Given all the really important shit that this government says we "can't afford" it's amazing what they manage to find money for.

If you don't agree with this observation, it's probably because you don't know enough about the history of radium as a do-everything product.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Auckland Council are having Local Board plan meeting/briefings... At 10am on weekdays.

We choose to go to the moon, not because it's easy. But because it's easier than Mars.

This is a significant issue for democracy and trust in news media (already dismal, as we know). I'm so glad that Meta is taking action against this automated AI slop on their platforms by doing... *checks notes* nothing. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I'm sure there are lots of interesting ways to use LLMs... But under no circumstances would I allow an LLM permission to write to my main filesystem. Even my LLM coding experiments have been sandboxed. I also won't give one access to my browser profile. Stop it.

My theory that AI maximalists don’t know how to use a computer remains undefeated so far

Again, I get the instinct here, but the deck is stacked so much against you now you're not really accomplishing anything by staying on Elon's Nazi Fun Place and CSAM Clearinghouse.

Given that Jeff Bezos has named his yacht with a te reo Māori word, I think Aotearoa should be allowed to confiscate it. Or sink it. Or tax it.

Dildo chucking is a great protest methodology, I think!

This feels like a brutal attack on my person.

I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone

In my wildest dreams I could never have imagined a more gratuitous sign that AI is a bubble than “chance the rapper, sponsored by coreweave.” It’s beautiful. It’ll be in a movie someday

Investors, I get the feeling that the free AI money isn’t going to be around a lot longer so please give as much of it as possible to me. I need money more than OpenAI does and I promise not to use it on an AI project Instead I’ll just do more of this sort of thing

Give Josh all your money. The dog and cat paintings were a wedding present we got done for my sister and her wife and they're so good.

Rewatching Jet Lag: The Game's Switzerland Hide & Seek season. One of my favourites. If you haven't watched it (or any Jet Lag) — I highly recommend! youtu.be/E8UmTJVDnUI

They made up a whole story about a White House staffer posting ut in the middle of the night, and Trump just goes Leeroy Jenkins and says, "You're goddamn right I ordered the Code Red!"

BREAKING NEWS: ELON MUSK TO FOCUS ON MARSHMALLOW FARM INSTEAD OF GUMDROP CITY www.wsj.com/science/spac...

Can't wait for the entire US media to pivot to outage about the f-word and lack of decorum, instead of the disgusting video posted by dysfunctional President. Maybe they'll prove me wrong.

Can't imagine Kirsti Noem saying anything negative about this guy.

Honestly who is advising Hipkins? He should have been taking secret manu lessons for the past three months and should have taken this chance to lose the suit and do an awesome bomb!

ok, whoa. the DOJ just told me that the unredacted version of the document in question contains an image of a victim’s face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image. so, that's why it's redacted. jesus christ

The DOJ claims that this reaction actually obscured the face of a real human victim (in response to 404 Media inquiry). Looking more closely at the image I think that's very possibly true. This may be one of those "put head through hole" tourist photo ops. It's not the real Mona Lisa.

The fact that *not one* person in Harris' camp can explain why they shouldn't launch their fucking media operation on the Substack platform is... probably all you need to know about that endeavor.

Bitcoin 🚀 (but imagine the rocket pointing downward instead)

I would love a feature that was "alert the person you follow who just reposted a thing that it was actually fake/disinformation" If I reply it's a reply to the original poster, and I can't necessarily DM them, or might not want to. But I think they probably didn't intentionally repost a fake thing.

The Struggles Of Elon Musk 😔

Please, my magic bean, it is very sick

This is actually real. And it's very illustrative of what DOJ has done. The document in question has redaction boxes over the face of every femme-looking person (including the Mona Lisa). It's clearly done using some sort of AI-assisted process.

Sadly the image here has been edited to reverse the scope. In the original it is mounted correctly.

FWIW, the only way I'd trust a billionaire to "help" save one of these legacy news orgs is if they bought it, transferred ownership to a worker-owned collective of actual journalists (not right wing Substackers), and walked away. About as likely to happen as a cop arresting an ICE agent, so...

It was difficult to believe this was a legitimate transcript of this interview... But it largely is.

I'm real sorry guys but a multimillionaire celebrity self-financing a movie that they write direct produce edit and star in, and that has a built-in audience of 40 million fans/subscribers to make it a success, is not the shocking and transformative industry disruption you think it is

No doubt being married to either of those two would make women sad.

@fadeinpro.com On the latest episode of Dead Pilots Society podcast, some of the writers were talking about the difficulty collaborating in real-time... Right it might interest you.

The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

If Trump is going to fuck with the elections, this is the best way to do it. Not changing laws or fiddling the ballot, but simply stopping people on the day. There's no recourse. If it's not stopped on the day, within hours, then it's happened. The votes just weren't cast.

What do you mean that firefighter is being investigated? We used to be a proper dildo throwing country. Where are our traditional dildo values? I shudder to raise my child in this dildo-at-politicians void world.

I am absolutely genuine when asking this: Are there any significant economic indicators for New Zealand that are now better than they were ahead of the last election? Inflation is lower, but was trending down heading into 2023 election, and is trending up now.

twitter must be dead dead cause someone posted a rat coin purse that would have 2019 twitter losing its collective mind and most of the top comments are bots saying random words or people not nearly amped enough about the rat coin purse

Amazing... AI in medical settings will literally kill us.

This guy was featured in an episode of This American Life a couple of weeks ago. So I guess it's just a matter of time until the FBI arrests Ira Glass.

Gervais’s Law: celebrities should never share their political views except in a sitcom, Netflix comedy special or national arena tour where they can pretend they’re just joking even when they’re clearly not

It's a bit. Right? No one is posting that and honestly trying to suggest it's actually real.

Indeed, Martin, my unique perspective of having never developed anything for mobile and not having coded professionally for 20 years really would bring a unique perspective.

Just a weird shell game. xAI owns X-formerly-Twitter, right?

I mean objectively Trevor Noah did *not* say that, but by all means keep going on TV and making that claim about yourself I guess?

I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly