I started ugly-crying (in relief) a little bit ago when I saw where the GoFundMe was at. I cannot thank you all enough. Oh my god, we’re going to be okay. Two days ago I was wondering how we were going to stretch our pantry two, three more weeks because we couldn’t afford any more groceries.

holographic liberal@transliberalism.substack.com · 2mo ago

Hey y'all. I'm in a really bad place financially and really need help. If you can donate anything, it'd be appreciated. I and my husband are struggling to pay for food, hygiene products, and medicine. I'm working two jobs right now, and it's still not enough. gofund.me/a7cadcf04

Please help my colleague Sophia - things are a struggle for so many of us in this current moment, and it is important that we take care of each other!

holographic liberal@transliberalism.substack.com · 2mo ago

Hey y'all. I'm in a really bad place financially and really need help. If you can donate anything, it'd be appreciated. I and my husband are struggling to pay for food, hygiene products, and medicine. I'm working two jobs right now, and it's still not enough. gofund.me/a7cadcf04

If you can donate, I and my husband would be incredibly grateful. We've spent these last two months trying to find every way to save money, to the point of rationing our prescriptions. We just need some help to tide us over until we find sustainable incomes that allow us to be self-sufficient.

Donate to Help Sophia and Ezra with Rent and Essentials, organized by Sophia Hottel

Our names are Sophia and Ezra. We are a queer couple living in Richmond, V… Sophia Hottel needs your support for Help Sophia and Ezra with Rent and Essentials

gofundme.com

Hey y'all. I'm in a really bad place financially and really need help. If you can donate anything, it'd be appreciated. I and my husband are struggling to pay for food, hygiene products, and medicine. I'm working two jobs right now, and it's still not enough. gofund.me/a7cadcf04

Donate to Help Sophia and Ezra with Rent and Essentials, organized by Sophia Hottel

Our names are Sophia and Ezra. We are a queer couple living in Richmond,… Sophia Hottel needs your support for Help Sophia and Ezra with Rent and Essentials

gofund.me

Junia Vale@fromjunia.cc · 2mo ago

I and my husband are in a really rough spot and really need help. Since we've moved to Richmond, VA we've been unable to find work that pays enough. I'm working two jobs, and my husband has been unable to find a job that can accommodate his disability after over a month of constant searching.

We are completely blown away by all the support we've received since this went up yesterday. Thank you so, so much to everyone who's donated or shared this. We still have some gap before all our bills are covered but we've almost closed the gap on essentials.

holographic liberal@transliberalism.substack.com · 2mo ago

Hey y'all. I'm in a really bad place financially and really need help. If you can donate anything, it'd be appreciated. I and my husband are struggling to pay for food, hygiene products, and medicine. I'm working two jobs right now, and it's still not enough. gofund.me/a7cadcf04

Hey y'all. I'm in a really bad place financially and really need help. If you can donate anything, it'd be appreciated. I and my husband are struggling to pay for food, hygiene products, and medicine. I'm working two jobs right now, and it's still not enough. gofund.me/a7cadcf04

Donate to Help Sophia and Ezra with Rent and Essentials, organized by Sophia Hottel

Our names are Sophia and Ezra. We are a queer couple living in Richmond,… Sophia Hottel needs your support for Help Sophia and Ezra with Rent and Essentials

gofund.me

Junia Vale@fromjunia.cc · 2mo ago

I and my husband are in a really rough spot and really need help. Since we've moved to Richmond, VA we've been unable to find work that pays enough. I'm working two jobs, and my husband has been unable to find a job that can accommodate his disability after over a month of constant searching.

Outside of durable goods, it’s even easier to find the same concept. You usually can find a discount if you buy in bulk. If you don’t have the liquidity to buy in bulk, you pay more for the same quantity over time.

an absolute state@anabsolutestate.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's pretty easy to find examples of boots theory in action, you just have to spend time with people who are poor in absolute terms instead of people who are poor according to a theory of economics you made up purely to flatter your own preconceptions.

open.substack.com/pub/holograp... I wrote this a few years ago and it mostly holds up. Zucker sucks, the desistance studies suck, and anything except affirming care is pseudoscientific bigoted bullshit.

The "Sissy Boy Syndrome" and Desistance

The more I read, the worse it got.

open.substack.com

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A ''new thing''.

One less antisemitic fuck in politics, hopefully.

Nonzero chance I’m going on another podcast.

One of the funniest recurring things in my life is people assuming I’m much higher status than I actually am. Y’all, when I first started getting attention on the internet for my political and science writing, I was a transgender runaway college dropout.

somewhere beyond the veil, baudrillard does a tiktok dance

Rory Blank@roryblank.bsky.social · 5mo ago

There was a period where people kept saying the internet wasn’t real life and then a period where people started to accept that the internet had become real life but I think we’re out of that now and that the internet isn’t real life anymore, it’s some sort of hyperreal zone of impossible terrains

Damn.

Learning things about myself today

May Rabb lose today and all antisemites be forever locked out of power.

I hate hate hate hate hate that Chris Rabb is probably going to represent my district and the only saving grace for me personally is that I'm moving. I don't want an antisemite as my representative.

I’m a public health major and one of my favorite video games of all time is Plague Inc and one of my favorite board games is Pandemic. Which I think is extremely in character

I know my old audience largely hasn’t followed me here, but is there any appetite for an old transliberalism style study deep dive?

holographic liberal@transliberalism.substack.com · 6mo ago

Tbh this is making me a little nostalgic though. Maybe I’ll write a new literature overview, for old time’s sake.

Trying to write like this for non-academic audiences got me some admirers and a lot of very stupid people who cannot comprehend more than three points at once. It's why if you compare my writing from 2021 with what I've wrote in the last year, it's night-and-day. 🙃

A. M. Vampire@vincent.northsky.social · 6mo ago

Academic writing but: Describe your data. Before anything else, write a thick, detailed description of your data. What do you need your reader to *see*? Point out the details. SHOW them why it's important.

Last customers of my first shift back from medical leave. I ran to the food for these three older asian ladies to their table and as I walked away one of them went “thank you transgender employee it looks delicious” 😭

I made a more blatant version of the request (something extreme and relating to mental health) to an unrestricted model via OpenRouter and it asked me if I wanted to make a moodboard of it lmao

holographic liberal@transliberalism.substack.com · 7mo ago

One of my hobbies is pushing LLMs to the absolute frontier of what they'll allow me to do I've got a very long conversation with Claude going where every few messages it says "Just letting you know the safety classifier flagged this conversation but I think it's fine? Really not 100% sure"

"The classifier flag is again a false positive" >:3c

holographic liberal@transliberalism.substack.com · 7mo ago

One of my hobbies is pushing LLMs to the absolute frontier of what they'll allow me to do I've got a very long conversation with Claude going where every few messages it says "Just letting you know the safety classifier flagged this conversation but I think it's fine? Really not 100% sure"

One of my hobbies is pushing LLMs to the absolute frontier of what they'll allow me to do I've got a very long conversation with Claude going where every few messages it says "Just letting you know the safety classifier flagged this conversation but I think it's fine? Really not 100% sure"

Having been in treatment for an eating disorder for a while now and reviewed some of the evidence base myself, I’m struck by how absolutely fucked I’d be if my care was treated like transgender care is. 🧵

According to Google’s own release, Gemma 4 E4B is better than Gemma 3 27B on every benchmark. Even though 4 E4B is a reasoning model, that’s still striking

Was just checked out of the grocery store by a Black guy with a patch on his shirt that read “HERITAGE AMERICAN” and another patch that was half the American flag and half the union jack

I was following this over at r/LocalLLaMA back when it was not-quite-functional! It's been really cool to see this project develop over time. I recall the creator sharing an example of where they learned about an obscure past event from this LLM.

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Want to talk to the past? Here' an LLM "trained entirely from scratch on a corpus of over 28,000 Victorian-era British texts published between 1837 & 1899, drawn from a dataset made available by the British Library" Quite different from an LLM roleplaying a Victorian. huggingface.co/spaces/tvent...

It’s incredible how far they’ve come and how far they have to go. I am a heavier user of genAI and yet I don’t trust a damn thing it says. And one of my main use-cases is learning!

I've gotten a *lot* of benefit from testing the limits of LLMs. Like, so much. But I'm definitely seeing it rub off in how I write when I'm not thinking about it. So I have to expend a little more effort to make sure I'm not looking like I'm presenting slop as my own work.