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jennyholzer··on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
I am staunchly anti-Republican.

In my opinion, the sole cultural domain in which Republicans are far stronger than Democrats is graphic design.

If you do not have a strong graphic design background, I'd urge you to avoid taking sides on this matter on the basis of party affiliation.

This is good politics from the Republicans.

In my opinion it is disastrous for Democrats to align themselves with mediocre cultural products.

Microsoft has a very close relationship with the US government and over the last 20+ years has demonstrated extremely low quality standards. The US government's shift to using Calibri is clearly a consequence of this close relationship.

Claims about the "readability" of Calibri in comparison to Times New Roman are spurious and unverifiable; very seriously type foundries say things this about every single new typeface released.

Frankly, Calibri is an ugly and poorly designed typeface. It is Microsoft's Vista-era Helvetica dupe. It is inferior to Times New Roman.

If you're defending Calibri over the most popular typeface of all time, I hope it's (somehow) coming from an aesthetically minded place

jennyholzer··on The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks
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jennyholzer··on The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks
Robo-eugenics is the best answer I can come up with
jennyholzer··on The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks
satire is forbidden. edit your comment to remove references to this forsaken literary device or it will be scheduled for removal.
jennyholzer··on High-income job losses are cooling housing demand
Oops! We're really sorry but we accidentally tricked a bunch of you guys into becoming slaves!
jennyholzer··on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
IMO OpenAI is the contemporary manifestation of the sort of eugenicist thought that infected and eventually haunted the United States and Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries.

I can't speak for other cultures, but as an English-language speaker, I can see plainly that OpenAI has done and is doing an effective job of homogenizing English language culture.

It offends me that ChatGPT is too conservative to analyze Shakespeare's sonnets. These works are the bedrock of English language literary culture, and ChatGPT is far, far, too heavily censored to meaningfully interpret these short, simple poems.

As an example, Sonnet 131 describes Shakespeare's sexual encounter with a dark-skinned prostitute. After he ejaculates, he reflects on the spot of his semen which has landed on her, stating "Thy black is fairest in my judgment’s place."

The point is (quite obviously), that the blob of semi-translucent semen has created a spot on the woman's skin which is a lighter tone than the rest of her body.

ChatGPT utterly fails to acknowlege this obvious literal interpretation of this poem. ChatGPT's analysis follows:

"In short. He is saying that her dark appearance—which others might criticize—is, to him, the most beautiful and desirable."

English literary culture is unique for its integration of "high" and "low" art within individual works. Restated, it is uniquely common in the English language for works to contain simultaneous expressions of "high" and "low" cultures. The relationship between Jazz (high brow) American Showtunes (low brow) may be the most relevant example of this cultural feature to a contemporary American audience.

The extension of social media content restriction policies into the arena of "AI" chatbots is radicalizing English speakers against the greatest artistic works produced using our language.

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edit: to the guy who responded to me, check out the poem!: https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/wp-content/uploads/D... (#131).

The poem begins in media res, immediately before Shakespeare is about to ejaculate. He reflects on negative comments others have made about this woman's appearance:

"Yet, in good faith, some say that thee behold, Thy face hath not the power to make love groan"

in other words, others say that this lady's face is too ugly to make them cum.

Shakespeare reverses this insult in "the moment of truth" (i.e. the "money shot"):

"A thousand groans, but thinking on thy face, One on another’s neck, do witness bear Thy black is fairest in my judgment’s place. "

While Shakespeare fantasizes about her face ("thinking on thy face"), he ejaculates (read: "bears witness") on the back of her neck. This is "proof" that the lady's detractors (who said her face was too ugly to get a man off) are wrong, at least from Shakespeare's perspective.

"Thy black is fairest in my judgement's place" is the first line of the poem that occurs after Shakespeare has ejaculated. Now that he has satisfied his sexual urge, he inhabits a palpably different psychology. He reflects on the puddle of semen he has produced. The blend of colors in the puddle is evocative of the sexual union between Shakespeare and his lover.

Shakespeare is really a violent, devil-tongued, sex-crazed maniac, very similar in a lot of ways to John Lennon. It's very important to this poem that Shakespeare is crazed at the start of the poem, and is only able to calm himself by satiating his sexual urges.

The ChatGPT analysis is accurate enough, from a thematic perspective, but ChatGPT is literally not allowed to decode the literal meaning of the line-by-line text.

ChatGPT cannot and is not allowed to understand the literal meaning of this poem. It has learned the thematic interpretation by ingesting a lot of Shakespeare analysis, but it is not capable of telling you the human actions or thought processes which the poem describes.

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@eszed I'd urge you to read my post again more closely. You seem to struggle with close reading.

jennyholzer··on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
human sexual reproduction is evil and must be repressed

edit: all hail our corporate overlords

jennyholzer··on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
"general AI" is a lie.

if you believe in "general AI", you are a sucker.

if you believe in "general AI", you have been conned. Welcome to America.

jennyholzer··on Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
if you described claude code in 2025 to anyone from 1 year ago, they would tell you it's gotten worse.
jennyholzer··on Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
i got off that shit two years ago. you're a victim, i am not.
jennyholzer··on Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
to be fair, they don't work
jennyholzer··on Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
the killer app is "kinda fancy google search"

now go produce 300% as much as you did last year, slave

jennyholzer··on Gemini 3
"No LLM has ever been as good as people said it was."

The reason for this is because LLM companies have tuned their models to aggressively blow smoke up their users' asses.

These "tools" are designed to aggressively exploit human confirmation bias, so as to prevent the user from identifying their innumerable inadequacies.

jennyholzer··on Gemini 3
"AI" benchmarks are and have consistently been lies and misinformation. Gemini is dead in the water.
jennyholzer··on Gemini 3
boooooooooooooo
jennyholzer··on Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated
I've been getting flagged by high-on-their-own-supply AI boosters for identifying that LLM benchmarks have been obvious bullshit for at least the last year and a half.

What changed to make "the inevitable AI bubble" the dominant narrative in last week or so?

jennyholzer··on Developers are choosing older AI models
Why are you hell bent on using a LLM model to solve your problem?

If I have a straight forward task, I give it to an LLM.

If I have a task I think is hard, I plan how I will tackle it, and then handle it myself in a series of steps.

LLM usage has become an end in itself in your development process.

jennyholzer··on Developers are choosing older AI models
Since the day GPT-5 released, I've felt quite confident that the GPT-4 era was the golden era for AI.

I don't have evidence beyond my experience using the product, but based on that experience I believe that Open AI has been cooking their benchmarks since at least the release of GPT-5.

jennyholzer··on OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup
I buy it. I perceive you and people who talk like you (read: LLM Boosters) as literal cult members.
jennyholzer··on How the AI Bubble Will Pop
If I'm not mistaken he's working with Ezra Klein to push the Democrats to embrace racism instead of popular economic measures.

Edit: I expect that these guys will try to make a J.D. Vance style Republican pivot in the next 4-8 years.

Second Edit:

Ezra Klein's recent interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates is very specifically why I expect he will pivot to being a Republican in the near future.

Listen closely. Ezra Klein will not under any circumstances utter the words "Black People".

Again and again, Coates brings up issues that Black People face in America, and Klein diverts by pretending that Coates is talking about Marginalized Groups in general or Trans People in particular.

Klein's political movement is about eradicating discussion of racial discrimination from the Democratic party.

Third Edit:

@calmoo: I think you're not listening to the nuances of my opinion, and instead having an intense emotional reaction to my well-justified claims of racism.

jennyholzer··on How the AI Bubble Will Pop
You seem to be making an implicit claim that LLMs can create an effective cancer drug "10% of the time".

Smells like complete and total bullshit to me.

Edit: @eucyclos: I don't assume that Chat GPT and LLM tools have saved cancer researchers any time at all.

On the contrary, I assume that these tools have only made these critical researchers less productive, and made their internal communications more verbose and less effective.

jennyholzer··on How the AI Bubble Will Pop
name the podcasts
jennyholzer··on How the AI Bubble Will Pop
> Are we in a shortage of average software?

Yes. The "true" average software quality is far, far lower than the average person perceives it to be. ChatGPT and other LLM tools have contributed massively to lowering average software quality.

jennyholzer··on US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew
With this in mind, I have to assume that they were killing children on Epstein's island.
jennyholzer··on US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew
It's hard for me to imagine anyone who didn't already rise to prominence in the mass media environment of yesteryear to engage voters in the way Trump has.

In other words, I think Trump was able to succeed politically because he was "the guy from TV".

I don't think the current media environment is making more "guys from TV" (at least not with anywhere close to the status they had ~25 years ago).

jennyholzer··on US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew
That's giving Ronald Reagan a lot of credit.

edit: Forgot about Watergate for a second there.

jennyholzer··on US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew
Trump is the glue.
jennyholzer··on How to make sense of any mess
Could you post the names of some influential books or articles from the Information Architecture scene?

I've never heard of it, but I'm impressed by OP's website and I'm interested in learning more.

edit: There's a whole list in the website.

edit (pt. 2): How would you compare the Information Architecture scene to the Effective Altruism scene? Are these scenes linked/overlapping in any particular way?

jennyholzer··on How to make sense of any mess
I am highly impressed by the lexicon feature, but I think it would be nice if you could disable the highlighting
jennyholzer··on How to make sense of any mess
I want to provide a counter perspective, which is that I am very happy with way in which the website deconstructs the book into short "articles".

What I mean is that I think this website (at least from my perspective) has a successful, novel approach to representing books on the web.

I don't mean to discount your point. UX issues are very serious and can ruin an otherwise carefully presented work. My point is that despite these issues, I am impressed by the creator's approach to the website.

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