another couple of undeniable patterns in AI ads for dude products on youtube: "all [product category] have one [fatal/tiny/crucial] flaw..." "my team worked on this for months" have heard variations of these so far in ads for chainsaw sharpeners, weed whackers, glasses, pressure washers lame

there will be indoctrinational requirements to which the algorithms must adhere

what if toward the center also means left

elected leaders normalize telling bad corporate actors to fuck right off

I say this from time to time but anything akin to the Boston Tea Party would be seen now as an act of complete treason and sabotage against our society think of what current Democratic leadership would have to say about a bunch of people smashing up a data center or Ezra Klein

are we sure the Mr Beast thing is really a fake tho

On the tube

these are the results they want, we have to make it clear caring about this is a litmus test for who is an ally and who is not

capitalism at its most repugnant

there are few news organizations that have done more to sanewash GOP anti-democracy than NPR in the last two decades, specifically for liberals if you've been listening to NPR, you've been being dosed on Federalist Society propaganda practically the entire time, it's presented as "the other side"

Peter Baker's son, also an elite who wants you to stop using your brain

Every time we hear about how genAI has pushed another teenager to suicide, another person into committing a mass shooting, or generated CSAM of school girls used to blackmail their schools, remember we were told that what we'd be hearing about is a cure to every cancer, and global poverty itself

my weird idea for voting is that we should vote on issues instead of people primaries would be to decide which issues voters thought were most important for the general election to be about, and the general would be ranking and preference electeds would be those most aligned w electorate on issues

I want nazi punchers not clown punchers

And 4 Democrats missed the vote on this package -- including Dick Durbin, the most vocal critic of these nominees. And if all 4 had shown up for that vote, and none of the missing GOPers did, the package would have failed. Gahhhhhhhhhhasdfasdfasdfsadfasdf

Imagine an America that hates and scapegoats poor people even more than it already does

the fact is that Barney Frank didn't support full rights for everyone sorry

really crazy also that ask.com ended their search service on 5/1/26

negative polarization is bad brands and products should not attach themselves to things that many people are negatively polarized against

all-day help, living the afk life

second one doing concise work with "Job Cuts" = "AI Efficiency Push"

If you need a replacement for Google search, I’ve been very happy Ruth the privacy and AI exclusion capacities of Kagi search. Review by @doctorow.pluralistic.net is good:

business geniuses changing the definition of "Google it" from 'look it up' to 'fuck it up'

I think one of the defining features of maga is a desire to punish others, and that also translates to turnout especially when Trump has specifically targeted a candidate for punishment

any automaker that starts making an EV base that will accept custom bodies with standard connections will be rolling in cash has to account for different wheelbases and be tune-able what's stopping Ford from telling customers they can have an EV with 69 Mustang Fastback body?

it's almost like if you tell voters you think the other party has good ideas and you copy their ideas the voters decide the other party is the better one to vote for

the RCA Digital Command Center, combination remote control/calculator/sandwich press

follow this account if you want to know how to select the appropriate load for your dummy to accept

dude turned being short into a mental disability

dammit you people stop posting pizza so close to dinner time

I had a vcr where the lcd display was messed up and showed the numbers funky 8s and 9s both looked like 8s so for example it could be 1:08 for two solid minutes 5s and 6s both looked like 6s so it could be 6:66 for two minutes 2s and 3s looked like მs so it could be მ:მმ for two minutes

It's like if Xerox at the height of their brand power decided their copiers shouldn't make copies anymore

I have said something similar about how climate change deniers started by denying the problem and then moved to denying the solution Now perhaps they've moved on to trying to make people believe the problem IS the solution

We are all suckers for paying our taxes

“A Pizza Hut franchisee claims the chain’s AI-powered delivery system, meant to optimize orders and speed up deliveries, instead backfired and cost it more than $100 million.”

the guy telling a reporter that he "started an investigation" into his own use of AI is hilarious stuff

come on California please stop giving us Democrats who suck

it's outrageous trans rights are human rights and the terrorists are those who would deny human beings their right to exist

just this morning was served a commercial on youtube for gemini specifically targeted at university students who don't want to do the reading

Please read @mattseybold.bsky.social instead: theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/putting-th...

Hard to keep up with Kang's hackery. Probably not worth the trouble. But... The primary source for this story is Kevin Carey (who has never worked for a school). He has been an EdTech shill for decades, promoting a series of failed rollouts. His think tank is funded by technofeudalists.

I thought I was getting a spaceship ticket

The attorney Aaron Walner is an attorney at Marc Trent’s law firm. Trent’s website, as the judge points out, brags extensively about Trent’s use of AI. Instead, the court demanded Walner, Trent and D’Ambrosio answer for their AI-generated filings or face sanctions.

you may even be able to trace Republicans' understanding of the susceptibility of this media behavior as far back to when Karl Rove was saying, "when we act, we create our own reality"

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

Chinese researchers sprayed cyanobacteria onto desert sand and turned it into stable soil in just 10 months. Cyanobacteria oozes sticky sugars that glue loose grains of sand into a crust that’s tough enough to cut wind erosion and trap water. buff.ly/koBHJr5 #ShareGoodNewsToo

maybe the best thing I got as a kid in the 80s was a subscription to Sports Illustrated, which probably helped define to me not just good sportswriting, but simply good writing so this is a whole damn shame

Fender can't own that shape forever and what a ridiculous task it would be to chase down every strat copy. Like trying to remove every bit of Coca-Cola branding in the world. Dumb Fender. It's actually great to have a product that everyone wants to copy. It's good for the brand, you dummies.

twitter is for dickheads and losers

It's kind of hilarious that none of these king of the world tech bro geniuses has figured out maybe their company could be the anti-ai company... ...and be completely raking it in right now because of the prevailing sentiment