Notes in 2025
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Bring back BRB by actually leaving.
Brb.
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[…] I look for an alternative, I mean the track needs, [proceeds to play standard drum pattern]. Okay, I can provide that but I’m an asshole so I’m probably gonna not provide that and gonna do something else. Stewart Copeland Hears Limp Bizkit For The First Time
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The pressure to innovate on the speed of garbage creation. We need to stop.
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Maybe, hear me out, measuring our worth based on our willingness to polish the Nazi’s uniforms, is a bad idea?
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Note for Future Carlos: Remember, when you get stuck, don’t worry about the Whole, just focus on the Next step and do that. If you know the Next step, you actually know enough.
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If we can’t have chocolate without slavery, we shouldn’t have chocolate.
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You can shame someone out of being a bad person. You can’t shame them into being a good one.
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Some of us, were never used to the consequences of our thoughts and actions, and it shows.
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Your daily reminder that Sam Altman is a thief and a conman, nothing more.
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Kill all the billionaires.
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After 11 days (I think it was) I return to being signed off.
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Tolerance is a social contract of mutual tolerance. Otherwise, get the fuck out. Very paraphrased from Yonathan Zunger’s Medium article.
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Little by little, the frog began to suspect that perhaps, they too, were being boiled.
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Why is it professors who get tenure and no-one else?
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I think the root of my problem, is that I want to perform a service to society. And tech, as it stands today, is not that.
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In this week’s episode of Carlos, I return to work after 42 days of being signed off for burnout and stress.
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“Are we the bad guys?”
Question number 42 that Elon “Nazi salute” Musk hasn’t asked himself.
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My “hot” take if you will, is that all, yes all, forms of contemporary AI work is about erasing the living experiences of marginalised and minoritised people to, once again, recenter White Capitalist Supremacy.
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Every day I want to have the courage to dance like Tom Holland. I love dancing and don’t do it nearly enough.
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Respect given to you as another human is the default. Disrespect is earned.
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I have been many different personas over the years, perhaps I’m allowed to bury some?
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Never let the family you came from hurt the family you created.
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AI-driven VTuber, Neurosama, is a fascinating example of our species isn’t it? So novelty seeking are we that This is somehow worth our attention.
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Not everything needs to be a “thing”.
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You made a child, now hug them for fucks sake.
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I am not accepting generative AI and I do NOT, in fact, need to learn to live with it. It’s literal garbage.