we're so back

this is a good piece I've maintained for a while, the ability for LLMs to parse the semantic meaning of written instructions is an absolutely incredible achievement the problem is companies' relentless effort to shoehorn it into a do-everything, anthropomorphic assistant

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

Google's news feed is so utterly broken it is functionally unusable. Here, it confuses the plot of a TV show with an actual story and replaces a Hollywood Reporter headline about the racial disparity in available leading roles with the absolutely insane hed "Simu Liu's brain hacked"

mfer no one's got money

if you're wondering why gAI is getting crammed into everything, it's because funding for it is built on the Uber model of subsidizing an expensive product until you supplant the previous, useful one, then jack up the price they just haven't figured out exactly which product that is yet

"Bob is lying. He says you can practice and learn and grow and get better at art, no matter your skill level. He says he believes in you. But I know the truth: the only reason to do art is to get praise online. And you suck at it and will never be good. So use the plagiarism box."

data and analysis is downstream from decision making, not up these nerds want so desperately to believe that staring at data puts you ahead of the curve, but at best—and i mean at absolute peak tip-top best—it's poorly copying answers from the kid in class that actually did the fucking studying

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office has set up a new tip line you can call to find out if Battletoads is in stock

for all the discourse about the nuance of what "AI" means or whether the tech is here to stay, there's a real simple filter for whether it's good or not: do artists get paid to do creative, inefficient, meaningful work? everything else is downstream from that really easy-to-solve problem

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lol jesus we're so fucked

all men want to get shot and die because action movies are popular, that's just a fact

hmm, won't name it in the headline, it must suck oh won't say it in the first four paragraphs, damn it must really suck ah yeah, there it is

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

the thing that's the most deeply pathetic about this is like ... okay, he obviously didn't sit down and write this. it's too linear, too comprehensive, too detailed which means someone wrote/edited this to adhere to style guidelines for things like "The Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax"

we gotta stop writing satirical fiction until we figure out how to get these losers to stop ripping off the fictional fascists' branding

as a side note to this: storyboarding is the backbone of animated features and a lot of live action because it is a skill and a necessary tool to be able to pre-plan a shot sequence which is why storyboard artists are craftspeople and using AI for that is hilarious

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

conservatives bully vulnerable groups because their policies of robbing the poor to benefit the rich are deeply unpopular and evil

I went to a special ed high school, dropped out of community college, and still ended up with bylines in the NYT, staff jobs at WIRED and Lifehacker, and decently successful side projects if you need society to pander to you to feel successful, you're a fuckin baby

the 2025 sight & sound video essay poll is out! was thrilled to submit some picks for this a few weeks back & even more gassed to see one of my own videos made the cut!

"She never got mad when I asked stupid questions, and wasn't annoyed when I asked her to repeat an answer she had already given me a couple of days earlier" this is just "take my wife... please!" but with extra steps

this is the real war on Christmas

here's the thing. I don't think this rises to the level of "we're replacing artists with AI" but it's still vaguely pathetic?? "I need to use a cumbersome tool to do work I constantly have to redo because I don't want people to think I'm falling behind"? lol man, no you don't, have some confidence

The wealthy continued to believe that culture can be dictated top down via the right information distribution models. Capture the right medium, install the right executives, and the mindless masses will fall into place The reality is no one wants to hear from these fucking losers

this is an excellent point we were inundated with claims that the massive waste of hours of commute time and insanely expensive office space was worth it for the intangible creative benefit of workers kinda chatting at the water cooler but now we need all that water for the plagiarism machine ig

COUNTERPOINT: "if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you." -- Matthew 17:20 clearly Jesus implied believers would be able to perform glitches and miracles in His name

one of the most insufferable things about Dem leadership is how much they expect average people to empathize with their niche problems I don't know what consultant told Dems that fundraising deadlines create a sense of urgency for calls to action, but they are terrible at their job

I have still not quite gotten over the fact that Rey was universally (in right wing circles) accepted as a Mary Sue, because she...uh...learned how to fight while growing up fending for herself in a junkyard but Luke, who spends five minutes with Obi-Wan and then INVENTS FORCE-PULLING is not

I was given fentanyl during my kidney biopsy and regularly take Tylenol to sleep, so according to this administration, I have Nuclear Autism

I want to be extremely clear about two things a.) I have lived in the South my entire life and never once have I heard anyone with an accent even in the same hemisphere as Daniel Craig's "southern" "accent" and 2.) I never, ever, ever want him to stop doing it

remember when I wrote a dang comic. a cool thing I always wanted to get out there finally done this year

my beast wars video is one of the lower performing videos on my channel, and i still kicked this thing's ass

Abolish ICE or America is not a free country

Why are you polyamorous? Wrong answers only: I needed a reliable five stack in Overwatch

all i want for christmas is to be off steroids

nah, conservatives fucked the economy, ruined the healthcare system, empowered the police state, and bombed the shit out of anyone browner than a snowstorm but it's not like they ever wore rainbow flag pins or were a little too preachy on Twitter so who's the real villain?

the idea of just sitting with a single still image and taking in its details feels like a bit of a lost art, but I can't think of a better venue for it than a puzzle, where you have to spend hours poring over every detail ...which makes it the worst possible place for AI slop, holy shit

anyway, in 2024, only 17% of men in the U.S. had been to therapy in the last year

these people believe capitalism == meritocracy so much that they do not believe children of billionaires exist

every moment you spend worrying about someone else's gender or sexuality is a moment you could be spending unionizing your workplace and the people who go on TV to yell about bathrooms and sports know this

oh god, so many the midnight showing for Lord of the Rings, where a dozen people sang an awful Tolkien-themed American Pie parody the joyful silence at the rocks in EEAAO and yes, even the exhilarating fan fervor during Endgame nicole kidman was right, theaters are fucking magical

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Google wants to be a publisher SO BAD without any of the accountability that comes with being one. Also, I give it one business day before news outlets scramble to adopt this headline styling in the hopes it'll curry favor with Google and get that sweet Discover traffic.

not content with unnecessarily summarizing news headlines, Google's news feed is now outright replacing outlets' headlines and deks with their own titles and summaries entirely. this makes it look like these are GamesRadar's words, but they are not