It's really surprising, and kinda depressing, how many people FAFO and have no idea they're actually FA in the first place. (It's painfully obvious from observation that they are, and yet. Total surprise)

"he did not get the squirrel vaccinated for rabies because he didn't want it to get autism" is a real sentence I have actually read and now I think I need to walk into the sea.

@mastodonmigration I love the "left wing christian organization" thing, especially since from what I can tell anyone *actually* following the teachings of christianity would consider pretty much every current christian organization at best right-of-center and most of them "burn-it-to-the-ground" fringe right wing insanity.

@jalefkowit My money's on 4 years until the next one of this magnitude or larger for NC.

Turns out that LLM summaries are actually useful.

Not for *summarizing* text -- they're horrible for that. They're weighted statistical models and by their very nature they'll drop the least common or most unusual bits of things. Y'know, the parts of a message that are actually important.

No, where they're great is as a writing check. If an LLM summary of your work is accurate then indicates what you wrote doesn't really have much interesting information in it and maybe you should try harder.

@jalefkowit Oh, good, we haven't had a Fyre Festival in a while.

@jalefkowit "People on the internet were mean to me by accurately characterizing my behaviour."