We are absolutely going to see an explosion of in-person handwritten exams, At most maybe a ThinkPad that's had the wifi forcibly ripped out of it

Ohhhhhh... Okay I didn't know that was her. Oof.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The AI doomer narrative (it’s going to wake up and kill us all) is, whether its adherents intend it or not, pure marketing for AI companies It’s one reason their CEOs have even, on occasion, leaned into it

"I mean okay but who could possibly live up to..." *Reads scriptwriter's name* "...oh" Yeah that'll work

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

As someone commented, this is the principal equivalent of jury nullification.

It is incredibly weird how many journalists literally only ever come here from the Nazi Bar to scream "YOU'RE BEING MEAN TO MY FRIENDS THIS IS WHY NOBODY LIKES YOU" Then they just run off back to the Nazis It's like a biweekly thing

They're really Consent Manufacturing this Thiel shit, huh

Can't believe I got baited by someone who's absolutely convinced that the laws of thermodynamics prove that money doesn't exist. I'd have assumed it was a bot, but LLMs at least cite people. They don't get furious at the very notion of citation.

All that RAM and hard drive capacity is just going to rot, fueled by CEOs' dreams of relying on fully unpaid labor. (That, and their fear of not owning a small piece of the God Machine) Anyway I'm sure that bsky's inexplicable claude bros will be all over this, and not just quietly avoid the news

It's always extremely funny when people think this is an Internet thing. Arthur Conan Doyle was basically hunted by outraged mobs of Londoners when he killed off Sherlock Holmes. It was BRUTAL. His own mother's response was (AFAIK) "well why did you kill him? Nobody wanted that." Doyle relented.

Goddamn, everybody makes a big deal about stencil but there are a surprising lot of people on here who are extremely Normal about zitron, huh Wondering if some vocal claude fanboys are doing it out of personal pique, burning a hundred bucks in tokens on the equivalent of a Google search

Taco Bell bean burritos, prior to the point where they became like 75% rice by volume.

I'm still glad I have a Series X but now it's kinda for the same reason I'm glad I have a Turbografx-16, piece of history as the last console by a once-competitor (As opposed to why I have a Dreamcast, which is that the Dreamcast rules and is awesome)

What's weird is not how these guys tell on themselves, but in how they seem to have no filter Like psychopaths with this little subtlety generally wind up in prison

Broke: Butlerian Jihad Bespoke: THE LEONIC CRUSADE

That whole "it's okay to lose a flank voter because swing voters are worth too" is a fucking disaster, but nowhere more so than in countries like Canada and the UK where *you have multiple flanks* This is why Americans are inept at following our politics, the existence of the NDP breaks their minds

Hell yeah I'm that guy I feel so represented

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

For whatever reason I can't do all that covid memory wipe doublethink shit I mean, hell, an Ars reporter got a covid fever so bad a few weeks ago(!) that he accidentally used fake AI quotes And everybody just quietly let that part slip through the corona-shaped holes in their minds

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

...like seriously she's a Microslop/Meta exec who's all in on "agentic" bullshit How on earth can something like this be surprising to anybody Betting you could tease out some Takes on childhood vaccinations and corporal punishment if you tried enough

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

I'm sorry but everybody who spent the 2010s yelling about "purity culture" ended up working for either Bari Weiss or Donald Trump And Doctorow knows that So why he'd go there to defend a grammar checker of all things is beyond me

Oh, to take off on this Tour thing a bit. So every fucking HD mobile game does a dogshit job of teaching players how to play. Mostly just "push here" highlight boxes that are worse than useless, especially on PC/Console where much of the money comes from. (Then it's all unexplained Proper Nouns)

Apparently nobody except Phil even mentioned her. That is WILD. I get that the corp leaders are all hyper-reactionary now, but she was one of the highest-profile Black women at Microsoft and Nadella just fully blanked her in every possible way

Doing the "go ahead and make me" to the SCOTUS that kept your ass out of jail is quite the move

You can hear the SoundBlaster in this picture

regarding the recent news

Lmao she KNOWS how this looks but Nadella gonna Nadella I get that she'd want the promotion, and the opportunity to not be quite as connected to Microsoft's now-despised AI efforts, but she had to know "we gave the gaming file to an AI lead" would look apocalyptically bad Also poor Bond

Lmao Roberts just straight up saying "The Framers did not vest any part of the taxing power in the Executive Branch" Slapfights in the dissents aside, feels like SCOTUS decided they don't want to be shackled to this dude anymore

Keep saying it, but there's only ever room for two games: the one that did it first and the one that polished it up. Everquest and Warcraft. PUBG and Fortnite. Tarkov and Arc. If you aren't one of the two, then that shit ain't happening. And it's always a race to get the second spot.

Again: this is Claude. This is what Claude is doing. If you're using Claude, this is on you and nobody else. Doesn't matter how hard you post about how much you hate Drumpf. Not at all. You're doing as much damage as any of his voters: every token you use is a vote for this.

Still super cool that Nadella is running the company into the ground because he's getting Wormtongued by a baker's dozen of chatbots

Absolutely fucking guaranteed this is a "well we don't need a studio for remasters because obviously AI will do it" play As ever, you do not bully Claude addicts anywhere near enough, if you hear "agentic" it should be time for swirlies

On the one hand, waistlines On the other hand that's kinda what you need when the bar/club closes and the night continues

What's funny is the quotes saying "NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS IS ABOUT HORRIBLE DISGUSTING PHONE GAMES" and at least one of them absolutely lost his shit at the Wildfire Drop from HSR Also bro the grown-ups described your shit the same way back in the day

I mean, yes and no. The bigger issue is the wealth they're hoarding is a huge drag on the productive economy. Without a functional middle class, there just aren't enough worthwhile enterprises to put that money into. So it's all dumb speculation, like crypto, propelled by vanity as much as profit.

I get that the Claude addicts on here will absolutely never listen and never learn, but Jesus Christ come on your agents just aren't worth it

Now THIS is old school, look at the desktop tower nook to the side You can almost smell the plastic carpet guard under the computer room desk chair

Notably, they seem to be struggling to prevent the things from saying "dude what the fuck, you shouldn't be relying on me for this stuff, why do you think I won't even count to 100 for you" The most human-like moment the chatbots ever have is when they tell you to fuck off and do your own homework

I just for the life of me can't figure out why a large chunk of people are inherently hostile to new technology shaped by companies that actively support an anti-science, anti-humanist mass murder autocracy

So does this mean we're getting Switch 2 versions of all the Xenoblades? Happy about chronicles X but I ain't played any of them and I'd want to start with the first one

we weren’t negative enough and now no-one gets to have ram or hard drives

Yeah one of the weirdest parts about playing the Atelier games is discovering how they wholly lifted this entire thing You wouldn't think the Anime Crafting Series would be like the biggest bastion of FFX-style combat, but seriously I'm playing Dusk and it even has the character-swapping stuff

I feel like kind of a lot of people on this site didn't read all those dire warnings about how kids shouldn't be using VR And especially shouldn't be using the Virtual Boy Pretty sure Nintendo made a big stink about that one back in the day