This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

"follow the money" except it's like, a single line from "give money to the fash" to "the fash helpfully do whatever you want to whoever you want because the fash are obedient little piggies"

I've seen some vocally anti-AI people recently make an anti-AI post and be surprised there are still pro-AI people following them, and I can explain this; most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue! well, we do. so fuck off.

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Just a really lovely thread about airport work. Fascinating stuff.

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends tech weirdo: and shitheads np: no just my friends tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender? np: we just want to hang out and goof around tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then np: no shitheads tw: not following

look I have a distant castle and pixels too

I never want to make a game that causes anxiety for people during the rest of their lives. Games should be places people can go to relax, not additional jobs that are demanding your attention.

Invest in a really, really good all-day desk chair, and a really good firm mattress. Like, the best ones you can afford. Focus on back support starting RIGHT NOW.

The reason to not use slurs against robots is not because the robots or the people who like them will be offended, it's because people who have been the victim of real slurs will see you gleefully using them and realise the kind of person you are on the inside.

Imagine doing all of that and then deciding to try to kill the best version of Twitter out there because you don't like that its success has overshadowed what you're really interested in, which is some esoteric back end shit that nobody but you has ever cared about

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

I have been saying for a few years now that people really need to take a seriously long look at the center of that venn diagram where the circles are marked "AI Culture" and "Disregard For/Violation Of Consent." The whole "AI Actress" situation is more of why.

"chatbot" is already 1. accurate, 2. dismissive and 3. upsets the people that you want to upset, the idea of trying to manufacture a slur is fuckin embarrassing and a waste of time

fascinating that "no, the computer is not alive" and "yes, it's questionable to gleefully say anti-computer phrases modeled after racial slurs" are two thoughts people are struggling to reconcile

When the people who study computers, the people who study thinking, and the people who study algorithms, all agree that the computer algorithm is not thinking, it's possible that the people on the other side of this, who mostly study finance, are wrong

ChatGPT is annoying enough, but a new level of annoying is people giving you "advice" by asking ChatGPT something and then pasting their comments to you If i wanted to get statistically generated text i would do it myself, why do you think this is helping? 😭

the history of the english internet has been an endless struggle between the ambient spirit of 4chan and the ambient spirit of somethingawful at each others throats. they're calling it The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Yuri in Internet History (人類史上最大最悪の絶望的百合)

jay needs to learn real quick that this site's claim to relevance is "twitter, but without the nazis." if she wants to keep the nazis, the people that come here to avoid them will leave, and the nazis aren't going to stay here when they have twitter.

I said what I said.

I liked tech better when it had to ask for permission and prove its usefulness before it started harvesting data. I was alive when that was how things worked. It was real, tech was better back then.

every poster thinks they are casually sharing their passing thoughts; every replier thinks they are critiquing a manifesto

There's a certain kind of online persona that just is pathologically obsessed with arguing against anyone speaking to kind of authority on a creative subject, and will just frame that expertise as egotism. Its doubly annoying when their counter argument is the most amateurish shit ever Its hilarious

This isn't a study, or even a survey, or even anything. The source on this is some blog spamming a thousand people and then posting some rancid graphs instead of the underlying data. It's not real.

I was in a gifted kids' program. What it meant was isolation from my peers that carried on into adulthood, weird pseudo-assignments that didn't matter or have any impact, and feeling judged and examined and dismissed as "too smart" by the normal teachers. I'm sorry your wife picked this career.

If fiction is a conversation with the author, I'm utterly unsurprised that Jay starts those conversations by loudly talking over and ignoring major portions of what's being said before retroactively deciding if you're "worth her time" in the first place.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. A few years ago I ended up in a new group of writers for my usual group. anytime I said I was stressed, I was told it was burnout by some people there, and I should take a break. So I did. And my word count dropped. And dropped. Writing got harder. 🧵

OBAA remains a remarkably inspiring film on second watch.

I'm increasingly using the tools-dev maxim: if it was good enough for industry, they wouldn't be selling access to the tools, they'd be selling the outputs of those tools. They are very obviously banking on the old-software idea of free education to force future employers to pay up.

Lord grant me the confidence of a Twitter bluecheck who reckons he's got a handle on this whole "Christianity" thing and has one or two words for this here high and mighty "Mr Pope" fella

Ya know, if I was writing the paper defining the premier spreadsheet benchmarking testing system for "vibe work" - SpreadsheetBench- I would probably not use Comic Sans in my example output, and I would definitely make a bigger deal out of the fact that the AI just kinda guesses at the cells

I took a look into SpreadsheetBench, a bunch of the actual examples are using Comic Sans font, these people are not serious and these systems got 57.2 percent on a test where you can look up the answers by googling them

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i had genuine vertigo reading this, like, surely microsoft doesn't think that productivity is about creating digital files right, surely at least they know that those files have purposes beyond existing

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you. They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.

One of my favorite moments was the first time I stood up in person to a religious bully who was ordering me around And I just said "And....?" And I knew he couldn't actually do anything And he knew it too And he knew I knew it And the poor guy just looked so utterly deflated

Honestly, just run the numbers on a modest 20,000 card datacentre running 24/7 for $1.50 per card per hour and wonder how the fuck anyone fell for this nonsense

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It's rare for a piece of media to alter my brain chemistry as much as this one did, I'm gonna see it at least two more times

AI boosterism has done the same for me, I'm now rock solid certain that I'm better at a lot of stuff than some of the folks who I used to think must have earned their seniority

what's wrong, babe? you've hardly squandered any of your potential

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

I had the same response to Path of Exile 2's optional dialogues, they put their whole heart into making the characters have things to say that have some weighty emotions to them also all of the things are nicely immediate and personal, far fewer teleporting immortals dealing with existence

they've already unleashed everything they can, they're doing military invasions of cities and random street deportations and they have their offshore torture prisons up and running, they have not been holding on to some secret additional cruelty that they have been waiting for leftists to justify

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I wonder if there's gonna be a link between "medical supplies the US can't get anymore because it's a pariah state, its trade partners are looking elsewhere, and local manufacturing isn't happening" and "what RFK jr blames for autism / transness this week" because that seems inevitable

We're about to see the development of a new state religion, evangelical protestant Christianity but with Catholic-style saints and its own cryptocurrency, exclusively so that the entire US state apparatus can be compelled to recognise Charlie Kirk as a divine being