Phillip Carter

@phillipcarter.dev

my dumb blog https://www.phillipcarter.dev/ work: salesforce, past @honeycomb.io and @microsoft.com play: computers, backpacking, snowboarding, hiking, kayaking

so anyways, my take on AI therapy now, as a fan and client of therapists for therapy purposes, is that: - chatgpt is way better than you'd think and it's great that people have that in their pockets for free - it's no substitute for getting your ass out of the house and talking to someone IRL

My personal opinion is that the Washington State Millionaire's tax should have an exemption for certified professional athletes (e.g., JSN for the Seahawks) because unlike most millionaires, pro athletes provide far more for society than they get paid

One unintended consequence of the LinkedIn tagline being used to display some vague-but-colorful description of what someone does is that those same people will do the same thing on their Slack profiles. No! God dammit! I want to just know, plainly, what the fuck you work on!

Aside from it being less work to literally just copy-paste from a free online map, they didn’t even use the latest model, which clearly does have world maps in the training set now. So my guess is it was intentional racism on their part.

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Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 6d ago

The U.S. State department has taken "full responsibility" for presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. Every single one. The map had a watermark indicating it was made using AI from OpenAI.

Yeah. If someone even hints at the idea that they're going to let trans people get bulldozed to "appeal to the median voter", they will never get my vote. Healthcare might be my biggest care policy-wise, but this is the filter function.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 7d ago

Squishiness on trans rights is a dealbreaker for me because (a) it’s a straightforward issue of personal freedom and bodily autonomy much like abortion, and (b) the right is obviously coming after us cis gays next.

As a man, having a baby means allowing your baby to come and say hello while you’re pooping. And also pulling them away from the toilet that they want to reach down into

Unexpected consequence of taking GLPs is that when non-GLP takers stay at your house, your perception of an appropriate amount of food to prepare may be severely warped. Luckily, there was a deli to walk to yesterday afternoon