there’s a woman across the aisle on the bus crocheting a pocket onto a cardigan *that she’s wearing*, incredible, a thing of beauty

Being even baseline literate in the 2020s is like never working out but slowly becoming the strongest person on earth as everyone around you eats shredded newspaper and chugs poison

So the “figure out how to use it lest you be left behind” replies about ‘AI’ that have been popping up here strike me as inauthentic but also kind of funny because they grant the point that rather than an automation panacea these technologies are quite difficult to figure out how to use effectively

What to do if the power goes out on traffic lights is literally a driving test question every sixteen year old has to answer. This is not an unforeseeable edge case.

Caloplaca sp #lichen on seaside cliffs. Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

While the media chums it up with Greene, reminder that she has a bill going before the House today to make it a *federal crime* to provide or advocate for healthcare for trans youth.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

The investors are banking on waking up aaaaany morning now to hear that Altman has released a version of Jarvis from the Iron Man movies that everyone on earth will happily pay $100/mo for.

We are not running out of good ideas. We have destroyed most mechanisms for people with good ideas to get funding and replaced those mechanisms with a few dozen guys with all the money sniffing each others farts.

More than a year after Democrats chose to continue genociding Palestine over beating Trump, blue maga tears continue to flow. No self reflection, no fixing their own broken, corrupt war mongering, genocidal house, just look over there at what the other guy's doing.

Americans should be requires to show ID and proof of citizenship at all times, unless they are at a gun show.

So which comes first, the news reports about people sexting their dead grandma or their dead grandma encouraging them to commit suicide?

So, realistically these characters are just common domain now, right? How will they prove someone didn't use AI? I dunno, dumb point, but it feels like a silly 180 on the last century so idgaf what happens to their IP

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

TIME magazine is owned by Marc Benioff, owner of Salesforce, who literally ran an AI agents puff piece about his ow company in the magazine. I’m unsurprised he thinks a bunch of grifters are person of the year, he thinks they’re cool

The Shovel has it right

fuck the Democratic party 👍

its always Jimmy Fallon holding up the picture of the ape NFT, etc., just blatant cynical marketing for some big business scam

Mornin', folks.

Why would you think electing Democrats will rein in ICE and DHS when the Dems helped create them and let them operate with zero accountability for two and a half decades?

it's really gonna suck when newsom becomes president for a single term, gives israel all the money it wants, and then loses to nick fuentes in 2032

Trump says that price of beef is down. The receipt from my last trip to the grocery store says it is up. For busy shoppers, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Having a shit day at my shit job and I want to give a shout out to @system76.bsky.social for building a keyboard that really tanked my being way, way too hard on it.

So Google still chooses to ignore all of the scam ads that pretend to be the download button? All of these are ad.doubleclick. At this point they're just like Meta, knowingly profiting off of very obvious crime.

Jesus, it really is the “remember when you were 12 and happy?” Administration.

Richest man in the world just apparently bricked 10,000 home backup batteries because of a recall and hasn't replaced them and isn't responding to customers. Yeah we already knew billionaires are just thieves but here's another big example.

Omg you all let the police beat the shit out of young Americans for protesting genocide for a whole year straight and now you're publishing and reposting articles on how the youth is not interested in politics because they didn't want to participate in your whitewashed PG shitlib protest???

Seriously fuck PowerPoint.

If the Dems believed in accountability, at least half of their own members would be in jail. The idea that they're going to pull a Nuremberg if they ever regain power is beyond absurd and deeply ahistorical.

you think the party who sets aside time to officially condemn socialism while nazis are in power will end fascism, while i am not nearly that fucking dumb

Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce" Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI

Couple weeks ago at work: Me: you sound sick Him: oh yeah its a bad one I can’t smell or taste shit Me: maybe you shouldn’t be here Him: are you kidding? Im not missing out on overtime. A week later 60-70% of the staff has Covid, at work, no masks sitting in the office and break rooms.

The number of times I've had to be extremely careful with what I said about AI at work because I will get shouted at if I'm not sufficiently "on board" is ridiculous. My honest opinion is it's garbage, but my work has made it so I can't be honest about how I feel and why.

It really is just "Sell the house to who, Ben, fucking Aquaman!", but on a global scale.

Capitalism is just a maniacal group hallucination.

Gotta love how lives are being wrecked, industries are being stripmined, and the world is being torched, just so a few warped executives can tug their milky little twiglets over the impossible fantasy of a world where products are made for free and sold for thousands to unemployed people.

Another way to look at this is when ICE, CBP, et al lie on reports, now they can blame AI. “U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis wrote… that the practice of using ChatGPT to write use-of-force reports undermines the agents’ credibility and ‘may explain the inaccuracy of these reports.’”

Artist is TenderRebellions on IG

Security people have got to stop saying that the solution to all injections is just "input validation". It has led to so many half assed, insufficient fixes.

Watching a thing on the SS Eastland and the bullshit the cops pulled reminded me of the Uvalde police.

Just like with musk buying twitter, these oligarchs don’t care if these things make money. The point was to remove them as a tool for criticizing the powerful and they’ve done that. A secondary goal was spreading their own propaganda, and maybe making a little money was a distant third concern.

For those wondering if Jeff Bezos (owner of Washington Post) is in the Epstein files:

Whenever people talk about fitness and weight loss and they mention their weight without mentioning their height, are they stupid?

Air travel is going to get worse, fast, with the introduction of dynamic pricing. Difficult to imagine the status quo being worse but the corporations will deliver hls.harvard.edu/today/how-de...