I think the "AI" bubble is starting to collapse, as it must, but we are unprepared for the consequences. We have been in fact actively prevented from preparing for the consequences.

Also feeling kind of like I'm not sure I've made it to mediocrity as I've spent a week trying to figure out how to draw a simple map.

I feel like I can't stand conventional TTRPG fantasy anymore and then I'm looking at mapmaking tools and imagining jaunty faux medieval music as five adventurers argue while walking along a road.

My assumption has been that repositories on Github that list Claude as a contributor are using LLM code.

At this point, almost any repository I look at lists Claude as a contributor. Quite often when I try to look at what's come from what contributor, there's nothing listed from Claude.

This could be my superficial knowledge of git and Github (and FFS I've taken two online classes and read a few books on git and I still don't get it).

So I'm wondering if Github just automatically adds Claude as a contributor, and some people make a point of removing Claude but most don't. Or, are they using LLM code but trying to hide how much?

It reminds me of my partner enthusing over a television series she thought was tremendously optimistic and life-affirming. In the first episode, humanity is almost totally wiped out by a disease. In the second, the point-of-view character is on patrol against rape gangs. I said I couldn't keep watching after that.

I've been trying to read through an anthology of "ecological science fiction", but it's been painful to read. The third story in the collection was, according to its author, optimistic, imagining a town in which refugees were tolerated and economically exploited, rather than murdered.

The fourth story, which I just read, was a fantasy about autophagia.

Honestly, I'm worried that I'm having such a hard time imagining a kinder society. The anger at the people threatening us all is so overwhelming, but also, they've claimed almost everything.

Nearly all the fiction I read, that I can even find, is about post-apocalyptic survival, but even within that genre, I'm no longer seeing people imagining a better world, just one in which the pain finally stops getting worse on the last page.

I'm not going to feel sorry for him when it all turns on him.
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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/04/sam-altman-decoded-interview-ai-01106217

How difficult would it be to shift from Debian Unstable to Elementary OS? I feel like switching to NetBSD is unrealistic for me.

I imagine it might be as simple as backing up /home then copying it back.

Anyway, I believe relatively few people are actual sexual abusers, but there's a broader problem that people condemn anger at sexual abuse and try to enforce calm. And it astonishes me how many people do that.

So by way of comment on the Cornell situation, one time I got to see firsthand the social machinery leap into action to defend sexual abusers. People were angry, and every part of the social apparatus we were in prioritized stifling the anger over all other considerations.

There were secret grievance processes that were cited as reasons to not discuss the issue further, claiming we were harming the victims who had been through the grievance processes by repeating their demands to expel the abusers.

People tried to minimize the claims. It wasn't abuse, it was rape apology. It wasn't rape apology, it was just sexist negligence. It wasn't actually sexist negligence, it was just rudeness. Actually, they were trying to help. Anyway, the real danger is getting angry. Oh, isn't it interesting how people are trying to tear down our leadership?

I'm often confused by the way our society valorizes anger unless it's real anger at a real threat, in which case suddenly eveyone's a pacifist.

I read more of the docs for ntfy.sh, and it does a lot of fun things, basically acting as a relay to send messages from your computer to your phone, and building on that. It also explained UnifiedPush better than the UnifiedPush website did.

https://docs.ntfy.sh/publish/#unifiedpush

I've read the docs and I still don't understand the point of OpenPush.

It's like, is this useless, or should I set up my own ntfy server?

It's pretty much been known for generations that US college fraternities are about bonding the ruling class together through rape, torture, and binge drinking.

Anyway, back to applying for jobs, where my options include Nvidia, Nvidia, an agentic AI startup, Nvidia, Google, a defense contractor, and Nvidia.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@amalia22/117350167923986393

They're literally trying to wipe out the humanities and social sciences in the US.

Given the questions, I at least expect that system administrators in civil service are pretty competent.

I had a mediocre score on a civil service exam I took a few years ago, and I was allowed the option to retake it. I tried studying for several days on the general subject matter and then retook it. I got exactly the same score.

I hate seeing people slide towards ecofascism.

There are good reasons to have moral lines not to cross, and there are good reasons why so many of us are drawing it at LLM usage.

You want to avoid a slippery slope? That's how you avoid a slippery slope: with a hard "No".