I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

So delightful. Really looking forward to seeing the new one 😊

You love to see it

This has the potential to enrage the American hardline Catholics even more 🤣

There is something weirdly circular about the fact that the woman who the new atheists turned misogynistic at during elevator-gate is in the Epstein files because she challenged Lawrence Krauss over his public defence of Epstein and Krauss forwarded that interaction to him 🤦‍♀️

Every time I’m reminded about this I wonder about how it would screw up trying to learn another language later in life. It seems like it would be hell to build a mental library of connections between words in each language if you don’t have much of a mental library of English words to start with

I genuinely thought prime gaming was mostly a way of incentivising keeping a prime subscription for twitch by handing out free games. I had no idea it was trying to be a store competing with steam O.o

It’s delightful to imagine the conniptions the conservative side of American Catholicism will be having over the fact that this is clearly the variant of Catholicism the Pope endorses

EA getting run into destruction by private equity is not going to be good, despite all the problems with how they treat studios O.o

A new, excellent example of Betteridge's law.

Love this

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

This in combination with the ‘wokeness out of any AI that has contracts with the US federal government’ exec order means that ChatGPT enterprise (and frankly probably the whole thing) is very likely to lie about trans people on behalf of the US government, on top of the hallucination problems

I forgot to vote in the hottest 100 of Oz, but for the people confused about why The Veronicas clocked in at number 3, I’m a queer millennial and if I had voted the only solid lock for my top 10 would have been Untouched

Really looking forward to the time when someone suggests using copilot in a project I’m on and I tell them I refuse to do that because the ai claims I don’t exist due to the pressure this order applies to Microsoft 🤦‍♀️

Oh, I see, Destiny 2 has decided that for the next 6 months only about 1/3rd of the builds in the game are allowed in the grandmaster conquests that are meant to replace the main thing I spent my time doing. They really are just intent on dropping this ball 🤦‍♀️

Kind of wild that Destiny 2 is losing players and trying to give people reasons to stay and start and yet their new expansion follows up an actually really intriguing story with a punishing light grind as a prerequisite to play interesting levels of content 🤦‍♀️

The fundamental mistake is believing that a different legal strategy could have won that case. There’s no use reaching back to the 19th century for precedent to win an argument when the environment you’re in aligns with Germany in the 1930s

D2 edge of fate really nails the difficult story job the end of the light and darkness saga left it. The writing and delivery is superb, and it’s both a great contained story and a good lead-in for what’s coming next. Honestly wasn’t expecting them to land this this well

Really just a good (/s) feeling to see a British Labour government replicating one of Margret Thatcher’s great evils, except for trans people this time 🤦‍♀️

The factors listed as likely to contribute to slowdown align with my prior thoughts about ai coding, i.e. that the fact it doesn’t reason or understand context means it might help for discreet pieces of code but causes real problems with things that have to interoperate in a code base …

Veeeery interesting to see a quantitative study that shows developers thought they were sped up by ai when coding but they were observably slowed. Thread has valuable discussion and important caveats

I go into depth about this, showing how responses are pieced together from frequently co-occuring text, creating responses which seem plausible but are fabrications — or in the case of results influenced by gov websites, reproductions of the current regime's language and source choices, not fact.

Need to make a mental note that when I talk about AI not being at all reliable I should mention the credulity as well as the tendency to hallucinate. In an era where ‘official’ sources are actively lying, it should be obvious not to trust a purported summariser with no judgement

off-brand post but did you ever watch your partner talk about a special subject you know nothing about and find them insanely attractive? Like god yes baby tell me more about Warhammer lore I’m getting like 50% of it but I love the way those cheekbones look when you smile

Y’know, I’ve been through multiple induction training packages about fraud that straightforwardly state that someone who refuses to ever take time off and unplug is a fraud risk (since that might be due to fear of discovery), but here unplugging is presented as a risk to you 🤦‍♀️

Actually incredible that there’s a government report of transphobes crying that their students and colleagues don’t like them because they’re bigoted. You can’t force people to be your friends. Have you tried being a likeable person instead of institutional capture?

Nice of Destiny 2 now that their new expansion is 2 weeks out to finally give people a reason to care about the content in the new expansion, as opposed to their ‘look at all the changes we are making to loot’ they’ve spent weeks promoting 🤦‍♀️

Trying to decide if the trend of ‘beta test as marketing campaign’ in MMOs has destroyed people’s understanding of the idea of using a beta test to actually *test* things, or if it was always this bad 🤦‍♀️

Chrono Odyssey beta revealed a painful case of ‘should have hired more writers’. The world and the vague lore they gesture at is interesting and all, but there’s so little detail or context provided that it feels paper thin

The decades-old model where vibrant development studios who make great things are bought out by publishers who then slowly destroy them has done so much damage to the people who actually make the games, and it feels like it has become shockingly worse since 2020 😔

I love when the deliberately ignorant declare in their anti-trans commentary that ‘men and women experience the same diseases differently’ when what little research there is says it’s often down to hormonal differences, so sustained hrt will align a trans persons experience with their correct sex 🤦‍♀️

Maintaining the dignity of trans people by using language coined by anti-trans campaigners in their internal communications. Naturally 🤦‍♀️

Hilarious that a case study on the dangers of the bias instructions and training data can add to an LLM’s responses is being provided by Musk being upset that Grok wasn’t racist enough and breaking it

One day the ‘left of centre’ political parties in countries without compulsory voting will recognise that ‘moving rightwards to attract centrists’ is folly because it means their base loses motivation to vote. Not any time soon though, apparently 🤦‍♀️

Shocking that the Labour Party of the UK thinks this is either the right thing to do or politically advantageous

Really like this as a way to do Cid

The Catholic Church is still the Catholic Church, but I do think it’s good that it looks like the new pope will continue to call out the global far right for their cruelty, since *they* dislike hearing that message from the pulpit

I mean, maybe not *the* sexiest but it’s way up there

This election result is really quite something, especially given we’d expected it to be a close one

The amusement of joining the stream of people walking to the nearby polling place to vote

You’d think the US ‘healthcare for trans youth is bad’ report is so transparently bad faith that no one could take it seriously, but in the current climate I’m sure way too much of the media will report it at face value 🙄

Predictably the EHRC guidance that the UK Labour Party said over and over would ‘maintain the dignity of trans people’ does nothing of the sort. Atrocious for trans people in the UK, and pretty much a ‘stay out’ message for the rest of us :-/

Great to see the Uk government responding to the fears of trans people there with assurances of ‘guidance from the EHRC’ with no comment on members of the previous conservative government having bragged about appointing an anti-trans advocate to head it 🤦‍♀️

Heart broken for trans people in the uk, and also desperately hoping that courts *here* treat it the same way healthcare providers treated the Cass report, I.e. as unpersuasive reasoning arising from bias in institutions in that country :-/

Ah yes, the evidence of the *actual* views of the liberal party very uncomfortable for the representative of the party who is more moderate than the rest of the party who is claiming the opposite, but everyone in the room knows has no actual influence

The whole thread is relevant, but I’ll note in particular I’ve just spent the last two weeks telling people about a rare success story in my field because as solution architect I made a point of doing the ‘learn what will actually help the users’ work and then enforcing it on the dev team

Lol at discovering after the purchase that I get a game I was going to want eventually for free as a bonus with components for a new computer

Clearly no one ever managed to explain to him that the centre of the empire always has a trade deficit with everywhere else because all the goods are funnelled there for the benefit of people living in the core 🙄