104% is so incredibly far past "catastrophic" I don't even have words.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 12:36:46 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 12:36:45 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
The only *only* good thing I can see about this level of economic catastrophe is that, unlike destroying democracy, torturing and killing trans kids, disappearing immigrants, annihilating abortion rights, and gutting every part of the government, liberals might actually give a shit this time.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 13:27:23 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
A friend of mine has a saying: "never ascribe to a multiplayer game the motives of a single player."
I think about that sometimes when reading about how some giant corporation or another has a uniform and well-reasoned strategy rather than the emergent outcomes of a few malfeasant owners and upper managers in various stages of conflict and power struggle with any number of internal factions.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 09:25:50 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
Clichéd as it is, I posit that the fix is in: if the VC class stays behind Trump through this stock crash, that's as clear a sign as we're likely to get that the fascism isn't a bug --- it's the feature.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 06:44:30 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
Between AI and collaboration with fascism, a lot of companies and nonprofits are learning about trust thermoclines the hard way right now.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 17:55:38 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
Lying to someone then laughing when they believe you isn't a joke, it's just being mean.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 17:55:37 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
Anyway, before you push that April Fool's post live, some questions to consider:
- Is it a joke?
- Is it a funny joke?
- Is it a funny joke that punches up instead of down?
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 07:53:55 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
I can't help but think of visibility as a kind of social contract.
If you want to see us, then you need to be able to be there for us when the people who want us to die also see us.
We get to be visible for our own sake, of course, but if you encourage visibility, much less demand it, please be prepared to offer the support that comes along with your side of that contract.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 11:02:23 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
It is deeply confusing to me that conventional tech media keeps lavishing praise on Bluesky while making transphobic sneers about the fediverse.
Wait, no, I think I just answered my own question.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 05:14:28 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
Hot take: if I have to choose which war criminal to be my adversary, I would generally choose an incompetent one who leaks directly to the media than one who is competent and runs a tight ship.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 11:18:48 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
LLM shilling really strikes me as a form of Gish gallop. If you point out that they don't work as advertised, suddenly the conversation is about how they could work one day. If you point out that there's no theoretical or empirical basis for that expectation, suddenly the conversation is about "democratizing" coding skills. If you point out that there's no evidence LLMs actually accomplish that goal, suddenly the conversation is about AGI or something.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 23:55:54 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
The thing that gets me about this political moment is how many, many chances those of us in the US had to stop this.
Even just in recent memory:
We could have not elected Reagan.
We could have done something when GWB stole the election.
We could have done something about the DHS, ICE, the TSA, and every other horrific organization GWB created.
We could have done something after Sandy Hook.
We could have stopped COVID.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 07:00:24 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
Apparently my one book and most of my academic papers are in the libgen database, all under my deadname.
So, yeah. Seems like a lot of what LLMs regurgitate about quantum computers will be trained on misgendering me.
Fucking wonderful.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 07:00:23 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
I'm old enough to remember when journals hounded Aaron Swartz to his death over daring to archive papers, and here it is Zuckerberg et al can just... do that and so much more with zero compensation to authors, as long as they promise to only use it to undermine labor rights and synthesize misinformation at scale.
I know it's far from an original thought, but what's the point of copyright, anyway?
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 12:24:21 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
"God is my copilot" bumper stickers read pretty differently now.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 04:49:28 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
I forget where I first saw this analogy, but describing LLMs as a broken clock just makes so much sense. You cannot scale up or improve LLMs to address fundamental limitations with the technology any more than you can make a hyperscale broken-clock data center to more accurately tell time.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 10:25:14 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
What the hell is even the point of voting for Democrats? I've argued for years against both-sides-are-bad firing, but I feel like I have egg on my face as Senate Dems and governors like Newsom are almost giddy about adopting fascist, eliminationist narratives about us. Like, how does voting blue help me survive right about now?
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 13:59:52 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
I'll at least partially blame that for a *long* time, F/OSS has been ideologically captured into effectively being a kind of free labor for giant corporations... the disconnect from labor politics is a major weakness of many F/OSS communities, IMHO.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 13:59:33 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
Reading project READMEs is so weird now. The examples for OSS projects seem to always be a mix of a few genuinely nice but somewhat niche applications, mixed in with examples showing how to better use climate-destroying labor-betraying plagiarism machines that lie and that you can only use by giving money to eugenicist fascists who spend way, *way* too much time on LessWrong and SSC.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 13:59:32 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
The ideological capture of F/OSS communities by proprietary services and binaries* that are directly designed to work against their users' interests is at once fascinating and horrifying.
(*I strongly disagree with the idea that a serialized model is "open source," unless a debug-stripped P/E file is also "open source.")