"a dingbat can be used as a dinkus"

come on. now you're just making up sounds.

sorry everyone

tomorrow's only christmas eve in new brunswick

whose idea was it to make machines sound so empty and lifeless as a matter of "AI safety"?

I miss how much people in the '90s and early '00s leaned into the weirdness. You can have a machine with personality and still know it's a machine.

this was a key part of the feedback loop that gave twitter its outsized cultural relevance relative to its smaller userbase and capital position

if @caseynewton is right, elon really has killed it.