ah well, that explains things.

this doesn’t mean that the paper is any good or doesn’t deserve mockery (i don’t know, i didn’t read it yet, and i’m not sure i have apparatus to make other than esthetic judgements), just that the conclusions the og skeet author attributes to the paper aren’t the paper’s conclusions.

before you order the cavalry charge, fwiw this skeet misrepresents the actual study topic rather badly, as another bluesky commenter notes.

it’s full of quotable bangers like this, and it’s hard to choose the one to quote, right.

the virile space men will have

i’ve heard they like to read sf, they might want to read heinlein’s luna stories and miss the point entirely

here’s another very good take from baldur bjarnason, answering the question if he had hardened his stance against LLMs.

(the answer is “not exactly”, and you want to read the whole thing, because the answer itself is the least interesting part of the essay.)

intellectual elite my arse.

i already have to be pleasant and composed while intercting with the managerial class.

i’m all for staking. specifically, i’m all for staking the bloody vampires.

being a member of the old boy club beats ideological differences.

happy to hear it!

one or two minor snags I still need to solve (such as back-kill-word not working in search, just haven’t looked into it yet)

there’s a separate key config for search mode which may give you what you need.

that kinda tracks the type of replies @corbin@awful.systems is seeing to his lobsters challenge, doesn’t it?

retains the same informational content after running through rot13

it’s funny to contrast his lobsters comment to his banter on bluesky, where he feels less constrained and allows himself to be plain nasty (nora’s blog is sephiroth-posting, nora has an axe to grind etc. etc.)

just to note that reportedly the palantir employees are for whatever reason going through a massive “hans, are we the baddies” moment, almost a whole year into the second trump administration.

as i wrote elsewhere, those people need to be subjected to actual social consequences of choosing to work with and for the u.s. concentration camp administration office.

we don’t care, we don’t need to, we’re the token company

ronacher is just the dude who couldn’t understand why people call dhh a fascist after dhh wrote his fourteen-words-in-longform blog about london. (paraphrasing: sure, he said, that’s not a good blog, but why would people say such terrible words about dhh.)

kat marchán goes by she/they fwiw.

jesus fuck.