alice, software-defined human

tea teaches you to commit to your pour, lest yesterday's tea steeps into today's

(this is not a post about tea)

i don't know how to find community when so many people are just trying to ignore and escape what's happening. how to share the burden of fear, grief, and anger when most would rather push it all aside. how to not carry it all alone until i crumble under the weight

@JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw it's sorta baffling when people say they just do their 9-5 to finance their life outside of it... like, wdym you have energy after work to go live a whole ass life?? I can barely make it through working for 6 hours, let alone 8

robotgirl who broke and was kintsugi'd back together, proudly displaying her golden seams

i will die on the hill that much of our problems would be fixed if we collectively internalised more accurate models of how our minds work

showerthought: voting through emoji reacts is the best thing that's ever happened to impromptu low stakes group decisions. since it switches the default from plurality vote to approval vote, which is just vastly superior

when the kaleidoscope shatters, light is still refracted everywhere

"the risk to the public remains low" keeps feeling increasingly orwellian...

@carbonated_estrogen@transfem.social i had such high hopes 😭

@ekis@mastodon.social oooh, this is lovely! listened it all the way through twice while working. ty for sharing!! ^^

@astrid@woem.space left as an exercise for the reader

the sad realisation that it's not LLMs being a reflection of humans that's a problem, it's that they're a reflection of american corporate culture in particular...

i'm not sure the buddha would approve, but a cigarette goes hard after meditating with the monks for an hour

i love watching the wear patterns on my nail polish over time. it's such a neat data visualisation of how i use my hands!