RT @Halalcoholism: Let’s be clear, most of us who’ve been saying “cancel culture is bad” meant let’s not try destroy people over misunderst…

The best thing to happen amid the DOGE disaster is that someone started spreading a rumor Aella got USAID money for her birthday orgy (as a joke ofc), and some of the DOGE smoothbrains actually believed it.

I hadn't heard of the Zizians until last week. The idea of a surprisingly uncharismatic thought-leader founding a somehow-successful cult in rationalist-world was just something I thought could plausibly happen. Clearly, now I won't be writing that novel.

@julianboolean_ in a future draft I'll be more overt about the supernatural/sci-fi stuff going on with Phil, because that's what everyone has said - "It's a nice story, but what's the deal with Phil? Who the hell is he?" It's all fine and good to be vague when you're only writing for yourself.

@tenorgodempress I have no watch, and I must scream

@TetraspaceWest there is a nearly 2000ft skyscraper being planned in Oklahoma City - yes, of all places. I was skeptical too, but it seems to be on the verge of breaking ground.

RT @TetraspaceWest: Mastercard and Visa don't work in Quebec, you have to download OuiChat

Help, I don't get this Don't explain it to me though, I'll spend a few hours learning Toki Pona sometime and I'm sure it'll be hilarious

@elonusssy holy shit *adds Miniminuteman's name alongside Guillermo del Toro and Aaron Mahnke to my list of people to sue*

The article says making these trains requires parts that weren't available in the US, but is retrofitting their Sacramento factory to handle those *really* more expensive/bureaucratic than building a whole new factory across the country? Sadly, I think that's the answer.

@tenorgodempress @turtledyke yes, you're right. it's eerie how similar the process is to human thought. it may not be "human-level" at most tasks yet but when it fails, it fails in fascinatingly humanlike ways. Ask ChatGPT to do a middle-school algebra problem and see what I mean.

@turtledyke it's definitely not *thinking* on a human level but some, e.g. Anthropic's Claude, are often indistinguishable from a human. it can do some tasks at the level of a bored, average human who doesn't want to do them. that's certainly more impressive than anything we've had before.

Maybe this isn't as unexplored in sci-fi as I think. This isn't too different from Culture ship minds.