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@JennyFluff I'm really super happy with it! Now I've just gotta work on getting a body suit ^^

JK Rowling, Israeli Defence Force, funding genocide 

Giving money to JK Rowling is functionally equivalent to giving money to the IDF.

JK Rowling will use your money to genocide trans people.

The IDF will use your money to genocide Palestinians.

Krita 6 (and 5.3) released! Two top-tier #art #apps for the price of one!

Look forward to Wayland color management (for Krita 6); an overhauled text tool with direct on-canvas editing, wrapped text and text-on-path capacity; a new #comic panel assistant; and so much more 🖌️.

krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-

@Krita

#design #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #painting #Mastoart

@PsyChuan have got an idea to do something re my stream so gonna try focusing on that for a bit

Had a bit of a bad brain this even as I've found myself unable to focus on anything that I feel is really creative these past couple of weeks, and overwhelmed by everything I could do.

I should just focus on one thing for now.

My biggest problem with the concept of LLMs, even if they weren’t a giant plagiarism laundering machine and disaster for the environment, is that they introduce so much unpredictability into computing. I became a professional computer toucher because they do exactly what you tell them to. Not always what you wanted, but exactly what you asked for.

LLMs turn that upside down. They turn a very autistic do-what-you-say, say-what-you-mean commmunication style with the machine into a neurotypical conversation talking around the issue, but never directly addressing the substance of problem.

In any conversation I have with a person, I’m modeling their understanding of the topic at hand, trying to tailor my communication style to their needs. The same applies to programming languages and frameworks. If you work with a language the way its author intended it goes a lot easier.

But LLMs don’t have an understanding of the conversation. There is no intent. It’s just a mostly-likely-next-word generator on steroids. You’re trying to give directions to a lossily compressed copy of the entire works of human writing. There is no mind to model, and no predictability to the output.

If I wanted to spend my time communicating in a superficial, neurotypical style my autistic ass certainly wouldn’t have gone into computering. LLMs are the final act of the finance bros and capitalists wrestling modern technology away from the technically literate proletariat who built it.

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