43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me.

if you look at social media and dont immediately feel better what you should do is keep going back to it every five minutes or so. eventually you will find the Post that makes your life better

I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...

it's not FOR us

It's so weird that magical thinking has become a business venture nowadays. Magical thinking is free for all to practice. Placebo yourself, do a little ritual, talk with your imaginary friends, know that it is all gonna turn out ok,... Instead we get AI + brain and boner pills etc and self help

In this week's FREE article, @seemoreevil.bsky.social makes a friend! An AI friend. Yes, he bought one of those AI necklaces and wore it for comedy science. Everyone read his article and say thank you, or I'm sorry. 1900hotdog.com/2025/10/upse...

got a nice email from someone in austria asking me to rotate a Leberkässemmel, an austere meatloaf and mustard sandwich on kaiser roll i was previously unfamiliar with. i figured what the hell, let's rotate it and rotate it fast

I have a sentient coin because I ask if it's alive, telling it that Heads is Yes and Tails is No. I flip it and, would you believe, it says Yes! But, what's really impressive, is that sometimes¹ it shows Tails, which proves that it is so smart it knows how to lie! ¹ about half, to be honest

Holding up a sign that says "human nature is contingent" and all the tech bros and evo psych clowns hiss like vampires seeing a cross.

People forget that back with GPT-2 and Markov chain generators, the fun was specifically in how wildly inconsistent they were. That was the whole point. LLMs legitimately peaked with the original dril bot

Odysseus am Samstag um 12: Welch lieblicher Klang! Welch betörende töne

Lobotomy? Labubu me!

Is it just me or have I seen this exact video as a scam ad before? They literally just cut off the last part that leads you to a sign up page asking for your credit card info. Half of the call to action is still here even...

Aus gutem Grind

Man muss es immer wieder sagen: Bitte baut keinen Open Source Torment Nexus.

So many women have been talking, writing and warning people of the dangerous ideologies and biases of tech in Silicon Valley, for decades, and it’s so infuriating that so many men (not OP here) just flat out ignore it and act surprised at the technofascists infecting it now

ich wenn ich eine kleine maus wäre: "hallo ich bin eine kleine maus"

its a beautiful prison folks. all it takes is one guard! and he sees all the bad guys. *childlike smile* but they dont know if hes seeing them. pan-op-ti-con. panopticon!

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[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

"Disneyland is a perfect model of all the entangled orders of simulacra." - Simulacra and Simulation

Chiding my dog who I named warren Buffett: No! ...

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

my biggest tin foil brain shotcall: everything (from shitty governments to dotcoms who’s ad rev is dwindling because the ads don’t work) is trending towards the next step being a private gated web destroying the Internet is a trillion dollar business for IP enforcement & thought policing

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you tellin me this fog gives brain ?

L'existence de la pomme de terre implique l'existence des pomme de l'air, de l'eau et du feu. Il y a très longtemps, ces quatre patates vivaient en harmonie...

Truly a strange feeling to have grown up with the internet being your refuge and cherished resource only to have it become utter shit and realize that maybe you don't need it and in fact can't use it the way you used to anymore

putting in our quarterly report how you all laughed while we studied the blade

Certainly there was little opportunity in the past for someone who is functionally illiterate to gain a mass media following for their views on salient political issues bsky.app/profile/notu...

"If CEOs are hyping AI to create fear and stress among workers, they’re doing great...Media coverage generally is contributing to the panic. Doom-and-gloom headlines and catastrophic language abound."

Hab das als "Blinder Größenwahn" gelesen

Danke Google für die neuen AI Features auf meinem Handy :)

Not sure wie ich mein Leben in den Griff kriegen soll, aber ich habe zumindest einen Ansatz

"Das eBook 'Kapitalismus' funktioniert nicht!" Wenn es nur das eBook wäre.

i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf

WatchMojo - Top 5 presidential power moves

Gigantischer Bohnensalat

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Hier der Link zum Ursprungsartikel auf @profil.at