Lt Colonel Chumpfuckery
@mightycw.bsky.social
millennial dad. professional bus guy.
mf said "work through how this works"
December 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
mf said "work through how this works"
I've been trying to work through how this works for adults who are obviously capable of recognizing and deriving meaning from words but can't evidently comprehend the ideas they're meant to convey.
like... they're not children, they clearly *recognize* and can reproduce a huge number of words. But there's no sense that words can fit into a semantic structure to build meaning *within * a text. Instead it's like people see collections of words they recognize and free associate them
December 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I've been trying to work through how this works for adults who are obviously capable of recognizing and deriving meaning from words but can't evidently comprehend the ideas they're meant to convey.
the median home price in Salt Lake City is about $585k. The mountain west continues to be one of your major blind spots on housing affordability.
December 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
the median home price in Salt Lake City is about $585k. The mountain west continues to be one of your major blind spots on housing affordability.
we're in "local governments got their budgets approved and are releasing their spring RFPs" season and hoo boy i don't know how people drafted and edited responses without LLMs
December 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
we're in "local governments got their budgets approved and are releasing their spring RFPs" season and hoo boy i don't know how people drafted and edited responses without LLMs
with concepts and feelings they think they already understand, based on how the words were presented to them (ie, a QT dunk). It's a reasonable shortcut for most daily interactions but it seems to be the *only* way they know how to interact with a text.
December 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
with concepts and feelings they think they already understand, based on how the words were presented to them (ie, a QT dunk). It's a reasonable shortcut for most daily interactions but it seems to be the *only* way they know how to interact with a text.
like... they're not children, they clearly *recognize* and can reproduce a huge number of words. But there's no sense that words can fit into a semantic structure to build meaning *within * a text. Instead it's like people see collections of words they recognize and free associate them
December 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
like... they're not children, they clearly *recognize* and can reproduce a huge number of words. But there's no sense that words can fit into a semantic structure to build meaning *within * a text. Instead it's like people see collections of words they recognize and free associate them
i don't know code or how git works but for people who want to learn, seems neat. My experience is people react badly to being told they can't read (admittedly, ahem, also my fault given the contexts in which it tends to occur)
December 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
i don't know code or how git works but for people who want to learn, seems neat. My experience is people react badly to being told they can't read (admittedly, ahem, also my fault given the contexts in which it tends to occur)
same people will dunk on Yglesias for saying every vaguely Democrat affiliated organization or individual should talk like a purple state politician
December 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
same people will dunk on Yglesias for saying every vaguely Democrat affiliated organization or individual should talk like a purple state politician
ngl i may be overindexing on the "generations of kids were taught to 'read' based on a few letters and contextual guessing" stories but it's like the sunglasses on They Live, impossible not to see it everywhere on social media
Bunch of people on this fucking website are slamming Matt because they’re too dense to read the last 11 words of a 17 word post.
December 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
the trick is that people like bluesky user at primary school are not fighting by anybody's side for the good of anybody, they're illiterates fighting for social media rage clout. And very successfully!
December 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
the trick is that people like bluesky user at primary school are not fighting by anybody's side for the good of anybody, they're illiterates fighting for social media rage clout. And very successfully!
you're like my toddler who can infer the meaning of some sentences from first letters and a picture. You can doubtless form sentence-shaped thoughts adeptly. Very likely that's how you were actually taught to read. But it's left you functionally illiterate.
December 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
you're like my toddler who can infer the meaning of some sentences from first letters and a picture. You can doubtless form sentence-shaped thoughts adeptly. Very likely that's how you were actually taught to read. But it's left you functionally illiterate.
no he did not. Again, you simply can't read. You think you can, which is worse.
December 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
no he did not. Again, you simply can't read. You think you can, which is worse.
the Vance narrative: Immigrants are coming here and outbidding (white) Americans who are falling into homelessness as prices rise
the truth: Recent immigrants are too poor to even enter the housing market and with prices already high are falling immediately into homelessness
the truth: Recent immigrants are too poor to even enter the housing market and with prices already high are falling immediately into homelessness
December 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
the Vance narrative: Immigrants are coming here and outbidding (white) Americans who are falling into homelessness as prices rise
the truth: Recent immigrants are too poor to even enter the housing market and with prices already high are falling immediately into homelessness
the truth: Recent immigrants are too poor to even enter the housing market and with prices already high are falling immediately into homelessness
the state of functional literacy on the left is absolutely dire
December 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
the state of functional literacy on the left is absolutely dire
Vance's narrative is that immigrants are coming and somehow outbidding everybody else. The difference is obvious if you're minimally literate and possess basic comprehension skills.
December 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Vance's narrative is that immigrants are coming and somehow outbidding everybody else. The difference is obvious if you're minimally literate and possess basic comprehension skills.
The housing crisis and the homeless crises are interrelated but not the same thing. Recent immigrants and refugees are mostly too poor to enter the housing market because it's overly constricted, and hence fall into homelessness.
December 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The housing crisis and the homeless crises are interrelated but not the same thing. Recent immigrants and refugees are mostly too poor to enter the housing market because it's overly constricted, and hence fall into homelessness.
he didn't call them out as a demand driver, you're just illiterate. Recent immigrants and refugees put relatively little pressure on housing market prices because they're generally too poor to enter it at all. Hence, increased homelessness.
December 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
he didn't call them out as a demand driver, you're just illiterate. Recent immigrants and refugees put relatively little pressure on housing market prices because they're generally too poor to enter it at all. Hence, increased homelessness.
I met Rebeca Vernon at a friend's house party and maybe ruined her night trying to nerd about over doom metal (if so she was a sport about it)
December 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I met Rebeca Vernon at a friend's house party and maybe ruined her night trying to nerd about over doom metal (if so she was a sport about it)
Admittedly I'm probably being negatively polarized by the "Vic can't fail he can only be failed" brigade who swarm the replies of any bigger accounts who dare criticize his play however mildly (and don't get me started on Instagram/Threads)
December 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Admittedly I'm probably being negatively polarized by the "Vic can't fail he can only be failed" brigade who swarm the replies of any bigger accounts who dare criticize his play however mildly (and don't get me started on Instagram/Threads)
kind of drives me crazy how people say "no no Arsenal must simply reinvent their playstyle and how teams defend them to properly accommodate him"
December 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
kind of drives me crazy how people say "no no Arsenal must simply reinvent their playstyle and how teams defend them to properly accommodate him"
you've got people declaring absolutely that art is a process and not an outcome or product and therefore AI can't be art , and like I'm no theorist on the matter but it's pretty obviously both and extremely dependent on context?
December 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
you've got people declaring absolutely that art is a process and not an outcome or product and therefore AI can't be art , and like I'm no theorist on the matter but it's pretty obviously both and extremely dependent on context?
beef prices in particular are a funny thing to yell about because they're mostly tied to trends specific to the cattle industry (unusually birthrates in recent years) and have almost nothing to do with macro trends. Same for avian flue spiking chicken and egg prices two years ago.
December 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
beef prices in particular are a funny thing to yell about because they're mostly tied to trends specific to the cattle industry (unusually birthrates in recent years) and have almost nothing to do with macro trends. Same for avian flue spiking chicken and egg prices two years ago.
oh definitely, and in the AI-maximalist future we could be looking at years of destabilizing Schumpeterian growth that will create winners and losers in all sorts of unexpected places. My point is more that I don't think AI is a big driver of negative economic sentiment right now.
December 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
oh definitely, and in the AI-maximalist future we could be looking at years of destabilizing Schumpeterian growth that will create winners and losers in all sorts of unexpected places. My point is more that I don't think AI is a big driver of negative economic sentiment right now.