So it turns out if you go cybernetic in Stellaris, then there's a risk that your species will invent the War Thunder forums.

Guys. The Ancient Greeks weren't white. They were more like cephalopods than modern humans -- their skin was bioluminescent and constantly shifting its color. And they didn't live in in idyllic seaside villages; they could only survive near deep-ocean vents. They DID have Matt Damon accents, though

Fresh torment nexus unlocked! 1. Job seeker spams a list of AI companies with resume/ llm-written cover letter. 2. The AI companies all have e-mail auto-reply bots that start responding to chain. 3. Classic reply-all e-mail chain with a twist: nobody on it cares that it keeps going!

Behind the scenes with the amazing @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social guy. mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...

I am a very serious economist with very serious thoughts about the future of the United States.

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

20 years ago Python was a simpler, faster on-ramp for programming, even for people who weren't trained as programmers, like scientists & financial analysts. it was a lot easier to slap together a quick webapp or data-analysis script or HTML parser with Python than it was in Java or C++ or whatever.

Having built communities where millions of people built their own sites, it may surprise many to hear that I basically agree with Adam. But only because it’s about *motivation*. People will make apps, or sites, because they’re inspired to, not because they can slop one out. MySpace wasn’t easy!

I really do think Trump misheard Talarico saying "cisgender" as "six genders," and that's just a thing he says now. The first person I saw make this observation deleted the post saying it, but yeah.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Black Billed Magpie fishing Not AI. They are very intelligent

Going to buy this instead of a tesla

Love this for them #subnautica #videogames #gaming

what the actual fuck is going on with this loser fuck opposition party

*scientists frantically calculating the exact speed you need to jog through a museum in order to cheat death*

Yikes! Great Blue Heron tongue #scape #EastCoastKin #Photography

9pm: yawning 2:12am: time to become a scholar on uncontacted tribes

i left my Steam Deck charging in sleep mode for a while and it added an additional 259 hours to the concept of a week, sorry everyone

A far-right idiot amplified by Alex Jones, Jason Whitlock, Gavin McInnis and others has been streaming himself saying racist shit to black people in order to provoke them into violence so he can shoot them. He just shot just a black man here in Tennessee.

Don't share the bad account's posts you're giving them a platform and taking the bait but also when I do it it's okay

profoundly embarrassing. “I have three little kids, and I’ll do prompt engineering for a good story. I’m like, ‘I want it to be for a 6-year-old, and I want it to be about helicopters,’” Auchincloss said. “They’ll tell me, ‘Dad, tell us a story from your phone!’” www.notus.org/congress/dem...

i can never unsee this.

For the love of Gritty PLEASE contact your reps and demand a push for this to be approved here in the states. At the very least do it for at-risk folks like myself.

this is the best-targeted promotional email i've ever received

free idea: double down on strengthening the Roberts Court. specifically, expand it by nominating all ~10,000 Americans named "John Roberts" to the Supreme Court

Incredible

The source (Beowulf in a Hundred Tweets) is a pretty fun read. Full first tweet: “1. Hey, you know those awesome Danish kings of old? Scyld was the best, though he came from nothing. And his son, Beow, did him proud. #Beow100”

the head of liberty is protected by the foreskin of-- (i have been notified that i received four strikes for this post, and honestly? i agree)

OMG the DOJ lawyer just said presidential power has never been "circumcised." He was trying to say "circumscribed."

Hello a friend sent me this (I'm the debunking heat island guy) and can confirm these numbers for the Utah data center are crazy and I'd predict they'd raise the air temperature by multiple degrees celsius at least and most people looking into this seem to agree.

frankly I have come to believe techies are illiterate. science fiction isn't about the future, stupid. it's about the current political situation but set in space so no one gets mad. duh!

Then I guess it's not a financially sustainable organization. They'll have to close some locations or shorten their hours. Alternatively, we could end the public navy and let private navies provide this service.

The real value of social media is being able to post something like "The ass is the father of the legs" and potentially have multiple members of congress see it

My daughter's pithy summation: "Covid reminded people they lived in a society; and they hated it."

FYI: That image being shared around, the one where the government is trying to define trans people as terrorists? It's been edited. The stuff is all in there, yes, but two paragraphs have been put together to make it look as scary as possible. THIS IS EXTREMELY IRRESPONSIBLE, DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

the other thing related to this is that if you want to act like an asshole on a microblogging site the obvious place to do that is Twitter, so if you want to act like an asshole online *and* you’re not on Twitter it is unusually likely that you have a specific reason to hate Elon

I get that ppl want this to be true, because it would give us a nice clear distinction between Useful Science AI vs Evil Plagiarism AI, but it’s not. Some of the science tools are diffusion models, like the Art Plagiarism Bots. Some are transformers, like the Word Plagiarism Bots. It’s not clean.

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Many fall in the face of chaos, but not this one. Not today. #pcgamer #pcgaming #darkestdungeon

Slightly increase a band: S.F.N.

THAT'S RIGHT, MOTHERFUCKERS, I WON A WEBBY AWARD. Here's my 5-word speech. #webbys

"I voted for Trump because he said he'd run the government like a business!" The business:

Harris/Walz would’ve won if those fucking establishment consultant hacks had just gotten out of the way and let them say “These freaks are weird!” every day for three months and you’ll never convince me otherwise

70% top marginal tax rates