RIP Mac Pro

Chatbot-style user interfaces to LLMs need to be illegal, episode 66284.

fwiw you can buy blu-rays for cheap on eBay and then sell them on again

Someday Bluesky on iOS will be able to fucking post looped or bounced live photos (a feature on iOS for 9 years now iirc) as GIFs But not today

Step 1, order covid test yesterday on Amazon for overnight delivery so I can quickly test Step 2, Amazon telling me after the delivery window is over that “it now arrives tomorrow” 😒

Down thread it says jobs for senior programmers are going up but not junior programmers. So what happens when you massacre the pipeline, who’ll manage the tech then? If your answer is the tech will manage itself I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

Verifying myself as not AI generated

here’s johnny

it’s a very interesting strategy to try to get gas prices to double or triple right when you have an extremely important election coming up that already looks very bad for you

In general, making fun of weird people and putting social pressure on them (up to ostracizing, aka blocking) is much more efficient and likely to work then trying to whisper their horrible worldviews out of them.

Anyone can be fooled by fake images, especially with so much AI slop around. But there are some things you can do to try to prevent it! One is to only share things that are properly attributed/credited. Another is to check replies and see if more knowledgable people are pointing out that it's fake.

The universe is a glorious, stunningly beautiful place, and it’s offensive & gross when people produce or share fake space imagery. There’s a video floating around on here pretending to be the night sky viewed from Mars. It’s extremely fake, has been polluting the internet for years. Don’t share it

Everything “HP” is terrible. The books, the printers, the sauce.

Should probably keep some 3D printing filament in a bank safe deposit box; you know for retirement money.

When I got my furby tattoo (which I will never regret because furbies are perfect), both of the tattoo artists in the room said that a) my furby tattoo was awesome & b) that Harry Potter tattoos were the most common thing they had been asked to do cover ups for & that it was an industry wide issue.

there is a lot of media out there right now where outright villains get the hero treatment and that includes little to no consequences, ever — no fallout that touches them, no inner reckonings, no regrets, nothing and it sucks ass and it's unsurprising a lot of people are sick of it

IMO it’s job specialization.

What do you think the most important human invention is?

Making this my auto-reply

An “AI” elementary school, with no teachers, is permanently closing next spring.

the sierra parser doesn’t understand “skeet” btw stupid chatbots

is there a club for people who used to have a Wikipedia page but are now plebs again, asking for a friend

thinking of going with “monsieur lèche-cul” to describe LLM chatbots

some Coinbase customers are horrified that the Coinbase app is encouraging them to gamble they're so close

somebody finally built a calibre alternative that doesn't make you feel like a cheese grater slowly peeling off all your skin

This headline in the iOS App Store has, pardon the pun, bad vibes

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.

And no, Outlook, I don't need you to summarize that subject line. I can tell them to fuck off on my own. This era in tech can't be over soon enough.

Do me a solid: tell me, better yet—show me, the latest thing you got from an independent creator. Include a link for other people to get their own. Book, sweater, music, t-shirt, ceramics, doohickey jawn, etc. Let’s see it.

(AI here means “chatbot” which is always bad and useless.) gizmodo.com/i-dont-use-a...

sorry—I’m an emposter

Finally 🫍

Also, for the people making things: you need to post your shit constantly or no one will see it. Talk it up. Make people crave that shit. Make them angry they don’t have it yet. Humility does not pay your rent.

I’ve a great idea for an AI startup, using leftover Juiceros to squeeze more performance out of GPUs. Pls send $10 billion

This is CueCat slander

[fumbles saving throw]

Love a 10GB (500 times the size of my first hard disk) phone update that introduces… a few new emoji.

check it out: a whole new website for psychic damage profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday/

this is a massive win www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

Nurse watching me cry: oh wow she’s in a lot of pain Doctor: nah it’s probably depression and she should lose some weight about it Me: in the same amount of pain as always but crying because I have “Pagliacci” stuck in my head to the tune of “Paparazzi”

Plasmaxxing

Sony owes me big time for all my real estate investments in Star Wars Galaxies. The lava abatement bill on Mustafar alone set me back 400,000 galactic credits!

Tag yourself

Thanks! The person who first explained that to me was the late Professor John Doheny of the UBC Department of English, around 1975 or so.

slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time

Life hack: an aluminum meat thawing tray will cool cookies much faster than a cookie cooling rack (you can just put the baking tray directly on the meat thawing tray)

HEY WRITERS (not just SF/F writers) HAVE YOU BEEN PROCRASTINATING ON MAKING YOUR ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT CLAIM? SFWA is running a webinar event OPEN TO ALL WRITERS (not just members! not just SF/F writers!) on Thursday. Sign up here: www.sfwa.org/events/anthr...

In retrospect I assume everyone can understand why those in power had such a wild overreaction to this paper

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this