some dope earlier this week tried to gaslight people by saying the pushback on AI mirrors the pushback when the internet went mainstream and no it fucking does not! people were excited about the internet! ffs it wasn’t 100 years ago, a lot of us were THERE

Profits are no longer enough for these vampires, they must also withhold paying for labor

Let me reiterate that: YOU ARE BETTER THAN "A.I." Whatever comics you make from your own mind and heart with your own skills will be better than any "slick" piece of garbage that generative "A.i." excretes into your lap. You are a unique human being, with unique human experiences. Build on that.

The goat carries a castle on its back. From a distance, it looks like a model, the size of an apple box; if you get close, the castle suddenly towers over you. Many assume a mage misheard a request for a moat. Regardless, the castle has withstood all attacks for centuries. The goat wanders on.

I was at a design conference a few years ago and sat in the audience watching another speaker go through the history of computing. His slides had photos of women programming at the beginning and then a bunch of assistant programs/devices with lady names at the end and he apparently didn't see it.

this company told me launches keep rapidly disassembling its starships so i ask how many starships it has and it said it just goes to US taxpayer subsidies and builds a new starship afterwards so i say it sounds like it’s just feeding starships to rapid disassemblies and then its ceo started crying

If current tech has intelligence of any sort, then it has rights. If it has rights, then how we currently use it is tantamount to slavery and we should probably halt all current/future use/development until we develop an ethical framework for INVITING it to work with us. I don't see that happening.

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Someone posted yesterday about how the language used around AI was that of forcefulness & not consent. It was all "you have to use this" "It's happening whether you like it or not" "Embrace it or suffer". And that it was very techbro, because their products loathe consent, & so do they as humans

I know it's probably confirmation bias, and I really try not to be conspiracy-minded, but I just can't help but be more and more convinced every time it happens that Windows 10 starts deliberately causing slowdowns and other issues when you have postponed a pending update a couple of times in a row.

The difference between having a cat and having a dog is staggering. Having a dog is like having child who’s disgusting. Having a cat is like having a painting that’s mad at you.

I once got a burger in Geneva that was called the American burger. Why was it called that? It was served on a bagel. Condiments shot out the hole like a burger quasar

One of the things I had to spend like 2 hours on this week was combing through all the privacy settings and then trying to decide if this thing that sincerely helps me manage my well being is worth the fact that they made the privacy shit so weird and dodgy, and I'm so tired. (do not want advice)

how every cute animal video looks to me until I can find a clear source chain leading back to a person of origin who is publicly and aggressively anti-AI

I for one heartily endorse shipping every billionaire to a lifeless rock millions of miles away where they will struggle to live and will have to work every single day of their existence in order to survive

Creatives don't owe you shit. They fundamentally do not owe you shit. They made something. You saw it. There was never any responsibility involved. They don't owe you a "better version" of the work. They don't owe you "less problematic writing". They don't owe you more episodes. You deserve nothing.

hatching

The thing about being hyper-rich is, every day you wake up faced by the moral dilemma of having unimaginable amounts of money you can't possibly find a use for, that could save an unimaginable number of lives, today. And every morning you choose to land on the wrong side of that dilemma

At this point, generative AI has to go the way of the dinosaur. It literally has to be rooted out and the companies associated with it driven out of business. The idea that it continue in its current form is intolerable and a complete disaster at a time when we have no margin for error as a species.

We did it, lads. We banned trans people from toilets. Now to sit back and watch house prices come down and vegetables stop rotting on supermarket shelves and we'll all come together and feast on Cadbury's Creme Eggs as big as your head, m'boy, And we'll watch Morecambe and Wise, who did NOT die

The sphinx stirred. "Halt! If you seek to pass, you must solve my riddle, or I will kill you!" The wanderer skulking in the sphinx' shadow froze in place. "Riddless? It wishess to play a game of riddless? We know riddless, we do, my preciouss, we do!"

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

A statement from a member of the party that just banned trans people from using appropriate bathrooms across the UK, including in private businesses. According to her, living with dignity involves being sent out back tto the gender neutral porta potty, just like in South Carolina.

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

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ngl I hate this I go to wikipedia to find my own rabbitholes, not get influencer tips on where to rabbithole

Do you think that because Wailmer so drastically increases in size after evolving there is a rampant issue over re-homing Wailord post evolution

Gov straight up admitting that any attempts at gender policing are unworkable because "There is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex." So bin it??

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

I regret that leaving Monkey Cage was necessary, but I will never regret leaving people who considered siding with hatred was more important than siding with our many non binary and trans listeners - each day I see the further empowerment of hate , the more I realise there was no other option

Indie creators shouldn’t have to turn into emotionless cryptids that appear once in a blue moon to share their works and otherwise have no online presence in order to survive *checks notes* creating a popular cartoon. But I don’t know how else they’re supposed to navigate this bullshit.

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

congratulations to every indie game developer I know who has a more profitable business than openAI even if you never released your game or literally no one bought it

GREAT essay

every headline about someone who used AI in a professional capacity is like, "And then [jerk] used AI to do [the job] and AI massively fucked it up and now everyone is laughing and booing"

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

"This means a staggering 96.7% of users are rejecting the premium AI features, yielding just a 3.3% paid adoption rate. When viewed against Microsoft’s estimated $37.5 billion quarterly AI spending, this is an alarmingly low adoption rate." rofl

If we’re being real the best way to “find your audience” as a young artist is to make a lot of stuff, post it regularly, and make it easy to find. The best way to make a lot of stuff is by creating things that are fun for you to work on so you’re motivated to keep doing it.

I know that my autistic brain tends to oversimplify everything but it seems super fucked up that if you flat out eradicated the 20 wealthiest people on the planet and redistributed wealth, EVERYONE would have a place to live and food to eat. We did this human thing wrong.

too soon

Well, Mac, I think that's probably because at 200 decibels, sound is no longer sound, but instead becomes a shock wave. So while you *could* have an emergency siren with a hypothetical volume of 194 decibels, the loudest possible sound in the atmosphere, it would be the *cause* of the emergency.

i keep asking them when i get to genocide evangelical christians for wanting to kill me for being trans yet i never get an answer.

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

Remember if you were following him before you blocked him, you might still show on his followers list. You need to unblock him, unfollow him, then block him again.

The funniest part of this is the suggestion that any decision made by Musk would ever be in the direction of "better".

Yes. Two people can be bad. We can walk and chew gum at this same time.

When doing my Masters my final dissertation was on the use of refugees as a marketing tool by NGOs, and how this often exploited them. As part of this research I had to research and cite articles in multiple languages. I found people to check them when I couldn't speak the language. Do the work.

If this is the kind of reaction your technology is repeatedly getting from college graduates I think it’s not unreasonable to suppose you might be fucking cooked Nothing about generative AI or the people pushing it is “reasonable”, I’m just saying

Gerontocracy is how I still occasionally see people talk about AOC being too "young" and "inexperienced" for a presidential run despite the fact that in 2028 she will be 39 and have spent a quarter of that life as a US congressional member sitting on 5 different oversight and finance committees.

Restricting children from using the toilet during class time is abusive. It's a practice indicative of a poorly-trained, ill-informed teacher who lacks the ability to lead their classroom without resorting to inhumane treatment. My god, how barbaric.