Chloe Jo

[Gabino Iglesias @Gabino_Iglesias]

Best answer I’ve ever read to “It’s Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” is “It’s the Bible, not the Straightble.” Gonna use it every chance I get.

[Maitreya Bhakal @MaitreyaBhakal]

One of my favorites

[Alison Rumfitt @hangsawoman]

funny that the industry response to heated rivalry is not that ppl like gay romance but that they're into ice hockey specifically

[Commie Trucker @commie_trucker]

Cartoon ass world we live in.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

I am not saying this lightly or provocatively but when you seriously consider how painful life can be, the all-but-unspeakable losses & personal suffering, you actually wonder why EVERYONE is not self-medicating.
I did not have that thought until mid-life; it was not a thought I could have entertained in younger years when I believed more in self-sufficiency, strength of will.
some people overestimate their strength- it can be quite a surprise when life knocks you flat.

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

People have a depressingly reductive view of human personhood.

A human person isn't just the words they output. In fact, it's all the things that cause the words that really constitute a human life.

If a person says "my cat died last night", that sentence is almost certainly downstream of an actual physical event that happened in the actual physical world.

An LLM can output the same sentence, and if the AI companies cared enough, they could probably design an AI that was a million times more eloquent about it's non-existent dead cat, than any real cat owner could ever be about their real cat.

Nevertheless, in the case of the AI, there is no cat, and there never was a cat.

Human words are the shadow of a thing. If we look up from the shadows, there, we will see the thing.

AI words are just empty shadows. Devoid of any thing.

[Chloe Jo @ChloJoyyy]

@JoyceCarolOates "us million of us"

[thorny (ithinkiplaygames.bsky.social) @thinkiamsad]

sorry to put a hateful caricature on your TL but there's something almost profound in a Baudrillardian sense about seeing someone describe an actual photograph as a deluded fiction and a drawing as true reality

[bonky @shesbonky]

men are so stupid they will ask women their OPINION and when they don't like her honest answer he will say "that is actually wrong" 🙄

[abby govindan @abbygov]

“I’m an empath” -the worst person you have ever met

[Edgar Allen Poe @allenakinkunle]

📌

[Elsie @Meelsie143]

type of shit jordan peterson would say with tears running down his face

[Maung Thuta @CypressDahlia]

It's amazing how echoes of this simple interaction exist in everything related to fictional power fantasies. Thor Jensen really got to the root of it in 10 words

[Chloe Jo @ChloJoyyy]

@JoyceCarolOates If only there were a single book on aesthetics out there. Oh, wait.

[Chloe Jo @ChloJoyyy]

@NateSilver538 I miss Fivey 😢

[Nick Field @nick_field90]

What a coincidence that Cuba finally decided to attack America after 70 years, right when the Trump Administration was planning their own regime change. What a strange bit of timing, oh well, let's not look into it!
https://t.co/luvT20EvcR

[wally b kleeposting @kleeposting]

Average Hegel reading session