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Same. Once I started it became impossible to wait any longer.

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holy shit, that pfp girl!

Good luck. It makes a huge QoL difference to be able to go outside without makeup. I can’t believe insurance doesn’t cover this. Insane.

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She was around before the panda boom of the 80s and didn’t get swept away I guess

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Carlana @carlana.net · 01/10/2026

Reimagining some of my dates as pandas and feeling better about them.

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In college at parties I would hand out cards that I found in my parents’ basement. They had my name on them and a cute little dinosaur. I assume my mom had them made for birthday presents…

Carlana @carlana.net · 01/10/2026

Never did find my choker again. Oh well.

Carlana @carlana.net · 28/09/2026

The best bakery I know of in Baltimore is run by Spanish speakers. Every year for my kids’ birthday party I go down there and struggle to order a cake in my terrible broken Spanish. One time I screwed up and picked up someone else with a similar name’s cake! It is a highlight every year.

Carlana @carlana.net · 27/09/2026

There’s a bit on I Love Lucy where they’re on a train and Lucy is worried someone is a “masher” (ie a groper) and Ricky just laughs her off. Women have always hated that shit, and men have always laughed at it!

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Carlana @carlana.net · 27/09/2026

Rockapella somehow covered Japanese City Pop which is a sign to me that we’re in the alternate timeline

youtu.be

Rockapella - Ride On Time (Tatsuro Yamashita Cover) 1995

YouTube video by Nostalmania

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I deliberately did not mention chocolate.

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Every American city has access to locally made Belgian style beers. Also all the other styles.

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Yes. Every mid sized American city has a thriving micro brewery scene. European beer is fine but they are literally the same beers they’ve been drinking for five hundred years. Twenty years ago, that was better than America. Now it’s not.

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Carlana @carlana.net · 25/09/2026

For years, Europe was ahead of the US on the key staples: bread, cheese, beer, coffee. At this point, only their superiority in bread remains.

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There's a lot of books like that.

i'm glad mr. wikipedia came around to his way of thinking

@josie.zone in your professional opinion could estrogen have saved him?

iOS would kill my productivity 😭

Pass the Anti-Flakes Bill!! 😤

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Carlana @carlana.net · 22/09/2026

Are you going to release it on itch or Steam? It’s already super-addictive. Having it on computer would be dangerous.

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I had bad handwriting as a kid, forced myself to get better in college through endless writing of ‘the quick brown fox’. Still have a big complex about how bad it is. Particularly when I have to fill out a form for my kids, I try to make the loops ‘feminine’ (wtf?)

Carlana @carlana.net · 22/09/2026

Not sure I can deal with Sylvan Esso going grim dark

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Carlana @carlana.net · 20/09/2026

It’s normal to feel this way during recovery but legitimately gender affirming healthcare is healthcare. You shouldn’t feel guilty for taking care of your body.

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Carlana @carlana.net · 18/09/2026

In practice the actual tokenizers used by the big models vary but usually end up parsing English words approximately into syllables. This is what causes the strawberry problem, since the LLM can’t actually “see” the individual letters in the word, just straw+berry.

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Carlana @carlana.net · 18/09/2026

For implementation efficiency reasons, instead of storing text as Unicode, it’s stored so the most common chunks get numbers. So for example, a simple tokenizer might say “the”=1, “a”=2 etc.

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Carlana @carlana.net · 17/09/2026

We must consider the possibility that this is just their genuine belief about what policy is good.

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My insurance only covers boob jobs not skeletons 😞

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There’s a guy who is always walking around Patterson Park Baltimore with shorts on top of his pants and I support that.

The fear of being noticed following “suspiciously too many” trans women was real lmao

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Your wing game is good tho

Carlana @carlana.net · 15/09/2026

You are a treasure and we don’t deserve you

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Carlana @carlana.net · 15/09/2026

Medicare for All that covers LHR and electrolysis with no questions asked.

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agentic llms? you think it's control theory but actually it's databases.

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So yeah, for the 500 line Python script, you'd just find the embedding, look it up in a vector DB, and find the result (or better, a known good, citable, open source sample!) instead of generating it yet again.

ISTM, the name of the game now is getting a dynamic context DB. Probably SQLite or something like that that can hold full conversation history, AGENTS.md files, "skills", etc. and can compact and telescope previous inputs/outputs as needed.

Wow! Congrats! Still thinking about the one where she learns nukes are still out there and starts crying.

I think someone should make a font file that looks like the shitty AI sans/AI brush font and start selling it so that you’re ready in 5 to 10 years when it’s nostalgic.

You look beautiful, doll

Carlana @carlana.net · 13/09/2026

“The Democrats” are not the team I want in charge. I want someone in charge who hasn’t promised on Fox News to outlaw the medicine that I take when it’s for kids.

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Carlana @carlana.net · 12/09/2026

My dude, I am trying to figure out if I’m eligible for Canadian citizenship because they want to ban the medicine I need to live. Signaling compromise with them is bad for my emotional wellbeing because it’s bad for my life.

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Carlana @carlana.net · 12/09/2026

Is it in a bottle or a cartridge? I can probably take it.

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Carlana @carlana.net · 11/09/2026

Goddamn pfas in those fun to chew rubber tires is what got me for sure.