Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

@glennf The amazing thing about “AI detection” is we invented a technique specifically designed to defeat it (GANs) before we even invented it. It’s like selling chain mail after selling guns.

@fonts It’s called Lucida Casual and you’re gonna love it.

@allafarce Also I just checked and it was someone I respect, so I’m going to take some deep breaths, delete the tweets, and put the idea in my “to write up one day” file.

@allafarce I will not be baited into naming names, Senator!

@allafarce People just really want to add “this is often wrong” to “this feels soulless” and get “this is wrong because it lacks the truth-giving power of a soul” and it drives me nuts.

I’m not trying to forgive this commute, because I think it’s bad. But I think it’s a teachable moment. We recognize it as ludicrous, but it’s within what we accept in other contexts for no good reason.

Commuting from LA to Berkeley by plane is horrifying from an emissions point of view and a chilling indictment of our transit infrastructure, our housing crisis, our remote learning culture, etc., etc.

Granting all this, if you do the math, what he’s doing is well within the emissions range of the normal car commutes of millions of Americans. There are many, many people driving cars to work in the ordinary way who are doing more climate harm.

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/05/15/uc-berkeley-la-plane-commute-grad-student

@meetar [Joker voice:] Wanna hear how I got these RSIs?

@sgillies @migurski It’s time for common-sense ground rules for the safe use of this mind-bogglingly powerful ability to read and write geospatial rasters and their metadata in an ergonomic python environment. It’s also free to use, well documented, and welcomes high-quality contributions. And let me just remind everyone, before they ask, that that the Pixel Council’s COO buying my yacht is unrelated to my views on this issue.

Getting my daily steps in (going to the burrito truck a couple blocks away).

@sgillies Leading Python Expert’s Shocking Warning to World: But Will We Listen?

@urschrei (To any opinion editors reading this, I’d just like to say I’m sorry for being mean and I actually think very highly of you. You can trust that this is a sincere and well-grounded opinion that represents a real constituency in good faith because I’m assuring you of it.)

@urschrei But perhaps “Does this sound like a chatbot wrote it?” is a filter so obvious that even opinion editors, the most dimwitted and credulous motherfuckers that God Herself could invent in 6,000 years of tinkering, might be able to grasp it.

@urschrei Oh, a hundred percent. I do unironically hope that LLMs improve everyone’s smarm/bullshit detectors, but I don’t dare actually predict it. “Increased nonsense will lead to lower tolerance for nonsense and thus less nonsense” is not a great argument.

@urschrei “Ooh! Ooh! Writing is so good now! Ooooooh!” will be a common thing to overhear on the bus or in line at the cinema.

@urschrei I’m grateful that a public rightly incensed by such impostures will demand a new level of scrutiny on all writing in papers of record, thus tightening up standards across the board and no matter the origin. Soon, thoughtless sophistry will seem as dated as cat-eye glasses and bushy sideburns.

@allafarce @alexismadrigal @henryfarrell Wow, they invented radio for NERDS.

@nelson This came up!