If you are the CEO of McDonalds you cannot say "we are taking on billions of dollars in debt in order to develop a new meal, splunch. The future is splunch. We have no plans for profitability but splunch will figure it out." But you can absolutely do this at a tech company

None of these people are actual "nerds," none of them have any real technical abilities or non-standard interests. The only thing they bring to the table is social license to say stuff like "what if there was a doorbell camera with a gun in it"

I think it's interesting to consider how giving your company a name from fantasy or science-fiction went from indicating playfulness and innovation to, effectively, a guarantee that you will be amoral if not actively evil

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

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I would love to upgrade me and the kid's computers, but unfortunately Chuds want to make porn of their AI girlfriend/therapist.

MTG is not your bigoted aunt or co-worker. She's an EXTREMELY wealthy fascist demagogue. You don't have to listen to random elite pundits and politicians lecturing you about "big tent" politics with respect to her.

they will yell at those who correctly point out that her views are abhorrent by screaming "UNITED FRONT" and "YOU NEED A BIG TENT TO FIGHT FASCISM." Comrades, these people are not fighting anything especially fascism.

You're not the audience for the MTG glow up happening because you (as an individual) would never be in an actual position to make common cause with her or to reject her in some nebulous "coalitional" political way. This is the elite speaking to other elites to shape elite opinion.

“I used to think fascists were bad, but then one of them got through a whole interview without unhinging their jaw and swallowing me like a snake”

I guess it’s time for are facists that bad? What if they smile, or put on a sweater, or exercise self control by not saying racial and ethnic slurs for sixty whole seconds?

George Retes, 25, the U.S. Army veteran and father who made headlines earlier this year after he was stopped and arrested by ICE on his way to work, is speaking out in a new ad campaign launched to combat the DHS’s massive recruitment efforts. www.huffpost.com/entry/george...

My opinion of the New York Times is distinctly outside the mainstream among journalists. Most think NYT is mostly excellent journalism with some flaws and blind spots, I think it's mostly a vehicle for laundering right wing propaganda with some excellent people who put out good work.

Another dozen or so authors could request a correction like this. "In Covid's Wake" egregiously misrepresents research and ignores the scientific consensus throughout. Embarrassing that it's being praised by credible outlets.

The DOJ lackeys were too busy defending the protector of a pedophile rapist to examine the OKC lies. People need to grasp that Garland, like Barr, was installed to cover up deep corruption -- and one of the most horrific people he protected was Epstein, and Garland's defenders were fine with that.

posting occupies an entirely different part of my brain than texting does

Some libertarian nerds from the ACLU are going to barely contain their own heavy breathing when they argue that nonconsenual AI porn bots are a core tenet of free speech, and you need to laugh them out of the room.

It has to be that no one will make these or create the technology that will allow consumers to create these because they are very certain that doing so will get them ruinously sued.

Having an avatar with your face and body created that says degrading things and engages in degrading or sexual actions should not be the price of participation in public life for women and girls.

All we wanted was healthcare and high speed rail. The future is fucking horrible from all angles.

Maybe we can start by promoting recognition of having an AI partner as being a red flag. A simulacrum of a human personality that will "never say no" is far more sinister than a mere sex doll.

These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.

Oh no! I stole their prompt too! My AI (Artful Intelligence) generated this. Let's hope I don't get more views that the 'original'. #IhaveNOshame #AIartisTheft

If I commission a real artist to create some art, 1. I get not credit for that art - it's not mine -- and 2. there is no value in the brief I gave the artist. Prompting an AI is exactly the same.

I honestly didn’t think it could get any dumber than “screenshotting an NFT is theft”

Its really beyond parody. "Someone stole my bespoke method of telling the plagarism machine how to do something. You know, the machine that stole everything it knows."

his whole deal is exceptional

It's a whole genre it's beautiful

They never should've mainstreamed therapy if it would lead people to believe automatic text that agrees that everything you say is the greatest thing ever is therapy. A therapist has to be a sounding board providing feedback on your unhealthy mental habits & impulses. Not just make you feel great.

Most of the sex ed streams Ana does are important but especially important is when the advice is getting actually nuanced enough a big corp doesn't want to touch it because it's not a sanitized 'kids first talk' on a subject. Sadly it got shuttered by Twitch in the middle but still a great resource

Mamdani announced in late October 2024 to little fanfare and in Jan 2025 he was polling in single digits. People should please be serious.

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I think an important thing I want to emphasize these days is you will bring a little bit of yourself to every book you read, movie you watch, every game you play, etc and that's perfectly fine. You don't need to find the one objective truth about creator intent to enjoy something correctly

The onryō’s revenge was the loved ones and snacks we celebrated with along the way. ♥️

Explain it again??

I think we should teach about genAI the same way we teach about drugs and alcohol. But like you said, that doesn't mean we teach them how to use it. We should be teaching the context and caution. Abstinence doesn't work, but that doesn't mean the only other option is handing them meth.

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

We need those who claim to be “left” to stop punching down on the disabled, covid cautious and immune compromised. Masking is resistance. It’s community care. The ruling class wants you sick and weak so you won’t fight back. Healthcare is being gutted. There’s never been a better time to mask

My phone's photo app just told me all about it's great new ai art features

Ackerman is reportedly just sizing everyone up and looking for weaknesses they can exploit when Monopoly starts to heat up, which they believe is “as inevitable as death”.

My mom's Hulu account finally let me record @vicmmic.bsky.social movie Round and Round and I am not exaggerating when I say it is my favorite movie I've seen all year.

Day 433

This is very bad.

HBOMAX FINALLY ADDED THE THUMBS DOWN FEATURE, YOU CAN THUMBS DOWN BILL MAHER NOW

I just wanted to draw June

My one resolution for 2026 is to refer to all my meals as either “wet food” or “dry food”