Hi Deborah what’s up wait so what the fuck, am I getting this right: this person found a new ficus, potentially, and is in contact with a ficus expert who’ll get back to them in a few weeks. The person can’t accept this insignificant delay because??? (is there a lot of pressing demand for advances in ficus taxonomy?) so they write this bizarre screed about … about huh … how the invisible hand of the market should drive ficus research? You know, like bees, or Batman? For some reason? Because having to wait a few weeks is the same as being left to drown?

Someone’s on a lot of adderall.

you know you’re on a fascist blog when you see so many AI illustrations

my personal theory is he refused makeup because it’s an unnatural affectation that could have compromised his bioengineered skincare immortality routine

WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE THAT

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Remilia are still going??? Why??

God I’d feel sorry for fascists if they weren’t trying to make our world as ugly, boring and miserable as they are.

What’s Kudu exactly? The tech bullshit I’ve been able to find was impenetrable to me.

Do we agree that

When students have questions about course material, they’ll have the option of asking Kudu for help. But unlike ChatGPT and other public large-language models, Kudu will draw information only from the resources Stahuljak has uploaded.

is a straight up lie? That’s not how LLM chatbots work. It’s going to be a kitchen sink LLM with some stupid “you’re a very nice and very smart comp lit professor” prompt engineering, right?

The particular way they invoke Bayes’ theorem is fascinating. They don’t seem to ever actually use it in any sort of rigorous way, it’s merely used as a way to codify their own biases. It’s an alibi for putting a precise percentage point on your vibes. It’s kind of beautiful in a really stupid sort of way.

That’s a fair assumption, but as far as I know all his kids have been born through IVF or surrogates so there’s a possibility he doesn’t even fuck.

I thought the same thing too, but then I remembered. They don’t believe that environment matters. It’s all in the genes!

Something about this though, it’s interesting the way it stands in stark opposition to like, Elon Musk’s reproductive strategy of artificially inseminating every woman he interacts with. Would love to see them fight on the importance of eugenics vs spreading your seed far and wide.

The justice of the argument is clear to me. I have already made arrangements for my children to come to not be genetically mine. When the time comes, I will call upon their aid, presuming the sequencing does not tell us there are incompatibilities; and we will select embryos to maximize the quality of life for my child to come.

why are you talking like a necromancer

B-but homophobia is a social phenomenon. It’s not real (genetic)!

Or people could take away different things, especially since post-2014 (?) Scott approaches controversial issues much more cautiously and deliberately made known (Kolmogorov) that he was never going to fully honest around certain topics, inviting (deliberately or not, accurate or not) Straussian readings.

Ugh. These people seem sad and they make me sad.

Of course I ignore your warnings and proceed to read this shit from the beginning.

And before you say, as many people I’m sure will, that language changes or evolves and so forth: shall I presume many of you have no objection to being called ‘nazis’ in the standard twitter-left definition? Shall I treat all drunk sex as ‘rape’ because kidnapper-rape and frat-sex have the commonality of reduced consent? Shall I treat your remarks about this-or-that group as ‘hate speech’, or ‘violence’, in the form of speech? Clearly, we have some sense by which concept creep exists; by which definitions can be stretched dishonestly. That is what you’re doing, and you know what you’re doing.

Cool. Cool. This is fun.

It’s like these people are enforcing a facade of polite tone and measuredness as a way to launder literal intellectual terrorism! Dang!

He is transparently trying very very hard to start a gamergate and it’s pathetic.

Right! You’d think they’d want to actually try to look like rationalists, put the petty bigotry aside and bask in the race-realist camaraderie. But no, being a gay truly is beyond the pale.

lol these people are so much more vicious than people here holy shit. i can’t even discern what their problem is. babe please stop hanging out with fascists.

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