I don’t know why people are still choosing to live in small, seaside towns. They’re always haunted. Or cursed. Or full of murder and mystery. Have we learned nothing?!

I want to help people interpret this tweet because many are struggling. When I say “worse than I thought” I’m proposing a counterfactual situation: what I expected Trump 2 to be. I was expecting Hitler. Trump 2 is very bad, but not Hitler bad. I therefore am massively relieved that it’s not Hitler bad. So, although it is bad, though millions have died (as expected), the situation is much less bad than my expectation of how bad it was going to be. The fact that my expectations of how bad it was going to be are worse than what it is, does not imply that what it is, is not bad. Merely that it is less bad than the counterfactual situation—that is, less bad than my expectations.

if astrology is real we have to start blowing up planets, we have to start blowing up stars

i've been monitoring a population of unsecured Ollama and llama.cpp servers on the open internet, using their public metrics endpoints, and observed a spike in model residency last night (maybe an automated scanning campaign)

You've just died, the 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you. ... how am I so powerful that I needed the entire Orion's Arm Terragen Sphere to kill me