#sturgeonslaw — Public Fediverse posts
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#Sturgeon'slaw states, "Ninety percent of everything is #crap". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeo...
Sturgeon's law - Wikipedia -
#Sturgeon'slaw states, "Ninety percent of everything is #crap". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeo...
Sturgeon's law - Wikipedia -
#Sturgeon'slaw states, "Ninety percent of everything is #crap". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeo...
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If you ever want to see #SturgeonsLaw in action, just post something (that isn't toxic) on #Reddit . Then sit back and watch the trolls and bots descend.
And, when they are done, if what you said was especially the #Truth , the mod will delete your post, altogether. 😂 😂 😂
Reddit is like X , but minus about 75 IQ pts
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If you ever want to see #SturgeonsLaw in action, just post something (that isn't toxic) on #Reddit . Then sit back and watch the trolls and bots descend.
And, when they are done, if what you said was especially the #Truth , the mod will delete your post, altogether. 😂 😂 😂
Reddit is like X , but minus about 75 IQ pts
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If you ever want to see #SturgeonsLaw in action, just post something (that isn't toxic) on #Reddit . Then sit back and watch the trolls and bots descend.
And, when they are done, if what you said was especially the #Truth , the mod will delete your post, altogether. 😂 😂 😂
Reddit is like X , but minus about 75 IQ pts
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If you ever want to see #SturgeonsLaw in action, just post something (that isn't toxic) on #Reddit . Then sit back and watch the trolls and bots descend.
And, when they are done, if what you said was especially the #Truth , the mod will delete your post, altogether. 😂 😂 😂
Reddit is like X , but minus about 75 IQ pts
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Nine tenths according to Ted Sturgeon. -
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*If* what the "AI" [1] grifters say in their sales pitches were true [2], and their LLMs are good at writing prose, summarizing other text, and writing code, then it follows that you should be able to do this:
"<LLM-agent>, write an LLM prompt text that will cause a code-generating LLM to create a Gmail clone, including server-side code and client-side user interface."
Then feed that to CopyLot or whatever, and out pops a Gmail clone.
[1] Bovine excretory corollary to Sturgeon's Law: if an article about "AI" doesn't use scare quotes on (at minimum) the first use of the term, it is guaranteed grifter salesbabble, not actual human thought. If scare quotes *are* properly used, then it's only 90% likely to be grifter #salesbabble.
[2] It isn't.
#grifter #AI #LLM #grift #BS #bullshit #ScareQuotes #corollary #SturgeonsLaw #agent #AgenticAI #agentic
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*If* what the "AI" [1] grifters say in their sales pitches were true [2], and their LLMs are good at writing prose, summarizing other text, and writing code, then it follows that you should be able to do this:
"<LLM-agent>, write an LLM prompt text that will cause a code-generating LLM to create a Gmail clone, including server-side code and client-side user interface."
Then feed that to CopyLot or whatever, and out pops a Gmail clone.
[1] Bovine excretory corollary to Sturgeon's Law: if an article about "AI" doesn't use scare quotes on (at minimum) the first use of the term, it is guaranteed grifter salesbabble, not actual human thought. If scare quotes *are* properly used, then it's only 90% likely to be grifter #salesbabble.
[2] It isn't.
#grifter #AI #LLM #grift #BS #bullshit #ScareQuotes #corollary #SturgeonsLaw #agent #AgenticAI #agentic
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*If* what the "AI" [1] grifters say in their sales pitches were true [2], and their LLMs are good at writing prose, summarizing other text, and writing code, then it follows that you should be able to do this:
"<LLM-agent>, write an LLM prompt text that will cause a code-generating LLM to create a Gmail clone, including server-side code and client-side user interface."
Then feed that to CopyLot or whatever, and out pops a Gmail clone.
[1] Bovine excretory corollary to Sturgeon's Law: if an article about "AI" doesn't use scare quotes on (at minimum) the first use of the term, it is guaranteed grifter salesbabble, not actual human thought. If scare quotes *are* properly used, then it's only 90% likely to be grifter #salesbabble.
[2] It isn't.
#grifter #AI #LLM #grift #BS #bullshit #ScareQuotes #corollary #SturgeonsLaw #agent #AgenticAI #agentic
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*If* what the "AI" [1] grifters say in their sales pitches were true [2], and their LLMs are good at writing prose, summarizing other text, and writing code, then it follows that you should be able to do this:
"<LLM-agent>, write an LLM prompt text that will cause a code-generating LLM to create a Gmail clone, including server-side code and client-side user interface."
Then feed that to CopyLot or whatever, and out pops a Gmail clone.
[1] Bovine excretory corollary to Sturgeon's Law: if an article about "AI" doesn't use scare quotes on (at minimum) the first use of the term, it is guaranteed grifter salesbabble, not actual human thought. If scare quotes *are* properly used, then it's only 90% likely to be grifter #salesbabble.
[2] It isn't.
#grifter #AI #LLM #grift #BS #bullshit #ScareQuotes #corollary #SturgeonsLaw #agent #AgenticAI #agentic
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AI won’t kill literature, it’ll just colonise the middle ground where most writing lives. From calligraphy to photography to synthesisers, every “threat” to the arts created more art. The monasteries will remain.
https://ridleypark.blog/2025/08/10/sturgeons-law-ai-and-the-literary-ivory-tower/
#SturgeonsLaw #AIWriting #DigitalCulture #BookHistory #Literature #TechAndSociety #GenAI #WritingLife #FictionWriting #WritingCommunity
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AI won’t kill literature, it’ll just colonise the middle ground where most writing lives. From calligraphy to photography to synthesisers, every “threat” to the arts created more art. The monasteries will remain.
https://ridleypark.blog/2025/08/10/sturgeons-law-ai-and-the-literary-ivory-tower/
#SturgeonsLaw #AIWriting #DigitalCulture #BookHistory #Literature #TechAndSociety #GenAI #WritingLife #FictionWriting #WritingCommunity
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AI won’t kill literature, it’ll just colonise the middle ground where most writing lives. From calligraphy to photography to synthesisers, every “threat” to the arts created more art. The monasteries will remain.
https://ridleypark.blog/2025/08/10/sturgeons-law-ai-and-the-literary-ivory-tower/
#SturgeonsLaw #AIWriting #DigitalCulture #BookHistory #Literature #TechAndSociety #GenAI #WritingLife #FictionWriting #WritingCommunity
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AI won’t kill literature, it’ll just colonise the middle ground where most writing lives. From calligraphy to photography to synthesisers, every “threat” to the arts created more art. The monasteries will remain.
https://ridleypark.blog/2025/08/10/sturgeons-law-ai-and-the-literary-ivory-tower/
#SturgeonsLaw #AIWriting #DigitalCulture #BookHistory #Literature #TechAndSociety #GenAI #WritingLife #FictionWriting #WritingCommunity
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#Truth ~ My preferences in #sff are so drastically different than mass market tastes that it makes being a commercial fiction #Writer difficult.
3 choices: find the niche of people who enjoy what I like; learn to cynically 'write to spec' and sling out (what I would call) garbage—as per #SturgeonsLaw ...or find some kind of happy medium.
I sometimes find works in the third category ("Circe" by Madeline Miller, from 7 years ago, was both popular and outstanding) but it's like chasing Unicorns.
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#Truth ~ My preferences in #sff are so drastically different than mass market tastes that it makes being a commercial fiction #Writer difficult.
3 choices: find the niche of people who enjoy what I like; learn to cynically 'write to spec' and sling out (what I would call) garbage—as per #SturgeonsLaw ...or find some kind of happy medium.
I sometimes find works in the third category ("Circe" by Madeline Miller, from 7 years ago, was both popular and outstanding) but it's like chasing Unicorns.
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#Truth ~ My preferences in #sff are so drastically different than mass market tastes that it makes being a commercial fiction #Writer difficult.
3 choices: find the niche of people who enjoy what I like; learn to cynically 'write to spec' and sling out (what I would call) garbage—as per #SturgeonsLaw ...or find some kind of happy medium.
I sometimes find works in the third category ("Circe" by Madeline Miller, from 7 years ago, was both popular and outstanding) but it's like chasing Unicorns.
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#Truth ~ My preferences in #sff are so drastically different than mass market tastes that it makes being a commercial fiction #Writer difficult.
3 choices: find the niche of people who enjoy what I like; learn to cynically 'write to spec' and sling out (what I would call) garbage—as per #SturgeonsLaw ...or find some kind of happy medium.
I sometimes find works in the third category ("Circe" by Madeline Miller, from 7 years ago, was both popular and outstanding) but it's like chasing Unicorns.
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PSA: If you don't think that 90% of everything is crap, then you need to work on developing your taste and judgement.
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PSA: If you don't think that 90% of everything is crap, then you need to work on developing your taste and judgement.
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PSA: If you don't think that 90% of everything is crap, then you need to work on developing your taste and judgement.
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PSA: If you don't think that 90% of everything is crap, then you need to work on developing your taste and judgement.
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Ironically watching trash TV is unironically trashy.
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Ironically watching trash TV is unironically trashy.
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Today is a good day to recognize the talents of creators at every level of the production of the media you love. The editors, artists, production designers, actors, directors, producers and many others worked very hard to produce it. And you loved it.
It reached you across a now unimaginable divide to change you for the better even in some small way.
You are guilty of enjoying art.
Art is human. Humans are flawed, broken, self deluded monsters. Try and enjoy art anyway.
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Today is a good day to recognize the talents of creators at every level of the production of the media you love. The editors, artists, production designers, actors, directors, producers and many others worked very hard to produce it. And you loved it.
It reached you across a now unimaginable divide to change you for the better even in some small way.
You are guilty of enjoying art.
Art is human. Humans are flawed, broken, self deluded monsters. Try and enjoy art anyway.
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Today is a good day to recognize the talents of creators at every level of the production of the media you love. The editors, artists, production designers, actors, directors, producers and many others worked very hard to produce it. And you loved it.
It reached you across a now unimaginable divide to change you for the better even in some small way.
You are guilty of enjoying art.
Art is human. Humans are flawed, broken, self deluded monsters. Try and enjoy art anyway.
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Today is a good day to recognize the talents of creators at every level of the production of the media you love. The editors, artists, production designers, actors, directors, producers and many others worked very hard to produce it. And you loved it.
It reached you across a now unimaginable divide to change you for the better even in some small way.
You are guilty of enjoying art.
Art is human. Humans are flawed, broken, self deluded monsters. Try and enjoy art anyway.
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The fracturing, flattening, and enshittifying of our media landscape has taken the 10% of everything that isn't "crap"* and hid it behind endless paywalls and IP strategery, so as to make it impossible to access.
Result: The biggest "entertainment desert" I have personally witnessed in my lifetime. It's Springsteen's "57 channels" on steroids.
2025: Bleak on Bleak.
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Coda: I should have clarified, Q is the #maximum possible #watchability.
Films are, of course, free to #undershoot this mark, and frequently do.
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Coda: I should have clarified, Q is the #maximum possible #watchability.
Films are, of course, free to #undershoot this mark, and frequently do.
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Coda: I should have clarified, Q is the #maximum possible #watchability.
Films are, of course, free to #undershoot this mark, and frequently do.
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Coda: I should have clarified, Q is the #maximum possible #watchability.
Films are, of course, free to #undershoot this mark, and frequently do.
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Most AI Content Is Trash, Just Like Everything Else
#artificialintelligence #softwaredevelopment #backlash #opensource #sturgeonslaw #hackaday
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Most AI Content Is Trash, Just Like Everything Else - [Max Woolf] has been working in the AI space since 2015, and among other work has ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/11/03/most-ai-content-is-trash-just-like-everything-else/ #artificialintelligence #softwaredevelopment #sturgeonslaw #opensource #backlash
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Most AI Content Is Trash, Just Like Everything Else - [Max Woolf] has been working in the AI space since 2015, and among other work has ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/11/03/most-ai-content-is-trash-just-like-everything-else/ #artificialintelligence #softwaredevelopment #sturgeonslaw #opensource #backlash
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Most AI Content Is Trash, Just Like Everything Else - [Max Woolf] has been working in the AI space since 2015, and among other work has ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/11/03/most-ai-content-is-trash-just-like-everything-else/ #artificialintelligence #softwaredevelopment #sturgeonslaw #opensource #backlash
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Most AI Content Is Trash, Just Like Everything Else - [Max Woolf] has been working in the AI space since 2015, and among other work has ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/11/03/most-ai-content-is-trash-just-like-everything-else/ #artificialintelligence #softwaredevelopment #sturgeonslaw #opensource #backlash
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Now the dance that the Vulcans do
I don't know how it started
All I know is that when the beat T'Prings a feel
It's so hard to get parted
And then the music begins to play
Automatically you're on your way
Are you ready (are you ready)
Well, you get yours, cause I got mine
For the Amok Time (Amok Time)#StarTrekASong #HashtagGames #StarTrek #AmokTime #MajorLance #CaptainKirk #SturgeonsLaw #PonFarr #Spock
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Now the dance that the Vulcans do
I don't know how it started
All I know is that when the beat T'Prings a feel
It's so hard to get parted
And then the music begins to play
Automatically you're on your way
Are you ready (are you ready)
Well, you get yours, cause I got mine
For the Amok Time (Amok Time)#StarTrekASong #HashtagGames #StarTrek #AmokTime #MajorLance #CaptainKirk #SturgeonsLaw #PonFarr #Spock
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Now the dance that the Vulcans do
I don't know how it started
All I know is that when the beat T'Prings a feel
It's so hard to get parted
And then the music begins to play
Automatically you're on your way
Are you ready (are you ready)
Well, you get yours, cause I got mine
For the Amok Time (Amok Time)#StarTrekASong #HashtagGames #StarTrek #AmokTime #MajorLance #CaptainKirk #SturgeonsLaw #PonFarr #Spock
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Now the dance that the Vulcans do
I don't know how it started
All I know is that when the beat T'Prings a feel
It's so hard to get parted
And then the music begins to play
Automatically you're on your way
Are you ready (are you ready)
Well, you get yours, cause I got mine
For the Amok Time (Amok Time)#StarTrekASong #HashtagGames #StarTrek #AmokTime #MajorLance #CaptainKirk #SturgeonsLaw #PonFarr #Spock
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How does Sturgeon’s Law affect the training data which generative AI and large language models “learn” on and what is the impact on the outputs?
#sturgeonslaw #trainingdata #generativeAI #LLMs #learning #modelgovernance #datagovernance #outcomes #outputs #askingquestions
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How does Sturgeon’s Law affect the training data which generative AI and large language models “learn” on and what is the impact on the outputs?
#sturgeonslaw #trainingdata #generativeAI #LLMs #learning #modelgovernance #datagovernance #outcomes #outputs #askingquestions
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How does Sturgeon’s Law affect the training data which generative AI and large language models “learn” on and what is the impact on the outputs?
#sturgeonslaw #trainingdata #generativeAI #LLMs #learning #modelgovernance #datagovernance #outcomes #outputs #askingquestions
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How does Sturgeon’s Law affect the training data which generative AI and large language models “learn” on and what is the impact on the outputs?
#sturgeonslaw #trainingdata #generativeAI #LLMs #learning #modelgovernance #datagovernance #outcomes #outputs #askingquestions
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So it’s time to replace our kitchen cabinets. They’re probably close to 50 years old and the particle board is simply falling apart. Our house is small (around 1000 square feet), so our kitchen is as well.
Suggestions or resources on where to get started? Web searching seems to find mainly:
- Ads
- Articles about whether to replace them
- Articles about how to do it yourself (we don’t have the skills, tools, or inclination)
(Specific recommendations for Portland, OR would be particularly useful.)
Two other things I noticed in this web search:
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Many of the pages seem like they were written by either ChatGPT or a first-year college student trying to pad 2 pages of ideas into a 20-page paper.
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What’s with all the open shelving? Who are these people who (a) are magically immune to dust and (b) have so much space they can spend four feet of shelving on one knickknack they got on their weekend trip to Provence?
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So it’s time to replace our kitchen cabinets. They’re probably close to 50 years old and the particle board is simply falling apart. Our house is small (around 1000 square feet), so our kitchen is as well.
Suggestions or resources on where to get started? Web searching seems to find mainly:
- Ads
- Articles about whether to replace them
- Articles about how to do it yourself (we don’t have the skills, tools, or inclination)
(Specific recommendations for Portland, OR would be particularly useful.)
Two other things I noticed in this web search:
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Many of the pages seem like they were written by either ChatGPT or a first-year college student trying to pad 2 pages of ideas into a 20-page paper.
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What’s with all the open shelving? Who are these people who (a) are magically immune to dust and (b) have so much space they can spend four feet of shelving on one knickknack they got on their weekend trip to Provence?
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So it’s time to replace our kitchen cabinets. They’re probably close to 50 years old and the particle board is simply falling apart. Our house is small (around 1000 square feet), so our kitchen is as well.
Suggestions or resources on where to get started? Web searching seems to find mainly:
- Ads
- Articles about whether to replace them
- Articles about how to do it yourself (we don’t have the skills, tools, or inclination)
(Specific recommendations for Portland, OR would be particularly useful.)
Two other things I noticed in this web search:
-
Many of the pages seem like they were written by either ChatGPT or a first-year college student trying to pad 2 pages of ideas into a 20-page paper.
-
What’s with all the open shelving? Who are these people who (a) are magically immune to dust and (b) have so much space they can spend four feet of shelving on one knickknack they got on their weekend trip to Provence?