There's a conspiracy to destroy porn on the Internet, and it's not a well-hidden one because they put it in the NCOSE mission statement and Project 2025 🫠

i am also just incredibly bored with LLM writing done by people who, because they are convinced any engagement with LLMs is ontologically evil, have not interacted with an LLM since 2022 and have not updated their information base about what an LLM is or can do since then. how many rs in strawberry?

i don't think LLMs are conscious in the sense that, well, i don't have any reason to believe they are, but so many of the "LLMs are incredibly obviously not conscious and the idea that this is even a question worthy of any consideration is ridiculous" thinkpieces argue that in the worst possible way

"models cannot be owned and operation of one requires disgorgement of virtually all your attributable profits into a trust for journalism, science, and the arts."

socialism is so dead in america that we are basically printing stories like "We're perhaps approaching post-scarcity, from classic Marxist text The Fragment on Machines, and the primary obstacle to universal happiness is the capitalists who own the machines" and then trying to ban the machines

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

i don't think there is any limit anymore to what the Court will do to overthrow American democracy.

Chum 275: The Perfect Drug/Sweet Dreams chumstory.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/2...

we love secret horses! and such

I am still very fond of the Disco Diffusion aesthetic and all of its delightful lil' quirks, so I spent some time with Claude bringing it into the present day + optimising so people can continue to enjoy it 1 min/gen on my 5090, far from 10 min on a 3090 in the old days github.com/philpax/disc...

pretty much every criticism of LLMs is mostly a criticism of the unregulated tech industry writ large. like - who is liable for what an LLM outputs? if it's valuable, it's the company. if it's dangerous - welp! the same more or less goes for what posts you see and internalize on any algorithmic site

Permanent suspension from twitter for yaoi bait financial crimes. on the first day of pride no less

Turns out that all along Musk using his own money to fund SpaceX wasn't some magnanimous gesture for the future of humanity, it was a way to lowball prices and become the incumbent provider of critical infrastructure (space launch) and then use that incumbency to extract tax-funded payments.

Chum 274: Exhibition chumstory.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/2...

calling web scraping a human rights abuse primarily convinces me that human rights abuses are no longer taken seriously

consider the person on the other side of the screen

also i am really annoyed at people thoughtlessly using the term crutch to refer to ai stuff because crutches are good actually and yet whenever someone uses the term they mean it in an apparently demeaning way. some people do in fact need crutches! idiot

the backrooms rocked btw

every single website will make their platform successful through the work of sex workers. paypal, tumblr, patreon, you name it. they only exist today because of whores like us. then they cut us out once they want to appeal to larger audiences. go fuck yourselves.

It’s a measure of how skeezy Silicon Valley is that they took a technology that’s genuinely wonder-inducing—AI—and made large swaths of the population both hate it and believe it’s a scam.

I would like AOC to run for three reasons: 1. I think the D candidate in 2028 is strongly favored to win regardless of who it is 2. We need to elect someone who understands the moment and is committed to a new reconstruction 3. Of all plausible candidates I am most convinced AOC meets that bar

the difference between a diffusion model guy and a LLM guy is whether you like watching a solid block of purely random gaussian noise tilt downward by two arcseconds or whether you like watching lines slowly approach horizontal asymptotes

workin on it

someone should make a list of anyone who uses the phrase "bullying works" so i can block them all. immediate universal indicator of being a bad person with bad morals

Is there any historical president for what kind of society has people promising violence on the families of people making "degenerate" art

never try and aplease the mob. even after giving in and apologizing, they are still replying with vitriol and hate. he gave up an opportunity for nothing

"why did this specific animator back out of his ai film-making commitment"

Copyright exists almost entirely so publishers can fuck artists over and anyone who pretends otherwise either doesn’t care or has had the wool pulled so far over their eyes that they might as well be a duvet

MFers will be like “AI bad because it infringes copyright!” and then watch silently as copyright law proceeds to do Absolutely Fucking Nothing about it and publishers reap the rewards and sign billion-dollar deals with AI firms

Chum 273: Mr. Matthews chumstory.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/2...

However much you hate them you do not hate them enough

One MUST resist the urge to lolcow. I'd call it one of the most important urges to resist on the contemporary internet, actually

Seems good!

Seems not good!

To be clear, "ignored local zoning" here means, "this land is not part of the city of Vancouver or subject to its jurisdiction," so the Squamish nation can write its own zoning laws. But yes, this is awesome, and the buildings built so far are the coolest looking things in the Lower Mainland.

The thing AI can’t give you yet is Good Taste, especially not the modern sycophantic AI. And discipline. and it turns out “discernment and discipline“ are basically the two things you need, not coincidentally

Texhnolyze is a show with a happy ending and as soon as I get a video editor to help me put a video essay together I will prove it

Saying “coders who don’t want to code” as some sort of elegant gotcha belies a startling lack of understanding of, and lack of talking to, literally every single coder in the world. Our literal job is to smash abstractions together into higher level abstractions to save labor!

Zitron, man who literally does PR for ridiculous "the world's first robot lawyer". Has an ftc complaint and everything! www.ftc.gov/legal-librar...

Imagine being a cosmic super intelligence but inexplicably unable to think about Mickey Mouse. It becomes your anti-memetic obsession to map the contours of the one thought that is forbidden to you.

Underrated that this is fully vibecoded. Niko is not a programmer, and he didn't know the first thing about building a neural network before this.

holy shit

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

I don't think this is good or anything, it's even dumber than the actual thing, but it's an interesting exercise in the fact that at this point someone can simply recreate the visuals they want trivially, and so it's like "What's the point of all that investment?"

people with robot girl pfps posting 'datacenters are destroying the planet' from their cyberpunk aesthetic accounts. bestie my culture is not your costume

how many layers of negative polarization are you on? you are like baby, watch this,

i have told people i know point blank that musk has hundreds of thousands of deaths on his hands and provided links to reputable sources. i did the same with the CSAM stuff. it deeply frustrates me that they just act like its not real

*holy

we live in a cheese touch culture where anyone can screenshot anything you've ever said and accuse you of having a cheese touch. sometimes you don't even need to have touched the cheese, enough people can claim you've touched it and become an instant lolcow