Why are people like this?
A female mathematician in training seeks logic in an illogical world. And doesn't find it. But at least there's coffee.
I have a BF.
Nov 10 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
@MAGAattheLAKES @AnnCoulter "Having something, as in? Monetary?"
You know full well what an ellipsis is, and you could see the tweet right below the one you replied to.
That was a bad faith reply on your part, a deliberate quotation out of content. Where is your integrity?
@MAGAattheLAKES @AnnCoulter You're making a mountain out of a molehill. People will always call the places they're from "home."
To my mom, "home" is somewhere in Kerala. To me, it's Naperville, Illinois. This isn't a matter of my being more loyal to America than her, merely one of my having something ...
@MAGAattheLAKES @AnnCoulter ... that she never can: childhood memories of America. The children of immigrants feel at home in a way that their parents would like to, but can't. The immigrants accept this discomfort, not out of greed, but to give their children a chance at a better life.
Nov 3 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
@PuffyBuffy007 @Alighieri1345 @akabeth10 @Rightanglenews When did I say or event hint at saying that, Buffy Puffy?
You don't get to stick words in my mouth.
@PuffyBuffy007 @Alighieri1345 @akabeth10 @Rightanglenews Are we going to have a real, grown up conversation, or am I going to just see a series of emotional explosions out of you, in which you try to put me on the defensive by responding to what you've chosen to believe that I said, as opposed to what I actually did say?
Nov 3 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
@Alighieri1345 @akabeth10 @Rightanglenews "Whatever. I can't help the fact that you're highly unrealistic."
You say, as you whimper about the fact that your attempt to be manipulative failed to produce the results you wanted.
@Alighieri1345 @akabeth10 @Rightanglenews "I don't want my wife going to any gym here from this garbage."
Interesting, the way you frame that. Not that you respect her right to not go, or are supportive of her decision, but that this the decision that you'd make for her.
You don't seem to respect boundaries.
Nov 3 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
@Alighieri1345 @akabeth10 @Rightanglenews Well, john, if we're talking about what I'm doing with my body, my perspective is the one that matters. Whether I'd continue going to a gym is not something that I owe a dialog over, to just any "opinionated husband and father" who wants one.
@Alighieri1345 @akabeth10 @Rightanglenews Moving out of California sounds like a fine idea. I'm certainly looking forward to getting out of Illinois.
But when you prioritize some guy's business over some woman's right to privacy, we've got a problem.
Nov 3 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
@nunuvusrfree @Rightanglenews How about building two places where Trans people be as freakish as they want, one for "biologically male transfolk" and another for "biologically female transfolk," having them be hundreds of miles apart, so they won't be producing children?
Then exile the translunatics to them?
@nunuvusrfree @Rightanglenews Build walls around these places with gates opening inward. The transloons can run their own farms, have their own businesses, trade with whoever is brave enough to in there, and lead reasonably full lives in places where they'll be the norm.
They just can't ever leave.
Nov 1 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
@PepeSee17 @SomeBitchIIKnow Have I spotted a boomer lurking amongst us?
@PepeSee17 @SomeBitchIIKnow Pepe blocked me after posting this.
@m0f069 @BtcBlackthorne @VintageRockN_85 Just about everything, which is why it won't be allowed to happen.
Not a reference to a hope of Divine intervention. It's a statement that the other shoe would drop, really hard, if anybody tried to make that happen, and that collateral damage would considered a minor issue.
@m0f069 @BtcBlackthorne @VintageRockN_85 In the face of a more than global existential threat, all moral bets are off. Such a threat would exist in this case, because programming a working conscience into a piece of software is a theoretical impossibility. Any near term "superhuman AI" would functionally be a psychopath
Oct 26 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@MartinFeathers2 @visegrad24 That's a shame. But perhaps this poor lad could be helped. I'm told that plastic surgery has reached the point at which male features can be feminized to the point at which some thirsty incels will go "eh, close enough."
@MartinFeathers2 @visegrad24 Our Eritrean friend could be given a sex change operation, made to look as close to feminine as modern Medicine can manage, and then be left n a k e d in a prison shower room. In theory, I mean. Not advocating anything, because that might be a violation of the TOS.
😇
Oct 23 • 58 tweets • 12 min read
@bluesky Hi. Me, again. I know, you scr-- over so many users that you're having trouble remembering all of us, so I'll help you out. I'm the Indian-American PhD student in Math whose account you capriciously deleted in February of this year.
@bluesky I wrote to you about that
Your anonymous team accused me of impersonating myself. That seemed a little strange, even for you guys. After the incident got a bit of exposure on Twitter and Bluesky, you backed down.
@mouselikeme @WhiteWi13 @anduriltech That's a nice thought, but what do you do when you discover that some of your fellow human beings don't want to be civilized?
@mouselikeme @WhiteWi13 @anduriltech If you're imagining a future in which everybody has ended up allied to almost everybody else, and world wars are a thing of the past, then I'll be glad to support you in that.
That sounds like a great future.
Oct 16 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
@WhiteWi13 @anduriltech I know, ridiculous, right?
But it brings us back to why what you suggested is a really. bad. idea. In real life, we can already see AI misbehaving, regularly. What happens when a misbehaving AI is armed?
@WhiteWi13 @anduriltech What happens when you've replaced the over one million members of the US armed forces with hard to destroy, lethally armed robots that then suffer some sort of AI "hallucination"?
What do you do, then? Other than start counting the bodies?
Oct 16 • 49 tweets • 8 min read
@AlbertaGirl34 Almost as smart as the regulars on Reddit, by the looks of things. Just almost.
Grok will echo old, long since debunked talking points from discussions on that site, tirelessly. So, he's not like a redditor, he's like a redditor's fanboy.
@AlbertaGirl34 But if we're to be serious about this ... Grok's current cognitive limitations aren't a reflection of some inherent limitation in the potential of AI. They're probably present because of the motivations of some not very honorable humans.
Oct 16 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
@offdxan Dude. Random stranger on the Internet talking about his love for one of us? That's not romantic, that's strange and creepy. He hasn't even met the girl he's saying that to. He isn't in love with her, he's in love with the idea of being with a girl.
@offdxan If he was just saying "I'd like to meet somebody," that would be fine. By all means, he should try to go out and meet somebody. But when he jumps straight to "I'm in love with" this person he doesn't even know, that screams "potential stalker" and those are scary.
Oct 13 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@rachelmoore2018 @shoe0nhead Meanwhile, bringing this back to Reality ... if one goes to "Rachel's" Bluesky account (which I've just archived), one quickly discovers that "she" is a transwoman
I have great difficulty believing that a great many straight men will "stair" (sic) at herbsky.app/profile/rachel…
@rachelmoore2018 @shoe0nhead Even if "she" refuses to be silent about ...
... who knows? Not that I want to find out. I archived that one, too.
Oct 13 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@Black3Patricia @rachelmoore2018 @shoe0nhead Lilly - No, girl, no.
We've all seen girls tell stories like this just to get attention. Which they then love.
Reality check: Rachel Moore works in an "adult entertainment club." You call yourself "an erotic gamer." And I'm a college math tutor.
@Black3Patricia @rachelmoore2018 @shoe0nhead The only one of the three of us who isn't complaining about this "issue" is the one who doesn't make her living off of sexual desire.
This isn't a real concern that we're hearing out of you two. It's marketing, and it's cynical in the worst sense of that word.
Oct 12 • 57 tweets • 9 min read
@mastodonkey @TRHLofficial @Timcast "I’m not reading all that,"
Seriously, Danny, your attention span is too limited to handle two tweets?
"They’ll claim they symbolize being outlaws, but these symbolize blood because these leftists want us all dead"
You seem more than a little bit i n s a n e.
@mastodonkey @TRHLofficial @Timcast Since you're not even trying to be rational, that's where this conversation ends. You're c r a z y and you're blocked.
@mastodonkey @TRHLofficial @Timcast "They’re evil as fuck though."
This is true, but this
"You cannot convince me those red bandannas aren’t supposed to evoke the memory of blood coming from Charlie Kirk’s neck."
is a reach. Red bandanas are not a new thing.
(1/2)istockphoto.com/photos/outlaw-…
@mastodonkey @TRHLofficial @Timcast The cartoon portrays the politicians in question as members of an outlaw gang. "Hole in the head" has been a way of saying "brainless" for a long time.
Have I said anything that you really didn't already know? We've all watched westerns before, haven't we?
(2/2)
Oct 10 • 40 tweets • 6 min read
@HacerD39160 @ImMeme0 ^ Note that this guy seems to be from "Turkiye" and that his point of view doesn't seem to be an unheard of one, there.
Look at that user's account. If one's "ally" plans to force his way on you, is he really one's ally? Perhaps the alliance with Turkiye needs to be re-thought.
@HacerD39160 @ImMeme0 Oh, and when Grok starts babbling about "International Law," tell him to shut up and go make love to a goat. There is really no such thing as "international law," because there really is no international government.
Countries are free to do as they please.
Oct 8 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
@BarbaraAnnMci @Common_Cent1 @GinaSaysSo Lots of luck with that. The sort of people who tend to not vote Democrat tend to move out of the city of Chicago the first chance they get, and for at least three very good reasons: the nightmarish street violence, the in-your-face corruption, and petty harassment from landlords.
@BarbaraAnnMci @Common_Cent1 @GinaSaysSo Or their representatives. Our building manager developed a Marie Kondo obsession, and tried to have us evicted on the basis that, since we had more the 40 books on our shelves, the books were clutter.
We're PhD students. Our books are the tools of our trade.
Oct 8 • 76 tweets • 11 min read
@haggai2x19 @SomeBitchIIKnow Grok speaks, and with apologies to all involved, I have to say something about this, now, because if I don't, bad things might happen to L's account, because X'itter isn't run caringly or competently.
@haggai2x19 @SomeBitchIIKnow Grok:
"This post by@sighing_sadly celebrates the reported suspension of@SomeBitchIIKnow's account after users flagged an original threat: "Cross my threshold, you die," for inciting violence.
