Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

honestly the best accounts on here are the ones that post really complex interesting computer stuff and also very hot nudes, preferably in 50/50 concentration

Have people who go "just ask your doctor about it" never had a medical thing that doctors and even medical science just shrugs its shoulders about? Cause like I'm not particularly in ill health and I have like 3 things like that

In fact if you count my recent discovery that my too-hard mattress was causing my ankles to swell I'm at 4, although that one's fixed now

if anyone in finland feels like pretending to be a landlord and give us (aurin! can't mention me!) a reference that would help immensely, think a huge part of our problem is that we're trying to use like 3-year-old references from germany because our last two landlords have been pieces of shit that we've ended up in disputes with so can't get references from them :(

after multiple talks with fedex: apparently this is all just a cover for "oops we seem to have put it on the wrong van and likely have no idea where it is until it shows up again"

so the other day i was watching a video about the climate impact of ai and it was overall pretty good, but one part has been nagging at me for the past few days: they compared the carbon intensity of llm text generation with that of a human, or more precisely with the proportion of the yearly co2 footprint of a single person over the time needed to write that amount of text.

and already this is a weird thing to do, for one because that "hour of co2 spent" doesn't just go away if the person doesn't write that text, they'll just do something else with that time; and also because (unbalanced) co2 emissions aren't an innate part of human existence: our species has existed for many millennia without them, and will hopefully manage to attain many such millennia more in the future.

but on a deeper level, writing is more than just the process by which you obtain a piece of text, right? it's also about finding out what you wanted to say in the first place, and how you wanted to say it. this post existed in my head first as a thought, then it started to gel into words, and then i tried pulling those words out to arrange them in a way that (hopefully) gets my point across. there is nothing extra there, no filler. i alone can get the thought out and writing is how i do that.

and sure, there is a lot of text that is not written with this kind of goal. but then, perhaps, we should ask why it has to be written in the first place; and if the cost of that might be higher than just the co2 that is attributable to its creation. in a similar vein, neither should we forget to ask whether those texts that are now written by ai would indeed otherwise have been written by humans, or if there isn't an awful lot of text produced now that simply no one would have spent their time writing before.

"De 6-jarige jongen die vanmorgen vermoedelijk door een wolf werd aangevallen in de Utrechtse bossen, is weer thuis."

En, zou het weer eens een hond zijn, zoals gebruikelijk?

Tip for all the Germans coming to #WHY2025: Go to DM and buy you sunscreen before leaving home. Sunscreen in the Netherlands is expensive, even on sale it's still 50% more.

Compare DM and Etos:

Also, more generally... if you see me subtooting someone and are wondering if it's about you: it's probably not.

I make a point of telling people when I have a problem with their behaviour, because I can't expect them to change it if I never tell them what's wrong.

If I subtoot about it, either it's *in addition to* doing so (and if it were about you, you'd already know *with certainty*) or it's about someone I've never spoken to personally (and so it's almost certainly some public figure and not you).

"Please don't litter XKCDs on my floor" and other completely normal things to say in this house