FYI: AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

Naoyuki Kato

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Well this piece certainly delivers and the last par is 😬 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

There's a woman flogging batteries in the park; she sells c-cells by the seesaw #dadgags

One of my favorites since childhood, I still love it

Europeans after managing to prevent the collapse of NATO for another 1-2 weeks… #Europe #Rutte

"Without us you'd all be speaking German", Donald Trump tells an audience in Davos, in Switzerland. Where the most common language is German.

This is absolutely nuts

@gilesyb.bsky.social this is what the inflection point looks like - chinas emissions will be tanking very soon e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

My dog's eaten all my Scrabble tiles, that could spell trouble the next time he goes to the toilet #dadgags

We used to do real science

We lost an icon 10 years ago today. 🤍 @chrisdeville.bsky.social on Bowie’s final masterpiece: stereogum.com/2484243/blac...

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

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I was once attacked by a gang of street mimes, they did unspeakable things to me #dadgags

Posting this mostly as a reminder to myself, but these Game Awards trailers looked good; No Law, Coven of the Chicken Foot, Orbitals, Ontos, Control Resonant

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Barbican revamp to give ‘bewildering’ arts centre a new lease of life

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

Maybe nothing sums up the cultural vapidity of Tech like the fact they sprinted past doing Torment Nexus stuff that's *like* a Black Mirror episode, and straight to shit that's explicitly *from* Black Mirror episodes, promoted with ads which are lit, shot and set-designed like Black Mirror episodes.

when the bouncers have reluctantly let me into the club but immediately realise they’ve made a horrible mistake

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Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

Interesting final few paragraphs in this.

Look what we have here then.

I used to work in a factory that makes calendars but I got fired for taking a few days off #dadgags

If it's a crime for a man to bring his toilet seat into B&Q and hold it up against all the new toilet seats to check they fit then I'll guess you'll just have to arrest me now!

Magnificent: youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg?...

waffle party

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

A man caught unraveling the Bayeux tapestry has been charged with affray #dadgags

meta ai is out here asking some wild questions

The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.

www.reddit.com/r/beatles/co... A Beatles conspiracy theory straight from the brain of Dwight Schrute

rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides

My friend asked me if I'd seen the film 'Tractor'. 'No,' I said, 'but I've seen the trailer' #dadgags

Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.

THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001, dir: Wes Anderson)

mother of god

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

Can Sweden really attract global talent while making citizenship harder?

Scheana sells shein shirts on the shein store

youtu.be/rHLIz4YxCJg?... This looks great

this is what beit hanoun looked like (from arabi21.com/story/155862...)

We had a training session on counterfeit money at work the other day. I didn't learn much, we weren't allowed to make notes #dadgags