sorting misc images on my laptop and

billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Can't stop thinking about a point I saw someone make earlier -- modern pokemon games aren't conceived of as complete end-products unto themselves, but advertisements-writ-large for the franchise itself, like how early children's cartoons were designed to sell toys

Today marks 15 years since the release of Fallout: New Vegas. Since 2010, players have explored the Mojave Wasteland where countless Couriers have walked the same road—each carving their own story. Thank you for keeping the spirit of the game alive all these years. Viva New Vegas. 🎲

Maybe look into why libraries aren’t tripping over themselves to peddle fascist disinformation along with the rest of the information professions. Seems important.

happy none pizza left beef day!! it's been 18 years and is now old enough to vote

lately when i’m feeling hopeless i just think of the Katamari cat wearing scuba gear. if she can survive in an inhospitable environment then so can i

still really proud of this piece - I wrote it before the theft software we've been falsely calling "A.I." became ubiquitous, but I think it still outlines all the ways these ghoulish processes are an affront to the dignity of the living and the dead.

The US continues to use its military to murder foreign civilians from a country the US is not at war with and who pose no imminent threat that could conceivably justify a claim of self-defence, based entirely on allegations of criminal activity for which the penalty, if convicted, is not death.

Lee Pace in The Fall is the result of a decades-long experiment to see what happens if all the hotness for an entire generation is concentrated in the body of a single man

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on! Boss: I have an idea

Feeling particularly unhinged today. I think I might have slept too much?

Haze on Two Horizons, 2023

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

i meant to clarify this but didnt feel like it but ai is a broad marketing term that is completely meaningless but in this exact moment of time it also refers to consumer-grade genai/llms that are wrapped up in a broader agi scheme thats snake oil. dont be pedantic

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this timeline is so surreal collapse of the republic! football! bluesky moderation meltdown! collapse of the republic some more! more football! the republic: still collapsing!

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)

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

There is no such thing as an "off switch" in silicon valley tech. Even when the switch says "off" instead of "later", it still means "later".

Sherma opens the gate for us (ANIMATION) had fun animating the silly bugs lol #silksong #animation

now where i am from when someone in your office has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in editing spreadsheets we call them "fired"

Cyril Cox (Canadian Artist, born 1958) "Autumn's Warmth", 2020. Acrylic on Canvas, 36" × 48". Private Collection. #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

my limb damage indicators all flashing red as i get more and more stuck in a blackberry bush

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Types Of Souls Bosses: - guy in a room totally freakin out - Stomp Jomperson - the gang is back together and they hate you - Bumpos Palace of Tricks - you interrupted my dinner/mourning and now you gotta die

some of y'all

know what, fuck it, putting some alt text on this 2 years later

🌟 DASHCON 3 INFO 😀 - Yes, there will be a ball pit! - The Superwholock panel has been moved from Saturday to Sunday - All attendees are forbidden from defaming the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi royal family, legal system, government, or any religion, religious figure, or religious practice

Honestly, every game should just randomly have a big fuckoff mountain where you do a bunch of precision platforming challenges and the reward is the ability to double jump.

It’s official: EA is going private. The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

With alt text because this made me cry 😭

Another shot from yesterday, at Saco Heath Preserve

The “alarmists” were and are right about COVID and climate change too. Maybe we should stop calling them alarmists and start calling them the people who can correctly read a room.

There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling. It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t. If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

The awful thing about being chronically ill both psychologically and physiologically is that all the things that would make your mental health better are inaccessible due to your physical health and all the things that would make your physical health better are inaccessible due to your mental health

new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced

I'm in the market for a beautiful Italian sandwich that will fix my life

Oh we were on that bullshit well into the 1800s. See St Paul’s of Liège (Belgium), which first commissioned Joseph Geefs to sculpt Lucifer When Joe delivered it in 1842 (real fuckin sexy, etc) the Bishop was like “oh no!” so re-commissioned his brother Guillaume, who… made it sexier