If you believe that power is, in and of itself, immoral, then you cede the whole world to the people who are willing to do immoral things.

My read on it has been that it's not really about the issues at all, it's that the aesthetic of power itself is distasteful. It's a reflex that's fundamentally countercultural, and any counterculture with a self-preservation instinct can never win or it will cease to be a counterculture.

moving to the left as I shrink and transform into a corn cob

My mom used to say “by the time you’re big enough to kick my ass, you’ll be smart enough not to” and god dammit she was right

My mom used to say “by the time you’re big enough to kick my ass, you’ll be smart enough not to” and god dammit she was right

Yeah this thing rocks

Asian chillies knock on your door, make polite conversation, get invited to dinner, have a nice meal with you and then pull a gun and hold you up after all that's done, Mexican chillies open by smashing your door down grabbing you by the collar and dragging you outside for a beating

I’m about halfway through a proper OCR run with segmented layout regions to extract actual metadata from the emails. I hope to post a proper update to the corpus tomorrow along with graphs between named entities.

And the iMessage transcripts are about to get an update unmasking a few names.

Or, I guess, people and emails would be different node types, and the connections would represent to, cc, etc?

Most of my intrusive thoughts are just database schemas

I really want to see this dataset in a graph database. Nodes are people, links are emails, go nuts.

I think all the time about hobbyist-level machines that were sold circa late Industrial Revolution that included a user manual with full disassembly instructions.

It certainly does! I think LLMs are incredibly powerful tools and I use them every day, and I think the extreme hype is extraordinarily delusional, and that the market is in a bubble.

"Technology should be invisible, benefitting me while I don't think about it at all" - sure! I adore this type of technology, when it works well it feels like magic!

But it still works better when you're aware of it and know how it works.

Yeah, I’ll cop to some of this. “Illness is way down so what do we need vaccines for?” thinking

“Girlfriends” (statutory)

It also depends somewhat on who we think "trump's base" exactly is, but at least among the hard right evangelical NAR cohort, yeah, all kinds of child abuse are not just fine, but expressly permitted, since children are believed to be the material property of their parents.

Plus, having the transcript allows you to feed it into an AI to help with homewo--wait a second