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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 26m

it's not for lack of trying, but billions of years of evolution is a lot to decipher

Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 27m

there's so little we know about the human body at the micro-level. so many drugs, if you look them up, they're like "yea we don't know how this works" and they've been demonstrated to be effective over placebo.

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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 5h

One of my colleagues has a hang for bringing weird snacks and leaving them in the coffee kitchen, and this time he's outdone himself: this is the _nastiest_ thing I've tasted in a long time 😖😵‍💫🤢

A bag with Col. Sanders Favourite Jellybeans, in Fried Chicken/Sweet Corn/Gravy flavours.

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 15h

Never had a forecast discussion end with “Enjoy!” before.

WHAT HAS CHANGED...
No changes.

&&

.KEY MESSAGES...
1) High pressure will bring quiet weather conditions for the
next week.

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.DISCUSSION...
KEY MESSAGE 1...

High pressure will remain over the region through this week and
weekend. Expect mostly sunny skies and warm afternoon high
temperatures with cool and clear nights. Ensembles and long
range models are in agreement that next chance for rain will
not be until at least Tuesday of next week. Enjoy!

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@futurebird chimps are nearly identical to us biologically, but one way in which they’re different is that they’re deeply deceptive. They don’t have that baseline of cooperation. Consequentially, they can’t develop human-like communication. If you’re constantly deceiving one another, language […]

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@futurebird One of the things I was stunned to learn when I first entered linguistics was that human language is essentially impossible without a baseline assumption of cooperation. It’s too ambiguous, and if someone isn’t assumed to be cooperative on some level, resolving meaning is pretty […]

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

"when I get my 10-chouquette box and I find an 11th one there, I know there was a human on the other end who thought of throwing an extra one there, and I’m happy that this person did this nice thing, and if I notice that the boxes are carefully arranged, I know that someone went the trouble of […]

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@theeclecticdyslexic it's a great piece -- that quoted stat has lived rent free in my brain for years

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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/10/2026

It's also very frustrating to constantly have my opposition to AI be taken as an opposition to abstraction, or to automation, and a desire to do every little thing by hand. But it's the opposite. For a whole bunch of reasons, AI anti-abstracts. It adversarially creates oceans of duplication to […]

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Political attacks on me will escalate dramatically in the coming months, on account of my bad posts and terrible attitude

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

"Thus it takes this American 1500 hours to go 6000 miles (in the course of a year). Three and a half miles take him (or her) one hour. In countries that do not have a transportation industry, people travel at exactly this speed on foot, with the added advantage that they can go wherever they […]

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

“The typical American devotes more than 1500 hours a year (which is 30 hours a week, or 4 hours a day, including Sundays) to his [or her] car. This includes the time spent behind the wheel, both in motion and stopped, the hours of work to pay for it and to pay for gas, tires, tolls, insurance […]

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

we're due for another round of Prisencolinensinainciusol discourse

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Oh wait, now I get it, when they say singularity, they mean IPO.

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

“When war breaks out, people say: ‘it won’t last, it’s too stupid.’ And war is certainly too stupid, but that doesn’t prevent it from lasting.” - Albert Camus

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@IceCubesApp love the app otherwise, this is pretty much my one gripe

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@IceCubesApp hey could yall make “swipe right” “go back” and not “reply.” If I really need to reply to something, I can push the little tiny button since I’m about to push a lot of really tiny buttons.

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

So they don’t need all the graphics cards and memory in the world after all or what

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

UPDATE: the Jazz band is gone but this woman is singing Ave Maria in a tunnel

A woman stands in the middle of an ornate tunnel with arches and a tile ceiling. A few passersby look on

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

People are not happy with this development

A printed sign in serif font that reads “EATALY CAFFÈ Opening Fall 2026. Learn more” followed by a qr code. Burned in brown dots is the word “NO”. Written under “CAFFÈ” is “GET the FUCK OUT” in black marker

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Finally, a CAPTCHA that doesn't require me to instantly know what American fire hydrants or school buses look like.

A grid showing 16 different Roman busts, with the rubric "Please click each image containing an emperor of the Flavian dynasty
If there are none, click skip"

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

NYC with a Democratic Socialist mayor: There are jazz bands in Central Park and kabob tents have taken over the Avenue of the Americas. Everyone is having fun.

Central Park pond under a blue sky. Two large art deco towers stand behind the tree line. There are some people rowing on the pond. Flowers in foreground

A three piece jazz band stands on a grassy spot by a tree. There’s a drummer, an upright bass, and a guitar. There’s a forest and roadway behind them; the roadway is empty.

People fill a canyon of skyscrapers, with tents running down the side. The horizon is hazy with the smoke of kabob grills

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

NYC with a Democratic Socialist mayor: There are jazz bands in Central Park and kabob tents have taken over the Avenue of the Americas. Everyone is having fun.

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Another successful week, by at least one measure.

Workplace sign “this is a velociraptor-free workplace, it has proudly been [2.59x10¹⁰] days since the last velociraptor incident”

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@sundogplanets yea but we could start putting lasers on launch vehicles to deflect starlink garbage. That would be cool

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Just walked through Penn Station and saw ads for five different legal AI companies. Most of them claim they’re gonna replace lawyers. lol

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Airplane: you can't bring liquids larger than three ounces Amtrak: you can bring up to 4 liters of alcohol as long as you have paid for a sleeper car to drink it in

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@theeclecticdyslexic I’m imagining all of the extra transportation supply going entirely into rolling coal. Just all of it, right into big puffy black clouds, and price climbing even more

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

THEY CAN DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE SITE. THERE'S A PLACE FOR THAT. THE LICENSE IS SUPER PERMISSIBLE. THESE CHUCKLEFUCKS ARE JUST TOO LAZY TO ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD THE XML AND PUT IT IN THEIR TRAINING PROCESS. THIS WAS SHIT I DID AS A FIRST YEAR GRAD STUDENT; IT'S NOT HARD.

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

That said, CD's thread really clarified something there -- I was looking to enhance expertise, but the LLM companies are looking to displace it. And that's one of the things that's been baseline pissing me off the last 5 years.

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I still struggle to express exactly what I was going for there -- I feel like I've had moments where I was closer to it, but linguistics itself is still a relatively primitive science and so remains a relatively limited guide. A lot of work has been put into the field, but it's very easy to […]

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

That's not to say the choice toward statistical inference wasn't motivated. Our theories of the world gloss over a lot more than we consciously bring to light, and statistical methods patch over a lot of those gaps. But I always imagined, through understanding of language, you could better […]

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Cory Doctorow's morning thread helped make something click I'd been wrestling with for a long time but struggled to express. When I got into linguistics and AI about 15 years ago, I was imagining devising systems that made it easier to express expertise. What I found was techniques that […]

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I'm working on an explanation but it's gonna take a little work

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Just put my homemade cosmic microwave background rug over the baby’s crib

A homemade latch hook rug of the cosmic microwave background map, hung on a rod over a crib

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@hannah wondering about the possibility that this is the only version of the WMAP that survives into the deep future where the CMB has receded beyond view

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Amazing we’ve gone from a single beeping ball to 24/7 live photographs of Earth www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulld…

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@theeclecticdyslexic ahhh I see. thank you. yea, I love when people call C a "low-level" language. since when?

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

what the hell does "bare metal" mean now? I feel like I've heard it in multiple contexts that are so disparate I can't suss out the meaning, nor can I get it compositionally since none of these things seem to involve welding or soldering

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@alter_kaker I think about this a lot. just the fact that we can basically communicate for free in both directions is a big deal. we also have very different social conditions from back then---mass movement politics is basically dead---in part because of the internet, but in part because of the […]

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@jonathankoren so many of our problems stem from the fact that crooked asshole didn't get impaled on the White House lawn

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