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just finished perusing his feed. 99% is him just pushing his website. 1% is him humble-bragging by reposting negative comments he gets. It was a little confusing at first but once I got the gist of it, it was pretty boring. Definitely worth a block. Thanks for the heads-up

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oh also! The Philosopher's Kitchen? (Netflix)

do you have AppleTV? there's so much good stuff on there...

smibbo @smibbo.com · 29/09/2026

Schmitt did it on purpose. Sure, they saw through his BS in 10s, but he knows the MAGA base will lap it up and that's all that matters. Some repubs really think Trump is blazing a trail of successful lies.

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while that will be nice if it happens, we all know that a "probe" will take years to wind through bureaucracy and by the time it gets anywhere, it won't make any kind of difference to anyone who cares.

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people listen to streaming music nowadays. WHen I'm not streaming my favorite playlists, I'm listening to NPR. I only heard of Chappelle Roan because I have a teenager. That doesn't "say" anything about me and my choices except that I like listening to my playlists #ChoosinTexas

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Honorable Mention: Tetris my hundreds of hours playing Tetris is probably why I am so good at packing luggage

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Honorable mention: Tetris (I think the hours I spent playing Tetris are why I'm so good at spatial relations in my head)

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As I always say when someone asks about some third party's stature "everyone's tall TO ME"

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I am dammit! Why you no come to MY neck of the woods and have coffee with me!?

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disclaimer: I also will happily eat an egg salad sandwich every day for weeks too. But only if it's MY egg salad.

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I'm not going to say it's orgasmic or even fantastic. If you like celery AND cranberries/grapes in your chicken salad, then it's pretty good. Plenty of chicken chunks in it too. For some reason, i dont' get tired of a good chicken salad sandwich.

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I do wanna say, why the hell is 30 Rock so high on everyone's lists?!? I watched it. I watched a lot of it. It was okay.

smibbo @smibbo.com · 24/09/2026

I buy the Cape Cod Chicken Salad at Costco and eat at least one sandwich per day from that tub.

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so like what about us disabled who work part-time? As per usual we're just supposed to die and quit making everybody feel guilty?

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smibbo @smibbo.com · 21/09/2026

a lot of "pointless" social rules have their roots in sociological exchange tenets- a lot of it is validation, establishing trust, soothing, testing boundaries and stuff like that. Very hard to explain but they do have reasons.

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smibbo @smibbo.com · 21/09/2026

I call them "green mnms" - the tiny little hidden demand that if fulfilled will instantly tell the progenitor that you were paying attention

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likely the belt got stretched. IME replacing the belt is only a fraction cheaper than replacing the whole machine. *thumbs up*

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in all seriousness John, it sounds like your washing machine is off-balance

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my hunch is that he finally sat down and did a chatgpt session. Their chatbot is so obsequious, I can see him coming to the conclusion that it is the best thing since sliced bread. Five minutes of butt-licking and he's hooked

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I cannot read the whole article as it is behind a paywall

why is this woman asking this? Does she not realize that most younglings go through a politically rebellious phase? I hated communism so my phase was anarchism

you know, maybe all those banned press companies will start doing ACTUAL investigative journalism instead of lapping up all the slop Trump throws on the ground. Yeah yeah he's entertaining but he's also full of hot air 99.9% of the time and maybe being banned will turn out good for us

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I think it most likely say "oh that's fine" and continue on the conversation with you calling it Steve And then all the transphobes who fervently worship at the altars of AI and money would lose their collective minds

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I wonder what "tilly" would say if you asked it "can I call you Steve?" If it protested (which it might do, very politely) you say "I really feel more comfortable calling you Steve, is that okay?" Maybe it would start rambling in Icelandic or Nigerian or something

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like, we KNOW they don't have bodies. We KNOW they don't think like us. That's feeding the fear. They are *artificial*. That's not what needs to be clarified unless you're going into how their facade of logic prevents them from wiping us out.

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the point is that the question isn't "are they alive like we are" it was "will they become conscious enough to want to kill us?" he babbled about not having a body and left it at that. He very much left it open that they DO think, just differently. It was not at all comforting or informative

it was sort of a reasonable take? He was asked "do we have anything to fear about SAI becoming conscious?" and his answer was "they don't have bodies so they aren't really alive" but it was so convoluted and weird it sounded like hesitant apology. I think most people didn't grok it. I barely did

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examples: I asked AI about Applied behavior analysis and a philosophy school. It got pretty crazy. John Scalzi asked AI about... John Scalzi. It got bonkers.

easiest and probably most convincing test is to ask questions based on your area of expertise. Ask AI to compare two unlike things that have 1-3 common features. Then ask it to define one in terms of another. Then ask it to contrast the two. Every time you correct it, it will agree with you

I had not considered the distortion effect.... then again I really just haven't been thinking about AI much at all until the Hugging Face incident

so that kind of coverage isn't helping matters whatsoever

NPR's been focusing on AI recently and the guests have had some really goofy takes. One neuro-cognitive expert (?) took a very long time to basically say "they can't be alive like we are because they don't have bodies" and most of his take was word salad

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or to put it succinctly; Phew! Thank goodness we aren't at the point of SAI! - she wrote before turning Claude on to do her remote work.

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but that's the point, isn't it? Dubbing current LLM as "AI which might become SAI" is what distracts from the real harm LLMs are doing right now. I think it's important to keep labels accurate because playing footsy with words is exactly how the .01%ers fuck over regular people every day

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A Yang said that the hack was also a pollution; AI left self-replicating remnants all over the internet according to some unnamed lab person he talked to.

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People, I am begging you: Consider making your next vehicular purchase an electric one. Electric car, electric lawn mower, electric blower, whatever. I know it's intimidating to change but it will be worth it, I promise.

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I AM mad about it. I already said that I agree with you. I am also disabled, I work part-time. I can't afford to not work now that my disability payments have stopped. You think I'm happy knowing this is going on!?

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the only obligation I have is to my client. If there's some way to protect them, I"m going to take it no matter what my company says. But when every single company uses the same system that has AI embedded into it, what am I supposed to do?

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and I wasn't sharing my opinion. I was sharing a reality of my job: AI is literally embedded into it. I couldn't turn it off no matter how much I'd like to (and I'd love to) Healthcare is a wide industry. I dn't know about doctors but plenty of us do not have a choice

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smibbo @smibbo.com · 16/09/2026

I told you, I'm not a doctor. I was not saying you should shut up, and I admit I am not fully aware of how each doctor's involvement with AI works. I only know that there are some of us for whom AI is already embedded into our daily jobs.

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don't you just love when you're doing something on your phone and the app sends a verification to your phone so you look around for your phone to accept the verification that your phone sent to your phone? #only1cupofcoffee

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smibbo @smibbo.com · 16/09/2026

is that like me having all these great ideas while driving my car on the highway and of course not being able to remember those great ideas when I get home?