I just saw someone say their husband won't watch any Rian Johnson movies because he's so mad about Luke's arc in TLJ, which just goes to show that the people who most need to learn Luke's lesson are the ones who also can't perceive it even when it's painstakingly spelled out for them.

verified and peer reviewed (me)

I’d argue governors being denied access to federal law enforcement facilities in their state is part of what I call slow civil war.

In honor of Bob Dylan's 85th birthday yesterday, I would like to present the song I found myself singing under my breath while doing household chores, it's called "The Towels, They Are A-changing"

As usual this headline is hype, somewhere between incredibly misleading and wholly meaningless. They ran several instances of text-generating programs, initiated them with system prompts describing a "virtual town", maybe piped their output back to them, and the software generated text.

Rise of The Machines

I feel like this one image alone solidifies why I’ll never understand AI: this little guy was made by a human, centuries ago, but but now their art still exists. They’ve personified their love of making a little guy for people to still experience, this was a part of them they made and lived on

"AI-generated viking rappers" is so many red flags packed into one little phrase

the classics

"Technologies of isolation" in the words of @hypervisible.blacksky.app

classic bungie: shockingly bad management decisions right down to the bitter end.

Or featuring tobacco companies to discus the "ethics" of tobacco, or fossil fuel companies to discuss climate.

The Vatican could have told Anthropic to stop stealing data, exploiting labor, killing the environment, deceiving us with anthropomorphic designs & lying about product "capabilities." Instead they partnered with them, like partnering with Sackler family to discuss harms of oxy.

I feel sad for all those people who wear seatbelts in the car, and who wear helmets while biking. How can they live in fear like that. Just awful. Imagine owning band-aids and neosporin! Living in fear!

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"aviation companies would like to stop having to pay human pilots and they don't care if it makes passengers less safe"

This isn’t necessary or what anyone wants. Most commercial air travel is already as automated as possible, with pilots and air traffic controllers being the backstop for mechanical and electronic failures. Taking humans out of the loop won’t make air travel safer *for humans*.

OK but they've _got_ to come up with a catcher name for it

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

What the US is doing to Cuba is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a genocide as defined by the United Nations. www.un.org/en/genocide-...

Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it

When I wrote the script for the "Eris explains sword logic" cutscene for Season of the Witch, Ash printed it out and stamped it with this seal.

Oh shit I actually have a parenting hot take: it's admirable to want to keep your kid off social media before they can consent as an adult but literally all babies look the same. You don't have to blur out your newborn's face. I know what a baby looks like. It's fine

The three years I was Destiny Historian were an honor.

"Every game we play, this one pattern consumes all the others. Wipes out every interesting development. A stupid, boring exploit that cuts off entire possibility spaces from ever arising. There's so much we'll never get to see." "I'm going to do something about it," they said. "We need a new rule."

Hilarious to walk into a store and see decor for the 250th event marked as 1776-2026 because it sure as hell feels like a tombstone inscription on everything.

oh he is. we shouldn’t even need to discuss this. that dude is used to ruling the shtetl.

As I read it, even the original article didn't make the (bad) argument the quoted post does: the far right didn't get their misogyny and racism _from_ porn, they seek out a subset of porn that they can read as validating and eroticizing their pre-existing misogyny and racism.

I mean, yes, but also this is Rabbi Tarfon: it is not incumbent upon you to finish the task but neither are you free to desist from it

Our current Governor is a transphobic piece of s*** in a party whose commitment to trans kids is weak in the face of the full-throated assault from the right.

I feel sad for all those people who wear seatbelts in the car, and who wear helmets while biking. How can they live in fear like that. Just awful. Imagine owning band-aids and neosporin! Living in fear!

might simply be more that a lot of lefties are lapsed Catholics (or if you prefer Catholics by tradition)

"We have Star Wars at home" And it's Slavic folklore and contemporary history. [Popular media under-utilises East Europe as a setting]

There's a corollary to this that even though almost all Americans are living in the lowest murder and violent crime rate of their entire lives, by a wide margin, they live in a constant state of fear, agitated by the people and factions who profit off it. Americans are kept in a terrified state.

"who was president from March 2020-January 20, 2021?" is one of the most fiercely contested questions in American politics

Your kids are not your property and a lot more people need to be told that

i cant believe tom steyer is the first dem politician (that ive seen) to proudly and forcefully make this correct and obvious counter argument to the bigotry but im glad he did

something i didn't put in the original big blog post about i/o is that not having it was actually a bit stunting... even for me, someone extremely in tune with unreal and able to make things very quickly. it's the opposite of the hammer/nail thing... if there is no hammer nothing looks like a nail

I have released my level scripting i/o system, it's called JoeIO and it works great for me and at work but it's early so be gentle and just holler if you come across any weirdness. An explanatory video is below www.joewintergreen.com/joeio-a-leve...

Unprecedented apology by Pope Leo XIV for the role of the Catholic Church in supporting slavery. The Catholic Church was the LARGEST single slave owner in the Americas. Made its wealth from slavery. John Paul II rehearsed a rambling apology in Gorée Island back in the 1990s #slaveryarchive

She really did

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I dunno man I think if you read that "grand unified interracial cuck porn theory of the modern far right" article and your takeaway is "porn as a whole is bad for society," maybe you should just not say your opinions on the internet

I saw this in the cinema in Montreal, when I was on a high school French exchange program. It was called "Absolom" there. It was a very long time ago, so I no longer remember whether it was dubbed in French, or just had French subtitles. I remember enjoying it at the time, but haven't seen it since.

Woefully underappreciated R-rated action picture. Not an all-time or anything, but it's solid, short, unpretentious, and beautifully directed. Wish it had made money. News that Ray Liotta had been cast as a man-of-few-words-but-much-ass-kicking was was met with suspicion initially, but he was great.

I think it’s so awesome how many people developed a disease where they think that giving someone 20 dollars means you are now their indentured servant. They think they’re shark tank & making a big investment and not someone who bought a toy that said “work in progress” and already played with it.

💯💯💯 Early Access is like Kickstarter; you accept a certain amount of risk that it might not work out, explicitly because you want to help a project that might not otherwise get to exist. Sometimes, you roll snake eyes! That's just how it goes! Don't like it? Don't do it!

I picked up the two Cal "a double jump, he can do" Kestis games a while back when they were ultra dirt cheap in some steam sale or other, and I've started playing the first one. it's soulsy when you're in combat and it has bonfires, but otherwise it's mostly a Tomb Raider imo

Turns out, it’s actually easy to regulate a technology out of existence.