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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1m

Ahhhhh so we’re back to “well if you used it you’d see why it’s useful” other than actual examples. The conversation with AI ghouls always winds up here, like a compass pointing to true north

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 28m

You want to shift the goal posts a little more or come back to the actual discussion? The thing you’re describing, even if it’s real (and I disagree it is), is absolutely not something that would theoretically help more than a handful of people

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You don't need to do it but you probably should if you want to make your life easier
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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social • 2d
Nothing about this shit could personally make my life easier or better in any way
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Because you haven't bothered to try it and don't know what it can do
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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 35m

I have been able to find what I’m looking for much faster and with more assured accuracy when I ctrl+f than anything Claude could ever do for me. Skill issue

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 35m

Because you’re acting like you haven’t. My man, this is not something you need in a non-professional context because it’s not something *anyone* needs in a non-professional context

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 56m

Yes you are? Like bro, if you’re looking for something in a longer article, there are, without any exceptions, basic words and phrases you can ctrl+f. The instance where this isn’t possible doesn’t exist. You being too much of a dipshit to think of them doesn’t justify the destruction of society

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 59m

When in my non-professional life am I supposed to need any of these things Because I have never needed any of them as a writer

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1h

Also even professionally, when I’ve had to find specific info in a research paper, let me introduce you to a secret trick I’ve learned called “ctrl + f”

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1h

“some people actually need to do more in depth research where reading an article/paper to find the part you need actually takes more than 45 seconds” For work. This is not a non-professional example. This is nothing. Nobody needs to save 2 mins reading an article unless they’re a lazy piece of shit

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1h

You can list a hyperspecific and totally definitely real non-work instance all you want, but try again if you want to come up with any non-laughable example of how it could help me

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1h

No there isn’t? There is absolutely no time this could improve my life, which is exactly what we were talking about. I never argued it couldn’t help people in specific professions who have to sort through large quantities of data, quite literally the only thing it actually does well

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1h

“What if there’s an incredibly specific case that has literally never come up in your life nor will it ever come up? Clearly that shows how AI could improve your day to day existence. I am very smart”

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1h

Sure but I could also check the website. And “you’re being forced to use AI either way” is not a good argument for the value of the technology to day to day life, it’s an illustration of how this useless bullshit is being forced upon us

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1h

If there’s a bad website and you need to make an entire schedule based off that bad website” bro listen to yourself, how specific do you need to get here to try to pretend this shit could be useful to me

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1h

Again, I keep telling you this shit has no value to my life, which is exactly what you argued about. There’s no universe in which it can help me for the thing you’re claiming it can do for me

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1h

If you’ll look above, you’ll see where I said specifically “I don’t have large quantities of data to sort through”

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1h

Ok? And we were talking about my day to day life, not discussing whether LLMs have use cases for specific professions

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1h

I’m not young, my dude, but millennials are in our 40s now. And I would absolutely hear some shit from a person than a plagiarism machine which I can’t trust anyway

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1h

I don’t need a table, I can pretty easily find out when the thing is and make a note of it

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1h

Are you honestly telling me trying to prompt ai is more interesting than reading an article that might have some irrelevant information which could itself be useful or interesting Is that a thing you are saying with a straight face

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1h

Lol bro boomers fucking love AI, it’s the younger gens that hate it, try again

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1h

No it’s like we are grownups who are capable of reading an article rather than needing a badly-functioning regurgitation machine to save us 45 seconds on it

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 2h

A reminder that anyone who does not include "getting rid of LLMs for everyday use rather than just in specialist fields" is not a serious person who cares about actually solving any of the problems with GenAI.

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 2h

Oh no, the website is bad. Guess I might have to use my brain a tiny bit more and do a few more clicks! How ever shall I survive?!

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 2h

Like I'd have to double-check it anyway (I once googled if any Americans had been executed for treason in the 20th century and the sheer number of things Gemini got wrong was frankly incredible), what the fuck is the point?

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 2h

It's also just plain made stuff up, like when it said Mildred Gillars was Tokyo Rose, a claim no source has ever made ever

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, I've clicked through a Gemini response when it gave me wildly inaccurate info before. I've seen it invent or misinterpret what it read.

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 2h

OK, or I can just check the website like a normal person since I wouldn't trust Claude not to get things completely wrong anyway. Or I'd call the institution to double check with an actual person. This doesn't improve my life in any way.

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 8h

Like I’m sorry, you get to blame America for a lot, but not for this. Not when the same playbook was detrimental to fascism elsewhere, that’s on you

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 15h

“Trump actively campaigned for him” bro he did the same thing in Canada, Hungary, and Australia and it *cost* his chosen party votes in every case, the fuck is your excuse

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 15h

Oh we’re doing “actually Brazil voting for another Bolsonaro is America’s fault” discourse I see

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I basically just make sure Lae’zel is with me so either she kidnaps Gale or Halsin and either way they can just hang out in the murder dungeon while I go deal with the Auntie Ethel problem, no big loss

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sure but curry chicken pizza didn’t exist anywhere until this moment, what a time to be alive

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On the one hand, rampant fascism. On the other, we have never as a species lived in a culinary golden age like we are now

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You will never win any bet on expecting Americans to value our own self interest over our bigotries

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What the fuck are several of these words

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It doesn’t make my life better when it inaccurately sums up search results rather than me having to click into websites. It doesn’t make my life better for it to plan a vacation for me. The thought of it writing any correspondence for me makes me want to vomit

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I know what it can do. It can atrophy my brain if I don’t want to actually think about things. I don’t have large quantities of data to sort through Tell me anything it can do for my in my personal life. Literally anything beyond “use it and you’ll see,” which is a bullshit response

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026

just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think this looks pretty amazing

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I was on her side until she said all those awful things about Estonians

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A Macabre Mullist in Texas @mullist.com · 29/09/2026

Are you seriously suggesting you could survive an entire day without Ploob? No Fizty? Zero interactions with Glud?

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nothing about this shit could personally make my life easier or better in any way

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 02/10/2026

This story is great but man I am laughing at how much this guy looks like Michael McDonald - did any other genes even make it in? If you told me that he’d been the result of asexual reproduction by Michael McDonald I’d believe you

A guy who looks basically 1:1 like Michael McDonald who recently found out Michael McDonald is his biological father

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There’s nothing morally wrong with only being attracted to one body type but I do find the idea very confusing

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i’ve got a new bit, now i just say “sorry i don’t speak chinese” in perfect chinese over and over until they get mad and hang up

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think it could help deal with a one year old’s tantrums, no

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