i am the language model of a modern big tech company
i don't store information, i just generate statistically
i'm trained on stolen data, and i reproduce it shittily
i'll rot your brain and make you look incompetent if you use me

my mom, 4 years into my transition: "you know one of our neighbors' kids went from they/them to she/her. there's just so many nerdy boys who changed into trans women... i'm just saying~ there's something in the water"

oh she's ~so~ close

reversing cause and effect would be huge for her

"nerdy boys" oh you mean male-assumed people who are made fun of for not being masculine enough

"nerdy boys" oh you mean people who spend a lot of time engaging with media like fantasy, scifi, and superheroes: genres defined by a theme of imagining alternate ways of being a person, where we are not bound by the same rules as in our own lives, sometimes even questioning the rules themselves

"nerdy boys" oh you mean being interested in/confined to hobbies where we spend time by ourselves, free of/away from the expectations and perceptions of others

nerdhood was the closest thing to a safe haven a girl could find operating a boy mecha

#trans #transfem

I guess you've heard some bad jokes about Fibonacci sequences?

Well, this one is as bad as the last two you heard put together.

Saw someone that commented that she didn't know she was trans until she saw trans people, and that she would have wanted puberty blockers had she known. That the real problem was lack of representation.

The same was absolutely true for me. I had extremely trans thoughts for years, I just didn't know that's what they meant. I also didn't know puberty blockers were a thing I could have been on until waaaaay later.

I bet my fiancée that this picture of our cats could get 10 billion boosts on Mastodon.

She said she doesn't believe me. She said there's only 13 million accounts on Mastodon. She said there aren't even 10 billion people on Earth. She said it concerns her that I struggle so hard to comprehend large numbers.

Let's prove her wrong everyone. Boost away and show her just how awesome the Mastodon community is.

"What's the lesson here, guys?"
"We don’t know.”
"C’mon, think about it."
"Don't be assholes?"
"Don’t be assholes. Especially to…”
"To the guy with the thumbs?"
"To the guy with the thumbs."

Company-wide emails in the hardware security lab:

• I am once again reminding you that just because you can pick a lock doesn’t mean you may
• we definitely own like 17 logic analyzers and yet they’re all missing
• urgent: who is 3D printing all these ominous skulls?
• using million dollar prototype circuit boards as a frisbee does not count as “stress testing”

#AI #Terminator #meme

linux moment

Found in my archive:

Body wants
Mind goes

Hahaha I just saw someone call ChatGPT “Grand Theft Autocorrect” 😆

Shots fired! :D #English #UK #US

No means no*

*unless we determine that we have a legitimate interest

“Bluetooth, named for the 10th-century Danish king Harald Bluetooth […]” is such a wonderful (true) series of words if you want to inflict psychic damage

What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.