I somehow end up in the Olympics for figure skating due to a clerical error and I just limp around the ice for three minutes and I'm so bad that instead of giving me a score the judges vote to have me killed

For those of you into Heated Rivalry, might I suggest THIS sizzling slow burn?

Me: why are you being fussy? 3yo daughter: it’s hard to say

Guy takes goose decoy to store

[Sucking up to God] All things are beautiful. I love life.

This is just to say You need An operation In your chest Which i Can probably perform. Because You're not my son "Forgive me, But doctor I am your son Pagliacci

Man I don't care if it's right seven times a day, eight times a day. We need a new clock. It needs to be right 100% of the time.

KOKO THE GORILLA: koko send email. practical Koko type message Jeffrey Epstein: kooko... part y nex=t week coming>? KOKO: good email good koko give beautiful koko helicopter to jungle JE: kko, we cnt get u gorlluhh. endsong vits to is. Land KOKO: jealousy pedophile

You can just use cheap stuff that works reliably. You don’t have to switch to slop that doesn’t work just because it’s newer and more expensive.

When people talk about the problems with plastic and the need to move away from it, they're often speaking about single-use items. But the stuff that's supposed to last is awful too. I broke a mop and a swifter by scrubbing too hard. Our snow shovel cracked. High-end vacuums are un-repairable

I strongly believe that repurposing academic language such as "privilege" and "toxic masculinity" and "cultural appropriation" is ineffective and alienating, but as far as I'm concerned this is explanatory for a movement's limitations or impotence more than the countermovement's strength.

rented a car in Wales and the guy said "remember, here we drive only on the left, and pass on the right" no adjustment needed brother, I am a bmw owner

I'm going to buy one, and then write posts that begin with prefatory stuff about how I love my Optimus and then are like "it is odd that all it does is piss and there's no way to make it not piss. It doesn't seem like robots would have to piss, and Tesla has not been very helpful wrt the pissing."

british guy: i hope americans are ready to be hated lib american reply: i'm so ashamed of my countrymen, i hope that the british don't hate me specifically Hamburglar: i haven't stolen anything since i got sober

BREAKING: disney set to announce shocking $65bn deal to acquire the catholic church. "we are so excited to fold the jesus christ extended universe into our diverse and lucrative intellectual property portfolio, and we look forward to giving people even more of the stories they love than ever before"

excellent work by @theonion.com this month

...it's January 16th

One of the greatest theoretical minds of the European socialist movement and the author of numerous classic works, Rosa Luxemburg, was murdered on this day in 1919. We're offering 30% all works on or by the great revolutionary and theorist.

There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.

You’re not imagining things—the plums that were in your icebox are *completely gone*. Here’s why that’s bad news: • They were *your plums*, that you were saving for breakfast. That makes this personal for you. • They were *sweet*, so whoever ate them *enjoyed* them. That’s unforgivable.

We’re touching stove, and frankly, we’re going to be touching a lot more than just stove very soon. We love burner, don’t we? Should I touch it? They don’t think I should touch it. I’m going to touch it folks.

WHAT

It’s true that there’s something called an LLM that is somehow involved with this feature much like it’s true that there’s something called a Linked List that is somehow involved with a thread, but that’s none of our business! All that matters is what the feature does!

“explain how” who gives a shit? What do you want a Lunch n’ Learn? Just tell them to turn it off!

It is a mistake to call it “Grok’s activity”. It’s X’s activity.

With all due respect to the Hindustan Times, why are they covering this better than their New York counterparts?

Tangential to the much more important point but this is why I am bearish on LLMs-as-customer-service agents and such. They know what they’re supposed to say but it’s all lies. If you could get them to actually do what they say then you might have something but that’s drawing the rest of the owl.

I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.

I don’t think that ChatGPT is turning people into murderers or inducing psychosis per se but I do think that LLMs have straightforward non-mystical properties which make them very attractive and potentially dangerous in some ways for people with obsessive or psychotic tendencies.

To anyone who says this wasn’t predictable

I’m a bit confused why the New York Times hasn’t written a word about this yet