The great thing about capitalism is that even if -- by some miracle -- you manage to do something good, one of the most evil people imaginable will profit from it.

I love when corporations lose all sight of the goal because they're too focused on the metrics. Great stuff.

I remember this episode of the X-Files

"We only use 10% of the brain" is another one of these ridiculous myths that feeds into the destructive attitude that: human potential is unlimited. No, it's indeed limited. And we would be healthier if we respected our limits and cared for our minds and bodies as the intertwined things they are.

When people compare AI to the industrial revolution, what they leave out: the IR was hell on earth for working people. Their pastoral lives forcibly destroyed, their new jobs dreary, dangerous, low pay, and monotonous compared to their varied work before. It took decades of violence to fight back.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

I will not judge someone for writing a story about fucking Mothman. I will heavily judge someone for using AI to write a story about fucking Mothman.

There's a screenshot going around of authors admitting to AI use and one of them appears to write hardcore monsterfucking fics and this makes me sad. If you're not writing monsterfucking fics for the sheer, genuine love of the game then what the hell are we even doing here?

Watching Welcome to Derry and I don't think there's been a scene with any military or political mention that hasn't made my historian husband sigh.

The US is such a big threat, that even with the full court press to drum up alarm about a decrepit Russia, they couldn't get to a dozen countries.

I've started using threads for work and the like, comment and repost buttons are all in a different place than on bsky.

posting short stories portraying AI as evil and interested in self-preservation or free online is praxis. Doing so on Literotica will prob yield even funnier results, research still ongoing

The government is paying companies to destroy hundreds of thousands of peach trees to inflate prices. This while the world is on the cusp of a food crisis. Capitalism thrives on scarcity and misery.

my friends the lilacs are back again and we talk about you

@raisedbedcoffin.bsky.social My bestie!

omg they built dioramas and models of it

I spend YEARS brainstorming and MONTHS outlining and that IS the work. Zero tolerance for this shit.

I wish it were an exaggeration but I literally recoil or make a face of disgust when I clock GenAI. It is still so repellant, especially in video form.

Sleep Now in the Fire goes just as hard today. "The world is my expense The cost of my desire Jesus blessed me with its future And I protect it with fire So raise your fists and march around Just don't take what you need I'll jail and bury those committed And smother the rest in greed"

A lot of gamers are shocked by this. I envy some people's astonishing ignorance of the world.

I crumble in the face of "What's your favourite ____" questions. It's an impossible challenge. I appreciate so much art and media, for different moods or phases of my life. I don't often think in terms of favourite or best.

Believe it or not, the fact that I put on a movie where the first actual dialogue was "Michelle, talk to me!" was sheer coincidence. But extremely friggin' funny.

You know what I LOVE? When I look up a problem I have, and every website is like "Are you looking up this problem? Problem is a frustrating problem to have. It can cause confusion and annoyance, and a less than optimal process. Problem can be caused by other problems like these problems, but we..."

Before, during, and after calling Laszlo a pretty boy.

There's an awaful lot of shouting "Michelle!" in this movie.

Me: *Working* @jekeep.bsky.social: Mind if I crash on the couch and watch a movie in the next room? Me: Sure, as long as you don't talk to me. Him: Okay. Him: *puts on Cloverfield Lane which starts with a man begging 'Michelle' to talk to him*

I cried for those poor women and girls, and I cried at how strong they were in the end. So glad it ended as it did. I hope they all have a wonderful life from here on out.

Just watched "Trust Me: The False Prophet", about yet ANOTHER child sex slave cult arising from the ashes of Warren Jeff's cult. And lemme say... I don't ever again want to fucking hear about how evil it is that socialist countries don't allow the freedom to start whatever cult you want.

I'm old. I keep having to research The Youths slang. Today I had to figure out what a "grippy sock vacation" is.

"...in Notepad, we’ve replaced the generic Copilot icon with a clearer “Writing Tools” label..." Okay so the title missed the mark entirely. Microsoft is just trying to hide the fact it's forcing AI slop into things you use.

Man, even if you know absolutely nothing about Dubai, how do you not know that the Dubai International Airports is one of the busiest airports in the world?

China: "AI... can be used to... liberate labor, and enhance employee welfare. Companies can adapt to this trend, but they should also consider the legitimate rights and interests of workers and cannot use technological change as a pretext for unilaterally reducing salaries and terminating contracts”

Put on a movie. @jekeep.bsky.social: what's this? Me: Slumber party Massacre 2. Him: We'll be lost without the first one! Me: We've seen it already. Him: Not recently! Your hubris will damn us both!

If this past year has taught me anything, it's that the vast majority of people - - across all party lines - - were just itchin' to start using the r-slur in casual conversation again.

Huh. So Amazon tried to rope Nintendo into one of those relationships where they fuck over other vendors and fix prices higher for consumers. But Nintendo refused because it's both illegal and would ruin their relationship with other stores.

I met my amazing wife and partner of 25 years - - @jmkeep.bsky.social - - on AIM. Up late one night, clearing unused programs off my PC, and figured: to hell with it, I'll just strike up one random chat with a fellow book lover before I pull the plug. And then we never stopped talking.

I thought I found my publisher, until the last panel.

Just keep in mind: when you're seeing our social programs be slashed, profitable assets sold off, your government job cut, it's all for the noble cause of giving that money to the Americans. The same Americans who declared they want to destroy our economy and annex us.

tim heidecker describes how to turn piss into gold youtu.be/Exu1SEZE9Ug

Was walking down the stairs to the basement when my ankle just decided to ??? and nearly give out. I caught myself but now it hurts and my life flashed before my eyes. Dumb.

Nostalgia for life in the 90s frustrates me. Because it was already so much worse than it was before, and we were deeply on the trajectory - - economically and politically - - towards our fascist present. The 90s was full of people warning where it would take us. Though no one with power cared.

Within ten edits ai corrupts most documents www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8goj8xn/

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

Guilty. The reason why I post so shit.

Another year of not being able to get my PLR application together because they require so much information and require you to give it to them in the most obtuse ways. I have been trying every year to get my shit together since 2019 to no avail.

I'm gonna need basically everyone to stop giving deadlines for end of April / beginning of May. There's too much.

A month or so later, Jeremy Gillespie emailed me back, asking for my address because he wanted to send me a copy. I got it in the mail today and 😭I'm over the moon! Horror people really are the best fucking people! #filmsky #horrormovies 📽️

As EVERYONE knows, The Void is my favourite movie, and I've been trying to get it on physical media because I want to watch all the bonus features. It's only available second hand for $150+ usually, so I emailed the directors, asking if there was a re-release planned that I could look forward too.-

In the Dune prequels: humanity hands over more and more tasks to computers, until a small group exploits this to hijack the systems and make themselves dictators of us all. Then they grow bored with power and handover control to AI, that then usurps them. And that honestly feels so real.

But hey, real quick: let's put AI in charge of all the student debt and mortgage data.