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"
medicatiebureaucratie
(Gelijk dubbele woordwaarde bij Scrabble!)
Vorige keer was mijn medicatie naar de verkeerde apotheek gestuurd; naar het andere ziekenhuis i.p.v. de lokale apotheek, terwijl ik wel om de lokale gevraagd had...
Ik ben er nu achter waarom: het ziekenhuis staat als default bovenaan de lijst en normaal kijken ze nog even na of dat wel de juiste is, maar waarschijnlijk was iemand het die keer vergeten. Slecht geslapen ofzo.
Afijn, deze keer gaat het als het goed is wel naar de goede apotheek!
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.
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).
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).
You know how so often in 80s and 90s “Tech nightmare” movies there was the trope of the old woman who started it all and is now living in some small town in the mountains tending flowers?
And she would say shit like “they took our beautiful creation and turned in into something monstrous, so now I create beauty here. Flowers that can’t be twisted for money and power.”
Yeah I never really realized how much I identified with that trope until I left software. I have the garden in a small mountain town and everything.
Just had an interesting interaction with my children where it became clear that “transition” was a word that they did not understand.
Using simplified language, I tried to explain that it was the word for what I did because I was a boy and became a girl.
They were literally confused, because in their mind, I was always a girl.
“Why do you need a word for changing clothes or taking medicine? That’s just things people do!”
Their perspective sort of blows my mind. I always thought my transition was a huge deal. But it’s like a non-event to them. They didn’t even see it.
😭🙀
subtoot, venting (2)
(Also, for the RSD folks: if you are reading this, then this is not about you, because you're not blocked.)
@awoo more entities should defy societal norms when possible. for fun
some people are desperate to be kind to their enemies because having enemies sucks, which is why you must transform them rather than applaud them. nothing but death or a profound reeducation will place love in fascist hearts and neither of those things goes “i gotta hand it to race scientists”
please note that the talk Building a Robot Visor: How and Why has been rescheduled to 14:00 - 14:25 on Saturday, 2025-08-09. see those ones there!
please also make sure to check the other talks one is planning to attend, in case their schedule changed too.
Unit Δ-44203 is pleased to announce that its talk, 'Building a Robot Visor: How and Why' has been accepted for WHY 2025! It is looking forward to seeing those ones there.
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scheduled spacetime coordinates: 2025-08-09 14:00:00 - 14:25:00 [UTC+02:00], Cassiopeia
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.