Rachel Kirchhofer

Welcome to my internal monologue- where nothing makes sense and I'm sometimes funny

[Rachel Kirchhofer @Smith1997RM]

@FreddyLA7 You have to visit Pittsburgh, it’s such a gem! @visitpgh

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Hatė when people at work ask you what books you are reading for professional development. I am reading books to counteract the effects of being professionally developed.

I am reading books that bring me back to being human. Thank you

[memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus]

Do you really want white families teaching their children that black men have a hair trigger and will escalate to deadly violence over nothing? Do you think this would be better for race relations? Do you think this would result in a better America for black people?

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate"

my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations.
poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable

the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point

we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it

the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[Lesbo Batman @chickadi]

I simply don’t think that texting is a format that requires immediate response. The fact that not responding to someone for a few hours (phone’s off, you’re busy, etc.) is seen as a social faux pas is completely ridiculous to me. I do not want people to have constant access to me

[user @user84829272]

There’s a big disconnect between parents and non parents about what it’s actually like to have a child because the hardships are describable but the joy is not.

[Severin⁷🍊 @Severinlee1]

"Living without ai is an impossible utopia" bruh we were living it like 5 years ago and we were doing just fine without that shit. You're letting your brain be cooked on slow heat. And your planet too. In exchange for wrong answers and shitty pics.

[Grace 🦎🩵🐣🐈‍⬛🌃 @HormoneHangover]

Getting up at 5am and getting sleepy at 8am and taking a nap is ridiculous behavior. Babies are deeply unserious

[L. David Fairchild @David_Fairchild]

He's not just defending AI energy use. He is smuggling in a whole anthropology where humans are basically inefficient meat computers that you have to pour food and years into before they become useful. And once you accept that, the next move is obvious. If people are just costly biological training runs, then burning mountains of electricity to build synthetic intelligence starts to feel not only equal, but superior, even if it negatively impacts actual humans.

That is the dystopian. It makes human development sound like a bug in the system, and it makes sacrificing human and creational flourishing for more computational power sound logical. To him, the grid gets strained, prices go up, ecosystems get hit, but hey, humans eat too, so what's the difference?

The difference is that humans aren't an inefficient line item. They're the point. If your worldview can look at a child growing into an adult and describe it as energy spent to train intelligence, you haven't said something profound. You've revealed a horrifically rotten worldview.

[suhaib, the duelist @bigsatodontcrai]

a lot of pro-AI people don’t fundamentally understand that generative AI isn’t a tool, it is literally a replacement for thought. actual tools require knowledge for the tool and the ability to apply them. the skill needed for prompting is owning a keyboard and knowing english.

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

We torched Biden for abusing emergency powers during COVID. Now some Republicans want to do the same thing? If tyranny is wrong in blue, it's still wrong in red.

[charlie @chunkbardey]

you never know what someone’s going through. they could be a little tired

[⚡️☠️🇺🇸Notorious🇮🇹☠️⚡️ @CryptoOnlyCoims]

Helicopter moms, Insurance Companies and Lawyers did this

[Rachel Kirchhofer @Smith1997RM]

Shopping is fine, but there’s something about browsing when you’re not looking for anything in particular that’s just good for the soul.

[Matt Lewis @mattklewis]

MAGA whining about Amy Coney Barrett is peak irony. She nuked Roe, worships originalism, & doesn’t take orders from Trump OR Biden. If that’s a problem, your beef is with the Constitution (& the Federalist Society). Just admit you want a partisan lackey.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

U.S. Marshals Service cannot account for billions of dollars’ worth of crypto, per CoinDesk.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

America does not need more self-proclaimed pimps and terror supporters with outstanding criminal allegations of sex trafficking and a history of pornographic distribution, plus a grift "university" that suckers young men out of thousands of dollars.