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James Linzel

@jlinzel.bsky.social
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Whatever garbage you read here, let it be known that it was at least vomited up by a genuine human brain

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 10h
but I would like to have a better understanding of just how much work is happening these days when somebody says something like "I let claude grind on [___]", and how much energy consumption is actually directly involved there, just in the grinding on the request.
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 10h
But, like, where are we at with this? When we're spinning up new gas turbine powered data centers just as the climate is really starting to noticeably destabilize, there's some natural inclination to fingerwag at users, which is probably unproductive at best regardless of factual underpinnings
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 10h
I'm not using, so I don't have a great grip on the current status of token usage windows, rate limiting, etc., among the various available plans. Obviously if Sam Altman Points The Cannon it's a different story than if Joe Schmuckatelli on the Basic For Losers (Get A Life, Chodemeister) plan does it
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 10h
Obviously the particular circumstances matter, I've just kind of lost track of the actual scale of things as the harnessing and agentry has evolved. I'm also not interested at this moment in the make-it-look-the-worst version with training expenditure rolled in.
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 10h
I'm curious - when somebody says something like "I let Claude grind on [wxyz] all weekend," how much energy use is that actually entailing? Is it closer to leaving the bathroom light on or leaving a dump truck idling?
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I haven't actually said it much lately, but man, fuck that guy. What an asshole, what a fucking prick. I hope he falls face first into dog shit and it gets in his mouth, and I hope all the living former presidents are for some reason there to point and laugh at him.
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A guy could have a pretty lousy weekend in Dallas with all that stuff
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Good morning to the the creepies and/or crawlies
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't think it was A. McB. because the time frame is wrong, but this is otherwise an actual experience I had (also not at 17)
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
ISTFG the AI stuff feels more and more like a Final Fantasy plotline ramping up to the part where it all goes to shit because the evil advisor to the decrepit, increasingly impotent emperor grabs a power too powerful and is immediately driven mad by it
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ok, just hit a rich mysogyny vein here too
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Man, so many of these are literally just "catalogue of racist tropes set to music"
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
(the context is "being extremely racist", but you don't really get the full effect from the stills or silent short gifs that usually crop up)
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Watching some Looney Tunes from the 1930's, interesting to see some genuine classics of the "extremely racist trope" genre pop up in context
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The sound actually is pretty good, at the end of the day
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh shit shoulda waited for the zoom out
A shot from further back in the same production, showing the full array of dangling microphones
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don't know who the sound engineer is here, but I respect the hell out of 'em for doing the best they can with what they got
A still from a bengali production, where the sound guy has just hung every sm-58 style mic in the house from the rafters by their xlr cables
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Couple of years of doing way too many not-quite-enough-bandwidth zoom meetings has really lowered the bar on this one...
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm pretty sure I've still never actually heard it out loud!
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Hey, you got your principal component analysis all over my occult sigil!" "Hey, you got your occultism all over my principal component analysis!" Two great techniques that work great together. Real statistical analysis. Good ol' fashioned demonology. Reese's.
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
all that, yes, but somehow with a [complimentary] nonetheless
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So dumb it's brilliant?
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Benoit Blanc: No! It's Just Dumb!
Alt: Benoit Blanc: No! It's Just Dumb!
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Glad I didn't mainline that hegseth presentation, just catching little bits of it has strained my eye ligaments with the involuntary rolling, jfc this is all so dumb
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Its So Dumb Glass Onion
Alt: Benoit blanc in glass onion bemoaning how dumb it all is
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think we tend to forget how fresh this stuff is; Twitter only *just barely* qualifies for the s on decades (created 2006)
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'twas a very clumsy duck, apparently
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
playing music with someone else is one of life's great joys, right up there with having sex with someone else neither is nearly as good by yourself, and machines can't replace either one.
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Mr Bean Chef's Kiss
Alt: Mr Bean Chef's Kiss
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I try not to put too much stock in penmanship, but it's always a little perturbing when people with so much power have signatures that would be at home in a random sampling of signatures collected in a 3rd grade classroom.
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh no, high schoolers don't get to even look at the gas valves these days
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the objectively correct response to the thing it is responding to
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He's got XXL internal organs and tiny chicken legs
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's 'roid gut on somebody that thought 'roids alone without exercise would get them jacked
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah, gotta really assess what kinds you actually need, most midi stuff is fine at 2.0 speeds on cheapo cables but you'll want a nice one for your audio interface
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That can give you the flavor of it without the commitment
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There are live distros you can play with that'll load into RAM off a thumb drive, in the 2-6 gig range, so even a small one will do
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The dark secret is that when he says GPU he means "Generic Paperclipping Unit." He's already potentially compromised by Roku's Basketcase and should be regarded as Keter/Ekhi until the temporal reachback is resolved.
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
About 3 minutes time lapsed and stabilized
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Morning gastropod derby, courtesy of underneath the recycling bin
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the whole, probably good for discouraging people from believing conspiracy theories
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There should be an "avoid driving directly into the sun" option in the navigation apps
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Corporate death penalty, execs straight to jail, along with whoever dared fucking print them. This cannot be tolerated.
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm going to continue not using for the time being, but it's encouraging to see development of useful stuff that is less in the direction "slaves but it's ok this time we promise"
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From what I'm reading, it feels like Jev is a more user-safe concept of operation than chatbots. Also feels kind of different wrt copyright/IP issues, although it's still working from these weights trained on unethically procured data.
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Opened this thread 100% ready to find out how they screwed up a reservation for a rental car
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I love Dolly, but do you want to get ants? Because that is how you get ants. In fact, if you *don't* get ants, you made the tea wrong.
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In combo with the violation of the order re: press passes, feels like the admin has reached fuckit'o'clock.
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Go Frogs!
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TCU SuperFrog Mascot on the Field
Alt: TCU SuperFrog Mascot on the Field
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I love the pop of brilliant red provided by the convenient tourists!
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The example that leaps to mind immediately...
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Joe Exotic: Never Going to Financially Recover
Alt: Joe Exotic in The Tiger King documentary: "I am never going to financially recover from this"
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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think there's a phase change somewhere between "adding a neat feature to your game" and "hitting a stranger with with a tasp" that the unholy confluence of social media mass surveillance, marketing science, and AI simulation of human interaction is gonna put us solidly on the wrong side of
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