Steven Damer

There is an interesting connection between long-termism and anti-abortion beliefs. They both believe that someone who does not exist now can be harmed by not being brought into existence.

When my brain broke, I set about trying to fix it the same way I do with anything — by pulling it apart to figure out what's jammed. This started as a cultural history of writer's block, and ended up in the neuroscience of how creativity itself works (or doesn't): thestory.au/articles/wri...

I just realized. In Star Wars, stormtroopers are ICE. Now I want to rewatch Star Wars

My pot from @roseschmits.bsky.social arrived! I was worried about shipping because of all the tentacles, but it came wrapped in so much bubble wrap that it was a 20-minute operation to get it out. Here's a picture (wizard provided for scale).

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Shards of Reflection has 6 days left and needs 1.9k! Here's a thread that is a run down of everything in the kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/149...

"Building your city on a dead god was better than two silver mines and a good stand of timber.". I can't help but feel that Adrian Tchaikovsky has been playing Civilization.

I want the Nobel prize committee to announce that now that Trump has the FIFA Peace prize, he's no longer eligible for the Nobel Peace prize because you can only win one peace prize

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Hang on guys. Don't give up on Platner yet - maybe Sue Collins has a tattoo of a rat's anus!

1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

I went to this Tesla protest a month ago, and there were only about a dozen people. There's easily a couple hundred people today.

I was a member just cause I happened to buy some camping chairs last year. Registering to vote was super easy. This is the article that convinced me to vote 'withold' www.cascadepbs.org/news/2025/03...

Random napkin math: LLMs training sets contain about 15 trillion tokens. At 1$ per word (what Google says is a low-end rate for a magazine article) this means the value of the training set is about 6 trillion dollars (a word is usually 2-3 tokens)

Introduce yourself with your Top 5 #TTRPG picks! Apocalypse World D&D (any edition) Over the Edge Paranoia Capes

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I've just realized I have an unhealthy parasocial relationship with America, and that's one reason why I feel so shitty today

I had been expecting bullshit like this from the Republicans, but I'm surprised how pissed it makes me when I hear about it

Trumps insistence that he was wounded by a bullet is really reminding me of his reaction to his inauguration crowd size. It shouldn't be a big deal - despite the best efforts of the Republican party, most Americans have not been wounded by a bullet. He's just decided that it's important.

I just realized that LLMs are Douglas Adam's Electric Monk. They have read the entire internet, and they believe _all_ of it.