The "Uncanny Valley" must now serve humans to recognize and avoid the products of Generative AI (in writing, images, video, audio and information). The deep well of pattern recognition that delineated huckleberries from nightshade can again save us from gorging on poison

I'd probably like football if not for the CTE and the all the play banning and rule changes. Like are they tough athletes or little babies? It's not like anyone is bringing a gun on the field to get first down

It’s like a prompt for the neural network in our skulls!

The point of GATTACA was that the normal kid is actually cooler, dates Uma Thurman, and gets to be an astronaut. So no need to stress about this.

I will solve male loneliness by restarting the Civilian Conservation Corps and WPA. Can't be lonely living in a camp with 50 other men and farting around 10 little fires each night. Can't be lonely while filled with the satisfaction of maintaining/ building parks and trails.

I'm a veg-AI-tarian. I don't consume or engage with AI generated materials for moral, health, and environmental reasons. Don't serve me AI just at you would not serve a vegan, steak.

I've tried the app and like it. It's the digital equivalent of going to sit down, but finding your cat napping peacefully in your best chair - so you go for a walk instead. You start a timer, and when you pick up your phone, mindlessly, you see a Bean, knitting, and so put the phone down. S'good!

You've heard of Jimmy Neutron. Now introducing Richard Muon

Well it has finally happened. I've been told to touch the poop at work ( implement something someone else produced with generative AI)

"That hit ended the war." We're all worried about WW3 and this president has no patience for the stuff he started. He needs it to already be over.

When your toddler pats you sleepily and gently on the back while you carry them around - that's a top 10 feeling.

Stone Fruit Summer

The bing cherries are good this year, folks, and I've already had a perfect plum. Now we await the fabled Perfect Peach

Begging you all to stop posting screenshots of Google AI summary/search results. Even if I agree with you it's a block. Post a friggin link.

My wife adopted a butterfly, years ago, and we learned all about their pseudo-sleep "quiessense" Every weekend nap is "Quiessense" ever since.

Are capacitive touch buttons actually a functional improvement over simple rubber or plastic buttons? Is the sole benefit that they make my air purifier look like an Apple product?

A very belated thought on the #Abundance thing. On interviews Ezra K. likes to state that red states build and blue states don't and that's an issue. But where do red states do all that building? Over natural resources, over historic flood plains. Then a hurricane hits. Regulations exist for reasons

Just because Sam Seder needed it - that doesn't make Ezra Klein correct or insightful. Fundamentally Klein's schtick is "we need to sell 2008 style technocratic solutions!" But with no reflection as to why that has failed Dems in elections and in power.

"I went to the AI Factory and no one there knew you. It was kinda sad"

Just FYI if you post AI output or overview s as "info" of any kind -- I am not reading that

I'm really tired of hearing "the cruelty is the point." That is not the case anymore. The point is an attempt at a final sweep of enclosure of all public goods and anything held in common. The cruelty is the reward doled out to every hateful human who voted them in.

Not for nothing but is that a baby rattle for a little princeling (bottom left)

I'm not a big sports fan, but I love my hometown Philly teams. Superstition actually stopped me from watching the game, lest the Eagles lose because a bandwagonner tuned int

It's Friday afternoon again again again

"Eat Shit Elon!" has a ring to it and I want to shout it in the streets (Sadly, too crass for T-shirts)

It won't be hard. It's the single program of fascists - to cyclically shrink the circle of the in-group until everyone but party members are on the outside. But it won't stop there, either!

They used to save big policy news for Friday afternoon. It has been Friday afternoon since January 20th.

Remember that the Berlin Wall fell only after they had to start cutting the coffee with chicory.

My big Q regarding this Hegseth confirmation is this: why does he want the job or think it's a good deal for him personally?

Bryan Johnson's kid must look at his dad and see flashes of 'Saturn Devouring his Son'

So I finally watched season 1 of Squid Game, and I'm brave enough to say that it was riveting but, ultimately, very dumb.

Surely I can't be the only one seeing the humor in this NYT interview/shoot. "Yes you should wear a leather jacket! My goodness so cool! So tough! Very intimidating."

A new city park opened close by in a city with too few parks. 2nd best part is it was certainly orange groves 100 yrs ago, so it's full of fruiting citrus trees right now. 🧡

Having a hard time believing it might be in the mid-20's in central Florida next week....

Look, I cook at home but the "home coming price discourse" is revealing that some of you keep your left overs for far far too long

Just doing my part to help keep bluesky a nice place to post. [I deleted some snarky replies I made while cranky on Thanksgiving Day]

Word to the wise. Do not boil maple sap in your kitchen. Your walls and appliances will be coated in hard maple gunk and sugar that we'll long outlast the syrup acquired.

In every job/grad interview I've ever had my philosophy minor comes up. My area is physic/physical sciences. At first it surprises people and then it leads to genuine, fruitful, conversation.

The ultra rich are supposed to be building parks and libraries to convince us that they're cool and good. You hardly see that anymore

How do I see fewer meta-posts about posting. I don't care what kind of website other people think this is. I want Neat and Interesting Posts Only!

Shut up phone! You can't tell me it's my bed time!

Can't make sense of the argument that... Because a percentage of federal employees are able to work remotely... That those jobs just be what... Fake? Forfeit? Wasting money?

It's not the main point here, because sure we could move some agencies to Detroit or whatever and it wouldn't matter.... But only 15% of the federal workforce is in DC metro to begin with. So what the hell is he on about?

One way to support local artists is to buy their tattoos for you body

I feel very lucky to be the client of a very nice, very talented, and very good-to-talk-to tattoo artist

Guys please stop joking about the liberal J6! It's a trap! Trump will get MAGAs to do it (again) and try to pin it on Antifa (again)!!!

Oh dear... I got too eager and followed too many starter packs post election. It turns out I actually only want to see 4 people's posts on my "following" tab The rest of you should be nearly sorted into some other page e.g. FungiFriends