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• Post #2642366

  The very last person who is like that, truly, ya just don’t get it. It’s fine.

• Post #783288

  To certain kinds of kid (😅) it’s an unignorable urge, have to eventually find out. Satisfying “ka-thunk”, brief pause, sudden weird dangerous magic. Curiosity is one hell of a drug, lol. Available to all from the jump, so to speak, some folks can’t resist knuckleheadery.

• Post #582807

  Feel like elaborating any? Looks like pretty over-the-top satire at a glance, but I’d always rather hear from people than read docs, “search things up” (for fuck’s sake lol), etc.

• Post #582388

  Oddly enough this positions Anthropic as the sole big player in the (seriously disastrously) complicit landscape of roughly ALL large tech I’m aware of, to say nothing of AI. I hate to say this, but this really should be (tentatively, but ideally dramatically) rewarded. Like a large scared dog, on a leash, in a yard with a bunch of even bigger ones. Ones with leashes held by something permanently unreliable, and the dogs know it. And this is the only one that does the “play bow”. And we do...

• Post #569046

  I definitely can’t comment on what your situation looks like to you directly, but where I live, I find your description of nothing but “lil Istanbuls” in the “inner cities” to sound super suspicious. Gross, honestly. In the US that’s roughly the exact sentiment (not far from exact words, truly!) that the most egregious Trump supporters spew everywhere they can. To be clear, these folks rarely visit a city in any capacity and will often tell stories for weeks when they do. All the while getting...

• Post #513651

  One of the best (also most intimidating) teachers I ever had would do this when students asked questions - asked questions in response, gradually leading the student to discover, by publicly stating, what they understood and what they did not. Everyone misunderstood him (Turkish guy teaching EMF in the US) and thought he was just trying to embarrass and shame them. Though to be fair, I DO think he had some serious resentment toward the sense of entitlement many students approach their educatio...