It will never stop being funny that *these* are the people saying that everyone else has no reading comprehension thanks to AI

I've been on a weirdly specific kick of realizing how much I don't like Better Call Saul lately (especially after watching The Sopranos, which absolutely blows this shit out of the water in every way) Like, right from the beginning, it starts suffering from awkward stilted prequel-itis where the

Losing white people, men, and non-college grads is historic

In my experience, the online art community is horrendously toxic and probably does this on purpose - they're all very competitive and insecure, and they'd love to see bad drawings get posted so they can keep feeling better about themselves by bullying the creators

i said a while back that people here have an implicitly Reaganite attitude towards the world and nothing confirms it better than the avalanche of replies to this bsky.app/profile/tznk...

There's a discourse that basically goes: Alice: But I want to use AI to do art Bob: Just do it yourself Alice: But I am not good at it Bob: Just be bad, and post it on the internet, it's fine! And Bob is lying, it sucks, you will get savaged as anyone who has taken a picture of their dinner knows.

i would like to see every academic in ai off of twitter, where they are worth an aggregate of many billions of dollars to elon specifically, and bluesky's frankly barbaric attitude towards the subject is a major problem

I love that people are acting indignant and stunned that Disney is licensing their characters to OpenAI for Sora, as if we haven't been telling them for years that these companies are only complaining about "AI IP theft!!!" because *they want to monopolize it for themselves*!!!

As someone who's dedicated my life so far to mastering as many aspects of musical performance, composition, and technique as possible: you all will always have my full permission to do whatever you'd like with AI music, as if you needed my okay (or anyone else's!) in the first place

This is a Minecraft painting

I think it's fine to be a little happy about these kinds of things, though - he's too old to run for any office again and swindle us that way, but it's signaling that even the country's right-wing leaders outside of Trump recognize that the liberals/left are gaining significant sway again

so it turns out that the studios that made very highly acclaimed games have been using new tooling without the “matmuls are the devil” mindset, and ppl are very upset about this (e33 + bg3 devs) expect this to continue and devs to simply self censor to satisfy the mob

Did you know your washing machine uses as much voltage as 200,000 human brains do in their entire lifetime... every FEMTOSECOND?! (I know what voltage means. I will block you and curse your family for a thousand generations if you explain to me why I'm horribly wrong)

Things one says when one's war on reality reaches 'desperate last stand'

“Games remaining $60 is a human right” -> “They should be bigger, better, have more graphics and other things” -> ”Also I want That Sequel Right Now” -> “Also crunch is inhumane” -> “What do you mean you’re using generative AI for labor savings”

Seconds to Chaos in Chicago: Car door ripped open and phone smashed to the ground as Citizen Records ICE in public. When "rights" aren't respected on the street, your safety is the priority. Watch your back, friends.

I didn't even think about this, like damn people really are blaming OpenAI or whoever for RAM getting expensive because we've all decided it's too cringe and liberal to correctly identify that tariffs exist and are destroying trade

Seriously, the moral outrage about AI companies driving up prices rests on the assumption that it's fundamentally immoral for them to have hardware, it's absurd

Kinda wild how quickly the entire trump admin moved on from the whole Indiana thing and how much it probably should tell everyone that you can tell him to fuck off and their need to constantly own the news cycle will mean that they move on from you within days.

I had an earth-shattering epiphany the other day - the immenese rage at LLMs from American undergrads is because they're not getting paid to write peoples' papers anymore!!!

Playing Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 today and... yeah wow now I'm remembering why I loved this game so much in 2011, it's basically a completely different beast and it's honestly a lot more fun in a lot of ways

People are now unironically blaming AI companies for Half-Life 3 not being out, because they apparently single-handedly raised the price of RAM so much that the new Steam consoles can't come out yet or something... not even a shred of evidence, just pure rage and vibes

If Nintendo made a western-style RPG spinoff just titled "Morshu", it would be the ultimate killer app for the Switch 2 and I would be obligated to buy 30 consoles

I'm not a mathematician, but according to ChatGPT, under the assumption that pi is normal, we can find the hexadecimal representation of 50% of all 25 GB files within the first 10^(6.0206 x 10^10) hex digits of pi, and that will indeed contain exactly half of our extant 25 GB files... start looking!

In a representative democracy, is there any possible cure for people always hating on whoever is in power (regardless of what they're actually doing) and alternating their votes every single election? Maybe we need to make voting a way more slow and boring process or something?

Even some well-meaning people seem shocked by the idea that you can have a kid and not think of them as an extension of yourself and your ego - like, where does that even come from?? I was so unbelievably lucky to not be raised like that

Does anyone know of any spaces online where people discuss team sports without being all bitter and competitive about it? The forced rivalry shit is so exhausting, and everyone lets good discussion fall by the wayside so they can spew their own propaganda/wishcasting about who's actually good or bad

I first went into BB thinking "aw, this poor smart dad with cancer, how could he be the villain? I'm sure you're all exaggerating!" Literally 40 minutes into the show, I hated his guts and saw right through his entire shtick, and it's wild to me that it took some people 60+ hours or NEVER to see!

Today's hot take: people who aren't musicians are WAY too confident talking about how it's made and whose contributions mattered the most, similarly to how NFL fans yell at the TV when a quarterback throws an incomplete pass while ignoring everything that just happened around him

I would Cry

Legalized betting markets are clearly such a massive and under-recognized force that I wonder if they're driving the actual majority of the vibecession shit - like, of course you feel like the economy sucks when 100% of your spending money goes into bets on CNN headlines!!!

The articles on Sega Retro are so poorly written, it's kind of amazing lmfao

Assuming this HL3 leak is real, it is *precisely* the game I've been dreaming about for my entire life and probably going to be the best thing I've ever played

I wish people were willing to accept that it's impossible to have a *perfect* restoration of film this bad - like, I can understand objections on historical grounds when something is truly warped in a bad way, but they're honest about this being a remastered documentary project!

This one is basically perfect

"Hey let's report on farmers adding pollution to a water supply so bad it causes cancer, frame an unrelated actor and put cancer cells over an image of him" This is so disrespectful to the victims. The people actually causing the cancer should be socially punished, not get off free. Insane.

We could save soooo many lives but people are so caught up in their reactionary moral panic nonsense

Just curious... have the people just realizing not to "blindly trust ChatGPT" been blindly trusting everything *else* the computer tells them this whole time?

I haven't seen Pluribus yet, but I'm a little tentative thanks to Better Call Saul being kinda eh + the fact that the show is apparently a bunch of boomer whining about AI from what I've heard lol

The only pertinent thing about this story is that everyone involved is responsible for the murder of millions of infants and children. I don't care about Cum Poetry, I care that these are serial murderers

We're gonna be hearing SO much more about this shit in the next few years, it's gonna be wild 💀

"This data center 30 miles from my house that doesn't generate any pollution or cause any traffic has raised my power bill $8 a month and destroyed my community" okay man

Is there an example of mass democratized humor ever working? Like, the second a funny subreddit I know grows beyond just a small initial ring of common posters, it becomes permanently ruined - only individual people and their friends ever stay funny

Last chance to look at your precious Chao garden, Hector

Wonderful blocklist in the hidden replies, everyone 🗣️

Just found the worst subreddit of all time, r/AskARussian 🗿 a quick look through there shows that the average user is mad about the EU not being enough like Hitler, and they mock Americans for asking if they'll be persecuted there, saying they "like foreigners" (so true!)

Smell This Milk, See if It's Bad

Oh my god this thread is wild, I pissed off the weirdest people on this site so badly LMFAO

Man do I wish the people QTing me would learn... well, anything about computer science

I can tell you what's polluting and parching the eastern farmland of Oregon. (It's the farms)