the current wave of ai technologies may have applications in simpler fields like mathematics, but don't seem to be capable of doing anything useful in more complex domains like poetry

plat rank in strive kind of sucks because it's populated by people who know how to run their character's offensive gameplan and NOTHING ELSE, so every match is just them slam-picking the most aggressive option every time, treating every interaction like a slot machine pull

Making "being straight" or "being a fan of a politician" as your whole personality; Complete fucking poison, stupid, dumb, go jump in a well. Making "knowing that the Pringles guy is renowned sci-fi author Gene Wolfe" your whole personality; Completely-normal, healthy, good actually.

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Spiders Georg, who lives in a data center,

Poor old Freckles, thought of an ant, and thought of an ant, and thought of an ant, and thought of an ant, and thought of an ant, and thought of an ant, and thought of an ant, and died.

Won't Fix > Works As Intended

The implicit “problem” these white papers are dealing with is the TAs’ success at winning a favorable employment contract. The “solution” these white papers propose is to divest from reliance on grad students as teachers. Instead, we’ll use AI, undergrads, and anyone else we can exploit.

Among the recommendations in the white papers: 1) increase the use of unpaid undergrad “learning assistants”; 2) use AI to augment TA labor; 3) award control of TA allocation to central admin; 4) ask administrative units to take over TA pedagogy classes; 5) “decouple” grad employment from education

This month, UCLA admin circulated two white papers that are so harrowing they’ve kept me awake at night. If you’re a UCLA person and haven’t seen these, you really must. In response, the Faculty Senate has scheduled a Town Hall on June 2. senate.ucla.edu/news/june-2-...

doing a blocklist amnesty jubilee in Strive, which i will probably regret, but a bunch of these entries predate the in-match connection indicator and/or might have been false positives

I learned tons about the UK during the 1600s from Jonathan Healey's The Blazing World, like this:

Genuinely a lot of game design as a job is just saying "what if the game was good" and linearly fighting every obstacle in the way of making that a reality

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into All Women

*respectfully* welcome to hell, motherfucker

SHE NICE AND SPACIOUS TAKE SO MUCH SPACE UP LIKE A BIG OL' SPACESHIP OO-OOH YEAH SO GRACIOUS

Lovecraft: also, i feel like people are starting to make a lot of assumptions ever since steve revealed that it is a she Poe: it is a she? King: yup that's right King: it is a she Poe: Poe: well that's a bit confusing Poe: but for you, steve, i'll make the effort

fellatio from a martian vampire, call that a Shambleaujob

Lovecraft: i'm just saying, cthulhu is clearly a guy Lovecraft: he's always going around and doing supremely manly things Barker: like getting hit by boats? Lovecraft: yes exactly Lovecraft: that's super manly Lovecraft: 2 Gun Bob will back me up Robert E Howard: that's just plumb macho, pardna

The Falklands have the opportunity to do the funniest thing

Operation Clippy

hahaha

Daredevil Born Again's acronym is DDBA which means I do always need to tell myself it's not DoDo's Bizarre Adventure

Slay the Spiro: A Roguelite Dickbuilder

i always like to phrase it more like -- people are naturally childish. i've met EXTREMELY few people who are knowingly and purposefully cruel out of habit; i've met countless who have been punished for vulnerability so many times that they act in deeply selfish ways out of a sense of preservation

this is the most millennial dad joke ever conceived

look i don't care what happens to any of the human characters in Revelation Space, they're all basically fucked by lovecraftian space bullshit anyways, but if nobody saves Gideon or at LEAST mercy kills him i am going to be very upset

fine swine, wish he were mine -- well, if he weren't so big

I’m a bit rusty but please remind me if it’s a good economic indicator that PlutoTV is running ads where a woman is trying to buy food for her children but can’t afford it so an older woman pulls her aside and introduces her to a slot machine app.

My solution to the attendance problem in TTRPGs is simple: if you miss a session, you're dead.

i mean you just need higher wages and lower cost of living and universal higher education and extensive art grants and probably a job that isn't actually "making art" but which isn't too demanding in time or energy so basically communist revolution or don't treat "artist" as a profession, pick one

tbh i'm fine with this and every other gaudy addition to the White House because the White House was ALWAYS a gaudy, anachronistic piece of shit, a poorly-researched attempt at mimicking a lost era the designers didn't understand, for reasons / associations that don't hold up to historical scrutiny

ngl it always just meant "atheists". they just attached "reddit" to it to make it sound disreputable to be an atheist. anyone who actually had a legit complaint would have just said "Christopher Hitchens" or "New Atheists", but it's been 20 years since any of those assholes mattered to anyone

Massachusetts is now the first state to certify a rideshare driver union after granting Lyft and Uber drivers' collective bargaining rights. This is the largest new private-sector union in over 85 years. 70,000 workers are now represented by the App Drivers Union.

So. I hate to do this. We were pulled over on the way back, it turns out we forgot to get the MOT after that lady hit us with her car. We are now without the car until we can get it sorted (it'll likely fail, too) and poor, so we could do with the money for the MOT and additional disability costs.

old and busted: release the kraken new hotness: FIRE THE MPREG CANNON

god i miss that live action Speed Racer gif where it freezes at the end and then flashes "I'M AN ACCELERATIONIST"

Just saw an egregious offender

what is this, Harald Klak's search history

humanity's enduring desire to make Little Guys is truly wonderful This is a clay pig. It has an angry little face with furrowed brows, pointing down and a huge curved back that leads seamlessly into the top of the head (no neck) like it's rearing up to charge. A very round piggy.

if they don't have a purple hologram of her on stage they're fools

Warframe players when they heard destiny 2 is ending

Predators not intimidated by your plain and unadorned neck? Frill issue.

Parents, be alert

i 100% guarantee it was a question of rights rather than any kind of aesthetic sense lol

naturally our shitty case management software decides to become unusably slow the day i have two urgent deadlines. why would it be any other day