If you let them, the horrors will devour you whole. Making space to live and smile is an act of resistance. So is helping others to do the same. If you’re an artist in this time, remember that what you’re doing is part of the emotional support infrastructure. They want you silent. 1/2

cyberpunk status: Yesterday, agents of the police state murdered a woman while trying to use his phone to add her identity to the unperson database. Today, the guy from the phone company recommended Costco as a good source for mesh networking.

I saw this on Reddit and had to check for myself because it's so weird. If you rapidly scroll through the different foods on the realfood.gov website, it turns into a picture of RFK Jr??

If you can’t make it, email the Charter Commission at [email protected] & tell them to REJECT the attempt to strip our powers. INSTEAD, APPROVE our 6 recommendations. bit.ly/lacontroller-charter

claude code is fucking insane i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism

I also enjoy that they renamed Remote Desktop to Windows App and the Windows App is available in the App Store for Mac where the tab title becomes "Windows App App - App Store" apps.apple.com/us/app/windo...

Worth a read if you use food delivery apps source: r/confession

“we used tools validated for assessing and reducing human anxiety (see Methods). The term is used metaphorically to describe GPT-4’s self-reported outputs on human-designed psychological scales and is not intended to anthropomorphize the model.” NOT INTENDED. TO ANTHROPOMORPHIZE. THE MODEL.

An *actual* very hard problem in AI, is that you literally do not need any AI involved for people to be utterly convinced they're dealing with AI. Meet Claude Shannon's machine for playing Hex, it's just a resistor mesh, no logic gates or programming involved.

Much later Einstein postulated that the universe was a 3-sphere. But Dante got the idea first: • Mark A. Peterson, Dante and the 3-sphere, American Journal of Physics 47 (1979), 1031-1035. physicsgg.me/wp-content/u... (2/2) mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...

Monet once confessed he could never finish a painting—“I stop when I’m tired.” Each canvas was a moment, not a conclusion.

and if you want to know... why Donald Trump is the president It's because the Ecru measure Goodness as being able to handle snakes rather than avoid them.

Good enough means you can tolerate or are distant enough from any harm.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

The hell is the magnet district

Data poem: Air Real time air quality index from the world’s 100 largest cities. I had to look up Riyadh and Beijing to make sure the numbers were right, I was sure I had accidentally multiplied something.

But I can see you Your bronze helm shining in the sun And there's Gilgamesh with scale armor on, baby And I can tell you and Enkidu will still be strong After the boys of Sumer have gone

JOE ROGAN: is that true? thats crazy ME: it is true, Joseph. and the crazy part is nobody says anything. no one will acknowledge that beaker is doctor bunsen honeydew's son. JOE ROGAN: wow ME: and the things he puts him through....

And as I believe I've discussed before, the word "ampersand" is a corruption of the phrase "and per se and," which means, basically, "Just fucking 'and,' all right? Nothing else. And meaning 'and.'"

Big problem with what's being called "AI" these days—it is absolutely, unambiguously better than humans at recognizing subtle and complex patterns. And because of this, humans are incapable of foreseeing how it will do things like become a superhuman racist.

Which is abbreviated 'MICR'. Numbers & some special characters are printed on the check in ferro-magnetic ink. They can then be fed into a reader that induces magnetism & reads the unique waveform for each character. The character shapes are /magnetically distinct/, but still *human readable*.

Brand says Shapiro should be more open to dialogue with people like Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens. "No one's better than anyone else. We're all on our knees" This is incredible

There's no ethical to-do list under capitalism

New pumpkin toadlet discovered in the mountains of #Brazil is the size of a pencil tip www.earth.com/news/new-pum...

Walked back to my bike and saw the purple glitter violin I bought of the street that I’d totally forgotten about. It’s like I got two purple glitter violins.

They know not the thing you distantly allude to.

becoming a really good writer is an extensive and lengthy process that also requires reading very widely the thing about inventing LLM tech that relies upon natural language to function is that it becomes even more important that the humans doing the prompting are good at using natural language

A discussion I’ve been having with coworkers centres around how the actual ad concept is also bad, and one of the problems with AI is the perceived speed and ease of use removes some important friction. 1/

Saul Blart became Paul Blart in the mall of damascus

this is why it matters to understand what these tools actually are instead of accepting Sam Altman's bullshit at face value

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

Alright, I've got the writing part down. Now I just need to destroy my life and cause untold horror and suffering by having gross phone sex with a world historical monster. who up?

The background, shadows, and wind direction in the AI lion slap video remain consistent. So they're using 3D compositing systems to make AI tiktoks now? Welp. You tried, epistemology. GG

Slime mold, Arcyria stipata. This specimen is about 3” across. At Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.

was feeling around trying to find my "magic," and realized I was looking for my noise canceling ear buds

The battlefields of the future will be filled with creatures that look like Japanese mascots.

We are not out of the woods, not by a long shot. The horrors are here, they have not receded. At the same time, the regime has overplayed its hand and failed in its efforts of total consolidation of power. I don't see a path to their realizing totalitarian control.

Today is the birthday of writer & artist Fletcher Hanks (Dec. 1, 1889-Jan. 22, 1976). He was only active in the comic industry for three years but is remembered for his unique style & unusual creations such as Stardust the Super Wizard & Fantomah.

The little things sometimes stick out from the chronic horror.

Hey how's it going? My major organs /appear/ well-perfused, how about you?

And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.

Psst. Hey buddy. *opens coat* Logs from 500 year old oaks grown in the forests of Bercé. Planted by the Sun King. Suitable for the royal navy or cathedral of your choice. Gotta move em quick.

I don't think every or even most journalists are this utterly corrupt. The investigative folks I know have always conducted themselves pretty scrupulously, and I'm currently forced to conclude that's why they haven't hit the big-time

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Watch out! My outfit's ridiculous! In the club looking so conspicuous! And rawr! These women all on the prowl! If you hold the head steady, I'ma milk the cow! And forget about game, I'ma spit the Truth! I won't stop 'til I get 'em in their birthday suit!

ok but hear me out

if you get your credit card out to find out what happens you’ve strayed too far from god’s light

Immantise the eschaton. That’s what we’re going to do folks. We’re going to immantentise – such a beautiful word, it means bring forward or make immediate – the eschaton. You’re going to love the eschaton. The Democrats, they say no, don’t immantentise the eschaton – well we’re going to do it folks

Would someone who knows where this dude is located please superglue a shiny, very hard white plastic pill to his tongue for me please?