The absolute last fuckin thing we need to devote attention to right now is building robots who are good at absolutely nothing that helps us

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

Do not let the duck in Even if he seems really nice Do not let the duck in Do not let him on the other side (Apologies to Chris De Burgh)

Somewhere in his writings Samuel R. Delany talks about living in London in the early 1970s and going upstairs to see who was playing amazing piano and getting to know that person and becoming friends with them and of course it was Tim Curry

these are immensely self absorbed men who pine for nazi germany and apartheid south africa — stagnant, backwards regimes btw — because they imagine themselves the masters of the universe.

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

Sci Fi fans noticing how we've shot past dystopian classics. "Soylent Green--how cute to think they'd want to feed people."

Trump’s “complicated relationship with the Bible” is a lot like my complicated relationship with Charlize Theron

Gang, making these ANATOMY OF MONSTERS has been so dang fun. If you want to read a whole bunch of 'em in a row, they're at sheldoncomics.com

spread the word THE DEADLANDS IS BACK clear your calendar and head to the graveyard (bring something for the crows) settle in to read 👇

Exactly. My culture is a casserole of food, music, literature, film, and language from all over the world and I want more of it, not this dead inbred nonsense fantasy Thiel et al. wank off to.

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

What should I call these things? Data art? They’re data visualizations, for sure, but not in a way that’s interpretable unless you hover/tap things Each one is a UFO sighting. The date and the shape, size, and speed determine the visual for each. It’s not a UFO argument, I just like making these

Lionel Hutz: I move for a 'bad court thingy'. Judge Snyder: You mean a mistrial? Lionel Hutz: Yeah! That's why you're the 'judge' and I'm the 'law talking guy!' Judge Snyder: The lawyer? Lionel Hutz: Right.

Huge news: the court has entered final judgement in Oregon v Kennedy (HHS trans youth care ban) and has vacated the Kennedy declaration and permanently enjoined its enforcement to target gender clinics. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Strait of Hormuz is open, but the way lies east of the Sun and West of the Moon, and you will find no welcome there.

On top of reasons of role deconstruction and bodily autonomy, this is one reason why it's so important to many people in power to eradicate trans folk. If you're secure with yourself, feeling good BEING yourself, they can't tell you you're broken and then sell you a "fix"

In his first appearance, Superman beat a domestic abuser so hard his sleeves disintegrated

Just love (sarcasm) the classic online discourse pattern where a reasonable comment is followed by a completely batshit comment that makes you feel bad about liking the first comment. Especially when there's no point in arguing with the second comment because it's obvious pile-on bait.

madonna could never www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rAW...

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

And you know they debated about whether to do it, too. And that at some point in the debate someone said, "Yeah, but we're going to need to use that room sometime." And that this wound up being the decisive argument even if nobody admitted it afterwards.

I published this article about the longstanding payment problems at Cricket Media in 2022. Reupping, since I'm STILL hearing from Cricket authors and illustrators who haven't been paid... hey @scbwi.bsky.social any response? writerbeware.blog/2022/11/18/l...

“Of course in the old days Bluesky was only on for three hours a day. We used to get dressed up in our Sunday best to log on to it. Then when it shut down again we’d all stand up and sing the national anthem”

Exactly one year ago today:

It's not, though, which may have something to do with the fact he isn't seeking reelection.

"I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam." - God to Moses, in Two Corinthian Leathers.

We should have never doubted this man

Many of us struggled with authority and issues of unfairness when we were young. Having those conflicts is not why some people conclude "So I shouldn't have to comply with the rules and expectations of others" instead of "It taught me that nobody else should face injustice, either."

More Susanna Clarke?!? [squeeing noises ensue]

The Founders' vision of representative democracy was always one of the Citizenry coming together and choosing from amongst their ranks that individual most in need of on-the-job training.

People over on Facebook/YouTube/elsewhere on bluesky/reality have been mocking this, but these are all totally genuine and highly advanced GMing techniques pioneered in obscure corners of indie rpg design in the early 2000s. Let's go through them one by one and learn together.

one comical aspect that unites today's britain and today's america is that these are both countries that voluntarily inflicted immense economic harm on themselves for basically idiotic, barely cogent reasons and got absolutely nothing out of it

"The cost of all tickets will still be just $5, plus a convenience fee of $20.95, a processing fee of $1.17, an equity tax of 0.2% of your gross annual income, a translation fee of $4.22, and a hazard abatement surcharge of $0.22."

Motion to bring back mandatory circuit riding for the SCOTUS because justices are woefully out of touch with the common people that their legal opinions profoundly affect. Some of them being ensconced in gated communities and coddled by billionaires is eroding their understanding of public service.

If only.

Our two microblogging sites are the "relitigate Hitler" site and the "relitigate Stalin" site. One wonders what they're doing over on Threads.

I guess the dubiously good thing about this kind of stuff is that we can end the pretense that they opposed sex ed in schools because of supposed obscenity and not because they actually want lots of teenage pregnancies. It was never really about abstinence at all, was it?

Kirk spent his whole life trying to reach young people, and now young people have turned him into their own i can haz cheezburger. More famous internationally than he could have dreamed, but for nothing to do with his actual life or work. I feel like there should be a German word for that.

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You will ugly cry about the hyena. More than once. But it will be worth it.

One of the weirdest tankie flexes is the willful ignorance of whose side was the USSR on when WW2 started.

Even the Soviet Union stopped going to bat for Stalin the second his body was cold.

To be fair, starting a war over booze would be a fitting way to celebrate our 250th, considering the role the Sugar Act (a British effort to crush molasses smuggling from the West Indies to New England rum distilleries) played in instigating the American Revolution.

Many people are saying that JD is quite ignorant about the history of religion in Europe and the Middle East but that overlooks his expertise on the ottomans.

Union Station McDonald's pigeon senses we have his natural prey, the pommes frites.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.