ a magic oracle. Don’t know how much xp with pre-LLM computers she has, so she can make the comparison.

My grandma used chatgpt for the first time recently; I want to interview her about it. What should I ask her?

@Noahpinion what the fuck noah, going from 'woman' to 'person' is just gender-neutral language! why should this law not apply to trans men who get pregnant? there's no need for us to go out of our way to help exclude trans people from healthcare

The Democrats need to cut this shit out. We need a credible opposition in America.

@NathanpmYoung This is the first result for me (well, a screenshot of it posted to reddit is) when I google "but secretly, I am rooting for the orangutan"

@spilendalaust Thank you! I googled several ways. what did you search?

There is a quote that goes something like this, but I've lost it. Anyone know of it. "but secretly, I am rooting for the orangutan" Maybe by Edgar Allan Poe ??

@ilex_ulmus It sounds like you've already made your mind up, but I could ask my friend who works on evals for the UK AI safety institute if you're interested - NB they are a thoughtful person

Also, perhaps I have just missed this conversation, but where is the crisis and the soul-searching and the number-crunching on whether evals are the right intervention? Feels like you don’t care and treat it as axiomatic that knowing more descriptive stats is always worth it.

Okay seriously what good are evals doing? Can anyone point me to even one positive real world impact? This one about setting sounds like sports commentary for the model, not like a probe of danger that will get addressed bc of it. x.com/aidan_mclau/st…

@EAheadlines those don't sound boring but go off i guess

I've gotten so boring in the last couple years that if I were to write a new EA lifestyles post it would either be "taking the government to court over charitable donations" or "high impact will writing"

@MKVRiscy weather permitting

@ohabryka @willmacaskill @benchanceyy @AaronBergman18 This is a pointlessly high bar to meet, since I think the number of people who care about others *to the degree they care about themselves or greater* is small enough that it reduces the referent of the word ‘care’ to the point it bears ~no relation to how that word is used.

This is IMO clearly true for most people who profess caring about charity. It’s also a common relationship dynamic (cf. tropes about people performing being in love, or being in love with an idealized version of their partner). But again, a word like “caring” is clearly very fuzzy, and it’s common for someone to “care” about something in one way, and not another. Also, the line between really believing something and performing a belief is fuzzy, and so it’s also hard to be precise here.

“Will MacAskill doesn’t care about the global poor” is quite the take

@jmhorp 1 million dollars can buy many peanuts

He could give each American $1 million and still have money left over

@PaulHarris_Cl delightful! i'm also impressed by the lifelikeness of the playback software.

A number of folk very kindly asked if they could hear my little Off Beat Overture. Here's a link: youtube.com/watch?v=sop6xa…

@Malcolm_Ocean well, can you articulate why it matters? it's not obvious to me that it's in the top 50 things to select for.

this is allowed to matter when I feel the negative space into which I speak this obvious truth—one that feels socially safer to say now than it did a few days ago, but still edgy—I anticipate people believing that stating this obvious fact somehow makes me cruel. so let me be clear: I'm not saying fitness matters for dignity. but it is sensible to appoint someone healthy to handle matters of health. obviously. and it requires rationalization to not be able to acknowledge that this is obviously true. it's not the only thing that matters, but it matters. (I looked up other pics of her and this is representative—and the first google image result, actually—not a deliberately bad photo. the original had her in B&W and I fixed that to make a fairer comparison.)

@AlecStapp Just providing the link for convenience - gov.uk/government/new…

We should copy this immediately. Let’s never lockdown again by preventing outbreaks from becoming pandemics in the first place.

@frances__lorenz Here is a different recording than the one I sent before, again from 2022 — a bit more cracky and crackly because I had an audience (again of friends) but without false starts soundcorset.com/r/KY07md_cEK

@frances__lorenz Performing this to my friends at a performance party today!

A late night poem :)