cold and dark. walking the dog. gm

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Fever To The Form

Nick Mulvey · First Mind · Song · 2014

easily my favourite new youtube channel, h/t @Luxas

what if the world doesn’t need you to fix it and you just need to rest in stillness

gm

it is telling signal have just left their shitty mobilecoin implementation in the app while the option exists to improve and extend by adding something people would actually use

is anyone tracking the weights of fiat food items under fiatnomics? i want to see the weight of things like tim tams, mint slices, magnum ice creams etc etc I reckon those fucking things are 20-50% less than what they were no

the meatsack is made to move

maybe we should all just sign up to facebook and call it a day

any good podcasts left?

second kids last day at factory school today and homeschooling abound the steiner school has been great in many ways but the time has come for expansion

so i guess all those people who didn’t know where the yield comes from know now

kids had such an epic #homeschooling activity today. a friend who's a painter came and ran a water color painting sessions. The results were cool af. Full engagement the entire time. She was surprised - "I expected to have to make it more 'playful' .... this is the kind of session i'd normally run for adults" now off to horse riding.

I'm sitting at a pub having a beer solo while prompting language models to learn more about what I can learn about disrupting network effects from it while everyone else is interacting the oldschool way

Q: what are the primary tells of emails and articles written by LLMs? A: Here are the primary tells of LLM-written content: Linguistic patterns Hedge stacking — phrases like "it's worth noting that," "it's important to remember," "it's crucial to understand" used constantly Hollow affirmations — opening responses with "Certainly!", "Absolutely!", "Great question!" or ending with "I hope this helps!" Em-dash overuse — the em dash is a particular LLM favorite, often used where a comma or period would do Tricolon obsession — ideas almost always come in threes: "clear, concise, and compelling" Structural tells Aggressive formatting — bullet points and bold headers for content that would flow fine as prose; everything becomes a listicle Perfect symmetry — each section is roughly the same length; each bullet is roughly the same depth; nothing is weighted by actual importance The "sandwich" structure — intro paragraph → bullets → closing paragraph that summarizes the bullets you just read Fake transitions — "Now that we've covered X, let's turn to Y" between every section Conceptual tells Surface comprehensiveness — touches every subtopic but goes shallow on each; optimizes for coverage over insight No real opinions — conclusions are mush ("there are pros and cons to both approaches"); rarely commits to a position Absence of specificity — vague examples ("for instance, a company might...") rather than real, named ones No surprises — the conventional wisdom take, every time; nothing that would make a reader stop and reconsider Voice tells Toneless authority — a weirdly confident, neutral, slightly formal register regardless of subject matter Invented momentum — phrases like "diving into," "let's explore," "unpacking" to simulate enthusiasm Over-explanation of obvious things — defines terms the audience obviously knows; treats the reader as a complete novice by default No personal stakes — the writer has no apparent reason to care about the topic, and it shows The meta-tell The biggest single tell is that LLM writing is optimized to look thorough rather than be thorough. It hits the shape of good writing — organized, complete, balanced — without the substance that comes from someone who actually wrestled with the material. A human expert's writing tends to be uneven: deep where they care, brief where they don't, opinionated in ways that occasionally annoy you.

you’re not free if you can’t say no

staying is submission

the vibes right now are fucking hilarious. full comedy. learning a lot

who coined the term clanker? absolute g

ai’s killer app to to enslave humanity