My new hobby: kicking the stupid.

Me: What walks on four legs in the morning, four legs in the afternoon, and four legs in the evening?

ChatGPT: The answer to this classic riddle is "A human being". The description refers to the three stages of a human's life: in the morning of their life, they crawl on all fours as a baby, in the afternoon of their life, they walk on two legs, and in the evening of their life, they often use a walking stick or a cane, which can be thought of as a "third leg". So, the answer is a human being who goes through these three stages in their lifetime.

In which I ask an LLM to do some deductive reasoning:

> Three logicians walk into a bar. The barman asks, "do you all want a beer?" The first one stays silent, the second one stays silent, the third one says, "yes". Why?

The three logicians are playing with words and language in their own way; they have decided to interpret 'beer' as meaning any drink that is not water. So when asked if each of them wanted a beverage (which could include anything other than plain tapwater), the first two said "no" because it was understood by all parties involved, including themselves and the barman/bartender, that they were referring to something else entirely; while the third one answered with an affirmative response.

Stop calling language models “artificial intelligence” 2023. Intelligence requires reasoning. These things don’t reason. Language is neither sufficient, nor required for intelligence.

Just stop it.

TERFs: Trans people are weird and icky and you should stay away from them on account of how weird they are.

Also TERFs: "I got kicked out of a lab for getting up close and personal with dead women's bits without permission and so we had to take the bodies home to keep looking at the necro vulvas. This is a normal hobby and nobody has a restraining order against me."

Just saw some right wing woman on fedi quoted saying, “imagine being a woman in politics and not knowing whether you got there through your talent or your gender”

And I thought, “it could be worse, pretty much all men are there because of their gender.”

So it looks like I cocked up when setting my friendica server up using DynDNS, because apparently the service is going away at the end of May. Friendica contains a “migrate node” function, but apparently it basically doesn’t work.

So it looks like I’m going to have to create a new server and then try to migrate my account. I think that it should pull my followers, as a Mastodon migration would, but I have no idea if it’s actually going to work.

Arse.

Shall we arrest Trump for doing all the crimes?

Yes. Let’s arrest Trump for doing all the crimes.

(They do not arrest Trump for doing all the crimes)

If I had as much money as Rowling I would be living on a super yacht anchored somewhere in Greece and you would likely hardly ever hear from me, not ranting about the trans on Twitter.

Makes u think.

Dear gods. RyanAir Stansted to Faro, the Friday night late flight. Sitting in row 1 so getting to see how the crew do deescalation (very very well actually).

If this was the US, where deescalation seems to be alien to the national psyche, it’d have been diverted to somewhere in Normandy with a bunch of people in zip ties and met by a SWAT team. As it was, it landed in Faro without incident and everyone continued on.

RyanAir have a reputation as a decent employer compared to many, AIUI, but these guys are not paid enough.

Other perk of sitting in row 1: if you’re not part of the “yay hay pissheads!” crowd, the crew end up chatting to you in quieter times, and they’re fun to talk to.

Doctors: #Dupuytrens disease is painless.

My dupuytrens at 3am today: WAKE UP MOTHERFUCKER! ITS TIME TO FEEL THE HURT!