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you can call me

  • maple
  • maple syrup
  • maple "mavica" syrup
  • mavica

none of those are capitalised, ever

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social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

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hey remember when i joined the fediverse and tried to make friends with the popular accounts here and they told me to go fuck myself and then managed to convince random strangers who never interacted with me that i'm some big demonic dangerous abuser without a shred of evidence for it and then they turned out to be incredibly transphobic and nine years later my online social life is still fucked

what if i self harmed in the work bathroom do you think that cry for attention will work better than just posting about it online because that one doesn't seem to work anymore

do you have friends? how did you make them? do you ever go less than a whole day without actually speaking to another person? how do you do it? will you teach me? i can pay you

the internet didn't use to feel this lonely there used to be public chats that always had something going on and now nobody talks to me and i fall into desolate despair because i'm a traumatized fucking mess who can't make friends anymore because everybody is scared of talking to each other

i think there's something wrong with alterspring because i'm not receiving any questions

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There is only 1 week left for affected parties to respond to a UK gov consultation about the impact of the Online Safety Act. If you've got any evidence that you want to submit about the new rules, now is the time: committees.parliament.uk/work/

#UKPol #OnlineSafetyAct #Privacy

what's a place like this doing to a nice girl like you

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kate pulaski did nothing wrong and lower decks should've brought diana muldaur back

is anyone really convinced that the "we should slow down ai development" is anything but a face-saving for not actually having anything to show for it and building up a preemptive excuse

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In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point coprocessor chip. Plugging this chip into your IBM PC made math 100 times faster, good for CAD and spreadsheets. I opened up the chip to reverse-engineer exactly how it does complicated calculations. Let's take a look inside...

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👀 oh this is a fascinating essay 👀
ANTIQUATED HTML SNIPPETS AND ARTEFACTS: vale.rocks/posts/html-relics
“The snippets that live on only in the markup of sites from bygone eras and in the minds of those who fought during the browser wars.”
((some of my own websites still have some of these! 🥲))

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the AI is very good at logic, except that if you feed it a mild, original variation of a logic puzzle it fucks it up entirely in a way that instantly reveals it’s only regurgitating answers from its training data. and this is such a problem for the AI corps that they’ll scrape your variation into their training data too and make very certain the AI outputs the right answer, so it looks like they fixed the AI until you try another variation on the same puzzle.

the AI can finally spell strawberry! specifically. with a really long, weirdly angry answer. because they special cased it in the latest model, and it’s literally just outputting a rant from some anthropic asshole.

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