Yup. People don't hate AI (even genAI), they hate capitalism. People absolutely do hate Web3 though. That blockchain shit can suck a bag of dicks.

Heh! Voice actors apparently have the polar opposite experience from math professors and it still sucks.

Today I am giving thanks that I am not a NY Mag editor or writer.

Well... the family averages out pretty good at least...

Not only is this correct (a better chatbot would give fuller answers more quickly leading to less "engagement"), it is also worth noting that users who pay per interaction are incentivized to find ways to minimize interactions with the chatbots via boilerplate prompts that are known to work.

It isn't the point, but I'm really surprised to see FFX-2 not pass the 50/50 mark. All of the main characters are women yet they still don't manage to get more lines than the male characters.

I'm not saying Long Island has become a fascist hellscape, but I also don't need it when they act like this.

Got this in at the last minute for the @paizo.com painting competition on MyMiniFactory.

Going into conspiracy mode: Having a platform that bans GenAI content is a good way to get training data for AI and not have to exclude things that will pollute your dataset.

I have gotten drunk rambles from students with better sentence structure and grammar than some of these Epstein emails.

Not to mention that this current release is *not* the full file set that the House is voting on. Journalism, as a profession, just might not be in the right place to properly deal with this.

Intersectional bigotry...

I love how these run all the way from "one off quips in the spur of the moment" to "organized and coordinated efforts". Ireland truly is a nation of poets.

Oh no! Republicans could hurt the Democrats so bad by just not running anyone in the 2026 mid term elections.

57% of all ad spending by Republicans in the Virginia governors race was on anti trans ads. Just an incredibly mismanaged campaign. Anti-trans politics are a losing issue.

Hell yes! No really does mean no.

Good job NYC, we pulled it off.

"Vote Blue No Matter Who" means you have to vote for Zohran.

It is 100% of a dog whistle, is what it is.

Good example of LLMs only mimicking behavior seen in the training data. Humans usually say "a representative will contact you" in situations like this (because they know what data they have) and so the LLM does also.

Hey fellow NYers, this does not mean you can take it easy and not vote, your vote will still make a difference.

www.404media.co/ai-generated... Politics is absolutely wild these days.

If you live in NYC, please send a letter to the Council to demand increased and stable funding for all NYC public libraries: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Python removes the GIL and then does this? Just a straight up winning streak.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p... About damn time.

A charity which, notably, he is legally forbidden from running because he's such a damn crook.

Democrats should absolutely be seizing upon the opportunity to unite with Zohran Mamdani, but Jeffries and Schumer have still decided to just stay out of it. Meanwhile Republicans are uniting behind Cuomo... I don't know who that says more about.

Shout out to my new grandma friends in the neighborhood who have been out there every Thursday for months. A consistent reminder that my area isn't as hopelessly Republican as I sometimes fear.

These Young Republicans conversations show, once again, that the people who made "The Man in the High Castle" made the absolutely correct decision when they destroyed all of the American Nazi props and costumes.

The President believing he can create new laws without congress and directly against a previous judicial ruling is just another example of facism having come to America. But also let's take a moment to ridicule him because the "you" in "you will be immediately arrested" refers to ICE and police.

People don't appreciate how much of reliability engineering is "we have automated the process of turning it off and on again". Sometimes we only turn it a little off, sometimes we turn it a lot off.

so: what do we need you to do? two things. 1.call your D/I senators. find contact info here: reps.fyi what do we need you to say? try the call script below. adapt it; make it your own! there are bailout points written in, in case you get nervous. but please *call.* 🧵

Seeing a politician give a genuine and nuanced history and reasoning for a policy decision just feels like such a nice change of pace.

apnews.com/article/schu... Welcome to the party, Chuck. Glad you could join us.

"Kirk was assassinated for his conservative beliefs" "Killed for wanting lower taxes?" "No, not taxes." "Oh, less regulation?" "Umm... no." "Which ones then?" "Oh, you know the ones."

If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at [email protected] if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

Mamdani: Why should I debate Trump's puppet when I could debate Trump himself? If Trump is serious about this, he should come to New York City. We can have as many debates as he wants about why he is cutting snap benefits for hungry New Yorkers just to fund tax cuts for his billionaire donors

KPop Demon Hunter reaching 266M views is an amazing achievement even when you account for the fact that half of those came from my daughter.

Trump take vegetables, eh @mtsw.bsky.social?

Chris Pratt has a point. We should give RFK Jr. credit where credit is due. RFK Jr.'s success would be good for us all. No credit is due yet, of course, but if it ever is... we should give him credit and acknowledge how many more of these he needs to get to net neutral.

We are already seeing this change with respect to congestion pricing in NYC.

The NYer urge to see someone looking at the subway map and then aggressively ask them "where you tryna go?"

I was told my apt was rent stabilized, but what I was not told was that I had a preferential rent... so it went up a bunch after the first year anyway. These NYC landlords really get you coming and going.

Has anyone checked the Colorado Parks rep for tentacles?

This is a Heathcliff "Meat" comic in real life.

A world where people pretend to use AI to cloak their work in the supposed impartiality of math...

abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics... Worth mentioning that I am ordained to perform weddings in NYC (and the rest of the state). I am more than happy to help out anyone who would like to tie the knot now before they make it illegal.

Selecting some good backgrounding pieces for the @paizo.com printables contest on MyMiniFactory. This "fungi stairway" comes courtesy of @loot-studios.bsky.social as part of The Undercaves bundle and is perfect to recreate a scene from the PF2e Beginner Box.

Getting prepped for the @paizo.com printables painting contest on MyMiniFactory.