How I miss the days when AI meant cupcake recipes so incomprehensible they made me laugh to the point of coughing fits! Truly some of the funniest stuff ever put on this internet.

What's great about getting older is I can sample the horrible clicking noises in my knees and use them as hats in hip hop beats

The sad thing is that if they'd used 438,000,001 Minecraft blocks they would have hit true AGI

Incredible work by Veena and the AAUP. Standing up for so many here when universities and other institutions dedicated to "free speech" refuse to.

There needs to be a Treehouse of Horror episode about the eldritch curse that keeps Springfield on a sliding timescale, their collective static memory, and the living envying the dead. 💀🎃 "First Maude, then Bleeding Gums Murphy... When's it old Moe's turn?"

Years ago I fed 100,000 real estate listings into a recurrent neural network to make a fun little listing generator. This is, of course, now a multi-million dollar industry.

This feels like the forever-trajectory of all tech: fiddled with by enthusiasts for a laugh, before conversion into something terrible by the Profit Monolith

Text generators in all Microsoft products but it’s char-rnn trained on vintage jello recipes and every time you ask it to complete your sentence it’s all “Pour into thickened, 3 1/2 pounds cooked and chopped pickles; cook of cold in saucepan.”

When the second case of a lawyer getting caught using synthetic text extruding machines hit the news, I wondered: Don't these people gossip?? I would have thought the first case would be so embarrassing as to make things very clear. www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c... >>

for a longer explanation firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

nah

this! and most importantly, I do not want to download your app

Literally one person in the world asked for this: #botober art prompts! Generated by a tiny neural net, not running on a huge datacenter but on a single laptop, and not trained on the wealth of the internet but on 800 reader-submitted vintage jello recipes. www.aiweirdness.com/tiny-jello/

Where's the issue of Howard the Duck where he fights Rowling?

More guns than people… Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

It’s so crazy to me when people don’t have glasses or contacts. Like you can just… see? What are you a freak

I have wrapped up my postdoc and am officially an ex-academic - and now looking for a new role *full-time*! I’m seeking roles in policy and regulatory spaces, climate strategy, ESG, and similar, ideally based in CA, remote, or outside the US, but I’m open to roles in solid blue states!

This is an encapsulation of Everything about Silicon Valley. The whole rotten enterprise, summed up in one go.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

I am going to need at least two. Maybe three for my whole nerdy queer family.

👀 Sneak peak 🐦‍⬛🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ They can hold a full dice set, can be “equipped” with pride pins, and can cling to a larger bag with a carabiner, keychain, or lanyard.

I'm still thinking about this conversation piece about accessibility in games, and how that can coexist with difficulty, with the right design/features. I often forget that accessibility for disability should include intellectual and stamina considerations as well as physical.

If you see this picture post a random image from your device

I pay so much for my crunchy food I have to eat so I don’t die. It fucking sucks. Oh and medication that means I won’t die. We need healthy food subsidies. And also a moratorium on charging so much more for allergy free versions of things.

The AI slop fake nostalgia is totally something I should work on in a new piece, or tag into slopocene icons…

@codyjohnston.bsky.social @somemorenews.bsky.social did a great segment on toxic nostalgia a few weeks ago and you’re not going to find anything better. They’re consistently great, deep and somehow, miraculously manage to be very funny while doing this. Better than anyone at it youtu.be/qEddowzqOQE

In Australia the ice cream truck song is greensleeves. I have no idea why.

Hmm... Stars.

I may have found the dad joke to end all dad jokes. It physically hurts, but I’m still laughing while groaning😅

Hold our 🍻 bsky.app/profile/iris...

Now that summer stuff is done, all the pins have been added to our store! fairyloguepress.com/collections/...

I'm glad people are referring to blind boxes as "gambling" more and more.

Exhibit 424,087,467 that bots cannot “understand” anything

Someone sent me a hate email this morning and it was just so low effort I didn't even bother to send it back with markup and rewrite request, I just dumped it in the trash, what has happened to us and the quality of our haterade, we used to be a real country

Everyone has the right to love and be loved, regardless of gender. No one can infringe on the ability to express love Something so simple has become complicated in our world Let's all raise our voices to solve this problem and create a world where we can express love freely and openly. we have love♡

I typically do not mind if people do not use my honorific in email correspondence, but if you are going to type out “Miss/Ms./Mrs. Rottier,” you could at least add Dr. to the list. 🙄

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

Posted this on Reddit and I've been getting reported for suicide watch all morning. For reference, people do this as a way of saying "kill yourself" without getting banned. I can't imagine anything more pathetic than getting riled up about trans people literally just existing. Deeply cringe.

He loves chair

My phone is now giving me a sleep score. I'm so excited to have a whole new thing to be stressed about! (I got a good mark last night but for how long?)

Much as I hate to tap my paper again... I am certain that meta is pushing AI slop as part of a right wing pipeline. It is terrifying and he is going all in on it. link.springer.com/article/10.1... I'd love to get some media coverage on this if I could.

on trying to hate Zuckerberg's AI slop "with the heat of 10,000 suns":

There’s a prominent biz prof — mentioned here! — at my former uni who’s been a long-time GenAI evangelist, sharing pedagogical applications, and 🎉 their 🤯success, via his Substack for yrs . Now all incoming students get executive ChatGPT licenses; he’s got a big new AI lab + degree programs… 🤔

Why is Benjamin Netanyahu even allowed to speak at the UN? Shouldn't he be arrested for war crimes on the spot?