Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia

One, that's not how copyright works and there will be an entire battalion of IP lawyers who will be happy to correct Open AI of this misapprehension, likely to the tune of billions of dollars, and two, fuck this shitty thieving waste of proteins and lipids

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

Are audiobooks reading? Are video essays reading? Are emag articles and long reads reading? Are social media threads reading? If not, why not, and why shouldn't they be counted? Were they included in these studies?

Internet cliques are a lot like High School cliques in that their basis for labelling something "unfair" tends to translate as "you held someone I like to the same standard as someone I don't like"

You can't joke about anything anymore. Because you signed a multi figure contract with the Saudi government that said they wouldn't pay you if you did.

This is neat aftermath.site/palestinian-...

Only $14bn? Doesn't really matter I guess, they lose billions a year www.theinformation.com/articles/tik...

It can be quite funny when media rankings are this obvious about what era the author was born in. A top 20 music list with only two songs from this century but nearly half are from the 1980s? He turned 18 in 1989. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Good video on where Eurovision is atm - it's about Israel, and it's about widespread repression of speech www.youtube.com/watch?v=THgn...

No I do not want to sign into software. 90% of software should just run on your computer and do the thing it's built to do. Not everything needs to be signed into. There's no reason I should have to sign into Adobe Acrobat reader!

The fact Nvidia is investing in OpenAI so it can pay Oracle so Oracle can pay Nvidia is the kind of deal that is hilariously and openly indicative of the AI bubble eating itself - yet tech and business journalists seem absolutely star struck by ✨BIG NUMBER✨

I mean what is wrong with him is evident to me, personally - misogyny. He attacks her for seeing herself as thick in some classes as "posing" then her "ego" for daring to to proud of her book. He's contemptful of a young lass for daring to be successful and self-aware.

The Mandalorian and Grogu looks like they just stitched some of a dumped fourth season together. I have no idea what the story or hook is meant to be, or the justification for this being a film open to people who didn't watch the TV show.

Gotta say it’s apparent which Disney execs weren’t watching Andor.

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

Having finally gotten around to playing it - Stray is exactly the gorgeous, special little game everyone said it was

It only just occurred to me that Kathryn Hahn and Idina Menzel are entirely different people

As Bluesky destabilizes a few people have asked me if I'm on Mastodon and look, I don't know if I'm Mastodon. No one knows if anyone is on Mastodon.

1st time I got doxed (before GG, when some nerds mad because I thought interactive fiction deserved to be on Steam and I got the 1st one approved to be on the platform) they got my info from a signup to house people displaced by the Boston marathon bombing. The concern around protest signup is legit

Craterhoof Behemoth is just happy to be here

The UK's chilling of free speech over Gaza goes international in the arts scene www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

The thing about streaming services is that their bread & butter are households that sub and forget - ppl who go months w/o actually using the product but enjoy having the option at their fingertips. They're the first to go in a boycott (it costs nothing to cancel) and they're the hardest to get back

if these companies would just put out a statement saying “we told him to go fuck himself” they would instantly have the type of loyal and dedicated customer base corporations dream of and spend decades trying to cultivate

"It was the wi-fi!"

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

Forcing a physical storefront to end the sale of adult material is simply fucking ridiculous. Payment processors have an insane amount of power that needs to be curtailed

Who knew that Amanda Seyfried was based?

No amount of an exceptional cast beyond him could make me want to see more Jack Black. A man whose stick became old even before he ditched his best friend in the gutter to protect his income.

People who walk around without their phone in a protective case

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Tiktok on course for Twitter/X Mk. 2

In the Society of Authors @fossilfreebooks.org have endorsed candidates: @jencalleja.bsky.social @mattabbottpoet.com @pollyrowena.bsky.social Mohamed Tonsy "They are all committed to fighting for fair pay, freedom of speech and protection from AI, and against industry complicity in genocide."

It remains the case that if I were to pick one streaming service to keep over all the others - it would be Apple TV+ inews.co.uk/culture/tele...

As a lineup of Britain's most disappointing celebrities join the efforts to fund a billionaire's anti-trans hate campaign, at least there's a few over in the US standing up for what's right with some words. www.jezebel.com/emmys-2025-h...

This is why AI is such a problem. If the owner of the platform doesn't like what the system says, they can change it. Anybody who relies on what AIs are telling them are at at risk of mainlining misinformation straight into there brains.

The Bear being listed as a comedy makes The Emmys look ridiculous

Logging on in the morning and getting an AI summary of my work slack which summarised me discussing my wife's medical concerns in a private channel 🤢

Further to this stuff about “debate culture”: I wonder if exposure (mostly online) to this genre of content primes students to expect this kind of behaviour from us (profs) when they enter into the classroom. That is, that they expect us to be antagonists in a game of “who is the smartest”…

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Polari Prize saga shows us how the Overton window on Trans+ rights has shifted 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/polari-prize-saga-shows-us-how-the-overton-window-on-trans-rights-has-shifted/

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Yes to this, 1000%. Entertainment journalists must ask the actors who have chosen to support and enrich Harry Potter author JK Rowling after she's spent the better part of a decade turning into one of the world's ugliest queerphobic bigots: "Why?"

Lots of people do not understand how others choose to spend money. Valuing of craftsmanship is HUGE particularly by other craftspeople. And they are willing to spend a lot of money for something worthwhile, even if the rest of their lifestyle doesn't reflect the wealth/status the price tag implies.

Remember when they did this for NFTs?

Every one of these people is fucking telling on themselves And the thing they are saying is "I will kill your family to make a buck" Because if they don't care about trans people, they probably don't care about *any* marginalized people