what the FUCK was in those drinking fountains

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

“Trust us! Marginalising these communities more will absolutely bring down the cost of a KG of Mince and get your job back!”

Exactly this. This is both an act of deliberate cruelty towards a marginalised, vulnerable community and a trial balloon to see how far they can push, and how fast. (Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

May I offer you the hippo thread in this troubling time

Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time

This is the most Australian thing I have seen all week and it's a mood

Auckland’s traffic is bad because we built all our houses in Massey and Papakura to avoid upsetting the inhospitable residents of our inner city suburbs thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-1...

Billionaires are losing interest in generative AI. They must have found a younger technology.

*deep breath* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

Someone recently compared AI to asbestos: useful in controlled scientific environments, but hyped as something that needed to be inside every home and business.

And, I local parallels, AI is also like asbestos because people get very uncomfortable when it has been sold for children to use.

We have built a load bearing house of cards within your economy, give us more money or it collapses and takes your economy with it.

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

gonna always pronounce AI like ayyyyyyyyyy now

OH WELL WHY NOT

A photo I took of my cats making their way back home after killing a man.

"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it" My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever

The Employers 👀 and Manufacturers 👀 Group [of which Uber clearly does not fit the criteria to belong] comes out in support of Uber 🤔 curious

Severance gets less and less weird the more you realise it’s a series made by Apple about working at Apple.

Desert Bus wheels… down? Watch now! desertbus.org/2025/ @desertbus.org #desertbus2025

I fully stand behind supporting creators and their work. But we are at the point of capitalism where the people that actually make the products can't even watch it because they are getting nuked from the face of the earth. I had to go through extremes to see infinity train.

Execs always claim bloated budgets increase retail prices. This is a lie. They will always increase prices to whatever they think they can get away with. Always have, always will. AI is merely a new get-richer-quicker scheme. And execs will never admit the most bloated costs… are themselves.

Untitled photograph by Eric Lee-Johnson, 1958. Ref F.004042, Te Papa.

ouroboreos

I have prepared for my first ever Sphynx bath with the necessary reading.

When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs

Parks & Rec meets urban fantasy, a novel by Ōtautahi author @kehealey.bsky.social With #ttrpg relevance: “I begged three friends to let me run a tabletop role-playing game for them... otherwise I was going to have to write a series set in this world….” www.kickstarter.com/projects/kar...

"Bobby, all I'm saying is 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles' was a poorly disguised ripoff of 'Small Wonder.' They had a robot who looked like a girl, and they had to send her to school and pretend she was human."

What has two thumbs and a new store for physical copies of her #ttrpg? This gal! It’s early days but I’m happy with how it’s coming along. sam-robson-games.myshopify.com

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

a “Space Force”, if you will

This is peak online RP

In lieu of the film business falling apart, some people have been saying to write your "fuck it" script. I don't know if that was the inspiration for this one, but it sure looks like 100 percent, pure "fuck it" to me. Which is a good thing.

holy shit

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was not expecting to learn that Oglaf the Barbarian influenced by Footrot Flats today but ... okay is it weird that I see it now www.tcj.com/talking-oglaf-with-trudy-cooper-and-doug-bayne-wed-stay-up-all-night-drawing-stuff-to-make-each-other-laugh

This is ART

The problem is that the far right sees the same thing the far left does: dnd IS built on a bedrock of racist fantasy! It is NOT doing enough to address that, if it even can!

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

I know I shouldn’t explain the joke, but I think it’s worth sharing the reference because it’s a classic tweet. (And over a decade old now)

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

(averts eyes from the carnage) (sneaks awed peeks at the carnage)

fuck this. (the red scrolling banner across the bottom reads ‘christchurch school in lockdown after car crash, reports of offender with a gun’)