I'd believe this anecdote because I've met guys like this at conventions. People do ask (politely) about their work and they can't pitch it because what makes it special is that they are the specialest boy. They go to panels and hear queer and BIPOC writers talk about their work and think "ah ha". +

But what if AI is the way to cure cancer? But what if AI is the way to defeat fascism? But what if AI is the way to fix the economy? I mean we haven’t seen any evidence that it’s capable of any of these things either but WHAT IF?

Here’s my theory: We are not lacking for ideas. The flood of forgettable, low-effort snack-sized content chum is not a result of humanity exhausting its ability to create. It’s a result of the relentless, algorithmically mediated monetization of interchangeable time-filler.

Wishing for private accounts bc it seems very weird to share candid pics of my dinner with strangers no matter how delicious it was or proud of cooking it I may be

"Get dressed, you merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay! For it is Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas Day!" --Arthur Shappey, Cabin Pressure youtu.be/E7Us-YdX5jw?...

Merry Christmas specifically to everyone who has had to set up (or worse, walk through setup over a video call) a new device for a parent this morning before enjoying any of your own gifts 🫡

So as it seems that a bunch more artists have finally made the jump, now might be a good time to run Sky Follower Bridge again if you haven’t in a while (and haven’t deleted your account over there)

in the Grinch’s defense, if my neighbours gave their children this thing for Christmas I would also make it my personal mission to abolish the holiday

Every year it just gets funnier (and we love the movie more).

love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Making a collection of Pokémon Sleep styles called "Buddy I thought you were dead"

It's very easy: Just don't. The idea that Copilot or ChatGPT are suddenly essential tools is just buying into the corporate ad blitz. Games were made just fine (well, relatively) up through...what, 2023? 2024? They didn't suddenly become VITAL for budgets or design docs in the last 2-3 years.

May everyone who cancels a meeting this week be blessed with peace and quiet exactly when you need it, and may everyone who schedules a meeting for this week be cursed with flatuous constipation

Not now, enormous 68-million-year-old egg in Antarctica

It has been really cool in the last few years to see a rise in tv shows about crafting, but not really cool that every single time it’s a competition format. Yet every social media platform is overflowing with videos of people just making things.

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

annual holiday reminder, female cardinals are brown so any time you see two red cardinals snuggling on a branch, they are boyfriends

It is honestly embarrassing as a human how many of our problems can be solved by money

Was a big fan of the monolith from 2001, had no idea it visited Epstein Island. Donating my Blu-Ray to charity.

surrealist cat

enjoying the excitement about a new piece of media while having no intention of watching it myself because I am simply too tired these days to go on an emotional journey

This article did not have to be written. I will say as someone who presents as a fully functional healthy person, I am masking. This shit is exactly why I have anxiety about using my cane in public.

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

what do they gain from this

“call your congresspeople and beg them not to sentence trans people to death” is a regular feature of our politics now and it fucking sucks

If you were lucky enough to live another 60 years, and spent $200 every single day, 365 days a year, until the day you died, you would need $4.38 million

This is unironically Randy from South Park

If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.

My response to anything over the next two weeks

2026 is going to be my year

There's being a nerd, and there's reverse engineering Microsoft Bob so you can become the platform's first/only third party app developer. (Yes, this nerd is my partner. Yes, this talk will be amazing)

i don't know who needs to hear this, but,,,,

#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI

The quickest way to make me dislike and distrust you at work is to act mystified and use the passive voice when telling me you made a mistake. “Something weird happened...” No Karen the system did exactly what it’s designed to do when you clicked the wrong button.

Idk who needs to hear this, but talking to blorbo on the plagerism machine is crossing the picket line.

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

Crows actually have been known to do this in real life, so even if that video is AI, the behavior is real and i think that’s near youtu.be/1WupH8oyrAo?...

Now, let's see who exactly is behind this singular, beloved piece of cultural media

epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this there are other, better franchises - let this one go

Normalizing pushing back on antisocial behavior

I move that we run this experiment on all billionaires, I think it would be fascinating

This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

Caelan Conrad - notable "FtM" who had a woman decorate my apartment that I decorated. The funniest part of this is I'm not even trying to appear androgynous, so the whole "we can always tell" thing is extra silly. It's embarrassing how poorly they do at this, but it's affirming, I guess?

I love how @respectthedead.bsky.social can go from "This shipwreck set a record for maritime disaster body counts" to "ohhh but Mari-Time would be a cute drag name and she'd totally sing patter songs while tapdancing" right back to "So anyway the ship listed 80 degrees..." True talent at work NGL

Please watch @caelan.bsky.social’s YouTube videos about the lawsuits filed by families who had a loved one commit suicide with the assistance and support of an AI chatbot before you even think of letting any child near one.

Watching Bake-Off as a Yank is so awesome. You can understand what they call pudding, biscuits, etc. but suddenly they’re saying, “Toby’s cake will have all the classic Gingham Day flavors, in the form of Swat the Grump,” and then they make like a carnival game where you shoot lobsters with a cannon

Yes! Do get the good hoodie 💚💚💚 (and read Aftermath) >>> aftermath.site/destroy-ai-a...