On a journey to discover the *real* Jesus of the Bible, not the twisted evangellical prop.
Turns out living paycheck to paycheck is better than working in corpo tech.
I'm loving the home school stay-at-home parent life
Luxuries be damned, I'll never regret trading my windowless office for being with my kids everyday.
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dear bay area dwellers whose interests lie in matters both cybered and versed:
i'll be teaching a two hour workshop about computer poetry in june in oakland~
you can come if you want. i'll be teaching a history and explication of computers+poetry then running through some interactive, digital means for poetry production and consumption.
details and registration are here: https://luma.com/d5rej2i9
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"I dislike the word 'agent' for these LLM based tool loops with a UI attached. In everyday use an agent is someone who acts on behalf of someone else and it has agency and more importantly: responsibility. An agent decides, represents, negotiates, acts, and can be blamed. But the machine cannot be responsible, whoever is wielding it is. If it drops your database it was not at fault, you were.
Agent makes the machine sound like a person with delegated authority and I do not think that is healthy."
Gonna do this as an image (also available as alt-text, though I did have to edit it a bit to make it fit thanks website boy) As a reminder, this is NOT an exhaustive list.
If you are on any of these meds
1- Make sure you take extra good care of yourself in the summer / hot days (Hydrating, providing shade, cooling off)
2- Speaking from experience, if you are in STABLE mental health, you may be able to lower your dose of a med to tolerate summer better. It worked great for me last summer (though there were still really hot days) and we're trying it again this summer.
I really must stress, in the face of climate change, people who are on medications like this (And don't have the luxury of quitting them) need to understand there are ways of coping (see above)
I probably don't need to state this but just in case: if you see a med you're on on this list, don't just quit it cold-turkey. That's a horrible idea. Talk to your provider, get their okay, and their plan for TAPERING you off it.
hey guess what happened again? town doors are shut until it's safe. no evidence of hack being used.
fire again licks at the foyer
There IS NO LLM USE not associated with the project to seize all information as a product. That is the WHOLE gamble being made that is driving all those billions into getting as many people as possible dependent on the most preposterously expensive and inefficient model of computing ever devised. It is only worth it if the upside is owning the whole economy.
Every step you take towards building LLMs into your daily habits and work ratchets the spring tighter on the mousetrap until, surprise! It clamps shut while your whole ass is wrapped around the cheese. Don't make me laugh with local models nonsense, if you think that those don't get deprecated the moment they pose the slightest whiff of a threat to the profit model - meta isn't releasing weights to be nice, it's to capture labor and control the tooling space. Don't be a sucker.
tilde.town has zero evidence of being actually hacked however we cannot stay online given the disclosure of a recent kernel vulnerability for which there is no mitigation. we've disabled SSH and that's why you can't log in.
As soon as the kernel is healthy again we will let users return.
vilmibm
Jason Lefkowitz
Iron Pencil Statue 
Noppy
tilde.town
jonny (nonvenomous)