I am antifa, and I’m completely disorganized.

Yeah. I’m pretty sure for profit social media isn’t good for anyone. Adults shouldn’t use it either. But we decided long ago that you can’t stop adults from drinking or smoking weed, so adults are just mature enough to handle it or approach lies and manipulation with more skepticism, but I look around and see it’s not true.

I feel like at least things like Lemmy and Mastodon are much easier to filter or walk away from when you aren’t in the right emotional space.

What we have now is “neat.” It’s freaking amazing it can do what it does. However it is not the AI from science fiction.

It’s close. Thinking something more specifically couples-based, though in general it could be more like that than match.com or whatever.

ChatGPT, write some AI prompts that only someone over 40 would ask.

• “Rewrite this email so it sounds firm, calm, and professional—but not like I’m mad, tired, or done with everyone’s nonsense (even though I am).”
• “Explain why my lower back hurts specifically today when I did nothing different yesterday.”
• “Summarize this meeting transcript and tell me which parts actually mattered and which parts were just people protecting territory.”
• “Give me a workout plan that assumes I used to be athletic, still think like I am, and will absolutely injure myself if I’m not careful.”
• “Create a dinner plan that’s healthy, not boring, doesn’t spike my cholesterol, and doesn’t require 14 ingredients or a personality shift.”
• “Help me decide if this friendship has run its course or if we’re just in different life phases.”
• “Rewrite this resume so it highlights experience without triggering age bias or sounding like I’ve been doing the same job since the Clinton administration.”
• “Explain this new trend to me, but also tell me whether I actually need to care.”
• “Draft a polite but unmistakable message that says: ‘This is not my problem, and it will not become my problem.’”
• “Compare these two life choices assuming I value stability, autonomy, sleep, and not starting over for the thrill of it.”
• “Help me articulate why I’m tired in a way that isn’t about sleep.”
• “Turn this rant into something I could safely say out loud without burning a bridge I might still need.”

There you go, kids. And also… yeah these feel pretty accurate.

AI is a much better tool to help experts than replace them.

Used how?

Like, Claude, write up an operational plan for capturing President Maduro.?

Or like, Claude, turn these crayon drawings into tactical plans.?

Or like, Claude, help me find Brazil on a map.?

You know what would be a valuable dating app to me? I have no idea how this would work in actuality, but an app that helps me date my wife in some way. Suggestions of what to do, packaged date nights, flowers, all that shit — except for all kinds of people not just “traditional romance.” River rafting, swinging, sports bars, I mean appeal to all kinds or even people who just want to try things they don’t even know is it’s for them or not. It would be great for singles, but would still be useful after a relationship is in full bloom. But I think that’s something completely different from a dating app.

“The highlight of my life is breaking 2k karma on a single 5 word shit comment.”

Inspired by a “true” story.

MD is a nearly ideal format. I keep my personal notes and time management stuff in Obsidian using markdown. Write my blog in Markdown. AsciiDoc is nice, too, for certain use cases.

How much would it suck to wake up one day to find you’ve gone viral for words you never posted?

Guess it wouldn’t matter if you only went viral with AI. Until the AI death threats start.

I think the thought is, it’s not a bad thing if you get annoyed after scrolling through 100 of something and having to click next. It’s like that lady that comes up on TikTok and says why the fuck are you still scrolling? Touch grass, maybe.

I basically agree with you. You can’t really ban dark patterns even though we all agree they suck. Legislature is the worst group of people to design UX.

Practically speaking, that means that people and organisations running a Matrix server with open registration must verify the ages of users in countries which require it.

So if I just host my account on a home server on my raspberry pi, then I don’t have to age verify? I see. And I can still invite friends and family, I just can’t open up registration to the general public? I see.

They are all over the place with their communication. I checked specifically when they first announced this partnership. And it turned out that when you share your videos with public safety, it was also being shared to Flock. And only the specific videos you choose to share. So I thought it was a big nothing before all this — just don’t share videos with public safety. I never have and never will.

But to walk their cooperation back must mean they got significant complaints and need to do some PR. Or they tried some shit that wasn’t spelled out in their privacy statement.

I think on balance, the internet was a bad idea. AI is just exemplifying why. Humans are simply not meant to be globally connected. Fucking town crazies are supposed to be isolated, mocked, and shunned, not create global delusions about contrails or Jewish space lasers or flat Earth theory. Or like… white supremacy.

I hate chrome and refuse to use it as a browser, but I won’t deny their dev tools are pretty good. I can get the job done in Safari and Firefox, but chrome set the standard that they are aspiring to (and maybe have caught, idk, I refuse to use it). I wouldn’t dock anyone interview points for using it — as long as their attitude toward other browsers isn’t “fuck people who use those, they are 6% of the market” (or whatever the right number is, I made that shit up).

You can also use the OpenAPI generator to turn a well-formed Swagger document into code. I’ve used it before. I didn’t hate it.

The generated controllers have a lot of boilerplate (I want to say 5 classes per controller), but it does guarantee the code is in sync with the documentation.

That being said, fuck manually maintaining swagger documents. It’s the worst of all possible works.

I tuned my usage up once I realized it is universal punctuation. I used to be unfamiliar with it and agonize over which punctuation was best for a given sentence. Can’t decide between a comma, semi-colon, comma clause, parenthetical, or what-not — just use an emdash and don’t fucking worry about it.

I’m pretty sure I haven’t been accused of being an LLM. Despite my lazy command of the emdash and comfortability with multisyllabic and archaic words, I think LLMs come across as insufferable bores and I don’t think I do that — not to that degree, anyway.

That’s not at all what is implied by the thought experiment. It’s not all men, it’s a random man. And it’s not that they are dangerous, it’s about what feels riskier from a woman’s perspective.

That’s why all the fretting over which kind of bear is missing the point. It’s not about arguing with women that they are wrong, it’s about listening to them and understanding that they have no idea whether the man is the sort that would kill them if they say or do or don’t do the right thing — but the odds are sufficient that all men must be treated like a potential threat.

Without wading into all the technicalities, could we perhaps agree that if you have to say, “what kind of bear tho’,” that we are already in troubling territory?