This despite it being aggressively shoehorned into every productivity application available - maybe investors are stupid???????

"Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence."

"'Does the Pope wear a funny hat.' Funny how? Funny like I'm a clown? Do I amuse you?"

"Western civilization," the font, the 11 stars - 11 states in the confederacy, for the record. Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal

HSBC forecasts that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The meanest thought I ever had about a baby was “oh no, he looks like John Byrne drew him”

"…over concerns about the city's crime rate" So @npr.org, I know it's not the main point of the piece, but you're just going to not provide any sort of context or fact-checking on "concerns" about DC's crime rate?! 😡

Is there even a ludicrously optimistic theoretical way that this is all supposed to work out or is it just 100% underpants gnomes

The Hidden History of Women Game Designers daily.jstor.org/the-hidden-h...

"We'd sit there silently, take detailed notes, and send them 10 minutes later."

I did it! Probably the most ridiculously hard achievement in #OuterWorlds2 - collected 100 Pitch/Tossball cards. Had more than 80 of them before I had to resort to guides for the last few.

Wow, hadn't seen anything like this in a long time. Dudes, it's not Firefox, it's your site that's the problem. Do better @torontomet.bsky.social

Yet another story in which content creators say their traffic has plunged since Google started serving up AI Overview answers summarizing their work--in the case of recipes, often wildly incorrectly. (Of course Facebook is also part of this AI-slop problem.)

"Artificial intelligence, meet artificial accounting": Mark Zuckerberg's newfound obsession with "superintelligence" does not extend to owning the financial risk of building out a giant, polluting data center in Louisiana. (gift link)

Colder weather means it's time to break out the sous vide and searzall for a roast! 😋

Actual “This is fine.” meme.

Now we're talking - the most valued Tossball card from the #OuterWorlds2 - the ultra special "Leonard Boyarsky". He's getting up there in years but still cranking out the hits 😆

This is some scary shit you guys. Two pillars of the community—middle aged white guys no less—arrested because some off duty cop bastard sitting several booths away in a restaurant claims to have heard them “plotting against law enforcement.” We’re in the “ears everywhere, trust no one” stage of it.

AOC with the facts on MTG

"Getting a robot to use the treadmill for you at the gym doesn't make you any fitter" You don't say?

“It doesn’t feel like a satisfying outcome to just have two robots argue back and forth over whether a patient should access a particular type of care" All other issues aside, the inefficiency of throwing AI at everything - including other AIs - seems destined for failure rather than anything good.

PSA: Using #AI to do your homework/assignments is the cognitive equivalent of taking all the ingredients of a healthy meal and dropping them directly into the toilet. Same end result, none of the essential benefits.

Just show how consciously or unconsciously people buy into the illusory personhood, the anthropomorphism, of AI.

This is why, after a lifetime of watching and enjoying #NFL football, I stopped. Growing up, we even had a family "betting" pool every week to pick the winners of every game. Hell, I still probably have upwards of two dozen Broncos jerseys. But I stopped because it's literally killing the players.

No poll or research based solely on an online survey can ever be trusted again (and they never should have been in the first place), pass it on

Man, Fairfax County Public Schools #FCPS in Virginia, has totally bought in to the AI hype. One of the best school systems in the country has sold out the kids it's supposed to be educating.

The Trump Administration killed over 383 active clinical trials and directly harmed more than 74,000 Americans with lasting future impacts for the public at large. Trump' s war on scientific research and public health is costing Americans lives and livelihoods.

Hey everybody who ever loved a video game: take a moment right now and say a little prayer for Rebecca, to whom you owe much.

a) this fucking sucks, wtf Apple? b) anybody got the link avail, the one about how to remove this?

Guess we know where the next Ground Zero of an outbreak is going to be.

Nobel Peace Prize candidate, Donald Trump, on the murder and dismemberment of a journalist: "Things happen."

NEW: Remember that story we broke a few months ago with @propublica.org @texastribune.org? We reported Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did not want to release his office's emails with #Elon #Musk. Well, we have an update. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege #FOIA #transparency #Texas

This thread is fascinating and terrifying

There is no reason for this. The tax code is very formulaic and should be straightforward to code for.

Quick cartoon. I was hoping to stay unplugged this week but I saw some news and had to take a break to draw this out. I think we all needed to see it realized.

This isn’t *quite* Verhoeven coded because it isn’t violent enough but good lord I hate living in a parody of the early 21st century

Interview: Oleksa Lozowchuk on The Outer Worlds 2 Soundtrack

As I told the Columbia Journalism Review, this swatting incident occurred just before I published an investigative report that unmasked the operators of four major neo-Nazi accounts on X. I don't think the timing was coincidental. www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...

The tech oligarchs believe they are entitled to public research funding, an exemption from antitrust regulation, and tax breaks. They're willing to punish any party that doesn't accede to their demands.

My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away. Fuck cancer. Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...

Actually found a neat #OuterWorlds2 pacifist choice not covered in any of the walkthroughs I could find. On the 'Do More Harm' quest, you can keep Curator Arnaux alive and stop him calling in Protectorate reinforcements. Explanation in the alt text to avoid spoilers.

The idea that individuals are going to be able to "negotiate" better rates with health insurers than the US government can is pants-on-head level absurd on its face

Something definitely fishy with the pressure on archive.today - excellent write-up on the details from an interested third-party.

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

Of all the cruel, evil, stupid things that MAGA / the far-right have done, I still cannot in any way understand how doctors, nurses and cancer researchers became the enemy.

Oh man, the ignorance is almost impressive.

Lagniappe: 1849, from New Orleans creole, of unknown origin though much speculated upon. www.etymonline.com/word/lagniappe #etymology

Video game spaceships are always supposed to look cool. It's practically baked into the genre. But #OuterWorlds2 gives you this *thing* and I can't think of a more on-point bit of storytelling. Humanity can fly across the stars, but dystopically, it's in about the ugliest ship imaginable. Love it.

"With the new controller, Valve is also the first to put magnetic, drift-resistant sticks into a first-party pad — beating Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo to the punch" Not sure about the design, but this alone might make it worth it for me.