This is a good one folks. Definitely gonna give this a second lesson to make sure all those points get stuck in my head for the next time I’m being “asked” to explain my AI scepticism.

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Instagram AI summaries just absolutely nailing it

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Under no circumstance do I want to know what Grogu smells like

hope you brought urine!

I would never do "ass play." That sounds frivolous and I am an adult. If I'm doing anything it's ass work

fuck you

I hate to say it but I kinda like Orioles’ City Connect jerseys

WTF is she talking about? People don’t fly just to fly, they fly because they need/want to go somewhere in particular. So if they can’t fly into those cities because of some dumbass DHS policy they’ll either take a connecting flight or they won’t travel at all. No red state will benefit.

Holy. Shit. Guess I’m resubscribing to Netflix at the end of June.

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Whom amongst us hasn’t wanted to build the giant mechanical spider from the end of Wild Wild West?

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It do be like that

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I worked as a lifeguard and swim instructor for three years in my teens. This is spot on. Non-paywalled version gcaptain.com/drowning/

engagement bait is despicable. like and repost if you agree

It is absolutely insane that if you try to use AWS’s pricing calculator to figure out how much a simple RDS instance will cost that it defaults to a 40 vCPU / 160 GiB instance at $6,160.84 / month

“so what’s your take?” “the city of New York must pay me $1 million cash in the next hour and I will kill one person for every minute they are late” “100% disagree”

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Everyone’s like “oh this’ll never happen” but, like, what if we get, I don’t know, *all* the crypto people and *all* the billionaires involved? Seems like maybe we could solve a bunch of problems all at once.

Answered a job ad for a student web developer position at my university that was posted on a bulletin board where I was posting flyers for an upcoming film festival

I’m too tired/on allergy meds so I just cried at Hacks and cracked up at this

It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for ’em.

I’ve been meaning to subscribe to @defector.com for a while now and kept putting it off (because I’m lazy (I know)) but which article finally got me to do it? Oh you know it was the one about killing Grogu. Can’t believe it was the Boondocks Saints who managed to get him. Cops must’ve been in on it.

Did my first ever Pilates workout yesterday and, well, never let anyone tell you that Pilates is easy. I’m in the best shape of my life, stronger than I’ve ever been, and just 10 reps of some of those exercises has me ridiculously sore today.

your smugness is unbecoming

Is it good when you replace a Ruby gem with one that has a completely different API and none of your tests fail?

happy 10th birthday to The Nice Guys, one of the best movies ever made

The longer you look at this, the worse it gets

Correction: this does, in fact, end well

Everything else aside, wtf does he mean by “prewritten software”? As opposed to what? I keep trying to come up with something funny but it’s such an unbelievably nonsensical term my brain can’t do it.

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

“erm you can’t just criticize me for using AI; it’s a tool” buddy fucking watch me. you have no idea how broad i can get. the sheer array of sweeping judgment at my disposal is staggering. i can, and will, generalize about you in terms that will make your head spin

"I have cryogenically frozen my penis and filed it down to a fleshy icicle to replace any feminine roundness on my body with a masculine point."

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

To the tune of Eminence Front by The Who:

100% facts

lmao

You have to call it “X The Everything App” or “Twitter”, you can’t call it what the Nazis want you to call it

wrote a thing—it's fun you should read it

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I am hearing that on his deathbed Grogu received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!