i love how power cat is refracted

when it was invented, the nerds rope was, in term of candy, like an atom bomb compared to older candies like a malted milk ball which could be compared to the sharps rifle, but the end point of that innovation is the thermonuclear weapon that is the nerds gummy cluster

have you seen the lethal company arachnophobia mode

Tree Mode

it's not much consolation that it isn't any good at that either

my nothing #mynothing

i only have so many ways to say this: any involvement of an llm makes things worse

you might wanna read a bit about what actually goes on inside those things mate. there's no "real tools" visible from the surface, just hundreds of layers of recursive llm calls spalling lies neuromatch.social/@jonny/11634...

sorry but I'm not sure what you're referring to here. what is the distinction here you're talking about?

not by llms alone they aren't! yet all they do now is continue to throw more llm at it, with more begging and pleading language and wishcasting, until the frontier of falsely presumed reliability grows a tiny bit even while it becomes more brittle and false

it's the no code delusion again. the nearly century-old mirage that you can get the computer to do what you want without completely specifying it, trying over and over to enable doing that without putting in the work. the profit motive demands speed. but the real answer is abstractions, as always

using them is incredibly bad for you, but it's also worse for your output in every way that matters to anyone with a brain

from personal observation: no, they only become worse and forget how to write code effectively themselves, and it bleeds into exactly the same binary as small parts combine into larger structures. deterministically autocomplete is COMPLETELY different than ai autocomplete.

literacy rates very much go into the We Should Improve Society Somewhat bucket lmao

anyway i very much understand you here, i am just relaying how i try to think about it that gets me out of dwelling on it for too long

yeah i mean people will be like that and some of them are probably that dumb but i try not to assume they are unless they really say it outright. i 50% meant like, we would probably find those people too annoying to hang out with lol

i suppose there are people who will absorb a hundred jokes as citeable fact instead of thinking about it for 2 seconds but it's not my burden to train them out of that and train them into a habit of literacy

lmao site broke, doordash worker set the datacenter on fire

there isn't room or, in any particular way, *any special reason* to hedge and be really specific and nuanced about likelihood and the amount of information in either chat or short form posts like this. i don't presume either of those to bear inherent declaration of certainty unless it's explicit

the people we hang out with readily accept evidence to the contrary 🤷‍♀️

i think it's more relaxing to think of their first presumption as reflective of their own current sentiment towards the site. like 1000 people made this joke: it doesn't mean they are sure, it means bsky has the mandate of hell

i don't think it's conspiracism so much as "it's funny to say this"

can't update my laptop, canonical's repository servers are failing

peak biden

therapist: so what's been inspiring you to keep going? me: sinkdog therapist: did you say "sink dog"? me, showing her a picture of sinkdog on my phone: sinkdog

hell yes!

if you sow the wind, what you reap is probably more wind, which you can easily handle if you were sowing wind in the first place

There's a flaming skull with legs and shoes walking down the sidewalk towards Rebecca and Power Cat who look both confused and annoyed. The flaming skull is saying watch out mama, this one's got legs. The caption says this is ruby; I'm talking to you directly. Are his legs bone? How do they move? Shoes?

Power Cat
2026-04-14
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FLAMING SKULL WEEK 2

Everyone here is overly familiar with the Nazi bar analogy. If 8 people at the bar are "doing fine" and 2 people are destitute and suffering then you live in a society of destitution and suffering.

minkowski diagrams are by far the most elucidating about this to me. fast moving objects exist on a space/time region that becomes skewed at high velocities

…people who write about statistics often display an astounding lack of understanding of the nature of the figures they are analysing, their authenticity and their suitability for drawing certain conclusions.