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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 10/10/2026

Their attempt to replicate and remove confounders looks like this. Also, almost the entire effect was specifically in the people whose AI usage was to just ask for the answer

barely or not even significant difference

skip rate lower and solve rate the same for hints/clarify AI users versus control

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 07/10/2026

This is extremely funny for the obvious reasons

Freudian writing mode: Phallic
Subtype: Castration-anxious 46%

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 07/10/2026

Don't tell the mods, but I am no longer in my late 30s as of today

Marcy wearing a black dress and an orange shawl

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 06/10/2026

Tonight I feel like paying tributes to one of my dearest and most faithful companions, Tamari the cat. She was born somewhere around April 2016 and came to live with me about two months later. Which means she's ten years old, but in my eyes she is still a cute little kitten who can do no wrong.

Tamari, a black cat, napping on the couch that my wife had just been sitting on

Tamari laying in an anatomically incomprehensible way on the floor

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 06/10/2026

Why are you freaking out about a word in a headline that isn't even a literal quote from Schumer and which the first line of the article disagrees with

"Sen. Chuck Schumer Monday warned Democrats will block most of President Trump’s judicial and cabinet nominees if they retake control of the Senate in the midterms."

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 05/10/2026

The irony is that this actually sounds a lot like how training data affects a large language model. It's not stored in a specific place, and you don't explicitly retrieve it, but it does change the model in an orderly way. (I don't think brains are LLMs or vice versa, either.)

Misleading headlines notwithstanding, no one really has the slightest idea how the brain changes after we have learned to sing a song or recite a poem. But neither the song nor the poem has been ‘stored’ in it. The brain has simply changed in an orderly way that now allows us to sing the song or recite the poem under certain conditions. When called on to perform, neither the song nor the poem is in any sense ‘retrieved’ from anywhere in the brain, any more than my finger movements are ‘retrieved’ when I tap my finger on my desk. We simply sing or recite – no retrieval necessary.

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 03/10/2026

Stochastic Pierrots, is that anything? Anyway here's a drawing of him getting blitzed with Harlequin

Poster with an image of three barrels featuring a drinking Pierrot and a dancing Harlequin. On the barrels: 'Genièvre, Pur Grain', 'Amer, Bitter', and 'Cognac'. At the top of the image: 'Distillerie de la Chabotte, Vins, liqueurs & spiritueux'; at the bottom: 'J. Fairon Fils, Grand'Ry Cornesse par Pepinster'.

I got it from Wackypedia

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 02/10/2026

One of these years I'll finally do the costume that for *some reason* I kept on thinking about doing since my early 20s

Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake) from Hairspray (1988) wearing a pink gown with black bugs printed on it. Because she's got the bug. She looks fly as hell and triumphant

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 29/09/2026

e.g. they released this in 2023. This is directed at centrist Dems, making a case for not engaging on debates where Republicans have more popular support

Pro-LGBT policymakers and candidates should not engage in a prolonged debate on this issue. But they should not ignore these attacks either. Rather, they should:

Emphasize the harm these bans will cause to all women and girls by talking about how these invasive policies would require young girls undergo genital inspections, submit up-to-date information on their menstrual cycle, and undergo physical examinations in order to play sports.
Make it personal to parents by highlighting that these bans won’t just affect transgender children—their children will be affected as well.
Pivot to another solution. This issue is complicated, and we need to trust the people closest to these situations—parents, schools, and doctors—to make these decisions, not politicians.
Hit politicians who are pushing these laws for having the wrong priorities. They should be focusing on addressing inflation and the economy instead of passing invasive laws that target young girls.

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 29/09/2026

Here's Zuck's manifesto from earlier this year. "Superintelligence" is used 60 times.

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 28/09/2026

Well, his career trajectory hasn't matched Rufo's, but not from lack of trying

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 28/09/2026

At some point I took an "expanded OCEAN" that broke each category down into sub-sections, and I liked that it had "excitement-seeking" under Extraversion rather than Openness. I felt like it more accurately captured me as highly open-minded but not actually adventurous

a big old OCEAN/Big5 personality test breakdown I don't want to describe, but under Openness I have scores from 80-100 in Fantasy, Aesthetics, Feelings, Actions, Ideas, and Values, while under Extraversion I have 43 in Activity and 33 in Excitement-Seeking

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 27/09/2026

Here's a suggestion for Marigold. Is that not clear enough?

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 27/09/2026

It's like if someone gave the Dragonlord a cold one and a puff of doob

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 27/09/2026

Requisite mention of the Portland city flag

the city flag of Portland, Oregon:

a green field on which is placed a white four-pointed star (a truncated hypocycloid) from which radiate blue stripes, each bordered by L-shaped yellow elements (esquarres). Narrow white fimbriations separate the blue and yellow elements from each other and from the green background

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 27/09/2026

Maybe they should have kept Gale's original design

Bio art of Gale from Baldur's Gate 3 from the early access period. He looks kind of like a guy who offers to show you a trick to make your panties disappear

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 27/09/2026

Oh, I'm not talking about the primary Discourse, I'm talking about stuff like this. This isn't even what I was responding to, I just went into a random thread and scrolled until I found an example.

three people calling country "trash", "garbage twang", saying that all country aside from 4 or 5 songs is "straight garbage" etc.

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 24/09/2026

Tried to mix it up at least a little bit. Couldn't fit Ultima IV on here but it should be

9 games who shaped who I am

NetHack
Exile II: Crystal Souls
Dragon Warrior III
Fallout
Daggerfall
Age of Empires
Dark Forces
Link's Awakening
Chrono Trigger

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 24/09/2026

As a transgender lesbian, I have zero hours in three of those games and, uh

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 21/09/2026

Hey there's this guy I heard about who agrees with your ideas, you should check him out

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 18/09/2026

I had to go dig up this oldie but baddie from a 2016 post on @edroso.bsky.social's blog. Reads like a Penthouse Letter

• "An old friend" sent Rod Dreher another Tale of Trans Terror from (get this) "North Texas" and -- well, I don't know guys...

[blockquote starts]

“I thought I knew what was going on in this country,” she said. “I was wrong.”
She had taken her teenage son to see the Captain America: Civil War movie for his birthday. In line behind them waiting to buy tickets stood several men in their early 30s who were obviously transgendered, and a young woman who presented as a man, though was plainly a female. My friend, “N.”, said the group started talking about sex, including their favorite positions, their favorite sex toys, you name it. One of the group was 20; an older transgender said to him, “You’re just a kid now, but when you turn 21, we’re going to take you out and get you broken in.” They proposed an orgy.
On and on like this. And more transgenders joined them, not waiting in line, but moving towards the front to stand with their friends. N. told me that the trans group was very aware of itself, and did not care who heard their filthy talk...

[blockquote ends]

...and then they pulled out their switchblades and had a rumble! This scene sounds unlikely to have taken place in the West Village, let alone Texas. Could Brother Rod be trying to heighten the contradictions -- as groundwork for his Benedict Option book? Would a Christian lie to us?

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 13/09/2026

Laser number whatever. Getting down to the last stragglers

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 12/09/2026

Important context: this video was explicitly a "remix" of a sandwich he had previously done on the channel, and that version didn't have bacon. So this scolding is also completely off base

Hi Barry. What is it with you and bacon? Bacon is not a traditional Thanksgiving food, at least among anyone I know. If you want to include bacon, fine, but why not at least try a version, without bacon, first?

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 09/09/2026

Hey who's that in the background looking out at this "strong women build nothing" deal

Pallas Athena statue badly photoshopped into the Asuka "Pathetic" still from NGE

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 05/09/2026

Compare to this, which is about as friend-shaped as any passenger vehicle I've seen

a Waymo Ojai, a very boxy and low-slung four-door minivan

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 02/09/2026

She really was. And is. Also, today is the first anniversary of us starting our relationship. The actual words in question are too personal and awkward to share publicly, but this is how we ended that day's conversation.

I still have to put my bed together and workmen are arriving in 8 hours 11 minutes. So I am going to go to bed.

Thank you for taking a risk. I was afraid to take it myself.
marcy — 9/1/25, 8:21 PM
I feel good about having done it, and better knowing that I was taking a leap of faith in the right direction.

Sleep well 💙
[purple heart as reaction]

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 02/09/2026

My coworker said I looked very bright and shiny today

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