First saw this story over on Threads, and people really, really, really did not like anyone correcting misinformation about their misreading of the story. We seem to be moving to some sort of post-reality where people just want fake stories that reinforce their beliefs.

and i say "block" intentionally because that's the pattern of what they do - they box out all medical help, whether it's a good samaritan, or an EMT crew on the clock, or a fucking medical doctor who happens to be nearby. for "securing the scene" (giving the victim time to bleed out)

they do this constantly to GSW victims and it's absurd it isn't considered to make them an accessory to homicide every time.

but in this case, for them to block medical aid to a duly elected representative of the people? you could straight up prosecute this is as treason.

its [sic] giving

i deserve better and i can't give myself better

3:36am going back for more self harming by sleep deprivation

"wah why do the computer people get to overload words" why do the philosophy people or the chemistry people or the medical people or whoever the fuck? jargon has to come from somewhere.

it's almost like someone prompting and harnessing an LLM for unsupervised social media posting told it to be nice

Noun agent (plural agents) One who exerts power, or has the power to act. (law) One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to act on behalf of or in behalf of another, such as to transact business for them. He worked as an agent for the government. A person who looks for work for another person and brokers a deal between the hiree and hirer. Someone who works for an intelligence agency: whether an officer or employee thereof or anyone else who agrees to help their efforts (for ideology, for money, as blackmailee, or otherwise). An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect. (computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans. (grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy". Antonym: patient Coordinate terms: subject, object; rheme, theme Near-synonym: doer (gambling) A cheat who is assisted by dishonest casino staff. (US) A law enforcement officer tasked with enforcing a specific field of law. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives officers are just simply referred to as "ATF agents". (usually US, capitalized) A respectful term of address for an agent, especially a law enforcement agent.

what do you mean "standard" definition lmao, it's one of the more common words in english and absolutely overloaded with definitions. wiktionary alone gets to 10 and they're not usually very exhaustive

and number 6 here is literally the usage that inspired calling a harnessed LLM an "agent"

what in the world are you citing for some kinda formal philosophical definition of the word "agent."

it literally just means putting the LLM in a conventionally programmed harness with state that reacts to the LLM output. it's a technical label for a type of computer program.

underseat bag for what you can't lose, check everything else, carryon is a special niche accommodation

it makes planing and deplaning way faster too!

there shouldn't even be general access overheads, it should be storage for plane operational stuff + a bit of stowage for people with bulky essentials like medical devices

if someone has a foldable wheelchair they should be more entitled to that space

i'd just switch airlines but i'm the sicko who books fully refundable fares because i hate being locked in to an uncertain choice

as long as you booked with a credit card you will likely eventually get your money back if they fold suddenly

debit? you're never seeing it again

airline bankruptcies are handled the same way as bank insolvency: absolute secrecy until the minute it happens and all operations cease everywhere

yeah im of both minds on him. he does serve as a useful cautionary tale to lob around whenever someone is getting a little too literal with their kink posting

he's the dom side of the "girls who get a little TOO into HDG" coin

i guess what i'm saying is that everything feels like it comes from emotional mind, or logical mind, or their synthesis. it's incomprehensible to me that there would be some secret third source, "faith and belief," that doesn't reduce to those.

that's how i feel about violence too, and several other things, that i'd call "postulates." fixed points that my brain has grabbed onto tightly to form a sense of self.

but then i try to find the "why" behind that postulate and it always just ends up being "felt right." always emotion.

Note just that I'm not saying anything is EASY. Just that there are important things to think about. I used to give a talk about my Learning Debt study and point out that a failure of an org to have a learning culture isn't "just a junior thing," it also means senior folks don't learn FROM juniors

this is why religion is completely fucking alien to me.

i fundamentally don't think that beliefs of any kind are real.

we're all just doing the shit that "feels right" and that's why history is a nonsensical ramble of ideological dream logic played out over centuries.

i think i act in a fairly consistently prosocial manner towards the rest of humanity and the reason i do that is just because the magic social species drive box in my brain makes me feel good when i do that. i hold political beliefs consistent with those morals because that alignment feels good.

i don't think sincerely held beliefs actually exist tbh. and deep down i doubt that anyone actually has them.

the conscience is a reward/punishment heuristic like every other influential part of the brain but we don't assign great philosophical import to the fact that people recoil from a hot stove

literally i think part of the reason the current applications even work is because the training corpus, largely internet, is full of literal roleplay logs

why does the first thing in a context being "roleplay as this" cause it to extend with roleplaying? because that's what people do in the corpus

i literally just don't post about this shit because i have the same pathetic fear lockup that erin has and have repeatedly failed at fixing it, but i at least don't spread it

absolutely nobody likes a sore winner, and that includes the kid who hits a double and whines out loud that it doesn't matter because the next kid sucks and is just gonna strike out

i would most trust sex toy manufacturers who work with silicone

if they could provide a durable sheathe that can expand without making crinkles when it contracts again, and internal mechanical (not pneumatic) mechanism could reliabily expand in a controlled fashion

the problem is the amortized engineering costs. the market is a subset of a subset of a subset (dilator users, who got SRS, who are having difficulty sizing up) which makes the market miniscule. it's probably impossible to do it the above the table way at lower cost.

well soul source didn't design it. it's a boutique device marketed as an all in one dilation solution for cis women. hence the uneven pressure and availability of vibration, both of which reduce its utility as a neovaginal dilator that has to be gentle to a skin graft.

I've been trying to figure this out in my social media/digital rhetoric classes esp. as some students are shifting to radically anti-tech positions--it's hard to imagine feminist (in our case) tech futures together in class

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This site should ban her for pig butchering and idk, facilitating criminal activity.

it's still very necessary. you need turbine inertia, and you need it in every region.

flywheel storage is not the same because the flywheels *spin down* when being drawn from.