MerryChristmas [any]

Okay but wait what the fuck kind of name is Yardley?

Yeah, sharing what’s happening on my phone with my wife is weird.

I actually told my wife “watch this, I’m going to get a smug reply from UlyssesT,” so thank you for not disappointing.

He may be a sucker but at least he is engaging with the topic. The sheer lack of curiosity toward so-called “artificial intelligence” here on hexbear is just as frustrating as any of the bazinga takes on . No material analysis, no good faith discussion, no strategy to liberate these tools in service of the proletariat - just the occasional dunk post and an endless stream of the same snide remarks from the usuals.

The hexbear party line toward LLMs and similar technologies is straight up reactionary. If we don’t look for ways to utilize, subvert and counter these technologies while they’re still in their infancy then these dorks are going to be the only ones who know how to use them. And if we don’t interact with the underlying philosophical questions concerning sentience and consciousness, those same dorks will also have control of the narrative.

Are we just content to hand over a new means of production and information warfare to the technophile neo-feudalists of Silicon Valley with zero resistance? Yes, apparently, and it is so much more disappointing than seeing the target demographic of a marketing stunt buy into that marketing stunt.

I have to admit that I underestimated this woman. When our brief moment in the zeitgeist ended, I expected her to move on like the rest of our so-called celebrity allies did. I hope she runs for president.

Then you’re taking away jobs from the hardworking IDF spunk collectors.

I have friends who love freelancing and they’re constantly talking about the freedom it offers them, but I’ve tried it and there is no freedom in not knowing whether the bills will get paid. I think this type of work is easier if you’re a people person, but if you don’t have a big network to draw from then you’re at a major disadvantage.

When I was a kid we used to play in the storm drains with our skateboards and Jesus Christ I cannot imagine what my reaction would be if all of a sudden I saw a motorcycle come roaring through.

Trust me, you’d know.

Being able to abstract between the general and the specific with ease means that neurotypicals can compress information in a way that still preserves the core message, give it to another NT, and then the other NT can extract the useful parts with the same relative effort. The speaker delivers a small subset of the initial information and the listener absorbs an even smaller subset, but it’s enough for NTs in most day-to-day communications.

As autistics, we tend to find utility in a lot more information than neurotypicals do. Our communication style requires the listener’s full attention to be most effective because it gives them much more information to parse. It takes more time and energy from both parties, but it’s lossless and it leads to a more complete understanding.

You don’t think we care about Hawaii, huh? Then explain how a native of Honolulu got elected president. Next thing you’ll tell me this country has a racism problem, to which I will again point to Obama.

You know what country never elected Obama? Racist China. The very racist Chinese are trying to take Obama’s homeland because they hate your faded bumper sticker from 2008.

IRL, yes, I got bullied for my stutter by a fellow autistic just last week. Online, I feel like those are often the sort of autistics who are too ashamed to admit they have autism unless it can score them a quick dunk. As a result, I rarely run into them in autism-focused communities - it’s usually just places like reddit.

Didn’t a lot of early CPV propaganda use the same American Revolution imagery in an appeal to the west?

Everyone talks about it like it was a big one, but the subreddit was home to so many different nominally leftist tendencies and a lot of the more reactionary elements needed to be purged before this community could become what it is now. Can you imagine this place if it were full of bad faith devil’s advocates in every thread about trans issues?

So that’s why I view that struggle session as necessary. It served as a honeypot that lured all of the most bigoted users into exposing themselves at once. It’s also a moment in our history that we can point to and say that this issue has already been definitively decided. We support trans people here, end of story, and anyone who doesn’t like it can eat a quick ban without a second thought. On any other forum you’d get endless relitigation and cliques arguing that their buddy’s ban was undeserved, but here? Crab party, baby. No drama, no arguing - just crabs.

I’ve been playing since PS2 and despite how many times I’ve tried to mix it up, I always end up back on the hammer. Give me a monster’s face to bust up and I’m happy.

Why is there an explicit rule that you have to include usernames for screenshots from hexbear? Are we really that well known?

I (secretly) loved the card game as a teenager. I was too old for it according to all of my peers, but I’d still play with my little brother “just to be nice.” He even had that big card mat thing that Yugi wears on his arm… it was sick and I had to pretend I wasn’t super jealous whenever we’d play in front of company.

I did not know about that one. Fuck.

Pretty sure he would take this as a compliment and then he’d say some weird shit about breasts.

It gets posted on WSB all the time. It’s got some good info and it’s worth a critical read, but goddamn, it is dripping with ideology.