Here's Ted Chiang on the idea that LLMs can be conscious Link: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2... Unpaywalled just in case: archive.is/bcpZl

spax.zone/horse IS BACK!! (huge thank you to pearl for setting up a new vps for me!) tag your interesting finds with #horsebutton so i can see them :3

“Dune is colonialist” “dune is a warning” wrong. The message of dune is that all computers must be destroyed and that doing cocaine gives you superpowers

As a side-project I have been looking at the things that people point to when trying to figure out whether something is AI or not on Reddit, and let me tell you that I did not expect rats to be as large a point of contention as the data is saying.

in this video in like 4 different ways and I hate that

Oh hey, all of Don Hertzfeld´s "Rejected" is now on Youtube. A 2001 classic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU_m...

I am struggling with the weight of the phrase "cars hunger for my little pickle".

This Reddit thread is something beautiful. www.reddit.com/r/lovethissm...

I made an LLM integration for #dwarffortress. It's called Vizier. github.com/ryanbateman/...

too soon

"I have cryogenically frozen my penis and filed it down to a fleshy icicle to replace any feminine roundness on my body with a masculine point."

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

you're laughing. two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert and you're laughing.

website, app, program, docker container, videogame, plugin

This was fun.

Spotted on Tumblr…

When did McSweeneys stop doing humour and start serving cold, hard, accurate observations www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

SynthID is Google's stenographic watermark for its AI images. Idly occurred to me to make a browser plugin that ran every image being displayed on every page through SynthID detection, if such a plugin didn't already exist, and discovered that SynthID detection is a gated service.

i love you grain weevil

If you can, you should watch 'It was just an accident". youtu.be/nF04v-ze2Yc?...

This is a video of sea-foam after a (ongoing) storm and while there are a lot of things that pinpoint it as South African, none do quite as much as the music selection for this (essentially) disaster video.

This is what a video model does when it is told not to reference the training data (like literally: not prompted, but turning off the classifier free guidance). I gave it a noise seed from elsewhere and it just grinded on through. Most looked like some form of this. I like them.

Made a heatmap/visualisation of the closing Whitbread pubs in the UK and the distance to their nearest replacements. ryanbateman.github.io/pub_space/

this is word for word what my last performance review said

Pretty good.

Chalk up another win for nominative determinism, I guess.

It is 2018 and I am completing a mandatory employee quiz about GDPR. It is incorrect. It is 2022 and I am completing a mandatory employee quiz about GDPR. It is incorrect. It is 2026 and I am completing a mandatory employee quiz about GDPR. It is incorrect.

that's a @nellucnhoj.bsky.social ass drawing right there (approving)

Oh hey, the clock is on Kottke. That is pretty cool.

This is such a lovely interview with Griffin McElroy. God, what a creator. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-KF...

1 of 3: - At the start of 'Bumblebee' (2018) the main character uses a non-electric toothbrush as part of a set piece clearly meant to establish the era; to place the time. - Transformers (1986) was my favourite film as a kid. I had it on VHS. I loved Bumblebee.

'Nothing Isn't Rich' is actually pretty great

Rude.

'I am monitoring the situation' www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IsR...

A dumb project of mine (the alphabetical clock) is in Tabs! Which I found out while reading it, which was a delightful surprise! Highlight of my year so far.

I find it tough sometimes to distinguish _good_, new music from music that resonates with me as a 43 year old. I'm still one sure where this one lies but I like it. Venbee - "not my day" youtu.be/AwVMseKhG6w?...

The British variant of Conner O'Malley's Pipe Rocks. youtu.be/4AfAGE1r4Ew?...

And of course we have to repost this banger

Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow

There is not a lot to say about 'Mortal Kombat' (2021) but you do have to admire a director who isn't afraid to hit Goro with a car.

This is... really something. Mechanical techno. Every 15 seconds or so it just somehow gets even more interesting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBhG...

me when someone cites the deep magic to me even though I was there when it was written: holy shit, for real? I don't remember that part at all

How your email finds me.

Okay. What the fuck am I supposed to do. I'm supposed to do that?

Astronauts should not have hot sauce, nor should they have condiments, or seasonings. Space demands solemnity and respect. It is not a place of bold flavours.

Brutal.

The Artemis II crew proposed naming a moon crater after Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife Carroll, who lost her life to cancer 😭

What is your father-in-law like? Mine messaged me curtly about a synth he felt _wasn't_ amateurish (like ones I had briefly mentioned in his presence many months ago) and my wife was so taken aback at this outpouring of emotion she made me double-check it wasn't some kind of phishing attempt.