Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

They were always pieces of shit

my favorite example of this is all of those animated greeting card services from the mid-2010's that became completely unmarketable because the unhinged memes people made with them kept going viral and that was all anyone associated the product with knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/...

Watched Predator: Badlands, thought it was a very entertaing buddy action comedy. Also, the behind the scenes shots are pretty funny.

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

If Mayor Pete could do it and be treated seriously as the mayor of a City of 100k, why shouldn’t AOC, who has represented a district 7x that population size for 7 years (the same amount of time Pete had been mayor when he ran) and who would presumably have been a Rep for 9 years during a prez run?

ICE must burn and every ICE agent should be thankful if their punishment when this is done is only decades in prison

There are so many reasons these days where I’m feeling like this focus on generative AI might be one of the worst mistakes in recent human history. Whatever perceived value it could provide isn’t worth the damage it’s doing in so many areas.

Fuck, I could’ve been way cooler and smarter sounding if I started my post with “Tencent? Now they’re zero cents.”

If it was literally just “a guy” putting all his life savings into a project without any outside interference, they could’ve took longer on putting it out and had budgeting in place to keep the team on longer than two fucking weeks. It would’ve also been a much smaller scope. But, well. You see.

This was the aspect that completely befuddled me for the last two weeks where Wildlight said they were self-sufficient and I’m like, “In this economy? Something is off.” The reason you’re seeing the effects of the disease is a return was expected.

one of those things you need to watch if for no other reason than the trump administration doesn't want you to:

Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

Right now @404media.co has more comprehensive coverage of the @arstechnica.com "AI" article debacle than Ars Technica does themselves.

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if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what I thought about when I saw Musk's stupid racist tweet: Minnesotans have spent the last month and a half saying we will die to defend our multicultural community.

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title… “How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work” Way to devalue my experience.

i hope this serves as a nail in the coffin for those stupid “trust the audience score, tomameter is useless” arguments

One takeaway from the DICE convention here in Las Vegas, where game makers gather to pitch and schmooze? Most video games should not cost $70. This week’s column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1798

keep cancelling your nitro

there should be an oscar for bluesky story arc and @notalawyer.bsky.social should win

Had a lovely evening last night. Went over to the @thefridacinema.org to see Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie, and forgot how much I enjoyed being over in Santa Ana.

Hopecore

I want to reiterate: not only did Matt & Jay film this for us completely out of the kindness of their hearts, but when it was left to me to edit it, Matt was FaceTiming me late at night just to check on me and how it was going… the kindness of Canadians CANNOT be understated

Permission to be gay on main?

This boy been waiting to haul off on somebody for 14 years and today he got to live the dream and stand on the right side of history. Friday the 13th is the greatest day of his life.

"you're gonna get in trouble for that" *stone-faced* "okay" goddamn son

liberals doing voter outreach on Bluesky

it is what it is, and i will not be gaslit into thinking this is any sort of “progress” tool

SAG-AFTRA Statement on Seedance 2.0

palestinian journalist posting on twitter that his bluesky account was immediately taken down purely because he was in gaza. all palestinian accounts are assumed to be spam.

I’m almost more offended by how stupid and easily sated they think we are than the GenAI use.

ai models are conscious in the way wilson the volleyball is conscious; we're just really good at anthropomorphizing stuff.

Tim Cook’s bribes really paying off.

I can’t even conceptualise what a vaccine against EBV would mean for those of us with bodies prone to post viral fatigue and ME, let alone MS. Just like… whole decades of lives lost to that fucker and to think we are this close to preventing it and now this

probably good that we structured the health and well-being of humanity around profitability. oops!

lmao Discord just funneling your personal data to Palantir is just too fucking on the nose

Remember when an Irish politician tried to honor JD Vance by having a genealogist research Vance's Irish ancestors only to discover he didn't have any, and it turns out Barack O'bama is more Irish than JD Vance

Can't believe Zohran did it!

Woman (1990)

How I feel about AI

We cannot afford Billionaires.

Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.

The gestapo (theoretically) leaving with their tails tucked between their legs is NOT the same as returning our neighbors, fixing our communities, paying serious reparations, and making sure those fuckers face justice for their crimes. But, boy does this feel (cautiously optimistically) good