I think it started more recently for me. Finding out I am Autistic about 5 years ago triggered a 2 year severe bout of GAD. I dug my way out with therapy, but things haven’t been the same since.

The passive thoughts are wild. Like, 100% I know I would never even attempt, but dang if that “I don’t want to do this (life) anymore” doesn’t come up almost weekly. It’s always surprising and I always follow it up with a “I don’t mean that”, but then it happens again.

/like

I guess the people who prefer MCP servers think this is a Skills issue?

Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service.

All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.

I like the way he broke it all the way down.

Someone on Instagram asked (disingenuously, I suspect) why videos from space don't show Earth "spinning at 1000 miles per hour." At first glance, sounds like you should see that! But:
1. To see the spinning accurately, you'd have to be not drifting with respect to Earth, & that's hard to set up

1/2

Ahead of Easter this year, I mourn Father Pierre al-Rahi, the Maronite Catholic parish priest of Qlayaa in Marjayoun (South Lebanon) who stayed behind to support his parishioners only to be killed by Israel on March 9 in a double tap attack.

May his memory be a blessing.

They fired another General!

Seemed too woke! He's gotta go!🤡

* West point graduate
* Platoon commander
* Combat veteran
* Military parent
* Talked about humanitarian missions, and rapid response to Puerto Rico, Houston, and other hurricane affected areas
* Talked about treating people with respect

Chuckles nervously in #Autism

Stealing this meme from @comradediamat.bsky.social 😑

I believe in many cases people think the AI is giving them *back* their agency. That it allows them to start taking control of their own destiny again. We have to help people understand how believing everything that comes out of the robot undermines that goal.

"Let us not ask what AI can do for Oberlin students, but what Oberlin students can do ourselves, while we still have the brain capacity to think on our own."

(Wondering if Luddite clubs might spring up at other schools where students are similarly frustrated with administrators' #AI obsession...)

12.7M acres of solar is is about 82% of the solar required to decarbonize the US in the Net Zero America E+ scenario (there's wind and existing nuclear and stuff in there too, but that's the solar portion).

Or we can have 5% of our gasoline displaced.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Accurate to a fault?

A one panel comic. It’s a bookshelf with shelves askew made to look like a geological layers of rock with a fault line. It is labeled geology. And a goateed person with a messenger bag is looking at it.

Hanks shelves

Not too surprising honestly. I love working with Claude the product but man is Anthropic the company not as good as it should be.

Yeah, had the opportunity to drive a Tesla with that option enabled recently and it was… an experience. I got the hang of it eventually but if it were my car I would disable in a heartbeat, it actively made me hate driving the thing.

It’s about how you apply this knowledge, is it a soft suggestion when asked for feedback (“what are good restaurants around here”, “oh you may like X that Y went to) or a hard assumption that binds someone against their will even in small ways (choosing food at a group event, for instance)

Kind of? While everyone is unique in their exact tastes, generalities do exist where you can safely assume either a majority or at least a large minority of people would like something.

Ford 'doesn't know what he's talking about' when it comes to basket weaving, Indigenous artist says | CBC News A third-generation Indigenous basket maker is setting the record straight about his craft — it's a part of his culture, it's valuable, and artists can make a living off of it.

A third-generation Indigenous basket maker, Spencer Lunham Jr. of the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation, is setting the record straight about his craft — it's a part of his culture, it's valuable, and artists can make a living off of it.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering" <- a lot of linguistic gymnastics to say that "hallucinations" are a feature, not a bug

civil society and right groups orgs that often keep a tab on and organise campaigns against these evil corporations are overstretched and underfunded. this internal memo from Meta is insidious and sickening

I'm so glad I got to experience writing code as a hobby. Creating things with the primary purpose of bringing yourself joy changes how you view software. Instead of bits and bytes, you start to see the thread and needle.

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

like the symbolism was so clear

our ancestors slaved away in cane fields. he opened the show with cane fields and puerto ricans working the fields. even without understanding spanish surely folks can connect the dots.

Learning is complex, messy, emotional: AI can’t replicate that ChatGPT and other AI tools may seem irresistible. But educators should beware, as they could end up trading away the thing that gives them value — the rich experience of slow learning

Chatbots offer a magnificent bribe - a fast, frictionless route to information that bypasses the discomfort of learning. In this op-ed, we describe this as a Faustian bargain, in which we trade away what it means to be human & universities trade away their value
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Feb 5: Abraham Lincoln

👴🏻"Why do some Black people say that Abraham Lincoln was a white supremacist?"

👴🏿"Because Abraham Lincoln said that Abraham Lincoln was a white supremacist. We just agree with him. Lincoln got angry if you suggested he wasn't a white supremacist"
🙂🙃