The PS1 called, it wants its graphics back

Fool! DOOM squeezes as he pleases!

I like to think that I'm a person who is able to admit when he is wrong. However, there has not yet been an opportunity to find out.

[first day as a shepherd] boss: where are you going? me: [pointing] star boss: what? why me: [shrugging] baby

A familiar sight for tech people who try to organize a workshop for fixing their workshops

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (February)

NFT-ass graphics.

The most valuable social capital of middle aged men is how many 25 year old guys think they are cool. So far the record is 0 but they keep trying, bless their hearts

We've got a book of toxic wallpaper that can kill (arsenic I think). It was made as a reference to avoid toxic wallpaper but I guess when they made it they didn't think about the fact that the samples were also toxic

Offloading my emotions onto a chatbot to free up an extra 2KB of RAM that I needed to run DOOM

Do I ⚪ buy new video games ⚪ play the unplayed video games that I already own 🔘 play HoI4 for another two thousand hours

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This is the issue I have, is that essentially ALL of the legitimate uses of machine learning function nothing like an LLM, but they're still getting called AI because that's the buzzword. Training a computer to identify coral reefs and track their bleaching from satellite photos is a good use, 1/2

get that either. Abstracts exist! Keywords exist! There's an entire field of library science to help us find what we need, and the things we don't know we need! not to mention the people that we are learning from, the apprenticeship of talking to advisors and other professors and other students!

maybe the logic was "oh, an existential marxist! surely he'll understand public transit"

I think it’s worth noting that these devs say they use AI for productivity but then don’t give any details. Productivity AI has a very poor record — often reducing it. All of the concrete examples they end up sharing are of replacing creative labor, which they immediately decry and backpedal 🤔

RELEASE THE RICKMAN CUT YOU COWARDS

UX is like a jester. The real role of the jester is to point out when the king is doing something stupid. But tech execs thought that the jester's role was just to bring the bells and whistles. They ignored the warnings, bolted AI onto everything for no reason, and are now shocked by the backlash.

I am tired of this world, these people

If AI were real, it would be using all the data companies already have on me as its primary input, and do stuff almost entirely on the backend. But the tech mostly relies on the ELIZA effect to appear impressive, and companies want the perceived markerability of visible "AI" in the product.

Why is everyone in Hyperion scared of the Shrike, when it looks like this?

That’s not really new data, back around 2018 the hiring algorithms Amazon used were found to have an implicit bias against women. That was because the data it was trained on (Amazon’s own personnel records) also showed an implicit bias against women.

Once again my timeline is cast into the cauldron of shit because of a weird beef between mutuals. I'm not going to stand for it anymore. I don't need to see this.

"You have to use AI." ...why?

If a key part of your job is getting information right and ferreting out falsehoods and untrustworthy sources, and the tool that’s supposed to help you do that keeps throwing you obvious errors, than yeah, you’re probably not going to *trust* it and may end up deciding it’s not all that useful.

In 2026, I would prefer not to.

NEO: I know kung fu. MORPHEUS: Show me. NEO:

I love control panels. I love it when systems come online.

Rapture 🤝 LLMs

Disappointed that a bunch of people gave the wrong answer but not a one said "Hearts of Iron 4"

Getting a job as an expert on a field of study without being an expert on that field of study would certainly be a neat trick

I don't actually know what the difference between Undertale and Homestuck is, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask

Forget the unreliable narrator. Give me an unreliable tutorial. Guy who straight up gaslight you about what the buttons do.

The world has finally created potions, from acclaimed novel The Witcher

Put another way, *two-thirds* of people over 45 hate GenAI in games already, and we're really only two years in

Real 10x devs measure their velocity in linear feet.

AI is old news. Innovators must ask themselves: in 2026, how can I supercharge my productivity by incorporating labubus into my process?

This is why my ping is bad

What we need on the roads are vehicles that will be completely immobilized in case of technical glitches; famously no one ever needs to travel anywhere quickly during times of widespread power outage.

No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.

Everything about AI is the worst thing about AI, but the worst thing for me is its tone of chipper flattery ("You're right!"), a tone that people apparently love to hear directed at them. I feel like a mutant because every time people talk like that to me I start looking for the hidden knife.

Once, a respected person in my field shared a link to one of my articles, alongside enthusiastic agreement with a "quote" from me that does not appear anywhere within the article, or elsewhere in my corpus. Frequently, others yell at me for "saying" things that likewise do not appear in the text.

Semi-related: I was trying to track down the source of a popular Nelson Mandela quote & I was unable to find an actual source EXCEPT for a video on YouTube where he does NOT say the words in the quote, BUT they’re in the video description? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByrF... Actual Mandela effect??

Once, a respected person in my field shared a link to one of my articles, alongside enthusiastic agreement with a "quote" from me that does not appear anywhere within the article, or elsewhere in my corpus. Frequently, others yell at me for "saying" things that likewise do not appear in the text.

"I only use it for summaries" is the new six word tragedy

Was going through my documents and realized that I got my adult re-up of a couple of vaccines back in 2018, but didn't write it down and got them re-re-upped in 2024 So what I'm saying is, I'm probably immortal

Reading is thinking, and afterwards, writing is thinking. Doing an "AI" summary eliminates thinking in both steps. A doc told me some of her colleagues are using "AI" to write their case notes. Her take: oh hell no, because writing the case notes is when you think about the case.

Hello, 911? Someone stole my prompt ... It's what you type into a chat thing to make a picture ... It was an oil painting of Santa with giant breasts ... No, not Mrs Claus, Santa ... Technically, the prompt is priceless, but I'll be selling the NFT for $900 ... No, they need to come sooner than that