Flutterby™! (short)

Someone else took me to task for describing anthropomorphizing LLMs as developmental disability, and as someone formally diagnosed with learning disabilities in the '80s, I'm actually angry about it.

If an adult honestly ascribes personhood to a stuffed animal, we talk about intellectual challenges, but when they do it to an LLM, framing it like that's offensive.

Like my inability to mask and say "oh, yeah, that's totally a sane thing" is the problem.

The search is currently fucked up, so I can't figure out if I linked this previously when it was a Twitter thread, but a long Bluesky thread about the dialog in the swordfighting scene in Pricess Bride.

I kinda get how for physical objects where inventory projection is an issue, or limited resources like theater seats, you might want web site shopping carts to have time limits.

But holy shit, for digital resources, make that time limit days or weeks, not minutes.

Cc: karaoke-version.com. Sigh.

Interacted with a reply from someone who was obviously keyword trolling. After that exchange started to feel a bit hinky, went out and searched the person's name and read a few threads, and...

Good reminder to block and move on.

Wow. If you wanted to destroy my remaining faith in an organization, you probably couldn't be more effective than an email titled "Scientific Validation Confirms Blue Zones Integrity" with body that reads like the worst conspiracy theory appeal to authority.

Thinking about the revelations about Oliver Sacks making stuff up, and what we already knew about Malcolm Gladwell, and how much we like LLMs telling us what we want to hear.

Humanity really seeks out being lied to.

That moment when I feel stupid because Apache for all the virtual domains was logging to my user home directory, and /var/log/apache wasn't readable to that user, and there were 36G of old log files clogging up my web server that I couldn't find...