@Remittancegirl Got flu and Covid shots over the weekend, was only down one day ️

@timtfj IMHO laypeople don't see these differences. I remember those debates with potential customers for translations who told me that the machine can do the same work. People who never analysed what it takes to write the first page of a novel, suddenly produce hundreds of pages by some clicks. They sound like language. They were never educated to see the differences.It's a bit like the naked emperor, who doesn't recognise that he has no clothes. @MissConstrue @Remittancegirl

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@Remittancegirl "Opsec": operational security. Keeping your operations safe from external interference, and your secrets secret.Relying on your adversary for the resources you need for your operations seems a trifle - shall we say - "foolish"?

@Remittancegirl there are people suggesting things to a narcissistic Trump who is easy to manipulate. Those people are in conflict with each other, some of them are Christian dominionists, some are just frauds, some are tescrealists, some might have literal Russian handlers

@frequencyfault @log @BenCotterill @clintruin @quizzicus "Give people something to vote for or shut the fuck up, honestly"that's what a primary is. you vote in the primary, and you choose who is on the ballotbut shitbags like you don't vote in the primary, then complain the choices suckwe, asking you to vote, are not the problemcentrist corporatist democrat assholes are not the problemYOU are the problem. nonvoters. you are why the system sucks

@Remittancegirl I've thought this myself for quite some time. We look for beginnings and ends, punctuation marks in the timeline, but history plays out on a continuum and as long as the underlying patterns are extant, the same things happen again and again.

@Remittancegirl And then there was that research about (I think) radiologists' ability to recognise tumours—ideally the machine learning recognises possible tumours which the human can then check, but they found that the humans' skill deteriorated.(I've not seen the paper or anything, just seen/heard it reported on a few times.)

It's just time we stopped fantasizing about some ideal structure of authority in which abuse doesn't occur.Let us instead acknowledge its inevitability and make the cost of that abuse so astronomically high and public that it serves as an inhibitor.

@Remittancegirl Or a curve-compatible quadruped at least. In work...

@Remittancegirl Yes, and I'll add that for me this tells me that the only fields I would want to actually use any generative LLM - if at all - are the fields where I will be able to tell with certainty whether the answer is right or wrong. I learned a lot from taking in @pluralistic's reflections on the concept of 'discernment' in this case - it's still the most integrative take on this problem I've read: https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/28/hitl-ers/

@Remittancegirl I find the same thing to be true every time I have searched something in those generative LLMs in a field where I have lots of previous knowledge. The worst results I get in those fields where I have some expertise. The fields where I could most easily be convinced are the fields I have very little knowledge in - and am easily impressed by the plausible sounding answers. Because I know this split, it frustrates me that the answers in those other cases sound so plausible.

@Remittancegirl @akareilly I mean the original Nazis were also fans of Jews living in Not Germany... at least in the early days.

@Remittancegirl say it with me, people all over the world:"politicians are parasites!"chant it everywhere. and let them know we will track them all down and find out what they did with all that money - there will be, let us say, consequences.$147,000,000 missing funds in the city of #Portland, meant to provide services for people experiencing #homelessness. where did all that money go? absolutely no one talks about it. no one.we have ways of making you talk, #scumbags

@Remittancegirl @adriano Just this one, or all the trees? Maybe it's, like, a reincarnated family member or something?