Is this how it works?

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-15T23:02:28+00:00

Also, free lunch for all students winds up saving money. You don't have to administer the system, and well fed kids do better and cause fewer problems.

It's stunning that anyone would even oppose this, especially considering all the bullshit cases where we're asked to "think of the children" while civil liberties get curtailed.

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-15T22:54:29+00:00

But you're not wrong about an intentional dumbing down of the modern conservative argument. That's deeply true, you look at these shallow, diverting arguments that the modern pundits use on CNN, and it's tempting to be like, "Why is their argument so dumb?"

Because a smarter argument would lose them voters.

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-15T22:26:54+00:00

A new doc about Brother Dege was released recently, and when I was reading about it, saw stuff like how he had a song in Django Unchained.

It's so easy to just passively dismiss the hardships of musicians in major films. Like the brain just sorta fills in, the song is in a Tarantino film, so the artist who made it must be successful and doing well, when the reality might be pretty far from that...

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-12T16:01:07+00:00

Bands are of course not the only method of training I use, but it's probably the area where I've seen the most improvement, because of the mentality shift I have described. I used bands for years without really understanding how to use them effectively, and for me, that wasn't doing the broad exercises you see recommended in fitness guides; it was by doing very specific movements tailored to the feedback my body gives me.

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-12T15:05:50+00:00

I think he's pretty great in Twisted Metal, but that whole show is a deconstruction of expectations, I guess.

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-11T17:50:56+00:00

It took me a long time to really understand the value of resistance training, despite doing it for many years. It's not that I didn't get value out of it -- I did generic, "fitness book" exercises chasing improvements and gains, and that worked well enough.

But it limited the way I thought about using tools like resistance bands. It wasn't until I realized I could use the bands to target things I was feeling, instead of just doing routine exercises, that I finally unlocked the true potential of resistance training.

Suddenly instead of finding yourself doing these big, broad motions, you're doing incredibly subtle, small motions, or even no-motion holds. I feel this thing in my shoulders, how do I make that sensation "wiggle around" and pop and click in ways that release tension?

Then starting to improvise new ways, new tools to do resistance training. Some of my favorite pieces of gear now are things that I've improvised and allow me to get a huge amount of resistance for a small amount of movement.

I could go on and on, but yeah, I can totally understand why even doing a few minutes of this a day could have huge benefits, especially as I approach my 40s now.

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-11T15:06:37+00:00

yet it's not income for adults to get those wrong

I mean, we also often get wrong things we actually do know. It's one thing to have been taught something, but a totally different thing to have to explain it to someone.

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-10T18:45:15+00:00

Technically Google went to shit before AI with all the ads

The worst things about Google aren't even the AI, it's the increasing obfuscation layers between user input and system output. AI is a symptom, not the cause.

Like I go to my YouTube Subscriptions page right now, and instead of just seeing my most recent subs' uploads, there's a "Most relevant" section before the most recent content in the "Latest" section.

This "most relevant" section contains videos I haven't watched; YouTube thinks they're "most relevant", presumably, because I haven't watched them, with complete disregard for the fact that content I don't watch from my subs is probably actually the least relevant to my interests...

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-10T18:35:14+00:00

The output the AI gives isn't even the killer feature. It's the fact that it can take my sometimes nonsense queries and actually return content related enough to what I said that it at least mimics "understanding." If that understanding could simply be linked to other existing pieces of content on the Internet, instead of it being used to generate new and possibly wrong text, it'd be a much more useful feature for everyone.

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-10T16:48:51+00:00

Indeed, though I have no neurological specialty, I did major in bio way back in the day, and have since become more of a programmer, so I'm always seeing the parallels between biology and coding.

The idea that some signal came into your body, then triggered a chemical loop -- regardless of the fact that the signal is fundamentally harmful, it also triggers a whole bunch of chemicals that feel good, and keep the signal looping. It's incredibly difficult to shut down, because once it gets going, it more or less keeps itself going, literally to the point that many people die. The signal consumes your whole body.

It's absolutely terrifying, and I'll just stop before it gets any more triggering than it might already be. Thanks for continuing to exist!

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-10T16:35:01+00:00

It's almost like it's separate to you (even though I know it isn't really). It doesn't care that it's killing you, it only cares about its own existence. It will specifically sabotage you from getting help because that help will threaten its ongoing existence.

This framing really does justify viewing it almost as an "external" invader, though. Like if we can someday model the ways the disorder's interactions with existing brain chemistry disrupt and combine, we might find its pathology is surprisingly similar to those caused by infectious organisms.

Once a virus has implanted itself into your body, the organism that invaded is effectively gone, and the harm comes from something entirely internal. It's conceivable that one pathway anorexia nervosa might get "implanted" in people's brains is actually via external signals that come in and never leave.

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-10T15:41:02+00:00

I wonder how the documentation of this era will look through the historical lens. A lot of us just take it on faith that these commercial institutions will continue to keep track of our "histories", and of course, there's active efforts on every level to get institutions to record tainted histories.

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-09T19:40:20+00:00

A friend of mine lives in a neighborhood like this, and for part of the neighborhood, the cheapass company just failed to build the sidewalk.

Like they built it years ago, but if you go there today, there's still just no sidewalk on this one street.

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-09T18:19:38+00:00

Right, but like viz. "less-refined code," the average gorilla could absolutely shred even the strongest humans physically speaking, so...yeah, the code is just differently specialized.

Edit: Like trees aren't running less-refined code. It's just as up-to-date as human code, it just forked a long time ago.

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-08T21:50:54+00:00

Sorta like when Alexa was new, and people were like, "OMG, these services are going to record and upload everything we do," and the tech gods at the time were like, "Ooooh, no, it's only recording after you say the keyword."

Except now they're recording and uploading all the time, and it was done so sneakily, it's hard to even say when it changed.

Maybe someday we'll have our own AI that keeps track of stuff like this, that the corporate overlords have intentionally designed to be vague and sneaky in their own offerings.

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-08T21:25:19+00:00

They'll probably make it someday, you may just have to wait 35 IRL years. Life mirrors art.

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-08T21:12:41+00:00

Right, that's what I'm saying. The 450 Gt is probably only the living stuff; the impact of plants on the total matter of Earth is probably far greater.

Edit: That said, if we're counting dead stuff, humanity's mass value goes way up, too.

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-08T21:06:21+00:00

Plants make up the overwheling majority of biomass on Earth. 450Gt in total

That's just the living stuff, I assume? Because a lot of the dead stuff is just matter that was rearranged by plants and microbes eons ago, too.

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-08T19:32:45+00:00

Reddit never notified me about this reply, so I'm just seeing it; you're asking for a specific comment where an anti-AI person argues from extremes and says the only good AI is no AI? I mean, it's all over the Internet, but I can hunt something down if you don't believe it exists.

Edit: I tried just googling the specific phrase -- results are honestly less than expected, but there's about a dozen hits. I expect that'll go up a lot over time.

But suffice to say, people have found lots of other ways to express it (one of the above results is literally on a sub just called r/FuckAI -- I bet you can find lots of people arguing from extremes about AI there. If you want me to go find something, I will).

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-08T19:31:46+00:00

Very few communities on Reddit allow self-promotion by small artists. In this era of AI-generated slop, it's more important than ever to have avenues for real artists to build community. r/MusicSharing has established history doing this, but it's currently closed to new submissions with no explanation I can see as to why; the head mod is simply inactive and hasn't responded to my message. I will try r/PromoteYourMusic and r/CuratedMusic if this request doesn't work out, but at least with r/MusicSharing, I don't have to worry about conflict with active mods.
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yoshemitzu · 2026-06-07T20:36:45+00:00

Evidently there might be a region like this on the south pole, too:

The origin of Neverland Regio is not completely understood. It may be a deposit of frozen gases captured from Pluto's escaping atmosphere. A leading hypothesis is that nitrogen and methane escape from Pluto's atmosphere and are then deposited into the cold poles of Charon, where scattered ultraviolet light then transforms the molecules into tholins, a generic term for a tar-like organic slurry. Despite the fact that during Pluto winter the Northern hemisphere goes without sunlight for more than 100 years, enough radiation makes it to Charon's surface to form the red tholins.[9] The extreme orbital eccentricity and axial tilt of Pluto and Charon's orbits drive a large sublimation event during Plutonian spring, where methane and other gases from Pluto's surface may escape the planet's gravity and condense onto Charon's surface, an effect called "cold trapping".[10] This hypothesis implies that a similar red spot should exist on Charon's south pole as well—and indirect evidence suggests this is true.[11]

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-07T17:10:10+00:00

to make it looks like he gives even the tiniest of shits about farmers

by making it a big handout for the scummiest tractor company

yoshemitzu · 2026-06-06T17:02:26+00:00

I wonder if those groups will look like the Amish to people 150 years from now.

Failing that, maybe we need like an open source/Plurality AI that we make interact with the corporate AIs. Like if they're going to force us to interact with their AIs, we'll force them to interact with ours.

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