Linus Mixson

@wesyang @LurkingEtcEtc If I thought I may have been exposed to Lyme, a miserable disease even without the hysteria surrounding it, I would be on the antibiotic they give you just for having anonymous sex, or acne, at least until I got the identification back.

@LurkingEtcEtc I took the one day prophylactic. The question now is whether to do the full two week course. If it's a dog tick may not be necessary.

Grok says the hugely engorged tick extracted from my scalp last night is a dog tick (which doesn't carry Lyme); Claude say it is a deer tick (which does carry Lyme.) I've sent it to a free online service with human entomologists who will make the call.

me when I don't wanna do work

I should clarify that libs believe in meritocracy when they think someone successful who they don't like is of low merit (typically meaning: disagrees with them). Otherwise it's a nice idea that doesn't exist because Republicans are such bigots, or that ignores reparative justice & perpetuates injustice by its very existence as an idea, or a nice idea that doesn't exist in reality, but should, which means doing a bunch of reparative justice.

@LinusMixson @dwr They see Kash Patel (podcaster) and Hegseth (Fox News host) running our institutions and rightfully think so. They did not get those positions through merit, but loyalty to Trump. While a great “gotcha”, getting rid of DEI and disparate impact was the real win for meritocracy

the spacex ipo irks libs because they think meritocracy is a lib thing and it turns out meritocracy doesn’t actually exist and the closest thing thing to actual meritocracy is capitalism and they’re bad at it because it rewards risk-taking not credentialism

@grucciflipfl0ps Whoops!

@grucciflipfl0ps Look at how separated Greek is from Phoenician.

Anyway did you guys know that the Thai alphabet is a descendant of Egyptian hieroglyphics

@CosmicEggEarth I don't mind; you can comment on my posts as much as you'd like. Just please try to keep it worth reading.

@LinusMixson You're incorrect on (a) and I don't track who I reply to. It's to let algo know which side of those posts I'm on and usually I delete most of thes posts.

One of the things that makes the Harry Potters series [deep breath] extremely good is that J. K. Rowling does not give a single fuck about worldbuilding.

@teortaxesTex @morris_que14 This is an idea that you only have if your theory of China is "must be better than America in every way that is meaningful to me, personally."

@teortaxesTex @morris_que14 The idea of a Pax Sinica is offensively stupid, particularly coming from someone whose enthusiasm for China I am confident heavily features "they're noninterventionist!"

I think the most unexpected thing about the Chinese century is it will be announced by the most kino and spectacular war since WWII over Taiwan that smashes the U.S. military in the Asia Pacific region that ends with a clear Chinese victory only for the subsequent Pax Sinica become one of the most boring and uneventful periods in history since the Victorian period.

oh my god lol

I'm not going to spend my time defending Harry Potter on here beyond what I've already said, but I want to point out that (a) you seem shaky on what a "supernormal stimulus" is supposed to be, (b) you've replied to me twice today, once to say this and once to say something truly idiotic about the common descent of the Egyptian, Chinese, and Aztec writing systems, and (c) in that same 24-hour period you've replied twice to posts concerning swimsuit photography of Emma Watson.

@LinusMixson It's one of the most boring stories ever, and the fact it's popular tells you exactly what supernormal stimulus looks like for humans.

@NesumAbum Agreed that it would be funny.

@LinusMixson I am not saying there is one … but that I hope we will find one because it will be funny.

All of them are … and since Arabic numerals are descendants of the Brahmi script, that means even numbers are ultimately derived from Egyptian. And today we think that Chinese script is born independently … in the future we will maybe learn that it’s also a descendant

@NesumAbum No, I can say with extreme confidence, on multiple grounds, that there is no connection here.

@LinusMixson Correct for now … but you never know and maybe one day a major discovery will reveal old contacts that we still don’t know. History has already reserved many surprises.

56,000+ tokens/sec at just 80 MHz. 🤯 I burned a full Transformer with KV cache into a custom chip. Designed gate by gate as a 100% digital integrated circuit. Prototyped on a FPGA. (No GPU. No CPU) Just pure digital silicon running @karpathy microGPT, spelling out names on a tiny LCD. This is GateGPT 👇

@JohnSmithhd8 You can line Phoenician up against the Egyptian uniliterals and they are clearly and obviously the same. This is really beyond dispute.

@LinusMixson Makes no sense that Phoenician alphabet descended from Egyptian alphabet instead of the older Sumerian alphabet

@vellalarel88260 @yajnadevam Indus was definitely independently developed but has not been decoded and its purported connection to Brahmi is inchoate nonsense people claim for emotional reasons.

@yajnadevam @LinusMixson Saw that Is it recognised internationally or even at national level? Anyhow, indus script again would have came from Egyptian, right? Or independently developed?

With all due respect, what the fuck are you talking about? The Latin alphabet you are using RIGHT NOW came from the exact same abjad you think it's impossible for Brahmi to have come from, despite the fact that it's a much greater leap from a system in which vowels following consonants are elided and interpolated by the reader to a system in which they're explicitly written than to a system in which they're simply made explicit as part of the same character. Abjads in fact routinely mark vowels explicitly, using vowel points placed within the same character frame, creating glyphs that have an "inherent vowel." An abugida like Brahmi is markedly more similar to an abjad like Aramaic than an alphabet like Latin is, but no one argues that Latin isn't a descendant of the exact same parent script. Is this really the best argument you people have? Shouldn't you be out there deciphering Indus rather than making idiotic comments about linguistic evolution that can be disproven by even a brief exercise in comparative thinking?

@LinusMixson The easiest way to differentiate between an unbiased anthropological study and a biased one is by seeing the claim that a script that consonants with inherent vowels came from a language with an emphasis on just consonants.

@yajnadevam No it is not.

@LinusMixson Brahmi is descended from indus script

@melqartvantyrus To me a big part of art in general is that it's unreal. If you want a fully-realized, highly-consistent world… you're living in one.

@LinusMixson i don't think it's a good thing though

To me SF culture is rolling into the office at noon, leaving at 10 PM, selling drugs to your coworkers, and doing some other things that I've been advised to not talk about.

Oh, Jesus. This is "SF culture" now?