As expected one story dominating the front pages today

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It’s Roy Scheider’s birthday. Love this anecdote about Jeff Daniels’ unforgettable death scene in Speed & how it’s all thanks to Scheider in Jaws.

What a stitch-up www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Everyday feels more and more like Larry

Also looking at just replacing it as it’s oldish anyway, and now amazon makes you pay £10 more for a kindle that doesn’t play adverts in sleep mode or as screensavers?

How hard would it be for an idiot like me to replace a broken kindle screen?

The rich guys of the Gilded Age were all assholes, but they all felt the need to at least pretend to be cultured and philanthropic (the existence of Carnegie Hall, for instance). These guys are all boobs who think it's funny when 14-year-old boys say slurs.

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Generative AI is ruining my motivation to teach. It is not a bold new era of information that I'm excited to see my students explore. It's a cheat that prevents them from thinking. It lets them avoid even a moment of confusion and struggle, necessary to process new ideas.

I've noticed some people on Twitter are prone to arguing with Grok, posing leading questions to get Grok to confirm their most delusional, conspiratorial beliefs. I worry that this behavior + AI's politeness bias + lack of mental health services + widespread guns will lead to bad things.

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

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Once again asking what problem this technology has solved or is expected to solve to force us to endure this. www.fastcompany.com/91253026/air...

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

I saw @robwilliams71.bsky.social in the flesh this weekend and it was just as disappointing as you’d expect. But everyone said his film GAME was intense and amazing so go check it out

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

I know McSweeney isn't the whole problem. I know the king chooses his advisors. But I really do think letting a campaigns guy who thinks in polling not policy run all the bits the PM isn't interested in is a huge, huge contributor to their inability to climb out of this hole.

JUST RAISE TAXES. MAKE AN ARGUMENT FOR SOLIDARITY AND SHARED SACRIFICE FOR ONCE

I love Christmas. Favourite time of the year. But, Jesus Christ even I get sick of it when it starts in early November

How it feels trying to work out if a new TV advert is AI or real

The intense, early-1990s set indie thriller Game is getting a Q&A tour of UK cinemas from November. Here's where you can see it: filmstories.co.uk/news/game-st...

*Carpenter writes Thing$ on a whiteboard, execs cheer*

Yes please 👀 youtu.be/bAiqphWgBIM?...

Keep thinking I can’t hate AI any more. Always wrong The pain of losing someone to suicide is a uniquely cruel horror. Fuck you Open AI. Fuck you ChatGPT. Sickening.

Ah fuck what a shame. If you haven’t seen it, OWW is a tough watch but well worth it.

huge missed opportunity to title it "And Another Thing"

Ministers plan to pilot a £3m “education neuroscience research centre” to boost improve policymaking by a better understanding of brain development, learning processes, mental health and SEND schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-plans-...

Also, you can't change a lot of these settings if you (like me) haven't verified yourself yet

Hello! I’m drawing very single character from The Simpsons, in order. This week I hit a major milestone, finishing the second season, reaching over 500 characters in total. Here’s every new character we met in season 2. Thank you to everyone who has supported the project so far. You’re the best.

I think a challenging, but fair, quiz, this week. www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

Every day on LinkedIn is a new glimpse into a new circle of hell. I can see how this technology could be useful to make subtle changes and fix production errors, but using Fritz Lang's Metropolis as an example is just tone-deaf. What's next - use AI to look behind the curtain in the Wizard Of Oz?

Suspect this question is often a proxy for "Would you like to be young again?"

FUCKING NORA

#Criminal #inks #wip

Martin Scorsese and his daughter Francesca read Letterboxd reviews and guessed which Scorsese movie they were about.

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.

We can do *something* to stop this by preventing AIs from impersonating humans. No more ‘I’. No more ‘You’. I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Until I die, I will never understand why so many motorists think that “having a car” should give you special protections from doing crimes.