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@alexhall Also, people are calling Altman a eugenicist because he's a longtermist, and well yeah there's definitely a lot of eugenics going on there. See: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/05/why-effective-altruism-and-longtermism-are-toxic-ideologies for a start. He's being called a thief because OpenAI under his leadership has an extensive track record of hoovering up whatever it can find, including intellectual property, to train its model. Without paying. Note: They supposedly stopped doing this as of May of this year, and 0 people believe Sam Altman on this.

@alexhall Platformer's good, also 404 Media.

Yeah no it's actually pretty fucked and it has been for a while.

It's OK to not have your shit together sometimes.

I'm so sorry for you that you've had to return Trina to the shelter. You're not a shitty human for doing it, you're just someone who understands that Trina has needs that you can't meet and so it's best for her that she go back to the shelter to find her actual forever home. Sending hugs your way.

I thought briefly about increasing mine, but then I decided to just let it be for this year and then decide next year if I want to do a challenge.

Narrator: "I can't possibly be antisemitic I only regularly shit on the bad Jews".

I also like bird.makeup for generating feeds if I want to regularly follow accounts from oter there.

Yeah I kind of blew my book challenge out of the wanter this year already.

@Mike OK I giggled.

Thanks for sending this. I saw it come across my email via Twitter sending me emails but couldn't click the link because thanks to Elon firing the entire accessibility team last November accessibility of the platform and related services has gone downhill.

I think I'm just now starting to get used to super cold. While at the same time realizing that PA is far from the coldest place in the US, to say nothing of the rest of the planet.