imagining a future where case asks wintermute to get a basic 2020s printer working and the tessier-ashpool super-AI just shuts off in raw terror

Untitled (Subway) https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/1076272

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The best breakfast burrito spot (King’s Breakfast and Burgers) is right across the street from here.

/r/Pasadena thread on a question I've had for awhile myself. "Does anyone have info about this bookstore on Woodbury?” www.reddit.com/r/altadena/c...

Huh. Nevertheless, accurate

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

LLMLM?

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books. She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it. It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

"Any User Who Has a 3D Printer Would Have This Software Installed" ... says the CEO of a company in Spain @printandgotech that wants their DRM, file-blocking, print-policing software on every 3D printer in America.

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics, nearly 400 costumed extras, and a lot of ingenuity. And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding. www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...

Trona has had a hard, difficult life - years of insults from outsiders, the omnipresent sulphur smell, meth/opiate zombies, the 2019 earthquake. Word from Underground Explorers on FB is the final blow: Searles Valley Minerals is shutting down the Argus plant. About 350 jobs are expected to be lost.

the fantasy of sprinting through neighborhoods wearing predator cloaking tech and smashing every single ring doorbell camera with a fireplace poker. blinding the AI, home by home

Omfg Highland Park legends Villa's Tacos at the Bad Bunny bowl? Victor is a legend

My one-line movie review: Mendonça Filho’s THE SECRET AGENT is easily the best new movie I’ve seen in some time.

The more ICE cracks down in L.A., the harder the resistance hits back—straight from L.A.’s underground punk and ska-punk scene, packed with Latino and Black skankers. Get in the pit and pick it up!

"A wolf has come to Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a century" LA Times: www.latimes.com/environment/... Archive: archive.ph/rjdMO

Daily unheard album: WIZZZ! VOLUME 5 wizzzcompilation.bandcamp.com/album/french... #DailyUnheardAlbum

Taking your own food when you’re going TO ITALY. truly the sign of a demented mind

Boris Vallejo artwork for Playboy’s Pro Football Preview, August 1984.

The Asteroid #4 Live at Empty Bottle 1998-10-27 https://archive.org/details/ajc02652_asteroid-4-1998-10-27

Happy 40th anniversary Rollie Tyler! Here’s to one of the forgotten bangers of the 80s.

Fair play to the organisers of the Winter Olympics 2026 for accurately depicting Mars in the Opening Ceremony.

ICE agent yelling "I just quit my job!!!" with great excitement. via r/EyesOnICE

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SCORPION: take me across the river FROG: if I do that, you'll sting me S: if I sting you, we'll both drown F: ok, that makes sense *halfway across the river* F: so? S: so what? F: sting me S: what? F: sting me, like you promised S: no F: sting me so we'll both drown S: *crying* what is happening?

it does explain the people still on twitter

$29,950 runs drives www.beverlyhillscarclub.com/1985-aston-m...

Nardwuar

If you don’t cover culture, you’re not a newspaper.

I can't recommend the 2023 animated film Mars Express strongly enough in this regard. The title is misleading. It's a deep and beautiful meditation on robots, intelligence, slavery, and freedom.

Vance and Usha are some of the most craven people alive but there is no way they are not experiencing psychic damage from an arena of global citizens telling them to fuck off.

One thing that keeps throwing me in the Epstein coverage is that John Brockman is one of the main people implicated by them. The same John Brockman best known to me as the bloke staring into the camera in the TV spots for the Monkees' Head

"...be of good heart, cry the dead artists out of the living past, our songs will all be silenced, but what of it, go on singing..." youtu.be/VGPPUY40Y7k?...

Once again I’d like to recommend @jomc.bsky.social’s novel Wrong Way: us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, other countries. n.pr/4qlvIaa

Holy shit. I always wanted to be around while that bunch took batting practice, now here it is -

Skiers simply do not believe in knee problems until their legs fly off at the joint, it’s their one weird trick that doctors hate

Flashback to my dad & I laughing hard at all the infomercial dudes who claimed “I’ll teach you to be rich” or the psychics who couldn’t predict horse race results. OK chuckleheads, WHY aren’t you doing what you claim you can do?

“LLMs allow the incompetent to feign competence in a way that signals success to other Business Idiots while depriving their direct reports of the help or experience that somebody senior is meant to actually have”

Air to Ground Message: WE NEED 3 CHICKEN CASSROLS PLS THANK YOU Area: Blaine, MN, USA Type: Boeing 737 MAX 8 A: #a5122969acc F: #f95bc099da7 #acars #vdlm2

When the devil tries to trick you, he'll be subtle and sneaky, you won't even kn.... Well shit

That sandwich I bought with BTC in Flagstaff back in 2013 just tastes better and better now

“.. Our BTC price target is 0.0. That’s not just for shock factor. It’s where the math takes us,” the strategist said, noting that Bitcoin has failed to function as a dollar hedge and instead operates as “a speculative instrument correlated to the Nasdaq.” #Bitcoin seekingalpha.com/news/4547997...

Daily unheard album: DOGA by Juana Molina juanamolina.bandcamp.com/album/doga #DailyUnheardAlbum

Also in LA and NYC, Yorgos Lanthimos has personally bought and is paying for tickets to two screenings of The Voice of Hind Rajab just signup here bit.ly/hind-yorgosl...

Not being depressed is exhausting.