Post #2648672

2026-04-13 06:16 UTC

@iris_meredith@mastodon.social The sheer amount of awful code that LLMs have put into production, to give one example, are something that we're going to be dealing with for the rest of our lives. i knew this logically (for one, this is my backup backup job security mechanism, explicitly so) but seeing it put into a single sentence like that... is pretty grim anyway

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems 2026-04-13 06:22

@iris_meredith@mastodon.social To use an example from the trans community, it's very, very common for trans people to have strongly held wank-statements as to what we are and why that makes us valid members of our gender [...] a related one that I was mulling over just this morning (and still am) is the idea that "transitioning will necessarily make you happier". it didn't make me less happy (mainly, i did it because lying to people about what my name and gender is was getting inconvenient and high-friction), but not more either, and i talked to people who ended up worse off in terms of both happiness and safety. they don't tend to have any space in the usual trans circles, but... even i don't really feel like i do, despite being only in a slightly heterodox position

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