"This is all a misunderstanding officer — I thought they'd go down on me!"
Jeanne@toomany2choose.bsky.social · 2d ago🥢🍜🛳️
Jeanne@toomany2choose.bsky.social · 2d ago
You'd need an ace lawyer. No, I mean an *ace* lawyer.
SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · last wk.has anyone actually ever had a law firm do an audit of MIRI, lightcone, SFF, or any of these other organizations? even defensively. one would think that you should get ahead of problems before complete outsiders figure out how to identify and/or profit by filing concerning violations of federal law
A useful cross-cultural shorthand is "spicy like your grandma would feed me if I hurt her feelings"
the beggars out of here getter@milesklee.bsky.social · 3mo agoalmost positive that when i sit down at my favorite local Thai joint and tell them 7/10 spicy they just give me 6/10 and even then the waitress checks in with a smile of slight concern asking “you okayyyyy??”
>wake up >global security architecture has degraded further >go to sleep >global security architecture has degraded further >wake up >global security architecture has degraded further >go to sleep >global security architecture has degraded further
just weird to think about how few people there were during the bronze age. like, Tyre, when we first hear about it as influential, is less than ten thousand people. everyone who knows the alphabet works in maybe one of four buildings. one bad harvest and you wouldn't understand any of these symbols.
Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.
Stephan Geering@stephangeering.bsky.social · 7mo agoChallenge for those who are very confident that Claude isn't conscious: Explain how human consciousness works.
This is in contrast to bards seducing elves, which is historical
Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast@irhottakes.bsky.social · 7mo agoI think it’s funny how RPGs have made people think clerics are the dumb ones and wizards are the smart ones when in real life, clerics were parsing translations of Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic while wizards were like I BET DRINKING MERCURY MAKES YOU IMMORTAL.
the purpose of a rube goldberg machine is what it does eventually