I don’t understand this one, in what way is the gen-AI’d version supposed to be better? I mean, I think using the tool is bad for ethical reasons but it also isn’t an improvement (?)

So I dunno if it's ADHD or what but I have that thing where I get EXTREMELY LOUD earworms at all times and I need you all to understand that I am trying to process all this WW3 stuff to the soundtrack of "Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha" by Sam Cooke at 100 decibels on a loop.

It's also impossible to overstate how useful I have found my undergrad Intro to Philosophy course to be in my daily life, it's probably the single most universally-applicable class I have ever taken.

This is a wonderful thread of quotes from Mary Everest Boole, a pioneering mathematician and (I'd argue) developmental psychologist. She beautifully describes the power of mathematics for seeing beyond appearances and, especially, for providing tools to define exactly what we do not know. 🧪

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I have historically thought of myself as sort of a sullen embarrassment of a person, but lately it’s been nice to discover that at least I’m not in the set of like 30% of white guys that deserve to be punched off the top of a skyscraper by Robocop

Every picture of Sam Altman and Jensen Huang they look like they can see the It Follows monster just off camera

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (2017)

I’ve always said that the logical endpoint of Facebook is a website full of dead people wishing each other a happy birthday

The boring part of Monopoly where the winner is determined and you just have to wait for everyone else to go bankrupt and die

The joke is on them because being an AI teetotaler while they're offloading critical thinking skills to the sycophantic, planet-burning, plagiarizing algorithm only makes me smugger. My smugness could power an entire data center and only needs 64 ounces of water a day.

I looked, they do repost on YouTube for us non-IG users: www.youtube.com/@tastebuds_n...

It probably goes without saying(?) but it's very possible that downloading these would result in possessing material that is illegal to possess.

Maybe because some of us, when we put a big fuckin’ statue in the harbor of our biggest city that says “Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free” on it, we mean it.

because they kick fuckin ass next question

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

uh, read the room, iOS Reddit app

We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.

To paraphrase @charalanahzard.bsky.social : the more you know about a topic, the more AI tends to get it wrong, so you should only ask it about things you know nothing about

selling baby’s shoes, babies can’t walk

Here’s to 2026

If George Lucas had had genai instead of having Ralph McQuarrie we'd be in a completely different and dumber world right now.

Also the area west of North Lansing, where I live, which is By The Airport.

This was a real problem in S5 eps 1 and 2, but by ep3 we're ok again IMO.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to: Freezepop Burning Airlines Belly Adult. Logan Whitehurst and the Junior Science Club

Just had a flashback back to 2006 when I was working with a bunch of onshored consultants from India and they asked me to explain “what Thanksgiving has to do with Indians.”

It's not weird or surprising that companies decided that they'd rather not have us talk to each other to get information when they can charge us for accessing that same information through an object they own. It's bad but not surprising.

the slow art penetrates the shield (emotional)

If you can't make "stealing the entire internet and then selling it back to people" profitable, I really don't know what to tell you.

To my dismay I still do have an NYT login, I am afraid to use it right now because I'm afraid to find out if this article is real.

Zohran winning is THRILLING. Bring back being able to afford NYC as a working class person. Bring back being able to be an artist without a trustfund. We lost our city to billionaires + thats not NYC. NYC is poor people, queer people, immigrants, its underdogs + weirdos + that's what makes it great.

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

My 12yo got these steak nugs out of curiosity last week. His review: "Horrible. I just wasn't thinking. It tasted like steak from a fast food restaurant."

If we make it illegal to steal paintings from the Louvre then the entire industry will be unsustainable

Happy Columbo’s Day

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

me and the boys making billions as anime smugglers

Just putting it out there that IMO the highways were more worth it

Uh, what are y’all working on back there

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I brought this up yesterday in a meeting when someone was telling me that AI was an inevitable part of the future of work.

in terms of words with disappointing definitions, dogmatic has got to be up there

It's 909 day, here's Jeff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLtn...

If you’ve seen the film TROLLHUNTER (2010) then you’ll know exactly what’s going on here.

When my son was born my family was on a per-person deductible so we had to pay an additional $2500 out of pocket because in addition to charging my wife to give birth, they charged my son for being born.