Counterpoint: AI *is* capitalism manifest. The transformer architecture's literal function is scopeless minmaxing of contrasts (temperature) without consequence or "real" context (using instead, narrative context invented by statistics) for short term gains (token prediction).

OH THEY ALSO DREW SULETTA IN THE SAME FIT, LETS GOOO

It's interesting to watch AI cheerleaders pivot from: "AI will save your business BILLIONS by replacing your human workers!" to: "AI will be more expensive than humans, but it was never about profit!" While big tech has collectively spent $1.4 trillion, thinking it would do the first thing.

it is in absolutely everybody’s best interests to develop some hobbies aside from Phone

tubitv.com/series/30001... They got peak on Tubi now

I'm not sure the modern Dumb America climate would work with Stargate.

Being a mediocre straight cis white man, not too much to say about Pride month except... If you haven't already, you gotta watch Brave Bang Bravern! It's like if a Super Robot anime was co-authored by Chuck Tingle. It is also EXTREMELY good and a cozy single afternoon's watch at 12 episodes.

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

Hey, @bsky.app, this sort of moderation is absolutely insane. This is my friend, I just wanted to see what he was up to. You have a huge artist community here who helped grow this site. If you keep this up you’re going to drive us all away. Sort it out.

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

i wonder, what is the giant robot equivalent? -- via: fixupx.com/Viktor_Ze_Hu...

Oh no, this is going to seriously impact my current AI budget of (Checks notes) Absolutely fucking zero www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

🥱 Why does Batman not kill the Joker 🥱🥱 Why does Batman not give his money to charity 🤯🤯🤯 :

a PLASF type 9001 particle beam cutter engaged in radiation-based orbital denial and suppression during the UN Enforcement Operation in Saturn

Hathaway 2: shukou murase figuring out how to get that feeling of being just 5 minutes away from dawn while driving down a lonely highway

I think about this a lot.

Backrooms is creepy as hell, and a really smart adaptation of online shorts into a fully realized feature. All from a 20 year old making his first feature. I'm as impressed as I am disgusted by his youth and talent!

This is the most incredible triumph of propaganda in my lifetime. The idea that Hitler was "left" and/or a "socialist" once was correctly seen as self-evidently insane. But here we have the richest & most powerful man on earth blithely repeating it.

Toby Fox has officially achieved the status of people talking about him like he's a Japanese developer

YouTube app settings > Time management > Shorts Feed Limit

I guess AAA audiences of the now don't watch toku

Pedocon theory out here explaining presidential endorsements in the Texas Senate race.

damn what an insane rugpull of a callback from the Battletech Animated Series in 1994 to the MechWarrior 5 Mercenariees Chaos Reign DLC dropping tomorrow!

The reason certain people are still on Twitter or complain how this place isn’t Twitter is because for a brief amount of time Twitter allowed specialty journalists, opinion writers, pundits, etc a chance to feel somewhat famous, or that they actually had influence, and they miss that like heroin.

I misread the mustard on the left as R. I. P. Mustard. Thought it must be very hot, or else an unfortunately named brand. Took me a moment to realize it was ペパ, as "pepper" in katakana is usually ペッパー.

A British couple traveled to China and complimented the Northeastern regional cuisine, comparing it to British food. Chinese Internet:

I worked as a lifeguard and swim instructor for three years in my teens. This is spot on. Non-paywalled version gcaptain.com/drowning/

“You have one remaining wish.” “Summon a hydra in the middle of my enemy’s fortress, but one with so many heads that any new heads will be crushed immediately, creating an ever-expanding mass of hydra heads that will destroy the entire stronghold.” “You mean…?” “Yes. A hydra-djinn bomb.”

Not a bad setup for chicken processing www.youtube.com/shorts/QlZLZ...

decoupling global medicine from certain quarters that want to drag us all back down is not only a good thing, but a necessary one

We live in an age of miracles in its infancy that roughly 30-40% of the world wants to strangle in the crib

They showed this version in schools for maybe 15 years and literally no one in my class had any reaction to a black woman being in it, someone yesterday said Eartha Kitt was Helen of Troy in 1950 and I looked it up and it was Orson Welles who cast her because she was a cabaret dancer and was hot!

*ranks teams by AI usage* *runs out of money fast* what a coincidence

"what new live service game do I pick up now that the one I play is closing" none of them. be free

Having some fun in In the Black, but I should probably actually try a match sometime. It should be bot-heavy...

in light of google replacing search with ai, metacrawler is unexpectedly good if you have basic googlefu (eg "before:2020", use of "+must"/"-without", etc) also shockingly fast???

same as it ever was

IT looks like this is resurfacing again under a new face. If someone invites you to watch something using the "Lovoo client", block them immediately. The lovoo client is also another trojan that will hack and fuck your computer for good, stealing your discord and other accounts.

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

of course there can be a third option. russian unconditional surrender!

they can’t acquire fuel but they’re bringing in drones somehow? seems legit.

I watched Independence Day and had a lot of feelings about America, and the art empires leave behind houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/the-hollyw...

No, the real problem is that Star Trek isn’t woke ENOUGH! I wrote this article for @popversesays.bsky.social a couple years ago, but it remains consistently relevant.