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TheTechnician27

@ TheTechnician27 @lemmy.world

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"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: [...] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead." —Jonathan Swift

  • Vim's lead maintainer has fully lost his goddamn mind

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  • Sure, I know what "casual" means and that out of the meanings, a more apt one I should've chosen would've been "incidental". That doesn't change my overall point that they're putting the entire onus of the gendering on the author as though it isn't the same as someone calling Alexa "she".

    Replace this entire scenario with someone calling Alexa "she": the accusation of "casual gendering" would obviously be ridiculous, because Alexa has a popular female given name.

  • Vim's lead maintainer has fully lost his goddamn mind

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  • Yes, because the person I was replying to said:

    Couldn’t help but notice the casual gendering of Claude to “he” as well.

    "Casual gendering" is implying the Vim author calling Claude "he" was totally out of the blue. It's not "casual"; it's something Anthropic baked in by giving it a male name.

  • Vim's lead maintainer has fully lost his goddamn mind

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  • it's extremely telling however the shift in marketing

    And your hypothesis doesn't fall apart now why, exactly? AI assistants are more secretary-like than they've ever been. "Write me an email." "Proofread my work." Beyond that, people are using LLMs as substitutes for significant others.

    And yet now, Microsoft migrated "Cortana" to "Copilot", Siri is more gender-neutral than ever, Alexa still exists off massive brand recognition, and other major AI services are called e.g. "ChatGPT", "Claude", "DeepSeek", and "Grok". Collectively, that's gender-neutral.

    At most, the hypothesis used to be true but isn't anymore, because you can literally make an LLM act like a tradwife now if you're so debased inclined, yet the names are broadly neutral. The MIT Press has a good, lengthy article about the history of gender in speech synthesis, as an aside.

  • Vim's lead maintainer has fully lost his goddamn mind

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  • Couldn’t help but notice the casual gendering of Claude to “he” as well.

    "Claude" is a male given name. If you think it's actually a problem, blame Anthropic for giving their LLM a gendered name. I've never gendered AI assistants, but I'm not going to begrudge people who do when it's in the name (or in the case of old Siri, the voice, which would later be the default rather than only option).

    Women named "Claude" exist, but they're staggeringly outnumbered by men to a point where most people don't even know of women named "Claude" – let alone would immediately associate it as masculine.

  • The real reason Trump denies climate change.

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  • The Strait of Hormuz becoming 1) a badly needed geography lesson for Americans and 2) the next coming of Saddam's hiding place/troll science is one of the few bright spots of this embarrassing nightmare.

  • [OC]

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  • The cirrus clouds almost look like ripples in a pond, like we're looking at it from a weird, upside-down, wide-angle perspective. Thanks, OP; this was really nice. :)

  • Ex-ICE lawyer who said ‘this job sucks’ is running for Congress in Minnesota

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  • True. I misremembered. Thanks.

  • Ex-ICE lawyer who said ‘this job sucks’ is running for Congress in Minnesota

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  • I know the person I trust most with immigration reform is someone whose job it was to cover for the Gestapo and quit gave up in front of the judge and was fired because that became too hard for her.

    If she wants to help heal the system, she could work pro bono for ICE's kidnapping victims. But I guess the obvious alternative is to try unseating someone who already advocates meaningful reform.

  • tfw you need to uncensor "sexually" and "fuck", but the original image didn't even censor them well:

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  • "What the fuck?! Is that Valen's dick?!"

  • Apologies in advance for any psychological trauma, but like O'Brien, we all must suffer

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  • I wasn't ready to see Colm Meaney in a non-Trek role.

    I wasn't ready to see Colm Meaney eye candy.

  • Apologies in advance for any psychological trauma, but like O'Brien, we all must suffer

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  • The distressed uterus in the top picture finally vindicates Ancient Greek medicine's diagnosis of female hysteria.

  • ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots

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  • If you’re not the customer, you’re the product.

    Except most free and open-source software, major open knowledge bases, literally the social media service you're using to communicate this point right now...

    While understandable when talking about services by for-profit corporations, this talking point without that context is oversimplified to the point of being obnoxious in a world where I can set up a desktop OS with a fully featured environment and software suite then go browse a social media site where at no stage was anything free where I was the product.

    Edit: Moreover, an arguably worse problem with this saying in 2026 is that it implies (doesn't outright state, but implies to an uninformed reader) that paid services can save them from this, which these days is almost universally untrue.

  • Just a theory but I'm also 100% sure it's true

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  • A few (major) caveats:

    (edit: I previously misread the author's information; she does work at UWO)

    • The study is being filtered through a blog post.
    • The study itself is written by one author and published in a journal by the University of Gdańsk of little import. That's, of course, just an indicator it might not be the most credible.
    • I will defend psychology as a science until I'm blue in the face, but it is right now undergoing a serious replication crisis, especially because of its poorly representative sampling.
    • The sample is: "A sample of 529 (52% men) undergraduate business students", which is a laughably biased sample compared to a global population. They never say which university, but given the publication and the author's workplace, it's safe to revise that to "529 (52% men) undergraduate business students at U. Gdańsk the University of Western Ontario".
    • The study evaluates negative personality traits based off a "dark tetrad", which is a still-controversial extension of the "dark triad".
    • As the author notes, the mean score from the three questions pertaining to "I want to fuck my car" wasn't all that high (approximate total average of "somewhat disagree" on all three with approximate total standard deviation of a single "neither agree nor disagree"). This means the actual sample of people who had the problem being addressed in the title of the study was vanishingly small.

    This, to me, is flimsy evidence at best even when I already buy into the basic premise.

  • How a Catch-a-Predator Sting Nabbed a Right-Wing Hatemonger

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  • Just to clarify, this isn't To Catch a Predator, the actual series. It's one of those amateur stings on Instagram who don't involve the police in the confrontation and pretend to be heroes for clout.

  • Iran, not the US, currently has the strategic upper hand

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  • The motivation behind [Opinion] prefix is to avoid accrediting content to publications that they don't explicitly endorse. In this case it looks like they do.

    That makes a lot of sense, and I appreciate the rationale. Thanks!

  • ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots

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  • Never played Pokémon Go. Ironically tried out Ingress for about a week as a novelty. Probably contributing to this nightmare anyway by improving OpenStreetMap.

    I will never, having seen the gameplay loop, understand Pokémon Go; I do basically the same thing while surveying, but the key difference is what I'm focused on. My hobby is also a thankless, never-ending grind with threadbare social interaction where everything I do is tracked, but everyone gets the data, and I get to pay attention to real, interesting things instead of what the dopamine slot machine says I get to have today.

  • Iran, not the US, currently has the strategic upper hand

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  • Understandable to take them at their word, and I wouldn't begrudge you for keeping the title as-is given that page, but the page is complete BS – at least for their website.

    If you again look at "Analysis & Opinion", you'll see there's not a single article labeled "Opinion", articles marked "Analysis" like "Are we outsourcing our souls to artificial intelligence?" are blatantly opinions, the sidebar on ABC's website lacks any "Opinion" section, and even within this article, "X has the upper hand in this conflict" is an opinionated stance.

    Saying "they differentiate between analysis and opinion" is untrue because they literally don't have material marked as "Opinion".

  • Iran, not the US, currently has the strategic upper hand

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  • OP, I know you're the sole moderator here, but you should know that ABC News works differently from most outlets: their opinion articles are tagged "analysis", which you can see by looking at their category "Analysis & Opinion" (that's just a name for them; they're all marked "analysis"). Thus, the post needs an '[Opinion]' prefix per the guidelines, as ABC dressing it up under a different name doesn't change its nature.

  • essential vocab🫶

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  • Specifically a cranky baby, which is hilarious. "Maybe mommy's milk will settle you down" is my interpretation.

  • essential vocab🫶

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  • Go drink your mother's breast milk and then come back!

    wot

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK how the front page of the English Wikipedia works

  • Funny: Home of the Haha @lemmy.world
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    Wikipedia pulls no punches

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Colorado

    man dies in crash at intersection where he petitioned for traffic light after wife's death

    www.9news.com /article/news/local/colorado-news/man-dies-in-crash-where-he-petitioned-for-traffic-light-after-wifes-death/73-1fc1a49f-11ca-4deb-ac19-045a2896182e
  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    Shitty Activism

  • OpenStreetMap community @lemmy.ml
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    I meant to add "lower"ed curbs to this intersection. Accidentally dystopified it instead.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Climate Town; 39:10

    How Your Parents Ruined Driving

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What are your favorite "vocal stims"?

  • vegan @lemmy.world
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    China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban

    www.theguardian.com /environment/2026/feb/12/china-yangtze-river-recovery-after-fishing-ban
  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    And if I seem overamorous, lady, what can I do?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Truly identical twins as actors would present really interesting opportunities for a stage play

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    President Trump Receives "Undisputed Champion of Coal" Award

    www.c-span.org /program/white-house-event/president-trump-receives-undisputed-champion-of-coal-award/673273
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL SCOTUS Chief Justice John Marshall wrote a biography of George Washington; it was so bad that Marshall called himself "mortified beyond measure" and begged (unsuccessfully) not to be credited

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    context in body

    What's some "Human Music" that you enjoy?

  • vegan @lemmy.world
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    Japan airline serves vegan [business class] passenger a banana and chopsticks for in-flight meal

    www.scmp.com /news/asia/east-asia/article/3211780/japan-airline-serves-vegan-passenger-single-banana-and-chopsticks-flight-meal
  • vegan @lemmy.world
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    I always laugh a little when packaging says "Vegan & Plant-Based"

  • vegan @lemmy.world
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    If you were vegetarian before becoming vegan, were there any products you saw that made you ask "is this even vegetarian?"

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's some small, completely meaningless detail in life that you can never unsee?

  • vegan @lemmy.world
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    Boiling lobsters alive to be banned in UK animal cruelty crackdown

    www.theguardian.com /world/2025/dec/22/boiling-lobsters-alive-banned-animal-cruelty-crackdown
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane plotted and failed to spike Richard Nixon's tea with 600 μg of LSD

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grace_Slick
  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Was playing the Downhill Jam tutorial and thought of this