i still have a bit of reading to do on just what they were all thinking when they tarred and feathered tax collectors, threw tea overboard from merchant ships docked in the harbor, and fought for 8 years to win their freedom & ours. but i am pretty sure they would have been entirely fine with this.

They keep asking me to take cognitive tests every couple months because I'm so good at them, they want to see if I can beat my high score

guy who says he has "aced" his "mental health exam" freely writes a 487 word post on social media threatening journalists with prosecution for speakimg freely.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

also re:mcdonalds using genAI for a commercial confused or dishonest advocates insist it's technology to empower individuals or little teams to punch above their weight in practice the main customers are companies that have all the money in the world ending the last stable high paying art day jobs

me, playing a video game hitler made, with all funds going towards the hitler foundation with the express purpose of destroying your specific minority: "no it's just a good game and i like the IP, not hitler's other stuff"

The executives all champing at the bit to roll this stuff out really have no idea what they're in for

oh yea

ah, well, this must be why i haven't seen this stuff sold in stores

I don't want to pretend that having ADHD makes navigating the society we live in as difficult as being trans, but it's a shared fight. And there are so many parallels around what having the language to understand yourself can do. I don't want to go back to a world where people are stuck living

TIL the italian word for nuts is "noci", pronounced "no-chee", which ngl works beautifully in "noci e pepe", if not more generally.

predictably, they project a name that quite a lot of folks would use to describe the current U.S. administration onto a group they want to extract concessions from.

Ask yourself if kids prefer toys, or stores. Games from a generation ago were allowed to be toys. Games today are forced to be stores.

"It is the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself" --I forget who said it first

I forget who said it first, but isn't it wild that in one generation we built the most advanced system for finding information about anything, and then we ruined it.

[THE NEWS] Facebook has announced that they have halted development on the Metaverse **everyone immediately starts cheering so hard they don't even hear the next thing the news says** [THE NEXT THING THE NEWS SAYS] …in order to focus on getting people to wear surveillance cameras on their bodies

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.’

they have to call it "vegan cheese" because nobody can say "nut cheese" with a straight face.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Sir the surgery to give you pig eyelids was a complete success

Instead they wrote "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which is not in any way ambiguous

I think one reason these deaths lately feel so sharp is because these are the characters and accomplishments of the 20th century finally closing its books.

coincidentally (or perhaps not?) the same too-late-now-its-here-forever-deal-with-it argument that's going to start gaining steam as the vacuous interior of the AI bubble becomes more and more painfully obvious to everyone.

korean fried chicken places have already been doing this but offering fried tofu at an american fast food restaurant chain that clearly says "chicken" in the name is sure to cause some controversy.

The Plot to Enslave America

i was under the impression that steam was allowing things like this under a free-speech-for-better-or-worse but it is interesting to see what they didn't ban in context to what they do ban.

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

I have many thoughts about this, one is I can't help but think this is all just shining a light on how games are still being held to wildly different standards than other media like film. I've played very few games like HORSES but watched so many films like it (as a connoisseur of arthouse horror).

(If people want to experience random and endless conversational potential, what they are looking for is a trip to the local coffee shop, not a video game)

paying drive-thru prices for one meal after only buying basic ingredients and cooking at home for a couple of weeks

one foot in front of the other.

😏

"so, you operate the online store for all the indie game developers who are too weird to get onto the shelves at wal mart because of content policies, and then you... make sure those devs can't get on your shelves either?"

breathe in. hold. breathe out.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

me when I hear anyone refer to a generative AI image as "art"

it's almost as if there's this belief amongst some in our government that the people will just simply ignore a long train of abuses and usurpations.

we need like a powerpoint deck that can be played on the roku in the living room or whatever that explains the difference between a "field" and a "profession" and that creative fields are often highly intersectional and also hyper-specialized.

So many people have dismissed me because it's a bubble and bubbles burst, but like, this one needs opposition. This bubble NEEDS to burst, and the entire apparatus of rich people is trying to reinforce it. We have to make AI not only a class traitor thing, but extremely dorky and uncool.

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon

Talentless frauds close to the White House are making billions by crashing the American economy and selling out America’s allies. Here’s why democratic socialism is unthinkable.

My favorite thing is when the person lies and the news guy is like “but is that true?” and the person goes yep and the news guy goes “alright thanks for joining us”

Every week you get to be like wow they did it again