Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Travel day

Hotel airport shuttle -> Blue line -> Amtrak -> Car -> Home

#TransOnTrains

Boarding the 3am train north to Chicago 🍕… eventually. It’s currently been delayed half an hour, which is great because I would have missed it if it had left on time 😆. #TransOnTrains

Don’t you love it when you’re trying to pack for a trip and then you find yourself doing emergency home repairs?

I have never heard of Ethel Cain before her tdov instagram post, but my takeaway is this:

Damn I wish I could sound like that when I sing. I was singing bass in the choir at 14 though, so I don’t think there’s any amount of voice training in the world that could get me into her range.

Macrumors keeps using this color scheme in its iOS 27 stories, did I miss a report that Siri is a lesbian in iOS 27? Good for her.

Outfit of the day for Trans Day of Visibility. I don’t hide my history online because my accounts have 20-30 years of history. But in person I just sort of blend into the background now. I never expected to “pass” in general, so it’d weird getting to a point where I need to flag with jewelry or clothes to signify my safety to other queer people now. 💜💕🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Is this why American EVs are so expensive? Every tiny part is a custom molded piece of plastic made just for this specific model of car?

Got tapped in traffic, cracked a brake light. $1100 list price for just the inner half of light. Found it on “sale” for $750.

Is bisexual twice every sexual, or once every other sexual?

RE: @EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io

The problem with management is that they see themselves as aspiring capitalist/owner class, and not as just another layer of labor themselves. But without people to manage they will be in the same bread lines as the rest of us.

RE: @EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io

Finally fixed this after 3 weeks. Watch is set to mirror language and region on the paired phone. I had switched my phone to UK region to test a date formatting bug and the Watch picked that up, but it did not follow the phone back to US region setting a few minutes later. I fixed it by setting my phone back to UK again, and then back to US and the watch followed this time.

My biggest problem with the concept of LLMs, even if they weren’t a giant plagiarism laundering machine and disaster for the environment, is that they introduce so much unpredictability into computing. I became a professional computer toucher because they do exactly what you tell them to. Not always what you wanted, but exactly what you asked for.

LLMs turn that upside down. They turn a very autistic do-what-you-say, say-what-you-mean commmunication style with the machine into a neurotypical conversation talking around the issue, but never directly addressing the substance of problem.

In any conversation I have with a person, I’m modeling their understanding of the topic at hand, trying to tailor my communication style to their needs. The same applies to programming languages and frameworks. If you work with a language the way its author intended it goes a lot easier.

But LLMs don’t have an understanding of the conversation. There is no intent. It’s just a mostly-likely-next-word generator on steroids. You’re trying to give directions to a lossily compressed copy of the entire works of human writing. There is no mind to model, and no predictability to the output.

If I wanted to spend my time communicating in a superficial, neurotypical style my autistic ass certainly wouldn’t have gone into computering. LLMs are the final act of the finance bros and capitalists wrestling modern technology away from the technically literate proletariat who built it.

Travel budgets have loosened slightly, so I managed to snag a DeepDishSwift ticket before they sell out. Headed back to Chicago next month.

Does anyone know what happened to Rayne (aka salad_bar_breath)? Her account disappeared about a month ago. Hope she’s okay.