Some advice for the "protest the right way" crowd from Person of Interest S5:E10: "...we're not going to win this way, and we can't afford to lose... And I know this is an ugliness you never wanted, but sometimes you have to fight a little."

This shit FRUSTRATES the hell out of me because this is what my students will do. They'll get together and try to come up with better prompts to ask a goddamned AI instead of sitting down with me, who is trained in how to help them, and talking through the kinds of questions they want to ask.

Let's be serious for a moment: the problem with "defund the police" wasn't that it was a shit slogan. It was because the slogan was deployed in a context of omnipresent white supremacy, and sought to target one of its most effective tools: the police. And it did so through targeting its resources.

A Fine Rant, by One Who Knows

I think the ultimate reason many of us older people feel like everything is broken and terrible is that we remember when we had access to general purpose computing devices

This is AI and misinformation.

I am pouring Florida Water into my spraymop if you wanna know how I'm gonna be moving in the future. Still want to put some haint-blue on my doorstep this year, see if I don't.

Because the world is shit right now, I want to talk about my second favorite character in Person of Interest, The Machine, who I regard as the most compassionate (and tragic) character in the entire series. So, I'm going to spoil the shit out of S4E11 "If-then-else" and S5E11 "Synedoche."

THERE ARE SNAKES IN THE TREES ON REGENT'S CANAL.

So you're telling me the plan was to already have airlocked the guy, but now he's sick they're not gonna? NASA, NASA; space exploration rule #1: Airlock a motherfucker before the eggs hatch

NATIONALISE PRIVATE SCHOOLS NOW! I can think of few other policies that, overnight, would change this country for the better for generations to come. This should not be seen as a far-out, radical idea; it’s fair and common sense. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

If Kent County Council is Nigel Farage’s “shop window”, it’s becoming clearer every day what Reform UK are selling: a familiar mixture of incompetence and cronyism. goodlawproject.org/reform-counc... #bbcpm

I don't know how to explain to people that we are not in a replay of the American colonies in 1776, we are in a replay of 1935, and we're fucking Germany

This is a lie and should not be spread. Renee Good has a wife, who was, horrifically, in the car with her when she was executed by the government. It is flatly untrue to assert that child has no one else in his life.

"AI is just a tool" -- a tool

ladyfingers they taste just like ladyfingers

Goodnight from Sarah Deyne, certain the Krath Malgav’s teeth grow bigger when she thinks of them at night as opposed to Ms. Vickers storytime. Goodnight from Bostal Woods, where a buried tin of old love letters is singing a song of heartbreak to enfolding roots of oak. Goodnight from Hookland.

LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.

Men will build an entire demonic computer system that's supposed to cater to their every need rather than go to therapy and it'll still dump their ass lmao

DEAD-ALIVE [ded-ulei•v] adj. Dull; stupid. 'It's a dead-alive place.'

"dell is not pushing AI" story is bollocks i went looking for anything other than that PCGamer selective quoting, and everything else Kevin Terwilliger said at CES is AI, AI, AI even the quotes are in the context of Dell pushing local AI really hard and pushing the suitability of their PCs for AI

Somehow Palpatine will return... in Avengers: Doomsday

Lordy “For the purpose of promoting the sound development and regulated application of artificial intelligence anthropomorphic interactive services…these Measures are formulated in accordance with the Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China”

*Man, I totally knew that was coming. Astonished that it took this long. PS. I blame AI www.vice.com/en/article/d...

Also you don't need to watch you never need to watch these videos no matter what. If it's going to fuck you up I'd recommend bailing off the net for a bit

Apple Maps, once an excellent and trustworth nav system, just made up a street name and called the 110 Fwy the “Eye-One-Oh” — so I’m guessing the dummies have borked it with LLM AI. Any suggestions for a reliable nav app that won’t enshittify with the Child Sexual Abuse Plagiarism Machine?

The discovery of a carnyx from the age of Boudicca is the most hopeful omen of the day, like the opposite of when they dug up Richard III.

Just found out that Polymarket was taking bets on whether the U.S. would invade Venezuela. @johnrogers.bsky.social has been shown again to be 10 years too early with his show, The Player.

Remember that thing I already admitted I did? Well now I've decided I didn't do it, and everybody else is the fantasist. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I agree. Leaf her alone.

All chatbot owners are responsible for every single action of their chatbots, including suicides and child porn. And every one of them should be held criminally liable. You can disagree if you like; I'm just telling you the conclusion future historians and ethicists will reach and teach.

It remains unclear why the council has erected giant wooden carving of phantom monks on Mercury Common. Some say it's for tourism, to remind visitors of the ghosts meant to walk there. Others take the view it as an act of public works warding. Municipal apotropaism. – #MattAdams

Good morning Today’s pop quiz: What’s something you might hear from Humphrey Bogart, a character from the MCU, or a leather daddy?

The Mordant girls hold to the wall and listen for death The Mordant girls hold to the wall and cease their breath The Mordant girls cling to the wall listening for the dead The Mordant girls! Is it any wonder they’re full of dread? - Trad. Hookland rhyme

The Spanish version is “the left liberates, the right oppresses” and once I learned that, both screws and politics made more sense

See also this on Richard Dadd from @johnreppion.bsky.social, as part of his wonderful series discussing themes in 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell'. www.dailygrail.com/2015/06/stra...

ROBIN OF SHERWOOD (1984): Michael Praed was The Hooded Man in Richard Carpenter's dark ITV drama, which fully leant into the mythology of the character. Magic, demons, the supernatural, pagan myth, and Robin's Obi Wan Kenobi, Herne the Hunter, all featured. Still the best Robin Hood ever!

40 years ago, on Tuesday, January 7, 1986, “West End girls” hit number one in the UK singles chart and stayed there for two weeks. #PetText

Glitches, bugs, inescapable entailments, and features are all different things, and we all need to get back in the habit of saying so.

LEW [loo] (1) sb. A shelter. Anglo-Saxon hleow, a covering; a shelter. (2) A thatched hurdle, supported by sticks, and set up in a field to screen lambs, &c., from the wind.

A movie about Greenland's trolls rising up to battle an invading US military force would be insanely good, is all I'm saying.

SELF-DESCRIBED FREE SPEECH ADVOCATES: No, no, you're not allowed to use free speech against people and causes I like! That's terrorism! SELF-DESCRIBED CHILD PROTECTORS: Listen, we have to stay on X, the child-porn site. Because of reasons! JOURNALISTS: *looking the other way*

Protests already on the streets across Iran.

Preview:

Once more.

Jan 7th 2092 - Ellen Ripley was born. 📽️📅 Aliens (1986)

See the reason the Empress Eel never gets caught is because she absorbs the wisdom of every body she nibbles on. She has had enough eel-takers flesh to know all about their horse head bait, their tricks and traps. The Empress is is corpse-wise and you don’t catch the corpse-wise. - Tom Rudd #VOH

People who actually live in London know this is bollocks – even the suburban, right-leaning types must too, surely not a winning strategy. It's such a weird international myth – I was talking to a German (not an idiot either) in Sweden last week who was parroting this 'you get robbed in London' line

In the wake of Stranger Things, surely it's time for an @arrowvideo.bsky.social release of The Gate and The Gate 2?