periodic and timely reminder that "Marisa Tomei" is an anagram for "It's a me Mario"

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

“If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control both sides” - David Icke.

I don’t know how to tell you this, but the AI isn’t a person it doesn’t have feelings or thoughts. It is a machine and anything else is duplicitous marketing from the companies. Which let’s them get away with using words like “learning” as a euphemism for theft of intellectual property.

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

Oh me oh my, it’s almost like we coulda seen this coming… www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

awwwww newttttttttt climbing

two of the hardest things ever written are "face god and walk backwards into hell" and "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" one of them came from a tumblr shitpost and the other one came from a dril tweet about hollering at zoo animals the internet truly is a magical place

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

also nobody in the history of cinema has ever gone as hard as John Leguizamo did as Tybalt

interrupting my wife's keynote speech to show her i finished coloring the page she gave me

I fear more and more stories like this are inevitable. It's vindicating for an AI sceptic like me but not really pleasing to see other people acknowledge the dangers and harms of technology designed to keep you engaged... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

"Lawyers argued that Instagram and YouTube were deliberately designed to be addictive and the companies knew the platforms were harming young people". - As others have said: the cases against tech firms now are very reminiscent of tobacco companies denying responsibility for the harms of smoking.

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

Never forget: 8 years ago a random person on Craigslist wrote the most effective ad for the Toyota Corolla, ever.

- Pace yourself - don’t go too crazy - no fedposting - stay on top of regulating your nervous system - act local - find people who’ve been doing the work and ask how you can help - tend to the myriad biological needs we need as confused little apes - give grace to dysregulated people on your side

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The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

the vengeful pillow by Edward Gorey

Just the story of his name is one of the coolest things of all time

i promise you that whatever you think will happen next won't

No one on earth looks as happy as him and all of us are jealous he can just fly the fuck away from all this horseshit

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

Tech companies promoting their AI tools

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

The real horror movie moment is when you're having fun with a friend slagging off AI and they say "Yeah it's really stupid when people think they can just use AI to do stuff ... [beat. Their eyes flash an ominous green] ... that it isn't suitable for."

never beating the “FBI as a make-a-wish foundation for podcasters” allegations

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

My humble submission to the new Bank of England with concepts for the new bank notes to please both sides.

if you don't like The Offspring then maybe you should have hired a different funeral stripper

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

They truly want you to believe this shit is inevitable and actually better than human endeavor but the one surefire thing that can stop it is not agreeing to the first two things. That’s all! That also means not willingly feeding it. It’s not difficult to avoid using it!

I know ppl here never want to be “uninformed” but it’s ok to not log on to a website that is just “oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck” on an endless scroll even if that is a justified reaction

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:

I really don't think "There are so many antisemitic podcasts out there that you just can't help but appear on them" is the defense they think it is.

Welp! Palantir is looking for former employees to be on a plane Day 1 and mentions foxholes!! “I promise you nothing other than the sense of satisfaction that comes from the purpose and intensity of the most intense deployments you ever worked on.”

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

Good lord. What an abject failure the Blue Labour strategy has been.

‘The world’s top AI models can be prompted to generate near-verbatim copies of bestselling novels, raising fresh questions about the industry’s claim that its systems do not store copyrighted works.’ www.ft.com/content/e4b7...

I think the bigger security risk is the gestapo she runs that murders people for standing in the street and kidnaps children to put them in concentration camps. But sure, if the shoe thing gets her shitcanned, do what you gotta do.

DO NOT USE CHAT GPT.

This is the inevitable result when Labour tries to outgun the repulsive hard-right on immigration, failing to learn a central lesson of the Tory implosion