They’re not distinguishing “remote work” from “working from home” which are two entirely different things. There are whole communities of remote workers who meet and work together around the world. I guarantee you that remote working men who take advantage of these kinds of environments have a better sense of community than men who are forced to go sit in a cubicle with a group of people like the cast of The Office with less sense of humor.

Oh fuck odd Google. Literally the only reason I was paying for your crap videos is so I could play music on my TV uninterrupted.

I’m really looking forward to what Russia has to say today.

Yeah, the point is Ukraine can now go to the peace talks and say “Are you ready to quit and go home yet?”

I live in a place full of Russians. Trust me, they know. The official state media tries to cover it up, but it’s getting harder and harder. Most Russians know, they just can’t talk about it publicly without risking prison. But Putin’s days are numbered.

How long do you think your rights in prison are going to last once they’ve eliminated your most basic rights outside of prison?

In my social circles, people have moved from Facebook to Instagram and WhatsApp. To be honest, it’s a different UI but the same algorithmic overlords.

The thing with Facebook/Meta is that it’s not just one thing. It’s a lot of different things under one umbrella. In general, the replacement for Meta is the Fediverse. But you need to be specific about which features you want to replace.

For long form posts, I’ve set up my own blog using Ghost. Ghost also has passable Fediverse support now, though it’s still missing a lot of features.

These are some of the most inaccessible seeming accessibility features I’ve ever seen. They updated visionOS for blind people, for fucks sake. And who decided to put the word “nutrition” in an accessibility feature that has nothing to do with nutrition? Braille on a smartphone screen? A magnifier app with normal sized UI controls? Who is in charge of this?

Depardieu [argued] that he did not consider placing a hand on a person’s buttocks sexual assault and that some women were too easily shocked.

[The judge said] “He does not seem to have grasped either the concept of consent or the … consequences of his behaviour…”

The takeaway for men: yes, you need consent before grabbing someone’s ass.

Democrats didn’t have the will to arrest Trump, and now guess what…

You think that’s exclusive to the UK? I live in rural Asia and police patrol the countryside with drones.

I will literally starve to death living in the wilderness before someone puts a Neuralink in me. If you forced me to choose, I would choose starvation.

Even as a white male US born citizen, I also don’t see myself flying back any time soon. I’m nobody, but I’ve run my mouth against fascists online enough that I’ve probably triggered some flag in the system.

So you’re describing a reasoning model, which is 1) still based on statistical token sequences and 2) trained on another tool (logic and discourse) that it uses to arrive at the truth. It’s a very fallible process. I can’t even begin to count the number of times that a reasoning model has given me a completely false conclusion. Research shows that even the most advanced LLMs are giving incorrect answers as much as 40% of the time IIRC. Which reminds me of a really common way that humans arrive at truth, which LLMs aren’t capable of:

Fuck around and find out. Also known as the scientific method.

What you’re describing is not an LLM, it’s tools that an LLM is programmed to use.

This doesn’t sound like a nonprofit.

I expect this to keep going all week.

You don’t understand what an LLM is, or how it works. They do not think, they are not intelligent, they do not evaluate truth. It doesn’t matter how smart you think you are. In fact, thinking you’re so smart that you can get an LLM to tell you the truth is downright dangerous naïveté.

I’m not saying humans are infallible at recognizing truth either. That’s why so many of us fall for the untruths that AI tells us. But we have access to many tools that help us evaluate truth. AI is emphatically NOT the right tool for that job. Period.

That’s very interesting. I’ve been trying to use ChatGPT to turn my photos into illustrations. I’ve been noticing that it tends to echo elements from past photos in new chats. It sometimes leads to interesting results, but it’s definitely not the intended outcome.