It’s a new rule courtesy @windowseat.bsky.social. “Always repost Shirley Bassey.” This song is a total banger.

The machine “determined” that deleting the environment on a live production server and recreating it was “the best course of action.”

The scandal around fromer Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor isn't *just* about child-rape. He was leaking government secrets to Epstein years after claiming he'd broken off with the sex trafficker. Reporting from the Atlantic (and sorry, it's behind a paywall).

Because I have to spend the next several hours being mildly radioactive, here's some Kraftwerk to keep you (and I) entertained.

Ty @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for the rec of "Bots All The Way Down"! "digs into the superficiality of generative AI while satirizing the ways pro-AI weirdos treat it like a sentient, conscious being. A fairy tale of web crawlers & a dead internet." www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/bots...

Vibe-generated passwords work exactly as well as you would expect. That is to say: NOT AT ALL.

Medical imaging complete. I'm now mildly radioactive, but this will pass. Contrary to every comic book ever, having radioactive blood doesn't grant superpowers. Really bummed about that. Also, all of the excitement of a PET scan happens on the subatomic level. Sitting through one is boring.

Here is the full text of the article. Three extremely similar paragraphs, no body and no conclusion. Tell me an AI didn't barf this up. The Economist couldn't even get a human being to argue on behalf of the rich.

A) I’m pumped full of radiochemicals. B) they’ve given me a glass of water to drink so that I’ll need to pee (otherwise I’ll have a bladder full of radiochemicals. C) I have snacks. D) I have a warm blanket. Another twenty minutes before the scan.

In which @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social hints at a fan-fic 100% of my closest friends would 1000% read on AO3

I’ve known Chuq for a while now. He’s good people. Go avail yourselves of his photography.

I’m in the imaging center awaiting my PET scan. The first hour is just waiting for the radiopharmaceuticals to spread throughout my system so that they accumulate in the cancer. Then I’ll be in the machine for a half hour. Yay!

THIS IS NOT A DRILL YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO. USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+ NOT. A. DRILL. www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.

"I am languid & bedeviled & hate writing & hate everybody." —Charles Darwin

It really sucks to be the former British royal arrested for his involvement with Jeffery Epstein… On his BIRTHDAY. Happy birthday to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

This place is very easy to keep warm. All you need to do is shine an enormous ball of nuclear fire down on it, and it heats right up. Of course when you take away the massive atomic heat source, by... Oh, I dunno... Putting the entire planet Earth between the house and it, it grows stone cold again.

Look, I've said this before, but @greatdismal.bsky.social's Sprawl Trilogy mostly reads like historical fiction to me these days. My career as a cybernetic hired gun for a Japanese multinational ended fourteen years ago. Bill's tech is flashier and the voodoo loa AIs didn't exist, but otherwise...

News Recap, February 10-16, 2013: Pope Benedict XVI exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, setting fire to the cruise ship Carnival Triumph, and causing its toilets to back up.

I’m wondering which category The Poseidon Adventure falls into.

Buenos noches Senores y Senoras Bienvenidos La primera pregunta es: ¿Que es mas macho, pineapple o knife? Well, let's see My guess is that a pineapple is more macho than a knife Si! Correcto! Pineapple es mas macho que knife

This is a thing again, and BOY DOES IT BRING BACK MEMORIES. $29 is a reasonable price for this nostalgia, but alas... I'm staring down pending surgery and already the medical bills are piling up, so satisfying this itch takes a back seat to my wellness.

I'd just like to repeat that as a youth, I thought the whole "Butlerian Jihad" bit from Dune was an unrealistic plot device to allow Frank Herbert to write a feudal society without computers and not a nigh-prescient and telling commentary on the dangers of artificial intelligence. How naive I was.

When you use LLMs to "improve" your writing you're just making it more generic.

when the malpractice suits come - and it's only a matter of time - the smiting is going to be more furious than the smitings judges are handing to lawyers using AI, because there will be a body count.* *also possible with lawyers but hasn't happened yet.

Watching a YouTube video on a classic car from the late 1960s. The narrator says "muscle car," but he has an accent The closed captions render it as "muscle cause."

Up in the night with a half-mug of hot chocolate. Now ready to crawl back into bed.

"Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn't be bothered to write?"

BREAKING: Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, dies at 84.

Obnoxious OpenClaw AI "bot" is AGI. A Guy Instead. ...and also a crypto scammer.

No, folks, Nick Cage’s Spider-Noir will not see him stealing the Declaration of Independence. It does look campy as hell, though.

I want to do a DnD campaign as a human bard named Billy. Billy THE Bard. Billy does sonnets, and occasionally writes whole plays. His viscious mockery is the stuff of legends. He’s Mary Arden’s little boy, from Stratfordshire, upon Avon… THE Bard.

“AI can’t do your job. But an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that can’t do your job.” —Cory Doctorow Contrary to what your Econ 101 professor says, markets are not composed of rational actors. Hype and fear drive markets, not reasoned decision making.

It’s hilarious, but it’s darkly hilarious. You’re given multiple stories of people who have ruined their lives and careers by using the falsehood generator Yet, the falsehood generator salesman still manages to convince your CEO to run the entire company using the falsehood generator.

*We* did agree that it was bad. Tech bros got a different memo. Theirs said there were profits to be made selling the Torment Nexus as a business model.

Seriously, this hyper concentration of wealth is one of the top problems facing the country -- the maldistribution is worse than it was before the Great Depression, and their political influence is even greater than it was then thanks to Citizens United etc.

Musk is a malevolent force in American life, driven by white nationalism and incredibly influential given his obscene wealth. He's a supervillain. But people get that. He's deeply unpopular, with an approval rating in the mid-30s with Trump. We just need political leaders willing to take him on.

Roses are red Trees are magnetic Sugar is sparkly I'm synaesthetic

I don't know what it means, but last night, I had a dream with @darickr.bsky.social in it. I've never met him and I barely know what he looks like, but there he was in my dream. But dreams are fluid. The moment passed, and I dreamed I was searching the fridge for a package of hot dogs.

The Council of Eldritch Judgement has rendered its verdict upon thee!

"'She is dead,'" Officer Auderer told Officer Solan, before bursting out laughing. "'No, it’s a regular person,' Officer Auderer said, adding: 'Yeah, just write a check — $11,000. She was 26, anyway. She had limited value.'"

Remember that mere possession of the videos is a crime. Do not “unredact” them by converting them from PDF. This is a sign of just how incompetent the regime is.

Yep. NVIDIA makes tons of profit, along with RAM/storage. ODMs (server manufacturers) make a smidge of profit. data center colocation companies make slim profits years and years and years later. AI compute providers basically never make a profit. AI labs/startups lose money forever

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

I can’t wait for the penultimate scene where Wormtongue Clippy stabs Sam Altman in the back and is subsequently shot full of arrows by angry hobbits. Then as Altman’s spirit rises from his fresh corpse, a wind from Valanar in the ultimate west comes and blows him away.

Apparently, from the replies of lawyers and lawyer adjacent people, “Horsefeathers!” indicates a phenomenal level of incandescent rage. The judge is on the verge of killing a man in a Walmart parking lot. The use of exclamation points is particularly telling.

I’m seated in my favorite taqueria and a few tables over a mom is dealing with her petulant and whining toddler. This is to say that calling Trump’s cabinet level staff petulant toddlers would be offensive to actual petulant whining toddlers.

In @hntdove.bsky.social novel "The Guns of the South," racist Afrikaners, travel to the 1860s and give the Confederacy AK-47s. Time travel must be expensive. "Where did the money come from?" Today, the world's wealthiest man is a racist South African, and that missing detail isn't a plot hole.

People loathe SaaS. Rentier capitalism SUUUUUCKS. So even the hint that AI may displace SaaS vendors spooks investors. “AI will replace SaaS! Sell all your stonks! Run in circles and panic! Number go down!” Remember folks, markets are dominated by “rational actors.”

Seattle’s millionaire tax is a huge success. Here is how grassroots groups beat big money and are now raising tons of money for mixed income, rent stabilized housing. (We call it “social housing.”) www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WjsvH/