90% of YouTube these days...

Apparently I missed this 20 versions ago, but in Firefox you can now copy a link with "Copy Clean Link" and it will remove all that "utm" tracking garbage at the end of the URL 😎

Interesting video by Christian immigrants which influenced Pope Leo's recent decision that "the church cannot be silent" and needs a "stronger, more unified voice". youtu.be/rOdHZDpM9X8

We had a good run

Good evening. "Jerry Chen" was a 27-month sociological experiment studying Poster's Madness conducted by Quinnipiac University. We are now complete with our study; thank you for your time.

I guess it was inevitable the admins of this platform — the only viable alternative to X, which has become truly malevolent and perpetuates great harm — would eventually get dog-piled and become a punching bag. Huge swathes of the left do not know how to keep perspective at all.

RIP to this legend. Society still has so much to learn from her and sometimes it seems like we're headed in the wrong direction. news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/w...

Okay this is actually funny 😹 Gavin Newsom has been relentlessly trolling DJT for days.

We would never waterboard. We're not monsters. What you saw back there was compassionate and humane hydroplaning.

Good recap on justified true beliefs, what it means to know something, the implications for AI, and why it matters. #philosophy #science #AI youtu.be/M2ZM5tuhFWs

Chasing a deer around in circles at low speed to get it off the road and onto the trails is my favorite biking sidequest 😝 And it actually worked.

Myspace Tom is back and he's using Grok to troll Musk and Trump while they publicly feud. We're so back 😝 #myspacetom #myspace #AI

Haters will say this is AI.

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"Overworld Map" Super Mario World (1990)

a peachy stroll 🍑🌼🌷

Only bisexual Zoomers get Long COVID, this is very established.

Not only can't they handle the complicated or unusual, but if it got close but not good enough or if it was creating some strange behavior how does a non-programmer even correct that except just asking the AI over and over to fix it and hope that it eventually does?... Not an ideal approach by far.

Very proud of this actually

Amazing things are happening at X 😹😹😹

Charlie Chaplin did the meme first, 103 years ago...

Which reminds me of: »Everyone who is on social media is getting individualized, continuously adjusted stimuli, without a break. What might once have been called advertising must now be understood as continuous behavior modification on a titanic scale.« ~ Jaron Lanier #ahoy25

Repurposing what came before is a very old and accepted tradition in the arts. Wondering how to think about AI art, and how it relates to collage art, sampling in music, and other forms of remixing? This one-stop resource is my starting point for these discussions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9RY...

I literally never get dog-piled as hard and have abuse hurled at me as when I have anything even remotely positive to say about AI. My question is why if you're so confident in your position is that even necessary? That kind of fragility toward even the smallest bit of dissent is very telling.

Most people these days just don't understand.

“I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.” Yoko Ono handmade collage

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

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do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

This is the kind of thing that doesn't get a community note anymore since Musk took over Twitter. 11 million views, 120,000 likes.

Is there something about social media that is making people more reactionary and stupid? Slight exaggeration to illustrate the point, but I could say "I like mangoes" and get non sequitur replies like "oh, so you HATE kiwis, is that it?" and "why do you think eating sugar all day is a good idea!?"

As of today, FBI, CIA, and DOE all say it was likely a lab leak. If true it's the biggest science lab fuck-up in human history. Millions of people died a horrifying death, and hundreds of millions of lives were upended. (1/2)

It's going to be this for the next four years 😩

Whenever you see anyone taking Elon Musk seriously, remember these tweets.

We're going to miss the official Biden photographer.

That's right. youtu.be/eG_BZ8z-NlQ

Let's just go ahead and throw bird flu pandemic into the mix for 2025... 😒

For people who heard about Bluesky gaining 1 million new users per day and are wondering how it's doing now: About 100,000 per day, so it's leveled off quite a bit but still plenty to sustain a robust social network. And there might be more waves if X keeps being mismanaged, which seems likely.

Relaxing bird sounds... #birds

Wow

Full size and travel size... #cats