Posts by frog@frogdrool.net
(DIR) Post #B1j9EydBWZ9DYc6AoC by frog@frogdrool.net
2025-12-29T02:42:35Z
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Somewhere there's a guy with a binder full of tire tread patterns going back to their invention. Or there's gotta be a wiki or something.
(DIR) Post #B1j9EztAqbX1SUaSMy by frog@frogdrool.net
2025-12-29T02:43:06Z
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The cops probably have a database.
(DIR) Post #B1j9F0hVpRnVyc8epc by frog@frogdrool.net
2025-12-29T02:49:00Z
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"The word tread is often used casually to refer to the pattern of grooves molded into the rubber, but those grooves are correctly called the tread pattern, or simply the pattern. The grooves are not the tread, they are in the tread. This distinction is especially significant in the case of racing slicks, which have much tread but no grooves. "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_treadThere's already lore.
(DIR) Post #B1tbEITD1AX95wUnh2 by frog@frogdrool.net
2026-01-03T00:20:49Z
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Just finished The Chronicles of Prydain. It holds up. Last time I read it was 5th grade I think.
(DIR) Post #B1tbEJKjo9LrlxXY80 by frog@frogdrool.net
2026-01-03T00:22:59Z
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I think good books always make you a bit sad when they're over.
(DIR) Post #B1tbEJzVMZxfoOc6fg by frog@frogdrool.net
2026-01-03T00:25:25Z
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I hope that when I die, I'll feel the same way in my last moments. Like I just finished reading a good book. Hopefully that's a way off.
(DIR) Post #B1tbEKlMUeF6Cp0KGW by frog@frogdrool.net
2026-01-03T03:49:47Z
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Oh man, Disney did the books dirty. Some of the animation was cool, but they basically just madlibbed the characters and objects in the books into a plot. A *lot* hornier than the books too. The books aren't horny at all, but bard getting turned into a frog and getting stuck in that lady's boobs probably spawned a lot of fetishes.
(DIR) Post #B1w8XRCuRXgOUwWhUm by frog@frogdrool.net
2026-01-04T09:10:30Z
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I've had a book in my brain for a while now, but I've got to read more to figure out how to write it.
(DIR) Post #B1w8XSW5ZicQYiVX1s by frog@frogdrool.net
2026-01-04T09:12:02Z
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It's been around in my head longer than the vast majority of ideas I have. It just keeps rattling around slowly accumulating things like a katamari.
(DIR) Post #B1w8XTliv4ieRUpX2O by frog@frogdrool.net
2026-01-04T09:13:42Z
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I figure if I rip off enough things, it'll be a new thing.
(DIR) Post #B2I5Z0Yf9FNJ5vC1HE by frog@frogdrool.net
2026-01-14T23:12:30Z
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I think LLMs are fairly impressive, ethical issues aside, however I have some fears given how they're being rolled out. In the not too distant future (facebook could probably turn this on in a week) I see a world where all communications between people are run through the models before being sent. Personal messages and posts will be sanitized and corporatized completely removing any personality or individuality from the sender.
(DIR) Post #B2I5Z7SBVjLuTrDReS by frog@frogdrool.net
2026-01-14T23:13:29Z
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On the flip side, messages and posts could be tuned to maximize "engagement" with the platform, which has worked out well so far.
(DIR) Post #B2I5ZEeUkMMIo41sJM by frog@frogdrool.net
2026-01-14T23:15:21Z
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For the day job, I occasionally have to use outlook, and even the autocorrect sentence completing thing modifies the way I write things so I don't get an underline under my sentences. It's a nudge, but one that happens dozens of times a day and must be modifying the way I express myself.
(DIR) Post #B2I5ZMlWa6jdyBNbNY by frog@frogdrool.net
2026-01-14T23:16:45Z
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In the further future, it may get to the point where communicating directly with someone without the LLM middleman may have the same social and legal stigma that using tor or encrypted chat/email apps.
(DIR) Post #B2I5ZUnwgzQQu0ZeGO by frog@frogdrool.net
2026-01-14T23:17:26Z
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The vast majority of online communication passes through these 3rd parties that all seem to be trying to ram this stuff down our throats.
(DIR) Post #B2I5Zc9pM25VhtriqG by frog@frogdrool.net
2026-01-14T23:18:29Z
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It's a higher tech version of newspeak. Controversial ideas may be difficult to even express.
(DIR) Post #B2I5Zk4nuap6GdZp7g by frog@frogdrool.net
2026-01-14T23:20:13Z
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It'll obliterate thought. Instead of writing for an audience or a friend, you'll subconsciously adapt your writing so that the machine will produce the output you want. Even if you resist, you'll be nudged along.
(DIR) Post #B2I5ZrrGymkkOzJ88u by frog@frogdrool.net
2026-01-14T23:21:34Z
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That'd be horrifying enough, but these models will be given rules by humans. Humans with agendas.
(DIR) Post #B2I7FMoIuAFOE2Gruy by frog@frogdrool.net
2026-01-14T23:42:55Z
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@Nonilex The dogsled thing is amusing to me. "Those silly Finns are riding around on skis, there's no way they could stand up against the Soviet army"
(DIR) Post #B2anNYYgWdg5dONkLA by frog@frogdrool.net
2026-01-23T23:59:59Z
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@futurebird It's that low center of gravity.