"Believing that AI is “just a tool” is naive at best and dismissive at worst because nothing about tools is “just” anything. They are highly complex parts of life and culture."

We tried to warn you about Anthropic. Now they're using xAI's ultra-polluting community-killing nightmare data centre to power your toxic claude relationship All the new paid subs from @rutgerbregman.com and @quitgpt.bsky.social's campaign, now powered by Musk 🫠 www.anthropic.com/news/higher-...

I have been waiting for so long for this I’m like getting emotional. www.fangoria.com/the-devils-d...

Being an adult doesn’t mean you have to outgrow joy. Play the game. Buy the console. Get excited about the trailer. Spend your night saving a fictional kingdom if that’s what gets you through. Life takes enough from people. Don’t hand it the things that still make you feel like yourself.

Well well well, if it isn't what I've been literally saying www.theinformation.com/articles/ant...

Space whales + grief = WHALESONG, a duet game about loss and cosmic cetaceans. https://loottheroom.itch.io/whalesong

🚨 Get ready for a Game Changer: Home Edition — LIVE NOW on Kickstarter until June 5! From the team behind Game Changer comes a chaotic, fast-paced party game where you never know what’ll happen next.

Odysseus isn’t being played by a well-read Jack Russell Terrier? Pass.

The "Don't Ask AI, Ask A Peer" series collaboration between @globalvoices.org @apc.org and GenderIT continues with this excellent piece on the need to generate more questions than pleasant answers:

if Gwendoline Christie ever disappoints may I not see it. may the gods turn away the sight from me.

Tipper Gore thought she heard Satan speaking in Judas Priest records and it was an emergency, but the computer that has literally convinced teens to kill themselves and others? Put that in the schools, baby!

kids rule

This explains the whole Jesus album she just released.

Commander Keen

May the 4th be with you.

In survey after survey, public opinion toward AI music is pretty unfavorable. A study by Deezer and Ipsos showed that 51 percent of respondents think AI will “lead to the creation of more low-quality, generic-sounding music.” Despite this, only Bandcamp has banned generative AI music outright.

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

Cut my jeans into pieces These are my homemade jorts

I got to play a game of Mothership today at a convention and it was great fun. Somehow, despite the horrors, everyone lived.

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

"people usually don’t know what it means to be #disabled. Just because we’re too #sick to #work and be active for extended periods of time doesn’t mean we can’t sometimes go out for a meal or have people over to visit.": buff.ly/FPqPMUL via @psychologytoday.com #InvisibleIllness #NEisVoid #spoonie

In what should be a shock to no one, a pretentious asshole loves the automated agreement machine.

Not that anyone needs yet another reason to steer clear of Microsoft, but VSCode now adds Copilot as a co-author of all your commits, regardless if you used Copilot. This was added silently as a default. This is some next level insanity.

I’m ugly crying over my pizza right now. Good God.

This is going to be so fun!

this is perhaps the coolest thing ever!! and if you want to support it but can’t make it to Baltimore, there IS a video on demand reward tier… 😈

Even as they utilize AI tools, vast swaths of young people are deeply acrimonious and even resentful of the AI-centric future that many feel is being forced on them. Read more from @janus.bsky.social: buff.ly/S2mOmcc

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

This is kinda becoming an emergency. I’m still waiting on my replacement tablet to show up, but please hit me up if you want to ask questions about commissions!

It is worse. It only takes a non-trivial minority (I'd say 10-20%) of student LLMing their way through college to destroy the value of all newly minted degrees. We owe it to our honest majority of students to go HARD on keeping this crap out of the educational system. CS is especially bad...

"You are no longer augmenting your own brain; you’re replacing it with something else, something you don’t have any control over. And that's not even taking into account all of those very serious questions about the reliability of that information and those conclusions AI has provided you."

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Step one: DON'T FUCKING GIVE "AI" YOUR CREDIT CARDS JESUS FUCK WHAT ARE YOU THINKING www.wired.com/story/the-ra...

a ballroom has a core strategic weakness: the man in the back saying “everyone attack”

Baseball fans! This was a really neat & cute video about Jacques ze Whipper trying to hit a ball off a retired MLB pitcher. It...went about as well as you could expect lol I really like both of these guys. "You're the cutest guy on this field!" as an affirmation was great 😅 youtu.be/oHjbpCHJZWY?...

Whoever decided to put AI closed captions on shows that used to have real closed captions should be in prison

Lmao nobody gaf about these attempts on his life

The big takeaway of the AI discourse is that we have to stop trying to replace each other.

Thou shalt not use tax payer dollars to fund the Epstein ballroom. It should never be built at all. It is an abomination.

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Microsoft and OpenAI’s famed AGI agreement is dead

Guys... can we actually do it? Can we actually get this bundle to $6,969.69 before the end of the day?? It would be a #LesbianVisibilityWeek miracle!!

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen

Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, has formally apologized to the community of Tumbler Ridge, BC, after a mass shooting in February. He admitted his company did not alert authorities to the shooter’s disturbing online conversations with its AI chatbot even after staff flagged the account internally.

A Constellation of Chronic Medical Conditions Commonly Seen in Autistic & ADHD Adults

damn we won a Peabody!! peabodyawards.com/award-profil...

At this point they have to create so much more than AGI. They have to turn whatever LLMs are into the next iPhone and the next Azure and the next Office Suite in two years. They’ve pissed off everyone and already spent so much money and it is in no way even remotely worth it