Jon Stokes

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The day I was moving into grad student housing for my PhD, this girl passed me leaving the building walking her dog. I first noticed the dog was super cute, then I noticed the girl was attractive. She turned out to be my next door neighbor, & I ended up dog-sitting for her…

I've written a new post about "ChatGPT psychosis". Includes a detailed timeline of events leading up to the latest incident with @GeoffLewisOrg Link below.

Thinking about getting into tweeting about Sydney Sweeney. Seems like there's still a lot of engagement juice in that topic.

I'm on LM Arena, asking models to write a short scifi story, and they keep picking similar names for the protagonist: Elena Voss (or something close.) I first saw this name from Deepseek for a Mindmeld story, but I'm seeing it from everything now, including Grok-4.

In the past, people outsourced blame to supernatural causes. "Always late? Blame Belphegor, demon of sloth!" Now the explanations are secular. But the principle is the same: Find an explanation for personal failings that locates the blame somewhere other than the self.

I’m not Buddhist but I have to give the Buddha some respect. He’s the only historical figure we celebrate for having accomplished nothing.

I am convinced there is a tier of fake celebrities Nobody knows who either of these people are

my wife was once my doctor that’s how we met shoot your shot, kids

man, the commies really did a number on everyone by associating every instance of noticing their existence and their openly stated goals with McCarthy