<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> It makes sense in context</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@rezendi" class="u-url mention">@<span>rezendi</span></a></span> I think there&#39;s also an aspect of people with genuine understanding of how machine learning works trying to simplify the &quot;it doesn&#39;t actually *understand*&quot; statement for laypeople, and that this, as is so often the case, is repeated parrot-like.</p><p>There are many questions that result from that line of thought. Irrespective of that, there is also an irony in the lack of understanding here.</p>

<p>wait this is actually a thing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People&#39;s_Liberation_Army_Naval_Air_Force" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People&#39;s</span><span class="invisible">_Liberation_Army_Naval_Air_Force</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@eigenform" class="u-url mention">@<span>eigenform</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://haunted.computer/@iximeow" class="u-url mention">@<span>iximeow</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@sickeningsprawl" class="u-url mention">@<span>sickeningsprawl</span></a></span> it&#39;s wild just how many people are using amaranth for cool stuff and i never hear about it because they don&#39;t file any bugs</p><p>joke&#39;s (?) on me (??) for shipping good software? (???)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://haunted.computer/@iximeow" class="u-url mention">@<span>iximeow</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@lethalbit" class="u-url mention">@<span>lethalbit</span></a></span> hmmmmm</p>

<p>OH: &quot;are carrier pilots called the people&#39;s liberation army navy air force?&quot;</p>

<p>Me: And it&#39;s permanent.<br />Her: &gt;:(</p>

<p>Younger sister told me she wants to get a tattoo. I have tattoos. <br />Her: I want to get a tattoo but mom will get mad. <br />Me: If I were you, I would get a tattoo right now. When mom finds out and gets upset with you, she won&#39;t be able to do anything because it&#39;s already done.</p>

<p>That older relative you do tech support for is probably not bamboozled by digital devices. They were guessing their way through Y/N ms-DOS and dodging Fatal Error cartoon bombs on Macs before you and the smartphone were born. Now they&#39;re older, wearier, and exasperated by digital coercion and the complication of simple things. They’re not listening to Bing Crosby while being amazed email exists. They’re listening to Queen while cursing enshittification &amp; resenting the time it costs them and you.</p>