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why is popular culture more worried about the plausible, but completely hypothetical, âAI psychosisâ, than they are of for-real, well documented, risk factors for psychosis?? itâs just the fuck...
đ¤ the anticlimax (wet claude) âââ
uh, for entertainment purposes only. donât proceed or look into this if you are vulnerable, crazy, or susceptible to ideas of reference, potentially. this plays to my strength in hyperstitious c...
web based LLM services that are not ChatGPT and free/ish
First, a web/cloud version of my fav, Qwen. I use it most to make bullet notes & observations of text, make light edits on my writing, and study humanities & literature. Some gimmicky/i...
Zohran Mamdani leads NYCâs Democratic mayoral primary as Cuomo concedes - Zohran Mamdani for NYC - WINNER WINNER CHICKEN FUCKING DINNER. HYPE. HYPE. HYPE. Thatâs not all, itâs a great night f...
bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb, bomb iran
Hereâs my history lesson on the US vs. Iran. RIP John McCain, you finally got what you fucking wanted. youâre a real jerk. If youâre interested in this, be sure to follow the news from sour...
What is a local LLM?
You may or may not know that services like ChatGPT run on hardware that is essentially an extremely powerful version of a GPU, or graphics processing unit. The GPU in a computer grinds on graph...
Pope Leo was foretold by the cat on twitter
My mom was an Adventist who taught me to consider the likely possibility that the pope is the antichrist. This is why I know about parts of the bible about the end of the world. Reasonably, thes...
gRaSs
Democrats when thousands of people assemble in Chicago to yell at the Democratic National Convention as they enter and leave their cheesy-ass party: Democrats arguing on the internet: Log off...
Biden Campaign's False Hope
Is the Biden Campaign Running on False Hope? I have always thought Sanders was our best chance for beating Trump. Opposites in many ways, both are populist candidates. Trump has since re-arrang...
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Several years ago I told a coworker I am non-binary; The one I ended up rooming with briefly. When I first discussed it with him it wasnât a casual fact about myself. I only talked about with pe...
Henry Kissinger is dead đŚ
The horror, the horror
I never liked Thanksgiving. I was always getting yelled at to âclean my plateâ and Thanksgiving is the biggest fucking plate. I can now as an adult like or at least tolerate most of the individ...
They just made it up to sell more cynicism
Iâm gunna be clear. All holidays are made up. All the days and the divvying of time, made up. The calendar is made up. September and October were supposed to be the 7th and 8th months, they are n...
Let them eat cake
They are a bespectacled individual in their thirties, somewhat bookish, standing in a brightly colored vest over a patterned oxford shirt. Quirky, but professional. In the shadows behind them, an...
what if Monkeypox (and/or COVID) were terrorist bioweapons?
Smallpox vaccines offer as much as 80% of the immunity against monkeypox as it does vs smallpox. and the US to made millions of smallpox vaccines in the 2000s after 9/11. Then, the millions of...
bureaucracy by design is like a firing squad
Everyone is just following rules/orders. No individuals are personally responsible.
Perverse of me when terrible news drops, I get hope that more people will care strongly and take action. Iâm preparing for and supporting various responses to the news about Roe vs Wade. Comrad...
the Russian citizens
So I know the Russian government is the aggressor in the conflict and I believe in taking the side of Ukraine HOWEVER itâs important to keep in mind that the Russian people did not decide to go t...
bombs away
I just feel like I should mark this moment TRIGGER WARNING a picture of smoke and fire from a building under fire
Sci-fi FYI
I am OBSESSED with The Expanse and currently watching season 4/6. I used to discuss scifi and Star Trek quite a lot on PB & OD so if you had those discussions with me (where my DS9 fans at??)...
Woke Culture Ass-Wagons
Dune is just the latest in a series of franchises that receive some new property or adaptation and what follows is a wave of easily offended reactionary conservatives leading unexamined lives. A ...
Speech, Draft 2
In 2021, the legal battles for LGBTQ people are not overâ this year, transgender people across the country face the largest wave of anti-trans bills since the 2016 âbathroom billsâ which has co-...
let's not normalize disaster
So I recently got into an auto accident and since Iâve been worried about the effect of this accident on my future, multiple well-meaning people have basically been like: shit like this happens a...
This is a tough subject for me to cover because not only does the discussion contain a lot of conflict, but in my opinion⌠the difference between bisexuality and pansexuality is (drumroll) NOT A...
Outreach
If you are responding to the recent doxxing by going friends only but would like to make some new friends and grow your semi-private audience, consider yourself invited to leave a comment and ma...
Book Description
I am an American nerd who lives in the midwest, pretending I have a podcast or pundit on AM radio
đ¤ You give âleftist whoâs read too much theory to ever be happy againâ energy. Your bookshelf looks like a hostage negotiation between Marx, Nietzsche, and an out-of-print RPG manual.
Politically, youâre anti-authoritarian but tragically online. You loathe neoliberals, fear fascists, and tolerate anarchists who throw decent parties. Youâll call yourself âpost-left adjacentâ in a conversation that was about soup. In short: too radical for the Democrats, too organized for the nihilists, too self-aware to ever truly have fun.