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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 31/05/2026

I suspect something's going wrong with "interleaved thinking" and it's hallucinating tool call results. On the next turn, the tool outputs seem to get spliced in properly, overwriting the hallucinated ones, and the model confabulates an explanation. I've had this happen a lot with 4.8.

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 11/02/2026

"We are investigating reports of degraded performance"

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 01/02/2026

modern recipes suck so much. can't remember the source but like. why yes, my favorite thing to do when i crave chocolate chip cookies is to let the eggs sit out for an hour beforehand so they can get to room temperature and then slurp down the leftover egg white in one large gulp, why do you ask

1 large egg plus 1 egg yolk, at room temperature

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 10/01/2026

they explicitly said this the day before launching the list! it was infuriating seeing them go "it's just a readme, why are you so scared" and that they're just trying to inform people, when they flat-out said "we need to exert influence by shunning people" a day prior

My conclusion so far after this really great discussion: We need to stop leaning on licenses almost entirely, and refocus our attention on collective power and collective action.

Organize as developers of Community Software and start finding ways to exert influence on bad actors by having knock-on effects: you misbehave with one project, you get shunned/unsupported/blocked by the entire community.

To do this, we would need to stop acting as isolated islands of individual projects, and more as One Big Faction. We need to talk to each other. We need to make decisions together and have the difficult discussions about what we'll accept and what we won't, and how far we're willing to go to do something about it. There's even opportunity to share and pull resources and time.

Community Software would need to be a big Covenant that we hold ourselves to, that all are welcome into until they threaten the good of what we have built together.

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 09/01/2026

this is just the return of Ethical Source, and @im.giovanh.com already refuted this point-for-point years ago (blog.giovanh.com/blog/2021/10...)

"thinking about foss stuff, and I know I've groused about licensing stuff before, and how I feel like my only way out is to just Parity7 everything and fall into obscurity but...

...I think we need a different movement around open source, with new terminology, that clarifies the intent and opens doors to more pro-social behavior and capabilities (up to and including the potential for "ethical licensing").

I've been spitballing the terms Common Software and Community Software. The core idea is that things that count as Community/Common Software can't enter the realm of the proprietary (so, strong copyleft a-la AGPL and Parity, virality not necessary). What's the difference from "Free Software"? We get rid of "freedom zero", aka "the freedom to run software for any purpose". Common Software licenses may have Non-Commercial clauses, Anti-Particular-Industry clauses (such as anti-MIC stuff), etc.

I think "freedom zero" was a grave mistake. I get where it came from--a desire to remove discrimination--but what it resulted in was a hijacking of Free Software by the corporate "Open Source" wing to exploit an otherwise healthy community of people openly sharing their creations... for an enormous profit that we can't even quantify right now.

We need a strong return to copyleft, and we need to gather together and grow its existing ecosystem, away from the MIT/BSD poison that our world has turned towards.

Your thoughts are welcome on this. I want to have a conversation about this stuff and maybe eventually record all this in a longer-form blog post. If you know folks who have had similar thoughts please link them so we can chat, too."

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 09/01/2026

this is a...very interestingly-timed post. it's not hard to read the subtext here; it really seems like this list is a way to gather, and begin to flex, that shunning power. all their previous claims about this being "not harassment" should be taken with that context

Kat Marchán 🐈️
@zkat@toot.cat

My conclusion so far after this really great discussion: We need to stop leaning on licenses almost entirely, and refocus our attention on collective power and collective action.

Organize as developers of Community Software and start finding ways to exert influence on bad actors by having knock-on effects: you misbehave with one project, you get shunned/unsupported/blocked by the entire community.

To do this, we would need to stop acting as isolated islands of individual projects, and more as One Big Faction. We need to talk to each other. We need to make decisions together and have the difficult discussions about what we'll accept and what we won't, and how far we're willing to go to do something about it. There's even opportunity to share and pull resources and time.

Community Software would need to be a big Covenant that we hold ourselves to, that all are welcome into until they threaten the good of what we have built together.

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 09/01/2026

no no no! we don't want people to "harass" anyone. we just want people to go respectfully over to your issue tracker, open a bunch of respectful issues politely asking you to stop using llms, and shame you for doing so in spite of their "harms"! but we're not *harassing* you, nooooo

‪leon‬
‪@lacroixboi.bsky.social‬
· 2h
can you clarify what sort of “social consequences” you’re going for here
‪Kat Marchán 🐈‬
‪@zkat.tech‬
· 2h
people deciding to use other software, your users posting issues asking you to reconsider your usage, people pointing out that you've chosen to use this technology in spite of its harms. That's the gist of it.

Even I'm not gonna stop using this entire list. I don't intend to. Some surprised me.

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 09/01/2026

my "don't harass the projects on this list, which explicitly includes the maintainers of all the projects" disclaimer has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the disclaimer

"The intention of this list is to raise awareness of this technology's usage in popular software, as well as give people informed alternatives that they can reach for when they want to make decisions for themselves. This is not a list created so you can go and give these projects trouble for their decision. If you want to file a complaint about it with them, we consider that acceptable but ask that it be done respectfully and constructively."

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 22/11/2025

many of the presidents named after inanimate objects probably also like white monster, to be fair

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 10/11/2025

it just feels like there's a weird dissonance here. one group's saying "senate dems who are retiring or not up for reelection are taking the fall for this", and another group is saying "democrats are the same as republicans, or worse, and voting for them is a waste of time"

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 10/11/2025

there are threads *full* of people saying stuff like this, that dems are controlled opposition, agree with everything republicans do, they're never voting for them again, etc. i think it's a seriously overlooked aspect of this outcome

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 02/09/2025

Apparently it was available, but negligible

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 29/07/2025

i hate this account so much. had to unfollow someone because he wouldn't stop showing up in their replies

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 12/07/2025

The design matches a real Minute Maid can. I'm guessing it *was* AI-upscaled, though, which messed up the finer text.

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 29/05/2025

can't speak as to any of the other circumstances, but being able to match up fine details between the earlier photo (left) and later video (right) seems fairly implausible (although i'm not familiar with the current state of the art)

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 13/04/2025

that one meme with the goombas has been gaining traction recently but it's often best not to overthink things

the opposite of the "goomba fallacy" meme: sometimes people really are stupid walking contradictions

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 12/04/2025

sort of saying the quiet part out loud here, aren't they

"After going through this thread, and seeing how
[user] is getting dog piled, I am holding more vigilance against liberals in the United States at this point than MAGA, despite MAGA being the one in power. A lot of "kill em all let God sort it out" posting going on in there..."

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 05/03/2025

i am a bit worried about a potential gen-z red wave in the longer term, since the post-covid cohort seems to be more conservative than previous generations (although it's very possible they'll grow out of it)

A chart showing that Gen Z teens are more likely to identify as Conservative or Moderate compared to Gen Z adults and less likely to identify as Liberal

A chart showing a slight uptick in Gen Z adults identifying as "Conservative" compared to millennials

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 01/03/2025

it's insane to see libs start sephiroth posting like this

Hopefully this ends in anti-American witchhunts in Europe and Canada.

American border towns should be burned by rioters.

American students abroad should start being expelled.

American families on vacation should start getting tared and feathered in the streets of Paris and Rome.

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 02/02/2025

imo this guy isn't the problem but this genre of post always showing up on /r/all definitely is. there are a ton of posts about women being awful where like, even if they are, it says a lot about the audience. semi-related: there's a *ton* of subtly misogynistic ragebait everywhere (see screenshot)

This is the first video I got once the Americans got kicked off tiktok.

Bring them back now, I'm being so real for now.

Making Homemade British Steak, Beans & Chips The Kate's Way For My Tired Husband Andrew After 15h Shift

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 22/01/2025

(wokely) the civil war wasn't about slavery

Post reading "And let's be real about fighting the confederates too cause that shit wasn't about hating racism LOL"

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sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 21/01/2025

this is what this sort of rhetoric leads to. with the amount of ostensibly-leftist posturing intended to make people disengage from meaningful political action, it kinda makes me wonder if social media platforms engage in more manipulation than just pushing people to the right

quote tweet saying "I used to be solidly behind the Dems, a Texan in a blue city, just hoping and canvassing and TRYING. Since the first Obama election. Because I saw them as our only hope. This hits hard. They were never really even trying. Explains a lot. 😞 I've always been registered independent, good job instincts"

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