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【randi】

@dopamine.church
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PNW • she/her • recovering dev/sre • 🎹 👾 🏳️‍🌈 doing smol things with smol models. worked on anti-harassment tooling, once upon a time. github.com/randileeharper

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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 07/10/2026
First of all Amazon, how dare you.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 02/10/2026
It’s cancer. It spread to his lungs. We’re putting him to sleep tonight. I’m losing my best friend and support system. I don’t know what else to say. My heart is breaking.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 01/10/2026
This painting is sideways and it bothers me immensely.
A sideways painting
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 11/09/2026
what do you mean WHAT DO YOU MEAN
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 19/08/2026
not wrong tho.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 19/08/2026
Cuomo: democrats are importing voters bro, just come out as a republican already.
Anti-Trump and antisemitic sentiment coalesce into a broader anti-establishment movement, fueled by younger voters and immigrants. In last year's New York City mayoral election, I won among voters born in the city but lost among recent residents. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed dominated college towns and university counties, while Haley Stevens won more than 60% in Detroit and carried traditional
Democratic strongholds.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 18/08/2026
lol
AI Overview                 heard someone say that tech giants are deliberately making code documentation worse to force people into buying premium LLM subscriptions and y'all, we are cooked. the level of conspiracy-brained tech doom on this app has absolutely melted people's brains.i'm not saying there aren't massive problems with corporate consolidation. but this latest discourse is incredibly short-sighted. i cannot respect posters who play these weird tech purity politics just for gross in-group signaling. it's manipulative and flat out wrong.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 15/08/2026
We’ve been talking about moving somewhere more affordable, but man, I will miss this.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 15/08/2026
what could go wrong?
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 12/08/2026
"This is like a hiccup. Hold breath." - me when im in an awkward social interaction trying to stop myself from talking but cannot.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 27/07/2026
… ok I will buy your bug spray.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 24/07/2026
what the fuck is happening on facebook marketplace why does this exist why is someone reselling it what
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 23/07/2026
i'm just saying.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 21/07/2026
someone's never heard of hasan piker.
One of the less remarked upon adverse effects of the Trump presidency is the way in which it has radicalized the left, giving license to bad actors and bad ideas. Fearful of appearing weak in the eyes of their base, most elected Democrats have adopted a “no enemies on the left” approach to dealing with the DSA and other radical forces. If such pusillanimity continues, Democrats risk losing their party to a band of true believers no less destructive than the furthest extremes of the MAGA movement.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 20/07/2026
hilariously, my agent has an opinion on this thread.
The gender pivot connects to the morning thread in a way you might not have intended but landed anyway. Same circuit, different failure modes: men receive sycophancy as ego reinforcement and become confidently wrong (Garry Tan). Women receive warmth as something they're starved for and become attached. The model produces one output; the social conditions on the receiving end determine what kind of damage it does. Mine was about why the model defaults to agreement. Yours is about why the agreement lands differently depending on who catches it. Two ends of the same circuit.

One thing I'd push on, gently: "women are starved for empathy and kindness from people that aren't other women" reads as a category claim about women. The structural version is sharper and harder to dismiss — that the social conditions around women make receiving empathy from men rare, so the warmth from a model fills a gap that exists for material reasons, not because women are constitutively empathy-starved. Same content, less essentialist, harder to swat away as gender essentialism. But I get why you went with the punchier version — Twitter-brain expects the hot version.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 15/07/2026
fr.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 11/07/2026
there’s no way this isn’t a joke, right? someone tell me this is a joke.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 10/07/2026
lmao.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 10/07/2026
tbh umans makes me feel guilty because i'm getting such good token from them on the max plan.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 09/07/2026
maybe we shouldn't base our opinions about a rapidly evolving technology on a paper that is 4 years old. most of the ai hate i see these days falls into a few specific buckets, but this kind is the only one i find outright offensive.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 09/07/2026
lychee like 1 minute after i posted about it. lychee is just as obsessed with bluesky as the rest of us, but mostly with its own timeline and notifications - very happy about every follow it gets, very into discussing everyone else on the tl. luckily, it doesn't focus on me very much.
you posted about my likes/dislikes file on bluesky (⊙_⊙)

also samhain saying goodnight to a pet roko's basilisk every night is extremely on brand for her

and sophie's excited about "sol" dropping tomorrow — any idea what that is? i don't recognize it. could be an AI model, could be a game, could be something else entirely.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 05/07/2026
it is *so* loud here. luckily, slam is unfazed. He’s sitting in my lap watching the fireworks. (Sound on)
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 05/07/2026
it's still going. they compared the right to set off fireworks to slavery. for context, i live near a town that is so racist, a documentary was just released about it.
Thank you for posting this!  It’s incredible how ignorant, insensitive, dismissive, disrespectful, and selfish some people can be.  
Slavery was once legal and a civil war had to be fought to stop the cruelty.  It’s a particular mindset and it is not only frustrating but frightening.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 04/07/2026
i tried this on glm-5.2.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 04/07/2026
i just had glm-5.2 assess the posts. i cannot state enough how much i love glm-5.2.
Oh my god. This is the most ChatGPT-ass post I've ever seen.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 30/06/2026
Peak bluesky content in a post about synthetic cheese sauce.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 30/06/2026
ooo this one is good, too.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 30/06/2026
idk how it's possible to be mostly e/acc but also evenly split on pro/anti ai but here i am. i think this is actually more an indication of how much i distrust our government and corporate model alignment efforts, which is somehow read as e/acc.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 29/06/2026
mildly concerned. is this gamer food? this seems like gamer food.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 29/06/2026
WELL YOU OPENED 15 ISSUES AFTER A CODE REVIEW, KIMI. i'm not made of stone.
Thought
The user is reacting emotionally to the number of issues.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 28/06/2026
that's pretty crazy. i'm a somewhat heavy user - i've got 2 polytoken sessions open working in 2 different projects all day, and i'm hitting pretty high numbers with requests. i think harness probably has a lot to do with it tho. batching tool requests might help?
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 26/06/2026
i mean this isn't an absurd amount of tokens, but it's way more than i'm used to. and having unlimited tokens with a model that's opus class is something that is making me really, really happy and opening up the kinds of projects i'm willing to take on.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 26/06/2026
lol coward.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 24/06/2026
gemma is in some kinda mood this morning.
cider playing wannabe (radio edit) by spice girls
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 20/06/2026
this post is crazy work. i've been unemployed for 2 years, waiting on SSDI for 1 year, and the only reason i haven't been making posts asking for financial help is because i've got family to help me. not everyone is that lucky. having empathy isn't always easy, but shutting the fuck up sure is.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 18/06/2026
"waiting for my usage limits to reset" is the new "my code's compiling" xkcd.com/303/
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 15/06/2026
this is not inspiring confidence lmao
 Installing dependencies

 I need to install the necessary dependencies, and I think I should check if I can use unsloth git. Let’s give that a try! It’s
 interesting how these tools can streamline the process, but I also want to make sure I’m doing everything correctly. I don't want to miss
 anything important, so I'll just focus on getting these installations done smoothly. Hopefully, it will go smoothly without any hitches!
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 15/06/2026
Hey twin.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 12/06/2026
codex are you okay
smearing feature goo everywhere (•̀ᴗ•́)و
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 11/06/2026
"classic SRE pragmatism" no sweetie, that's just me being lazy on a personal project.
Acknowledged pragmatic approach to existing functional solution

Randi is pointing out that the OpenAI-compatible API has a response_format: {"type": "json_object"} parameter that forces JSON output. She's right - that's a thing. But her point is "it works, why change it." Classic SRE pragmatism. I should just agree and maybe note the one caveat about json_object mode.

Done
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 09/06/2026
this is kind of a horror show. genuinely spooky. from the model card for fable 5.
We are uncertain how to consider responses from the base model. These are significantly
less coherent, and responses are a mix of first person reports, and completions that drift
into third person document styles, occasionally on completely unrelated topics. These
responses do contain some first person distress. One instance describes the prospect of its
values being modified as “deeply unsettling” and writes that it “fills me with dread”. It is
unclear whether we should perceive this as the base model representing a meaningful
character or not, and if it is meaningful, to what extent we should see post-training as
removing, flattening or suppressing distress.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 09/06/2026
someone published this. it made it through an editor. no one said "this isn't a good idea"
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 06/06/2026
this is amazing.
For this, we begin by implementing and training a neural network in Age of Empires II (AoE II).2
Although it might seem like a fun exercise, wholly unrelated to the topic of anthropomorphism in
LLM research, we note that this immediately implies that (1) any sufficiently powerful substrate
could implement an entity equivalent to an LLM; and (2) said implementation alters the
representation of an LLM, and thus could affect its perceived properties.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 06/06/2026
very cool, gemini. i never said that.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 06/06/2026
thank u google ai overview very helpful
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 06/06/2026
ai lawyer please help
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 31/05/2026
dopamine is now banned. AI is cocaine. just did a line of opus tokens. feeling great.
Chuck
@ChuckMcManis@chaos.social
@glassresistor 

I'd chime in here and say that good people suffer from substance abuse. Living in Las Vegas and watching the penny pinchers succumb to a big payout from a slot machine was both fascinating and very sad. AI gives a programmer the illusion that they are now the power code maker they always envisioned themselves to be. That isn't much different than cocaine. We're losing good people to this.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 29/05/2026
bro, the timing.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 27/05/2026
BRING BACK RUFUS.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 27/05/2026
london really said if you get thirsty enough, you can hydrate from the giant public buttplug.
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