It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down. People hate AI slop!

companies: “maybe THIS AI ad won’t end in a deluge of mockery”

It is so weird that Labour have a huge majority and are in government but have spent the whole time acting like an opposition party on the ropes

Currently playing @aftermath.site's "Uh Oh, You Have Billions Invested In Generative AI" woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-bil...

Tapping the sign

I’m not going to have any blood vessels left intact in my head within a week at this rate.

You have posted cringe. You are going to lose shifgrethor.

There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Gotta love the mindfuck the rich played on us about taxation where we all forgot that "avoidance" and "evasion" are synonyms.

this is insane

Sam Altman continuing his run of saying the dumbest things I have ever heard and turning that into a trillion dollar business. Malicious optimism or idiocy you decide.

Looks like shit

A modest proposal

As the trans community have known for a while now - the definition of activist is someone who dares to state they exist

TERF: brings court case with a scattergun of largely ludicrous allegations Court: dismisses almost all allegations but upholds one or two of the less ludicrous ones Media: THIS TERF WON HER CASE AND NOW THE TRANSES ARE ILLEGAL AND YOU MUST STONE THEM IN THE STREETS Every. Fucking. Time.

Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from. We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.

“I don’t mind being called an asshole — I don’t want to BE an asshole.” Penn Jillette, CRACKED. The text is largely quotes and paraphrases of a January 23, 2024 #Cracked interview by @timgrierson.bsky.social. The whole interview is worth a read! www.cracked.com/article_4087...

Land artist Sonja Hinrichsen, epic scale Snow Drawings - Briancon, France, 2014 #womensart

Intensely funny because it seems like the vast majority of people at that event were convinced it was fully autonomous and Musk has repeatedly recently claimed they're not tele-operated www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...

I'm not sure what's bigger Loser Energy - that Musk said his robot 'doing Kung Fu with Jared Leto at the Tron Ares Premiere' was AI when it was just being remote controlled, or that he thought 'telling an AI to do Kung Fu with Jared Leto at the Tron Ares Premiere' was a cool guy thing to do

For a while, they said if you needed tech help, ask a 10yo. But current 10-20yos didn't have to explore and click around and futz with things to get them to work, so if it's not immediately obvious, they can't do it. Basically if you're 30-50 you're just doing tech support for everyone forever.

this sounds like a joke but it's really not. 'gender critical' is a tiny movement but the ppl involved are all in powerful positions and have megaphones.

any time you're told to use AI at work, turn your work in about half as fast and pepper it with obvious mistakes. if nobody cares, you have less to do, and if they do, you can tell them you'll never use AI at work again

So here's something shitty: Apparently when they moved to Disney, all the Netflix Marvel shows got their subtitles redone, & so now, when you have English captions on, there are No English-Translated Subtitles for non-English dialogue. Like… What the actual fuck is the good of that???

Two weeks ago I said that there were likely millions of uninstalled Blackwell GPUs sitting in warehouses as there is neither the data center capacity nor the power to turn them on. Michael Burry is looking into it and it looks like he’s got evidence I’m right. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

has it occurred to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social that her segregation policies might make rowling happy on x and hadley freeman might write a nice column about her( until it dawns on her that her old friends still won't answer her calls ) that the majority of ppl will hate her? ppl don't want this

Well, that's my evening, then.

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I think a good rule of thumb going forward is that, if you see somebody wearing smart glasses, you should probably beat the living shit out of them. If nothing else, permanently destroy the glasses. I think people should have a mortal fear of leaving their house while wearing them

Wes Streeting is one of the worst people to be made a Minister in my lifetime. He has a lot of stiff competition, obviously, I lived through Thatcher's government and every UK government since, but he is right up there with the worst of the worst.

Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱

"average person commits 3 heresies a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person commits 0 heresies per year. American Evangelical Georg, who lives in cave & commits over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Surely there’s sort of a limit of how often you can keep betting the farm on one fashionable buzzword? Like, why not today think about what’s going to be emerging in the next four or five years and put together some smart exploratory teams in several different areas?

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

What the actual hell

Ooh I'll get down to the beach and see if there's any free bananas washed up

Ah that familiar problem, RPG posters being too popular and having too much reach. This is why I check Tumblr before Bluesky lol

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

live long and prosper (if you have a billion dollars)

I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too: "There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done." All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.

Lovely review of DIE RPG from @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social , in terms of what it does. #ttrpg #dierpg

"When are we going to have a cost of living special?" Zack Polanski on #BBCQT join.greenparty.org.uk

Bill increases of nearly a third for millions of ordinary people have helped Thames Water's profits soar to over £400 million. Foreign hedge fund lenders want more power to pollute our waters and raise our bills. Privatised water is a scam. Let's bring it back into public hands.