Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close. And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness. Musk is everything he hated.

(also Emma Thompson is the GOAT)

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

acho que basta vc entender que você vive numa rocha flutuante no espaço e com o país com uma das maiores reservas de água do mundo se IA precisa de água e mineral, significa que a gente vai ser invadido ou vendido porra a guerra contra big techs é a guerra mais BRASILEIRA que tem

Food, health, and energy should be where all of tech's focus is concentrated. Instead, the industry is muscling into the arts. Not to provide tools to artists, but to steal their work and replace them. The primary goal of the industry to be to eliminate human suffering. Yet suffering increases.

BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman." This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women." RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

But if a 10 years old girl is assaulted and impregnated, they call her a woman.

@derryday.bsky.social AHHHHHH!!!!!!

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

tem uma outra boa por que é preciso conter a imigração, mas incentivar as pessoas a terem mais filhos porque a população dos países ricos está em declínio?

@naomateimufasa.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2n... Alright, I'll give Starfleet Academy a chance.

“Publisher didn’t register copyright”

“Maybe we don’t need to crush orphans” you FOOL. You absolute LUDDITE. Don’t you know the Orphan Crusher is here to stay?

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

When Godot gets here, he'll bring a practical use for AI with him

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WHAT ARE YOU DOING MAN

RIP Sauron, Lord of the Ring, you'd have loved to put ChatGPT into the palantir to drive Denethor into bad decisions for you.

louis e armand com o daniel em 1973:

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Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie. Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.

@derryday.bsky.social Hi, my darlingest, I just saw this and I'm not sure what is going on, but it sounded like something I should tell you about. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I hope all goes well!!!

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.

The desperation to be Musk, omg. Sure, we'll leave your site like we left his, but I'm sorry to tell you that Rian Johnson will never make a Daniel Craig led movie mocking you. You're not that relevant. Not being run by bigots was literally the only thing your site had going for it.

This is still true and the mods would do well to remember it

Why burn Alexandria? You can instead just make it lossily-compress it through an LLM and make the knowledge only accessible through that hallucination-ridden mess.

This is actually a hit list. A who is who among the professions that these inept managers hate the most or have the biggest axe to swing against. Educators. Archivists. Political Scientists. Of course they don't see an use for Archivists. They hate archives themselves.

This is less of a biased study trying to push for more AI usage. It's a list of the utmost fantasies of the worst anti-intellectual executives sitting at Microsoft. This is such a display of ignorance? A complete uselessness regarding what Historians and Mathematicians do in their jobs.

Microsoft have dropped a list of the 40 professions most threatened by AI. Your first instinct should be to dismiss it due to their mountains of interests in convincing the world that AI is more than horribly inept at most jobs But on a second look, it's worse than that. Historians? Mathematicians?

cannot emphasize enough that thinking that the pro-censorship side has already won is how the pro-censorship side wins

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Well, they didn't lie. It was about AI. 😂

From Andy Robinson on Facebook

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paging educators currently jamming genAI into everything:

as a christian, one thing i love about trump is that he explicitly rejects the teachings of jesus

About to be the family that owns TikTok.