jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 11hlooking at ascii art websites..... i just found this beauty. it's titled "Faces Behind the Face": (-(-_(-_-)_-)-) www.asciiart.eu/one-line/faces 010
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 01/10/2026NYC is kind of activetransitmogging all the other US cities.... it's kind of embarrassing :/ data.bikeleague.org/data/cities-... 000
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 01/10/2026if we could get the chicago bike commuter share up from ~0.9% of people to ~2.5%, chicago would have the most bike commuters of any US city, i think 🤔🚲 111
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 01/10/2026it seems like in the last month i've been noticing smells a lot more...... maybe my sense of smell somehow improved.... maybe i lost some sense of smell when i got covid in like 2022 without knowing and then it took 4 years to come back 🤔 000
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 29/09/2026The Crucible (1996) is about Winona Ryder girlbossing too close to the sun 011
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 29/09/2026while googling stuff, i found a web 1.0 site with a page for "CTA BUS GARAGES".... hell yeah, chicago rail fan www.chicagorailfan.com/rosctabg.htmlchicagorailfan.comCTA BUS GARAGES 010
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 29/09/2026i'm trying to figure out what his drawing is of now, lol.... looks like a bus terminal somewhere.... i dont think it's union station 100
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 29/09/2026on wikipedia i found out that this one mcdonalds location used to have to bunch of rock and roll shit on it... wesley's song says you could listen to music there, so maybe they played rock and roll music inside it, idk.... 🤷♀️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonal... 100
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 29/09/2026i've heard people call that one mcdonalds in river north the "rock n roll mcdonalds" but i never knew why............ but then i heard wesley willis's song "Rock N Roll McDonald's" and the pieces started to fall in place...... 🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwYG...youtube.comRock N Roll McDonaldsYouTube video by Wesley Willis - Topic 100
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 28/09/2026"While preparing this work, we used OpenAI’s Codex, GPT-4o, o3 and ChatGPT 5 to assist with coding, as well as perform spell/grammar check, word selection, and rephrasing in paper writing." They couldn't even write their own paper??? 030
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 28/09/2026P.S. Also, what the fuck, the paper I linked above, with ten authors across five different universities/organizations, has this acknowledgement: 100
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 28/09/2026If LLMs don't work this way, if they get worse with the more information they have, then it is a terrible approach for creating a machine with "intelligence". 110
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 28/09/2026My reaction is like....... This is the *opposite* of how human intelligence/reasoning works. The more "context" a person has (knowledge, experiences, frameworks, etc), the better they get at doing things, understanding things. A mind is able to integrate everything its seen before. 110
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 28/09/2026[warning: thots on LLMs to follow] I heard from someone that LLMs can get *worse* at tasks as the amount of context given to it increases, and it looks like there is some evidence to support this. ["Context Length Alone Hurts LLM Performance....": arxiv.org/abs/2510.053... 100
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 28/09/2026sorry, this is the explanation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zib8...youtube.comguy who picks the photos that come up when you play music in your carYouTube video by Chris Fleming 110
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 27/09/2026midwestern excellence...... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...en.wikipedia.orgCategory:Musical groups from Grand Rapids, Michigan - Wikipedia 000
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 27/09/2026listening to music on youtube is vibey because it feels like the recording has been stepped on 000
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 27/09/2026i watched all of Oppenheim and i didn't even like it..... what have they done to my beautiful cillian murphy... 😥 000
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 25/09/2026my beautiful cat peanut just used her two litter boxes to go #1 and #2 (properly) after not going to the bathroom for ~24hr because she was scared of the maintenance people doing work in the building and was hiding under my bed a lot 020
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 25/09/2026I'd never heard of this until today..... The most insane murderous shit, oh my god.... I'm stunned. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Le...en.wikipedia.org2024 Lebanon electronic device attacks - Wikipedia 020
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 24/09/2026They should be running contra to bike traffic so they can see oncoming cyclists and moove out of the way 020
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 24/09/2026As I withdrew into myself, I started to conceive of these generative models as the captured voices of a million different white guys, amplified into a singular demonic force..... 😰😰😰 030
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 24/09/2026I was forced to listen to ~3 minutes of Generative Voiceover in a video at work..... The first thing that struck me is that the voice sounds like a white guy sportscaster. (Why are you forcing me to listen to this?) 110
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 24/09/2026my favorite guitar pick I have is a Jim Dunlop nylon .60mm that I picked up off the stage of my friend's show in Warrensburg MO in 2006 000
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 24/09/2026I was reading about "cold water flats" on Wikipedia... Banned in Chicago in 1957! The year Humphrey Bogart died.... 010
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 24/09/2026I had a cold shower this morning.... It wasn't that bad actually. I think because it was probably like 60F water from inside the tank in the basement instead of colder water from the ground pipes (?).... If it was winter the water would probably be way colder. 210
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 24/09/2026OK, gas has been turned back on, and hot water restored. Oven and furnace should be hooked back up 2morro 🙏 120
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 24/09/2026I am making my third attempt to read Pride and Prejudice (abridged, lol)..... I am writing down peoples' names on my bookmark so I can remember who the FUCK "Mr. Bingley" and why Elizabeth thinks he's an asshole 000
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 23/09/2026happy bisexual day!!!! 🫶 🩷💜💙 here's a spoooky bisexual skellington 😇 020
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 23/09/2026minor gas leak in my apartment building, lol 🤪 hopefully is getting fixed 2nite 🤞🤞 010
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 21/09/2026i ~transplanted~ to chicago in 2019..... i think this is the longest i've lived in one city besides my hometown.... chicago is kool.... i'm glad they let me live here :) 020
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 21/09/2026but when i got there i realized that i forgot to bring my cat!!! i had left her in the hotel room!!! the hotel people said that they would hold onto her a couple days and then ship (?) her back to me. 😰😭 but then i woke up and it was just a dream and my cat is still here with me in my apartment 🥹 010
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 21/09/2026i had a dream where i i had been staying at a hotel with my cat for a while and it was time to go home. two people from the hotel (like a receptionist and concierge) helped me pack up and actually flew on the airplane with me to my parents' house (lol). 100
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 20/09/2026Using she/her doesn't really let you forgot that we are doing weird gender stuff in the language we use. (There is a streamer Will Jinkies who still always say "Girls, ..." in the way other streamers will say "Chat, ...", which is adorable. And why not just call any unknown group of people Girls?) 130
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 20/09/2026It's very Judith Shakespeare or "herstory"..... But it's also kind of cute. :) Today most people are on board with using singular they/them now, but maybe using the neuter is basically the same as using he/him because people already equate neuter=masculine in their minds. 141
jean 🐀🐀🐀 @punx.us · 20/09/2026I was reading a PDF of a TTRPG book from 2010 (lol) and I saw the author was using she/her in the text to refer to any hypothetical person... I forgot that in the early days of woke people were doing this in a pointed way, to push back against the way old style guides would use he/him in for this 150