It strikes me that I could say, “Oh, THAT Hazel,” on any number of websites and people would know exactly who I’m referring to.

Another factor is that Seattle, like a lot of cities, does have it's conservative elements, usually monied and property-owning. But also like a lot of cities, it leans blue such that a Republican would struggle to get elected. So someone like Harrell is the closest they could get to a conservative.

The story about the gun got buried, virtually nobody in any position of influence talked about it. The more significant element of this was money. The business class within Seattle really liked his harsh-crackdowns-on-unhoused-people policy, and they put a lot of resources behind his campaign.

A haiku:

Vect masks in battle
It's scary but he's really hot
With the armor off

I maintain the headcanon that the "face" on the old model is just a mask Vect wears into battle, like a samurai menpō, it's supposed to be ugly and frightening. He's probably way hotter when he takes his armor off.

Heck, we used some machine learning in the game-AI system of a game I worked on. It helped the AI make better tactical decisions without having to hand-tweak and extensively design test every value change. But it was nothing like an LLM. It was coupled with traditional behavior tree logic.

I’d internalized that contempt even before I developed that desire as an adolescent; it felt wrong to want. It took me until college before I realized I couldn’t just will it away.

It’d be nice if I could be more at peace with it. But culturally we don’t have a lot of room to maneuver around that.

Thank you for putting this into words.

I don’t feel like my sexuality is “catered to” by mainstream society so much as it’s “targeted” for commercial exploitation. Advertisers make unflattering assumptions about what I like and then try to pick my pocket with it. I hate that.

Speaking from experience, they're also hella' expensive to operate. They're good for certain specialist applications, but beyond that? I'd go with filament.

I left a message with Cantwell because she was still accepting messages. Murray's voice mail box was full.

Hold on, getting "More Speech" tattooed on my knuckles.

I'll be happy to offer it in response to hate speech.

Just grabbed the audiobook version. I’ll probably start listening to it this weekend.

Either way I say, “Fuck ‘em up, Hazel.”

My job is automating QA tasks and I think using an LLM for that purpose is incredibly dumb.

A fundamentally interpolative system can’t think outside its box the way an actual human tester can. A bug is something the developer didn’t consider. It’s a recipe for letting lots of bugs go undetected.

Casey... how is that possible?

Oh, David, please, don't say that. The cursed monkey's paw will curl another finger and we'll be blessed with more horrible misfortune!

Hello Appa, and salutations.

I concur.

I also think that the Democrats let that perception stand by not fighting back on the fronts that he was attacking them on. They could have, for example, stood up for trans rights. Instead they got cowardly and said nothing, thinking that by ignoring the issue they'd look "moderate".