robotics reinforcement learning and image recognition is cool tech, that we've had for years all of that getting rebranded as "AI" and looped into the same discussions as generative image models and large language models is a deliberate thing that really fucking annoys me

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

working on a solo dev software project is awesome the documentation can be in all lowercase and the code indentation can be at three space indentation, as god intended

taxes are an incredibly minor factor when it comes to the migration of the ultra wealthy, and always has been this is a nonsense headline that's recycled endlessly for extremely obvious reasons

NYT when a trans man wants to take testosterone: 😡😡😡😡😡 NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

i miss when male and female presenting nipples briefly entered the common internet lexicon also that one tumblr user who started hrt and posted daily chest pics to see at which point she'd get banned

the babies

this is my personal 9/11

i'm so sorry to the boyfriend having to endure me nerding out about cloud infrastructure and provisioning i excitedly whiteboarded out how i was splitting and isolating the subnets between different groups of instances and he very politely listened he's a good bf

founding a company is fun, can put my job title as basically whatever currently juggling between Founder, President, and Goat Emperor of Mankind

doing important things with my time thanks @snipe.lol for letting me rock your ascii art <3

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sticking my goat ass over the apple logo on my linux running macbook, aww yiss big shoutout to @bemusedbehemoth.bsky.social for the grumpy goat art~

every ai company logo looks like a butthole and i keep wanting to draw a pair of hands on either side stretching them apart

Lil Dental Insurance Premiums

love that my insurance provider refused to let me register with my primary email no, not the .sex one, they rejected the .dev one as invalid dumb arbitrary bullshit

my midlife crisis is playing lego ninjago fortnite

the thing about extreme content in video games is that the most appalling taboo porn game on the internet is still more artstically valid and has more reason to exist than Roblox

wonder how long my brain is going to be stuck on "2007 was 10 years ago" the passage of time has only gotten more fucky since march 2020

i hardly even watch anime these days, but all of this egregious ai gen slop shoved into the localization process, from every major service, is pissing me right the fuck off this should never be normalized

The thing about CrunchyRoll’s enshittification is that normally I’m a big proponent of supporting official channels but if the money from subscriptions isn’t being used to pay talent and labour and the quality suffers as a result, then morally what’s the purpose of supporting those official means?

i'm at the intersection of three widespread moral panics, and honestly, that's kinda punk

crunchyroll outsourcing its subtitling to an incredibly shitty but cheap ai company based in israel certainly is a choice

a zelda set in a mostly modern style setting where there's a grand conspiracy forming that's leading people to cultish devotion, headed up by a figure known only as gAnon

@hankgreen.bsky.social nooo, Hank don’t do it!!!

in 2017 the me-to movement kicked up a storm of changes across social media and various industries, but the funniest result to me was the widely used domain/network debugging tool "dig", omnipresent across linux distributions, changing its name pouring one out for the domain information groper

i can't believe they're renewing stargate and keeping the existing continuity, decades later suppose that means creating a space force military branch is now retroactively justified in-universe i am filled with curiosity and dread on how they're going to tackle this

hehehehe... gabecube

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

i really miss when the internet just kind of worked you could actually search for things, and the results were real things sure, you might end up on some weird persons incredibly niche and bizarre blog, but at least there was passion there [click to continue to the next site in this webring]

he legit hisses at me sometimes when i catch him stealing the cheese

thinking about the flag that was so horrendous and insulting it nearly caused a riot behold, "the humanity flag"

do you think star trek's dermal regenerator laser thingy they use to instantly mend cuts and bruises would restore someone's foreskin is it a setting

Not now, carnivorous death ball

putting together a little game design doc for a kobold themed idle / clicker style game i'm gonna start tinkering on, just for funsies what's some game examples / mechanics you all have enjoyed with the genre?

your protogen friend is into consensual non-consent and has purposely left open a backdoor that turns the visor into UwU mode

jubilee should do a 20 bears vs. 1 otter segment

assault with a deli weapon

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

being my romantic partner means having to watch the entirety of star trek deep space nine while i cuddle and occasionally bite you

my spicy take of the week is that canon is "meh" individual series and movies can relate to each other with shared characters and themes a plenty, but it's a detriment when canon takes priority over telling a good story

what's going to happen when the ai bubble pops and people's ai girlfriends are no longer subsidized / get shut off entirely

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get you a bestie who encourages you to lean into your cringe life's short, have fun with it

i miss dumb markov chain based chatbots that just made word salad with probable next words in a sentence the current iteration of chatbots spend billions of times more computational power to just fellate me and tell me i'm smart lame

sonic 06 is the only time i bought a game in-store and the guy selling it to me went "dude, really? you sure?" feel like that's something missing from digital distribution platforms steam should throw up some "??? why?" graphics when you add a knowingly terrible game to your cart

honestly iceland should just annex greenland, swap the names, then give it back

apparently twitter is going to replace the entirety of its recommendation heuristics and user feed with grok users will be encouraged to "prompt engineer" their tweets so that grok is more likely to pick up that tweet to share on the platform three months ago grok was calling itself mechahitler