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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 37m

that's the whole point of being a "conservative" though. inasmuch as these political labels have any meaning, that cluster of beliefs, behaviors, and motivations is what the word means. people can stop being conservatives, but conservatives can't stop being pro-oppression hatemongers by definition

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 1h

I understand better than most people the desire to accumulate a whole pile of computers and wire them up into a bright, whirring coffin that you lie down in and breathe the computer dust and gaze into the abyss of fixing shit until you wither into dust, but there is such a thing as too far!

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 1h

the real diehards for oligarchs aren't deluded about what the oligarchs are about and they're not convinced they will become the oligarchs, they just want to watch the oligarchs go crazy on TV

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 1h

I think a lot of people will forego food, sex, a roof over their heads, anything to push the button that makes crazy shit go down. like we're in the version of the rat park experiment where we're just stuck in a cage but the drug the button dispenses is aristocrats doing stupid shit

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 2h

the brazil thing makes perfect sense because a large contingent of people alive right now want drama more than progress, justice, stability, equality, prosperity or whatever other values they claim to have and lockdown made this worse and COVID obliterated everyone's impulse control

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 2h

they didn't have spicy gushers so I paired the gushers with spicy arugula like it says in the cookbook

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 2h

listen it's been a rough week okay

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 2h

I'm not like the other girl dinners, I'm worse

an unhinged salad made of gushers and vegan smoked provalone on an organic arugula base. there's a clothespin attached to a bowl, which is holding one of two pairs of metal chopsticks, because I am not a fucken barbarian, I eat gushers with chopsticks like a proper lady. a sourdough start that needed TLC tonight and could not be bothered to make a loaf tonight sits idly by, menacingly

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 3h

yo wait I could make a version that renders the fighters as procedurally-rendered skeletons

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 8h

Seeing a lot of "why would I want to go back" and like... yea? If we're gonna go to the effort of sciencing up a solution to something maybe go rescue my friends and family too instead?

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 13h

I also think "ideology" as a means by which people make decisions and also as a lens through which they should be individually considered is drastically overemphasized by media and culture

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 14h

okay but if we're gonna do a centennial for radium as a health trend these influencers would do well to remember that the radium is more effective when taken as a suppository

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 15h

The most significant, perhaps the only enduring "AI risk" is that it is an unprecedently efficient means of hijacking vulnerable minds, and I say this from a place of both expertise and experience

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 15h

I still earnestly believe that the vast majority of the republican base would be appalled at their leaders if they both were exposed to and believed accurate information about them, but that this has been made difficult to do. still, heartening that there is a level of fucked up that gets through

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 04/10/2026

s'pose we'll find out when it cools off enough to cut

a loaf of sourdough bread on a pumpkin-themed pie pan on my stove. my hand rests on the circular loaf, its fingernails still repping player one. the pan's lid with its pumpkin stem rests in a wok nearby, and a cookie sheet full of clothespins and the sourdough start in a jar are both visible nearby, as is a large tin of roasted sesame oil

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 04/10/2026

Got a new gf sourdough start from a lady who's giving up selling baked goods at a local farmer's market, goes by the name of sourdough sister so you know it's a good-ass start. Today was my test loaf so some pretty basic bitch bread but let me tell you

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 03/10/2026

IDK it's hard to deny that nicotine is a pretty useful drug, it's just got a horrendous side effect profile

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 03/10/2026

(though of course these are judgments that likely mostly stem from the universal translator for nonverbal emotional expression that is the mammalian limbic system that presumably these outlets aren't a part of)

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 03/10/2026

I mostly just read the signs and followed directions by people I was meeting at a place but I did do quite a bit of just straight getting lost Also I didn't drive for more than a year or two before it became convenient to have a gps map

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 03/10/2026

I spent all of yesterday biking around town and watching the autumn leaves. Highly recommend

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 03/10/2026

Having only recently watched much star trek, it's striking how much computers seem to mostly be used non-immersively and the immersive use cases are, while common practice, viewed pretty universally as involving a high risk of addiction and psychosis

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 03/10/2026

I've never seen "top 8" as a goal for myself in tournaments. 2nd is a loss But I did get some secret achievements at cabinet I was pretty proud of: * flannel fit check * 19 boxfighter entrants * my tarot readings blamed for a major win and a transition * got a whole room to sing dragostea din tei

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 03/10/2026

I think that's a result of SV's messaging. Hard to tell if it's incompetence or malice as usual, but the pitch of "we are making a fully general automation aimed to replace all knowledge work" (let alone "a superintelligent machine god") is the line, NLP that mostly works is the reality

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 02/10/2026

I think that's a very feasible outcome but we gotta organize to get it done

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 02/10/2026

I had fun yapping about shit I'm clueless about on commentary at cabin so clearly someone should invite me to their podcast

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 02/10/2026

surely rearranging every room in my house will fix my life this time

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 02/10/2026

I should make an adult version of boxfighter in solidarity. Is there any geometry that's illegal in china?

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 02/10/2026

As someone who went to school and is good at tests, I would like to weigh in to say that tests are stupid and bad

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 02/10/2026

Anyway, as someone who does in fact have a fairly deep technical perspective on LLMs, I think they're rapidly finding a place as a general computer interface paradigm that can meaningfully democratize computing if applied well, but I also see tech monopolists as an existential threat to humanity

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 02/10/2026

Well, I guess concentration is always desirable for the people who think they will retain that power. I'm reticent to label things "ontologically evil" but the drive to concentrate power in order to win it is probably the thing I'd most assign that label, in the running with malicious bigotry

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 02/10/2026

The logic falls down in several places for me. Most obviously, I don't agree there's a clear path to generalist superintelligence here, and I'm dubious that superintelligence is an instantly insurmountable advantage. But yea: if both are true, concentration of power doesn't suddenly become desirable

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 02/10/2026

I think the psychosis is more associated with overuse than deep knowledge. Any computer thing that can keep you engaged for drastic portions of your waking hours tends to make people gradually go insane, and the things can be really engaging feedback loops

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 02/10/2026

wow I'm missing a lot of words lately I should get my fingers checked out

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 01/10/2026

every "nontechnical person" I've thrown a linux barnraising for ends up feeling empowered and enthusiastic about using their computer the way they want to. I've seen people who had no prior experience coming to me weeks later telling me about cool shell scripts they wrote

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 01/10/2026

O really? when did you even last appear? how do we know you're corporeal now? can't fool me

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 01/10/2026

2006 liberals: Fox news lies all the time, check out all these times they lied 2026 liberals: It's important that we hear out the valid perspective of real americans in the heartland

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 01/10/2026

No, this too is a feature. The purpose of "verification" is forcing people to submit to measures that improve the fidelity of surveillance data on them. In this context, raising the degree of harm an impersonator can do also raises its utility as a threat against people who don't comply

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 01/10/2026

The problem is it's been my entire lifetime and if you don't do anything about festering infections like this people just start to assume it's how the body (politic) is supposed to be

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 01/10/2026

unfortunately incentivising people to solve problems other than "looking productive to people who they're soliciting money from" involves solving quite a few large and entangled problems

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 01/10/2026

yea like once you eat salmon fished and maybe even smoked by indigenous folks in the pnw you're spoilt for salmon for life. it's fucked up but I don't make the rules

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a legit sad witch @digitalwatches.blackskycomra.de · 01/10/2026

they hated her because she spoke the truth

five goofy little muppets climbing all over each other to get some bribes on a cardboard castle. bathory isn't there cuz this is beneath her, clearly

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