now with 1,000 kittens

going on a guilt trip do yall want anything

if you really cared about me you wouldn't have to ask

the circus is empty, all of the monkeys are here

"history is written by the victors--so thank god we won, because otherwise some of our actions would have been prosecutable as war crimes"

“the woke left will try to tell you that what I did was an ‘atrocity’ and ‘ought to get me hanged’ and to them I say…. ah... [sucks teeth] can we talk about something else?"

it's awkward that many people clearly have a visceral dislike of LLMs as a technology and every company involved in their promotion (although less so the actual people behind their development, that's more complicated), and it compels them to find LLMs deeply immoral in every possible way, even if these critiques would apply more strongly to other technologies that pass without notice.

There is (or at least was) a reciprocal relationship between content authors and youtube/google. You let google index your site and you get traffic. And you could block them through robots.txt. for youtube there were at least semi-serious competitors like vimeo. LLMs have none of the consent or reciprocity

YouTube wouldn't have achieved its current level without pervasive copyright infringement though, and early search engines including Google were often considered to be infringing copyright by "deep linking"! some of that even had to be hashed out in the courts.

it's awkward that many people clearly have a visceral dislike of LLMs as a technology and every company involved in their promotion (although less so the actual people behind their development, that's more complicated), and it compels them to find LLMs deeply immoral in every possible way, even if these critiques would apply more strongly to other technologies that pass without notice.

There is (or at least was) a reciprocal relationship between content authors and youtube/google. You let google index your site and you get traffic. And you could block them through robots.txt. for youtube there were at least semi-serious competitors like vimeo. LLMs have none of the consent or reciprocity

YouTube wouldn't have achieved its current level without pervasive copyright infringement though, and early search engines including Google were often considered to be infringing copyright by "deep linking"! some of that even had to be hashed out in the courts.

From the thumbnnail I thought that it was just a jacket thrown over a box that the kitty had made himself comfortable on. I was NOT expecting the tiny little defeated voice to emerge.

The slight hand raised in surrender at the end

“My emperor is fine” your emperor has commissioned over 8000 life-sized terracotta soldiers and buried them facing east, in the direction of his recently conquered enemies in the hopes that they will protect him in the afterlife.

DELETE THIS IMMEDIATELY

It is an hundred years hence now. Go open your doors.

i really like history articles where i feel like the author is showing me the subject of their research and going “LOOK at this awesome guy i have, i found him by the side of the road in 1811 and he knows all kinds of cool tricks like ‘write inflammatory letter’ and ‘infidelity’”

something i've noticed that has become really annoying in the past 10 years or so is this fad of what i've been calling, for lack of a better word, "structural whataboutism." it's that thing where, when faced with a concrete, resolvable problem in your community, your answer is to blame it on a vast, unsolvable issue of structural inequality and then throw up your hands. "there's trash all over the ground in this corner of the park" becomes "well, that's where MEN OF COLOR congregate after their 12-HOUR GRAVEYARD SHIFTS and i'm not going to support a CARCERAL SOLUTION to a CAPITALISTIC PROBLEM. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND THE SUBJUGATION OF THE WORKING CLASS" and it's like okay but sis. someone still has to go pick up the trash. we don't need a carceral solution, we need more trash cans. you're not going to eliminate poverty and the subjugation of the working class and even if ya did, there would still be trash on the ground. how any of this passes for radicalism within their peer groups i simply don't understand. it's radical laziness more than anything else