Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

Never forget that they had to spend trillions of dollars, build massive data centers, consume millions of galloons of water and insane amounts of electricity, just to kind of do what you can do better with your imagination and a cup of coffee. That's how envious they are of what you can do.

My god these articles are all so stupid. No, it could not be. That is not how it works. Your computer is not talking to you.

They should have Derek Guy speak at the sentencing

Polymarket lets people bet on wildfires. Wildfires that those samepeople could easily set in order to win money on this illegal gambling site. Big Tech is organized crime.

"AI" = LLMs or ML or intensive data processing or a fancy algorithm or sometimes just a database or basically anything you do with a computer in 2026

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

If you downloaded the 5.0.12 update for Mac earlier and it didn't work, you should be able to do so now. There was an issue with the release build of one of the third-party libraries Fade In uses. I hate computers.

Timely.

Sorry this latest update has taken so long to get out. There were a lot of little Just One More Things on the Just One More Thing list. If there's something you've been waiting for that I promised "It's on the way!", you can check the list: www.fadeinpro.com/page.pl?cont...

The Reverend Jake Gas

gonna start talking like this to my boss

Seriously, if you're betting on "prediction markets" and you're not the one with insider information, you're an idiot.

It's felt like it's 8pm all day.

I swear I'm turning into Lloyd Dobler. I don't want to sell anything to anybody. I don't want anybody to sell anything to me. I think I look good in this trench coat, somebody tell Diane this boombox is getting heavy, and Joe, man, you gotta leave that poor girl alone.

Because the sand in the grift hourglass is running out

There are so many terrible companies I want to go bankrupt.

it's funny how for decades the RIAA would carbomb teenagers for downloading one (1) song yet now these dudes are just allowed to do this shit like it's nothing

It's like THE MARTIAN out there.

What? An "AI" company violating the copyright and intellectual property rights of individual creators who neither licensed nor gave permission for the use of their work? That's so unusual and has never once happened before!

If Warner Bros. merges with Paramount, the combined company would become the largest employer of writers. Both companies are already industry giants and the loss of head-to-head competition will directly impact writers at every level as well as the pipeline for emerging writers. #BlockTheMerger

I don't want to judge but everyone should be using Fade In

Technically for Taco Bell that's just "marketing", no?

People above a certain age are probably the easiest marks for "AI" because for a long time they've already believed their computer is talking to them.

As I clean out my email, I am motivated to remind you that Fade In will never send you promotional marketing junk from "partners", trying to get you to spend money on it, unlike certain Other Screenwriting Software.

Fuck yeah. Get 'em.

reminding everyone that Elon Musk has basically no expertise in business or finance or science or engineering — the thing he's actually an expert on are these Trump-style aggressive legal shenanigans that have let him break the law and violate contracts

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I think so too.

I actually can't believe Ray-Ban and Oakley got involved with this. I've worn Wayfarers for years and will never buy another pair.

I could sit here all day reposting awesome Sam Neill stories, but I'm going to show some restraint and just sit here all day reading awesome Sam Neill stories. Which you can do, too, because they are apparently neverending.

Well, fuck

"In retrospect, it was a mistake for us to fondle his balls for a full decade."

Meta is just the stalker pervert company now, change my mind.

Man Binge-Watches Entire Movie In One Sitting https://theonion.com/man-binge-watches-entire-movie-in-one-sitting/

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One can only hope it hurts an awful lot when they have to pull it back out

I sure wish they had this sort of thing when I went to *checks notes* film school

Not one highly talented creative person I know burst onto the scene fully bloomed. Talent helps, sure. Talent provides a bit of an edge, and confidence, and sustains interest especially early on when most people might be tempted to quit trying. But at some point it's 100% effort, every day.

It's also worth noting that when people insist "it's only trained on our data" that is probably something they either (a) misunderstand, or (b) are lying about. The *massive* amount of data is the only thing that make generative "AI" do anything at all, and there simply isn't enough of *your* data.

One strike for publications, publishers, websites, writers, editor, etc. that do this. After that you're done. You no longer need to be read.

I spoke to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes and he said he uses Final Draft.

This is why "AI" as the popular umbrella term for any processing a computer does with data is meaningless. The ML tools used in medical research are not the chatbots and deepfake porn generators made by the "AI" companies, as much as they'd desperately like us all to believe they're the same thing.

A bit more evidence for the idea we're moving, fairly rapidly, into a post-literate age; mix of poor education, attention span deficits and short form video killing out literacy. This is a very, very bad thing.

This to me is one of the defining features of "AI" as a product: people fucking hate it. Yes, some may choose to use it. Yes, some may be forced to use it. But overall it's synonymous with "shit" and people hate it. I can't think of any product ever that succeeded against those odds.

Seems low. nypost.com/2026/07/07/b...

There is an AI race, but it's a race to see what runs out first -- their money, or our water.

Something I don't understand about using "AI" even to draft an email is why would you so readily let anyone else — much less a computer — put words in your mouth?