We live in a world with BROADCAST NEWS gifs, and that is pretty awesome.

Some days I get tired of explaining to everyone that I'm right.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

It is amazing how *not* how it works this is. And that the guy sitting in the biggest business seat in the land either thinks this or *thinks he can say this* and no one will say nope, you're a liar or an idiot or both.

Imagine dying because some syphilitic, blathering asshole told you to invade Greenland

I covered this in my premium last week, it’s laughable! www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...

Watched THE INSIDER for family movie night last night. (a) Standing up for journalistic integrity feels like an increasingly quaint notion; and (b) this seems both stupider and worse.

Creative people: streaming is not your future. Disposable, ephemeral, intangible digital media is not your future. Books, records, CDs, Blu-rays, theatrical screenings, live performance...these will be the way your art will exist in the world beyond a temporary mad scramble for views and listens.

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

Is everyone evil? Is that really the truth?

People who are selling this to us say that it'll get ever-so-much better once they work the bugs out, while people who actually understand the math and algorithms and programming tell us yeah, this is basically as good as it gets.

There are things that a parent must, absolutely, do. And yet I have failed to teach my children proper cable management.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

President currently feuding with a beloved American comedy icon who was murdered 24 hours ago.

In order to test Fade In on Windows, I have a stock Windows installation with no customization, so the default search on Edge is Bing. Bing search of course leads with a "Copilot Summary", and the thing that makes me angriest about it is that Microsoft thinks people actually use Bing.

It's amazing the reality distortion field that "has a lot of money" and "claims to be a genius" create. Gullible and lazy news media deserve a lot of the blame for this.

You're doing this wrong. We're all doing this wrong.

This isn't even news anymore. This is just the way it's done. This is what the whole of it all is based on.

Per my last re-post, twice this year I've been commissioned to write reviews of harms that can arise from the use of LLMs and then, as we surface the harms, told it's not appropriate to be political. But LLMs are a deeply extractive technology, they are political by design.

It's ridiculous that businesses, given the choice between paying actual, talented people to do a good job of something, and shoveling absolute garbage for "free", continue to choose the latter. They don't even want to be doing the thing they're supposed to be doing.

Just got asked by email if I was AI. Help.

The highwire, electric thrill when a bank's website is so badly engineered that you have no idea if they know what they're doing with anything else. Makes you feel alive!

My effective taxes in Canada are lower than many Americans' taxes + health care costs. And no, I think we should tax billionaires just for fun.

folks it is not your grandmother

Falsely asserting that I’m already using your AI slopbot is not going to convince me to actually do so, Google 😒

great day for shareholder value

some say "AI is here to stay and there's nothing you can do about it so you might as well get on board" and I hear "those bank robbers robbed the bank and right now they're sitting in their house surrounded by bags of money and there's nothing you can do about it so you might as well get on board"

We're going to all end up doing theater with Ethan Hawke

Stealworkers

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My sympathies to the filmmakers, actors, and other artists whose work will be blended into digital soup.

I just keep checking

But my audience, but my brand, but my reach, but the people I follow...yeah, I get it. But we have to choose the world we want to live in. Pin a "Find me on Bluesky" post on Twitter and don't look back. You won't miss it. I mean, ultimately you decide if it's worth it, but...

The shaming is important. Don't give on the shaming.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Also get off Facebook. I recently looked for something on Facebook and every single thing in that brief visit was fake.

The only surefire way to stop oligarchs buying up the things we love is to drop those things the moment oligarchs buy them & that requires changing habits and massive self-discipline. It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient. It’s really hard. But there it is.

Like remember going down to the record store on a Saturday and paying, what, maybe twenty or thirty bucks for a couple of albums that you wanted? And you were happy to do it?

One reason big companies can be so anti-labor when it comes to things like streaming and AI is that too many people have been conditioned to expect everything they want to pour out of the internet for free.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

Just as bad or worse.

Attribute sources. Whenever posting or forwarding a video, etc. attribute the source. And don't blindly recirculate stuff from randos. It's not a cure-all for "AI" slop, but establishing and requiring legitimacy are a necessary step in the right direction for the future in general.

You don't say share.google/LJxGawurBVue...

SO honored by this. THANK YOU. I won't forget any of you

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"AI" should always be an easy block. We have to choose the kind of world we want to live in.

THE SUMMER I GOT PRETTY DOWN WITH SOME GUY'S WIFE IN PARIS IN 1940