i hope the furries are so pissed the disney hit they didnt so shit to promote is insanely profitable variety.com/2025/film/bo...

I actually know about this kind of thing. Just because LLMs squirt out text that looks human does not mean they're doing what humans do when we use language. This is basically erasure of cognitive science and my gosh I'm glad I didn't examine his PhD.

I quit the fuckin labor rights violating lemonade stand so now would be a great time to grab some stickers or prints or originals! If you’re thinking about gifts you have until Monday night to grab originals or stickers in time! Prints are handled separately so they’re chill. maxds.bigcartel.com

Nice one, Spidey.

"Education should remain the space where we confront the architectures of our tools: the labor they obscure, the inequities they reproduce, the futures they foreclose. Instead, it risks becoming the laboratory of the very systems it should critique," writes Bruna Damiana Heinsfeld.

It’s just amusing that with these AI tools and agents we seem to be getting back to this truth: A team of strong software engineers who care about the quality + maintainability of the codebase >> A team of devs using powerful AI coding agents rather mindlessly

It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

The people who named it "Tar-zhay" are the people you threw under the bus, you absolute fucking losers.

“But the hand of him who is going to betray me is with mine on the table.” – Luke 22:21

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

congestion pricing did more to help traffic than any speed camera you narcs.

I think it was a huge mistake to make our society so car-dependent. But man. The Discourse today is a good reminder that when it comes to roadways policy, otherwise progressive anti-car people quickly become some of the most pro-carceral, anti-civil liberties people on the planet.

@newamerica.org put together a great report on how cities and states are using AI. Here is a breakdown on municipal projects... looks like the majority are using AI for summarization or translation tasks.

If you post a job and I need Workday to apply, I simply will not apply to your role.

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

The worst part so far about losing my thyroid is that regular ketchup is now spicy af and spicy food is completely intolerable. I’m a sour cream white now.

If they succeeded, what would America look like? The Trumpists desire to drastically narrow the boundaries of who gets to belong and purge millions from the “homeland.” Those who are left would be living in a society that is not only unequal but has ostracized egalitarian aspirations as heresy.

seeing juno across the street from lincoln center at a matinee and hearing all the yentas stage whispering “she’s pregnant!”

Nothing precludes you from believing that all workers should get fair wages and a generous social safety net and also that gutter racism toward a customer should get you fired. I swear to god they are making up this author to make leftists look stupid.

“The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot.”

final disneyland 2025 band shirt tally - the jam : my wife devo: me 2025 gear tour shirt leftover crack 3 grateful dead shirts (!) kiss shirt from target manowar ice nine kills

loath to be too precious about this stuff but I want one lesson of defector to be "you can choose to not do stuff that sucks" even if "doing stuff that sucks" is the default

Barely one woman about to be pushed off the edge is probably the most apt metaphor here.

Ah, my first national election, what a heady few weeks that I believed voting was able to make meaningful change.

Amazon’s Official ‘Fallout’ Season 1 Recap Is AI Garbage Filled With Mistakes gizmodo.com/fallout-ai-r...

I sampled CRT button clicks and degaussing noises to add UI sounds to hypertext.tv. sound ON

Union busting

Trying to (hate) read TIME's person of the year article and there is this "Ask the AI" window that does not have any visible dismiss button that just stays on top of the text as you scroll.

Any journalistic outfit that values the work of their journalists would offer to present it as papier-mâché --- and certainly wouldn't put that offer in the way of the other bit of journalism their audience might be trying to read.

It is intensely funny to me that tech bro CEOs on an annual salary of 15 petabillion dollars think data centres can go in space because it's very cold but actually they would get obscenely hot because heat won't radiate into the vacuum of space taranis.ie/datacenters-...

there is a reason this drops a week after they block immigration from fact checkers.

I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*

An OpenAI staffer has quit, claiming that the company has backed off from publishing negative economic research about AI. scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/openai...

Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion. That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/

Also this: marcusarvan.substack.com/p/anthropics...

I need y'alls help with another toy drive. This one is for the children of incarcerated parents. Can we bring some joy to these families?

counter: we need zero billionaires.

Some AI researchers at the NeurIPS conference are calling for an overhaul of current methods, advocating for AI that can learn continually, mirroring human intelligence. Read: https://thein.fo/3YdqHEP

AI is an abusive relationship versus a good one . AI / abusive demands that you condition each other so you can be predictive . It acclimates you to believing anybody but you and it doesn’t matter. Versus Expecting that you basic agreed upon skills that help you navigate the world

How to Have a Number One Hit the Easy Way. KLF's manual, published in 1988, for creating number one hit songs. Getting big and selling out is always an option 😉🤑 #musicsky freshonthenet.co.uk/the-manual-b...

Bluesky’s head of trust & safety responding with a sarcastic image macro to a woman upset her husband was kidnapped by ICE is embarrassingly unprofessional & cruel behavior. that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?

i had to fly on a damn plane to find out they made a aztec batman?

It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.

nothing says class like using laundry detergent as shampoo

I uploaded a copy of the lawsuit here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Is suing Pam Bondi (who ordered Apple remove the app); DHS head, ICE head for their support of it too

the future of robotics is a filthy gym of humans wearing a helmet that costs more money then they’ll make in a lifetime.

i have a joke about about Persephone but you might want to pack a lunch.

"unexplained flying lights in minnesota," "mysterious drones over new jersey," "pilots report ufo in oregon" it's santa dumbass