“In a preliminary MIT Media Lab study, 83% of participants who wrote essays using ChatGPT couldn’t quote a single sentence from what they’d submitted moments earlier. ‘It passed from the computer screen onto the homework assignment without ever entering their brain,’ So said.” 🫠

Without wishing to let Bluesky into too much of my past can I just say that simply not living with your parents isn't enough, living with half a dozen total strangers in a crowded HMO is also a bit of a buzzkill.

How can publications run articles like "Gen Z aren't shagging cos they're deeply boring" alongside ones explaining "Gen Z are living with their parents cos they can't afford to rent" and not connect the dots? How many randoms would YOU bring back to your parents' place and bonk next to their room!

It’s interesting how this part’s forgotten when conservatives prattle on about the good old days. The idea that someone could support their family on one basic wage was fundamental to the values they claim to have, yet it’s conveniently left out of their nostalgic fantasies.

Reams of data show that this argument is baseless

oh no how will we generate pure unrefined mediocrity from the midden heap of stolen human interactions where will I get my fresh artbarf, my hot steaming infoslurry

Whenever I call Reform a racist party for racists, people often say something like "Well insulting them won't win them over" but they never say that it's not true

I do find the fact that AI is a computer that can’t do maths fascinating. It’s the one thing machines could always do better and more reliably than us.

Police spokesman Frank Drebin told onlookers: “Please disperse! Nothing to see here!”

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

Standard climate denier trajectory - "It's not happening" (becomes untenable) - "It's happening but natural" (becomes untenable) - "It's happening and man made but no big deal, or even beneficial" (becomes untenable) - "It's happening, man made and a problem, but we can't stop it"

"Tank-fly, boss-walk jam nitty-gritty, you’re listening to the boy from the big bad city."

Unfortunately, nobody in the migrants rights or race equality sector has capacity to respond effectively to "white lives matter" because we have absolutely 0 money, time, capacity or interest from the media or politicians.

You'll be unsurprised to learn that the new features are AI, including a "summarisation" feature because we're all buying ebooks to read a two sentence summary of them right? share.google/HrLvsxHKmjTs...

Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.

As others have said I also just doubt this is true, Elon Musk got into politics for the attention and validation because no amount he gets will ever be enough.

It’s not true anyway. He has gone into politics because of his own monstrous, insatiable need for attention and validation. A black hole that can never be filled. He’s just taken an opportunity along the way to lash out at someone who refused to validate him.

A rundown of all the incredibly niche fascist literature that Gove reads. An overlooked aspect of the bookshelf scandal is that Gove’s collection was exclusively niche fascist lit and biographies of politicians. No leftist, liberal, or even *conservative* theory! libcom.org/article/what...

Vibe coding making shipping half-thought through changes too easy. The cost in time and effort of doing it properly is what encourages you to actually do A/B testing, carry out user surveys and so on.

I block people who annoy me because i do not have to be annoyed on a voluntary app. Idc if you think that is weak. I do not think of you, at all.

The *really* fun part is you don't know which is the "wrong toilet" because if a cis person objects, it's always the wrong toilet for you

To take just one example that gets confused with dazzle, Western Approaches camouflage actively helps to obscure the ship itself. It worked so well the first ship to try it was almost immediately sunk in a collision.

“Most people have the common sense” let me stop you right there. no they don’t

Never forget what the oil industry took from us: The chance to live on a pedestrian street.

NEW: Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account.

Who could have guessed that AVs would become traffic generating personal vehicles? It is wild to think that the manufacturers would want to sell more vehicles. It was impossible to predict that this incredibly obvious thing would happen.

We should be on our sixth Master and Commander.

I, for one, think it's good that the entire global economy depends on Israel refraining from raining down death and destruction for literally any amount of time whatsoever

"Premium quality jigsaw" is it aye?

"Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy"

Enhance…

Dystopian future: Everything is Netflix and Spotify Utopian future: Everything is VLC and Winamp I will not be taking questions.

It's funny because personal technology has caught up with Star Trek in a lot of ways, but Star Trek still feels futuristic and utopian because their iPads just do their damn jobs and then release your attention when they're done rather than constantly trying to upsell you.

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

Excuse me it is 2026 the word is "women"

I feel like if your name is Starlin Marot you basically have to open a romantasy book shop. Absolutely tip top nominative determinism there.

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

“The immaterial omnipresent creator of the universe, the ineffable prime mover unmoving, has a big sweaty nutsack (the existence of which I am very invested in) and only a gay vegan communist would say otherwise.”

I am forever annoyed about this, that movie did everything you could possibly want in an adaptation it was made by people who understand what makes tabletop gaming great and somehow made it work on screen and it should have made a billion dollars

It's as if every day there are these little bombs that go off all over your city and the only thing you can do is hope that you're not in the blast radius when they explode.

Someone on Reddit, just the other day, described the introduction of the Borg Queen in First Contact as a "canon contradiction" so I'm not sure half of the people who consider themselves canon police even know what canon means.

I don’t know if this was always true, but it’s definitely true now The new Star Treks are a good example. Newcomers are more engaged on the level of “is this story compelling?” and the hard core have their first filter set at “does this even APPEAR to violate canon?”

oh god I've completely lost it at this

Been an absolute age since I did a #photography thread on here so will try to get back into the habit. Today I set myself a colour-of-the-day challenge. The colour is yellow and I had to prioritise shooting yellow scenes or subjects. Any photos I took without yellow had to be B&W.

All that's missing is the claim that he gets 18 holes in one every time he plays golf.

Respect For Friend Drops After Reading Book They Recommended

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

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