what in the absolute hell shit is this fuck www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wL...

anything: "Try our new AI assistant!" me:

Oh, what's this? No big deal, just the cover reveal for my next book, QUAINT FOLK -- a story about an obnoxious American family who visits an incredibly quaint British island where people follow the old ways. 😎🖤

Nominative determinism was discovered by the famous linguistic psychologist Norman Ativedeterminism

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

I love that Elon Musk wants to "make Star Trek real" because the canonical first step in making Star Trek real would be to dunk Elon Musk in liquid nitrogen and yeet his corpse into space

OMG STOP. This shite is FAR less convincing than seances, and I say that as a recovering Annoying Atheist who's about as spiritual as a bag of chips.

Anyone else think the "fire eels" were gonna turn out to be wormhole prophets? #StarfleetAcademy

I actually believe Trump doesn't watch the videos he posts, but that doesn't matter. I *don't* believe that staffers post for him, but that doesn't matter either. It was posted from his account and he's answerable for it. Saying he didn't see it is like saying he didn't listen to his own speech.

It's either a richt dreich haarie dee on yon craigs or there's a heck of a fire in Meadowbank

Some AI poster called me a "gatekeeper" and like, gatekeeping against what? Mediocrity? Plagiarism? Get the fuck outta my gate, man

Been reminded tonight of still the single greatest photograph of me ever taken (and I'm including my wedding album) and still blows me away that the creator of Dredd was selling it as merch :)

Lucy Liu is both the best and hottest Watson, I will not be taking questions

YES AND this would be true even if the output of imitative AI didn't suck shit

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

We'd really like to hear what fans of rural life sims make of the dialogue system we're using in Mandrake. Is that you?

Rewatching "Elementary", absolutely the best Sherlock Holmes screen adaptation of the 21st century

The POTUS is sharing memes of Black Americans as gorillas. To every single person who gaslit us about him and the people who voted for him not being racist, you've been an acute part of the problem the whole time.

holy fucking SHIT he actually posted that

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Reddit post seen in the wild

We've done a new game! If you like one or more of: * Tower defence * Scottish Space Dwarves * Retro vibes You should check this out right now!

Late thought but is "raises questions" here a hypercorrection of "begs questions"? Because it does (kinda) beg them in the annoying pedant sense of "ignore them"

Some concept art for a game I might make but totally not until I've done some more important things (procgen emergent puzzler)

It'd be cool if the Francesca/Michaela thing ended with Queen Charlotte legalising same-sex marriage in the Bridgerton timeline FOUR TIMES as much potential gossip, Charlotte! (apologies to @xkcd.com)

as it happens I did NOT know the most prominent or any other bit of her story! This is a cool thread

For your reassurance, here's the Fallen London AI Transparency Statement and the portion of the Steam page which states that we're making Mandrake by hand. We don't use generative AI. <3

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

OK I enjoy the "surrealist novel about a string of unlikely coincidences leading to a crisis on an obscure island microstate" genre, does it have any more things in it after Illuminatus and Cat's Cradle?

...horrifying message without context, thank you

That thing where someone says "We're a big Irish family" and you immediately know what country they're from

22: "What a queer duck!" —H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, 14 Dec 1933 re: Aleister Crowley

Someone who is less of a prat could even MAYBE work this into a decent joke*, but this is pure "Celebs make political comments when they win awards, am I right?? What's with that??" level shite

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser. What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

I don't think I've posted this here so here goes. (Forgive any missing or extraneous 'u's; my laptop keyboard is starting to give p.) The IBM Model M keyboard Was a sturdy, formidable beast; It was big, it was proud, it was fearfully loud, And it weighed half a stone at the least

The U key on my laptop keyboard has become dodgy - sometimes it works, sometimes I get a suuurpluus of u's, sometimes a pacity. I can se alt-85 or alt-117 in most apps bt for some reason Chrome thinks alt-1 is a keyboard shortcut.

some procedurally generated (NOT "generative AI") individual robot names from a sci-fi emergent puzzle game I might finish one day. "Jodee Whitaker" is a coincidence

On today's walk, Ninja has investigated a tree, been borked at by one (1) doggo and appreciated urban art

Benedict Bridgerton: I have fallen in love with a mysterious silver lady Lady Bridgerton: Don't worry Benedict we live in a progressive alternate history where racism is a thing of the past, even here in the past! Benedict: She's working class Lady Bridgerton: Lady Bridgerton: fuck

If I were a depraved criminal I would simply not let anyone take a photo of me doing a depraved crime

It does not 'raise' questions CNN it answers them.

game design hivemind: in a data model of individual diners in a restaurant, what 'stats' should diners have? They could be general disposition (polite, patient, fighty) or things that may change over the course of the evening (hungry, thirsty, drunk, sick, happy). What else?

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

OK, for me that was the first really good #StarfleetAcademy episode, and possible the first really good Klingon episode in the Trek franchise love this autistic birdwatching Klingon pacifist nerd boy

well look what turned up in an ebay lot of weird old soviet badges @oocbiffo.bsky.social

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

the only social media use responsible for brianna's death was not her own but the unchecked rampant transphobia that's become normalized by these platforms, and to pretend otherwise is victim blaming

Go on. (Not entirely random though, I'll choose ones I like)